Australian bishop backs reconsideration of celibacy, women's ordination

[Tim_Kirchoff]

Don’t these statements bother anyone:

To a 15 yr. old boy: “masterbation is a mortal sin.”

As a fifteen-year-old boy, I can say that that statement does not bother me in the slightest but for the fact that there are other fiteen-year-old boys who refuse to acknowledge it.

 

[Urf]

Does the Episcopalian Church have problems with their priests molesting children?

 

[NewUlm1976_2000]

ABC Radio National’s Religion Report had a great show on this.

abc.net.au/rn/religionreport/stories/2007/2017913.htm

I do not feel his statements are over the top, problems need to be pointed out but even more, acted upon. All organizations need forms of house cleaning every now and then to get better.

 

[bpbasilphx]

Orthodox Churches and Eastern Catholic churches have married priests, and everything works out just fine.

 

[bpbasilphx]

<<Does the Episcopalian Church have problems with their priests molesting children?>>

Yes, and alas, sexual abuse happens among Orthodox clergy, too.

But then, when push came to shove all Christ’s disciples but one deserted Him.

And if the proportion of priests who sexually abuse children is as high as one in 12, is that any higher defection rate than Our Lord had?

 

[snowfly]

Another wanna-be Pope.

 

[snowfly]

Does the Episcopalian Church have problems with their priests molesting children?

Yes.