Priest Found Hanged

Nando Times ^ | 05/16/02 | Stephen Manning

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

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[johniegrad]

Man there is a lot of stuff going on today.

[Fred Mertz]

Suicide is an unauthorized escape.

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

bump

[galt-jw]

bet theres a lot of child raping clergy who aint sleepin', and are doing some drinkin'.

[hole_n_one]

......who was stripped last month of his priestly powers

What, he could no longer molest minors faster than a speeding bullet?........

leap upon young boys with a single bound?........

[yendu bwam]

As much as I detest child molesters (and I do despise them), anyone who has committed any sin, no matter how horrific, can seek and obtain forgiveness from God with true repentance. If the accusations were true, the man could have found forgiveness and spent the rest of his life working to help find ways to protect children in the Church - or doing good in other ways. God never gives up on people. It's a tragedy that he gave up on himself.

[Renatus]

bet theres a lot of child raping clergy who aint sleepin', and are doing some drinkin'

Where did you come up with this "a lot" bit?

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

What's a tad WEEEEIIIRRRD is that there was an unusual alignment of planets last night, I believe. And May 13 which fell on Monday of this week was the anniversary of the frequently cited Fatima prophecy in Portugal which has figured in speculation about future disasters. I'm not superstitious but these are curiously odd synchronicities in a poetic sense (if not in the actual apocalyptic). Still...a lot of strange karma (mostly from the 1970s, BTW). O'Reilly did mention a story about a Cardinal yet to break on his show tonight.

[sinkspur]

This is the second priest suicide I've heard of this week.

Three weeks ago, a priest in the Little Rock diocese and two years ahead of my class in seminary, Fr. Joe Corrente, took his life in his garage. Carbon monoxide poisoning. Joe had suffered from depression for years, yet he was assigned to a little hole-in-the-wall parish in a place called Tontitown, Arkansas.

Joe did a lot of good in his 28 years in the priesthood. God rest his soul, and the soul of the priest in this article.

This is all, sometimes, very sad.

[marshmallow]

Then Judas, who had handed him over, seeing that Jesus had been condemned, began to regret his action deeply.......... Judas flung the money into the temple and left. He went off and hanged himself."

Matthew, 27: 3-5

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

It's obviously a very miserable vice. One can only guess he was in deep despair and felt hopeless. It's sad and tragic that some of these cases were NOT stopped earlier. What we have now are senior citizens going senile finally being arrested or institutionalized.

[galt-jw]

well, there have been more than anyone expected so far, and it seems likely that if there are a few turning up in the initial stages, more exist who are not yet discovered. and not ness. catholics.

[Thumper1960]

Now, we will never know. Now, there cannot be healing, justice or reconciliation. Guilt cannot be determined, beyond a reasonable doubt. By doing this, the Father did no service to anyone, nor any good to the truth. He'll be assumed guilty by his action. May God have mercy on his soul. And, on the souls of those who have whipped up the Catholic priest molestation hysteria.

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

There was one here in Maryland a few years ago. Maybe someone remembers. Shot himself, I think, after being accused. I think some of these guys are very compartmentalized psychologically (like Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde). In the great majority of suicides, the person is virtually out of their mind - either semi-psychotically depressed or in deep despair with intense anxiety and agitation. This guy probably felt like he was in a dead end. Isolated, etc.

[independentmind]

This is all, sometimes, very sad.

Yes, it is.

[livius]

Very tragic. He could have repented and spent the rest of his life in prayer and fasting, but the modern Church doesn't offer this possiblity.

He was obviously somebody who did something terribly wrong, and was told to think of it as a simple "mistake" (Vatican II terminology for mortal sin). But he knew deep down inside that it was sinful, was horribly wrong, had probably destroyed lives - and nobody offered him the possibility of repentance and reparation. After all, the New Church of the Shrink has put aside all of these outdated concepts...

[ejo]

can seek and obtain forgiveness from God with true repentance

that is it, it must be true repentance and not the revolving door type. Haven't we ordinary Catholics gone to confession and even before receiving the Eucharist fall back into the old patterns of sin. We are all not perfect otherwise God would be out of a job. Striving for true repentance is quite a task for many a sinner and it is with God's grace we can accomplish it.

[CatoRenasci]

sad. condolences for your friend.