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Related: About this forumNY Archbishop Forbids Catholics from Congratulating Gay Newlyweds
Blah blah blah. Catholics are obsessed with gay people. We get it.
But then the decree takes a sharp right turn and steers right off a cliff into Even Crazier Town, the affluent suburb to the north of Crazy Town propers city limits.
Dolan, on behalf of the Catholic Church, forbids Catholics from even being happy for their newly married gay friends or offering congratulations. Failure to comply with this perversion of law from their all-knowing, all-loving god that hates some of the things he lovingly created in his own image will result in canonical sanctions a fancy way of saying priest court.
http://unicornbooty.com/blog/2011/11/11/ny-archbishop-forbids-catholics-from-congratulating-gay-newlyweds/
randr
(12,418 posts)My worry is that the current Republican crowd is trying to recreated that century in our lifetime.
justiceischeap
(14,040 posts)flailing about in the ocean with no one around to grasp hold of to save themselves.
The church has been urged for years to move along with the times but their refusal makes them look irrelevant and antiquated.
xchrom
(108,903 posts)he should get out more and smell the roses.
Smarmie Doofus
(14,498 posts)aquart
(69,014 posts)Worried senior
(1,328 posts)was assigned to WI for awhile, do we have to get all the crazies?
yardwork
(61,795 posts)When Dolan was Archbishop of Milwaukee, at least 8,000 cases of sexual abuse against children - more than 100 victims - were hidden. Dolan had the Archdiocese declare bankruptcy to avoid liability.
http://www.jsonline.com/features/religion/archdiocese-bankruptcy-judge-allows-two-claims-to-stand-me44pue-139044534.html
Sealed documents filed in the Archdiocese of Milwaukee bankruptcy identify at least 8,000 instances of child sexual abuse and 100 alleged offenders - 75 of them priests - who have not previously been named by the archdiocese, a victims' attorney said Thursday.
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"We need to know who they are and where they are. How can there be 8,000 crimes committed by over 100 offenders and there be no accountability?" he said.
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In an emotional preamble to her ruling, before a packed courtroom, Kelley expressed a reverence for the Catholic Church and compassion for the victims, saying she was "brought to tears more than once" reading the accounts of the men and women who allege they were sexually abused as children by priests, deacons, nuns, teachers and others over the past 60 years.
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Victims' attorneys had characterized the church's objections as a test case that, if successful, would have eliminated 95% of the claims in the bankruptcy.
mysuzuki2
(3,521 posts)were so pleased with his "work" in the Milwaukee pedophile scandal that he was rewarded by being made a cardinal.
yardwork
(61,795 posts)bulloney
(4,113 posts)Some in the RCC hierarchy think it's a violation of Catholics' rights to have birth control coverage in their health insurance, but Catholics are forbidden to congratulate newly-married gay couples?
Talk about micro-managing.
laconicsax
(14,860 posts)Most of the rules and laws are micromanagement.
La Lioness Priyanka
(53,866 posts)Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)obamanut2012
(26,188 posts)I have a friend who is a chaplain (priest). I need to call him.
closeupready
(29,503 posts)Fearless
(18,421 posts)all those people off chasing the Archbishop with pitchforks who won't be able to attend the ceremony!