Disgraced priest to wed pope adviser's daughter

Associated Press ^ | 12/05/2013 | NICOLE WINFIELD, AP

[GirlShortstop]

Thomas Williams, the onetime public face of the disgraced Legion of Christ religious order who left the priesthood after admitting he fathered a child, is getting married this weekend to the child's mother, The Associated Press has learned. The bride is the daughter of former U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See Mary Ann Glendon, one of Pope Francis' top advisers.

[yldstrk]

she ruined his life and I bet she is a sociopath

[ravenwolf]

There is so much wrong with your statement I don’t know where to begin

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Why not come out with it then, don,t be bashful, but let me guess could it be that i find fault with the teaching of the Church?

It sounds to me like it was the woman who wanted to horrify < and mortify her mother by screwing a priest. >

That could very well be, since she is said to have three kids it must have not been the only time.

[Campion]

The Church recruiting young people to help run the Church at an age when they are not mature enough to know what they want, much less what they can do.

He was ordained when he was 32, if I'm reading his bio correctly. That's hardly a naive child.

[ravenwolf]

He was ordained when he was 32, if I’m reading his bio correctly. That’s hardly a naive child.

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If they are raised by their parents and do nothing but go to school until they are 50 i doubt if they are mature.

I realize i might have exaggerated a little but i
just don,t like professional politicians or preachers.

[RobbyS]

LOL! True Love!

[RobbyS]

What the heck? Thomas Merton fell for a nurse and almost went the same route, and he was no stripling when he joined the monastery.

[rcofdayton]

That is what he is doing now.

[PLMerite]

If I’m reading things right, the woman he’s marrying has *three* children. So who’s the father(s) of the other two?

[ravenwolf]

I agree with both comments,
trying to go against the nature that is built into us can be just as devastating as giving over to it as in going wild.

[RobbyS]

We have a particular nature as well, which is why Thomas More chose not to become a priest and became a lawyer.

[ravenwolf]

We have a particular nature as well, which is why Thomas More chose not to become a priest and became a lawyer.>>>

I don,t know when the Church started the idea of unmarried priests but that is kind of what i was referring to.

[RobbyS]

Why not reflect on Matthew 19: 10-12? The Church’s rule is pretty much the same. An “apostle,” such as Paul—or John Wesley—probably should not marry. Too much time on the road to be fair to the wife and kids. Maybe parish priests should be married men, like in the Eastern rites. But that creates other problems, for instance what our Lord was speaking about before, which is divorce. You think living with the same women,” till death do us part,” is “more natural” than remaining celibate?

[ravenwolf]

Why not reflect on Matthew 19: 10-12?

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That is what i was talking about, if a man is actually an eunuch that is one thing, but trying to be is a different story, you can not be what you are not.