[Campion]

In my experience, Catholics by-and-large don't have a problem with having immoral priests.

Your experience? As an outsider?

We -- by-and-large -- have an aversion to washing our dirty laundry in front of hostile strangers.

We also have an aversion to immoral priests. On the other hand, one might well expect priests to have an aversion to immoral laypeople ... but, then again (remember that total depravity business), is there another kind? And, then again, some priests are better than others, but every one of them is a sinner ... like me.

Do you guys have an aversion to immoral ministers? Do you know of another kind?

"All have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God."

At least, last time I checked. Maybe Protestant clergy are the exception, but I doubt it.

[Gamecock]

**We -- by-and-large -- have an aversion to washing our dirty laundry in front of hostile stranger**

Which is exactly why there is a, shall we say, large amount of suspicion by the Proddies? What came first, the shuffling of immoral priests or the hostile strangers?"

**Do you guys have an aversion to immoral ministers?**

We have an aversion to someone latently, unrepentant, occupying the pulpit. But our goal is not to hide what he has done and move him to another church, but to restore him.


***remember that total depravity business***

Wait just a minute! Are you a Jansenist?

[Scotswife]

"We -- by-and-large -- have an aversion to washing our dirty laundry in front of hostile strangers."

Amen.
Especially hostile strangers who seem strangely uninterested in their own perverted ministers.

"We also have an aversion to immoral priests. On the other hand, one might well expect priests to have an aversion to immoral laypeople ... but, then again (remember that total depravity business), is there another kind? And, then again, some priests are better than others, but every one of them is a sinner ... like me."

Again...amen.


All the catholics I know are outraged at the immorality of the child abusers.
If there is one common complaint I see is that the media seems bent on covering cathoic scandal, but is indifferent to the scandal in the schools.
But whoever said life is fair?