Are priests who abuse children gay

In addition to the many practical reasons for this discipline — it was supposed to discourage nepotism — the celibate lifestyle allowed priests to be more independent and available. This ideal also called diocesan priests to live out the same witness as their brothers in monastic life.

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Thank you in advance! Or make your donation by check : CatholicPhilly. Is same sex attraction intrinsically disordered? If you deny that there is an intrinsic disorder in same sex attraction, as I am guessing he does, then despite the evidence that there is a disproportionately homosexual indication in the statistic your foregone conclusion is… it must be something other than homosexuality because there is nothing wrong with homosexuality.

Robben eventually was defrocked from the Christian order, and apparently then started his own. Until last year, when its paperwork expired, the group was registered with Missouri officials as the Syrian Orthodox Exarchate. Funke refused comment when approached by an AP reporter, and Robben did not respond to requests for comment.