[Pastor Isaac Peters]

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Monsignor Meth is apparently quite the entrepreneur:

The suspended Roman Catholic priest was arrested on federal drug charges this month for allegedly having methamphetamine mailed to him from co-conspirators in California and making more than $300,000 in drugs sales out of his apartment in Waterbury in the second half of last year.

Along the way, authorities said, he bought a small adult video and sex toy shop in the nearby town of North Haven named "Land of Oz & Dorothy's Place," apparently to launder all the money he was making. He has pleaded not guilty, and jury selection in his trial is scheduled to begin March 21.

[Hans]

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It is disgusting that they claim to be Christian.
I am surrounded by Catholics every day. I feel like I can't escape them. I guess when they claim "loving" everyone, they mean it very literally.
I can only imagine what goes on during confession

[Pastor Isaac Peters]

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I believe the bishop's explanation here; don't you?

Catholic bishop tries to explain how a priest ended up in’self-bondage’

After all three Masses on the weekend of Jan. 19-20, parishioners of St. Aloysius Catholic Church in Springfield, Ill., were handed a statement written by Bishop Thomas Paprocki.

The bishop explained that St. Aloysius’ pastor, the Rev. Thomas Donovan, “is suffering from a psychological condition that manifests itself in self-bondage as a response to stress.”

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The statement included a lengthy footnote, written by the therapist, defining “non-sexual self-bondage,” which concluded with the admission that “non-sexual self-bondage is not a recognized mental health diagnosis at this time.” Indeed, “non-sexual self-bondage” is not listed in the American Psychiatric Association’s “Diagnostic and Statistical Manual,” or DSM.

[BelieverInGod]

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I believe the bishop's explanation here; don't you?

“non-sexual self-bondage,”?

What exactly happened, did the choir boy turn the ropes on the priest and escape?

[Pastor Isaac Peters]

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Some more justice for victims of papist boy-rapists:

PHILADELPHIA — A Roman Catholic priest and a former Catholic school teacher were convicted on Wednesday on nine charges relating to the sexual abuse of a 10-year-old boy at different times more than a decade ago.

(Note to readers outside of North America: Philadelphia is the largest city in Pennsylvania and is not the Philadelphia of the Bible, any more than the Catholic institution is the church of the Bible.)

[Pastor Isaac Peters]

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Sometimes enough is enough even for the fish heads.

From the JYT:

Cardinal in Los Angeles Is Removed From Duties

LOS ANGELES — Cardinal Roger M. Mahony, who retired less than two years ago as the leader of the nation’s largest Roman Catholic archdiocese, was removed from all public duties by his successor, Archbishop José H. Gomez, as the church complied with a court order to release thousands of pages of internal documents that show how the cardinal shielded priests who sexually abused children.

The documents, released as part of a record $660 million settlement in 2007 with the victims of abuse, are the strongest evidence so far that top officials for years purposely tried to conceal abuse from law enforcement officials. The files, which go from the 1940s to the present, are the latest in a series of revelations that suggest that the church continued to maneuver against law enforcement even after the extent of the abuse crisis emerged.

Auxiliary Bishop Thomas Curry, who was the vicar for clergy and one of the cardinal’s top deputies and his adviser on sexual abuse, also stepped down as the regional bishop for Santa Barbara, Calif.

The church had fought for years to keep the documents secret, and until this week it argued that the names of top church officials should be kept private. In letters written in the 1980s, then-Father Curry gave suggestions for how to stop the police from investigating priests who admitted that they had abused children, like stopping the priests from seeing therapists who would be required to alert law enforcement about the abuse.

[BelieverInGod]

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was removed from all public duties by his successor,

Sounds more like internal strife to me rather than "doing the Godly thing". Was he trying to tell his replacement how to do the job?

[Pastor Isaac Peters]

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Catholics in the Archdiocese of La-la-land now have a ringside seat for the Roman institution's hypocrisy:

But Ms. [unpronounceable name deleted] said she could not help but think that the latest revelations were another sign of hypocrisy or double standards by church officials.

“People get divorced, and they are not allowed to receive communion, but they covered up crimes and are still allowed to celebrate Mass,” she said. “It’s really hard not to feel very let down by that.”

[John Creeser]

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Accused of being gay, Spanish priest challenges Church to measure his anus

Is there no end to catlick perversion? Hey buddy, you're gay...look at the photo, if that isn't gay then I don't know what is.

Gross!!

[Dr Laurence Niles]

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Accused of being gay, Spanish priest challenges Church to measure his anus

Is there no end to catlick perversion? Hey buddy, you're gay...look at the photo, if that isn't gay then I don't know what is.

Gross!!

Good grief

I had to stop looking at that disgusting picture as soon as I was sick in my mouth: which was immediately.

The gaywise have nothing to smile about

YIC

[Pastor Isaac Peters]

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Wait. A Catholic priest has committed the sin of Sodom with someone old enough to shave? That is news.

[BelieverInGod]

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Wait. A Catholic priest has committed the sin of Sodom with someone old enough to shave? That is news.

Can't those Mediterranean types shave at the age of 10? Or is that just the women?

What really disgusts me is the title of this thread. The fact that we can find a "sex scandal of the day" and yet we end up with dogans on here day after day claiming that their way is God's Way.

[Pastor Isaac Peters]

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The Roman institution is working to ensure that even after leaving the papacy, Maledict will be immune from prosecution:

Pope Immunity: Vatican Will Protect Benedict From Sexual Abuse Prosecution

Pope Benedict's decision to live in the Vatican after he resigns will provide him with security and privacy. It will also offer legal protection from any attempt to prosecute him in connection with sexual abuse cases around the world, Church sources and legal experts say.

"His continued presence in the Vatican is necessary, otherwise he might be defenseless. He wouldn't have his immunity, his prerogatives, his security, if he is anywhere else," said one Vatican official, speaking on condition of anonymity.

"It is absolutely necessary" that he stays in the Vatican, said the source, adding that Benedict should have a "dignified existence" in his remaining years.

So we have something to hide, do we? Also, what about the "dignified existence" of all of the children raped or otherwise abused by the Romanist lowerarchy?

[Pastor Isaac Peters]

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In the Roman institution, life imitates The Onion.

From The Onion:

VATICAN CITY—Calling forgiveness "one of the highest virtues taught to us by Jesus," Pope John Paul II issued a papal decree Monday absolving priest-molested children of all sin.

From Cardinal Mahoney's blog:

In the past several days, I have experienced many examples of being humiliated. In recent days, I have been confronted in various places by very unhappy people. I could understand the depth of their anger and outrage--at me, at the Church, at about injustices that swirl around us.

Thanks to God's special grace, I simply stood there, asking God to bless and forgive them.

[Billy Bob Jenkins]

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I adopted my favorite son, George W. Jenkins, after he was rescued from perpetual rape at the hands of cross dressing priests, under the guardianship of a family that hated him enough to name him "Mary".

He was habituated to rectal pain when we found him, but we operated, and with the healing powers of Jesus and a Christian proctologist we were able to recover a 2 and a half pound mandrake shaped mass of coagulated semen from his intestine. He is now growing up into a fine Baptist boy, with aspirations to be President of the United States.