He probably was sound, but from the cold treatment he got it may have become too much. In my experience, those who were once devout Catholics but then go Anti become that way because of deep wounds… How we treat others is important.
Very true. But don’t blame the church for human failings. If that were the case saints like St. Pio, St John Vianney and Verable Solanus Casey…who received beyond cold treatment…would have left the church. Either way he is in my prayers.
I remember participating in this thread. I don’t feel Benedictine was initially put down as such, but he was challenged. From what you say, those challenges were more than he could easily deal with, which is perhaps a more general problem for him (and for many people, for that matter). It sounds, from his account, like a difficulty with being challenged might have been the reason he was dismissed from the ordination programme. But it’s unknowable in the final analysis because we weren’t there.
I would repeat what I said at the time:
Prayers and best wishes to both of you.
I am with you I would also wonder about someone who could so easily leave the One true Faith over the actions of one person because i have been in a simillar situation at my parish although it had nothing to do with becoming a deacon because i am a woman but it was a situation with a person not liking me
Thomas, I apologize. I didn’t resurrect this conversation (no excuse) but I figured, since the OP is still a member of CAF and possibly still subscribed to his own thread he might be able to join in the conversation (or defend himself). Maybe closing the thread would be the answer.