Italian Priest Flaunts ‘Marriage’ to Male Partner, Remains a Priest

Church Militant ^ | 7/4/18 | Juliana Freitag

[morphing libertarian]

If Pelosi, Biden and French can receive communion and any other one who publicly funds or supports abortion, then this is minor. The church is still ridden with molestors and sex perverts and the pope is more dangerous then helpful.

[Salvation]

He will not remain a priest for long.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

Did his marriage “Cost a Lung a” to pay for it?

Speakers of bad Italian want to know.

If you detect a hint of sarcasm, you are right.

[cpdiii]

Defrock and excommunicate; probably two things that would never happen under Pope Francis.

Pope Francis is a Marxist at heart. He is destroying my church. Next Question?

[trebb]

Ironic that there’s no mention of denying him communion - or even keeping him from performing the rite......

[Campion]

People should probably actually read the story before commenting.

A couple of details:

1. The priest's lawyer says that the priest has asked to be removed from the priesthood.
2. Apparently there was a miscommunication with the diocese, because the bishop says he (the bishop) is "ashamed" and the priest will shortly be forcibly removed if he doesn't request it himself.
3. Apparently the previous bishop of Verona refused to ordain the priest, so he managed to get himself ordained in a different diocese (an irregular thing to do) before returning to Verona.
4. People who blame the Pope should understand that that's like blaming the President when a Virginia state patrolman is abusive or a lawbreaker. It's the responsibility of the bishop of Verona first. Only if he refused to take action would the Pope step in. That is evidently not the case at all.

[IronJack]

The Church may still consider him a priest, but that matters little if his parishioners do not.

And yes, it is high time this pope spoke out about these travesties, or the Church faces a crisis it hasn’t seen since the Middle Ages.

But that, after all, is the goal of the godless legion that has invaded the See.

[Mom MD]

He is a priest in the Roman church until he is not. Some of us tired of the Roman heresies and blasphemies 500 years ago and disconnected from them. Those of you that call out what is wrong yet still feed the system with your money and attendance share in their error whether you admit it or not. At some point you either with the rest of the Protestant world say “here I stand I can do no other” or you share responsibility for what the Roman sect is doing. Christians of good conscience need to make a decision

[IronJack]

Uhhh, I am basically saying the same thing.

By the way, I’m not even Catholic and don’t support that Church with either my attendance or my money.

[Campion]

Some of us tired of the Roman heresies and blasphemies 500 years ago and disconnected from them.

Wow, yeah, and Protestantism has never, ever produced any heresies or blasphemies. (See: Mormonism, Unitarianism, "Word of Faith," all of the various errors held by the modern Episcopalians, ELCA Lutherans, etc., etc., etc.)

[Mom MD]

Sure they have. And Christians of good conscience have fled from them. The ELCA is losing members and congregations all over the place. Those that stay with the apostate group share their apostasy and judegement by not separating themselves.

[Flaming Conservative]

I’m not Catholic, so I’m asking, sincerely -— I thought once a priest, always a priest?