Posted on 11/12/2007 5:10:20 PM PST by JennysCool
Greener grass thing I suppose. Can I sue my church for marrying me to my wife? If someone cracks that nut imagine the craziness.
I remember going back in to see the priest when I got divorced, I said, “Well, Father, I hate to tell you, but you made a nig mistake”. Great guy and he took it well.
Then I guess I was a "sex offender", and so were all of my friends. Slap on the ankle bracelets...it was worth it!
LOL
You're only partially correct. Voluntarily suppressing one's sex drive for the sake of the kingdom, which Christ speaks about in Matthew 19:12, isn't for people who let their genitals do their thinking. That's why the formation process for the Priesthood is as long as it is.
I think the catholic church and the public would be far better served if the clergy could marry.
I think you shouldn't express an opinion about something you obviously know nothing about. First of all, nuns are members of the laity. They are not clergy. Second, 21 of the 22 Churches sui juris which comprise the Catholic Church ordain, as a norm, married men. Third, while married men were once ordained as a norm in the Latin Rite, once ordained a single Priest could not then marry. Also, those who were married were expected to live a life of lex continentiae - total continence - forgoing a conjugal life, following ordination. If they and their spouse refused to accept the discipline then the man was not ordained.
You know, the way it used to be.
You don't know what you are talking about.
Too bad they are more consumed by the equity problems such creates. That's the real reason the church abolished the right for clergy to marry in the first place.
Once again, you don't know what you're talking about.
I'd love to see statistics per capita on religious workers allowed to marry versus those who cannot regarding sexual abuse.
Suggest you begin by reading the following for starters:
Sexual Abuse of Children by Protestant Ministers
Once you complete that then you can start doing some reading on the number of sexual abuse cases in the public education system whose employees aren't "burdened" with the discipline of celibacy yet many freely choose to prey sexually on pre and post pubescent children.
Please explain that last point.
I don’t think that the celibacy requirement makes people into sex offenders. My hypothesis is that people who are uncomfortable with or afraid of their sexual urges, especially ones they see as deviant, are disproportionately drawn to the clergy.
If you’re a teenaged boy who’s attracted to other teenaged boys — or even more so, attracted to little kids — and you want to suppress those desires, sublimate them, the priesthood seems like an ideal environment. Most folks who choose that path succeed in suppressing their desires. Some don’t.
The boys were just trying to play with an old holy relic.
Parents are suing the school district when they tell their story to the DA and it’s discovered they were behaving inappropriately on school grounds. The school is held responsible and they file claims against the family of the boy involved.
Any documentation to support that claim? Diocesan Priests are free to will their estates to anyone they choose. Religious Order Priests take vows of poverty so how much of an estate could they possibly have?
You are a certifiable moron.
Sisters of “Mercy”...May the Lord Jesus have mercy on tbem.
Or is that not taking place?
OK, I’ll pass on that one.
Dude, being molested by an UGLY middle aged woman as a young male would be traumatizing, especially a nun.
I’m suspecting the brigade has been ping’d. Here come the flames.
Time to leave the thread. The CDL is kicking into action. I agree with you rational explanation. Watch out.
There’s no statute of limitations on this??
I don’t need anyone’s assistance to expose you for the moron you publicly come across as.
What happened? You get run out of town with tail between legs. LOL
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