I have a strong appreciation for the Catholic Church and it’s history of stewardship of western civilization....likely the most profound determinant this side of Christianity itself.
I am a godparent to a wonderful 34 year old gal from southeast Texas where she’s mother to two fine kids and wife to a red blooded Texas oil patch contractor who builds those big tanks you see around production wells all over the Permian basin and Austin chalk
I am pretty close to her and have her in my will.
They are people like us and understand the fight we’re in
I had to undergo two days orientation since I was raised southern baptist ....these days I attend baptist and Presbyterian and even some charismatic services
Anyhow I noticed the priest was obviously a homosexual and my lady friend ...her mom...told me to “shut up” the way southern girls say “bless your heart”
Lol
A few years ago after they had shipped around Southeast Texas and western Louisiana. And Nacogdoches.....and a string of sexual abuse of boys allegations trailing after him he died of AIDS in 1996
The Beaumont diocese under Bishop Guillory paid out millions
It simply cannot be tolerated is my view
How much control can laity exercise over the clergy in Catholicism
I confess to be ignorant
As a Baptist we boot errant preachers pretty damn fast...on a rail....no severance
I’ve seen it in my life..
Usually involves adultery with organ player or a deacons wife
Preachers are charismatic by nature
Gets hormones going even in church ladies...lol
NO i am not the young lady’s daddy....he was a rich boy from outta town who refused to take his responsibility
But his sister to her credit sure has once she found out and got his royalties from production wells signed over to her niece
People always thinki was her daddy....if I was her daddy she’d a known from jump street and I’d been there
You make em ..you raise em....I’d hang my head in the afterlife in front of the men who came before me if I didn’t
Honestly, I don’t understand it either.
If any of my kids were assaulted by anyone, I’d kill them. No leo or courts or civil lawsuits. Wouldn’t matter if they were “of the cloth” at all.
As my mom taught me, I believe/live my Faith but know the Church, the institution, it’s run by humans and humans err. God never does. Faith is God, the Church is not quite.
My Church has been infiltrated. It’s up to the rest of us who follow this faith, Catholicism, to stop it. Same as with our public schools, government, media, Protestantism, etc. We’re kinda losing the Culture War other than how we raise our own kids.
Some of us came into the fight late. Decades after it started. So here we are.
I know what my parents would have done if I were in this situation as a child/teen had I come home and told them. My Mom wouldn’t have wanted to tell my Dad because he would have killed someone and ended up in prison. But my Mom would have dealt with her own way, without ending up in prison.
And she did.
I think society was better when people dealt with many things without leo and civil lawsuits.
Oh and I am thankful every damn day that my high school and college years aren’t splashed all over the internet, for public consumption. I wasn’t a devil but I sure as hell wasn’t a saint either. Imagine being a teen today! 20 or 30 years from now they couldn’t run for public office. Or get a job. Some video of a high school party would surface, lol.