{"id":35,"date":"2012-12-24T04:42:45","date_gmt":"2012-12-23T22:42:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/enoughsenough\/?p=35"},"modified":"2012-12-24T04:42:45","modified_gmt":"2012-12-23T22:42:45","slug":"vatican-defrocks-hiv-positive-irish-priest-for-using-condoms-when-raping-victims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/enoughsenough\/2012\/12\/24\/vatican-defrocks-hiv-positive-irish-priest-for-using-condoms-when-raping-victims\/","title":{"rendered":"Vatican defrocks HIV-positive Irish priest for using condoms when raping victims"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>May 21, 2012 at 9:31 pm<\/h2>\n<div>\n<p>JULY 13, 2011 |\u00a0ISSUE 47\u202228 satire<\/p>\n<p>VATICAN CITY \u2014 Pope Benedict XVI has approved a request from Irish Cardinal Sean Brady to defrock Rev. Fr. Doyle McVeigh of Ulster.\u00a0 McVeigh is currently under investigation by the Royal Irish Constabulary on multiple charges of child molestation.\u00a0 The Irish Catholic church is refusing to cooperate in that case, insisting that it is an internal church matter.<\/p>\n<p>But now, a London Times journalist has leaked RIC documents that McVeigh is HIV-positive and used condoms to avoid infecting his victims.\u00a0 On condition of anonymity, a Vatican spokesman had this to say:\u00a0 \u201cThe charges against Fr. McVeigh are an invasion of Church polity, but we can not set aside our Catholic principles.\u00a0 Using condoms is an affront to God and human life.\u00a0 We are grieved to lose a fine priest, but nothing is higher than God\u2019s wishes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Vatican spokesman continued:\u00a0 \u201cThe Church is deeply compassionate.\u00a0 Among lay people, condom use is sometimes reluctantly condoned, as when gay prostitutes ply their trade. The pope does not morally justify the disordered exercise of sexuality, but maintains that the use of the condom to diminish the danger of infection may be a first assumption of responsibility, as opposed to not using the condom and exposing the other person to a fatal risk.<\/p>\n<p>However, the moral standard for priests is higher.\u00a0 Fr. McVeigh\u2019s wish to protect his victims can not eclipse his place in the unbroken apostolic succession from Christ Jesus that the Church has preserved.\u00a0 For lay people, moral compromises may be struck.\u00a0 But for Catholic priests, nothing can justify condom use.\u00a0 Their bond to God is unmoveable.\u00a0 If it shifts, as it did in Fr. McVeigh\u2019s case, they defrock themselves.\u00a0 Such acts cause their automatic excommunication.\u00a0 This is the Catholic perspective \u2014 you can&#8217;t do evil to bring about good. The end does not justify the means.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 21, 2012 at 9:31 pm JULY 13, 2011 |\u00a0ISSUE 47\u202228 satire VATICAN CITY \u2014 Pope Benedict XVI has approved a request from Irish Cardinal Sean Brady to defrock Rev. Fr. Doyle McVeigh of Ulster.\u00a0 McVeigh is currently under investigation by the Royal Irish Constabulary on multiple charges of child molestation.\u00a0 The Irish Catholic church [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/enoughsenough\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/enoughsenough\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/enoughsenough\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/enoughsenough\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/enoughsenough\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/enoughsenough\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/enoughsenough\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/enoughsenough\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/enoughsenough\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}