At least I waited to print this one.
But now that CNA has it:
A priest of the Diocese of Springfield is on leave after he dialed 911 asking for help getting out of handcuffs – a call that has been replayed across the internet.
Diocesan spokeswoman Kathie Sass told CNA Jan. 10 that Father Tom Donovan, pastor of St. Aloysius Church in Springfield, approached Bishop Thomas Paprocki about the incident prior to Christmas and before it attracted media attention.
Sass said the priest “asked for help and was granted leave to deal with personal issues.” She added that he is “away from the parish.”
Sass told CNA that the police gave assistance to the priest. The police report indicated that there was no crime, she said.
Police said the priest was wearing an orange jumpsuit and a mask with a gag in his mouth, the St. Louis NBC affiliate KSDK reports. - CNA
Fr. Donovan
As long as they've been celibate
for at least three years before ordination,
I'm told it's okay to ordain them.
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I read this quite awhile ago. It fell into the cringing TMI category and took my mind to places it really didn't want to go.
ReplyDeletePriests are sinners too.
ReplyDeleteAdrienne - I had heard about it too. Did ya hear the one about the guy driving naked and drunk in Illinois? These all sound like bar jokes.
ReplyDeleteAl, We don't know that he committed a sin.
ReplyDeleteTrue. But your post sure does imply it.
DeleteOh my. How embarassing.
ReplyDeleteWhat could he have been thinking?
Whatever it was, he surely learned a lesson or two.
Aloysius, How unfortunate that you misunderstand me, as I suspect most readers do. My problem isn't with the priest's activities and performances, no, it is about admitting certain types to seminary and ordination. I will soon be writing about a priest who exhibited warning signs of behavior unbecoming a priest, and then hopefully you all may understand me better.
ReplyDeleteThere are impediments to ordination from which some candidates shouldn't be so freely
dispensed...
Oh. And I should have added, especially if they have problems with drink and/or are on medication to alleviate symptoms of mental disorders, from depression to OCD.
ReplyDeleteThis stuff is kind of mystifying to me. All this vaunted seminary formation/testing etc. and they can't do any better?
ReplyDeleteAlthough from what I gather the main purpose of it through the 80s was to make sure you were for women's ordination, but not too outspoken about it.