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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Noise, a little digging confirmed what you said:
This new Pope specifically helped hide political prisoners from human rights investigators so they could stay "disappeared". I thought I was just making a possibly overly cynical comment, but it appears you can't be too cynical.
According to that bastion of Catholic knowledge, The Exorcist, the Jesuits also drink a lot.This has also been my experience. Jesuits roll deep.
Yes. Rumor/campus legend had it that one year over spring or Easter break, there was an informal race to see which dorm would have the most beer/wine/liquor in the recycling at the end of break, and the Jesuit residence won. (Georgetown is a Jesuit school, as is Marquette and Gonzaga)
The most shaming thing for the church is that in such circumstances Bergoglio's name was allowed to go forward in the ballot to chose the successor of John Paul II. What scandal would not have ensued if the first pope ever to be elected from the continent of America had been revealed as an accessory to murder and false imprisonment
From Typo's link.
Also a Presbyterian, so I could be wildly wrong
::does seekrit Presbyterian handshake::
::it involves sitting as far back in the church as you can and using juice for communion::
::and isn't actually secret because a the 56th General Assembly amended the Book of Order (with language determined by a committee assembled and charged by the 55th General Assmebly) affirming that henceforth any handshakes would both be openly practiced and optional::
Deities, grant me patience and grace and help me to not explode. Back to battling the developer, and...sometimes templates don't apply. I am sufficiently furious that I would love to storm out of the building, but too many deadlines.
::it involves sitting as far back in the church as you can and using juice for communion::
And being debtors rather than trespassers.
According to that bastion of Catholic knowledge, The Exorcist, the Jesuits also drink a lot.
And this differs from clergy of the other orders of Catholicism in what way?
And being debtors rather than trespassers
That's a big one.
OK, so does EVERY priest belong to an order? Or are there radical (in the chemical if not behavioral) sense?
A priest either belongs to an order or is considered a diocesan priest. A diocese is a geographical area named after the major city within its confines. Larger dioceses are called arch-dioceses, so for example you have the Diocese of Harrisburg and the Archdiocese of New York. Diocesan priests usually come from a church within the diocese and are educated at seminaries at diocesan expense. Once they are ordained, they come back to the diocese to become an assistant pastor at a church.
Priests who belong to an order go where the order tells them to go, which could be the jungles of Brazil or the inner city. Geography plays a limited role.