Hospice Helps Dying Man Lose His Virginity

telegraph UK ^ | Saturday, January 27, 2007 | Stewart Payne

[BlessedBeGod]

If it was nobody's business then it shouldn't bother you.

I didn't say it was nobody's business.

[Salgak]

Prostitution IS legal. We call them "politicians", tho....

[BlessedBeGod]

This Sister is not Catholic, nor was the Catholic Church involved in this in any way

Ah, you're correct. I did a little digging, and it looks like it's the Anglican church that was. Thanks for the info.

[Trailerpark Badass]

Let's hope she was just stupid--that the story got out because someone leaked it, and not because the whole thing was some kind of crazed publicity play intended to undermine the Church.

I don't think so, the man is pictured on the home page of the hospice's web site.

But this Sister is associated with the Church of Scotland, not the Catholic Church, thank God.

[word_warrior_bob]

If what you say is true then we have no chance to stop global warming.

You're going to have to explain this one to me, care to elaborate?

[Trailerpark Badass]

If women would like to understand us better, this is how we operate. Sex is only third because you have to have food to stay alive, money for shelter and a bed, sex, you need 1 and 2 first, sleep-after sex, often immediately.

Speak for yourself. Most men I know are interested in being something more noble than the collection of their basest biological impulses.

[do the dhue]

It's quite a different feeling for a 22-year-old loser who has never had it.

I would say that he is stricken with a problem. And who knows, this may be a problem deliberately given to him by God. God does not give a person more then they can handle. Maybe, this was his test by God. Like I said, I don't know. And the clergy don't know this either. If this was God's test, I would rather be in the ex-virgin's shoes then the clergy's shoes.

I don't know. I do know this: the clergy is in the business of building strength in souls. Offering the flesh rather then the spirit is a bit contradictory.

[teenyelliott]

brilliant post

[Sir_Ed]

It's amazing the disconnect between conservatives and liberals on this site, huh?

We have freepers who support a candidate who believes in partial-birth abortion and banning handguns, and we have freepers who believe that prostitution should be legalized, and it's okay when a nun buys a hooker for someone.

Sometimes I scratch my head and ask "where did Free Republic go???"

Ed

[BlessedBeGod]

My mistake -- the clergy and nun involved are actually Anglican. Sorry for the bad ping.

[gcruse]

"brought me closer to the devine"

This one?

[EveningStar]

Thanks.




blark

[brwnsuga]

I don't think that it is very safe for this young man's first time to be with a woman who has possibly had sex with scores of different people. He could catch something terrible AND if he is that close to dying, he would have been better off thinking about his soul and not his winkie.

[BlessedBeGod]

Sometimes I scratch my head and ask "where did Free Republic go???"

LOL, I'm glad to know it's not just me!

[Cicero]

Ah, OK. I should have looked closer.

For those who may not know, the Church of Scotland is the Scottish Branch of the Church of England, otherwise known as the Established Church or the Anglican Church.

It's the church that was imposed on the Scots by the English, along with the Book of Common Prayer. Most Scots, of course, belong to other churches, chiefly Presbyterian.

It's not widely known, but there are a few religious communities in the Anglican Communion. Most of them used to be very High Church, but I suppose they have decayed with much of the rest of the Anglican Church. When I was an Episcopalian, before my conversion, I used to serve at the Mass (as they called it) at the Cowley Fathers Church in Cambridge, Mass. Sorry to hear that some Anglican religious are behaving, regretably, much like some of the dissident nuns in the Catholic Church.

[Carolinamom]

I share your views here.

[word_warrior_bob]

Speak for yourself. Most men I know are interested in being something more noble than the collection of their basest biological impulses

_____

That doesn't mean we don't possess every other wonderful quality that makes us great. I think once you submit and realize and accept thes biological impulses you are secure in yourself and confident.

You see it another way, I understand your position, it was meant tongue in cheek, but I do mean it wholeheartedly.

[A.A. Cunningham]

Sister Frances Dominica*

* Believes that morality and teaching on same in Scripture is relative.

Helen & Douglas House

[Slings and Arrows]

I thought it was a little sad...although it does suggest some ideas for yesterday's Iguana thread.

[Enterprise]

"The nun should have just taken care of the problem herself and saved the guy some money."

Maybe she did volunteer, but he was full of pride and wanted nun of it.