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Monthly Archives: February 2007
Lent — Laugh or Cry
Give Guilt Top Priority, Pope Asks Priests Vatican, Feb. 20, 2007 (NadirNews.com) – At an Ash Wednesday meeting with confessors, Pope Benedict XVI remarked on how the “best racket in the business” is realized in the sacrament of Penance. The Holy Father was speaking to the confessors of the Roman basilica at a Lenten pep … More…
Posted in Heretic's Pulpit, Pop Cult, Priests of Darkness, Roman Circus
Tagged catholic church, comedy, confessional, inquisition, lent, parody, penance, ratzinger, sacraments, sin, up, vatican
The Failure of the Sacraments
There’s an elephant quietly sitting in the nave that everyone on all sides of the clergy sex abuse crisis have been diligently ignoring, even the victims themselves. No clergy or even would-be reformers have really remarked on it yet, although it should be more obvious with each and every sad story. More importantly, it is … More…
Posted in Heretic's Pulpit, Priests of Darkness, Roman Circus
Tagged catholicism, clergy sex abuse, clerical, confessional, crisis, forgiveness, reform, sacraments, sin, theology