Parish Priest Arrested

[rkwright]

Last night our pastor was arrested. Public Lewdness at an XXX book store.... great....

We're a small parish, but thats growing. He was really instrumental in getting a brand new wonderful church built, and now this...

Prayers for him, but mostly for our local Church - and the Church as a whole.

Edited December 3, 2010 by rkwright

[CatherineM]

I remember getting that phone call in the middle of the night to bail someone out from church who was caught exposing himself in a gay movie house. At least it wasn't our priest. We should remember to pray often for our priests. They have such lonely, difficult lives at time.

[Brother Adam]

[Archaeology cat]

[CatholicWing]

Is he Catholic priest?

[Semper Catholic]

[quote name='CatholicWing' timestamp='1291429138' post='2190858']
Is he Catholic priest?
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OP is Catholic so let's get out our detective kits.

[rkwright]

So I found out today that this priest had actually requested a sabbatical a while back but was denied.

[CatherineM]

Bishops often deny sabbaticals these days because they simply don't have enough priests to fill the all the spots they need.

[CatholicWing]

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Bishops often deny sabbaticals these days because they simply don't have enough priests to fill the all the spots they need.
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Agree...........
Its true Catholic Church have not many priest around the world. In every country Catholics priests are limited.
We have just one priest who leading 15 churches on different places.

[rhetoricfemme]

That's pretty awful, I'm sorry. He'll definitely be in my prayers, as well as your community!

[loveletslive]

i bet the local news is having a field day with that one.... :\

[Semper Catholic]

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i bet the local news is having a field day with that one.... :\
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Problem?

If it affects the community to such a large degree then it should be well covered.

[Servus_Mariae]

I think what loveletslive was pointing out is that the media tends to use such stories as a means to impress upon the public a certain image of priests. The entire debacle of the sex scandals has shown us what an interesting story the folly of a priest makes as well as the willingness of the media to exploit this to the discredit of the Church.

[Semper Catholic]

[quote name='Servus_Mariae' timestamp='1291557688' post='2191031']
I think what loveletslive was pointing out is that the media tends to use such stories as a means to impress upon the public a certain image of priests. The entire debacle of the sex scandals has shown us what an interesting story the folly of a priest makes as well as the willingness of the media to exploit this to the discredit of the Church.
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One bad apple spoils the bunch and you reap what you sow.

It's going to take years if not decades for the Church to recover from how poorly they handled everything, this incident certainly doesn't help.

The media exploits it because the public has interest. It's also good that the media alerts the public that someone who is supposed to be a trusted individual amongst the community is committing sex crimes.

Edited December 5, 2010 by Semper Catholic

[CatherineM]

I don't have a problem with the media covering an issue so long as they give balanced reporting. If they report on a priest caught doing something like this, they should also cover it when protestant ministers are caught, or teachers or coaches. They don't.