[Bayard]

Before you folks go and judge the Pope. Please consider the source of the information.

Also, please consider the type of act. This is not theft. The clergy in religious orders have no possessions, they give them up. Everything is shared by the community.

This priest who was a confessor would have been literally like a brother, not “a stranger.”

You people have too many worldly notions of possessions.

[BlatherNaut]

This is not theft.

So we can all go help ourselves when we stop by a wake and spot something we like in the casket, as long as the person was "like a brother, not a stranger"? I hope no one appropriated the Rosary from my grandmother's casket when no one was looking. I had given it to her, she had used it for years and our family wanted her to be buried with it.

[martiangohome]

I think I’ll stop by the rectory and take the priest’s big screen tv..thanks !

[dmz]

Also, please consider the type of act. This is not theft. The clergy in religious orders have no possessions, they give them up. Everything is shared by the community.

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Did not the current pope recently sell His motorcycle? I think he has his own stuff.

[A child of Yah]

“You people have too many worldly notions of possessions.”
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Oh come on now “Bayard” ...
If anyone had a worldly notion about possessions, it would be the one who heists a “rosary cross” off a deceased person and then thought it was going to give them some type of “power of mercy”.

I smile at that, “You people” part though.
Who be we’ez anyways?

Alright “YOU PEOPLE” ... SILENCE!!! ... or off with your heads because your opinions and comments are considered too judge-mental to some peeps who are too judge-mental ... smiles ... who loves you baby ... I still do

[BipolarBob]

Good points! I think I’ll take a cue from “His Holiness” and start grave robbing, selling body parts and prying gold fillings out of corpses. Jesus was hung between two thieves but only forgave one. The one that recognized theft was wrong and repented - not brag about it later.

[ansel12]

You people have too many worldly notions of possessions.

""I took the cross and with just a bit of force I removed it," he said, showing with his hands how he pulled the cross off the rosary.""--""He now keeps it in a little pouch underneath.""

We do?

[metmom]

Catholicism never fails to disappoint.

The most outrageous act can be done by a Catholic and some other Catholics will come along and defend or excuse it away.

The biggest challenge is to figure out just what form that excuse is going to take.

[ebb tide]

The clergy in religious orders have no possessions, they give them up.

Not all religious orders take vows of poverty. Do you know what order, if any, this deceased priest belonged to?