Posted on 09/29/2011 7:48:46 AM PDT by Alex Murphy
Edited on 09/29/2011 9:22:12 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
VATICAN CITY — In an attempt to head off a tidal wave of lawsuits stemming from the sexual abuse of children by priests within the Roman Catholic Church, and Rome’s attempt to cover up the crimes, the Vatican is planning to replace all priests with robots.
Initially the priests to be replaced will be in the United States, but if the program is successful, it could be extended to other countries, said Marco Batelli, a lawyer for the Vatican.
Batelli said human priests wouldn’t be arbitrarily ousted from their positions, rather they would be replaced by robots as they retired or died.
The church has been developing robot priests for the past two years, Batelli said. A live test took place recently in Japan, he said. In the ceremony, which was held in a restaurant to avoid protests from devout Catholics, bride Satoko Inouye was married to her groom Tomohiro Shibata by I-Fairy, a four-foot robot wearing a wreath of flowers. This was the first time a marriage had been led by a robot, according to a statement issued by RoboPriest Japan, a joint venture between the Vatican and robot manufacturer Kokoro Co.
Vatican observer Kristof Klein said, “The beauty of RoboPriests is that they can be programmed to perform almost all the sacramental duties of priests. Their ultimate virtue, of course, is that they don’t molest little boys.”
No one is sure if the RoboPriest ploy will turn the tide for a church under severe pressure in the courts, but most experts on Vatican affairs agree that desperate times call for desperate measures.
“The church is running scared,” said Walter Lysburn, an ecclesiastical scholar in Rome. “They are desperate to do anything they can to placate victims of sexual abuse. The lawsuits could cost them billions. I know for a fact that Sotherbys has visited the Vatican and put preliminary prices on the Pieta and the Sistine Chapel. [snip]
Please check out some of these links.
The Priesthood (Holy Orders) [Catholic Caucus]
Nephew of slain Germantown priest follows uncle's path
On the menu: the priesthood
Of priests and possible priests to be
Priests are a gift from the Heart of Christ, Pope Benedict says
Convert looks forward to serving God in unique way [Father Doug Piece]
Catholic Biblical Apologetics: Opportunities of Grace: [Holy] Orders
From Krishna to Christ: The Conversion Testimony of Father Jay Kythe
'Come Follow Me': Grant Desme Lays Aside Baseball Career and Responds
A's MVP Desme retires for priesthood [ Grant Desme]
THE PRIESTHOOD DEBATE
Faith Journey Leads United Methodist from Pastorate to Catholic Priesthood
Former Protestant Minister Pursues Priesthood
Married man to be ordained (RC) priest [Ecumenical]
A Father and Son Swim the Tiber and become Priests [Ecumenical]
Cardinal Arinze discusses the priestly vows of obedience, poverty and chastity (Catholic Caucus)
Pope Gives Key to Being Highly Effective Priests [Ecumenical]
Priests: Ordinary Men Made Extraordinary by Grace [Holy Orders/Chrism Mass]
7 Reasons To Be a Priest
The Nature of Priestly Ordination: Theological Background and Some Present Concerns
The Priesthood of Jesus Christ - Body and Blood (Confessional ... Consecration ... and Calvary)
What You [Catholics] Need to Know: Priesthood (Holy Orders) [Catholic-Orthodox Caucus]
What You {Catholics} Need to Know: Celibacy [Catholic/Orthodox Caucus]
New priest finds joy in sacrifice
No shortage of priests in Atlanta, more than 50 seminarians
Debt, the Vocation Killer [Catholic Caucus]
Identical twins become Green Bay priests
A Modern Roman Rite Priest reports on Classical Roman Rite Training
Number of new priests expected to rise in 2007
Father, Mother, Sister, Brother [Part One of a series on Celibacy] -- Catholic Caucus
It Takes a Village of Vocations [Part Two of a series on Celibacy] -- Catholic Caucus
Living Single and Celibate in God’s Service [Part Three of a series on Celibacy] -- Catholic Caucus
Brothers and Sisters in Christ [Part Four of a series on Celibacy] -- Catholic Caucus
The Adventure of the Priesthood [Part Five of a series on Celibacy] -- Catholic Caucus
This Is the Body of Christ [Part Six of a series on Celibacy and Vocations] -- Catholic Caucus
14 men are ordained into the priesthood (at St. Patrick's Cathedral NYC)
To Know, To Love, To Lead (Pope Benedict XVI ordains 22 new priests)
The Indispensable Priesthood -- Holy Thursday, [Catholic/Orthodox Caucus]
Why Does the Catholic Church Ordain Only Men to the Priesthood? Part Three[Cath/Orth/Angl Caucus]
Why Does the Catholic Church Ordain Only Men to the Priesthood? Part Two
Why Does the Catholic Church Ordain Only Men to the Priesthood? Part One [Catholic/Orthodox Caucus]
Vatican Said (Again!) Not Revising Celibacy Rule
Ordinatio Sacerdotalis
He does.
Daily.
PRAISE GOD FOR HIS FAITHFULNESS AND HIS MERCIES THAT ARE NEW EVERY MORNING.
Let's play Dominoes......
Whaddya mean "He's not home?"
Tell Him to come to the damn door.
Protestants have such a lousy sense of humor.
There are seventy-three books in the Canon of the Bible, not 66; forty-six in the Old Testament and twenty-seven in the New Testament. All 27 books of the New testament were written by Catholics. The missing books were removed by Luther because he wrongly concluded that no to be canon they had to be in Hebrew and he believed that no Hebrew copies existed and they contradicted many of his heresies.
"The Roman Catholic church hid the Scriptures from us and murdered us for translating into languages we could understand."
What you are purporting is the figment of the imaginations of the Protestant propaganda machines. The Bible was available to all who could afford it and who could read Latin. Let me educate you. All of the following can be corroborated if you sincerely desire to know the truth.
The Vulgate was translated into many languages by the Church, but until the 17th and 18th centuries many regional languages and dialects had no written languages and not translations were possible. The first vernacular translations into English were printed in 734, the first German translations were in 748 (after the Church created a written German language we now call Hochdeutsch). The Goths had a vernacular Bible in approximately 360, the Armenians in 411, and multiple Egyptian dialects at approximately the same time.
Translations into Old Church Slavonic in 836. A number of passages of the Bible circulated in the vernacular English in around 900 in the reign of Alfred the Great which he prefixed to his legal code. In approximately 990, a full and freestanding version of the four Gospels in idiomatic Old English appeared, in the West Saxon dialect.
The Church did ban several unauthorized translations because they were written so as to endorse the Pope Innocent III in 1199 banned unauthorized versions of the Bible as a reaction to the Cathar and Waldensian heresies, however several other vernacular French versions available at the time were left untouched. The complete Bible was translated into Old French in the late 13th century.
The West Midland Psalter, written between 1340 and 1350. Further the 14h and 15th centuries saw the publication of Bibles or portions of the Bible in Norwegian, Finnish, Hungarian, Cymric (Welsh), and multiple Spanish dialects.
2Peter 2:1 But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.
:2 And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.
:3 And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.
Judging by the *Bah Humbug* responses here, it’s not the non-Catholics whose sense of humor is deficient.
I’m saying this in all love and sincerity. If you don’t see the error in that statement I pray you do before it’s too late. There is no “alter Christus or another Christ”. Scripture calls them an “anti Christ”. >> but you are playing with fire in blaspheming the Catholic Church in such a way.<<
Once again, in that statement, it’s obvious that the Catholic Church is being worshiped. You can’t blaspheme that which you don’t see as being a god.
We stand with a Bible and a single house on Baltic Ave. Why do you even bother with such "riff-raff"? How is it we get so under your skin?
Relax! Laugh! You almost have it ALL. Why not enjoy your success? What is it about the house with a Bible on Baltic Ave. that causes you to come unhinged?
I’m sorry, but no, it’s not.
One small source (of many, besides the Bible itself) and very inexpensive:
http://www.thebereancall.org/node/6378
Bookmark. And thank you for the link!
Could we just take it for granted that we disagree about some things and just let it go? Because I don’t plan on defending my beliefs to you, not out of irritation, but just because I don’t think they need defending. It’s what I believe, and I am not going to go to hell because of it. Nothing you post can cause me a moment’s worry. Any lies you post are between you and whatever conscience you possess.
I’ll believe the Bible, thanks. Don’t you believe how Jesus breathed on the apostles, giving them the power of the Holy Spirit?
Don’t you believe St. Paul instructing and ordaining Timothy in a similar manner — not exactly the same as with Christ and the apostles, but nevertheless, passing the priesthood down to Timothy?
I’m surprised that you don’t believe the Bible as it states these things.....or so it seems that you don’t believe the Bible.
We stand with a Bible and a single house on Baltic Ave. Why do you even bother with such "riff-raff"? How is it we get so under your skin?
Relax! Laugh! You almost have it ALL. Why not enjoy your success? What is it about the house with a Bible on Baltic Ave. that causes you to come unhinged?
The Bible, mind you, that THEY claim credit for writing themselves.
Not considering the fact that if anyone legitimately gets credit for Scripture it's the Jews, as Scripture clearly affirms they were the instruments of revelation and the stewards of it.
Romans 3:1-2 Then what advantage has the Jew? Or what is the value of circumcision? Much in every way. To begin with, the Jews were entrusted with the oracles of God.
Romans 9:4 They are Israelites, and to them belong the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the worship, and the promises.
In addition, Jesus Himself affirmed the Palestinian canon.
Luke 24:44 Then he said to them, "These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you, that everything written about me in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms must be fulfilled."
Matthew 5:17-20 17 "Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. 18For truly, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot, will pass from the Law until all is accomplished. 19 Therefore whoever relaxes one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do the same will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever does them and teaches them will be called great in the kingdom of heaven. 20For I tell you, unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.
That unshakeable Scripture was written well before the Catholic church came along and established itself as some kind of authority and took credit for the work of the Holy Spirit Himself.
Exactly....Amen
What good does it do a man or a church to gain the whole world but lose his soul??
Isn't the real essence of Catholicism the Incarnation of the Word? God didn't stay sequestered in Heaven, aloof from the world and creatures He created. He reached out to mankind in a way no other could and, through His Son, became a part of the dirt and suffering of this World for our sake. The Bible, the Apostles, the Saints, the Traditions are created, not Creator, and are all bit and supporting players in our Salvation. It is the Word made flesh that defines and saves us.
The wailing and gnashing speaks volumes, RnMom.
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