To say that the Roman Catholic Church has suffered in recent years is an understatement. Pedophile priests and a lack of seminarians has left the Church bleeding like a stuck pig. Some would even say that she is dying. To the Catholic, this is nonsense. If "the gates of hell shall not prevail against it", the Church will survive until the end of time. Incidently then, if the Church no longer exists, Christianity is false.
This doesn't concern me, since I have faith--obviously--that the Church has been ordained by Christ. If it wasn't, I would find another Church. Still, we do not need to see Catholic priests involved in sexual relationships of any kind, and stories like this just add to the weight of bad news heaped on Christ's Church.
A 79-year-old monsignor named as "the other man" in a Westchester County divorce case resigned Thursday as rector of St. Patrick's Cathedral, the New York archdiocese said.
Cardinal Edward Egan accepted Msgr. Eugene Clark's resignation despite Clark's denials that he has been carrying on an affair with his 46-year-old private secretary, the church said.
This is not good. Priests are supposed to be celibate. They are not supposed to go around screwing with secretaries.
Whenever a story like this gets attention, one can almost here the screams for reform. After all, this proves that priests should be married, does it not? And while we're at it, the Church should sanction homosexuality.
This is of course absurd. One sure fire way to get the Church to fade into obscurity is to allow immoral things to become "moral". The Church needs to remain firm on her orthodoxy if she wishes to become a beacon in this dark world. A world berift in relativism needs an absolutist institution badly.
Our priests need our prayers. What is true does not need to be reformed.
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What exacerbates the allegations in RepMan's mind is that Clark has previously used his powerful position to wax poetic on the "immorality in the American culture."
This incident is shockingly similar to the Harry Stonecipher/Boeing saga. Readers will recall that after becoming Boeing's CEO, Stonecipher initiated strict personal behavior guidelines for employees as part of the corporation's revamped code of ethics. Then, he went ahead and had an affair with an employee that ended up costing him his job.
It's no wonder many feel that America has lost its moral compass when the Clark's and Stonecipher's of the world act in such blatant disingenuous ways. As a former altar boy, RepMan can only pray things get better before they get any worse."
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