So f***in’ what? That’s what I would say. Nothing wrong with that at all.
Gee. Whatever interest do you suppose they have in "trying to figure out" what was "going on"?
Perhaps that’s why he was such a kind, loving man. I miss him.
John Paul had the kavorka...
Innuendo of this sort is, of course, impossible. Everyone knows priests are gay. *ducks*
Why do we worry about smearing a dead Pope when the current one never fails to provide us with conversation fodder?
BTW, some call him "John Paul the Great." I like to call him "Lolek the Mensch."
There is no theological basis for priests to suppress healthy normal sexual activity. It is unnatural. Until the celibacy requirement is abandoned or fundamentally modified the pool of potential priests will remain very limited. Unfortunately the priesthood is attracting an inordinate number of homosexuals. The vast majority of the molestation cases has been vile homosexual priests violating young boys. People are losing trust in the clergy and the Church is having difficulty ministering to the faithful Truly unfortunate since the Church needs godly men to preach and minister. The Church has always had the role to counter the deviant aspects of man’s nature and the society he creates. This is especially important now that America is entering an era of post Christian neo pagan epicurean decadence. Sadly it does not have the personnel to counter the culture, is not serving the faithful and is losing trust. There are those who will argue that “celibacy” is not the problem but it is. A healthy man can no more deny his sexuality, its exercise and its meaning, any more than he can deny himself food, water or oxygen. The Church must purge the clergy of homosexuals and allow godly normal heterosexually active moral men into the ranks.
Its been said the Church faces an existential crisis about every five hundred years. The first was the fall of Rome and the question if the Church as an organized institution would survive, next was the schism between Eastern Orthodox and the Western Papacy, then came the challenge of the Reformation. Now in this era there is the corruption of the clergy. Catholic apologists have said that with each prior challenge the Church prospered and grew. They took this as evidence of Divine favor. Let’s hope that somehow the challenge of a corrupt clergy will also be resolved
I have had pretty close friendships with several priests and quite a few non-priest males. Only those with warped minds think anything of it.
Bullcrap. Reagan also had some female pen pals that were very close friends. JPII, corresponding with a lady is a normal thing in life.
In a rare serious moment for me, there actually are a few rare women that a man can benefit by cultivating a friendship with.
A smear of a very good man.
“”I would say they were more than friends but less than lovers,” Edward Stourton, the documentary maker, tells AFP, via Deutsche Welle.”
Ok, what exactly is “more than a friend but less than a lover”?
This reminds me of “person of interest”. It has no legal definition whatsoever. It started with that poor hero Richard Jewell from the Atlanta Olympics. Its a way to call someone a suspect with out saying the actual word. There are suspects and witnesses. Nothing else. A cop can interview people all day long, but the moment he has the idea that the person committed the crime, they are a “suspect” and must be advised of their rights.
There is no such entity as a suspect lite, “person of interest”. If you believe that they were involved, they are a suspect.
This weasel language that she was “more than a friend, but less than a lover” is he exact same tactic.