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shain from kane Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-04-07 12:43 PM
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Ill. priest's comments lead to lawsuit

The Associated Press
http://www.bnd.com/news/weird_news/story/144442.html

CRYSTAL LAKE, Ill. --A priest who received complaints from a parishioner on his answering machine played the tape in church, a lawsuit alleges, and then asked the congregation: "Should we send him to hell or to another parish?"

The parishioner, Angel Llavona, filed a defamation lawsuit Monday claiming the events at St. Thomas the Apostle Church caused him emotional distress that forced him to leave the Roman Catholic parish.

The dispute started about a year ago, when Llavona left a message for the Rev. Luis Alfredo Rios complaining about a sermon he had given, the lawsuit said. "I attended Mass on Sunday and I have seen poor homilies, but yesterday broke all records," Llavona said.
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Then, according to the lawsuit, Rios said: "This is the person in charge of religious education here last year. That's why it is no surprise to me we had the kind of religious education we had. That's why we didn't get altar boys. What should we do, should we send him to hell or to another parish?"
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The diocese is also named as a defendant. Wiegert said she couldn't comment on the specifics of the lawsuit, but released a diocese statement expressing hope for "a peaceful solution."
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Go directly to Hell. No stop in Purgatory for you.
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damntexdem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-04-07 12:49 PM
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1. Actually, it seems to me that driving him out of that parish would be more like ...
banishing him from hell.

;-)
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murielm99 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-04-07 01:04 PM
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2. Stupid.
They should sit down and talk to someone higher up in the diocese. A lawsuit is unnecessary.
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