Shock, charges of hypocrisy as priest accused of affair

[tk2kewl]

http://www.nynewsday.com/news/local/newyork/nyc-prie0811,0,5577538.story?coll=nyc-homepage-breaking2

He is a conservative stalwart -- a priest who could be counted upon to preach orthodoxy from the city's highest-profile Roman Catholic pulpit. He has condemned gay relationships as "truly sinful," railed against a "sex saturated" culture and defended priestly celibacy.

So the accusation that Msgr. Eugene V. Clark, rector of St. Patrick's Cathedral, has been having a longterm affair with his married secretary has exploded like a bomb on scandal-weary Catholics, who thought they were hardened against such revelations. The charge comes from the woman's husband as part of an ugly divorce.

"This is devastating not just because he's a power player in the Catholic community, but because he's such a well-known champion of orthodoxy," said William Donohue, president of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights.

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Clark's reputation for orthodoxy -- he appeared regularly, for instance, on the conservative Eternal World Television Network -- made the allegations all the more difficult for many to fathom yesterday.

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http://www.nynewsday.com/news/local/newyork/nyc-prie0811,0,5577538.story?coll=nyc-homepage-breaking2

[papau]

1. 79 yr old "could have been there (motel) for something else,"

but taking vacations together is a bit much.

[ComerPerro]

2. Ahh, yes. The Moral Majority. Values Voters

[blm]

3. EWTN wasn't set up to teach real catholicism, it was set up for POLITICAL

outreach. The move towards fundamentalism in every religious group ws an intentional move by political powerbrokers, funded originally by RevMoon in the 70s.

By dividing the various religions with the extremes of their philosophies, the easier to manipulate them into voting blocs.