Catholic pastor thinks stealing is OK

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Well... at least that is my interpretation. Father Guinan is alleged to have spent nearly $500K of his churches money on himself. He claims the Catholic church allows him absolute discretion when it comes to expenditures under $50K. Of course, he is lying through his teeth and we all know it. Here is why.

 

• He doctored the books so that his self-indulgent behavior would not come to the attention of the church.
• He use the stolen cash to pay his own credit card bills.
• He acted in a way inconsistent with the teaching of his faith.
• He violated the trust of his parishioners who donated their hard earned cash to help the church, not pay for gambling junkets.

Guinan is a stain. 

Guinan didn't deny regularly taking cash from the church offertory and spending it as outlined by prosecutors.

He didn't deny taking six trips to Las Vegas, three trips to Ireland, three trips to the Bahamas and staying at nine luxury hotels in Florida in the course of 15 months.

He also didn't deny using church money to pay personal credit card bills.

What i find most troubling is that his Christian thinks that what he did was justifiable. He is not accepting responsiblity for crimes he has already admitted to, instead he says the Catholic church was an enabler. I’m betting this hypocrite spends the rest of his life in prison. He needs to.

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