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Octavius Hite
Joined: 28 Jan 2004
Location: Househunting, looking for a new bunker from which to convert the world to homosexuality.
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 Posted: Wed May 17, 2006 3:25 am Post subject: Catholic Church Hit With New LGBT Scandals |
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The more things change....
http://www.365gay.com/Newscon06/05/051406catholic.htm
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(London) The Roman Catholic Church was in the midst of damage control on Sunday following the firing of a key aide to the Cardinal in London for being gay and the reported arrest of a top Vatican official in Rome for trying to pick up a gay or transsexual prostitute.
Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, the leader of the Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales has reportedly fired his top aide after discovering the man is gay.
The Mail reports that Stephen Noon's sexuality was discovered when his long-term partner visited him at his office.
"His partner came to the office at the end of the day and was introduced to the Cardinal," a friend of the couple tells The Mail.
"Shortly afterwards the Church made it clear that his sexuality was incompatible with the job he had to do. Since he was the spokesperson for the Cardinal, Murphy-O'Connor clearly felt he had to act because homosexual acts are regarded by the Church as a sin," the friend was quoted as saying.
Noon, 35, joined the Archbishop's staff in 2003. He was previously a press officer for the Scottish Nationalist Party, was handed the brief to improve the Catholic Church's image. The Church was paying him about $70,000 a year.
The cardinal was a leading opponent of Britain's civil partnership law, had opposed to the repeal of Clause 28 - which banned the promotion of homosexuality in schools - and fought against legislation that gave gays and lesbians job and housing protections.
Meanwhile, in Rome, the Vatican is vehemently denying published reports that a senior Church official had been arrested while looking for a male or a transsexual prostitute in an area of the city know for its hustlers.
The Ansa news agency and Italian newspapers report that the 48-year-old priest - whose rank was withheld and who was identified only by the initials CB - works in the office of the secretary of state of the Vatican.
"Information disseminated this morning by newspapers concerning a cleric in service at the Vatican are totally without foundation," a Vatican statement said.
The media outlets are standing by their stories. |
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Satori
Joined: 09 Dec 2005
Location: Above it all
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| Posted: Wed May 17, 2006 10:58 am Post subject: |
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I see either Catholicism slowly dying out, or groups from various more liberal countries starting to break away if the Vatical does not liberalise it's stance on homosexuality. They also need to get the paedophilia thing under control.
I'm not hopeful. I've always maintained that the Catholic Church is one of the more profound forces for evil on the planet. |
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canuckistan
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Location: Training future GS competitors.....
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| Posted: Wed May 17, 2006 1:34 pm Post subject: |
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Imagine an openly gay pope  |
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The Man known as The Man
Joined: 29 Mar 2003
Location: 3 cheers for Ted Haggard oh yeah!
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| Posted: Wed May 17, 2006 1:49 pm Post subject: |
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| The Roman Catholic priesthood is really really goy. |
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gypsyfish
Joined: 17 Jan 2003
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Thu May 18, 2006 3:42 am Post subject: |
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They should be happy. At least they're looking for adults.
The child molesting priests have caused the church a lot of financial problems.
I read that some parishes are now selling clothes to raise money.
Wait for it.
Wait for it.
Boy's pants are half off. |
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Hollywoodaction
Joined: 02 Jul 2004
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| Posted: Thu May 18, 2006 4:54 am Post subject: |
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| Bah, lots of catholic priests have sex, gay or straight. It's really not that big of a deal. Popes used to be married a long time ago and, more recently, Pope Pius XII had a very close relationship with a nun. Heck, I know someone who was born when his dad was still the parish priest and his mom was the maid (they've been married for 30 years). |
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DanielInKorea
Joined: 28 Nov 2005
Location: Not a small village
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| Posted: Thu May 18, 2006 8:57 am Post subject: |
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| Satori wrote: |
| I'm not hopeful. I've always maintained that the Catholic Church is one of the more profound forces for evil on the planet. |
This may be the one subject we actually agree on, Satori... |
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Satori
Joined: 09 Dec 2005
Location: Above it all
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| Posted: Thu May 18, 2006 9:26 am Post subject: |
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What! No one has come in to lambast me to the high heavens for my heavy handed remark? Do we have no Catholics or Catholic supporters here? I've got all my stuff ready to go!  |
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gypsyfish
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| Posted: Thu May 18, 2006 3:48 pm Post subject: |
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| Satori wrote: |
| What! No one has come in to lambast me to the high heavens for my heavy handed remark? Do we have no Catholics or Catholic supporters here? I've got all my stuff ready to go! |
As you can see from my previous post, I'm no supporter of the Catholic Church, but aren't you trolling here? |
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The Man known as The Man
Joined: 29 Mar 2003
Location: 3 cheers for Ted Haggard oh yeah!
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| Posted: Sat May 20, 2006 10:32 am Post subject: |
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| canuckistan wrote: |
| Imagine an openly gay pope |
They are all really gay-gayer than Svend Robinson, loser |
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Hater Depot
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daskalos
Joined: 19 May 2006
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| Posted: Sun May 21, 2006 5:49 pm Post subject: |
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| No surprise at all about the Vatican priest, but quite surprising that the aide to England's head Catlholic would choose to *beep* himself out like that. Kind of like a Jew doing PR for the Third Reich. Yuck. |
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Satori
Joined: 09 Dec 2005
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| Posted: Sun May 21, 2006 8:41 pm Post subject: |
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| gypsyfish wrote: |
| Satori wrote: |
| What! No one has come in to lambast me to the high heavens for my heavy handed remark? Do we have no Catholics or Catholic supporters here? I've got all my stuff ready to go! |
As you can see from my previous post, I'm no supporter of the Catholic Church, but aren't you trolling here? |
If you call encouraging debate trolling then I guess yes, I'm trolling. But sinse I didn't start the thread and I'm resonding to the material in the thread, trolling is a bit of a stretch. |
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