Posted on 04/24/2014 6:37:00 PM PDT by Gamecock
**Belczak, 69, and his accomplice, 67-year-old Janice Verschuren**
Janice?
Wouldn't that be Father Edward Belczak? I'm asking here, are priests commonly referred to as "Reverend"?
Elsewhere the article refers to him as pastor. Is that also a common reference to a priest?
Yea and I bet neither of them are virgins or celibate! Sniff.
Must have been absent when #8 was discussed.
Millions of churches and their pastors do the “right thing” everyday but noooo it doesn’t count one iota if one man of the cloth is a wolf in sheep’s clothing and goes and does something like this. That’s how the Devil works; he finds a weakness and seizes on it and reveals it to the world to cast suspicion on the rest so that he can draw as many people away from God as he can. The MSM is his tool of delivery at the moment.
Doing the right thing is never newsworthy.
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Just one? Well it seems to me lately just tooling around the Booksmillion store that selling church and selling our LORD has become big business. My daughter has been to the Vatican and says the wealth dripping in that place would make you vomit. It should be turned into the world’s largest orphanage and widow’s home as CHRIST directed. That Pope tiara could probably feed a country and his pension is $3,300, money to play with because Vatican will pay everything he needs till he dies. Money has no place in CHURCH. JESUS already said that.
No. Not just one. Just trying to make a point...: )
Hmmmm. Spend all the wealth, a great deal of it historical and priceless... sell it to collectors all at once and the price of each piece would plummet. Then give it all to the poor. Then they would spend it and all just be poor again and they wouldn’t have the Vatican but just an empty shell with people peeing and pooping in the stairwells and defacing the frescos. Sounds like a great plan. And do you have specific sites where Jesus said to liquidate the wealth in the Vatican? How about giving away all the gold in Ft. Knox while we’re at it and sell all the wonderful historical documents and artifacts in DC. This could be fun. For about six months.
Paging Joel Osteen . . .
The Catholic church gets the scrutiny because there is an organizational structure the media can tie it to.
We Protestants don’t have that kind of structure and the churches operate mostly independently but there are plenty of pastors who commit crimes. The lack of structure has its advantages and disadvantages.
WOW. YES YOU ARE RIGHT. I W A S A L L W R O N G.
The churches with all their money are doing such a good job bringing people to CHRIST.
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Then took Mary a pound of ointment of spikenard, very costly, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair: and the house was filled with the odour of the ointment.
Then saith one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, which should betray him, "Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence, and given to the poor?"
John 12:3-5
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Are you a Christian? How ‘bout we start with you, sell all you own and give it to the poor.
Thank you Heart-Rest. May GOD bless your sweet soul.
I hate to pop your bubble, but you're not helping things.
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