Originally Posted by
mundame
Nothing "gay" about priests molesting student priests. That's sordid and immoral.
Nothing "gay" about most homosexual behavior, especially when they abuse children, priests, and pass around serious sexually transmitted diseases.
I wonder if the Catholic Church will finally collapse due to all this rampant immorality of its priests.
It has often happened before and it never collapsed then --- but now secular humanism has pretty much taken over completely in Europe: Voltaire 1, God 0. The churches are empty and few even marry anymore, which is relevant because marriage is a Catholic sacrament.
It's been worse, such as when there were two and three popes at a time for so long and one set lived in Avignon. The time of heresies and the Inquisition fighting them, which the Church has never really recovered from, it was so hated, and then the Reformation, which the Church lost.
I think it's a bad combo, however, the supremacy of Science and atheism in the cultures of Europe and the U.S. at least, along with the VERY bad behavior of so many, many priests and in fact the whole organization set up to protect priests that victimize children. How can one believe in such a group? It seems very nasty to me.
But it wouldn't surprise me if they weather this and just go on --- they got through Henry VIII, after all. And he knocked down all the monestaries and broke stained glass in the churches, etc.
There is nothing gay about homosexual behavior period, but it doesnt change the fact that the homosexual movement has coopted the word for their own use. Nor does it change the fact that sexual activity with a member of the same sex is homosexual and immoral.
The immorality of the priests is disgusting. I sincerely hope they repent. They will be held to higher standards than others.
If we were as industrious to become good as to make ourselves great, we should become really great by being good, and the number of valuable men would be much increased; but it is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness; and i pronounce it as certain that there was never yet a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." - Ben Franklin
Imagine what good we can do if we all joined together, united as followers of Christ - M. Russell Ballard