What?!?!?!

Colombian priests hire hitmen to kill themselves

El Tiempo via EPA

Priests Rafael Reatiga (left) and Richard Piffano were gunned down a year ago in Bogota.

By The Associated Press

Hours after he asked his parishioners to pray for him, Rev. Rafael Reatiga was found shot to death in a car in Bogota with another Roman Catholic priest.
The Associated Press reported that police initially suspected that Reatiga and Rev. Richard Piffano, 37, were victims of robbery. But now, three weeks after their bodies were found, Colombian prosecutors say the two Catholic priests hired hitmen to kill them when at least one of them was diagnosed with AIDS.
Prosecutors located the alleged hitmen based on phone numbers the priests had called from their cell phones days before their deaths.

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Prosecutors said Tuesday that the priests paid about $8,500 for the hit. They had originally planned to commit suicide by throwing themselves into a canyon but couldn’t bring themselves to jump. Medical tests showed that Reatiga, 36, had AIDS.
He also had syphilis and had been seen visiting places frequented by gay men in Bogota, according to the AP.
Two of the four assassins have been arrested, the AP reported. They face up to 40 years in prison if convicted.

I read this article, and all I could say...well I can't repeat it, as family and younger ones read my blog...so let's leave it at WHAT? So, priests who are supposed to take the saving of souls seriously, hire several men to kill them...destroying the men's souls. I get that suicide is a sin, but you have just hired people to stain their souls forever. Now, I know some of you will be saying their souls are already stained...because they are HITMEN...but what if it was their first job?, and isn't killing a priest one of the highest sins? And all this because two priests are selfish and don't want to live through AIDS and a VD from visiting a place they should never have been to begin with. Enjoy my rant...I haven't been feeling well.