It must be hard to hear confessions with a cock in your mouth.

@1 actually that is the cream - the "plat de résistance" - hearing your inmate beg forgiveness from you - for the sin of oral sexual congress with another man while you inflict said congress upon him simultaneously.

The power to cause the sin and the power to absolve the sin all while getting to suck cock.

Did the church ever get around to excommunicating Hitler? Needless to say I wouldn't be holding my breath for any action taken against this guy

As you may know, November is a busy time for Father Roy Bourgeois. His organization, SOA Watch, just wrapped up the annual protest to close the School of Assassins and commemorate the 1989 massacre at the Universidad Centroamerican in El Salvador. Why am I bringing him up here? Despite all this good work, the Catholic Church has excommunidated him for supporting the ordination of a woman.

@2 Kinky! That's so kinky, even I didn't think of it!

They'll just say they're prisoners and either are lying to make the poor priest look bad, or if they admit it happened that they clearly deserved it.

@6 And the video taken with the cameras hidden in the priest's office by investigators? Who are you going to believe, the Church or your lying eyes?

Iono. This guy had sex with grown men. Yes, it was an enormous abuse of power, so perhaps that counts for something, but I'm afraid it's still only rape of kids that's a sacrament. So he'll probably get defrocked. But not excommunicated no. This is just a sin, not a grievous one.

Tough call. It's sex with grown men so they could defrock him for being "gay". Being gay is still a sin. Sex with kids is a job requirement.

This is dreadful. One would have though that the Church would have learned to deal harshly with molesters in 2002 when the big molestation scandals broke. The Church has always been slow to learn.

@10 a lot of Catholics see this is another example of hypocritical and unethical behavior by an instituition trapped in its self-generated web of arrogance, deceipt, lies, and corruption. Some of us still hope that the small amount of good the church's members do can continue while the heirarchy self-immolates and new thinking and governance can take over. I know, it probably wont happen...the best i hope for is that an 'american' catholic church can evolve quikly breaking free from roman dictates...maybe bankruptcy and/or legal troubles and lawsuits can force the business side of the church to create an entity in the US separate from Rome, and then the belief system evolve separately from Rome, kinda like other sects (Coptic) who have different rules, like allowing married clergy.

@2 Well, in your defense, you are a peabrain.

@I3 I think you meant @3.

@10: HomoSecularAtheist is redundant. By definition, to be an atheist (small "a", that's not a proper title) is to be secular, and of course we're all homos by extension, naturally.

Also, I wasn't aware that MTV was so hateful towards gays. But who the hell watches The Real World anymore anyway (or MTV, for that matter), other than those stuck in a time warp? So I guess it wouldn't matter to anyone other than you and the Catholic Church.

Anyway, in regards to this post:

Once this guy is formally charged, let's hope he gets thrown back into the same prison. I can't think of a more fitting punishment.

*I meant convicted, not charged.

#9 - Sorry to be pedantic, but being gay is not a sin in the eyes of the Church. Acting on sexual impulses - gay or straight - outside of the sacrament of marriage is what is sinful.

@10: Fashion industry still alive and well.

And the victims in this case were African refugees. These monsters always attack people who are defenseless. Sickening.