BS: Caught having sex in confessional box???

Subject: RE: BS: Caught having sex in confessional box???
From: Ed T
Date: 12 Jun 08 - 07:26 PM

Are there "Murphy beds" in confessionals?

Subject: RE: BS: Caught having sex in confessional box???
From: gnu
Date: 12 Jun 08 - 07:48 PM

Youse had confessionals? When I was a lad, I had to kneel before Father and confess... no confessional... no screen... so he could look right into my eyes and tell I was lying.

"Forgive me father, for I have sinned. I took The Lord's Name in vain."

"And why did you sin lad?"

"Three big boy's pelted me with snowballs and I couldn't get away Father."

"Ah. So, you swore because they assaulted you."

"No, Father. Because the other two beat me up after I kicked the big one in the nuts."

"Say two Our Father's and three Hail Mary's and keep kicking next time."

Father Peter Magee.. a Flying Father... that is a Canuck thang. Google it.

Subject: RE: BS: Caught having sex in confessional box???
From: skarpi
Date: 12 Jun 08 - 08:27 PM

So !!!

way to go , do it again again again . Its mother nature to have sex .
Sex in a church ? why not , people do it in airplanes , ships cars
trains, in puplic places ? in stores , waitings rooms ?
why not church ??


All the best skarpi Iceland

Subject: RE: BS: Caught having sex in confessional box???
From: gnu
Date: 12 Jun 08 - 08:52 PM

Sounds like it's best in Iceland.

Subject: RE: BS: Caught having sex in confessional box???
From: Rowan
Date: 13 Jun 08 - 04:15 AM

The couple, in their early 30s, were detained by police earlier this month after they had made love in the confessional box in the cathedral in northern Cesena. They were cautioned for obscene acts in public and disturbing a religious function.

That's got to be the first time where anything that went on in a confessional has been described as happening "in public".

Subject: RE: BS: Caught having sex in confessional box???
From: skarpi
Date: 13 Jun 08 - 07:02 AM

hee heee gnu , yes it is I guess :>))

ATB Skarpi

Subject: RE: BS: Caught having sex in confessional box???
From: MarkS
Date: 13 Jun 08 - 01:34 PM

They heard the welfare state would take care of them from the erection to the resurrection.
They figured they were in the right place for the second and wanted to start things off.

Subject: RE: BS: Caught having sex in confessional box???
From: Little Hawk
Date: 13 Jun 08 - 02:47 PM

Holy fuck! (someone had to say it...) (my apologies if someone else already did, and I missed it)

Subject: RE: BS: Caught having sex in confessional box???
From: Amos
Date: 13 Jun 08 - 03:27 PM

I sometimes wonder why two people making love (regardless of where they do it) is considered "obscene".

It is not designed to incite lust-- that part is already taken care of. And to label it abhorrent to the mind is more a reflection on the poor quality of the mind than of the act.

I grant it is often an ungainly, awkward act, embarassing because of the vulnerability of the participants. Nor is it one I particularly would want to watch done by others. But I don't think it is right to label it obscene.


A

Subject: RE: BS: Caught having sex in confessional box???
From: Michael
Date: 13 Jun 08 - 04:15 PM

I agree Amos, never watched or wanted to but without it there would be few of us on this earth.

Was it during a particularly uninspiring homily? The Sermon on the Mount,perhaps.

Mike

Subject: RE: BS: Caught having sex in confessional box???
From: Greg B
Date: 13 Jun 08 - 04:25 PM

I've heard of it happening on quite a few occasions, but never
in the absence of a priest. c.f. Crimens Sollicitanus

Subject: RE: BS: Caught having sex in confessional box???
From: Little Hawk
Date: 13 Jun 08 - 07:05 PM

I don't get why it's considered "obscene" either. Someone has got their wires very badly crossed to come up with that.

Subject: RE: BS: Caught having sex in confessional box???
From: Willie-O
Date: 13 Jun 08 - 11:37 PM

Well think about it some more, LH et al. Them that mustn't....

W-O

Personally I think the balcony would be far better.

Subject: RE: BS: Caught having sex in confessional box???
From: Little Hawk
Date: 13 Jun 08 - 11:43 PM

Well, I would call it "inappropriate", not obscene. ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: Caught having sex in confessional box???
From: EBarnacle
Date: 14 Jun 08 - 01:50 PM

I can hear it now--
"Bless us Father for we have sinned"
"Us??"
"Yes, Father, an act of unsanctified coition." "Us???" "Yes, Father, we have just completed our pleasure and felt we should confess the act."
"Us???? Are you bragging or confessing and where did this act take place?"
"Oh, right here in the confessional Father. We felt that we should confess right after we did it and are mortally ashamed of having gotten it off in Holy Mother Church."
"[under his breath] Hmm, I wonder whether that counts as mortal or venal. And do you truly repent of having unsanctified sexual relations?"
"Not really, but we won't do it in the confessional again. The room is quite uncomfortable."
"[Under his breath] Even so, this is a mortal sin. You will have to make a substantial contribution to the Church, endowing a Mass and buying an indulgence."
"Actually, Father, we're atheists."
"Blashpemers!!! Polizei!!!"

The rest you know.

Subject: RE: BS: Caught having sex in confessional box???
From: EBarnacle
Date: 14 Jun 08 - 02:11 PM

Correction: "Carabinieri!!!"

Subject: RE: BS: Caught having sex in confessional box???
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 14 Jun 08 - 02:49 PM

Was there a tomato or a Morris dancer involved in this escapade?

Subject: RE: BS: Caught having sex in confessional box???
From: Art Thieme
Date: 14 Jun 08 - 04:21 PM

Abstaining is the least of the staining possibilities here I would think. Make 'em clean up the church, and their act too!

Art

Subject: RE: BS: Caught having sex in confessional box???
From: robomatic
Date: 14 Jun 08 - 06:51 PM

knees up mother Brown!

Subject: RE: BS: Caught having sex in confessional box???
From: katlaughing
Date: 14 Jun 08 - 09:18 PM

Speaking of menage-a-trois, watch to the very end. pretty amazing, actually!

Subject: RE: BS: Caught having sex in confessional box???
From: Little Hawk
Date: 14 Jun 08 - 10:00 PM

That's really cute! What a sweet and cuddly moose.

Subject: RE: BS: Caught having sex in confessional box???
From: Greg B
Date: 15 Jun 08 - 08:44 AM

How'd the get caught. Did the little light keep going on-off-on-off?

(For the non-Catholics in the crowd, some confessionals were
rigged up with a switch so that when someone knelt down on the
kneeler inside, a little light signifying 'occupied' would
go on outside...and another in the priest's center cubicle to
indicate that there was a confesee waiting.)