Gotta love the Catholic Church

[Luna]

Father Riccardo Seppia has been working with the Pope on reforms on responses to sex abuse cases. 

He's been arrested.  Pedophilia and drug charges.

You can't make this shit up.

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2072613,00.html?xid=rss-world

[LMNO]

"Look for needy boys who have family issues."

[Luna]

"Look for needy boys who have family issues."

Yeah, I saw that.  You don't want to know what I'd like to do to people who'd do something like this.

[AFK]

Cover them in honey and drop them in the middle of a fly infested wasteland? 

[Slyph]

Pederasty, Classical Antiquities, Hooded and robed monks, Eccelestial hereldry. I regard the whole Catholic church as basically a very militant and hardcore SCA splinter.

[Luna]

Pederasty, Classical Antiquities, Hooded and robed monks, Eccelestial hereldry. I regard the whole Catholic church as basically a very militant and hardcore SCA splinter.

Funny...  In all my years in the SCA, one of the fastest ways to find yourself on the wrong end of a stick was to make a move on one of the kids.

[Slyph]

Hence radical splinter.

[P3nT4gR4m]

The catholic priest formula:

Physically normal (albeit extremely gullible/mentally retarded) male + vow of celibacy = what the fuck did you think would happen

[Adios]

What? Don't they just want to put their Universal Joint into the rear end?



Horrible reference.
The Universal Catholic Church considers itself to be part of the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church and to be both Catholic and Liberal.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Catholic_Church

[Kai]

What? Don't they just want to put their Universal Joint into the rear end?



Horrible reference.
The Universal Catholic Church considers itself to be part of the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church and to be both Catholic and Liberal.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Catholic_Church

Yeah, I've read up on that before. It's like catholicism, without any of the vileness. Or not more than any other religion, I guess. They ordain women, treat the GLBTs as equal, allow priests to marry, and well, here's the FAQ: http://www.universalcatholic.org/about.html

[Kai]

Do you ordain women?

Yes. Gender is not an impediment to ordination at any level. Both women and men can be ordained as cleric, doorkeeper, reader, exorcist, acolyte, subdeacon, deacon, priest, and bishop.

Someone needs to write some supernatural fiction with a UCC female exorcist, STAT!

[Cain]

A recent exorcism flick (which wasn't very good) actually had a female exorcist.  Well, a female being trained in exorcism, alongside the main character.  They were old school Catholics though (not to be confused with Old Catholics)

[Kai]

A recent exorcism flick (which wasn't very good) actually had a female exorcist.  Well, a female being trained in exorcism, alongside the main character.  They were old school Catholics though (not to be confused with Old Catholics)

I just think a butch lesbian ordained as both a UCC exorcist and priest would make a good main character for a story. Or I'd read it, at least.

And yeah, since the Roman Catholic Church overshadows the rest, I often forget about the many split off catholic denominations.

[BabylonHoruv]

What? Don't they just want to put their Universal Joint into the rear end?



Horrible reference.
The Universal Catholic Church considers itself to be part of the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church and to be both Catholic and Liberal.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Catholic_Church

Yeah, I've read up on that before. It's like catholicism, without any of the vileness. Or not more than any other religion, I guess. They ordain women, treat the GLBTs as equal, allow priests to marry, and well, here's the FAQ: http://www.universalcatholic.org/about.html

I believe my Godmother is a priest of that.

She's also a butch lesbian, so she fits that character Kai is imagining awfully well.

[Lies]

BURN THE MOTHERCHILD FUCKING VATICAN TO THE GROUND.

IT IS THE ONLY SOLUTION.