I don't think many who rip apart these traditional priests and bishops can promise those things. They NEED those to function, because they have rancor, agenda, and not the truth.
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Does anyone know what a proper course of action for the faithful would be when we observe behavior in our clergy that is at best, inappropriate and at worst, indicative of mental illness? Remember we are dealing with priests/bishops who
1. Forgot their vow of poverty and buy/sell real estate out from under the people who paid for it;
2. Believe the vow of chastity is violated only if someone can "prove it"; and
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Are incapable of obedience to anyone. I don't want to rip anybody apart, and certainly not a priest. If Benedict is not a true pope because a pope cannot be a heretic, what are we to think of a priest who makes himself his own pope?
If you believe we should be quiet about it and mind our own business, then I assume it would follow that you believe that the victim of any crime by a priest shoudl remain silent, simply because he is a priest.
Following that, if you believe that we must turn a blind eye to anything unseemly done by our clergy, then shouldn't you be back at your local Novus Ordo parish. After all, you are not allowed to look where there is scandal.
I am not posting this to start an argument (Bazz has me on ignore and wouldn't provide any insight anyway); I just figure there must be more to the reasoning than "we must be quiet becaue they are priests."