Did you miss the thread title - '"Be gay die early" says Catholic bishop'. My sentiments exactly.
Did you miss the thread title - '"Be gay die early" says Catholic bishop'. My sentiments exactly.
The Cardinal has apologized and admitted that his conduct fell below the standards expected of him, but doesn't include telling the truth and not being a total hypocrite in those standards of conduct. No surprise there, really.
The Guardian (http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/ma ... t-catholic) now reports that the Cardinal's relationship with the former priest who turned him in are both "long-standing" and "physical," and goes back more than 30 years. The former priest and the three serving priests are described as being "part of an inner circle."
The hypocrisy is staggering.
Just thought I would update this thread which I started waaaaaaaay back:
Former winner of the "Bigot of the Year" award and still the most senior Roman Catholic in the UK - (still) Cardinal Keith O'Brien - having resigned in disgrace amidst a flurry of allegations that he forced his sexual attentions on at least 4 fellow clergymen - has now been ordered by the Vatican to leave the Country.
Instead of seeing out his days comfortably esconced in an East Lothian grace and favour cottage (highly appropriate) - it appears that he is to be exiled. It has not been revealed where he is being sent but hopefully it won't be the Virgin Islands as none of the male ones would be safe.
http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/h...tican.20990799
Another dodgy ex-pat for Pattaya, perhaps?
Hitchhiking's more of a challenge on the road less travelled.
I do believe there was once a defrocked Priest who ran a Pattaya boy gogo bar - so nothing would surprise me
"ex-roman catholic priest!" --- That why the Excellency was so mad.
As far as I know - and I was quite well acquainted with him - he had not actually been defrocked but had chosen to leave the UK before matters might have got that far... He was, incidentally, pretty hopeless at running the bar.Originally Posted by scottish-guy
"The fruits of peace and tranquility... are the greatest goods... while those of its opposite, strife, are unbearable evils. Hence we ought to wish for peace, to seek it if we do not already have it, to conserve it once it is attained, and to repel with all our strength the strife which is opposed to it. To this end individual[s]... and in even greater degree groups and communities are obliged to help one another... from the bond or law of human society." [Marsilio dei Mainardini (c.1275-1342), Defensor Pacis]
Are we talking about the same one?
Wasn't it directly across the main road from BT - up a side-soi - towards the Welcome Plaza?
He had not also been involved in some kind of armed robbery too?
LOL - what a place!!
Doesn't remind me of mine!
There must have been TWO priests running Pattaya gay bars, then... Mind you, that's not so surprising when you think about it!
"The fruits of peace and tranquility... are the greatest goods... while those of its opposite, strife, are unbearable evils. Hence we ought to wish for peace, to seek it if we do not already have it, to conserve it once it is attained, and to repel with all our strength the strife which is opposed to it. To this end individual[s]... and in even greater degree groups and communities are obliged to help one another... from the bond or law of human society." [Marsilio dei Mainardini (c.1275-1342), Defensor Pacis]
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