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Anti-Gay Archbishop Investigated for Sexual Misconduct With Men

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  • #32
    shruikan2553
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,113 ✭✭✭shruikan2553


    Wishiwasa Littlebitaller wrote: »
    The catholic church made it all but impossible for any of them to remain celibate if you ask me.

    It must be a nightmare trying not to think of sex when you haven't had it for years, yet they thought it a good idea, that as part of the celebration of mass, they drink some wine and then have the congregation all take turns kneeling before them, with their tongues, waiting to receive.

    I'm just surprised that not one Priest ever turned an innocent Sunday mass into a surprise parish bukakkee.

    Rule 34 comes to mind.


  • #33
    Links234
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,944 ✭✭✭✭Links234


    'Pray away the gay' pastor arrested for molesting teen boy, for the 2nd time!
    CBS reminds that this isn't his first offense. In 2006, he was accused of molesting a 15-year-old boy, and sentenced to one year intermediate punishment and seven years' probation.

    This crap just keeps on happening.


  • #34
    House of Blaze
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 627 ✭✭✭House of Blaze


    Oh the delicious sweet irony just keeps flowing out of the news these days! ;)


  • #35
    EoghanIRL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,080 ✭✭✭EoghanIRL


    Links234 wrote: »
    'Pray away the gay' pastor arrested for molesting teen boy, for the 2nd time!



    This crap just keeps on happening.

    Why do you think some people become nuns and priest etc...
    It's the perfect way to hide that you are gay . Also easier to attact victims .vIt's just so ironic really .


  • #36
    Czarcasm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,076 ✭✭✭✭Czarcasm


    Put the lynch ropes and pitch forks away. These are allegations. Nothing, nothing has actually been proven, and for all the judgement LGBT people seem to experience, I find it somewhat ironic that posters here are making assumptions not just about the man's sexual orientation, but also about his guilt in relation to these allegations. This thread really DOES read like a witch-hunt, unsurprising really when you read this down the end of the article -
    Pope Francis would do well to support the investigation fully and defrock and excommunicate Nienstedt if the allegations can be proven.

    Nothing about the truth or innocent until proven guilty, but like some posters in this thread have done, the assumption is that the man is guilty, now all they have to do is prove it.


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  • #37
    pq0n1ct4ve8zf5
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,070 ✭✭✭✭pq0n1ct4ve8zf5


    Wishiwasa Littlebitaller wrote: »
    The catholic church made it all but impossible for any of them to remain celibate if you ask me.

    It must be a nightmare trying not to think of sex when you haven't had it for years, yet they thought it a good idea, that as part of the celebration of mass, they drink some wine and then have the congregation all take turns kneeling before them, with their tongues, waiting to receive.

    I'm just surprised that not one Priest ever turned an innocent Sunday mass into a surprise parish bukakkee.

    There was a book out recently by John somebody about the history of confession in the church, and the harm it might have done. Rules coming in over the centuries about pressing penitents to confess more and more details of their sins, the age getting dropped to seven for kids to have to do it, and how all that taking place in a small dark box with a sexually frustrated man really facilitated abuse of both adults and children at the hands of some priests. Can't remember the name of it though.


  • #38
    AndonHandon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,382 ✭✭✭AndonHandon


    Gay people are funny.


  • #39
    PopePalpatine
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,222 ✭✭✭✭PopePalpatine


    Links234 wrote: »
    You know, what I think Manach meant there was a jab at the sometimes differing LGBT/LGBTQ acronyms, while at the same time calling for tolerance. Stay classy Manach ;)

    I wonder if his IP address can be traced back to 23 Merrion Square. He's just pathetic at this stage.


  • #40
    Czarcasm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,076 ✭✭✭✭Czarcasm


    Charlee Chilly Couch wrote: »
    There was a book out recently by John somebody about the history of confession in the church, and the harm it might have done. Rules coming in over the centuries about pressing penitents to confess more and more details of their sins, the age getting dropped to seven for kids to have to do it, and how all that taking place in a small dark box with a sexually frustrated man really facilitated abuse of both adults and children at the hands of some priests. Can't remember the name of it though.


    This one?

    http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/feb/23/dark-box-john-cornwell-review


  • #41
    Donkey Oaty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,533 ✭✭✭Donkey Oaty


    AndonHandon wrote: »
    Gay people are funny.

    That is a grotesque generalisation.

    Some of them are (Graham Norton, at times), some of them aren't (that camp friend of Cilla Black's with the glasses who does the ITV chat show, can't think of his name) and some of them are not and never have been (Julian Clary).

    And Derek Mooney can do serious in an emergency, although the format hampers him.


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  • #42
    pq0n1ct4ve8zf5
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    Czarcasm wrote: »
    This one?

    http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/feb/23/dark-box-john-cornwell-review

    That's the one! Didn't read it myself, just the review in the LRB, but it looked interesting.


  • #43
    Dingle_berry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 885 ✭✭✭Dingle_berry


    I have never engaged in sexual misconduct and certainly have not made any sexual advances toward anyone
    Why specify misconduct & advances? As an ordained member of the catholic clergy shouldn't he be able to deny all sexual activity?
    Links234 wrote: »
    'Pray away the gay' pastor arrested for molesting teen boy, for the 2nd time!

    This crap just keeps on happening.
    Paedophilia (same sex or not) is different to sexuality. His attraction to underage boys doesn't make him gay.


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