Posted on 04/29/2011 4:06:03 PM PDT by Gamecock
Full title: Priest stole $1m from church for male escorts.... and designer clothes… but won't have to pay it back and could serve again
A Catholic priest who stole more than $1 million in church money and spent it on male escorts, Armani clothes and nights out at gay bars has been jailed for three years.
But the priest from Connecticut could be allowed to continue serving as a priest after he has served his sentence, according to his former church.
Father Kevin Gray, 65, the former pastor of the Sacred Heart Parish, Waterbury, was sentenced to prison on Wednesday. He had entered a plea of no contest.
He had used the money to pay for a lavish lifestyle, which included owning a secret flat in New York, which he shared with a man who he paid to go to Harvard University.
Prosecutors said Gray will not have to pay back the money because the Diocese of Hartford did not ask for restitution.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
I answered before I read your post.
“I avoid Scarsdale like the plague (although Chappaqua is far worse). Rye would be the other town in question.”
Agree. Tarrytown is a nice town as well.
“The peak of the Catholic Church in terms of unity, devotion, and political influence, lasted from roughly the end of WWI until the 2nd Vatican Council. America in general has since grown more secular (in terms of religious devotion), but this secularization is particularly pronounced on ancestral “Catholics” in the northeast and upper Midwest.”
We’ve had peaks and valleys all through history. There’s been a parallel evil since the the Garden.
Interesting post. I’ve never seen it put quite that way but it makes sense.
AGE OF AQUARIUS
“Expression derived from astrology to describe the new age of freedom in all areas of human life and of peace without war among men. The term is partly derived from the medieval belief that the conjunction of certain planets was the sign of a new era in human history. It is also associated with the claim among astrologers that the aquarian personality is warm and friendly, hence the Age of Aquarius (just dawned) is to be an epoch of universal brotherhood.”
http://www.catholicreference.net/index.cfm?id=31702
I don’t believe it all just happened.
Thank you.
Wow, is THAT poorly expressed!
The sun may be considered as moving slowly around a circle inclined to the equator. The low point would be the Winter Solstice, the high point is the summer solstice. And where this circle (called the ecliptic) crosses the equator are the solstices.
Around the time of Ptolemy the astronomer, if you drew a line from the center of the earth through the point of the vernal equinox, it would hit a point midway between Aries and Pisces. In the days following the vernal equinox the line drawn through the sun to the starts would work its way through Aries. We we were in the “’Age’ of Aries”.
SO, they said, the vernal equinox took place when the sun was “entering Aries”.
But that point of intersection between the “ecliptic”(The circle the sun appears to follow) and the celestial equator, the point itself kind of backs through the sky a very small bit every year. (We now think this is because the axis of the earth makes little circles like the axis of a spinning top.) So the Equinox backtracks through the equator.
For a couple of millennia it would hit the “fixed stars” somewhere in Pisces. We were in the “Age of Pisces” But now it is approaching the sign before Pisces, to wit: Aquarius.
This is the dawning of the Age of Aquarius. You may now smoke dope AND, if you are not my age, remove your clothes.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.