Priest Pricks Children With Pin

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

Priest Pricks Children With Pin

AUSTIN, Texas, Sept. 17, 2005

(AP) The Catholic Diocese of Austin is investigating after a priest called about 15 children to come forward during evening Mass so he could prick them with an unsterilized pin to demonstrate the pain Jesus suffered during crucifixion.

"What I was trying to teach them is that suffering is a part of life," said the Rev. Arthur Michalka, 78, on Friday.

No one reacted strongly during the incident at evening Mass at Holy Trinity Catholic Church in Corn Hill on Wednesday, said Helen Osman, communications director for the Austin diocese. Osman said that the priest pricked both adults and children.

"What were you thinking?" said Debbie Sybert, a Jarrell resident whose 11-year-old daughter, Amanda, was pricked during Mass. "Apparently our father has lost his mind."

More at: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/09/17/national/main856311.shtml

[Egalitariat]

1. That's better than what they used to "prick" them with**

nm

[Jackpine Radical]

2. Goddam. I got beat out again.

I was gonna offer the alternative headline "Priest pins children with prick."

[erinlough]

3. LOL!!!! and spitting on my keyboard. n/t

[spacelady]

11. As George Carlin used to say, "you can prick your finger, but

don't finger your prick."

[TankLV]

12. Great minds think alike! At least it was only a "pin".

But it's still abusing the children.

Jeebus.

[SidDithers]

4. Purposefully inflicted suffering is not a part of life...

what kind of a message does it send to children, when a respected authority figure sticks them with a pin? What a moran.

Sid

[Maru Kitteh]

6. What a SADIST

grotesque.

[greyl]

7. Their symbol is a torture device.

And so are their schools. ;)

[Maru Kitteh]

5. ATTENTION DEBBIE - He's NOT your FATHER

most likely he's nobody's father.

Death is a part of life too. Did he have a notion to sacrifice one of the kids as well? That'll teach 'em by goodness!

"No one reacted strongly during the incident at evening Mass at Holy Trinity Catholic Church in Corn Hill on Wednesday"

Were they comatose? If the first child was suprised by this sadistic act, what force of fear held the other fourteen children? Why did their parents not step forward and pull them out of line and leave that 'church' forever? Sick.

[longship]

8. Better than pinning them with prick.

nt

[wtmusic]

9. grand prize

:thumbsup: :rofl:

[pschoeb]

10. That's nothing

when I was a kid, my second grade teacher Sister Mary David(she was as big as a Pro Football player and I kid not) had two forms of punishment, the "milk shake" or the "banana split". The milk shake involved her lifting you up by your ankles and shaking you really hard(a couple of kids puked), the banana split involved splitting your bicep muscle(very very painful for those who don't know).

As bad as that was it wasn't as bad as a later teacher, Sister Theresa, who made us crawl on the ground and bark like dogs, or made us eat the old gum from under the desk, or whatever other craziness entered her head. We regularly got back at her though, by covering the chalk boards with glue and always adding some dirt to her daily coffee.

Other forms of punishment meted out by other Franciscan nuns who were teachers at my school were less harsh, like beaming you in the head with erasers from across the room or slamming your desktop onto your fingers.

Strangely(sarcasm) my school ended up being filled with some of the worst bullies imaginable.