Posted on 11/18/2005 10:01:51 AM PST by NYer
Pope grades bishops - The Italians Pass, the Austrians Flunk, the Brazilians...
Amen to that.
In the USA, the PSYCHOlogists have been part of the problem.
They should start their own church.
You want to sprinkle the children with what?
This has been one of the tactics used to keep conservative men out of US seminaries. Send 'em to a shrink, who decides that they have a personality disorder.
Personally, I think the psychologization of the Church has been one of the biggest problems in the US church. The Church is viewed by many of its members and clergy as a sort of therapeutic organization, and even within that, the principles of that "therapy" are not those of Christ, but those of Freud and the APA.
Of course it's discrimination - the good kind, the kind of discrimination that comes from the exercise of good judgement.
Stop discrimination against discrimination!
Look for Diocese in certain states to be hit with "anti-discrimination" lawsuits for failing to ordain homosexual priests.
Viva Italia!
Homosexual Agenda Ping.
Yes, yes and yes.
May this understanding of basic truth spread throughout the entire Catholic church and the world.
Freepmail me and DirtyHarryY2K if you want on/off this pinglist.
Note: I will be busy for a little while and will likely not do much pinging. Main reason:
Preparing in case there is a bad avian flu outbreak. I think it probable to highly likely to it's gonna happen. I advise all of you to look into it. Won't bother you again, if you have ?s about it do a search or freepmail me.
Where do you get the little blankets and thermometers for the birds?
husband and wife on a picnic. A bird flies by and drops a load on the wife. Wife says "hand me a tissue." Husband "says what for? That bird is a half mile away by now."
LOL
Exactly!
I agree, in instances like this it is discernment, not discrimination.
An all-male brotherhood rife with sexual immaturity;
seminaries that have failed to adequately teach students how to live chaste lives;
and a faithful flock that raises its priests to an elevated status that in the case of my own family member, was horrified to find his elders invading the beds of innocent 18-year old recruits in his Florida seminary.
His sponsor was an uncle from the Sierra de Guanajuato region of Mexico, a former Vatican canon lawyer who fluently spoke 8 languages and was aghast to learn of such aberrant homosexual behaviors.
It is the church's silence on such matters of the flesh, its secrecy in dealing with wayward priests and its blind protection of the men in its own ranks that have catapulted it to deserved controversy.
When the real church is raptured, RCC may continue to conduct its business in any manner it sees fit. AMEN!
Too Funny.
BTTT!
May the prayers of discernment be with all considering the priesthood. That's where the answer is -- it's not discrimination because it is a call by God to sevre HIM!
You think protestant churches haven't had their share of problems with this? It's almost a stereotype in some circles about how any youth director that's not just starting out after graduating has to be watched...
And I have had students come up and tell me stories of abuse they had when they were at nicely thought of protestant run religious schools.
And I have known too many groups that hustled up and covered the problems they had with sexual scandals in their own congregations.
No church has clean hands, because all churches are staffed by humans who give in to sin from time to time. I suggest you might want to review the parables of the wheat and tares and the parable of the net.
When we cross that threshold and stand in the presence of our redeemer, you may be quite surprised at who is there, and what churches they came from.
No one can say Jesus is Lord except by the Holy Spirt, and we say it a lot in this church you are happy to condemn. We can happily say with the writer of Hebrews, For which cause I suffer also these things: yet I am not ashamed; for I know him whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that he is able to guard that which I have committed unto him against that day.
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