I once saw "Father" Richard McBrien on ABC's NIGHTLINE, Ted Koppel's show that Disney/ABC may dump for Letterman. The topic was exorcism and diabolical possession. McBrien DENIED the reality of supernatural evil. He dismissed the theological category of a supernatural mystery of inquity (i.e., Satan)as mythology, etc.. This is all available on the transcripts. Now, his bishop had to have heard about that. The president of Notre Dame must have heard about this. Rome, for God's sake, must have heard of this. WHY is this guy still a priest? He's a professional heretic. This was several years ago. Why is McBrien still walking around under the delusion that he is a Catholic priest in good standing while that conservative guy Gruner is targeted for discipline, and that other orthodox conservative Fr. Fessio is being silenced by his Jesuit superiors in California? This is nutty. How many active queer priests do you think they have in California? And Fr. Joseph Fessio of Ignatius Press is the one targeted for hazing like this by liberals because he's orthodox? Who's running this circus? Fr. Fessio is reassigned while Weakland continues his iconoclastic wrecking crew? I mean, that makes me want to throw up. If JP II is the hero of orthodoxy his admirers make him out to be, get rid of Weakland. Send Law to a monastery to do penance for covering for pedophiles. Defrock Richard McBrien and hire some Catholics to teach at Notre Dame. Put Georgetown under interdict. This is just common sense.
I agree with everything you said, howlingly...Just a note to put it over the top, were you aware that after Weakland destroyed the Cathedral, he signed his work by having a large portrait of himself put in a roundel on a side aisle? In the portrait, he's smirking. A far cry from medieval donors (and even bishops) who had themselves painted in at the far corner of an altarpiece, kneeling and begging for mercy along with all the other sinners. I guess Weakland has moved beyond pre-Vatican II things like sinfulness and humility.