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To: Squire of St. Michael

Do not be surprised when the scandal spreads to Italy then.

The Bible is clear on what should have happened to the priests who engaged in this behavour, the Bible was not followed, and the results are obvious for all who would see them.

There is a Seminary in Austria (St Polten’s) that apparently trained or allowed some awful behavour, and yet no mention is made of it:

“The date on the door of the Roman Catholic seminary in this Austrian provincial capital is 1455, when it was founded by Franciscans, but that image of hoary old age has not protected St. Pölten from disclosures of sexual misbehavior that have set off a major scandal in this country.

It started early in the week when the Austrian weekly newsmagazine Profil published photographs of the rector and deputy rector of the seminary, the main school for future priests in this area just west of Vienna, in which they appeared to be kissing and fondling seminary students.

The publication of the photographs came some months after thousands of images, apparently downloaded from child pornography Web sites, appeared on seminary computers, prompting a police investigation.”

St Polten’s is a long standing Seminary, how this was allowed to happen is beyond me, perhaps you know the answer?


12 posted on 07/17/2007 6:53:20 PM PDT by padre35 (Conservative in Exile.)
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To: padre35

Seeing as I live several thousand miles from Austria, I’m not really sure what you’re getting at. I have heard of some scandolous activities involving an Austrian seminary before, so it’s not like you’re the first to break this shocking news...Do you want the LA Archdiocese to be condemning that seminary? The pope? me? I’m sure I could find some scandalous story involving some group that you would call Christian somehwere on the globe. By the way, since you seem fond of the ad hominem attack approach, I should point out, Padre, that I think Jesus said something about calling no man padre in the bible.


13 posted on 07/17/2007 7:40:43 PM PDT by Squire of St. Michael
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