Letter of Rev. Fr. Charles Murr to Parish and Parents

April 5, 2004 | Rev. Fr. Charles Murr

[CatherineSiena]

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[sinkspur]

I would think that Egan, who's more of a CEO than a spiritual shepherd, would be sending the sheriff to arrest the school administration, given that they are over $600,000 in arrears to the archdiocese!

They are clearly bad fiscal managers, as well as horrible overseers of Catholic religious education.

But, it couldn't happen to a nicer guy. Egan can't stand in O'Connor's shadow.

[Land of the Irish]

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[johnb2004]

I have heard nothing good about Egan. I though all the new Vatican appointments were more Catholic than the Pope? I guess this one slipped through?

[Unam Sanctam]

Finally a priest who tries to fix the tremendous problem of faulty catechesis, and look at what they do to the good pastor (a true shepherd indeed!).

[ELS]

Interesting find. Are you a member of this parish?

[dangus]

Never trust anyone who came to power via Boston. Ever. For anything.

[johnb2004]

Interesting. I guess that would explain O'Malley? He was touted as "conservative". Looks like he is not much different from the rest of 'em.

[ELS]

They called Egan a "conservative" when he was appointed archbishop of NY. AFAIK, a Cardinal who closes a beautiful church (St. Ann's Cathedral) and sells it to the USPS to be torn down is not conservative.

[Hermann the Cherusker]

Very interesting. That was my wife's parish in NYC. She lived at 227 E. 96th St. - one block down.

[dangus]

In the media, "conservative" means he won't pay for the taxi to the abortion clinic. From what I can tell, he's another radical-kook lefty who knows only of the corporal acts of mercy. Some rather conservative types here on FR hold out hope for him, but I have none. I am starting to believe that the Pope will allow Boston, Los Angeles, and other liberal areas be literally God-forsaken, so that they may fruitfully be compared to the more orthodox areas.

[dangus]

Thanks, Kate... By the way, could you ping your list to this topic: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1111824/posts?page=50#50

It's a vanity post asking about marital vocations and Christian sexuality.

[AAABEST]

On Friday afternoon, Msgr. Thomas Gilleece, the Chancellor of the Archdiocese, informed me without further explanation that, by order of the Cardinal, I was to renew the employment contracts of the principal, the vice principal, and all the affected teachers.

Nobody held accountable, nobody punished (except the whisteblower) with the creeps allowed to continue as before. Discouraging and hurtful, but not surprising.

The message from the corruptors is "we'll destroy all you hold dear, rot the church with scandal, corrupt your children, remodel your altars, change your prayers, mock God and the flock and drain your funds to further our agenda... and there's not a damn thing you or anyone else can or will do about it."

And they're right, most don't do anything about it. Except pay lip service, pretend there isn't a problem or aid these foul creeps in their quest to turn our respective sanctuaries of worship into maggot's nests.

They're busy filling our clergy, education structure and lay-leadership with leftists, apostates and homosexuals, attracting more leftists, apostates and homosexuals, and recruiting our chilren to be leftists, apostates and homosexuals.

Doing something about this nonsense (as this pastor and some others in the laity are) is what we call works. God's work to be precise.

[Siobhan]

Everybody and their brother read this! And call Cardinal Egan's phone till it melts.

Ping your list if you have one, please....

So, Siobhan, what do you think of Cardinal Egan?
When he stops smoking with Satan I'll tell you.

[Desdemona]

Time to start investigating Egan.

[DPalm]

[I am starting to believe that the Pope will allow Boston, Los Angeles, and other liberal areas be literally God-forsaken, so that they may fruitfully be compared to the more orthodox areas.]

It is not within His Holiness' discretion to do so. It is his duty before God to appoint only holy, orthodox, and courageous men to the episcopate. If men of bad faith and character "slip through", then it is his duty before God to remove them and replace them with men who meet the above description. And if His Holiness finds that he is getting bad recommendations, then it is his responsibility to find new advisors.

This is basic common sense, not to mention stock Catholic Tradition.

Excusing the failure of the Roman Pontiff to select good bishops and to remove bad ones, through reference to a kind of hidden scheme in which he "punishes" the Church by purposely afflicting them with false shepherds, is not only perverse, it turns Catholic moral theology and the Church's perennial Tradition on its head.

[old and tired]

Didn't Egan first show his true colors to the world when he tried to remove Frank Pavone from his Priests for Life ministry? I believe Egan caved in from all the pressure.

I put Egan in the same boat with McCarrick. They are to me political animals who care little about their own souls or the souls of their flocks.

[johnb2004]

Well said. Too often, words like yours are misread as disloyal.