Posted on 03/21/2002 5:23:36 AM PST by MeekOneGOP
My friend is a former Polish citizen who is now a chaplain in the US military. His friends at the seminary consisted of former instructors, guides, and fellow students. There was such a reunion of young men who seriously cared about each other.
My friend is so clearly a solid priest and so clearly a true male and so clearly celibate because of a sincere marriage to the church he loves. His heart for his soldiers is known and believed and relied upon. And this despite struggles with the English language.
Don't you wish that all the priests were so dedicated and so clearly true males?
My Catholic friends so much want you to REMOVE from any parish ministry those whose status as true males is questioned. They want you to remove from the church those who have sexually betrayed their vows with those who are in their care. They want you to excommunicate those who have violated little children.
If anyone injures one of these little children who believes in me, it is better for a millstone to be tied around his neck and for him to be cast into the sea.
Whatsoever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven.
Take up your authority in your old age and use it. Lovingly stand with our abused and terrorized children.
Somebody's going to police these situations.
Either the bishops do it, or it will fall to the lay people by default.
The problem is that it is not just the CANDIDATES who are corrupt, it is the administrations of many of the major seminaries in the US. The schools need to be shut down, all their staff fired, the homosexual candidates weeded out, and new, CONSECRATED seminaries set up in their place. This perversion of the seminaries has been ongoing for many years, since the "modernizing" and "liberalizing" bishops and cardinals put their agenda into practice.
It's interesting to note, as an aside, that it appears that the seminaries in the most conservative, orthodox dioceses are overflowing with candidates, while the seminaries in dioceses with bishops like Rembert Weakland can only manage one or two ordinations a year. I pray to Almighty God that this trend continues!
I listen to my words, but they fall far below
I let my music take me where my heart wants to go
I swam upon the Devil's Lake
But never, never, never, never
I'll never make the same mistake
No, never, never, never.
The Wind, Cat Stevens
Then Peter came to him and asked, 'Lord, how often am I to forgive my brother if he goes on wronging me? As many as seven times?' Jesus replied, 'I do not say seven times, but seventy times seven.'
Matt 18:21-22
It will. No one is flocking and breaking down doors to join the liberal church.
But do THEY turn him over to the proper authorities or let him move on to another 'calling'? If is the latter, that is just as bad as trying to move an offending priest from one parish to another in hopes he'll stop what he's doing.
I assume he means the same thing as the annulment of the Sacrament of Matrimony. In either case, if the party has not entered into the Sacrament with the FULL INTENTION of living out the Sacrament, then the Sacrament was not valid to begin with.
In other words, if a man who is a pedophile or actively homosexual is ordained, but he has no intention of ever giving up that activity it would be as if the Sacrament had never taken place because God's grace would not be forthcoming to him. Same thing with a man or woman who marries, but has no intention of ever being faithful to his or her spouse; the vows that are taken are meaningless and therefore the Sacrament is not valid.
Maybe. You might also consider that pastors first objective is to keep the parish financially sound (not necessarily morally sound). They want to be 'pastoral' which in their interpretation means don't rock any boats.
I wonder if this is just a problem in the Am-Church or are other countries affected. If is throughout the Church, then it reflects on JP II. Pope JP II is a good and holy man but seems to have let Church administration slip.
It didn't all start with this gay thing. Infrasturcture is in free fall - dissent is rampant, Catholic colleges are hardly that, annulments up, religious vocations are down, a blind eye to abortion first politicians, teaching dogma beliefs has vanished. But PR is up for hierarchy apologizing for history, condeming racism or getting some inter-faith face award recognition which places a premium on being politically correct.
So-called 'reform' has left the Church in shambles. What is needed now is counter-reformation. Open the windows again and let the stink out.
Not only priests abuse -- notice the words American clergymen.
I say GO FOR IT! Nothing will rock the Church, since we are the Church. None of this evil negates or changes our faith in God.
I have read a book by Bella Dodd,who was a former member of CPUSA.I believe she had testified before a House or Senate committee regarding the Communist Party in the United States. Her testimony was that at that time(appx)1948)the Party had infiltrated 1000 young men into the seminaries of the Western Church.
They were not planted to baptize,teach the Truth,preach the Faith and administer the Sacraments. No,they were planted to eventually destroy the Church from within in order to ensure that the enemy could have a clear path to rule mankind. Men who believed in God could not be enslaved. These infiltrators did not believe in God they believed that man is but an animal,content to be satisfied with worldly pleasures such as sex,any kind,with any body.And so they set out to inculcate a culture that would achieve these ends.
Turning Truth upside down is a sure way to do that. And they have been very successful,homosexuality is not according to nature,it is contrary to nature and involves one of the basic needs. You really don't think all this "Spirit" blowin thru the church stuff had anything to do with the "Holy Spirit".Anyway its even deeper than this but all Catholics and ex-Catholics need to withhold money and go back to the pews in droves;they would be furious if everybody who left because of their discomfort would just go back and "watch" them. One of their goals has been to get all of the orthodox,conservative and traditional Catholics out of the pews and out of the Church so they could step in and take over. You don't think these "temples of wisdom" they have been building were for us faithful Catholics,or do you?The Church is going to end up poorer,purer,stronger and truly reflect the Body of Christ" as He wished.
Let those of other faiths sling stones at us from the walls of their glass houses. They'll get their reward.
In the meantime, I want the filth in the Church to be excised.
How "Christian" of you to call me an *sshole! What's a matter, LouD, can't face up to the fact that the Church needs some house cleaning? Go bury your head in the sand...or, better yet, get a mackeral to snap!
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