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To: Bayard

Priests can be laicized for serious offenses. He should have been given a choice between being defrocked or spending the rest of his life in a very strict monastery.


8 posted on 04/24/2016 7:24:24 AM PDT by NRx (It's sad when there is no one running for President that I can vote for with a clear conscience.)
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To: NRx
Priests can be laicized for serious offenses. He should have been given a choice between being defrocked or spending the rest of his life in a very strict monastery.

Or, you know, prison. Why not prison?

Real "whore of Babylon" stuff, this is.

13 posted on 04/24/2016 7:29:02 AM PDT by DSH
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To: NRx
Priests can be laicized for serious offenses. He should have been given a choice between being defrocked or spending the rest of his life in a very strict monastery.

If rape and the subsequent abuse in the confessional doesn't qualify as a *serious offense*, then what the heck for the Catholic church consider one to be?

Oh, I know. Getting legally married. You'll lose your priesthood for that sure enough.

56 posted on 04/24/2016 10:31:30 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: NRx
Priests can be laicized for serious offenses.

Galatians 5:12 New International Version (NIV)
As for those agitators, I wish they would go the whole way and emasculate themselves!

66 posted on 04/24/2016 1:27:22 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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He should have been given a choice between being defrocked or ...

...detached.

67 posted on 04/24/2016 1:27:48 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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