[miss marmelstein]

Of course you’d take the word of the family - you’d take the word of the devil himself if it maligned Catholicism.
You have a bee in your bonnet on the subject.

Again, we don’t know the full story; I would at least like to hear the priest’s side of the tale before I drew judgment. That used to be the American way.

[ealgeone]

Of course you’d take the word of the family - you’d take the word of the devil himself if it maligned Catholicism. You have a bee in your bonnet on the subject.

Nope. But then again, you might be one of the many Roman Catholics who refuse to condemn your denomination for their seeming refusal to deal with the homosexual issue in the priesthood. ,p> When put in that light I think we see who is aligning with who.

Again, we don’t know the full story; I would at least like to hear the priest’s side of the tale before I drew judgment. That used to be the American way.

In light of the current issues surrounding Roman Catholicism and their seeming steadfast refusal to deal with the homosexual issue and that the priest involved in this has been removed from funeral duties....me thinks you have very little room to stand on this.

But, like one of your fellow Roman Catholics....keep defending the "company" at all costs.

[Elsie]

Of course you’d take the word of the family - you’d take the word of the devil himself if it maligned Catholicism.

HMMMmmm…

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Do I REALLY need to post anything; after you've gone and proven your judgementalism in this reply??

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Yeah; why not.

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 At your service; Ma'am.

 

 

Pope Stephen VI (896–897), who had his predecessor Pope Formosus exhumed, tried, de-fingered, briefly reburied, and thrown in the Tiber.^[1]

Pope John XII (955–964), who gave land to a mistress, murdered several people, and was killed by a man who caught him in bed with his wife.

Pope Benedict IX (1032–1044, 1045, 1047–1048), who "sold" the Papacy

Pope Boniface VIII (1294–1303), who is lampooned in Dante's Divine Comedy

Pope Urban VI (1378–1389), who complained that he did not hear enough screaming when Cardinals who had conspired against him were tortured.^[2]

Pope Alexander VI (1492–1503), a Borgia, who was guilty of nepotism and whose unattended corpse swelled until it could barely fit in a coffin.^[3]

Pope Leo X (1513–1521), a spendthrift member of the Medici family who once spent 1/7 of his predecessors' reserves on a single ceremony^[4]

Pope Clement VII (1523–1534), also a Medici, whose power-politicking with France, Spain, and Germany got Rome sacked.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bad_Popes

[Elsie]

... I would at least like to hear the priest’s side of the tale before I drew judgment.

What a concept!