Originally posted by Grand-Moff-Gav
Your source seems to be someone with an agenda........
Then watch The History of Sex.
Can I get back to my point? There have been many other examples of crimes with in the Catholic Church and this most recent scandal shows there is still some under lying problem that needs to be addressed.
Re: Catholic Priest and young boys
Originally posted by heruWho knows what's up with Catholic Priests in general. In my seven years of shooting news for television, the only physical altercation I was ever in was when a Catholic Priest pushed me out of a door. He did not realize I was going in and out of one of the gym's back doors to roll out cable for a live shot I had set up. As I was wrapping up the shot, I went through the door one more time to get my tripod out of the gym and he thought I was a high school student trying to sneak into the basketball game, hence he sort of blocked/pushed me, not very hard, but not all that soft either. My first instinct was to punch him in the face, but for some reason I didn't, instead I just pushed his hands away from me and said, "I'm with the news." 🪩
What is it about Catholic Priest and young boys. At least once a month there's a story in the paper or a report on the news about these so call religious men with obsessions for young boys.......lol Is it something that's being practice in the church that teach these religious pedophiles how to seduce little boys? People go to church for guidence, healing, etc.
Not to catch a peep show of old wrinkle men. WTF is going. on. ❌ ❌
Originally posted by Devil King
What makes you think that?
You know I was just considering Celibacy and came up with a rather cynical thought.
My congregation is a fairly liberal one (even if it is the Church of the country's only Cardinal...) and quite a few of the people in it do openly question the Church's stance on Contraception, Celibacy and Women Priest's etc...
Then you get the more orthodox types like myself, not that we're bang on the head authoritarians mind you...but we tend to tow the party line...
Now the congregation does actually provide a few nominative-priests each year, but they always come from the same group- the Orthodox parishioners.
Now I was thinking why this might be (anyone can go forward for the priesthood btw and usually they do get it...though it is a very lengthy process). Part of the reason I believe is the rule on Celibacy.
The more liberal parishioners (many of whom would make great priests) tend to take a much longer time in deciding whether or not to commit to a Celibate life...the orthodox among us seem to be more willing...which means the priesthood tends to be dominated by Orthodox Catholics while the Laity can often be more liberal...
So perhaps, the Celibacy Rule is a way of ensuring only the most dedicated enter the priesthood...the most dedicated seem to be the more orthodox types...
Or, I'm just being too cynical.