A British clergyman has reportedly died during a night of alleged drug-fuelled sex with a Belgian priest.
The 69-year-old English priest is understood to travelled to the country for the papal visit, but died after consuming “ecstasy and poppers” and engaging in sexual relations, according to a Dutch-language newspaper.
Father Bernard, 60 – the priest who allegedly entertained the unnamed British clergyman in his rectory – had since been arrested, Het Laatste Nieuws reported on Sunday.
No, that’s not the amusement. Such things happen.
It’s that no one at all – and I’ve looked at a number of reports on this – tells us which denomination the priests were.
I don’t know whether the Flemish are generally C or P for example. The Walloons, yes, C but…..
At which point, some sterling detective work by yours truly. This is the church of the Belgian priest. Roman Catholic Dioceses of Antwerp. Thus at least one of them – and we’d assume both I guess – are Papists.
At which point we can all get back to the usual commentary. One I’ve seen was “Good on ’em, no kids, eh?” and another “Chemsex at 69? Most sporting” etc….
The Catholics are nearly as bad as the C of E. got to look at the bright side, they’re not buggering little boys 🙂
‘…he entertained him in his rectory…’
Yep, I bet he did.
Makes you proud to be
BritishBelgian.Rupert…. If anything the RCC is worse when it comes to Fidllin’ About…
It’s just that they used to have this Mission, and a lot of handy places to send the ones not adept at Covering Up that were far, far away from …. unwanted reputation damage…
Filippines, Flores and Bali, South America… So many Mission outposts that needed manning…..
@Tim
I may be being dense here, but wasn’t the clue in the phrase “papal visit”?…
I thought the same, then the thought occurred that the Rev. Ian Paisley might have turned up at a papal visit…
tl;dr: Homosexual dies after chem-sex orgy…
BiW, no doubt to sing “Papal, papal who need papal, are the luckiest papal in the world.”
@Chris
“Nivor, nivor, nivor!”
They screw in Bruges.
Did you really not know that the Flemings are Papists, Tim?
You ought to bear in mind my father’s acute remark: You must remember that on the continent there are educated and intelligent people who are Roman Catholic.
(When I guffawed he blushed. He’d spent years telling us to shun poisonous Glaswegian anti-catholic nonsense and had gone out of his way to back that up by action. For instance whenever a new Roman parish priest arrived he’d make a point of taking him for a round of golf. But even a good man need not be unobservant.)
Ecce homo.
Race to the bottom.
Indeed, the whole reason the Flemings are Belgian rather than Dutch, is because they are C rather than P. It was the Dutch who seceded from the Spanish Netherlands because they didn’t want to be C, and the denominational border is about where the Dutch/Belgian border is now. (Still quite a lot of Papists in Holland, nonetheless, but not many Proddies in Belgium.)
@AGN Indeed. I have Dutch friends who think it’s interesting that they’re in a mixed marriage. So am I (wife’s a lapsed RC, I’m a lapsed Prod), but even we don’t care.