you are a gay male prostitute!
alright, they are not going to make babies, so it's not for contraception.
and anything to stop the spread of disease is good.
but i find it supreme irony that guys who wear dresses and bugger altar boys will OK condom use.
i suppose when the church recognizes gay hookers it's a start to recognizing the REAL world outside the Vatican. but what about female hookers? they spread disease too.
Boston Herald:
Pope Benedict XVI’s bombshell declaration condoning condoms for gay prostitutes to prevent HIV sparked a fierce debate yesterday among Catholics and worries that the pontiff put the church on a slippery slope.
“The pope has suddenly created an exception,’’ said Peter Borre, 72, a Boston Catholic activist. “So the question is going to come up: What about an exception for abortion, an exception on homosexuality?’’
Benedict, in comments published in a book by a German journalist due out Tuesday, said that for male prostitutes — for whom contraception isn’t the central issue — condoms are not a moral solution. But he said they could be justified to reduce the risk of infection.
“There may be a basis in the case of some individuals, as perhaps when a male prostitute uses a condom, where this can be a first step in the direction of a moralization, a first assumption of responsibility,” Benedict said.
He called it “a first step in a movement toward a different way, a more human way of living sexuality.”
Church teaching opposes artificial contraception, although there is no policy on condoms and HIV.
C.J. Doyle, executive director of the conservative Catholic Action League, was in shock over Benedict’s reported statements and said he’ll seek a clarification.
“The Catholic Church has always and everywhere opposed every form of contraception and continues to do so and there is no evidence that has changed,” Doyle said. “It’s not a change in Church doctrine.”
Jesus. More bullshit from the Catholic church. The church has such unrealistic expectations that I'm surprised there are any practicing Catholics left.
I'm gonna do my best to offend a whole group of morons that make up the Catholic Church.
ANYONE who even affiliates themselves with the CC at this point are a bunch of fucking idiots.
People worship this fucktard (pope) like he is actually God. He's a fucking Mortal man people...get a fucking clue. It took the late John Paul (yeah...the one who everybody thinks deserves sainthood) months and months to even speak out against the priests that were raping and molesting our precious little ones.
Who the hell is the pope to say it's OK for a certain group of people to wear condoms...who the hell is the pope to say it's OK to eat meat on Fridays. These morons don't even encourage their flock to bring their bibles to church...why, because if the idiots actually opened up their bibles, then they might learn they they have been getting fucked all along.
Does the pope saying it's OK for fags to wear condoms guarantee them a place in Heaven. My eyes can't even roll that far back into my head.
Thanks for posting this LC...I've been waiting all week for something to vent about.
I hope I offended every single Catholic on this board. You need to be offended, and then you need to do some research on how EVIL the CC really is and start thinking for yourselves. And....you need to be ashamed that you even still attend a church that condons these fucking Rapists.
The Pope is trying to prevent his priests from getting V.D. from the altar boys? All this shit might not have happened if the priests were allowed to get married and live life like other people. Crazy bastards.
This comment by the Pope is what you get when you try to square away morals based upon human well-being in the known world, where the spreading of misery through aids can be helped via condoms ... with morals based upon archaic superstitious bullshit.
Any Masons on here I can offend? Because you can't really speak about the Catholic Church and their crazy without bringing in some Masonic crazy. Am I right? (My dad would have beat my ass for this post. I feel a little guilty.)
Religion is for the masses. Always has been, always will be. You would think that would have changed when the masses learned to read, but it didn't. I never understood that. If you can read and write, why not make your own religion? Everybody can be their own Joseph Smith.
(03-15-2013, 07:12 PM)aussiefriend Wrote: You see Duchess, I have set up a thread to discuss something and this troll is behaving just like Riotgear did.
the pope has clarified his stance to include females and transsexuals as well as gay male hookers.
it seems it was a language discrepancy with a German author.
so if you're a guy wearing a dress and slingbacks, or a butch female, and you're selling your services, it's OK with the vatican if you protect the johns from viruses. however, you ARE allowed/encouraged to have good catholic babies.
Philadelphia (CNN) – Twenty-one priests have been placed on administrative leave following a review of suspected child sexual abuse by members of the Catholic Church in Philadelphia, according to a statement from the city's archbishop.
The church investigated 37 priests identified in a grand jury report as remaining in "active ministry with credible allegations of child sexual abuse," according to Cardinal Justin Rigali.
In addition to the 21 announced Tuesday, three other priests have already been placed on administrative leave after the report was released in February, Rigali said.
Five others would have been subject to administrative leave, he added, but one was already on leave and two others are considered "incapacitated" and have not been in active ministry. Two other priests no longer serve in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, but the church has "notified the superiors of their religious orders and the bishops of the dioceses where they are residing," he said.
"I want to be clear: These administrative leaves are interim measures," Rigali said in a written statement. "They are not in any way final determinations or judgments."
The cardinal added that he wished "to express again my sorrow for the sexual abuse of minors committed by any members of the church, especially clergy."
"I am truly sorry for the harm done to the victims of sexual abuse, as well as to the members of our community who suffer as a result of this great evil and crime," he said.
In February, three Philadelphia priests and a parochial school teacher were charged with raping and assaulting boys in their care, while a former official with the Philadelphia Archdiocese was accused of allowing the abusive priests to have access to children, the city's district attorney's office said.
CNN Senior Vatican Analyst John Allen said the charges against the former church official appeared to be unprecedented and could have national implications.
"This is apparently the first time that a Catholic leader has been charged criminally for the cover-up as opposed to the abuse itself," he said. "It sends a shot across the bow for bishops and other diocesan officials in other parts of the country, who have to wonder now if they've got criminal exposure, too."
Edward Avery, 68, and Charles Engelhardt, 64, were charged with allegedly assaulting a 10-year-old boy at St. Jerome Parish from 1998 to 1999.
Bernard Shero, 48, a teacher in the school, is charged with allegedly assaulting the same boy there in 2000, Philadelphia District Attorney Seth Williams said at a press conference in February.
James Brennan, another priest, is accused of assaulting a different boy, a 14-year-old, in 1996.
Monsignor William Lynn, who served as the secretary for clergy for the then-Philadelphia Archbishop Anthony Bevilacqua, was charged with two counts of endangering the welfare of a child in connection with the alleged assaults, Williams said.
From 1992 until 2004, Lynn was responsible for investigating reports that priests had sexually abused children, the district attorney's office said.
The grand jury found that Lynn, 60, endangered children, including the alleged victims of those charged last week, by knowingly allowing dangerous priests to continue in the ministry in roles in which they had access to kids.
Avery, Engelhardt and Shero were charged with rape, indecent sexual assault and other criminal counts following the results of the grand jury investigation of clergy sexual abuse, Williams said. The names of the alleged victims, who are now in their 20s, have not been publicly released.
The grand jury believed that more than 30 priests remained in ministry in Pennsylvania despite solid, credible allegations of abuse, according to Williams.
Williams on Tuesday said Rigali's actions "are as commendable as they are unprecedented."
"Going forward, in cases involving allegations of abuse by clergy, my office and the Philadelphia police will investigate, and where appropriate we will charge and prosecute. I intend to use the resources of this office to the greatest extent possible to protect the children of Philadelphia," Williams said in a statement.
"In those cases where allegations are not prosecutable because of the statute of limitations or some other reason, we encourage the Archdiocese to take the necessary and proper steps to protect the children for whom they are responsible, as they have done here."
Left to right, from top: Edward Avery, James Brennan, Charles Engelhardt, William Lynn and Bernard Shero were charged in connection with sex abuse against minors.
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