Posted on 09/26/2007 4:03:14 PM PDT by Stoat
Some people use the same line for both, to save money. I used to.
True and succinct. I like succinct.
The one that knows rape of children is wrong. If my pastor touched a child his butt would be in prison, not moved to another church.
When you toss out all of the sinners, there is no church!
That’s not what this is about.
Just the one.
So is Luther's novel teaching of "the Bible Alone."
Why is his extra-Biblical teaching acceptable, while the teaching of Christ's Church is not?
Besides, the Bible doesn't reject extra-scriptural Apostolic teaching, the Bible commends it.
2 Thessalonians 2:15So then, brothers, stand firm and hold to the teachings we passed on to you, whether by word of mouth or by letter.
Finally, the Bible itself indicates the fact that Mary enjoys an exalted position in heaven.
Revelation 12:1A great and wondrous sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet and a crown of twelve stars on her head. She was pregnant and cried out in pain as she was about to give birth. Then another sign appeared in heaven: an enormous red dragon with seven heads and ten horns and seven crowns on his heads. His tail swept a third of the stars out of the sky and flung them to the earth. The dragon stood in front of the woman who was about to give birth, so that he might devour her child the moment it was born. She gave birth to a son, a male child, who will rule all the nations with an iron scepter.
Pedophile Priest: The Crimes of Father Geoghan
"..Child molesters are the lowest of the low on the inmate hierarchy. But, as reported by Newsweek in a September 2003 article called ''Preying on the Predator,'' Geoghan's chief tormentors at Concord were not other prisoners but the outraged guards. Correction officers are believed to have regularly spat in his food. They called him ''Satan'' and ''Lucifer'' and insisted that the former priest – who was still a Catholic since he had been defrocked but not excommunicated – answer to those names. On one occasion, Geoghan is supposed to have discovered that a guard had defecated in his bed..."
This one was one of the worst.
How many popes are there in Rome?
The can more than afford to toss those guys.
It took them SIX YEARS? Can anyone say, with a straight face, that this remotely resembles the New Testament model of church discipline?
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My thoughts exactly. How can people who should have such solid rooting be led astray so completely?
Then you're disobeying one of Jesus' teachings. That's important, if you consider yourself a Christian.
"If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church; and if he refuses to listen even to the church, treat him as you would a pagan or a tax collector." --Jesus
The reporter really isn't too well informed.
First, the Catholic Church does not "defrock" and there is no such thing as a "former priest" - there are priests whom the Church grants faculties (the ability to celebrate Mass, hear confessions, counsel parishioners, etc.) to and there are priests whose faculties are suspended, either temporarily or permanently.
Geoghan's faculties were permanently suspended.
The person who suspends your faculties is your bishop, who is also the same person who places or removes bans of excommunication in his diocese.
One of the grounds for excommunication is flagrant moral turpitude, and when a priest's bishop permanently suspends his faculties for flagrant moral turpitude the bishop is generally excommunicating him as well.
Of course, as soon as someone begs forgiveness for their sins, they can be recommunicated.
Show me something by link that says Geoghan was excommunicated.
There is no link to a live video of Geoghan's meeting with Cardinal Law.
My thought exactly. Well said.
Thank you for your post......you put it beautifully.
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