“Those priests who have been caught, have been defrocked.”
That’s not enough for me. I want them alerted to law enforcement.
“Those priests who have been caught, have been defrocked.”
I beg to differ. I think I may have heard one case like that, but in most cases the priests are reassigned.
That said, I think the problem is no more prevalent among priests than any other group - letter carriers had a ring busted where I live, for example - I think they just get more press. For the reason that their group should be above it.
“(5) causing poverty”
That is about as vague a statement as I have ever heard. My sister could run up $45,000 worth of credit card bills, or my brother blow $45,000 at the casino, and then the credit card company and the casino are at fault for “causing poverty”? Or am I “causing poverty” because I live in a nice house and hire a maid — because by having enough money to do both, I am somehow “causing poverty” to the woman down the block who has not worked hard and thus has neither?
Is “causing poverty” raising my taxes so high that their total outstrips what I pay for food, clothing, shelter and transportation combined? What if the tax-raiser then takes my money and hands it out to The Poor?
This is way too vague to be a sin. I would define it more as a whine.