Freelancing Priest Let Go By Bishop

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I live close to this parish and my pastor is related to the principal of the school. On the way into Mass this morning I heard some parishoners discussing the issue…they are upset. There is a petition being circulated to have Fr. Rowe reinstated. I will not sign it.

If the abuses mentioned here are true then it’s easy to see what the problem is…liturgical abuse has been allowed for far too long in this and many diocese.

My pastor is a liberal, but he is making a valid effort to confect the mass according to the rubric of the new missal. Someone state the principal needs to be let go too…on what is that opinion based?
 
Yerusalyim said:
I live close to this parish and my pastor is related to the principal of the school. On the way into Mass this morning I heard some parishoners discussing the issue…they are upset. There is a petition being circulated to have Fr. Rowe reinstated. I will not sign it.
  1. If the abuses mentioned here are true then it’s easy to see what the problem is…liturgical abuse has been allowed for far too long in this and many diocese.
  2. My pastor is a liberal, but he is making a valid effort to confect the mass according to the rubric of the new missal. Someone state the principal needs to be let go too…on what is that opinion based?
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  1. Yes, and what’s so bad is that people who go to churches like these either out of complacency or utter ignorance assume that what they are used to is the norm. They’re fully, nearly irretrievably convinced of it. I think that’s the most despicable part of actions such as these. When a priest does these things, it does much more harm than good. He affects not only himself, but his entire parish. Yes, I think liturgical abuse is utterly despicable and disgusting, because in reality it ends up forcing twice as much of the so-called “clericalism” that self-defined “progressive Catholics” profess to rally against and attempt to destroy. There is no unity amongst disharmony.
For most people, the only week-to-week exposure they get to parish life and their faith is at Sunday mass, and it makes me very mad when I read about stories like this one in which, yes, Father might have good intentions, but good intentions don’t make what he does right. Sunday mass is the one thing that many Catholics base their entire faith experience off of. How can you expect them to be orthodox in belief if their priests don’t exemplify orthopraxy in the supreme action of the Church? People like to play things like these down and say, “Oh, it’s not a big deal.” Well, yes, maybe if you live in a hole somewhere and have no mind and don’t think about things. People have brains, they think, they make connections in their brains. Seeing orthopraxy brings about orthodoxy, and seeing heteropraxy brings around heterodoxy. It’s as simple as that, but in our relativistic world… ugh.
  1. Eh, parishes tend to be like-minded places. Would a pastor want to keep an employee (in this case, a principal of a school) if that employee didn’t agree with him? Probably not. Like pastor, like principal. The community was obviously content with the pastor, and it’s a good bet that it is also content with the principal. Why? Like I said, parishes tend to be like-minded places.
 
Acoustic, and he didn’t do it at every Mass. I’d just seen him do it before.

I basically started this thread in order to get suggestions of how to be charitable to friends and family members who we do not see eye to eye with but are upset about the situation. I did not intend for this to be a ‘bash Fr. Bill’ type conversation so I don’t feel comfortable answering any more questions or providing any further details about him. Again, I just ask for your prayers for this community. Thanks for your understanding.
 
Priests who are extremists will polarize a church. Some parishioners will love them, while the others do not. A major split occurs in the parish. No one will listen to reason. I’ve seen the bishop send a couple of priests out of the diocese, and then people get upset if that was their pet priest, and even leave the Catholic Church. I remember the time the local paper carried the story of a parish picketing the bishop’s private home.

articles.mcall.com/1993-05-31/news/2914905_1_parish-priest-600-family-parish-church-building

A few years later, while getting a signature on a document for their Boy Scout troop, I spoke to the pastor that replaced him, and asked if it was true that his church has a Jacuzzi. He obviously didn’t like the question, but assured me that his church was now a normal church just like any other Catholic church. What a job he had.

My parish also had an extremely l------ priest a few decades ago. When he was sent to another parish, the new l------ crowd he attracted also disappeared. The longtime extremist parishioners that loved him stayed, and got accustomed, to some extent, to the very solid priest that replaced him.

I’m very sorry, but there just is no changing some people, only the scenery.
 
I think just one clarification for the above: priests who constantly and unceasingly proclaim the Gospel and the true doctrine of the Church are not and never will be extremists. You didn’t say they were, but I suspect some might read it like you implied it.
 
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I don’t think he was “let go” as the headline proclaims. He’s 72 and the bishop asked for his “resignation” which mostly likely means he resigned as pastor or active ministry. I would assume he is simply retired now. And according to the article he’s collecting an Air Force pension which means he’ll live quite comfortably the rest of his life…
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Indeed, isn’t it standard practice for priests to submit their resignations at 70 (sort of like bishops do it at 75)? If that is the case, then it seems like the priest was kept on for 2 years after his resignation was submitted. I would hardly call that being punished for a wrong doing, for which he was reprimanded and did not correct. Really if you were an employee, got reprimanded or written up, continued the activity, would you really call it a punishment for being let go 2 years after the fact?
 
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