Irish Archbishops slam Cardinal Timothy Dolan’s report on Rome Irish college

Milfordmama, Pres. Obama is a socialist like all off us who participate in Medicare, Social Security and other taxpayer funded programs. A socialist like good Irish Catholics who are unwilling to turn their backs on the less fortunate, the unlucky or the sick and infirm. There are no government programs but rather taxpayer programs that take care of things greedy corporations and selfish people would not implement including, roads & bridges (unless toll ones), street & airport security, fire protection, education, national security, space exploration, food and drug policing, . . . Let's give this President a Congress that is willing to earn $174,00/year with extraordinary Benefits by doing things that help the country and the world. Call his objectives anything you wish and replace those you do not think are good with concrete ideas that are consistent with the image of America whether viewed from within or from across the Atlantic.

In our more informed society the Church no longer guides or controls us. They make suggestions to justify their existence.We are always ahead now.Gay married clergy in now being accepted in many Christian churches including Anglican. Most people will see gay married Catholic Priests in their lifetime.

Reply to Nicoletta: "The Catholic priesthood is no place for homosexuals." Tell that to Cardinal "Bernie-Baby" Law and Cardinal Dodo Dolan.

Very often the most vocal with negative opinions regarding homosexuality are the very ones who are supressing it in themselves.

To milfordmama : "Most of the sex abuse by priests (at least in the US) was against young boys."Are you saying homosexuals are more prone to pedophilia than heterosexuals? If so you are dead wrong "As far as Obama's agenda, I do believe he wants to change America's traditional family values and that he is a socialist at heart." Hmm look at Ireland the so called traditional family value(s) is long gone. Lastly please define socialism i.e Is Ireland a socialist state ?

Plutiephan - just read your comment - you're absolutely right. Had I not witnessed it for myself, I wouldn't have believed the influence and extent of the Lavender Mafia in the Church. Thanks be to God for Pope Benedict!

Good for Cardinal Dolan! The Catholic priesthood is no place for homosexuals.

The old saying of the "pot calling the kettle black" comes to mind!!

The readers and responders here are mostly pro-gay, anti-Catholic, that is easy to see. I am 66 and a practicing Catholic and believe that priests should be allowed to be married and have families. I would also be okay with female priests and deacons. In my opinion after many years of church going and teaching in a Catholic elementary school, raising my kids Catholic, etc. by forcing the priests to be only unmarried, celibate (ha) men, DOES encourage more gay guys to join the priesthood. I have met many priests and I would bet at least half were gay. I am not passing judgement on "being gay", but if the church opened its eyes and really had a little common sense, it would see that gay men would find a comfortable home in the priesthood. Most of the sex abuse by priests (at least in the US) was against young boys. That was hardly ever mentioned in the news for fear of "offending" the gay community. Even the priest that married me was later found guilty of abusing boys, just awful. As far as Obama's agenda, I do believe he wants to change America's traditional family values and that he is a socialist at heart. Two of his top people, Janet Napolitano and Kathleen Sebelius are anti-family, anti-Catholic, and lesbians who at one time were raised Catholic.

PhlutiePhan are you for real ? Your comment defies belief "The Obama Administration is riddled and rife with radical lesbian Catholic women in key positions and who are secretly working with this homosexual subculture within the Catholic Church in order to overthrow its influence on the road to world socialism." So I get it homosexuality and world socialism go hand in hand. Next minute you will be saying Oscar Wilde was a communist

He looks worried doesn't he. Not a care in HIS world, tucked away under the wings of the Vatican.

mayoman, you're a voice of reason and humanity! You brighten up Irish Central.

DrMcHugh: You make a wonderfully valid point. Are seminaries really needed anymore? Probably not, as they vet out everyone but the most ultra-conservative and narrow-minded.

PhultiePhan is absolutely obsessed with conspiray theories and homosexuals, particularly as it concerns the Catholic Church. Phan has consistently argued that the Roman Catholic Church would be just fine if it were not for all the gays and lesbians that are undermining his dear auld beloved medieval Church. And to heighten the absurdity Phan insists on linking President Obama to this or that fictive conspiracy against the Church with lesbians taking the nefarious lead. I'm quite sure that only the most out-of-orbit and mindless righties agree with him. (We all know who they are.) Phan particularly has a passion for gay women, whom he particularly hates, and he uses any convenient opportunity whatsoever to trash them without offering any persuasive argument as to why any rational person should agree with him. Phan should be read as the bizarre reactionary clod he is, with nothing to add to mature discussion.

Irish Central has always been a great place for entertaining lunacy, but hats off for creating PhlutiePhan. Its ideas on "homosexual abortion rights advocates" are wonderful. Bringing paranoia to a whole new level of nuttiness.