Confession and repentance are powerful spiritual tools. I hope the church is able to confess and repent rather than defend and deny.
Has the Irish PM condemned the Mohammadan Death Cultists ?
It’s a sad day for Ireland if the Prime Minister thinks this will get him more votes.
Evidently this is easier than dealing with Ireland’s economic problems.
Tragic when I see people only pretend to give a sh*8 when it’s faggot priests involved.
I really can’t imagine why pedophile priests weren’t 1) excommunicated (or whatever it is you do to priests who violate their vows) & 2) turned over to the law for prosecution. It is an outrage things were handled so badly. But then no one in charge of anything these days seems to have one iota of common sense.
You didn’t want to push some hot buttons did you :-)
The de facto historical modus operandi of the Rome-headed church has been to “work from within” rather than risk ostracizing any local congregation (or organization) that grew at some point from that church and which now identifies itself as Catholic, no matter how bad its behavior has gotten.
Whether this preserve-until-they-choose-to-split practice is good or bad for eternal souls I can’t speculate. But IMHO it’s led to a lot of unnecessary misery on earth for people who didn’t do anything to deserve it, and unnecessary bad-mouthing of Jesus Christ.
The “Vatican” did not cover up anything. The people who either covered up or ignored it were the Irish bishops, 3 of whom have already been removed by the Pope.
The removal of a bishop is a very serious thing and rarely happens in the Church. They are all considered successors to the Apostles, and until the Vatican’s records were destroyed (16th century, IIRC), every bishop could trace his lineage back to one of the Apostles. I have seen somewhat incomplete episcopal “genealogical charts” in Spain, although after Vaatican II, nobody seems to care much.
And in the 21st century, I’d bet that few if any people would know that Catholic bishops are the successors to the Apostles, and that they are all supposed to be able to trace their lineage back to the Apostle from whom they are descended.
St Patrick, the son of a Christian Roman-British authority and a Christian native woman (either in Northern England or what is now Scotland), was made Archbishop of Ireland by the Pope in the 5th century, since the first bishop of a territory is named as its archbishop. St. Patrick is probably weeping right now to see these hideous Irish bishops.
This is going to be weird later this year if that leftist candidate wins who think pedophilia and incest is just fine.
More Irish maybe becoming Protestant? Interesting.
Is this about the law where they want priests to break the confession seal?
He's going to put the Reverends Sharpton and Swaggart right on it