"In the Roman Catholic Church, a scandal is not really a scandal until it becomes public," Cutie writes in his new book, Dilemma: A Priest's Struggle with Faith and Love.
Posted on 01/11/2011 9:36:31 AM PST by TSgt
The Rev. Albert Cutie saw a lot of things in his 14 years as a Catholic priest while church officials looked the other way: priests who got caught with prostitutes, priests who lived with their gay partners, and men of the cloth who kept one bed in the rectory and another with their mistress.
"In the Roman Catholic Church, a scandal is not really a scandal until it becomes public," Cutie writes in his new book, Dilemma: A Priest's Struggle with Faith and Love.
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Seems like that can apply to a lot of situations, not just the Catholic church. If something isn’t public, how would anyone know there was a scandal?
List of non-Catholic Christian evangelists involved in scandals that were not scandals until they became public. Aimee Semple McPherson, 1920s–40s Lonnie Frisbee, 1970s–1980s Marjoe Gortner, early 1970s Billy James Hargis, early 1970s Jim & Tammy Bakker and Jimmy Swaggart, 1986 and 1991 Peter Popoff, 1987 Morris Cerullo, 1990s Mike Warnke, 1991 Robert Tilton, 1991 W. V. Grant, 1996 and 2003 Bob Moorehead, 1998 Roy Clements, 1999 John Paulk, 2000 Paul Crouch, 2004 Douglas Goodman, 2004 Kent Hovind, 2006 Ted Haggard, 2006 Paul Barnes, 2006 Lonnie Latham, 2006 Gilbert Deya, 2006 Richard Roberts, 2007 Earl Paulk, 2007 Coy Privette, 2007 Thomas Wesley Weeks, III, 2007 Michael Reid, 2008 Joe Barron, 2008 1.27 Todd Bentley, 2008 George Alan Rekers, 2010 Eddie L. Long, 2010 Vaughn Reeves, 2010 Marcus Lamb 2010
And if and when it does become public there are more than enough others around that will give cover or excuses for it. Current favorite is “other denominations do it too”.
MOMMY! MOMMY! Notaliberal made me cry!!!!
A meaningless statement that can apply to any scandal.
The scandal of Pastor Ted Haggard, the born-again leader of the National Association of Evangelicals, cavorting with male prostitutes and getting high on crystal meth wasn't a scandal for the first few years - until it became public.
Haggard isn't Catholic.
blah, blah, blah.
Best of luck with your marriage Cutie, seeing that your wife’s been divorced twice already....you’re going to need it. And here’s hoping she holds her vows in more respect than she held your priestly vows....or her previous wedding vows. And seeing that you jumped ship the moment things got a tiny bit trying, here’s hoping you hold to these vows better than you held to your previous ones.
But seeing as the best indicator of future behavior is prior....I’m not holding my breath.
It’s the fearing of scandal (public shame and disgrace) more than the fearing of scandal (stumbling block and temptation) that leads to cover-ups, not just in the Catholic Church.
Maybe it is better to air your dirty laundry in public, and then wash it clean - better than stuffing it all in the basement and closing the door.
That's neither a cover nor an excuse.
It is an observation that the Catholic Church's condition of being composed of fallen human beings is no different than any other communion's.
Pretending that the Catholic Church alone has scandals is silly.
No, in the context that that is given, it’s called “rationalization”.
Nobody here said other denominations DON’T have problems either. Nobody said that so don’t say that was said. Pointing out others have problems when trying to deflect people away from your problems is a non-answer about your own problems.
This sounds more like someone who left the Church because he couldn’t keep his *&@@ in his pants. So now he claims that they’re all like me.
Good riddance.
And the rest of you clowns who demand perfection: Form your own church and achieve it.
Right! LOL!
Honesty is the best policy.
When I was in 4th grade at a Catholic school we had a big scandal.
The pastor of our Church Father G, and the Principal of our school, sister Theresa were caught in an ‘uncompromising position’ by a couple of nuns in the rectory. Turns out, both had been carrying on for the entire school year.
At the end of the school year, both resigned their positions and got married.
This was in 1977 and they are still married today.
Sometimes love happens...
I’m apparently not well-read or connected to sources. I don’t recognize 3/4 of the names on the list of scandalized folks.
I smell a new carer in televangelism in someones future.
Isn’t it better to wash laundry first and then air it?
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