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To: GonzoII

This is a real travesty. One by one the devil is knocking the good men from the priesthood.


2 posted on 06/18/2011 4:00:41 AM PDT by NoExpectations
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To: NoExpectations; GonzoII
One by one the devil is knocking the good men from the priesthood.

The priesthood is full of good men. I meet some every Sunday. You'll have never heard of any of them, unless you happen to be in my diocese.

A lesson of this situation, and the recent case of Fr. Euteneuer, is that the challenges of celebrity expose a priest (or a lay man or woman) both to much greater occasions of sin than a lower-profile role, and also expose the person to a much greater risk of false accusation.

This point is, perhaps, insufficiently emphasized to the clergy (and the laity).

7 posted on 06/18/2011 5:12:32 AM PDT by Tax-chick (One step ahead of the jailer.)
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