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The Catholic Church, as usual, doesn't seem to have enough to worry about

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Starman, Mar 27, 2009.

  1. 2muchcoffeeman

    2muchcoffeeman Well-Known Member

    A couple of days ago, the local paper had a wire story about a priest being sentenced to prison for stealing money from the congregation and putting it toward things like gambling trips and coin collections.

    The priest's supporters were outside protesting that, among other things, the case didn't belong in a court of law but instead should have been adjudicated by the church (or some nonsense like that).

    Right. Given its past behavior, the priest in question would have been quietly shuffled off to another parish in the hopes that he wouldn't do it again. ::)
     
  2. 2muchcoffeeman

    2muchcoffeeman Well-Known Member

    And yet more trouble perpetrated in the name of the church (note that I did not say by the church itself) ...<blockquote>NEW YORK – Pope Benedict XVI has taken the extraordinary step of ordering a Vatican investigation of the Legionaries of Christ, the influential, conservative religious order that has acknowledged that its founder fathered a child and molested seminarians.

    Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, the No. 2 man in the Vatican, said church leaders will visit and evaluate all seminaries, schools and other institutions run by the Legion worldwide.

    Bertone, the Vatican secretary of state, said in a statement made public Tuesday that the Vatican was stepping in "so that with truth and transparency, in a climate of fraternal and constructive dialogue, you will overcome the present difficulties."

    The Legion revealed in February that its founder, the Rev. Marcial Maciel of Mexico, had fathered a daughter who is now in her 20s and lives in Spain. Maciel died in 2008 at age 87.

    The disclosure caused turmoil inside the religious order and its lay affiliate, Regnum Christi. The groups teach that Maciel was a hero whose life should be studied and emulated. . . .

    The Legion was partly insulated from criticism by prominent supporters of its work, including George Weigel, the American biographer of John Paul; former U.S. drug czar William Bennett; and Mary Ann Glendon, a Harvard University law professor who was a U.S. ambassador to the Vatican under President George W. Bush. Legion leaders often vilified the order's critics as liberals who wanted to attack John Paul and the church.

    But the group's reputation began unraveling in 2006, a year into Benedict's pontificate, when the Vatican instructed Maciel to lead a "reserved life of prayer and penance" in response to the abuse allegations. Nine men had told the Vatican that Maciel had molested them decades before when they were young adults studying for the priesthood.</blockquote>http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/eu_vatican_legionaries_scandal;_ylt=Amv5qLtWoX.L6bU8cbEjXoDZn414
     
  3. writing irish

    writing irish Active Member

    That's good.
     
  4. Famous story from Tim Crouse's "The Boys On The Bus."
    One of the campaign reporters lost one of his first jobs because he went on the radio on Easter and said, "Today, around the world, millions of Christians celebrate the alleged resurrection of Jesus Christ."
     
  5. outofplace

    outofplace Well-Known Member

    So, they believed the allegations enough to do something, but that's all they did? Disgusting.
     
  6. 2muchcoffeeman

    2muchcoffeeman Well-Known Member

    Still rising as it cleared the left field scoreboard, sir.
     
  7. DisembodiedOwlHead

    DisembodiedOwlHead Active Member

    Free advertising for Good Friday services in Detroit. If the Detroit papers continue being manipulated like that, they'll lose circulation and cut back on delivery. Oh wait....
     
  8. My favorite graf:

    "The Legion was partly insulated from criticism by prominent supporters of its work, including George Weigel, the American biographer of John Paul; former U.S. drug czar William Bennett; and Mary Ann Glendon, a Harvard University law professor who was a U.S. ambassador to the Vatican under President George W. Bush. Legion leaders often vilified the order's critics as liberals who wanted to attack John Paul and the church."

    Wingnuts enabling molesters.
    Lovely.
     
  9. Double J

    Double J Active Member

    The Catholic Church should have lost whatever credibility it still had in the 1940s when it chose to make an example not of Benito Mussolini (nor his fascist friend in Berlin), but of Leo Durocher, of all people, for supposed moral failings.
     
  10. A Near Occasion Of Sin.
    [​IMG]
     
  11. Double J

    Double J Active Member

    Exactly.
     
  12. hockeybeat

    hockeybeat Guest

    How about the Church's own moral failings dating back centuries? You know, when Popes were robber barons while banged everything in sight and had illegitimate children running around the Vatican.

    There is a great deal of dirt on the Church. Perchance before criticizing others, it should get its own house in order.
     
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