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To: Mad Dawg; mgist; EarthBound
So those guys get headlines and we've heard of them. Maybe that has something to do with how unusual it is. And what became of Fr Feeney?

Father Feeney died of old age in 1978, a Catholic in good standing.

Here in Central VA I heard a raio advertisement for University Baptist Church and it included a slur against Catholicism and as I said recetnly a Baptist couple we know has found that their church is full of voiced anti-Catholic sentiment and as a result they are not thinking of looking into becoming Catholics. Yet these pastors are not famous or infamous. Why did you find it necessary to publish this worthless blather which has nothing to do with the post I responded to?

I will repeat it for your edification.

As an adult, I choose to be Catholic, and can proudly say I have never heard a Catholic priest slander other religions or groups of people.

I replied with all the proof which was necessary. I could launch into a story about my grandmothers aunts cousins son who was a Priest who hated Protestants but it would simply be anecdotal. Not worth the powder to blow it to smithereens.

770 posted on 06/01/2008 7:22:40 PM PDT by OLD REGGIE (I am most likely a Biblical Unitarian? Let me be perfectly clear. I know nothing.)
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To: OLD REGGIE
That was proof? Fr. Feeney? the guy who was excommunicated and then restored? Is that who we're talking about?

The contention is " I have never heard a Catholic priest slander other religions or groups of people."

The contention was NOT, "No Catholic priest blah blah blah."

Yes, that was the suggested inference. But it seems to me at any rate that rigor and kindness would have been clear in the appropriate response which is indeed, "You may never have heard it, but let me tell you, some made a living at it."

And I think that my suggestion that maybe the guys you mention are notorious because they are rare MIGHT be valid. The "might" accounts for my use of "maybe".

IN any event, on this thread there have been two instances when non-Catholics called into question the veracity of reports by Catholics, and one veiled suggestion like the one which closed another thread.

I'm feeling the love here. Not.

783 posted on 06/01/2008 7:34:16 PM PDT by Mad Dawg (Oh Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee.)
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