Word: priesting
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Where were the nuns? This is what I keep wondering as priest after priest is accused of sexual misconduct. After all, the nuns were everywhere in our parish school, acting as mother hens, camp counselors, choirmasters and coaches, mysteriously able to see all, despite those white coifs blocking their peripheral vision. Without families and with no teachers' union, the sisters spent every waking moment with us, running an after-school program of word games, field hockey and making statues of the saints out of plaster of Paris...
...Slam ED MCMAHON Carson sidekick's house infected with toxic mold. McMahon said he would never have known the mold was toxic from the way it tasted MICHAEL OVITZ Hollywood talent czar loses his best account: Robin Williams. His second-best account: Father Hands-to-Himself, the non-molesting priest...
IRELAND The State Steps In The Dublin government ordered a state enquiry into the activities of a Catholic priest, Father Sean Fortune, who committed suicide in 1999 facing sex-abuse charges. The decision follows the resignation of Fortune's bishop, Brendan Comiskey, who recently admitted that he had not done enough to protect children in his diocese...
What would bring it on? I don't know, maybe fatigue, maybe stress. But I know that I worked seven days a week, 16 hours a day, as a priest. I didn't take a day off. But I was very good. That's how I got my identity. That's how I got my fulfillment. I was a good priest who did amazing things, but I didn't have a personal life. Among my many priestly activities, I worked closely with children. My reaching out to them was not to harm them. I was reaching out for affection...
...confession; there would be genuine repentance; and then I would go for a period of time without molesting anyone. I would make a very real point when this was having to be confessed to go to another diocese to make sure the priest didn't know me. What I was after was the absolution, so that I could pick up the pieces and go on. I didn't see the big picture that I certainly...