Like all the priests who have molested boys and STAYED in Roman Catholicism? How hypocritical that he's being so maligned.
If he had stayed with the church, nobody would have known; he would have been shuffled from parish to parish and promoted. Maybe even been made pope cause the track record of popes in the history of Roman Catholicism is enough to make any normal people blush with shame, but all we get from Catholics is excuses of, *Nobody is perfect* and *He's just human, too*.
It's obvious that the problem isn't his moral integrity, but rather the fact that he left the church.
Catholics have quite the double standard of behavior for their clergy and that of non-Catholics. They should hold their own clergy to the standards they hold others to.
Seems that Catholics will tolerate anything but dissension. Then they turn on the poor guy and eat their own.
A: Don't tell anyone, but actually they can be married. That's a big secret you see. Any Catholic priest can give up the priesthood to have a wife and family, and since all of them are fairly well educated with college degrees, they'll have no problem picking up a good secular job or starting a family business. Nuns and monks are the same way. They can, at any time, choose to leave their orders to pursue a secular life in holy matrimony. Most of them are highly educated too. Nobody is a prisoner of their religious vocation.
But now the accusations of statutory rape and indecent motives abound against those who leave the Catholic Church. I think it is ironical as well as comical how FRoman Catholics on this forum are so quick to castigate and condemn any Catholic priest who chooses to leave his profession or, when he leaves, decides to be married. They are so quick to paint ALL non-Catholic Christians as liars, heretics and deceivers. Look how soon this thread was attacked for the AUDACITY of talking about priests and nuns who leave Catholicism.
We get bombarded daily with numerous pro-Roman Catholic threads that often include the condemnation of everyone-but-Roman Catholic-Christians and which make Free Republic appear, for all practical purposes, as a website run by the Vatican and its minions. It's a wonder why we even have to have fund raising every quarter when the Catholic Church SHOULD be the sole funding source due to the domination of the Religion Forum. Let someone DARE post a pro-Protestant thread and the attacks begin immediately, loudly and nastily. The one bright spot in it all is that the brave Christians here refuse to be cowed and continue to speak the truth of the gospel of the grace of God through faith in Jesus Christ. That truth WILL break through to any heart that diligently seeks to know it.