[AlaninSA]

I've not yet seen a Catholic or Orthodox church building emblazoned with the name of the pastor in 24" letters on the side of the building.

I've not yet seen a Catholic or Orthodox priest (and the apartments at "HQ" buildings for popes, metropolitans and patriarchs don't come close) living in a multimillion dollar mansion.

I've never seen a Catholic or Orthodox priest break down in tears to beg for money on their "talk show."

Need I continue?

[P-Marlowe]

I've never seen a high profile, highly compensated protestant pastor molest hundreds of little boys. I've never seen a high paid highly compensated protestant pastor bow and kiss the koran. Need I go on?

We all have our problems, don't we? I'm not defending Hagee's salary. I don't really know that all the stuff he owns is even his. I don't know anything about him. Since he's not my pastor and I don't set his salary, I really don't care what he makes. He has to answer to the Lord for what he does with the money he gets, not me or you.

[xzins]

I've not yet seen a Catholic or Orthodox church building emblazoned with the name of the pastor in 24" letters on the side of the building.

Oh come now....you've never seen pictures of the Pope bandied about like Stalin & Lenin and other titular heads?

The opulence of the hierarchy's treatment is one of my objections to Roman Catholicism and the various Orthodox churches.

[PetroniusMaximus]

"I've never seen a Catholic or Orthodox priest break down in tears to beg for money on their "talk show." "


Which is better, to beg for money or to sell forgivness?

[Wallace T.]

Have you ever heard of John Tetzel, the German Catholic priest who sold indulgences for money in a fund raising effort to help build St. Peter's Basilica in Rome? These abuses were a major motivation behind Martin Luther's Ninty-Five Theses, which was the seminal event of the Reformation. In more recent times, there was the Banco Ambroisano scandal, which involved Archbishop Paul Marcinkus, an American Catholic clergyman who also served as head of the Vatican bank.

Financial scandals are not limited to charismatic and Pentecostal clergy by any means, though the MSM and some Catholic apologists are unduly fixated upon it. Perhaps they would do well to remember Jesus' own words to the effect that before you criticize the speck in one man's eye, deal with the two by four in your own eye.

[P-Marlowe]

I've never seen a Catholic or Orthodox priest break down in tears to beg for money on their "talk show."

If you are speaking of Jan Crouch, she is not a preacher. She owns a television network.

The Mafia was (and still is) run by Catholics. Good Mass attending tithing Catholics. They gunned people down for money. Which is worse, TBN or the Mafia?

I told you that you should go down this road.

[Bainbridge]

And how many dioceses are bankrupt because of the pederasty of their clergy?
You open up these volleys with your snide tones and then cry foul about people responding.
You always show a very "uncharitable" spirit toward the "separated brethren". I suspect you do not spend much time working at the fruits of the Spirit and other Biblically based ideas, but I believe that the RC Catechism would admonish you for your smug and hostile attitude.