[Brian Kopp DPM]

Pray, fast, do penance and sacrifice. Some demons are only driven out in this way.

[heartwood]

In my very limited experience, about half of priests come across as swish, and the other half as masculine men.

Simply being swish is not necessarily sinning, but it is a poor example. If all the active homosexual priests left, the ones who resist temptation would find it easier to resist, and masculine men would find it easier to answer a call to the priesthood.

If we lose half our priests, 90% of our priests, let’s find more married deacons to run our parishes, and not, God forbid, some female parochial administrator. Let’s close our parishes and drive further. The Church can’t live with this rot.

[Alex Murphy]

All of this follows on the heels of a 300 page report three months ago given to then Pope Benedict where various clergy .. supposedly bishops among them .. in and with ties to the Vatican itself were allegedly revealed to be part of what was called – a gay lobby in the Vatican.

Four months ago (Feb 11 IIRC) Benedict announced he was stepping down as pope due to health concerns. Can anyone confirm whether this report was handed to him before or after his announcement?

[arkady_renko]

I wish I could say this shocked me. It doesn’t.