What is it with Catholic Priests?

[Asher]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jul/06/catholic-priest-america-church-funds-male-escorts

Catholic priest in America 'stole church funds to pay for male escorts'
Rev Kevin J Gray charged with larceny after archdiocese asked police to investigate missing money

A Roman Catholic priest has been arrested over claims he stole $1.3m (£750,000) in church money over seven years. He allegedly spent it on male escorts, clothing, luxury hotels and restaurants.

Police in Waterbury, Connecticut, said the Rev Kevin J Gray, 64, was charged today with first-degree larceny. Gray is the former pastor at Sacred Heart/Sagrado Corazón parish in Waterbury.

The Hartford archdiocese asked police to investigate last month after it found the priest may have taken more than $1m for personal use.

Gray was Sacred Heart's pastor from January 2003 until April 2010.

Least the boys were of age.

[giblets]

I'd be fine with this if they weren't tax exempt.

[Al B. Sure!]

How do these churches generate so much cash? It's like the Protestant tele-evangelists. People are just giving them vast amounts of money that the churches don't even have any intention on spending for a good purpose.

[giblets]

How do these churches generate so much cash? It's like the Protestant tele-evangelists. People are just giving them vast amounts of money that the churches don't even have any intention on spending for a good purpose.

They've had 2000 years to refine and perfect their scams.

[Al B. Sure!]

A catholic priest is charged with larceny for stealing over $1 million from his parish over 7 years to finance his male escort habit.

Sounds about right.

[DanS]

That's pretty wild. In all of my years, I have never heard of such a thing. Mismanagement of parish funds happens sometimes, but not often outright theft like this. Must have been a large parish in order for it to go unnoticed.

[rah]

Less than 20K a month. Not that big of a parish to hide that.

[-Jrabbit]

That's a lot of escorts.

[RGBVideo]

while we're on the subject of catholic priests, this double standard is getting beyond retarded. (1) how many catholic priests there are in the world?; (2) isn't pederasty a standard behaviour not sensationalized by the media (because it's a custom not punished by the local community) of imams in several parts of the islamic world?

[giblets]

Fair enough, Saudi Arabia sucks.

[Ben Kenobi]

How do these churches generate so much cash? It's like the Protestant tele-evangelists. People are just giving them vast amounts of money that the churches don't even have any intention on spending for a good purpose.

Compared to what the Obama administration wastes? It's an unfortunate reality but funds will always be misused. At least there is more accountability with the parishes than with Obama.

[giblets]

America chose Obama, and if you don't like it, you don't have to come here.

[Ben Kenobi]

America chose Obama, and if you don't like it, you don't have to come here.

I'll side with the 55 percent or so who thinks he's a terrible president.

[N35t0r]

See, this is why it's better to tax consumption than earnings [/kuci|KH]

[-Jrabbit]

Come on, Ben. There is NO transparency in fund usage to parishioners in Catholic churches. None. Go ahead, ask your pastor his annual income, and for a balance sheet with pie chart of how all the collections are spent. Give me a break, you pathetic troll.

Why don't you go back to studying Newsmax for instructions from Rupert Murdoch on your next opinion?