[Aussie Dasher]

HOW did this bloke get the job?

I would have thought San Francisco would be the last place someone with his views should be put.

Has anyone mentioned this to Benedict?

[ElkGroveDan]

“What I don't want is some kind of link between being homosexual and being a molester of minors.”

Well then close your eyes and stick your head in the sand. Enjoy your blind ignorance, at least until Judgement Day.

[indcons]

For your ping lists?

[Joe Boucher]

Great moral leaders those catholics.

[netmilsmom]

ping!

[sionnsar]

Ugh. I hope the Catholics have learned by watching the fiasco in ECUSA, lest they go down the same road.

[Battle Hymn of the Republic]

Matthew 7

7:20 Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.

7:21 Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.

7:22 Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?

7:23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.

[Incorrigible]

What we have here is.. a failure... to excommunicate.

[billorites]

Go forth and sin some more!

[King Moonracer]

The LA Times wrote that the “trail of abuse” in the Los Angeles Archdiocese and its surrounding area dioceses “leads inevitably” to St. John’s. According to the Times, 10% of St. John's ordinands for Los Angeles from 1950 to ‘65 have been accused of molesting minors. In two classes, 1966 and 1972, a third of the graduates were later accused of molestation.

And Need-a-shower was ordained in 1962. I wonder if they'll have to enforce the age limit to keep the local adults from trying to be choirboys with this assclown in charge.

[Snickersnee]

OK, Catholics, explain this to me in terms an Army Sgt. Maj. and and Anglican would understand: isn't this a promotion? And aren't all promotions in the RC church at this level signed off on in Rome? The upper echelon of the Episcopal Church in the US was allowed to fill up with fruits and nuts because, essentially, they promoted each other; ECUSA is not heiratical. But I thought that the Pope was at the top of everybody's chain of command, and therefore vested with a veto, which he could certainly use to squelch a "wet" like this guy.

[NYer]

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[billhilly]

Can anyone take the Catholic Church seriously anymore? This is just the same message the public hears ad infinitum.

[marshmallow]

Niederauer was a graduate and former English professor, spiritual director and rector of St. John’s from 1972 to 1992.

"DANGER.......DANGER.....LAVENDER MAFIA IN VICINITY......DANGER!!!!!!!"

[PzLdr]

When news of this gets to Rome, this clown is going to find out that the Church vote goes on a majority of 1, and that "1" isn't going to be too amused with this guy. Benny didn'trun the Inquisition of nothing. Buh bye!

[PzLdr]

When news of this gets to Rome, this clown is going to find out that the Church vote goes on a majority of 1, and that "1" isn't going to be too amused with this guy. Benny didn't run the Inquisition for nothing. Buh bye!

[M Kehoe]

Niederauer said he was troubled that the amendment banned any union beside marriage, a position in direct opposition to Catholic teaching.

Maybe I'm reading Leviticus wrong?

5.56mm

[CatoRenasci]

Benedict hired this clown. Sounds to me like Benedict either (i) doesn't have a clue about the seriousness of the homosexuality problem in the Roman clergy, or (ii) isn't the conservative everyone thinks him to be.

[redgolum]

So how long till an American schism? Isn't this a big "up yours" to BXVI?

[Dane]

would have thought San Francisco would be the last place someone with his views should be put.

Has anyone mentioned this to Benedict?

Actually given the seniority and the "team" the state of California has produced, this isn't a surprise, since California has become a moral hellhole.

The only conclusion I can say is that the Vatican is working at the "grass roots" level of the California moral problem, while hoping the weeds die off naturally, rather than immediately pulling them from the garden.

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

“Some who are seriously mistaken have named sexual orientation as the cause of the recent scandal regarding the sexual abuse of minors by priests..."

So then we can assume the good bishop believes those priests to have been your ordinary child abusers/child molesters?

Can't imagine why so many of the victims are boys. (sarc)

Beware the wolf in sheep's clothing.