SaligoBay Posted October 28, 2005 Share Posted October 28, 2005 Shock horror! Dear old Abbé Pierre (founder of Emmaus) is not a virgin.Well, good for him, I say. As long as the choirboy thing remains 100% Platonic, of course! http://www.guardian.co.uk/france/story/0,11882,1602564,00.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DOMY Posted October 28, 2005 Share Posted October 28, 2005 Et oui ... les français sont des " chauds lapins " ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
letrangere Posted October 28, 2005 Share Posted October 28, 2005 Thank you for the chauds lapins, Domy, must remember that. (So good to have native French speakers on the Forum.) Priests are only human, even Catholic ones, but I guess he felt that at 93 he could safely get away with this particular confession. M Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teamedup Posted October 28, 2005 Share Posted October 28, 2005 L'Abbe Pierre.......... an incredible, exceptional man. And bear in mind that the priests and monks were helping war criminals until the 1980's maybe 1990's in that very same region where he resisted the germans and that just adds to the greatness of the man. Not a virgin, well how many are? Those that abuse kids aren't either.I have no time for religions of any sort, but this bloke is a good man and good on him if he did the most natural of things we humans do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vraititi<P>PSG till I die -fluctuat nec mergitur.<P> Posted October 28, 2005 Share Posted October 28, 2005 Gosh, if only there were more religious figureheads like himself to speak up, the Catholic church would not be in the mess they're in. Did you hear his interview yesterday (can't remember which radio) ? He is so spot-on though, he criticised the Rome apparatchiks so shrewdly and even went as far as declaring that there is nothing wrong with homosexual marriages and adoptions and tutti quanti, which for somebody so high up in the catholic church (at least in the French people's minds), surely that must be unprecedented ! He even suggested it was better to grow up in that same-sex family set-up rather than in an unwieldly family structure, or something to that effect. Shame he is only speaking out now !Domy, nice to see you ici parmi nous, not sure there are many 'chauds lapins or lapines' amongst us, more like burnt-out moles ! ('des taupes flinguées/déglinguées') Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neil Posted October 28, 2005 Share Posted October 28, 2005 Sorry, SB, I don't see where you get the choirboy thing from. The article refers to "an unnamed choir singer". I assumed it was a woman. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaligoBay Posted October 28, 2005 Author Share Posted October 28, 2005 I don't think I have ever attended any sort of Roman Catholic service. Ever. I assumed that the choirs were made up entirely of young boys, and that women are encouraged only for altar-polishing purposes. Sorry! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teamedup Posted October 28, 2005 Share Posted October 28, 2005 Well I must say without any hestation that I am no way a burnt out mole. As they say, use it or lose it and it is just too good to lose. Chaudement TU Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vraititi<P>PSG till I die -fluctuat nec mergitur.<P> Posted October 29, 2005 Share Posted October 29, 2005 I stand corrected, 'burnt-out mole' was comment for muggins of course, although 'neurotic overstressed marmot' would probably be more accurate to describe myself. I imagine you're probably more like an over-alert perpetually exalted meerkat TU. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Missy Posted October 30, 2005 Share Posted October 30, 2005 [quote]I don't think I have ever attended any sort of Roman Catholic service. Ever. I assumed that the choirs were made up entirely of young boys, and that women are encouraged only for altar-polishing pur...[/quote]Saligo (That's a good name for a Duke Of Marlborough!) Has anyone cracked it yet what it means in slang french?.... Anyhow, I just want to say that choirs in the catholic faith were mostly made of young boys!! So there maybe is more to the allegations made in the press about abuse and all that within the catholic clergy.... as to the women encouraged for altar polishing purposes... that is where you get all this 'French polishing' stuff. My father (of no faith whatsoever) refers to them as 'punaises de sacristie!' (vestry stinking bugs) Though we are making fun of this, it is a grave subject that of clergy (any faith) and sexual abuse on youngsters... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaligoBay Posted October 30, 2005 Author Share Posted October 30, 2005 Saligo .Has anyone cracked it yet what it means in slang french?.... I have! However, any resemblance between its French meaning and me is, of course, entirely coincidental. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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