GoFundMe douses pitch for funds for priest who burnt rainbow flag — but conservatives pick up banner

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Feanor2 said:
Well to start with he should show penitence for disobeying his Bishop. Hopefully he had the chance to do that. I don’t know whether we know that.

If he refuses to show submission that’s very serious for a priest.
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I don’t think priests are required to blindly obey their Bishops to the detriment of the faith. If a bishop ordered a priest to start officiating same sex marriages, I believe the priest would be well within his rights to disobey that request.
 
The bishop is the one to judge and apparently judged that the priest was disobedient.
 
The Bishop didn’t ask the priest to sin- the only exception to obedience as far as I know.

The priest also doesn’t get to decide what “faith” is at variance with his bishop.
 
So you are thinking this Priest should lose his career over some friends buring a rainbow flag and have this priest’s financial compensation withdrawn?

He should be re-victimized because Cardinal Cupich gave him a directicive not to have a public flag-burning service (which the priest then cancelled but carried out privately–he did not have a public event)?

And Cardinal Cupich thinks this is OK . . . so you do too?

You think this type of clericalistic thinking is OK?

Do you think the re-victimization of this Catholic priest is acceptable here?

C. Cupich wanted to send this priest off to the psychological gulags.

Then they could use THAT against him in the future (again having churchmen victimizing this person yet again).

“Well we cannot tell you specifics because of confidentiality reasons of course, but he DID need to go off and have an extensive psychiatric evaluation and treatment”

(Then as fallout, GoFundMe decides to victimize him even again.)

Less and less people are falling for this routine these days.
 
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Feanor2 said:
He did not burn the flag “privately”. He did it in the parking lot of the church accompanies by parishioners.
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Well he couldn’t very well burn it inside. And he couldn’t do it on public ground. He also needed others for fire safety reasons.
 
Cardinal Cupich also slandered people by claiming that opposition to Pope Francis was due in part to racism.
 
Feanor2 said:
The Bishop didn’t ask the priest to sin- the only exception to obedience as far as I know.

The priest also doesn’t get to decide what “faith” is at variance with his bishop.
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I don’t believe this was a matter of any liturgical abuses or actions which were detrimental to the faith of the Church. According to sources, Fr. Kalchik had asked to burn the flag publicly, but was told not to proceed because of complaints from the gay community who had already gotten wind of the proposed event. So Kalchik had the flag burned in a private ceremony.

For Cupich to order his removal because he disobeyed his order, is asinine. Evidently the reasoning behind the burning of the flag is lost to Cupich and those who support him. The flag was a representation of what Fr. Kalchik believed was something evil and should never have been allowed to hang in the Church to begin with. So the issue is no longer about upholding the faith it’s about not following orders! And just like the flag was used to send a message symbolically, it was burned to send a message as well.

Yet, to save face in the eyes of the LGBTQ community, Cupich has Kalchik removed in the hopes of fostering better relations at the expense of Church teachings.
 
Meanwhile, Cardinal Wuerhl gets to retire. No re-education, no loss of income or benefits. Just relax in his villa and sip mai thais.

And people wonder why folks think the Church hierarchy is lost?
 
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