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To: RobbyS

There seemed to a lot of those “Fightinest’ priest in the Diocese” types that came up in the 40s, 50s, and 60s. A lot of them were positively ancient when I was a kid but they seemed like dock workers who moonlighted as Priests. You don’t see a lot of those types anymore.

(Note: I don’t want to blame the molestation problem solely on some stereotype priest that I just created out of thin air, beause there is plenty of evidence that this problem goes back decades. It’s just the Priesthood once seemed a “manly” profession. I’m not sure that is the case any longer).


41 posted on 03/24/2010 2:26:09 PM PDT by MrRobertPlant2009
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To: MrRobertPlant2009

Well, Jocks are as likely to be homosexuals as nerds are. The old Nazi Party had lots of “Butch” types, who positively hated the artsy-fartsy types. But, as I believe, the seminaries had such a large number of candidates they had no hestitation in weeding out the ones who just wanted “ to be with guys.” Certainly when I was growing up I heard a lot more about priests who liked women/or the bottle than about “fags” although there were some. IMHO, the old minor seminaries were not a good idea, because it was a bad thing, I think, to be segregated from girls at too early an age, although, it helped that most of them did have sisters.


42 posted on 03/24/2010 2:44:50 PM PDT by RobbyS (Pray with the suffering souls.)
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