Posted on 01/01/2016 3:15:54 PM PST by marshmallow
Back in the ‘90s, our neighbor attended ND seminary after graduating college. All he ever wanted to be was a priest. But, at the seminary, he was hit on every day, and the superiors told him to ignore it. He lasted two or three weeks and came home.
He is now a married dad of two.
Perhaps he can become a permanent deacon.
I have a hard time believing this story after the cleaning out of the seminaries in the U. S. by Pope Benedict XVI and his team of inspectors.
What could go wrong?
Seminal! ;)
He moved about 20 years ago, and I’ve lost touch.
Hey, Seminary (or is it Semenary?)
-——read the holy scriptures, for goodness’ sakes!
Thank you!
Pollyannaish wrote:
I have a hard time believing this story after the cleaning out of the seminaries in the U. S. by Pope Benedict XVI and his team of inspectors.
Those reforms were successful “mostly” with diocesan seminaries, those seminaries run by orders( Franciscan,Dominican, etc.) are still amok.
The church is still in bad shape,partially rehabilitated. These problems have not disappeared and the liberal bad half of the Church still holds the reins of power in too many places.
That’s strange because we have Benedictines, Servites, Carmelites, Franciscans and other orders that I may not know about in my archdiocese. I have never heard anything like this from any of them.
Seminaries have always attracted homosexuals who don’t want to act on their urges, and decide on celibacy. But concentrating them in the same place doesn’t exactly help.
A lot more conservative than Mundelein IL Seminary and its feeder Niles Seminary which were openly pro-gay at least as early as 1968.
During the early seventies, a classmate of my sister went to seminary and left after a year. I do not know the reason wny he left and what seminary what I do recall is my shocked sister telling me that the Church has a homosexual problem, that at night a person can hear them as the first year seminarians had an open dorm setting.
Pope Benedict start rooting homosexuals and activist nuns who violate the Bible by supporting abortion, birth control other than the rhythym method, etc. but it will take a couple decades for the Church to cleanse itself of homosexuals and libertines as they are embedded in the Church hierarchy,
It is very unfortunate.
During the early seventies, a classmate of my sister went to seminary and left after a year. I do not know the reason wny he left and what seminary what I do recall is my shocked sister telling me that the Church has a homosexual problem, that at night a person can hear them as the first year seminarians had an open dorm setting.
Pope Benedict start rooting homosexuals and activist nuns who violate the Bible by supporting abortion, birth control other than the rhythym method, lesbianism, etc. however, it will take a couple decades for the Church to cleanse itself of homosexuals and libertines as they are embedded in the Church hierarchy, and protect their own..the so-called gay mafia.
It is unfortunate that their presence has so negatively impacted the many who are Faithful and hard working within the Priesthood. My understanding is that the orders such as Piux X, and St. Peter who have zero tolerance for homosexuality are growing.
Sorry for the duplicate...we are in a remote area and our bandwidth is feeble at best. Sometimes the posting hangs and I do not know if it was successfully submitted,
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Self-evidently, the 'handbook' was not authored by a Catholic with even a basic understanding of what the Church teaches. Celibacy is abstaining from marriage; Chastity is abstaining from sexual activity -and of course the most obvious, sexual activity is only legitimate between married spouses -period.
Catholic seminaries accommodating gays? What could go wrong?
http://www.snapnetwork.org/
One would think that celibacy is a no-brainer. A priest has to hang up his sexual actions until he stops being a priest.
They do retire at 70 years old.
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