Pope suspends bishop after he adopts woman
well now....back to India for more weird crap.
I read of this last week or so but there wasn't' enough info out at the time to warrant making this infamous column so I held mum.
today though more details have been released on the strange case of Bishop John Thattumkal. Apparently he met this woman on pilgrimage in Europe last April. Afterwards, the 58 year old bishop "adopted" this chick whom he claimed was 26. Now it comes out she's in her late 30's.
yeah...take a moment with that.
Now wrap your heads around this.
He apparently wasn't the first. She used to be under the "guardianship" of Fr. C K Joseph, a priest of the Thumpamon diocese. He has been stripped of all parish duties since the church took disciplinary actions against him in '05.
(in fairness...and do let's all be fair .....no one said she had anything necessarily to do with the trouble he found himself in. Although I'd venture to say you can't just "adopt" a grown woman and move her in without raising some eyebrows somewhere along the line.)
anyhow - the situation has now come home to roost in the bishop's house.
his defense is that he didn't feel he violated any laws. That he would "nullify" the adoption if the church wanted him to.
well now the church has suspended him pending an investigation.
mmm - no word on where Miss Sony Joseph is residing now.
I'm telling you there appears to be a way around everything lately hey? hahaha....
really - if you put the sheer goofiness of what he did aside, one can almost admire his balls-out way of just going about it. "Yeah man - just didn't see why I couldn't do it hey?"
hahaha...good one mate.
here's the latest:
http://www.sify.com/news/fullstory.php?id=14783662
I'm sure more stuff will roll out on it eventually.
you'll hear it when I do.
EDIT:
and here it is....
just when I was about to give him a pass because maybe she was special needs and was the relation of the former priest who had guardianship over her, etc etc etc (working up a very plausible and acceptable reason within my head as to why he'd have taken this chick home with him in teh first place) I READ THIS:
"Bishop Thattunkal met the woman during a pilgrimage abroad and was impressed by her “spirituality and divine experience.” “I have only fatherly love towards the woman who has spiritual powers. This relation is giving me spiritual refreshment,” Thattunkal was quoted by Mathrubhoomi, a Malayalam newspaper, as saying."
SPIRITUAL REFRESHMENT?!
hahaha....yeah... we all need that, mate.
hehe...oohhhh mlechh! weirder and weirder.
the article this bit came from is here:
http://www.expressindia.com/latest-news/Bishop-adopts-26yrold-woman-Kerala-smells-scandal/373544/
I was right on the other bit though. She is related to the other priest (the who has been stripped of all his duties). She is his daughter. Apparently he had been in the orthodox church before he got booted out. Fine and well.
But since she's in her late 30's....and already has a real father.....errr....why does she need another again?
ahhhh yes......she brings him 'spiritual refreshment.' hehehe...I forgot that bit already!
well kiddies...it's a mad cap world.
Personally, I'd like to see the Pope step in and suspend Fr. Pfleger already too, with all his adoptions. He never had permission either. Although...err...at least they really were children.
*shrugs*
have at it peoples. whatever makes it work for y'all.
I read of this last week or so but there wasn't' enough info out at the time to warrant making this infamous column so I held mum.
today though more details have been released on the strange case of Bishop John Thattumkal. Apparently he met this woman on pilgrimage in Europe last April. Afterwards, the 58 year old bishop "adopted" this chick whom he claimed was 26. Now it comes out she's in her late 30's.
Bishop John Thattumkal
yeah...take a moment with that.
Now wrap your heads around this.
He apparently wasn't the first. She used to be under the "guardianship" of Fr. C K Joseph, a priest of the Thumpamon diocese. He has been stripped of all parish duties since the church took disciplinary actions against him in '05.
(in fairness...and do let's all be fair .....no one said she had anything necessarily to do with the trouble he found himself in. Although I'd venture to say you can't just "adopt" a grown woman and move her in without raising some eyebrows somewhere along the line.)
anyhow - the situation has now come home to roost in the bishop's house.
his defense is that he didn't feel he violated any laws. That he would "nullify" the adoption if the church wanted him to.
well now the church has suspended him pending an investigation.
mmm - no word on where Miss Sony Joseph is residing now.
I'm telling you there appears to be a way around everything lately hey? hahaha....
really - if you put the sheer goofiness of what he did aside, one can almost admire his balls-out way of just going about it. "Yeah man - just didn't see why I couldn't do it hey?"
hahaha...good one mate.
here's the latest:
http://www.sify.com/news/fullstory.php?id=14783662
I'm sure more stuff will roll out on it eventually.
you'll hear it when I do.
EDIT:
and here it is....
just when I was about to give him a pass because maybe she was special needs and was the relation of the former priest who had guardianship over her, etc etc etc (working up a very plausible and acceptable reason within my head as to why he'd have taken this chick home with him in teh first place) I READ THIS:
"Bishop Thattunkal met the woman during a pilgrimage abroad and was impressed by her “spirituality and divine experience.” “I have only fatherly love towards the woman who has spiritual powers. This relation is giving me spiritual refreshment,” Thattunkal was quoted by Mathrubhoomi, a Malayalam newspaper, as saying."
SPIRITUAL REFRESHMENT?!
hahaha....yeah... we all need that, mate.
hehe...oohhhh mlechh! weirder and weirder.
the article this bit came from is here:
http://www.expressindia.com/latest-news/Bishop-adopts-26yrold-woman-Kerala-smells-scandal/373544/
I was right on the other bit though. She is related to the other priest (the who has been stripped of all his duties). She is his daughter. Apparently he had been in the orthodox church before he got booted out. Fine and well.
But since she's in her late 30's....and already has a real father.....errr....why does she need another again?
ahhhh yes......she brings him 'spiritual refreshment.' hehehe...I forgot that bit already!
well kiddies...it's a mad cap world.
Personally, I'd like to see the Pope step in and suspend Fr. Pfleger already too, with all his adoptions. He never had permission either. Although...err...at least they really were children.
*shrugs*
have at it peoples. whatever makes it work for y'all.
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