timmyg

ok a little back story first...
i was raised roman catholic
i never really bought into it, but it was forced on me by my parents the same way it forced on them by their parents, and forced on them by their parents, and so on... thus how most religions survive
i have since denounced my catholic faith after i graduated high school and left home and could be a free thinker without having to be prosecuted for not keeping the religion of the family

anyways, i was born in 1985 and baptized shortly after (not my choice)
so now my mother, who by the way she is a total churchy and very involved in the local church, tells me that the priest who baptised me , Edward Pipala, was convicted of some sort of pedophilia

Here's a couple links on the case:
http://www.rickross.com/reference/clergy/clergy49.html
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpag...C0A9629582 60
so i think this past january he was sentenced to 8 years in prison
hooray! justice!

and here's one of my favorite quotes from the douche:
"It was difficult for me at first to believe that I was that sick, then I finally surrendered to that reality, I became very angry with God. Why did he afflict me with this sickness and why did he allow me to hurt others with it?"

so basically what he got caught doing was making a youth group called "the hole" for catholic adolescents, then gave them alcohol, annnnnd you can use your imagination for the rest

now here's my issues:
although i really don't care because i don't give a **** about catholicism anymore and he didn't of course molest me personally, should i be angry about this?

also, i was wondering if this in anyway nullifies my baptism in the eyes of the church? because that might make me glad to know that i was never really officially baptized
but since i don't believe in the baptism act as having any real significance it really doesn't matter
this is more of a personal matter regarding me feeling better because catholics won't consider me ever actually legitimately belonging to their church that i never really wanted to belong to anyway
if that makes any sense

duck

You weren't personally violated, and have walked away from the church. My advice is to just file this as another reason to no longer belong, and walk on with your life.

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AB517

I agree with Duck.

We let child molesters go every day and we are not priest.
We are no better than the church in many ways.

it is done in

Politics
schools
Police
Fire
everyware

Just move onward and upward in your growth.

xexon

Nothing in this world attaches itself to you.

You reach out for what you want to carry with you.

To be able to travel through life with very little baggage is the way to go if you can manage it. Otherwise, your fate is one of dragging a full pack through life.

You must learn to let things go.

To move quickly is an advantage in life.


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