Priest apologizes for homily

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Moved it to Catholic News.

As for the homily, he should have known better. I’m glad he apologized.
 
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I stand squarely behind this priest and his homily. I’m sorry he was pressured to apologize.
The homily must be listened to completely…not just a snippet taken out of context.
People hear and read only what they want.
 
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Is there a link to the whole homily somewhere? His church suddenly “has a new website” and I cannot find the homily itself. I’d like to be fair and listen to the whole thing before I comment.
 
The public link to the homily vanished. I can testify that certain words were taken out of context and twisted. The Priest’s homily was excellent and very appropriate for immigration Sunday. The fact that he apologized only reflects that he was pressured to do so by someone else. That is sad.
…strange and deceiving world.
 
I’m sure there’s a transcript out there in television land. I’ll keep looking for it.

Since the bishop has addressed the situation I will defer to his judgment in this case, except to say that the Muslims I know and work with aren’t a danger to society or Christianity even if they immigrated. They’re just ordinary folks. Several of them were fleeing persecution in their own homelands.
 
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https://www.cair.com/press_releases scroll to see

CAIR hefting weight right and left.
CAIR was right on top of this priest practically after the homily was out. I suspect the Archbishop probably wanted one less court trial? Not sure why a blessed Catholic homily was retracted. Strange times
Wondering how and the heck closely our priests and bishops are watched.
Time for a canary in a coal mine…or maybe the priest is the canary.
Something to think about…

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The public link to the homily vanished. I can testify that certain words were taken out of context and twisted. The Priest’s homily was excellent and very appropriate for immigration Sunday. The fact that he apologized only reflects that he was pressured to do so by someone else. That is sad.
…strange and deceiving world.
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If he in fact said this, which was reported:

“I believe it is essential to consider the religion and worldview of the immigrants or refugees,” VanDenBroeke told parishioners, according to CAIR. “More specifically, we should not be allowing large numbers of Muslims asylum or immigration into our country.”

then, yes, apologizing was a good and necessary thing. That statement does not reflect the teaching of the Church. Now, if that’s a complete misquote and he did not say it, nor say that Islam is the biggest threat to America, then that’s a different story. But I’m having difficulty imagining someone like Archbishop Hebda not getting to the bottom of this before asking the priest to apologize.
 
There isn’t much to debate here without the original homily which has mysteriously disappeared. Again, I can testify that the homily didn’t deserve an apology…
The biggest take away here is the close watch and swift reaction of CAIR…something for all Catholics to think about.
Secondly, the Archbishop’s redaction of the homily.
 
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I thought a fair amount of it was quoted in the above link.

I would also think, if so, the quick action to pull down the homily is something else to think about.
 
The audio of the homily was over 12 minutes. Hearing the entire homily is necessary to understand that there was nothing wrong from a Catholic perspective.
The fact that the homily was redacted so quickly probably reflects the swift and heavy weight of CAIR. Generally, who else would have complained? Carefully look at CAIR. And show me another organization that saw and wanted the homily removed.
 
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Or that the CAIR complaint was on point and the diocese requested it be pulled (as from what I understand) they said the homily was against Catholic teaching.
 
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It is a done deal with residual observations for all Catholics to take note of.
I am thankful I had a chance to hear the homily. Sorry you did not.
 
Yes, I stated that up thread. The full context of the homily was appropriate on immigration Sunday.

I had a good hunch it would disappear and actually considered typing out what I heard but did not because I am feeling a little under the weather.

So I think this is the trend. Our priests and bishops are careful about what they say…sticking strictly to the Gospel…which isn’t a bad idea.
 
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No kidding
There is very little discussion about that here.
 
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