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It’s the way of the world, and it’s the life of the big cities, as I’ve seen it. Chuck Schumer got the red carpet because he gave something to that yeshiva.

Do you really rely on movies for your information? I don’t know where you live, but your life is obviously sheltered.

Dom Carlucci is an actual mafioso. I used to see his trucks and smell them, and an address written on the side for Staten Island, which is both the site of a huge land fill, and the site of a suburban neighborhood much favored by goombahs. I’ve never been inside the church there. But I know it’s well furnished and maintained, credit to the goombahs, and the father confessor does not tell them to shut down their numbers operations, brothels, sanitation services, protection rackets, cigarette tax evasion rackets, etc., because that’s where they get the money to donate to the churches.

Stop obsessing about the mafioso. They’re not from central casting in a gangster movie. In fact, they’re very personable and decent in their day-to-day life. No reason why a church would not want their patronage, except the rot at the core of their business, and the ugliness that they confess to in the booth. If you ever were on Kingston Avenue during pickup night, you’d smell it.

My main focus is on the politicians, as you would know if you had read my first post on the matter, and the one before this.

Do you really rely on movies for your information? I don’t know where you live, but your life is obviously sheltered.

I was caricaturing your made up accusation. I may not be as sheltered as you think. I do not appreciate you using an ad hominem as a substitute for reasoned argument.

You started on the mafioso, not me. You made an unfounded assertion about sacramental confession, something I likely know more than you about. You presented a made up story by a fallen away Catholic as fact, and you refuse to admit that it is not a fact.

I made numerous reasons why yourversion COULDn't be true, and you just ignored them

Public patronage and public statements by priests or bishops have NO BEARING on Sacramental Confession, as the priest or Archbishop is forbidden to bring any knowledge of the sins outside of the confessional. By the way, the priest normally doesn't know who the penitent is, and sometimes sins that are very embarrassing are purposely confessed to an unknown priest in a different parish.

Focus on politicians, and when Catholics explain to you both how Confession should function, and how it does function, you consider the explanation, rather than resorting to irrelevant ad hominems. All you have to do is admit that your line that "The Mafioso are Catholic, too, and after confessing to their routinely heinous litany of crime, their Father Confessor prescribes to them the penance of giving a tithe of their ill-gotten gains to their local parish, which is well financed as a result. " is unfounded. (BTW, Catholics don't typically tithe.)