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Peregrine Took

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22. My parents were faithful Catholics (RIP) but they never put the clergy
Thu Jul 29, 2021, 06:25 PM
Jul 2021

on pedestals.

We were taught to be respectful and polite but we picked up the "keep your distance" attitude of my folks and never doted on them or wanted to hang around them, personally, as some people did.

I feel the same way now when I see women my age running up to embrace a priest and make much over them. With me its always, "Hi Father" and that's pretty much it

My dad used to work in our parish as a maintenance man and the pastor (big, fairly well to do parish) worked those guys to death with little pay even though they all had families. 6 days a week, long hours. No union.

My mom was an orphan and was sent to work in a convent when she was 14 as a scullery maid. One of her jobs was (and her in a new country and right off the farm) to make deliveries on foot in fog bound London. She had to hold onto the buildings to try to find her way. Also, she and her cousin (also orphaned) had the jobs of scrubbing down the steps and sidewalk early every morning on their hands and knees with wire scrub brushes - and they had hard task masters.

I guess that explains their lack of personal attachment to the clergy, parish and schools, that were in our lives at that time.

Now...about this communion for Democrats underpants Jul 2021 #1
There are literally hundreds of pedophile priests Lettuce Be Jul 2021 #2
Exactly. Their inhuman sex rules invite inhuman people. nt SunSeeker Jul 2021 #5
Been going on much longer than the '80s. AngryOldDem Jul 2021 #6
+33. n/t Harker Jul 2021 #7
My assault took place in the early '60s rurallib Jul 2021 #13
I get it AnnetteChaffee Jul 2021 #15
It is not a new phenomena. It has been going on for centuries. olegramps Jul 2021 #19
People who are aware of only their own generation remain forever a child" 2Gingersnaps Jul 2021 #23
"McCarrick was a family friend and began abusing him when he was a boy" left-of-center2012 Jul 2021 #3
What a twisted fuck! apnu Jul 2021 #16
And to think our prisons are full of non violent pot offenders. 2Gingersnaps Jul 2021 #24
GOOD. AngryOldDem Jul 2021 #4
So we have a deal? Marcuse Jul 2021 #8
Let's see the NY Times' hyper-Catholic Ross Douthat do a column about THIS! Paladin Jul 2021 #9
This message was self-deleted by its author Paladin Jul 2021 #10
Kill him keithsw Jul 2021 #11
My high school, St. Mary's, changed its name to honor him. Cornus Jul 2021 #12
We had a few elementary schools in my diocese that were named for a bishop who rurallib Jul 2021 #14
Now there is some goddamn blasphemy. 2Gingersnaps Jul 2021 #25
Pass the Plate for Pedophiles Skittles Jul 2021 #17
The Catholic Church, the Southern Baptists, the Boy Scouts, the Olympics. . . pnwmom Jul 2021 #18
That is where they find their victims. olegramps Jul 2021 #20
I am not Catholic. TNNurse Jul 2021 #21
My parents were faithful Catholics (RIP) but they never put the clergy Peregrine Took Jul 2021 #22
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