Tuesday, December 03, 2013

church scandals in Lebanon: notice the severe punishment

"The Catholic Church can breathe a sigh of relief this time: for once, it isn’t them.


Just two months after the Maronite priest Father Mansour Labaki was found guilty by the Vatican of sexually assaulting three minors (and given the typically severe punishment of “prayer and penitence”), the head of a Greek Orthodox monastery in Koura, Archimandrite Panteleimon Farah, has been discharged by Mount Lebanon Bishop George Khodr and sentenced to isolation inside his monastery for committing “practices contrary to Christian life and the monastic calling” – later revealed to be the molestation of youths." (thanks Laure)