State records show that a suspended Alabama priest recently married the 18-year-old woman he fled to Italy with this summer, and an archbishop said Wednesday that he expects the Vatican to pursue the man’s official dismissal from the priesthood.
A marriage certificate filed Monday in Mobile County shows that Alex Crow, a 30-year-old Catholic priest in south Alabama, married the 18-year-old. Crow left the country in late July with the teen who is a recent graduate of McGill-Toolen High School. Crow was not an employee at the school but sometimes visited theology classes there, news outlets reported. The marriage certificate indicates the woman turned 18 in June.
Archbishop Thomas J. Rodi announced in July that he had suspended Crow and forbidden him from acting, dressing, or presenting himself as a priest. Rodi later said he saw no way for Crow to return to the priesthood.
Wait… so priests can get married and they only stop being priests if you take it up directly with the Vatican?
It’s not like the Catholic church exactly condones pedophilia and rampant sexual abuse, but look how extensively it permeates the institution.
When wondering “Would the Catholic church really do X?” I find the best practice is to instead ask myself: “Does the pope shit in the woods?”
I prefer the alternative “does the Pope’s dick fit in a donut?”
Wouldn’t that highly depend on the diameter of the donut hole?
It’s hard to make a donuts too small.
There used to be a place here that sold you four tiny “gourmet” donuts for way too much money. Unsurprisingly, it lasted about a month and a half. I think even the smallest dick could fit through those donut holes.
I don’t know?
My personal favorite is, “does the Pope shit in his hat?”
It’s a bureaucracy
It’s not like the catholic church is full of the virtue they espouse