Posted on 05/29/2005 2:48:28 PM PDT by Tantumergo
"there shall come a falling away first..."
If this isn't the great apostasy, then it's probably it's first cousin.
<< the liberal press has described the issue as priestly pedophilia, when in fact it is better described as priestly homosexuality. >>
Or, to at least simulate accuracy, as the consequence of the sodomists attack and hostile colonizing of the Church.
The depravity was always of the sodomists -- and never of the Church.
And, for what it's worth, the incidence of acts of sexual depravity perpetrated upon minors is incredibly higher among liberal school teachers than it ever was among poofters posing as Priests.
Wait a minute - isn't a marriage license an implied agreement to at least have sex less often?
For the Catholic Church, the marriage of priests is the only thing that will save the seminary system. Right now, a hetero would be out of place in the homo dominated system.
It isn't about the clergy; it's about how much the laity will take at one go...so to speak. The laity will be jollied along by this soothing assurance for a few years. After everyone is reconciled to its futility, the other shoe will fall, ker-plunk.
Now, after a very rough road (of which this episode was the smallest of bumps), she's returned to the fold, and I can (almost) laugh at this nonsense when I see it.
I'm afraid so. I'm sure we'll be hearing a lot more about this in days to come.
Be interesting to hear from ++Akinola...
Is there a lot of allegation of priests hooking up with each other?
I didn't someone else brought it up. Even married folks can be pedophiles. The only way to root out pedophilia in the church is to have a zero tolerance for it, and not hide these monsters in the system.
"They would have separate bedrooms, she told us. Why wouldn't we pay for it? She needed to live SOMEWHERE."
LOL! Typical teenagers - they must think we are soooooooo stupid!!!
What gets me is that these "bishops" really are soooooooo stupid.
If it were a problem of denomination, it would be easier, but it's a non-denominational human affliction, both the crimes and the cover-ups. Since this thread is about Anglicans, here's a few examples from Australia:
In 1994, Brazier received 2 year suspended jail term after pleading guilty to 3 charges of indecently assaulting boy, aged 16, while priest at Tailem Bend-Meningie parish, southeast of Adelaide. Church in 2002 criticised for shifting priest with child sex conviction to another parish…Dr Peter John Hollingworth is pressured publicly and politically to resign as GG, "Australia's highest office", over his handling of at least 6 separate sex abuse cases while archbishop of Brisbane Anglican Church. Allegations include Hollingworth, of Yarralumla, Canberra: 1: appointed convicted QLD pedophile priest Reverend John ELLIOTT as rector of 2 Brisbane parishes; 2: failed to act on child sex abuse allegations against Toowoomba Anglican preparatory school boarding master, Kevin GUY; 3: authorised secret cash settlements to hush up sex abuse evidence against Brisbane Anglican school counsellor, Kevi n LYNCH; 4: appointed Brisbane senior priest Canon Ross McAULEY, himself the subject of abuse allegations, to QLD Church Sexual Abuse Committee; 5: failed to act on child sex abuse allegations against former Rockhampton Anglican bishop…
An organization calling itself SNAP (Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests) will file a lawsuit against an Episcopal priest who abused a California youngster years ago, and still serves in a parish today…
In the small town of Seymour, townspeople are shocked to learn that the late Anglican Fr. Sapsford molested dozens of alter boys while he was married with children, and after his serial molestation at another church was revealed in 1996. There are allegations by the parents of the victim boys that the Archbishop covered up the original allegations…
Brisbane Anglican archbishop Peter Hollingworth comes under fire after appointing McAuley to Church Sexual Abuse Committee while Brisbane archbishop despite being aware of allegations that McAuley sexually abused 2 males. One victim, choirboy aged 15, was allegedly assaulted in 1975 at Brookfield, Brisbane. In 1995, Hollingworth appoints McAuley to Sexual Abuse Committee despite protests from first victim…
In 1999, Ellmore received 12 month jail sentence in Liverpool District Court after pleading guilty to indecently assaulting 2 sisters, aged 6 and 8, and another girl, aged 7, in 1976 while training for priesthood at Newcastle college, northeastern NSW. Court hears Ellmore, who was ordained in 1978, assaulted sisters in Hunter Valley and molested 7 year old in vestry of All Saints Anglican Cathedral, Bathurst…
Victim, who described ruling as "joke", claims priest assaulted him "several times a week for a year" and that church officials put him on bus to Kings Cross after complaints made…
Well,you know,we all know,Rowan Williams knows that it was just empty words , I nearly burst out laughing[although it'ain't funny] to proclaim "NO HOOTCHIE KOO!!" Nobody will buy it but it MUST be said to move on to the next[and there will be a next] thing
What a tangled web we weave...
How can he endorse quasi-marriage for homosexual clerics and then expect them to abstain from homosexual relations?"
Simple. He's a pagan.
One more reason for separation of Church and State.
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