[AlguyA]

If bishops and priests are supposed to "serve" the laity, why are they abusing their children? Why are cardinals living in palaces, and riding around in limousines and flying first class to Rome and staying in five star hotels once they get there?

You answer your own question, sink. A poster made the following statement:

THE BISHOP AND PRIEST IS CONFIGURED TO CHRIST AS HEAD AND SHEPHERD!!!!!!!!!!!!

You responded with:

"Yea, I know that. I learned that. It was ground into me."

The contempt you show for this most wonderful gift from God -the gift of the priesthood- is precisely indicative of the contempt many bishops and cardinals apparently seem to feel for this and other Church teachings. Church teaching, for them, just isn't hip enough, just isn't new enough. They want something that's exciting, something that isn't 'ground into them.'

And, so, they latch on to the exciting new theories in opposition to Rome, an attachment to wordly things, etc.

It's all quite sad, really.

[sinkspur]

The contempt you show for this most wonderful gift from God -the gift of the priesthood- is precisely indicative of the contempt many bishops and cardinals apparently seem to feel for this and other Church teachings.

Contempt for the priesthood?

Oh, I guess, in your either-or thinking, my support for optional celibacy in the priesthood must mean I hate the priesthood.

I'm just thankful you didn't call me Judas or something.