Damned Catholics

[Minimalist]

An organization of Catholic businesses is suing the Obama administration over a federal rule they say will force Catholic hospitals and doctors to perform gender reassignment services against their faith.

The Catholic Benefits Association filed the lawsuit Wednesday in North Dakota District Court along with the Catholic Diocese of Fargo. In a statement, the groups called the rule part of a “multi-agency effort to redefine the term ‘sex’ in federal anti-discrimination laws.”

The groups also allege the rule will force doctors and hospitals to perform abortions against their faith.

Several states and some other Catholic organizations had already filed suit over the rule on the grounds that it undermines religious freedom.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts...a#comments

Fuck their faith.

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I really need an advice: how do you take Catholics seriously after shit like this:

Bunch Catholic of priests says the world NEEDS more exorcists!

"We’re in a fight with drugs, the occult, pornography," [Rev. Vincent Lampert] explained. “This is an entry point for evil and we need to take these souls back." Valter Cascioli, the psychologist and scientific consultant for the exorcists’ association, agreed demons across the world have multiplied and there aren’t enough priests to fight them.

The Rev. Vincent Lampert, the head priest at St. Malachy’s in Indianapolis, Indiana, reports he was one of about 400 Catholic leaders who met in Rome in October to strategize on how to recruit and train more exorcists, who use holy water and prayer to combat evil.

The situation is dire, he said, because rampant pornography, illegal narcotic use and the occult have made it easier for Satan to cast his net.

“Exorcism is like triage. We’re the emergency crew — but there aren’t enough of us,” Lampert told The Post.

Lampert — who says he recently chased a demon out of a parishioner who was cursed by his girlfriend’s mother — said he was one of about a dozen priests representing the US at the International Association of Exorcists conference, a Vatican-sanctioned retreat.
http://nypost.com/2016/12/28/in-a-wicked...1457800280


I ask you this because there seems to be people here that can take them seriously in spite shit like the one above. So I genuinely want to know, how do you do it?

Not me.  I haven't taken them seriously in a long time.  Asswipes wearing dresses.

[Tonus]

"We’re in a fight with drugs, the occult, pornography," [Rev. Vincent Lampert] explained.

"But enough about us," he continued.

[Redoubtable]

The fish still stinks from the head down.

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/12/alleged-...-assaults/

Alleged pedophile victims claim Pope Francis was aware of assaults

According to FOX News Latino, alleged victims of Rev. Nicola Corradi said they wrote a letter to the pontiff in 2014 warning him that the purported pedophile had been reassigned to the South American country.
The site reports that the victims' families contend that the Vatican knew about him since at least 2009, when he was publicly accused of abusing students at the Provolo Institute in Verona, Italy, where he then worked.
We recently reported that Argentine police arrested 82-year old Nicola Corradi, priest Horacio Corbacho, 55, and three other men at the Antonio Próvolo Institute, a school for youths with hearing disabilities in the northwest of the country for sexually abusing the children.

Here is something that no one in the media talks about (and was surprised it never came up in the film Spotlight or its real life investigations) when it comes to the priestly pedophile scandals: In my belief, one of the reasons (perhaps the biggest reason) why it is covered up so much is because of the Catholic practice of the "seal of confession". So a priest could molest or rape a child, go to a priest in their parish, confess it, and the priest who found this out in confession is not allowed to tell ANYONE about this because he is bound by the seal of confession, meaning he is not allowed to tell anyone what someone confesses to him in the confessional. If the priest does tell someone, he is automatically excommunicated from the Church and this excommunication can only be lifted by the Pope himself. Now the priest who "repented" faces no legal punishment because his confessor is not allowed to tell the Police, even anonymously. Now with these pedophiles, they might "repent", but they seem to always try to abuse again! So the cycle repeats itself, putting more children at risk, until someone finds out outside of the confessional and then there is the frequent strategy of quietly reassigning priests before a major scandal unfolds. Does the Church really care about protecting these particular abusers? Hell no! What they are keen on protecting is their wallet. If word gets out, in a public scandal, that is tens of millions, possibly hundreds of millions of dollars down the drain in settlements. 

I always get so cynical when parishes are ordered to do the "Cardinal's Annual Appeal", that's like one Sunday out of the year, in particular parishes, where the homily is basically dedicated to begging parishioners for donations (larger than usual ones). Envelopes and pencils are conveniently provided in the pews for churchgoers to declare their donation. The person discussing the Cardinal's Annual Appeal often goes to great lengths to extol all of the good things the money does. But when you see Catholic schools (that honestly are very helpful in inner cities) closing all over the place due to lack of funding, one has to wonder where this money is really going. I'd like to find out how much of this money has gone to settling priestly sex abuse cases. In my view, the Vatican should be settling ALL of the financial consequences of abuse cases, not the particular dioceses which only derive their money by extracting it from the parishioners. I doubt the priests or bishops are taking pay cuts to pay off the settlement, it's the regular church going Catholics whose donations are used to pay the settlement.

[Minimalist]

I don't know about "never."  Here's an expose of the scandals which combined to force Herr Von Popenfuhrer to resign.  Apparently, 'god' made a mistake when he chose him!

It's almost an hour and a half long... but worth it.

[Fake Messiah]

I remember an older Jay Leno joke from his monologue. He was commenting the news how some Catholic priest was convicted for selling cocaine and then he said "People were relieved because every time when they hear Catholic priest in the news they expect it's about pedophilia"

[Minimalist]

Buongiorno, pope fuckface.  Bet you loved waking up to this, huh?

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/pr...-1.2932946

Italian Catholic priest accused of hosting orgies in church rectory and pimping out up to 15 women

An Italian Catholic priest is under investigation for allegedly organizing orgies in his church’s rectory and acting as a pimp for up to 15 women.

Authorities are investigating Father Andrea Contin, a 48-year-old parish priest at the Church of San Lazzaro in Padua, for living off immoral earnings and psychological violence following complaints from three female parishioners, The Times reported.

I love this shit!

[vorlon13]

So, in the canon of church law, 15 women or less is a misdemeanor ?

[Minimalist]

Seems to depend entirely on who is fucking pope.

Fuckface I has his own scandal brewing.

http://theweek.com/articles/670249/child...pe-francis

A child abuse scandal is coming for Pope Francis

The Catholic Church has long been plagued by sickening scandals involving priests abusing children. And there is reportedly another scandal coming — this one of the pope's own making.

Two people with direct ties to the Vatican tell me that Pope Francis, following the advice of his clubby group of allies in the curia, is pressing to undo the reforms that were instituted by his predecessors John Paul II and Benedict XVI in handling the cases of abuser priests. Francis is pushing ahead with this plan even though the curial officials and cardinals who favor it have already brought more scandal to his papacy by urging him toward lenient treatment of abusers.

[vorlon13]

I keep telling you (everyone here), they otta just get effin honest about it and make kiddie diddling a sacrament. That policy worked for 1500 years! They have had no end of TERRIBLE trouble since they tried to stop it.

Hell, feed the pew warmers some regurgitated pap about it being an honor to donate a kids anus to the church, they'll score points in Heaven with Jeebus and the fucking pew warmers will still give them money.

Screen the priests for HIV and chlamydia once in a while, and they can put all this crap behind them and get back to the church's core business, making money.

[vorlon13]

GODDAMMIT, I don't know if I'm serious or sarcastic anymore on this fucking topic.

I just know I'm sick of the fucking pedo priest problem, and if making it 'legal' (come on Catholic apologists, gimme the first amendment argument for kiddie diddling, let's get this over with, and it looks like the goddam Pope is already 2/3 of the way there as it is) the church has survived 1500 years of SELF- DOCUMENTED reports of horny priests ejaculating whenever they want in little boys anuses, time to let the Catholics be hoest about it, and move the hell on.

If a given set of parents don't like the idea, they can move on to another denomination, there's 70,000 to pick from, surely anything else would do if they really don't want priest sperm in their little boys.


Jesus fucking Christ . . . .