Posted on 11/21/2009 1:29:17 PM PST by Gamecock
LOL. Yeah, even the innocent ones get the "comfort" of living alone in a old rectory, being on call 24x7 ("you're sick ... that's too bad, Father ... please come right away ... I realize it's 3am"), and having to deal with every sort of trouble sinful men and women can dig themselves into.
Not to mention having to say funeral masses for children.
And for that, they get paid well under $20,000 year, out of which they have to pay for -- among other things -- their own car, which they use for work.
And out of the pittance that's left, they can pay for "whatever comforts they desire".
Here's the comfort and ease to which "another Christ" is entitled, according to Scripture. (Executive summary: same as the first one).
Looks like fun, doesn't it? Just a barrel of laughs.
I've known too many holy priests who poured out their lives for their people until there was nothing left, to put up with any more of your vicious, unChristian slander of the Catholic priesthood as a whole.
My former pastor ministered to us until he was 84, and toward the end, he was so frail it was a bit scary to shake his hand ... you thought something might break. He's one of the holiest men I've ever met.
Part of the "comfort and ease" with which he was rewarded to have the crazies from Westboro Baptist outside his church one Sunday with a big sign that read
FAG PRIEST
I'm curious. Were you there with them?
And with the horrific number of pedophile priests in the RCC, the fire alarms have been sounding for decades.
Centuries.
Any man who calls himself "another Christ" is not of Christ, but somewhere else. Somewhere far from the truth.
For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many." -- Matthew 24:4-5"And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you.
It doesn't seem too difficult to understand. Anyone who believes the Bible to be the inspired word of God should be equipped to rebuke those pretenders who seek the glory of God for themselves...at their peril.
And those who foolishly follow such false prophets cannot say they weren't told.
Wake up.
Meh...who cares? If a cult wants to give criminals a retirement plan, that’s their business.
Pick on them? They should be shot.
You are aware of the multitude of pedophiles and where they come from, aren’t you.
1. Fathers
2. Teachers
3. Coaches
4. Ministers
and further down the list — I don’t remember which number are the priests.
OK< let’s say that you are a father who teaches American History or biology, coaches a mid-high or Little League team and on the weekends you are a youth minister at your protestant church.
That’s four strikes against you, and according to the source I saw — you are to be watched.
Uhmmmm.... no.
Roman Catholic sex abuse cases by country
And here's the link -- once again -- to the Murphy Report. It's kind of long, but well worth reading. What I got from it is that the key problem was antinomianism amongst those in charge in the Archdiocese of Dublin. Canon law and protocols that had been in place for several decades to stop sexual abuse were routinely, and consciously, ignored.
Report by Commission of Investigation into Catholic Archdiocese of Dublin
However, I don't see how any Protestant or Reformed church can claim immunity from the same evils which beset(s) the RC Church in Dublin and elsewhere. Look at the recent history of the Anglican Church. To ignore the perennial problems of moral depravity, antinomianism, and nihilism, and to say "Look! They have fallen and we have not!" is to court the worst sort of foolishness.
What does He who died for sinners want for them? How do I show it?
My GUESS is I do not protect them from civil penalties. If I am bishop I tell them they must hand themselves over to the government.
But when they are discharged from prison, to whom else should they expect to go if not to the father they adopted before sin and sickness overthrew them?
Those folks who continually defend GUILTY (again, GUILTY is the operative word) priests and the enabling bishops would literally drink cyanide-laced kool-aid if the bishops told you to do so.
YES
Too often, problem teachers are allowed to leave quietly. That can mean future abuse for another student and another school district.Its a dynamic so common it has its own nicknamespassing the trash or the mobile molester.
Here is the reaction of Ann Barnhardt, newly converted Catholic of the old tradition, to the newly appointed Bishop of Rome:
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