[Cardhu]

Oops

[ConservativeMind]

What is it about the Catholic church and gays being everywhere? What ever happened to affairs with women when seeking to sin?

[Pajama Blogger]

Shocked

[GovernmentShrinker]

he is alleged to have to steered public works contracts towards favoured bidders.

And we'd probably rather not hear any spsecifics about why they were "favored" . . .

[ConorMacNessa]

Absolutely appalling - just what the Church needs!

[married21]

How close is a “Gentleman to the Pope” to the Pope? Is this like his butler, or is it an honorific title given to someone who has done charity work or something?

[ConservativeMind]

While Catholicism does not condemn homosexuality outright, its teaching is that homosexual acts “are intrinsically disordered”. The Catechism of the Catholic church states unequivocally: “Under no circumstances can they be approved.”

So, the Catholic church believes they can’t “approve” homosexual acts, that such acts are “disordered,” but homosexual acts are apparently not “sinful,” or they would be condemned by the Catholic church and God “outright?”

What do you Catholics have to say about this? Protestants would say the Bible is all that need condemn it. Apparently the Pope and the Catholic church don’t see homosexual acts as sinful, so does this mean that God and Christ don’t have a problem with such acts?

[T Minus Four]

The pope has “gentlemen-in-waiting”? sheesh. Just like Jesus, I guess.

[Campion]

This is of course the usual garbage you expect from the UK media -- and it's the Guardian, so it's left-wing UK media -- whenever the Catholic Church is concerned.

As it eventually explains, Balducci is an official of the Italian government, not the Vatican. (IOW, he's not a priest, not the Pope's right hand man, doesn't tuck him in at night, etc., etc., etc.)

He holds an honorific title as a "Gentleman of His Holiness," which the article describes as a "ceremonial usher".

I don't think the "Vatican chorister" is a priest, either. He's a singer.

To put it in terms that a British audience would understand, it's as though someone the Queen had knighted was consorting with a minor employee of Buckingham palace to procure homosexual partners.

"Palace, Queen Rocked By Gay Sex Scandal" ... no, somehow I can't see it. Only if the Pope is involved somehow.

[JPG]

There is a ‘Bishop’ involved in this, too.

[RichInOC]

No, no, no! When he said he wanted “bigger, longer and uncut”, he just wanted to watch the South Park movie.

[Romulus]

While Catholicism does not condemn homosexuality outright, its teaching is that homosexual acts "are intrinsically disordered".

You can always count on the British media's incompetence (and dishonesty) when it comes to reporting on anything touching the Catholic Church.

1. Catholicism DOES condemn homosexuality outright.

Catholicism does not condemn HOMOSEXUALS outright, UNLESS they engage in homosexual acts.

[verity]

Vatican chorister sacked for allegedly procuring male prostitutes for papal gentleman-in-waiting.

Are these two of the 'shovel ready' jobs Obama created?

[meadsjn]

Catholicism has been a gay sex scandal for most of the past two millennia.

[Clemenza]

There have been buggerers in the Vatican for centuries, with housecleaning often brutally occurring, but then bearing "fruit" following a pullback. Its even worse amongst certain religious orders, who have effectively come under the control of the Lavender Mafia.

Of course, many Catholics are in denial about this, although there are probably just as many who are disgusted, and want the "sisters" out of the Church.

[word_warrior_bob]

Many of the replies to this thread read no different than if this article was posted on DU.

[Antoninus]

Gee, a British paper makes "shocking" allegations about the Catholic Church. Will wonders never cease?

The true irony is, if such allegations were made against a bishop of the Anglican Church, they would not be shocking. And anyone who claimed they were would be branded as a bigot.

[my_pointy_head_is_sharp]

Hey, let’s wait 3 years and see if they’re over their gay tendencies by then. < :P

[lonestar]

over here

[lonestar]

This is what I was referring to.

The Catholics are harder on a little kid who has control over none of it!

[PAR35]

Papal PayPals?