[Mark in the Old South]

Re: “Fr. Thomas Doyle, a Dominican priest who received VOTF’s first “Priest of Integrity Award."”

Just so all know where things stand. This Fr Doyle is one of the men behind the reforms in the American Catholic Church that made Catholic Divorce easier to get. If you have a problem with the way annulments are given out like candy on Halloween than this is one of the men to thank.

Re: “Sexual Liberation Movements Are Present Pictures taken at the event show at least one of the participants wearing a T-shirt with a Dignity/Boston logo. It is well known that this homosexual group does not reflect Catholic teaching.”

Oh that is rich. I think this group is sounding like a Saturday Nite Live skit staring Fr Sarducii.

[sinkspur]

Fr. Thomas Doyle was one of two priests and an attorney who wrote an extensive report to the US Bishops in 1984 detailing the extent of sexual abuse inflicted on young people by priests and warning that the fallout could bankrupt the Church.

The bishops threw the report in the trash, and threw Doyle out of the Vatican embassy in Washington. Doyle has testified in hundreds of cases against dioceses as an "expert witness", and the bishops hate his guts for it.

[sinkspur]

This Fr Doyle is one of the men behind the reforms in the American Catholic Church that made Catholic Divorce easier to get. If you have a problem with the way annulments are given out like candy on Halloween than this is one of the men to thank.

What's your sourcing for this? I've never seen this anywhere.

If you don't like the way annulments are granted, you can "blame" the American bishops, who continue to approve the norms used in the Church in the U.S.