[marshmallow]

This is quite something from a man whom I've come to regard as the worst Catholic bishop in the US and he has some extremely tough competition for that award.

There are numerous examples of his pastoral ineptitude and weakness but one of his most underwhelming achievements was his abysmal behavior and lack of moral courage during the Terri Schiavo horror.

[madprof98]

Lynch is really bad news. For him to say this is nothing short of incredible.

[SumProVita]

Perhaps people have been praying for him.

;-)

[goodwithagun]

My husband's grandfather attended church in the Tampa/Bradenton area. When he died his services were at the church, and his ashes were buried in the memorial garden there. That is where my husband's grandmother's ashes had been buried a few years before. John's last request was to have “Anchors Away” played for his recessional. He was after all a Pearl Harbor survivor. The priest had no problem with this, but later called my in-laws with sad news. The organist and music director refused. We had to get special permission from the bishop to get the song played. However, at the end of the services the organist kept playing up in the loft and would not let us play “Anchors Away.” My husband went up to the loft to discover that the door was locked and neither the organist nor music director would open it. We found out later they were prepared to play the organ for an hour if need be to prevent “Anchors Away” from being played as the recessional. Everyone was in tears at the atrocity. After a very angry campaign to get the two fired, it was discovered that the music director and the organist had a homosexual relationship and voluntarily left the church.

[George from New England]

My wife works at a St. Pete diocesan parish office. We have for years wanted to participate in an outside health-care sharing plan for our family, like Samaritan Ministries. This bishop Lynch has been a dictator and refused to let any employee buy outside of their mandated policy. So for years I had to pay twice for my wife’s coverage, thanks to Lynch’s ‘lack of choice’ mandate.

We would love to take the cash in her paycheck and buy it ourselves.

[FamiliarFace]

Ditto to everything you said.

Worst Catholic bishop in the U.S.

I wonder what happened to him that he has suddenly taken an interest in doing the morally correct thing all of a sudden.

[ichabod1]

Thank God St. John Paul III stepped in and took a hand in the matter.

[floriduh voter]

Thank you. Bishop Lynch went against Pope John Paul re: Terri. Bishop Lynch had a close call with his own health and somehow, he recovered. Why is it the bad ones always get better? He’s super bad.