Priest steals church funds to feed gambling habit
31 July 2008 by Stardust
This story is not unique and surely happens quite frequently since priests, pastors, rabbis, deacons, elders and other church leaders are only human.
Pastor Accused Of Using Church Funds To Gamble
ROSELLE, Ill. (CBS) ― A pastor in Roselle is accused of stealing thousands of dollars in church funds to feed his gambling habit. CBS 2’s Suzanne Le Mignot reports.
Lou Vicari has been a parishioner at St. Walter Catholic Church for almost two decades.
“You feel, ‘what the heck!’ If you can’t trust a priest, who can you trust?” Vicari said.
Ummm…trust a priest? 
Unless you know a person as a close friend, you don’t really know who they are, yet millions of people put clergy who they only see for an hour once a week (if that) in such high esteem and adoration for merely holding the title of “pastor” or “Father”.
And it seems that no matter what the clergy does in any religion, the sheeple will still cling to their man-made beliefs and practices which are led by human beings just like themselves and one never knows who is good, who is bad, who is sane, who is insane, who is a pervert and who is not. And praying about it does squat. No God comes to protect the believers.
When a church comes under scrutiny or one of their leaders is accused of wrong-doing and found guilty of even the most heinous crimes, they always say the same thing as this parishioner said:
“It truly is a test of our Catholic faith, in terms of moving forward, forgiving for one who has potentially offended us and carrying on,” 
31 July 2008, on 11:49 am
Ah yes - the old forgiveness cop out! Funny, but the level of forgiveness seems to drop pretty precipitously when the offender is not a member of the victim’s faith or congregation.
I’m afraid I have little sympathy for them. They set these priests, bishops and other assorted pious parasites up lile little kings, with very little oversight and then they are shocked when these phony yutzes rob the congregation blind to pay for gambling, or their affairs with women in the congregation or gifts for their gay lovers.
Some people just cling to the fairy tale at all costs and try their utmost to rationalize away the obvious truth.
31 July 2008, on 2:33 pm
Trust a priest? Has that guy been living in a cave?
31 July 2008, on 8:07 pm
Yeah, who needs a babysitter? Priesty is available.
31 July 2008, on 8:26 pm
Gives new meaning to the words “holy roller” - yes, she went there! *rimshot*
1 August 2008, on 2:57 pm
One of my all time favorite tunes is “Try a little Priest” from Sweeney Todd. [any version. I love that show]
“Then again they don’t commit sins of the flesh, so it’s pretty fresh”
HA!!
Here’s another fellow you wouldn’t necessarily want to ‘turn the other cheek’ on…
http://www.wlos.com/shared/newsroom/top_stories/wlos_vid_1094.shtml
The entire congregation is shocked, SHOCKED I tells ya, that their resident ‘man of gob’ is actually just a pervo in a robe.
‘Cause that never happens.
5 August 2008, on 5:05 pm
How very unusual? What are we coming to? Priests stealing to feed a gambling habit? Oh, no! Next thing you know, they’ll be molesting altar boys…