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Alabama priest investigated after woman alleges ‘private companionship’ arrangement beginning at 17
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 13 Aug 2025
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Just let priests get married and fuck, holy shit. Raised Catholic, constantly unsurprised by all these stories. It really is an epidemic. I'm expecting the diocese and the Vatican organization that deals with sexual abuse to do nothing or even actively discredit her.
The original reason for it is not even valid anymore (church losing land due to the priests' children inheriting it).
I've never heard that being a reason; I've always heard that they were following the single-minded devotion of John the Baptist and Jesus.
Basically nothing in the catholic church (and mostly christianity in general) is actually based in Faith. It is all about protecting the business/feudal powers of catholicism.
Basically everything is, at best, stolen from the religions they were trying to conquer (Think about why The Savior was apparently born just in time for Yule celebrations...) or were all about building up sales for businesses that catholicism had money in.