Bad Form, priest. Bad Form

So an Australian Roman Catholic Priest has revealed a secret.
He is married.
He has been secretly living a double life--for a while.

Yep. I have a glass house.
And, yep. I am going to toss a stone.

Not that he got married--though there is something I would question as to why he waited so long to finally commit-not very fair to the woman or the church.
But that's not my stone.

CNN reported that the majority of parishioners and whoever else they could get to share an opinion had decided that priests should be permitted to marry.
Thanks for that authoritative and well-researched insight CNN.
But that's not my stone.

The priest piled it on.
***warning this is the stone***
He needed to divert the pressure.
He needed a spin.
So he played the celibacy/pedophilia/i'm a healthy priest card.
Oh, and there is one more point--he's going to write a book exposing all the problems of the church and all the double lives that the majority of the priests are living.

Why not just go be with your wife?  Do you really need to justify your choice by hiding behind the sins of others?

Bad form priest, bad form.

Leaving the Church

A couple of weeks ago I received a phone call asking me what I thought about the latest news concerning an ex roman priest who wrote a book.  He was making his way on the morning news shows telling everyone about his life, his love, his leaving Rome and going to England. 

                I have no problem with a guy leaving—remember, I have a glass house.

                I have no problem with a guy wrestling with love and celibacy and all that—I know it all too well

                I even have no problem with a guy who decides to go over to the cousin’s house and hang—I also became an Episcopal priest when I left and felt as though my family and I had no home.

                However, I do have a problem with the argument he is using—and sadly enough I also used it at one time.  It went something like this:

1.       Rome shouldn’t be a voice of morality.  (Men with pointy hats ought to stay out of the bedroom)

2.       Did you know that there was a time when the Popes had mistresses and children?  So why should the church now require celibacy of its clergy?

                Let me get this straight--"I don’t want to follow (or belong to) the Roman Catholic Church when it comes to some things but I will appeal to that same Church's history when it did something in the past that I agree with and fits my life today. " ??

                Really?