As I understand it the bishop did not threaten Fr Hazelwood or treat him badly, because the invitation to Tony Flannery came not from him but from the parish council. It seems he may have threatened
I wanted to edit my post but the window had passed. I second what Joe says notwithstanding the fact that some men do have it more or less together and not everyone is equally damaged goods! The bit I
David, I cannot see anywhere that Pope Francis is looking for priests who are perfect.
He is cautioning against a certain type of person who “is too confident, rigid and fundamentalist”.
I am afra
Michael, I think this culture of the perfect is not the way of JESUS. The Church is falling into the ways of the world, of the corporate, of the use and abuse of people who can be picked up and used a
I never thought I'd be an ultramontanist but I clutch at the hem of Francis's garment as the last great hope for the Church of Vatican II. I even take a wicked pleasure in quoting him at the conservat
David, I don't think you read Pope Francis's comments closely enough.
"Even priests have a life story “and are not ‘mushrooms’ which sprout up suddenly at the Cathedral on their day of ordinatio
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