Not only do you get hundreds of high ranking pervy priests but now we have a 60 year old, high-ranking Vatican priest making advances to a young man and asserting that gay sex was not sinful. Monsignor Tommaso Stenico, 60, is the director of one of the three departments that make up the Congregation for the Clergy, the Vatican “ministry†for the clergy. Mgr Stenico admits inviting a man whom he met on a gay website to his office, across the piazza from Saint Peter’s Basilica, after expressing an attraction to sado-masochism. What he did not know was that the young man was working for a TV investigation on homosexuality among Catholic priests and went to the tryst with a concealed video camera. The footage was shown this month by La 7, the national TV channel. It shows the young man entering the lift to Mgr Stenico’s office and then speaking with the priest in his office. Mgr Stenico asks the man, “Do you like me?†and tells him that he is very good-looking. When the young man expresses fears that having sex would be “a sin in the eyes of the Churchâ€, the priest replies: “I do not feel it would be sinful.†Drawn on the subject of sado-masochistic sex, the monsignor says that these are “inner choices, the psychological basis of a personalityâ€. The young man continues to raise moral and religious objections to actually having sex, until the priest becomes irritated, says that he has no time left and takes him back to the lift. On parting, the Monsignor tells him that he is “really tasty†and that he can telephone him or send him a message. The programme did not identify the priest but his superiors in the Vatican recognised the lift of the Congregation and his office. Father Federico Lombardi, SJ, the Jesuit who is official spokesman for Pope Benedict XVI, said that Mgr Stenico had been suspended from office
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"Not only do you get hundreds of high ranking pervy priests " Name 25 *high ranking pervy priests*, I am all ears... I am not going to press you and demand a list of at least 201... What he has done is despicable, ugly, and beyond understanding... the coverup, if any is even worse. Do you think Catholics, are perfect ? I have ugly news for you... Have you ever heard of perversion OUTSIDE of Catholic church ? I guess not... Yes, it is beyond any understanding when those given the trust abuse it... I will be the last one to defend them... They are human and imperfect, the position of church, when they shielded them from prosecution is despicable... Now, you are sure child abuse and perversion is the monopoly of RCC ? It has NEVER occured anywhere else ? What EXACTLY is your point ? Are you beyond criticism ? Oh, I think I know...
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Christianity is about JESUS CHRIST and HIS teachings, and a CHRISTIAN priest is not JESUS but is still a person a man. To see priest or Christian pastor sin does not render JESUS at fault but the human christian. Let us not loose track of the HOLY TEACHINGS because they never falter, man does. The enemy will try and use all means to decieve believers even the ellect. I see these things as times and incidents for us to gain, how? To persevere and pray for tempted Christians, buy their sins we become holy.
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You can assume that the rule is - do as we say not as we do. Also, this is only one of many people in the Vatican. With the accusations of a few genuine people who really have been molested and the many other who jumped on the bandwagon, this problem has been made much of in the Catholic Church. It is prevelant in al l walks of life. The Church does not want this scandal. For the majority celebasy is the rule. For a few, they temptation is too much. Those few make a big noise when discovered. One cannot judge the policy or leadership of this, or any other, organization by the actions of a few people. Dispite the action of this one man, the policy remains the same - this is not acceptable. Now look at yourself. Never mind what "Leaders" say or do. It should be up to your own standards to accept or reject a choice of intimate partners. You have standards - outside the teachings of an organization that seeks to dominate your life through fear - that you have learned from parents and your friends. You feel that these are standards you adhere to or not based on what your own individual feelings are. It is a personal choice and the rightness of your choice is how you feel about your choice. In the end it is your lief, you have to live it and you have to face the consequences of your choices. The "Church" is made up of people and they make choices as well. Their choice may not be likely your choice. You have asked a tough question. There will be a lot of controversy about the question and all answers. In the end, each person must decide - in this subject - based on their own personal feelings about it.
