Hungary’s Catholic military bishop has resigned because he wants to marry a woman he met in the church’s renewal movement, media reported Friday.
Brigadier General Tamas Szabo, 50, has been preaching to Catholic soldiers, border guards and their families since 2001.
The Hungarian Catholic Church said on its Web site that Pope Benedict had accepted Szabo’s resignation.
Good for you, citizen. Obviously your heart didn’t need a retread.
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“Now, here’s a Christian who really believes in love!”
The theological and erotic meanings of the word are not the same. In fact, different words are used in Greek: _agape_ for the former and _eros_ for the latter.
Of course, one may doubt that the former–to be loosely defined perhaps as “an active and disinterested outpouring of goodwill”–actually exists. One takes it La Rochefoucauld, Lichtenberg, Nietzsche, and others–to say nothing of modern psychologists and sociobiologists–would be sceptical on the matter. Be that as it may, the *concept* is different and not the same.
Erotic love is most certainly not disinterested.
Obfuscation obviously is not as dead as Xhristian love.
I read somewhere that the dreaded “roll over and snore” pattern that women resent in men was shown to result from a sense of wellbeing that fed into deeper emotional bonding. The hormonal and other metabolic changes they measured (from which IIRC they inferred the emotional bonding bit) were stronger among heterosexuals than among gays or solo wankers. So erotic love is apparently, by the evidence, associated with the emotional bonding of love, at least between men and women. Damn, I wish I had a link to that story.
At least this church official was attracted to a woman. That’s nice to read about for a change.
Recalling Jesus’ asking Peter if he loved Him, I have to chuckle at #1’s comment.
OK, it’s a pretty big deal when a bishop resigns to get married. But Catholic clergy do this pretty often.
More remarkably — or so I’ve heard — there are quite a few Catholic priests in the developing world who just get married while staying a priest. Apparently it is a lot more than what is generally admitted.
This cowboy things the clergy are about as pious as politicians. Color me not surprised.
“Good for you, citizen. Obviously your heart didn’t need a retread.”
I’m sure his penis and not his heart is the culprit.
#6 This cowboy things the clergy are about as pious as politicians.
I’ve met and personally known many clergy. I can testify that virtually all of them were sincere believers and not scamming in any way at all… not sexually, not financially.
I’m not talking about the famous big-church or TV guys like Ted Haggard or Jerry Falwell.
I mean the men and women running the thousands of churches all over the place. (I’ve known a few clergy from other religions too — like Buddhist priests, mullahs and rabbis.)
Of course there are some bad apples — and I’ve met a few — but the vast majority are good, honest, sincere people.
L-ve should never be spoken about.