From: RFaussette@aol.com
Date: Fri Jul 18 2003 - 18:19:15 EDT
In a message dated 7/18/03 11:02:12 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
deborahjmann@insightbb.com writes:
> There's bad and good to that. The bad is that they don't feel pressured to
> go where they can be taught the truth. The good is that maybe there's a
> little more honesty in the church. When I was a child I heard a lot of
> crying about hypocrisy in the church and the evils of church politics. I
> haven't heard those accusations in years.
>
>
>
I am very happy for you - I gave my heart to a Catholic parish for 8 years
and found many priests to be homosexuals, not discrete homosexuals, but flaming
queens, and not available to fill parishioner's needs if they were "off duty."
But they flew around the country quite often and were constantly courted by
the parishioners with meals, tickets, gifts. I saw it with my own eyes. Three
pastorates. I was on the parish council, even managing the arrangements for the
150th anniversary of the church. I was befriended by a 75 year old monk who
told me the priesthood was becoming a "life style" rather than a vocation. That
is my experience. Nor were the priests well educated. But this is a Catholic
problem, at least in my experience.
rich faussette
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