Saturno
Enough said:
The Problem is the Bishops - Dr Janet Smith.
Dr Janet Smith is a true gift to the Church. She is an American classicist and philosopher, and former professor of moral theology at the Sacred Heart Major Seminary in Detroit, Michigan. She is now retired and works helping victims of the sex abuse crisis where she does amazing work. It's my great pleasure to count her among my friends and I can assure you she loves Jesus and His Church with an incredible depth and honesty. She is wonderful company especially in that she is as sharp as a tack but also extremely warm and funny. This is a talk she gave recently at the Coalition for Cancelled Priests Conference at the end of June in Chicago. It's a must listen talk if you want to know the painful reality of the corruption in the Catholic hierarchy, corruption of all kinds, sexual, financial and spiritual/ theological. Having defended the Church during the paedophile crisis she was devastated when, after the Dallas Charter, the McCarrick scandal broke. She addresses the critici
uh boy. So much wrong, so much wrong. Men who are attracted to the priesthood for all the wrong reasons. These flamers make the worst priests. I remember one well in our parish, he ran the "AIDS ministry" and drove a convertible sports car and wore civvies. I approached him one day when we had a family crisis. You never saw such dead eyes. He was totally disinterested. What do you expect when you have men who join the Gay Boys Club for the travel and dining and all the rent boys you can get. Not to mention foreign boys too!
ReplyDeleteGod deliver us from such men.
Of course this is silly, as the papal galero is red, as the four previous popes show:
ReplyDeleteBenedict: https://www.scarboromissions.ca/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/or691441.jpg
John Paul II: http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6322/78/320/pope.0.jpg
Paul VI: https://wau.org/images/issues/33-09_F1-iOS.jpg
John XXIII: https://i.pinimg.com/originals/51/a5/99/51a599d547d9eb71d952dfb6c437d3bc.jpg
Although John XXIII DID actually have a white one:
https://romancatholicblog.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2007/05/25/saturno3.jpg