As Mel Gibson and Lindsay Lohan have repeatedly demonstrated, it’s hard to look your best in a mug shot. Even so, I could see from the photograph in the paper that the years hadn’t been kind to the man whom I had last seen decades ago in the seminary. Now an ordained priest and pastor, he had just been arrested for stealing money from his parish. Tons of it. Enough to suppo (...)
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MY SEMINARY CLASSMATE, THE EMBEZZLER
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Dear Father Nullius,
There are not too few of us disenchanted with the church that ordained us. It has been hard for many of us to experience the shame that has befallebn us and the betrayal of the men supposedly given the task of "overseeing" the honesty and integrity of the gospel. Good men can fall beneath the cross of both scandal and betrayal and there are many, many living double lives only trying to survive into old age.
fr. Joe Sanches