What possible good use could the product called the “masturbator” have?
I can assure you that the lawyers I know would bring this up.
He had every right to fire her. According to the article, she was not being paid, so it really made no difference.
I will agree with you on that one. The priest could have just said that for personal reasons, he decided to release so and so from her duties as music minister. He did not need to say why.
So is it your position that a Priest should be free to remove ANY parishioner ffrom ANY position within the Parish, then lie about the reasons and circumstances for doing so?
Of course they would. And the judges I know would find their arguement irrelevant in the pre-trial motion phase.
No, they should never lie, that would be a sin. If someone asks why she was fired, he should tell the person politely that it’s a personal matter and he *should not *disclose the reasons why.
He has every right to enforce standards of behavior for his staff, *especially *the ones that have a public ministry. An organist selling sex toys is very questionable, especially when the way the products are marketed are questionable. As far as individual parishioners go, he obviously cannot enforce anything other than what he says via his preaching.
In effect the priest lied when he wrote in his letter that the products were against Church teaching. They clearly aren’t.
That wasn’t my question. My question was does he have the right to enforce standards ABOVE AND BEYOND Church teaching?
I didn’t see anything that couldn’t be used within the Church’s guidelines.
So the behavior of the entire world is suppopsed to conform to what is appropriate for 7 year olds so parents don’t have to explain the concept of Charity and “not judging a book by its cover” etc? I think not.
That’s not what I said Bill. You called those who cry scandal as nothing more than slef-righteous busybodies. I was suggesting that perhaps your slogan wasn’t quite correct. I think people who aren’t self-righteous busybodies can be scandalized. I used my 7 yr old as an example.
You haven’t answered my question about the ‘masterbater’ and how they promote their products.
He does not have to have a reason to fire anyone that is unpaid. In this case, I think he would have had a case even if she had been paid.
You’re so right. This woman knew that once the media go it then she could drag the image of the Church and this priest in the mud. Predictably, those bastions of decency, the women from the View, used this story to take yet another shot at the Catholic church. I guess we saw that one coming. It’s time to sic Bill Donahue on them!
It just makes sense that someone in a ministerial role will need to “walk the walk” more than the average show-up-on-Sunday Catholic; you are not just following an example, you are now setting one. Also, I don’t see that the priest excommunicated the organist for her job choice. I assume she may still receive the sacraments.
This is a key point in my opinion. If you have sexual dysfunction due to a medical condition and require an aid, I see no problem with this in general. If you wish to give some personal private advice to someone with a similar medical condition, again, no big problem. But to become a seller/promoter? And publicly bring your business into the church for all to view? Boy, I don’t know how to spin this one. Especially when you figure that the vast majority of sales are not for the medically-impaired devout Catholic couples just trying to have one or two more children.
I’m sorry, this sort of made me chuckle. I read the Bible, the CCC and I’ve even studied canon law on occasion. Now I learn that to trump all academic debate on a Catholic issue, all I have to do is whip out my copy of Catholicisim for Dummies!
Nooooo…But maybe he should.
