'Bitter' priest blows $1.3m of church funds A "bitter" Connecticut priest blew $1.3m of his church's funds on "swanky hotels and male escorts", CNN reports. Father Kevin Gray, 64, is no longer a pastor at the Sacred Heart Church in Waterbury, having allegedly indulged in a spectacular, seven-year spending spree during which he splashed out on "fancy restaurants, …
"Gray became very bitter with the church starting in 2001 when he was transferred to a parish in New Hartford while his mother was dying in New Haven. Mr. Gray stated that when he started in 2003, he began taking the money because he felt the Church owed it to him."
Owed him $1.3m? Wow. Just... wow.
Sorry for his dieing mother and all---
TFA doesn't say where he was before they moved him to New Hartford, but New Hartford to New Haven is only an hour and ten minute drive from New Haven.
Hardly what I would call an onerous burden -- I wish my mother had been that close when she was on her way out.
And apparently at some point they moved him to Waterbury -- 30 minutes closer.
Nope, don't feel too sorry for him. Amazing that he's being prosecuted. In my experience they usually let the b*stard retire quietly.
He even paid for one of the escort's Harvard tuition.
Traditionally, church money is earmarked for missionaries who travel to Africa in order to subdue the local populace there. Hospitals set up by missionaries refuse treatment to anyone who do not convert to their religion and missionary run schools sure as hell are not going to teach the scientific theory of Evolution, but stick with the fairy tales as told in the bible.
Sigh.
I say this priest did good!
I'm likely to be one of the last people to rush to the defence of the Catholic Church, but I have to draw the line here. My own education was carried out by a missionary order and the Biology curriculum was pure Charles Darwin.
Similarly, I know some folks who went on the missions, misguided though they may have been, but they certainly didn't refuse treatment to anyone, simply because they didn't subscribe to their beliefs. Others of course may well have done.
If you know of specific cases, then by all means Name & Shame my man. If not, then you may simply be airing your unpleasant prejudices here because you feel that you have an uncritical audience. If so, kindly shut the fcuk up!
stories of the American deep South and Mother Theresa and come up with 3.
Is it any wonder at all that religious people refuse to take anything certain atheists say seriously when people come out with this ignorant drivel?
Sadface, because I try to get religious types to listen to me sometimes.
When I was working as a paramedic I came across no missionary hospitals behaving that way.
As an example the Andara, Namibia, RC mission hospital always treated everyone that came to them regardless of race, creed, national origin or the medicine costs. The doctors were mostly German.
No idea what the attached school was like.
So the church will hang this guy out to dry for stealing money, but carefully protects the priests who ruined the lives of so many children around the world (at a cost that cannot be reasonably comprehended using a dollar amount)?
No sympathy for the priest, BTW - he's a douche-bag. Just the double-standards being shown by the church hierarchy grate against my sensibilities.
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