Mover Mike

Am I wrong or did two words just get connected by the Vatican? From WND, an article Pope bans homosexuals from ordination as priests. Didn't we have a pedophilia scandal in the Catholic Church?

Pope Benedict XVI has given his approval to a new Vatican policy document that bans men with homosexual tendencies from being ordained as priests, reports Catholic World News.

Shouldn't the church have a new policy document that bans pedophiles from ordination? The MSM, as far as I can recall, never called the pedophiles, homosexuals. That would not be PC. Homosexuals are gay couples in loving relationships, that seek a state sanction of marriage, and all the rights of a married couple, including adoption. Pedophiles are those people that hang around where young children are present. prey on them and live in our neighborhoods and you can search for their residences on the internet.

The text, approved by Benedict at the end of August, says that homosexual men should not be admitted to seminaries even if they are celibate, because their condition suggests a serious personality disorder that detracts from their ability to serve as ministers, says the CWN report

How does the church find out if a prospective priest is a homosexual. Is this the kind of information you volunteer? How does the church policy of banning homosexuals from ordination compare with the miliray's policy toward homosexuality? Is it ok to be a pedophile in the military or does this also come under the guidance of "Don't ask, don't tell!"

Life is so confusing.

Hat Tip to Amy Welborn:

(Marvel) Kunkle, a self-described "cradle Catholic," has attended St. Peter Catholic Church in west Eugene (Oregon) for 40 years. Because she's among the 390,000 Catholics who live in Western Oregon, she's also a defendant in the Archdiocese of Portland's bankruptcy case.

In a legal maneuver, the archdiocese in July listed all 390,000 parishioners as class-action defendants in the bankruptcy filing, made last year as the church struggled to respond to more than 200 claims of sexual abuse by priests.

Kunkle and every other local Catholic has until Monday to formally "opt out" of the class action. But few have, in part because of a Catch-22: Attorneys for alleged abuse victims have said they probably will name any parishioner who opts out as an individual defendant.

It seems that abuse victims have sued the archdiocese, and it has been argued that assets of parishes are excludable.

...the Diocese of Spokane, which also has filed for bankruptcy, argued that about $40 million worth of disputed property belonged to parishes, not the diocese, and thus is immune from creditors. The judge disagreed.

Why woould you deliberately involve your parishioners in a class action lawsuit?

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