Posted on 12/11/2010 12:34:54 PM PST by James C. Bennett
Canon Law forbids the ordination of known homosexuals.
The RC hierarchy has been violating its own laws for quite some time. A friend of mine entered seminary 32 years ago, only to quit because of the flagrant homosexual activity he discovered there, and that it was tolerated by priests. He and his wife are still Catholic and have reared their children as Catholics, but the sexual scandals rocking the Church angers pious Catholics — of that there is no question.
It is time for a change within the the Roman Catholic Church.
Ditto for me, but in my case my buddy left the seminary for the same reason some 25 years ago. It galls me to see the priests who were in charge of vocations back then.
If you give money to “the church” to pay damages to children for child rape and sodomy by pedophile “priests” , is that “giving to God”? I read that in San Diego alone that parishioners coughed up over $150 million on damages inflicted by 44 pedophile “priests” and now this block buster from wikileaks (note the Vatican does not deny its “authenticity”. What you have, plain and simple ,is obstruction of justice and cover up by an entity that has absolutely no privilege to hide criminals or fail to give testimony about it’s employees.
Much has changed in the course of thirty years, and the seminaries have seen a great deal of the reform that they have needed - especially forcing the issue of homosexuality in the seminary to the forefront. In general, they have gotten much better.
Sadly, the perverted priests who made it through during those years are still causing problems.
That’s true, and Benedict has been trying to make them adhere both to canon law and to Catholic doctrine, and that’s why the liberals who took over after Vatican II hate him so. They’re a dying breed, but they’re still powerful, and most of them are really in with their respective leftist governments, so that’s why you’re seeing these attacks on Rome. Believe me, they don’t care a whit about the victims of either homosexuals or child molesters.
I agree with you. That’s stupid.
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