Abandoned Altars

An interesting list of my fellow excommunicants from the Associated Press is quoted below. It is a little incomplete. It fails to mention notables such as St. Hippolytus, an early bishop of Rome and the first antipope, although he was reconciled to the current pope after both had been busted by the Romans.

It should be noted that not a single priestly perpetrator or criminal has ever been excommunicated. Most have been willingly laicized at their own request. Even those who have been defrocked against their will, still remain, in essence, priests and Roman Catholics.

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Welcome to my new weblog. This site is for all those unhappy and puzzled Roman Catholics who wonder what went wrong with their church.

I may have some small insight into that to share. Like many abuse survivors and would-be reformers, I have witnessed the institutional Church lie, deny, obfuscate, and squirm, trying to protect and preserve its secrets, its privileges, and its power. And this, I have found to my horror, is nothing new.

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