The Code of Canon Law states:
Clerics are obliged to observe perfect and perpetual continence for the sake of the kingdom of heaven and therefore are bound to celibacy which is a special gift of God by which sacred ministers can adhere more easily to Christ with an undivided heart and are able to dedicate themselves more freely to the service of God and humanity.[1]
Maybe they can move him to a new parish. That has worked well with pederast priests.
Perfect and Perpetual. As they have done for lo, these two thousand years? Cleric and lay alike, we are all engaged in the quest for perfection. Its attainment is another story.
In regard to celibacy, chastity, or as you and Canon Law so delicately put it, "continence," check out Willa Cather's "Death Comes to the Archbishop," or Morris West's "Shoes of the Fisherman." Maintaining this discipline is a constant struggle for the Church, and sometimes the results are rather better than at other times.
That's one of the reasons there was a Reformation, and a Counter-Reformation. Work in progress, and all that. The sad tale of Father Cutie, IMHO, pales in comparison the story of the clerical monsters guilty of the (homo)sexual abuse of children. It especially pales in comparison to the knowing connivance of the unclean bishops who took part in the cover up of this world wide scandal.
I hope and pray Father Cutie takes his punishment like a man and comes back a better priest, and a better man, as have erring priests over the past centuries before him.
Perfect and Perpetual. As they have done for lo, these two thousand years? Cleric and lay alike, we are all engaged in the quest for perfection. Its attainment is another story.
In regard to celibacy, chastity, or as you and Canon Law so delicately put it, "continence," check out Willa Cather's "Death Comes to the Archbishop," or Morris West's "Shoes of the Fisherman." Maintaining this discipline is a constant struggle for the Church, and sometimes the results are rather better than at other times.
That's one of the reasons there was a Reformation, and a Counter-Reformation. Work in progress, and all that. The sad tale of Father Cutie, IMHO, pales in comparison the story of the clerical monsters guilty of the (homo)sexual abuse of children. It especially pales in comparison to the knowing connivance of the unclean bishops who took part in the cover up of this world wide scandal.
I hope and pray Father Cutie takes his punishment like a man and comes back a better priest, and a better man, as have erring priests over the past centuries before him.
Perfect and Perpetual. As they have done for lo, these two thousand years? Cleric and lay alike, we are all engaged in the quest for perfection. Its attainment is another story.
In regard to celibacy, chastity, or as you and Canon Law so delicately put it, "continence," check out Willa Cather's "Death Comes to the Archbishop," or Morris West's "Shoes of the Fisherman." Maintaining this discipline is a constant struggle for the Church, and sometimes the results are rather better than at other times.
That's one of the reasons there was a Reformation, and a Counter-Reformation. Work in progress, and all that. The sad tale of Father Cutie, IMHO, pales in comparison the story of the clerical monsters guilty of the (homo)sexual abuse of children. It especially pales in comparison to the knowing connivance of the unclean bishops who took part in the cover up of this world wide scandal.
I hope and pray Father Cutie takes his punishment like a man and comes back a better priest, and a better man, as have erring priests over the past centuries before him.