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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/paris-archbishop-resigns-over-alleged-relationship/vi-AARoUsBFrance's Catholic Church said on Thursday the pope had accepted the resignation of Paris Archbishop Michel Aupetit, who asked for forgiveness after reports over a relationship with a woman.
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PARIS Pope Francis on Thursday accepted the resignation of the archbishop of Paris, who unexpectedly offered to step down last week after admitting to an ambiguous relationship with a woman in 2012.
Paris Archbishop Michel Aupetit said in a statement Thursday that he offered to step down to preserve the diocese from the division that suspicion and loss of trust are continuing to provoke.
The Vatican said in a statement that the pope accepted Aupetits offer, and named Monsignor Georges Pontier to serve temporarily in his place pending the pontiffs appointment of a permanent new archbishop.
The resignation comes amid great upheaval in the French Catholic Church. A report in October estimated some 3,000 French priests had committed sexual abuse over the past 70 years. And last year, the pope accepted the resignation of French Roman Catholic Cardinal Philippe Barbarin in connection with the coverup of sexual abuse of dozens of boys by a predatory priest.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2021/12/2/22814129/paris-archbishop-resigns
Skittles
(153,171 posts)still, what a bunch of fucking hypocrites - who are they to judge others
malaise
(269,114 posts)with human needs - bravo!
Skittles
(153,171 posts)it's all ridiculous
malaise
(269,114 posts)Last edited Fri Dec 3, 2021, 05:15 AM - Edit history (1)
My mother was deeply Catholic so I was close enough to the action to see the BS and hypocrisy.
I have no gods period.
Skittles
(153,171 posts)it reminds me that people can be made to believe anything
religion is the grift of grifts - power and money in one sweet grab.
Skittles
(153,171 posts)am I supposed to respect the religious wacko leanings of our Supreme Court? Fuck that nonsense.
malaise
(269,114 posts)I have never understood why people swear on a religious book - same shit here - they should all swear on the Constitution. Seems like a weird conflict of interest to me.
wnylib
(21,552 posts)an alternative that all citizens could do. Questionable maybe for witnesses who are not citizens, unless understood to mean that they accept the laws of the land.
Swearing on the Constitution does mean, of course, also swearing to accept the Constitution's guarantee of religious freedom. That would include freedom not to have a religion as well as the freedom to have one.
Skittles
(153,171 posts)it is crazy
Demovictory9
(32,468 posts)Gaugamela
(2,496 posts)I dont want to offend anyone, but celibacy was always a recipe for disaster.
It's unnatural
wnylib
(21,552 posts)by most clergy. For centuries priests have had secret relationships with each other, with nuns, or with people outside of the clergy. Except some Medieval popes whose affairs and children were not secret at all.
Ziggysmom
(3,409 posts)musclecar6
(1,690 posts)Celibacy as a requirement to be a priest is bizarre. What normal person would ever sign up for that program ?
Skittles
(153,171 posts)yup