Hannity Find His 'Inner Liberal' Amid Exorcist Priest Scandal (Hannity is a Jerk) (Ecumenical)

MyFrontRoyal.com ^ | 02/03/2011 | Dan McDermott

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Fox News host Sean Hannity addressed the controversy surrounding a top Virginia exorcist Catholic priest at the end of his Hannity cable news show Wednesday night and made note of the unusually favorable treatment he has been getting from Huffington Post commenters.

After playing portions of a now-infamous 2007 exchange in which then-Human Life International Father Thomas Euteneuer called Hannity a "heretic" and "cultural Catholic," Hannity read part of Fr. Euteneuer's recent confession to transgressions which caused him to be removed as head of Human Life International.

"I take full responsibility for my own poor judgment, my weakness and my sinful conduct that resulted from it," Hannity read.

The host then noted the priest's admission of violating his vow of chastity due to human weakness, which Fr. Euteneuer said "did not involve the sexual act."

"Bill Clinton would be proud of that," Hannity joked.

"Look, I don't want to make a situation worse. Apparently something happened -- pretty severe -- and he's been taken away from his position," Hannity said.

But Hannity still seemed upset at at having his faith questioned and the priest's conduct after the appearance on Hannity & Colmes.

"He's so self righteous. He spent years raising money off this exchange with me and building his name recognition," Hannity said....

One of the panelists joked that the video clip of his face-off with Rev. Euteneuer had "brought out the inner liberal" in Hannity.

Hannity responded, "That's like the Huffington Post defending me [today]."

[Jvette]

I think the woman, (can’t remember her name)did a good job trying to explain to Hannity why his stance on contraception is wrong.

As I recall, he tried to say that he was talking about non-Catholics as a way to excuse what he was saying.

She very gently explained to him that the sin is a sin regardless of one’s faith tradition and that as a Catholic, he should promote the truth.

I do think that it is more that Hannity is ill informed, as are many, many, many Catholics today and didn’t mean to cause scandal.

I believe the worse sin was his arrogance in being corrected which he has now compounded by even mentioning that this had happened with Fr. Tom.

Most of his audience probably don’t remember him or know him and bringing it up was just spiteful.

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“* My violations of chastity were limited to one person only, an adult woman;
* The violations of chastity happened due to human weakness but did not involve the sexual act;
*The accusation that I “targeted” vulnerable women or otherwise sought them out for spiritual direction is utterly false and a serious defamation of my character and ministry;”

But, but, the information I got from the lamestream media led me to believe that he had been traveling the country nailing vulnerable women right and left, for years.