theft isn't the only commandment he's broken from the looks of him, he looks like a filthy disease ridden queer...
Posted on 04/07/2009 6:42:40 PM PDT by Huber
Mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the cutest clergyman of all? A 66-year-old Staten Island pastor trying desperately to turn back the clock ripped off nearly $85,000 from his congregation to pay for plastic surgery, Botox shots and fancy clothes, authorities said yesterday The Rev. William Blasingame, 66, a fixture at the historic St. Paul's Memorial Episcopal Church for more than 30 years, began breaking the Eighth Commandment in January 2005 and continued to steal for another three years, according to the Staten Island district attorney. The unwed Blasingame's miraculous makeovers apparently impressed some of the older members of his congregation. "He is a favorite of the elderly and 65-plus crowd," a law-enforcement source said. "He was a real schmoozer."
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theft isn't the only commandment he's broken from the looks of him, he looks like a filthy disease ridden queer...
Clerical Liberaces.
But it used to be (pre-1970s) called "The Protestant Episcopal Church in America" for a reason. We 'high-churchers' mostly ignored that, as well as certain of the XXXIX Articles (especially XIX, XXII, XXV, and XXVIII) but there you are.
ack! He’s scary looking
The old ladies in our former ECUSA congregation were still saying that our former rector was "such a nice boy" even after he'd been deposed by the bishop and was sweating bullets with the D.A. . . . .
LOL! That probably explains it...
I don't know, but I sure hope we don't turn into them someday. I can't imagine how anybody could be that dumb (except that a lot of them were probably pretty naive even when they were younger).
I think the big problem is that the churches have all adapted to them and basically the old lady mentality governs a lot of Christian churches in this country. Whenever I see parishioners sally forth to defend some priest who was busy stealing from the collection plate to support his boyfriend (or, a little less offensively, buy himself a retirement condo in Ireland!), I just slap my forehead and wonder what's to be done.
She’s a man, man!
Well, the Houston priest whose body was just found in Nuevo Larado was apparently killed by the housekeeper at his Mexican home. On the TV news (but I can't find it online) the housekeeper said that he killed the priest when the priest tried to end their relationship. So it looks like there are still a few out there, with more clean up needed.
Sure it might be true, but if I had $10 for every accused murderer who claimed that the victim had or attempted a homosexual relationship with him, I'd be rich.
I am not at all happy about the direction my church has taken, but I must contest this blamket statement. Certainly my priest is not gay. He is quite happily married, and the emotions he showed when his wife got ill with colon cancer (the operation and chemo was a success, thank God) were quite genuine.
Statements such as you ahve made are uncalled for.
He was huge with the blue-haired crowd.
If you get out of urban centers and into the country, you'll find plenty of nice, normal, devout Episcopal priests.
They just have no power in the church because the administrative machinery has been taken over by the radicals.
They also will not be replaced by nice, normal, devout men, because the radicals have also taken over the seminaries and refuse to graduate or ordain orthodox men (or women for that matter - the 'movement' eats its own).
So the remaining orthodox priests are hunkering down and looking after their parishes, and hoping their pensions survive.
"This is the way the world ends: not with a bang but with a whimper."
True, most of our clergy are liberal; but most are not gay. We are supposed to be "the middle way" between papal Roman Catholicism (which we high church types lean) and mainstream protestantism. However, if these types of apostate priestly happenings occur much longer I'm bailing and will have to somehow swallow my revulsion for papal infallibility and Marian philosophy to join the RCs.
Stuff and nonsense.
Or . . . you could check out the Lutherans. Some of us would probably fit what you would be looking for.
It's not as scary as people think . . . . the pope hardly ever makes a pronouncement ex cathedra, and when he does, he has the backing of the Cardinals. I have found it quite reassuring to have adult leadership with a backbone. One of the reasons the Episcopal church has found itself in such difficulties is that there is no final authority to stand up and say, "No!" to anything.
And Marian philosophy at its core is theologically sound -- individual Catholics sometimes engage in sentimental and excessive devotions which are off-putting to Protestants, but remember, no Catholic is required to perform optional pious exercises. And, besides, the Blessed Virgin herself always points the way to her Son. Always. So she will help those folks who are mistaking devotion for worship in the right direction.
Not having a German background (although I studied German for 10 years and have lived in Germany); having always believed in the Real Presence in the Catholic sense; and having the misfortune of living in an area where most of the Lutheran churches are outrageously liberal -- it didn't work out for me.
Right....I have no problem with the way the RCs set up the Church, which I consider the Mother Church of Christ and Christianity, up until about the 11th Century. It is hardly surprising, IMHO, that most of the Saints of the Church (which, incidentally we in the AC concur) who were popes dominate the early church beginnings. But popes such as Urban II, Gregory IX, Sixtus IV, Alexander VI, Leo X, and Julius III, Pius XII (Hitler's favorite) UGH! And, while I loved JPII and everything he stood far, I'm really not all that keen about his current successor to the Throne of St. Peter.
I could agree on the possibility of the assumption of Mary bodily into heaven (as it also occurred in the Old Testament to Elijah) but I find it difficult to believe in her immaculate conception as with her son (if so, then wouldn't her mother, St. Anne, be just as Holy, and so on?).
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