tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36003957.post4466719873689239466..comments2023-10-17T03:15:16.029-05:00Comments on Blowing San #1: Did they get their thirty pieces of silver?Subvethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13523683273450353313noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36003957.post-49745704745024879692010-03-19T20:05:43.002-05:002010-03-19T20:05:43.002-05:00Arby, IMO it's just a bunch of good 'ole b...Arby, IMO it's just a bunch of good 'ole boys (and girls) looking out for each other. It extends into the Vatican, for example just check out what Cardinal Bernard Law is doing these days. Nice work if you can get it, especially after his role in the sex abuse scandal.<br /><br />One of the things that keep me believing in the Church is the fact that this sort of thing is nothing new, yet She survives. Any purely human institution would have gone belly up centuries ago. <br /><br />Some folk might argue for another influence than God being at work in that, I don't believe it. Too many parables in the Bible dealing with our fallen nature and it's constant presence. <br /><br />But yep, if you're a member of the clergy you can get away with just about anything under the right circumstances. <br /><br />Maybe thats why St. John Chrysostom is reputed to have said the floors of Hell are paved with the skulls of bishops. Some of those skulls probably belong to Bishops of Rome.Subvethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13523683273450353313noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36003957.post-16435587225458303782010-03-19T13:14:12.690-05:002010-03-19T13:14:12.690-05:00I am constantly amazed at the lack of control the ...I am constantly amazed at the lack of control the Catholic Church has over their leaders while attempting to exercise complete control over their parishioners. Forgive me if this is poorly worded. I am not Catholic bashing here. I just don’t understand (as an example) how the church universally denies communion to divorced Catholics until they participate in the annulment process (at a hefty fee and under uncomfortable scrutiny) but the church cannot stop its own ordained leaders from high-profile, public demonstrations against the official teaching of the church, such as the support for the health care proposal that will include federal money for abortion. For that matter, nuns and priests who are publicly pro-choice just baffle me. The average parishioner has few choices: comply, find another faith, or quietly defy the teaching of the church. Activist pro-choice nuns keep on speaking out and keep on getting paid. Is the church so short of leaders that they have to keep these people in their positions or risk having an empty seat? And wouldn’t an empty seat be better than having a pro-choice body warming that seat?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05358631883472544059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36003957.post-1759005515893573782010-03-19T12:56:10.164-05:002010-03-19T12:56:10.164-05:00IR, nor will I.IR, nor will I.Subvethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13523683273450353313noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36003957.post-13004831476650561312010-03-19T12:44:44.989-05:002010-03-19T12:44:44.989-05:00The thing to do now is for the Bishops--or even th...The thing to do now is for the Bishops--or even the Bishop in which the associations HQs resides--to declare them to be non-catholic.<br /><br />I won't hold my breathignorant redneckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15718783732896413346noreply@blogger.com