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Alabama priest who fled to Italy with teen he later married is expected to be defrocked
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So let me get this straight. Get caught fucking a ten year old boy = church covers it up and you keep your priesthood. Marry an adult woman = lose your priesthood? What?
Yes,
Though I will point out that adult woman was likely being groomed while she was a child.
Yeah probably. But my point is the church doesn’t generally care about that part.
She turned 18 in June, and they left to Italy together in July.
You think he met her the same month she turned 18 and then they fell madly in love and fled the country a month later?
Or is it more likely he had been manipulating and grooming a child at the school he used to visit as a priest?
Yes but I don’t think that’s why the church is removing his priesthood. I don’t think they’re allowed to get married.
They didn't get caught.. they confessed and you can't act on a confession..
Though the rule is being changed to fix this loophole
That’s a bullshit rule that the church is using to supersede the law and enables child abuse. Everyone who knows and helps cover it up is complicit and it should be conspiracy to commit child abuse at the very least.
Religious dogma should NEVER be above the law.
The Catholic church is self-governed by Canon Law - its own law that's been around since the collapse of the Roman Empire. For a good portion of this time, Canon Law superseded national laws that applied to people who weren't priests. I think the church still privately believes that only Canon Law matters, and they can basically ignore everyone else. That's why they have protected child abusers, rapists and all other kinds of shit their medieval claptrap says isn't important. They are a bunch of arrogant pricks who believe themselves better than, you know, people who don't abuse those with less power.
Yes, exactly. This guy gets it.
Which is why the rule is being abandoned
Dude, I think it’s a little fucking late to get credit for abandoning this rule, which they have yet to actually even abandon and is probably being used to protect pedophiles AS WE SPEAK.
Naw, Pope Francis is cracking down
The mistake was getting married.