"The Passion" advisor-priest suspended!

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kmktexas:
Deacon 2006 is right, your reasoning is seriously flawed. You can’t moan and groan that the Bishops did not exercise discipline enough back in the 70s and 80s (when most of the cases of priestly sexual misconduct occurred) and at the same time complain that the Bishops are exercising discipline now.

And it’s not just a matter of saying a “little Latin Mass” or even just of discipline. If the media coverage is true (and it may not be accurate) this priest has alligned himself with schismatics. Schism is a really big deal. This particular schism has hurt thousands of Catholics and torn unnumbered families apart.

This is not meant to minimize priestly sexual misconduct or the action or inaction of the Bishops involved. That was a grave and serious matter. So is what is happening to this priest.

And of course, we don’t know the whole story anyway. Only what the press chooses to feed us.
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I agree. However, I do understand how at first look, it looks very lopsided. The priests known for sexual misconduct with children and the priest who says Latin Mass. The Latin mass is not what is at issue, but who the priest said the latin mass for.
In our parish, we have a Latin Mass once a month. It is not done for a schismatic group but for our parish. Our Bishop supports this, however a couple of years ago, one of the priest in the diocese, went to our bishop and admitted to sexual misconduct with a minor. This priest was at once suspended. This was reported in both the local secular paper as well as the local Catholic paper. So as far as our Bishop is concerned, I feel that is doing what is right. Now are diocese is still young, 15 years old
but old enough to see some abuses coming to light.
 
Faustina,

You bring up a very good point. People talk about “the Bishops” as if all the Bishops then and now, think and act as one.

You seem to have a Bishop who is level headed and consistent. There have been Bishops who were in denial about the misconduct of their priests, who relied on fautly “professional opinions” and/or just plain hid their heads in the sand. There are Bishops who are openly hostile to the Latin Mass. These are all individual Bishops.

There have been a few Bishops who have been soft on sex issues and tough on traditionalists. We should absolutely question the priorites of those individuals. This does not necessarily translate into a universal failing of each and every Bishop in the church who are so often identified collectively as “the Bishops”.
 
Deogratias,

Very enlightening. There seems to be more than a few agendas at work here. Thanks for posting the link.
 
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Faustina:
. . . . I do understand how at first look, it looks very lopsided. The priests known for sexual misconduct with children and the priest who says Latin Mass. The Latin mass is not what is at issue, but who the priest said the latin mass for.
In our parish, we have a Latin Mass once a month. It is not done for a schismatic group but for our parish. Our Bishop supports this, however a couple of years ago, one of the priest in the diocese, went to our bishop and admitted to sexual misconduct with a minor. This priest was at once suspended.So as far as our Bishop is concerned, I feel that is doing what is right.
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What we need is more holy Bishops like yours. If this were the case, we’d wouldn’t have either the schisms or the scandals. The question is, how can this be accomplished?
 
**Fr. Stephen Somerville was covered in **the liturgy forum under the LETTER OF RECANTATION thread.

Also just GOOGLE his name and read all about him.
 
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