A Bishop’s Hypocrisy

Coach is Right ^ | 01/01/15 | Suzanne Eovaldi

[Oldpuppymax]

Through my fault, through my fault, through my most grievous fault, says the Church’s prayer of confession as devout laity strike their breasts three times. Yet, the Palm Beach Diocese’s Bishop Gerald M. Barbarito remains silent to the prayer’s plea. “What I have failed to do” part of this prayer resembles failing to speak out about wrongdoing when you had the opportunity. Remember the old Latin axiom that Silence is Consent? Well, what is going on in the Palm Beach Diocese?

Pope Francis recently exhorted church leaders to listen to the public, let the public be heard, eschew the dictates of an ingrained hierarchy that both self serves and self protects. The Papal pronouncements over the Christmas Holiday carried a beautiful message to the Church, but especially to the Church’s leaders who often seem unresponsive to the voices from their pews. Just how can U. S. Representative Patrick Murphy of Florida’s 18th District be given a free pass to declare himself both Catholic and Pro Choice, a clear violation of Church teachings?

The communications from the Diocese to its faithful contain messages about Abortion and its Culture of Death! What appears to be going on in Palm Beach is a duality of religious standards that holds the politician to one standard, the laity to another.

The Bishop’s public relations person still has not answered this reporter’s email containing several questions pertaining to this obvious departure from Church teachings. Also, how is administration of Communion to Representative Murphy being handled? To date, no answer has been given. During the recent race for Congress...

[allendale]

The failure of the Bishops to clearly ex communicate pro abortion Catholic politicians has done grievous harm to the Church and the well being of the faithful. An unpleasant but absolute responsibility of the hierarchy throughout Church history is to ex communicate harmful heretics.

[SatinDoll]

It has to do with money.

My grandmother, the second daughter in a family of 22 children, was given to the Roman Catholic church at age 3. Her older sister had been promised in marriage to a family friend but died at age 16, so my grandmother was taken from the convent, cleaned up, and married off to the family friend. He wasn’t pleased with his bride who hadn’t the beautiful dark-haired, blue-eyed Irish loveliness of her older sister but rather the orange-haired, pudgy-faced look of her Scottish ancestors. Thankfully she could cook (it had, after all, been a French convent) and her husband put her to work in his restaurants.

When she became pregnant he beat her because she couldn’t work due to her condition. She miscarried. When she became pregnant again, she fled her husband and sought an annulment.

He headed off that action by donating large amounts of money to the church.

Heretics have a point when they say the Roman Catholic church is rotten, but it isn’t the church - it is the hierarchy who are only too human and rotten.

[QBFimi]

>> He wasn’t pleased with his bride who hadn’t the beautiful dark-haired, blue-eyed Irish loveliness of her older sister but rather the orange-haired, pudgy-faced look of her Scottish ancestors.

Huh? Lived in Ireland for three months - orange hair was all over the place. Don’t think I ever saw any in my mother’s birthplace - Scotland.

Sounds like her Mum and Dad were a real piece of work - first, they gave grandma to the Church (what ever happened to free will?) , then yanked her out of the convent and dumped her on asshat.