Rough night

It's never a good thing when you get pulled over for DUI while completely naked and holding a laptop. Probably even worse if you're a Catholic priest...

Rev. Peter Petroske, pastor of Sacred Heart Parish, was arrested late Thursday night, according to the Detroit News, and faces charges of disorderly/obscene conduct and operating while intoxicated.

When he was arrested, Petroske was alone in the vehicle with a laptop, according to the Detroit Free Press.

What's all the fuss about? The same thing happened to me the other night. The report doesn't say what website he was looking at, but I'd say it's a pretty safe bet it wasn't Mapquest. 

 

 Catholic Priest Suspended After Alleged DUI In The Nude

Pope Bennie stands up for celibacy

During his Holy Thursday homily this week, Pope Benedict spoke out against Catholics calling for the ordainment of women as priests and those questioning the Church's stance on celibacy...

VATICAN CITY — Pope Benedict XVI has denounced priests who have questioned church teaching on celibacy and ordaining women, saying Thursday they were disobeying his authority to try to impose their own ideas on the church.

The group now claims more than 300 Austrian priests and deacons as well as supporters in other countries, and its influence has grown to such an extent that top Austrian bishops met with Vatican officials in January to discuss how to handle them, Italian news reports said.

So far, neither the Vatican nor the archbishop of Vienna, Cardinal Christoph Schoenborn, have imposed any canonical penalties on them.

Pope denounces dissident priests on celibacy | ajc.com

On one hand, the pope's steadfast opposition to this group is bad for the Catholic Church. Women and married priests would contribute so much and bring back a sense of normalcy, clearly lacking these days. But, on the other hand, if this change did occur, there would be less and less hysterical stories like this...

A Catholic priest in Northern Ireland has found himself in hot water after he accidentally displayed a series of pornographic gay images during a presentation to parents of children preparing to receive First Holy Communion. Father Martin McVeigh projected 16 “indecent images of men” on a projector screen during a March 26 PowerPoint presentation to a group of 26 parents at St. Mary’s School in Pomeroy, Ireland, the BBC reports.

“He was visibly shaken and flustered,” one parent said. “He gave no explanation or apology to the group and bolted out of the room. The coordinator and the teachers then continued with the presentation.”
Irish Priest Accidentally Flashes Gay Porn During First Communion Meeting

Top of the mornin to ya...


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2nd accuser surfaces

Priests are human just like everyone else. It's the way the Catholic Church continues to coverup crimes that baffles people. Now, we're finding out that a second woman had filed a harassment complaint against Father Secondo Casarotto in 2008, only to have it go nowhere...

The woman also contacted the diocese recently to report her allegations, diocesan spokesman Kevin A. Keenan confirmed. The woman told the lawyer and diocesan officials that she previously reported the 2008 incident by calling the Catholic Center and sending a certified letter. The diocese has no record of the letter, Keenan said.

But Monday, a Catholic Center employee told diocesan officials that he remembered handling a call from a woman complaining about Casarotto, Keenan said.

The employee, whom Keenan declined to identify, did not inform diocesan officials of the complaint.

“It didn’t go anywhere. The person got the complaint but didn’t tell anyone at the diocese about the complaint,” Keenan said. “We have procedures in place, and they were not followed in this situation.”

2nd woman accuses ex-pastor of advances

The mistake this woman made was not going to the police when the incident happened. I have a feeling we're going to see more cases like this become public. 99% of the priests I've known have been great people. We've all heard the stories about the other 1%.

I thought the following clip was kind of funny. When exactly did former professional wrestler/governor Jesse Ventura officially become crazy? I used to like his unconventional beliefs until everything became one big conspiracy. Here, he tells the pompous Bill Maher that the Catholic Church should be prosecuted using the federal RICO (organized crime) laws...

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Three local priests removed

The removal of three Catholic priests in recent weeks has sparked a mini-debate on whether the church owes it's local members an explanation. Some say it doesn't. Others, citing the church's' long history of covering up cases of abuse, feel it does...

BUFFALO, NY- Parishioners at St. Anthony of Padua Parish in Buffalo learned over the weekend their longtime priest was removed, but the reason why is still unclear. His is the third unexplained removal of a pastor in the Diocese of Buffalo in recent weeks.

Father Secondo's ouster is the third unexpected removal of a pastor in the Buffalo Diocese in recent weeks. Diocese Spokesperson Kevin Keenan confirms the Rev. Arthur Smith was removed from St. Mary of the Lake Church in Hamburg and Rev. Jospeph Sicari is no longer serving at Sacred Heart Church in Bowmansville. He would not give reasons for either priest's removal. He confirmed the three cases are not related.
Third Unexplained Removal In Recent Weeks | wgrz.com






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Oh God

Awhile ago on this site, I made some comments about a few Catholic priests who I viewed as self-promoters. They were more interested in promoting themselves on the alter than in serving the community. I caught fire and brimstone from some people, yet others agreed with me.

So I was not surprised to hear today that former St. Thomas Aquinas priest Father Art Smith was caught having an affair with a married member of his new congregation. Hey, we're all sinners when it comes right down to it. I wish I had a nickel for every time someone told me about a time Father Art gave them a hard time about something. Not letting someone baptize their kids.... Telling someone they can't have this priest or that priest perform at their wedding at his church.

I remember carrying the collection at St. Agatha's for about a decade (I'm still using some of the money to pay off my car) before I became a pagan. The late Father Snyder used to say the 4PM mass and it was filled with mostly young people. Many of them came over for the mass from St. Thomas's, probably because they could still sleep in. A few of them told me that Father Art had told them, if they didn't stop coming to this church, they would not be able to play on their school's basketball team. If I remember correctly, even St. Thomas's coach attended this mass regularly. It was just typical of the stories going around about Father Art. The power had clearly gone to his head years ago. Some dumb people must have told him how great he was, and he was dumb enough to believe them. People tell me I'm great once i n awhile, and I tell them they must be high on drugs. We all have our flaws, but it annoys me when some misuse a position of power. I'm not the type to say I told you so, but...







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Local priest skips town

The mass is ended. You may sneak into Eastern Europe in peace...

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Illegal use of the hands

A priest who taught at St. Francis High School was arrested in Connecticut for getting too close to one of his under age parishioners. The Franciscan Friars Conventual has suspended Father Michael Miller from all public ministry (must be a new policy)...

BERLIN, CONNECTICUT-A member of the Franciscan Friars, who once taught at St. Francis High School in Athol Springs, is under arrest in Connecticut for alleged misconduct involving a minor.

Father Michael Miller, 41, was charged by the Berlin Police Department with five counts of risk of injury/impairing the morals of a minor, a felony, and one count of criminal attempt to obscenity, a misdemeanor.

Because the case involves a child under the age of 16, the case has been ordered sealed by the court and no other information can be released at this time.

Father Miller taught at St. Francis in 1993 and again from 2000-2003. The Buffalo Diocese learned of the arrest on Tuesday. The diocese, the Franciscan Friars and the high school are unaware of any allegations of misconduct against him during his time at St. Francis.

Priest Who Taught Here Arrested in Connecticut | wgrz.com

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Women priests

A group is in town to protest the excommunication of a Catholic priest, who spoke out in favor of women becoming priests. I can't believe women are still treated like this in the church. Some of the most devout Catholics I've known have been women.

Tradition is one thing. However, one needs only to go back and read the Bible to see how much Jesus of Nazareth entrusted to the women around him. I'm a devout Jehovah's Witness, so the Catholics can do whatever they want. I understand the importance of tradition within the church but I think allowing women to become priests would be a shot in the arm after the recent sex abuse scandals...



During this holy week, I'd like to give a shout out to Judas Iscariot. A name synonymous with trust...

One man caught on a barbed wire fence
One man he resists
One man washed on an empty beach
One man betrayed with a kiss

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Man donates kidney to his pastor

Luis Clay, a local man, donated one of his kidneys to his pastor, Father George Reger. Can this be considered a modern day indulgence? In exchange for the kidney, the priest wrote Clay a letter of recommendation to God.

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Oh snap

A national group comes to Buffalo to protest the transferring of priests accused of sexual abuse by the Catholic Church. As part of a national study of clergy sex abuse in the Catholic Church, diocesan officials in 2004 revealed that 53 clerics in the Buffalo Diocese had been accused since 1950. They moved this guy to India. They used to move priests to neighboring counties. Now, it appears they are moving them to distant continents...