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Disturbing!
From the article:
“You can see it even more in the saga of Rod Stephens. Father Rod was prominent for years in Orange County: director of the liturgical office that issued the anti-kneeling memos, head of evangelization for the diocese, organizer of the Jubilee 2000 project, the bishop’s expert on architectural renovation, and a man appearing openly at events with his male escort. “What do you want from me?” Bishop Brown plaintively asked when local Catholics objected—and when they asked if he was responsible for Stephens’ behavior as a priest, the tired bishop insisted, ‘No, I’m not.’”
You gotta be kidding right?
“Along the way, you are exposed to moments like the reported explanation, from the bishop’s notoriously foot-in-mouth spokesman, that if the diocese tried to control its actively homosexual clergy, ‘there would be so few priests left we’d have to turn it over to lay people to run it.’ Or the memo from diocesan officials during Fr. Stephens’ tenure that insisted teen-chastity programs are suitable only for “homeschoolers and fundamentalists.” Or the right-wing protesters, complete with banners, who paraded for photographers in front of the bishop’s residence. Or the letter from the vocations director of the diocese, which denounced Mother Angelica’s EWTN television network for ‘religious intolerance and arrogance’ and labeled the Franciscan University of Steubenville, a conservative Catholic college in Ohio, ‘a pathetic organization of bitter people.’”
So we traditional minded Catholics are bunch of homophobic, intollerant terrorists? What a bunch of dribble.
Disturbing!
From the article:
“You can see it even more in the saga of Rod Stephens. Father Rod was prominent for years in Orange County: director of the liturgical office that issued the anti-kneeling memos, head of evangelization for the diocese, organizer of the Jubilee 2000 project, the bishop’s expert on architectural renovation, and a man appearing openly at events with his male escort. “What do you want from me?” Bishop Brown plaintively asked when local Catholics objected—and when they asked if he was responsible for Stephens’ behavior as a priest, the tired bishop insisted, ‘No, I’m not.’”
You gotta be kidding right?
“Along the way, you are exposed to moments like the reported explanation, from the bishop’s notoriously foot-in-mouth spokesman, that if the diocese tried to control its actively homosexual clergy, ‘there would be so few priests left we’d have to turn it over to lay people to run it.’ Or the memo from diocesan officials during Fr. Stephens’ tenure that insisted teen-chastity programs are suitable only for “homeschoolers and fundamentalists.” Or the right-wing protesters, complete with banners, who paraded for photographers in front of the bishop’s residence. Or the letter from the vocations director of the diocese, which denounced Mother Angelica’s EWTN television network for ‘religious intolerance and arrogance’ and labeled the Franciscan University of Steubenville, a conservative Catholic college in Ohio, ‘a pathetic organization of bitter people.’”
So we traditional minded Catholics are bunch of homophobic, intollerant terrorists? What a bunch of dribble.
