Mkay. Perfectly obvious, of course. And the Reporter\u2019s reaction of an upraised middle finger to the bishop was perfectly predictable too.<\/p>\n
Really?? I never would have known the National Catholic Reporter was heterodox if this pedophile-hiding, lip-service-to-truth giving bishop hadn\u2019t said anything.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
As I mentioned the other day, the failure of our bishops creates unpaid bills. This is one of them. Bad teachers and demagogues step in from both right and left to assure distrustful members of the flock that they have the answers and will keep them safe and all the rest. The Reporter is doing this as much as ChurchMilitantTV. And my reader\u2019s note makes clear why: namely that we find it very hard to trust that the Holy Spirit keeps working through the office of the bishop when the person of the bishop behaves like a fool or a criminal.<\/p>\n
Recovering (or in many cases, discovering) that the Holy Spirit is the soul of the Church and not any mortal man (including, especially, ourselves) is one of the crucial things that has to happen if we are to learn how to become discerning Catholics.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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