PopeWatch: Trolling
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
“What do we learn from this? In my eyes, one thing or two:
The first is that this idea of ‘bishops who falls in lurv and has to, has to leave his job’ is just not there. This here is purest stupidity and lust nourished straight by some demon.
The second is that the legend of the good girl who falls in love with the bishops and has to, has to pursue her romantic dream, because lurv, is another legend. Good girls leave men of God alone.
The third is that these people live in a deeply dysfunctional mind space. To think that this was the same guy to tried to let his betrayal look good tells you everything you need to know about the amount of self-deception going on there.
Quos Deus perdere vult, dementat prius (‘Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first deprives of reason’), we say in the Beautiful Country. This one here seems a textbook example.”
https://mundabor.wordpress.com/2021/09/06/quos-deus-perdere-vult-dementat-prius-making-whoopee-boy-bishop-edition
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whom_the_gods_would_destroy
A Bishop wakes up one day and declares he has fallen “in love” and so decides to leave the priesthood and get married. As if. The rot in his heart was probably there his pre-priesthood days. The fact they don’t scrutinise potential clergy sufficiently before the allow them to join a seminary is the bigger-picture real issue here.
Another example? From 2013:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2519089/Thomas-Williams-wed-Elizabeth-Lev-Glendon-daughter-Pope-Francis-adviser.html
… and:
https://www.foxnews.com/media/jonathan-morris-announces-engagement
“Morris said Pope Francis had ‘recognized that it [the priesthood] just wasn’t the right thing for me. And he said not only go forward, free from that obligation of your priestly vows, but be an active voice for the church as a lay person, and that’s what I’m going to do.’
He described his personal journey as ‘very strange, but it’s been beautiful.’ “
I have less problem with LCs like Williams and Morris getting laicized. Given the unrelenting, high-pressure sales pitch that Maciel, Inc. constantly engages in to get vocations, I suspect there are more than a few men in their shoes.
The LCs have no business existing at all.
Well, she used to be a clinical psychologist, so at least she’s moved into a more respectable profession.
(I demand Sam the Eagle for this comment!)
Good one, Pinky!
In my former line of work, I frequently dealt with absurd and crazy situations. After about 20 years [I’m dense] of it, I stopped saying, “Now, I’ve seen everything.”
N.B., ‘caballo’ is Spanish for horse. And, ‘asno’ is Sp. ass/donkey.
It’s sick out there. And, it’s getting sicker.