[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.

[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

[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.

[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...

[oldvike]

Suicide: the one unforgivable sin. As a priest he should have known that.

[Waco]

3rd secret of Fatima, anybody????

[Goldi-Lox]

What was he doing in the Priesthood? Was this some kind of affirmitive action Priest? First he molests children, then he lies about it. When caught, instead of REPENTING, he commits suicide!!! Wasn't anybody checking? Or did they just have to fill a quota in a specific category?

Good grief! I'm not even the same faith, and even I know that suicide sends Catholics to Hell, and prevents them from being buried in hallowed ground. It's a total NO-NO! All I can figure is that he joined the priesthood to pursue his fixation of young boys, not to serve his god (unless his god was really of a Divine-pedophile/demon.)

[Bogey78O]

Suicide is a mortal sin. If the Catholic Doctrine is followed he's most likely a few levels below purgatory (you know where).

[Askel5]

This would be a great time to launch a campaign as did the Nazis against "troublesome" priests.

Given the climate of Berlin's boy bars and Magnus Hirschfeld's institute, it was in the air ... but especially among the homosexual elite of Hitler's circle.

Leather biker boys ... like those around the edges of an "anything goes" story like poor Miss Chandra.

[Governor StrangeReno]

Silver spring where else.

[ChadGore]

Thoughts and prayers to all men of the cloth in these trying times.

[Zon]

"I am profoundly saddened by the tragic death of Father Alfred Bietighofer," Bridgeport Bishop William Lori said in a statement. "To parishioners and to all those whom Father Bietighofer assisted during the course of his priestly ministry, I extend my sincere sympathy and prayers."

How about the two boys that Bietighofer sexually abused? Got any consoling words for those two? Apparently the two victims handled the criminal act much much better than Bietighofer. Seems it would be a much greater loss if those two innocents had lost lost their lives instead of Bietighofer. I wonder what Bridgeport Bishop William Lori had to say about the victims.

[MissAmericanPie]

And thus ends the life of another Judas.

[AlaskaErik]

Good riddance.