[american colleen]

Spagnolia had relationships with adults - that is a matter of record. We need to get rid of him and his ilk. I fell for his press conference when I saw it and hoped "good" Priests were finally speaking out - turns out that Spagnolia lied, of course.

I read an article that stated that a disproportionate amount of these Priests came out of St. John's Semanary in Brighton, Ma in the 60s and 70s - the admittance heads turned away the more traditional kind of applicants and let in the liberal candidates. One of the big questions was the ordination of women - if you firmly held the belief that a woman priest was unacceptible, then you were out. Supposidly, Cardinal Law has changed all that and gotten the liberals out of the Semenary. Hopefully, that is true.

[rbmillerjr]

Spagnolia had relationships with adults - that is a matter of record.

That is givng him way too much benefit of the doubt. If a Priest who has taken vows has violated those vows, and with other men (in my mind worse exponentially for a priest).......and he has been accused of child molestation, I find it hard to believe you are givinghim the benefit of the doubt yet again. This is what pedophiles do - they prey on innocent thinking people, being sociopathic is inherent to being a pedophile.

[Mike Fieschko]

I read an article that stated that a disproportionate amount of these Priests came out of St. John's Semanary in Brighton, Ma in the 60s and 70s - the admittance heads turned away the more traditional kind of applicants and let in the liberal candidates.

Liberal candidates (a euphemism for men who dissent from Catholic teaching) are one thing.

Homosexuals are an entirely different matter.

Of course, I fully expect the Massachusetts Attorney General's office to insist on strict enforcement of the Church's teaching that homosexuality is a 'grave disorder', don't you? < /sarcasm >