Peter’s Pence has been used to invest in real estate. Peter’s Pence has been used to invest in a movie. Peter’s Pence has been used to fill financial gaps in running the Vatican. A reported 10% has been used for the ‘poor’. Poor being a relative term. Here is an idea and I’m just spit balling here, do the poor in Spirit qualify? How about the raped and abused by clergy, are they a papal concern that would merit money from the Peter’s Pence collection? How about the plethora of people who have left the Church because of the raped and abused by clergy and the way it has not been handled by the men of the Church? Everyone and everything but the people who hurt seem to quallify.
A close friend of mine teaches English Literature at a local university. She had her students read, “Dr. Faustus“, the students did not like it because, most of them do not believe in God. (At least that is what they say.) So why is the Church chasing people who do believe in God away by:
1. Not acting in a godly fashion. or 2. Acting swiftly to fix and NOT hide the problem.
So many of the younger generation is already lost to the Church. So many of their parents have been lost by poor catechesis. Scandal after scandal does not help the cause of the Church and it most definitely does not encourage a belief in God. So what is the answer??? FIX IT! (Shouted at the top of my lungs.) Get you shit in a pile. Get rid of the thieves. Get rid of the sexually active. Get rid of the non-believers. Stop trying to protect your own ass’. Trust in God.
I’m so tired of writing the same things over and over. I shouldn’t have to.
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