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2008-11-12 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Gay Episcopal Bishop Fomenting Dissent Among Catholic Clergy

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Posted by Anonymoose 2008-11-12 09:42|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 He's probably lying. Even though there are 50,000 priests in this country, having 75 of them dissappear for a week for a "secret" conference seems had to pull off.

Posted by Carbon Monoxide">Carbon Monoxide 2008-11-12 14:54|| 2008-11-12 14:54|| Front Page Top

#2 I'd suspect it would be easy enough if they all just happened to vacation at the same time in the same place, Carbon Monoxide, or held some sort of 'reunion'...

Don't bishops serve at the pleasure of the Vatican? I'm sure that the College of Cardinals could find seventy-five rather amusing little assignments, eg each in a single-roomed hermitage at the tops of isolated mountain tops in need of hourly prayer for the salvation of the souls of humanity. There have been libertines and dissenters in the Church since it began. We know of some of the dissenters... but somehow very few of the libertines are known of outside the walls of the Vatican.

The retreat took place three years ago. I wonder how much longer dear Bishop Robinson will rule as a prince of the Church?

Posted by trailing wife 2008-11-12 15:52|| 2008-11-12 15:52|| Front Page Top

#3 Gay Episcopal Bishop Fomenting. Fomenting. There's something not quite right about that word in this context, but I can't put my finger on it....

Posted by KBK 2008-11-12 16:33|| 2008-11-12 16:33|| Front Page Top

#4 "Bishop" Robinson is a "Bishop" only in the eyes of a few thousand Episcopalians. He is not a prince of the Church. He is not a validly ordained Bishop of the Universal Church.

I imagine most of these supposedly gay priests are probably quite old and will not be around much longer.

Posted by Carbon Monoxide">Carbon Monoxide 2008-11-12 16:54|| 2008-11-12 16:54|| Front Page Top

#5 He somehow misses that the Catholic Church has had 2,000 years of experience in dealing with heretics ...
Well, in the good old days we used to burn them at the stake, but then Martin Luther came along and spoiled all that...

Posted by Rambler in Virginia">Rambler in Virginia 2008-11-12 17:22|| 2008-11-12 17:22|| Front Page Top

#6 That's what I getting for taking a few days off: I completely missed the Episcopal bit in the headline. :-( Hopefully I'll be smarter tomorrow.

Posted by trailing wife 2008-11-12 21:11|| 2008-11-12 21:11|| Front Page Top

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