Dear Bishop, you're fired. Love, the Pope.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Rinse your mouth out first.

[Seth]

Rinse your mouth out first.

After I bite it off and fry it up with some fava beans and a nice Chianti and serve it to you perhaps.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Rinse your mouth out first.

After I bite it off and fry it up with some fava beans and a nice Chianti and serve it to you perhaps.

I have fava beans here, bucko, come over and we'll try that out. (Have your blood type and next of kin info in a waterproof baggie.)

J/K.

[Animavore]

This is getting homoerotic.


- Like the Catholic Church



(It's too easy to bash the Catholic Church )

[Callan]

This is getting homoerotic.


- Like the Catholic Church



(It's too easy to bash the Catholic Church )

Isn't it the Bishop who got bashed?

[Gawdzilla Sama]

This is getting homoerotic.


- Like the Catholic Church



(It's too easy to bash the Catholic Church )

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[Svartalf]

This is getting homoerotic.


- Like the Catholic Church



(It's too easy to bash the Catholic Church )

Thanks for reminding me why I could never have become clergy... I'm into girls.

[JimC]

Of course the Catholic church are free to follow their principles. And everyone else is free to point out what a bunch of out of touch dinosaurs they are. Ireland's and other Western Catholic country's church attendance is on rapid decline and they nicely continue to accelerate it with almost every action they take these days. It's no skin off my nose.

Of course. But it's ignorant, arrant nonsense to expect any church to change doctrines that are (allegedly) handed down from God merely because modern culture has decided it's not "fair" that women don't get to be priests or that priests ought to be allowed to marry.

If the Catholic church had responded to every cultural shift in history, it wouldn't be catholic or a church. People adhere to the Catholic church in part because it's very determined to maintain its traditions. This is perfectly rational. If you, as a believer, understand that God's commandments require such things as male-only, celibate priesthoods, then the church is abandoning YOU by changing the rules and has itself become apostate and in defiance of God's commandments.

The whole Protestant revolution started by Martin Luther is an example of how people of faith solve such issues. If you don't like the strict doctrines of one church, go form another one.

And yes, it's perfectly reasonable to criticize religion, nobody's saying it isn't. But it's not logical or rational to imply that the religious head of the Catholic church is doing something in the least bit unusual or questionable in defrocking an apostate Bishop.

Of course I also realize that the whole thread is nothing more than a convenient vehicle for Catholic-bashing, which is a common pastime of religious-zealot Atheist anti-Catholic nitwits who can't mind their own business.

So, carry on...

Youv'e missed the point about the reaction of most folk here to this sort of stuff... We don't shake our heads about how out of toch this is, or how politically incorrect it is...

WE JUST FUCKING LOVE IT!

:twisted:

[Svartalf]

BTW Seth... I love how you cite the protestant movement as the response men of faith give to problems with the church...

From what I've" seen of the history of christian sects over the last 5 centuries, the "solution" ended up being a lot worse than the problem... when you see people like JW and mormons and born agains and pentecostals all claiming to be better at chretinity than catholics, I don't know whether to guffaw or sob.

[Robert_S]

IIRC, there is a verse in the Bible somewhere about only having family men running the church...

[Animavore]

Meh. The Bible says a lot of stuff.

[llanyb]

'cept the catholic church does have married priests - so not a matter of dogma. Married RC priests are what you get when married priests in other sects (eg Lutherans, Church of England) decide to join the RCs and are accepted.

You guys really should try to get the hang of using search engines.

[Svartalf]

Meh. The Bible says a lot of stuff.

and often contradicts itself, even the stuff that should be fairly consistent like the pauline shit.

[Animavore]

Meh. The Bible says a lot of stuff.

and often contradicts itself, even the stuff that should be fairly consistent like the pauline shit.

I think they were just throwing out a lot of shit and hoping some would stick. No different to what astrologers and fortune tellers do. Just cover as much human experience as possible but vaguely.

[Svartalf]

'cept the catholic church does have married priests - so not a matter of dogma. Married RC priests are what you get when married priests in other sects (eg Lutherans, Church of England) decide to join the RCs and are accepted.

You guys really should try to get the hang of using search engines.

except that married clergy are NOT the rule, or anything that is considered as desirable standard practice. Those folk are accepted because one does not want to discourage conversions, or to take away their clergy status when said status is likely a pivotal point on whether they'll convert or not... but you won't see the church accepting converts from protestant denoms who were not pastors before conversion to become clergy while married with a living spouse, or married catholic men entering seminary.