?Let no one think he is getting off lightly,? Monsignor Belford said.?Before he recovers his peace of mind and self-esteem, he has to go through the hell of discovery and admission of what he has done,? Monsignor Belford said.
Embezzlement comes with a little more than hell of discovery and admission. This article (linked to in title) also mentions that a priest in Conn. plead guilty to embezzlement of $1.3 million and another one embezzled $800,000.I got to admit, if you are going to allegedly engage in embezzlement, you really have to pick a corporation that has money to steal. And as this article proves, the Roman Catholic Corporation (even after all the pedophile lawsuits) has plenty of money to embezzle. You go priests! What do you think, should these religious corporations start teaching their corporate leaders ethics and maybe a little morality?Peter Nuhn
And he still gets to be a priest. what exactly do you have to do to have this christian cult kick you out of the executive (lower management – but still)?
Maybe they can move him around to other parishes where he hasn’t embezzled some money until he steals again. And then excommunicate anyone who tells the cops about it. You know, like how Ratzi the Natzi did with the pedophile priests?
Would it do any good to teach them that they’re wrong when they steal from their parishoners like this? If they can’t operate ethically by the time they’ve been vetted by the cult’s hierarchy, would another lecture cause them to change their ways?
tom:
I doubt it, it just goes to show that accepting a dogma never really reinforced anyone’s moral fiber, it only does one of two things.
allows people to mask their own preconceptions and bigotry in a “moral” fascade
or
offsets morality to a different set of decisions, allowing people to think they’re good people as long as they do or don’t do X(beleive nonsense) even though they still do or don’t do Y (any moral decision with real human consequences)
Actually, he’ll probably be on track to be pope himself one day. He’s already shown he can abuse the big money.
these “religious corporations” (i like the term) “steal” money from their flock every time a tithe is made. so why should one priest feel bad about embezzling already “stolen” tainted money.
stolen once, stolen twice, gone…..
to the crooked priest in White Plains
gee, if only they’d go after the pedophiles as vigorously as they pursue the embezzlers!!!
A paedophile priest only has the potential to cost them money.
An embezzling priest has already cost them money.
Smart embezzlers only take as much as they can get away with. Slipping a few bills off of a collection plate for ‘expenses incurred’ is not much of a risk. Watching hundreds of thousands go through trust accounts at headquarters is where the risk-reward equation gets problematic for the conscience-free.