Priest caused schism in Rochester, NY speaks on Pope Benedict XVI

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Yeah. Why should we waste our time reading the opinions of a dissident?
 
Actually, I thought the article leading up to the interview was fairly good. Too bad I can’t say the same for the good priest’s opinions. One more to add to the prayer list.
 
I do not ask you to read the article, **but please pray for Jim Callan, **the excommunicated priest from this article, as well as the hundreds of souls he has misled in heresy.

Here is why I ask. Yesterday at daily mass, my priest ( very orthodox and pious priest) told us a story from his semiary days attended with Jim Callan.
He noted that often he would see Callan prostrate in front of the Blessed Sacrament deep in worship. He noted that Jim always had a rosary in his hands and was devoted to Our Blessed Mother. Those are the memories my priest has of a once faithful priest now in trouble.

My priest has asked this several time of us - for us to remember Callan in prayer. Very moving plea.

Now he has asked that we pray for a miracle to happen in the heart to this man leading many astray.

Thank you for your prayers. This man needs us now.
 
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Not everyone is called to read the words of a dissident. After discernment you have chosen not to read the article…understood. OK
 
The press likes to give space to Catholic disenters. The article opens by quoting the dispariging remarks of other newpapers. This is circular inflamatory reporty where the reports create the news.

Unfortunatly it looks like many in the area have been lead astray. Here’a an editorial by Mario Cuomo.
 
BAHAHAHA! I must say it’s interesting that Fr Callan says that Pope Benedict XVI should ‘listen to more gays’. Obviously someone’s purient self interest is much more of an authority than the Bible, the Holy Spirit or thousands of years of tradition. Do these people LISTEN to themselves? Homosexuals can be very very nice people. No one says they are not children of God by virtue of their urges. OTOH because they’ve convinced Fr C that their love is ‘sincere’ he can simply throw out the Bible and the teachings of the Church?

I agree, the man needs prayer. Why do they not see the ridiculous position they are in? He says he’s Catholic but he picks and chooses what to affirm and what to deny…based on his opinion. Relativism raised to an art form.

Lisa N
 
The article shows a bizarre denial of the truth.

Callan is excommunicated. He is no longer a catholic priest.
The writer - and Callan both dare to skirt around this basic fact?

You cannot take their opinions seriously when they cannot even acknowledge the truth of the excommunication.
 
He was removed due to just 3 “errors” ? Heck, looks like 3 strikes to me, you’re out …

james
 
I was going to post about this article myself. MR. Callan is so clueless, I want to laugh.
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**City:**Are you disappointed by the Ratzinger selection?
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**Callan: **It’s heartbreaking that the church would elect a leader who has a known record for discrimination against women and gay people. It’s one thing for the cardinal to hold those views. It’s another thing for 70-plus cardinals to vote for a man who’s already on record as saying that women are excluded from priesthood and gay people cannot express themselves sexually or get married.
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Maybe you could forgive them if this was an unknown candidate from some country in Africa and we don’t know where he stands and all of a sudden he comes out with these conservative views. But we already know exactly where Cardinal Ratzinger stands, and they chose him. To me, it’s very sad and disrespectful of the church. It seems the people in power just want to keep the old boys’ club in power.
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**City: **Did you see this coming?
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**Callan: **No. I’m surprised. I could not believe it when I heard Cardinal Ratzinger was the one. I just could not believe it. I thought for sure people would see the need for a new church. The particular cardinals who voted apparently don’t share the viewpoints of the church.
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The Cardinals don’t share the viewpoints of the church?
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I’ll pray for him, but it’s hard to imagine this guy coming back to the true faith - he’s pretty far gone.
 
I will pray for him because he needs and and because jrabs asked me to.
 
I will pray for the priest in the article. Protestantism never ends. It is prideful priests that can’t accept dogma. He really made a choice and I am sorry that he felt that his ministry was more important than keeping the church whole. I feel his is misguided, but willful and therfore of leading people astray. It is sin. I most definitely will pray for him, as I do for all the fallen away Catholics that I know.
 
Typical heterodox disaster. Nothing new under the sun here.

Classic example of damning people through compassion. “I have sympathy with gays and women-who-would-be-priests. They are in pain. Therefore, the solution is to remove their pain, give them what they want.”

The road to hell, as has been observed so many times, is paved with good intentions.
 
Who said “Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.”?

I read Callan but I just don’t “get” what he’s saying. Looking at the church as a political entity, with a pope who has “policies”, and looking for a new pope with new policies is so un-realistic, to me. I don’t even know why anybody *expects * that to happen.

There is obviously a talk-campaign that is designed to “keep up the pressure” for the changes in the church that some want. Some at the same time are trying to establish a “theology” for change, to somehow improve on the theology we have based on the Bible. Ironically, that theology is fueled by the trend towards “skepticism” about the Bible, which carries the more precise technical term “minimalism.” Minimalism is a viewpoint that says nothing in the Bible is true, except what can be established independently chiefly by archeological evidence. Some of the simplistic logic they use is that there is a bias against women in the Bible based on cultural influences during the early Church.

Creating a lot of skepticism and doubt is the greatest ally of the heterdox believers.
 
**City: **A recent editorial in The Nation ends with an intriguing question: whether “Catholics who identify with the opening to the world of Pope John XXIII will now reclaim their church.” Is that likely to happen?

**Callan: **It’s more likely to happen now than it was last week. Because I think a lot of people believed things would change at the death of John Paul II. People told us: “Don’t rock the boat. This pope will die.” People said it like that. And now they have someone who is even more conservative.

But I think this is the opening. And I think change will have to happen at a grassroots level. I think this is the John XXIII moment.
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:eek: This poor priest really needs prayers ….Rebellion!! This is too scary…there are too many priests and laity who think this way….:eek:
 
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:eek: This poor priest really needs prayers ….Rebellion!! This is too scary…there are too many priests and laity who think this way….:eek:
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I agree. This is very scary. How big is this rebellion Catholics face?
 
Just in case anyone is curious about what this guy did…

One of the things I first learned of him was that he was having women stand on the altar and help him consecrate. There is more but I didn’t bother listening to it all.

In another post, Bishop Clark was brought up and we were discussing him, this is the guy the Bishop Clark supported until the vatican ordered it all to end. Which, by the way, included a visit from Ratzinger.

So let’s look at the facts. Callan and Clark both don’t approve of Ratzinger, yet one is excommunicated while the other is promoting more “progressive” ideals in his diocese (Rochester).
 
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