Wishful Thinking

Rentapriest.com aims to put married priests back to work

Of course it does...

Todd and Rebecca Malek were not religious, but her parents insisted on a priest to officiate their wedding. The Maleks made a family compromise through Rentapriest.com. They found a former Catholic priest to marry them at a Melbourne Holiday Inn, a place not allowed in the Catholic Church for weddings, but it was where the couple wanted to say their vows.

"It was a wonderful experience," said Malek, a 1991 graduate of Seabreeze High School. The religious tone was just right, he added. "It felt like a real wedding, not like going to a justice of the peace."

As long is it "felt" real, that's all that matters to many these days. Many lack the fundamental capacity to use their intellects - their minds seems to have been shutdown, replaced by emotion and feelings...But we know that "feeling" like they are married does not make them married although, in the eyes of the state, they are. In the eyes of the Church, however, they are, objectively, in grave sin for a number of reasons, not the least of which is fornication, since there is no sacramental bond of matrimony. And the facilitators of these sham "marriages" are even more culpable, objectively, for perpetrating frauds in the form of invalid sacraments.

In the words of [ex-priests, Paul] Roma and [Jim] Peterman, the married priests are just no longer part of the "corporation."

"I work directly for the boss," said Peterman, who lives in Viera. "I skip all the managers."

"Corporation" = Church, "Managers" = Pope and bishops. So, who exactly is the "Boss"? I think everyone knows.