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You may remember that I wrote about Rev. William Freeman last month, in a post about Catholic weddings. <\/a><\/strong>\u00a0 Though I quoted extensively from his own website, and used his own words, he took issue with my conclusions, and asked for an opportunity to respond. I agreed. You can read his essay here.\u00a0 <\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

$\"\"$ <\/a>I think his response speaks for itself. But I would like to make one clarification, which I mentioned to him privately in an e-mail. Rev. Freeman states, \u201cThe problem here is that the deacon\u2019s construct is faulty. His starting point is that all things authentically \u2018Catholic\u2019 must be \u2018Roman Catholic.'\u201d<\/p>\n

No. I never said that. My problem with Rev. Freeman is that while he calls himself \u201cCatholic,\u201d unlike numerous Catholic rites (notably from the Eastern and Byzantine tradition) his particular Catholic church is not in communion with Rome<\/em> and\u00a0 at least one Catholic bishop has declared his church to be in schism. <\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

A final footnote: Rev. Freeman\u2019s church traces its apostolic lineage to Bishop Carlos Duarte Costa<\/a><\/strong> of Brazil, who was excommunicated by the Catholic Church in 1945.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"