The Catholic Church is in the news again, but this time, not because a few priests sexually abused some little boys, amazingly enough.
Two former Priests of a Catholic Church in Florida are being sent up on criminal charges for allegedly skimming close to $8.6-million in funds over the past 40 years. Both priests are being charged with grand theft and it didn’t take long for one of them to confess to everything shortly after being arrested. At least he seems to have that part of Catholisism down. Guess he missed the part about greed being a sin though. Oh well, I’m sure if he confesses to stealing from the good ole’ god-fearing people of Florida for 40-years his sins will be washed away. That is how this whole thing works, isn’t it? Don’t matter what you do, as long as you confess it and have your sins absolved you’re in the clear. No wonder they like little boys so much.
Police have yet to catch the second priest though, who allegedly used half a million dollars of the stolen cash to pay off gambling debts and go on a vacation. I’ll assume I don’t even have to mention how the Catholic Church feels about gambling.
The best part about this entire situation, you ask? The only reason the cops found out about this money laundering operation is because an anonymous parishioner sent a letter to a State Attorney informing him of his fears. Why did the parishioner send this letter instead of letting someone higher up in the Catholic Church know, you ask? Well, one big reason: he was afraid that the Diocese of Plam Beach would cover up the theft and keep it a secret. The fact that a parishioner can’t even trust the Diocese HAS to be great for the Church. Just goes to show, the corruption doesn’t stop at the church level, it goes a whole lot further up then that, not even members of the church trust the church anymore.
