Another Catholic Sex Scandal !
It seems that there are "rogue" clergy in all religions :O(
My question: Is it time for the Catholic Church to get rid of the celibacy rule ?
A gay priest sex scandal has rocked the Catholic Church in Italy after a weekly news magazine released details of a shock investigation it had carried out.
Using hidden cameras, a journalist from Panorama magazine filmed three priests as they attended gay nightspots and had casual sex.
Today there was no immediate comment from the Italian Bishops Conference and the Vatican - which has been rocked by a series of sex scandals involving paedophile priests since the start of the year.
A preview of the Panorama article sent out by email last night added that video footage from the investigation would be made available.
The article describes how the reporter was assisted by a gay 'accomplice' as they 'gate-crashed the wild nights of a number of priests in Rome who live a surprising double-life.'
In it's preview, Panorama added: 'By day they are regular priests, complete with dog collar, but, at night it's off with the cassock as they take their place as perfectly integrated members of the Italian capital's gay scene.'
Panorama described its investigation as 'deeply disturbing' as it detailed how three priests - two Italians and a Frenchman - happily took part in gay events and had casual sex.
The Catholic Church forbids priests to have sex and homosexuality is also seen as a 'sin' .
In 2008 the Vatican issued guidelines which said that any would be trainees should not join if they had 'deep-seated homosexual tendencies'.
In one part of the investigation Panorama said that one priest, named as Carlo, willingly put on his cassock to have sex with the reporter's gay accomplice, adding 'all of which was filmed by the hidden camera'.
The magazine also described how they had attended a Mass which was celebrated by Carlo.
Source: Daily Mail
Karuveli's got a point... though in the modern earth life without sex is deemed impossible and individuals claiming to live without it sound simply corny.
however, the judgmental view of the modern earth citizens don't alter the fact that even today a lot of people avoid sex before or outside marriage.
priests turning to gays or perverts is that specific priests individual decision and its him to blame.
if i had the authority i would definitely say "get married"
is it the god who gave the tendency to be homosexual??
Do you think all the people who lives seperately from their spouses look for others to fulfill gods given gift of sex??(MANY PEOPLE LIVE IN THIS QATAR ITSELF WITH THIER WIVES BACK AT HOME)DO U THINK all those women goes to others for sex??
all people sex urge starts at about age 13...do u think all have to fullfill it before marrige??
THINK THAT THERE ARE PEOPLE LIVING WITHOUT SEX EVEN AFTER MARRIGE TOO..
FOR SOME IT MAY BE IMPOSSIBLE ...BUT FOR SOME EVERYTHING IS POSSIBLE WITH GOD.....( FROM BIBLE )
There was a movie titled "sins" about a mallu priest who was also a psycho!
Hey herbie it's not just a few priests in the cathloic church it was a lot and in many countries from the US to the Philippines to Ireland. So don't come on her and start telling us what is right from wrong. The catholic church has a long history of sexual encounters even in the Vatican when popes and bishops used to smuggle in girls and boys for sex.
If you believe god gave us sexual urges it is wrong to deny them
none of the priests are forced into being a priest...
They all come themselves....
Yes ,it is a very difficult thing to be apriest or a nun.
Yet there are lot of people like that...
Do you all think they come with any other intentions??
Peple will fall sometimes.Even priest may...
If they are not willing with the rules of church,,they dont need to come..to become a priest...
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even if a priest wants to marry ,,they can do it after coming out of the church...There are many people like that....Church doesnt make any problem for them.
Even when we hear about some bad activities of priests.,,,
remember they just form less than 1 % of the total priests.
And the large group is still there,, living for god and helping people in need.
I really wonder how they are able to live such a good life...
Without god in heart nobody can think of others..
and we,,the ordinary people can think of ourselves only
and our needs only ...
In this world of homosexuals,and people running after others spouses and materials ,,,GOD is not ruining the world because of this handful of good people
muslims and christians read the bible ...see the part of Abraham asking god not to ruin Sodom and Gomora, if there are atleast 10 good people there..and god agreed so..
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haha love marisma's comment.
Celibacy is just plain wrong, what do they expect to become? sex is healthy and good with your spouse. who banned it exactly?
How dare you preach about God despite having sex in your life Herbert!!!
@herbert Dsilva i can understand u that u dont like people insulting other and u get offended if others are insulted but what to do we cant change peoples attitude so keep ur comments to ur self.
No more comments.
Is what u r I think. You did'nt understand what I have said. Guess you will never understand even if I go further. So let's leave it at that, you CP-P.
Take back my greetings to you cos u don't deserve it I guess. Anyhow AO (you know what I mean), I'm not bekaar like you. Whoever you are, u r a really BIG A**H*LE.
@herbert Dsilva if a person is god fearing he will marry and have sex with his spouse which will be lawful bcoze preaching has got nothing to do with sex as we preach our religion and ask god for forgiveness and its not possible to have sex 24/7 or preach gods word 24/7.
Herbie Uncle i have greeted you at 09:20am and u r replying me at 12:13pm...? :(
it would have been better if u have not replied me at all....lol
Don't talk like that to Uncle Herbie... he's a senior citizen, please have some respect ;-)
Henceforth please do all the Right Things the Right Way.
lol Herbert Dsilva.. you are pathetic.
" sex has no logic, sex deviates us from God" ROFL
Herbert Dsilva did you ever have sex?
If yes then you should not be explaining religion to me because as per you, "Having sex and at the same time preaching God's word, is not possible" So zip it.
We have 2 choices, either to get married or join the Priesthood. If we choose the latter, we have to forgo sex altogether. That's the way it goes. Get my point?
Having sex and at the same time preaching God's word, is not possible. Don't know how other religions go about this. Not Logic, isn't it? Sex deviates one's mind from GOD. Just for a few, don't spoil the image of priests and don't advice the Church what to do and what not to do.
No need to go further as your name is enough to know what you exactly are. Would'nt like to correspond with people like you who have dirty minds, tongues, etc.
I am not here to judge these priests, I don't know what it's like to remain without sex for so long. If they want to do it with dogs, who am I to judge them as long as there is consent ;)
How you are going to establish consent in such cases maybe a bit tricky though ;o)
Lol! Is that okay also, Lafanga?
flor any sex is better than no sex for these priests.
gay sex, not sex to produce! Lol!
Just let them have sex. God didn't want humans to remain celibate, how will humanity grow if everyone starts "serving" the God and takes the vow of celibacy.
Why does nothing about any religion makes sense :-/
bloody hypocrites!
perhaps. . . effect of global warming + climate change and so people changes c',)
kidding aside, they are still human to have sins
no body is perfect anyway :( sad though
hello FATHER RIZKS how are u?????
Hello Herbie Uncle...Good Morning ! :)
Don't make a joke out of this issue. Just for a few priests who take the wrong path don't think all of them are the same. All the good that they do is not accounted for. So, stay out of this, and hold your tongue and judge for yourself how good a humanbeing you are...... then pass the judgement for others. This message goes out to all who have critisized and given dirty comments on this issue.
Traitors asif. Not just priests , all those religious blabbers for that matter.
priests doesn't deserved to be one! Shame on them!
@arien but they themselves say that adultry is forbidden then how can they have gay sex and so on????
not a tradition. Removing it means throwing away their beliefs. For non-Catholics it will be viewed as "false" doctrine but they will never remove it as celibacy is Catholic doctrine for their priests!
It's just a matter for these Catholics to open their eyes and minds!
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God has created Human Being as the best Creatures on Earth. It is up this Human to live a Human or Animal life :-)
Whats the difference between a man and a Priest...a man can have only one wife...a Priest can have many ;)
asif why would they stick to one, when there are 100 eligible spinsters lazing around them ? :P
If they have a family....they would rob the church to feed their family and try becoming rich.
why doesnt the church allows the priest to marry instead of being gay and commiting adultry????
..."and he dwelt among them"....looks like these priest got the wrong meaning of these words in the Bible :(
I got one real nun mms... beat that!
nasty behaviours,they should not spoil the image,stay away
nasty behaviours,they should not spoil the image,stay away
Thats right. It started off ok but got worse. Went from show and tell to show and feel.....
than spanked by a priest :P
Gotcha... You went to a Ctholic School didn't you ? :O)
I guess the issue with nuns is that very few paedophiles are women so statisically you will find less abusive nuns. However they have traditionally handed out physical abuse to kids taught at their schools....
I really do believe that one of the reasons is that these priests often find themselves in close proximity to young boys who trust them completely, are willing to do their bidding and look upon them as father figures..
This leads to abuse in certain cases..
I really do believe that one of the reasons is that these priests often find themselves in close proximity to young boys who trust them completely, are willing to do their bidding and look upon them as father figures..
This leads to abuse in certain cases..
nuns say Aaah-men everyday!
I have seen some sexy nun videos.
nun on nun action :P
Still, I think the scandal of molesting children is something that would not be addressed by ending the celibacy vow. I often even wonder if some paedophiles enter the church because they think they will have better access to kids and be above reproach. It's disgraceful.
Now that you mention it, I did hear of a nun being reprimanded for doing push-ups in cucumber patch..
Although I don't recall ever hearing of a nun molesting a child. This is paedophilia and not to be equated with priests pr nuns who have sex with consenting adults in my opinion.
What's new.
britexpat, for females, sex is not worth without love and committment...whereas for men, sex has nothing to do with love and committment.
May be because Priests are male and Nuns females :-))
OK.. So answer me this..
Why is it that (as far as we can tell) that Nuns don't get up to naughty things whereas priests do. Surely, it must be to do with strength of faith...
religious beliefs are like political ideologies, if you challenge them, you are thrown out of the party...form your own.
they could see that it is not working for them. But like some other religions, they are adamant about not changing anything, even when the brains God gives them should tell them that they have a crises on their hands. Stubborn old fools who will bring about the worst end for their faith.
brit, and that , obviously, does not quite work.
Look at the Protestants, they do not have that rule, and I have not heard about those to commit crimes as much as the catholics.
lesson never learned
I think the idea behind the celibacy is that you don't have distractions and are completely devoted to serving the Lord..
a dog locked in a cage will be more agressive than the one set free.
Say that to the Pope!
its common sense, if you ask a starved guy to think of god, he will only think of food..
you cant take away a person's basic needs and ask him to work for religion..
Such a stupid rule! Celibacy.....They surely don't want this rule. But they are afraid to speak against tradition.
Catholics need a great purge! May be a person like Rasputin could make that happen!
wonderful!
If it isn't this, its that,,,,and so on.
In the beginning there was a thing, and one thing lead to another...
I never understood why a person has to be celibate to do God's work. I do not believe that God asks for such a thing.
catholic church is not asking anyone to be a priest..people do it on their on wish...
They can come out and marry too if they want...
so why these people stay as a priest and do all these bad things..??
everywhere ,,,, bad things can happen...just be careful about anyone...even a priest...our world is going that way....
its not the mistake of church...its the mistake of each
ones heart....
there are millions who do good...but news comes about bad only...
away from the alter boys and went to adult clubs....
Other than them being priests, its not such a huge problem... if they were anyone else, no one would even give a damn if they frequented these clubs....
I wonder if it's to do with being around altar boys all the time.....
it's an issue of matching the right people to the role.
anything against the natural instincts would lead to distorted thoughts and actions..
its high time the religious think-tanks understand that.
Why did god create so many gays!
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So it seems that they are treating it as a day job ..
The thing is that preisthood is a vocation and one goes into it because it's something they want to do..
qayamat is near
anything to alleviate the problem of gay priests because gay marriage will never be accepted in the Catholic Church and neither will sex outside of marriage.
It's more of an issue of finding people who are suited to the role of being a priest in my opinion.