[NYer]

Bishop Braxton

[stop_fascism]

How many of us perform marriages when we know that people have very little understanding of the sacrament and all they really want is a nice setting? Do we stop doing them?" Voelker asked.

Duh, yeah. How do these people get to be priests? God bless Bishop Braxton.

[Antoninus]

"He has no capability of seeing anything other than his own views," Voelker said of Braxton.

This priest should be in some deep, serious doo-doo for saying this to the press.

[Antoninus]

"How many of us perform marriages when we know that people have very little understanding of the sacrament and all they really want is a nice setting? Do we stop doing them?" Voelker asked.

Apparently, the same goes for Holy Orders...

Good gravy. This priest gets the "better-to-remain-silent and-be-thought-a-fool-than-to-open-your-mouth-and-remove-all-doubt" award.

[MockTurtle]

Consider that Bishop Braxton’s predecessor was Bishop Wilton Gregory. I am sure the good Bishop Braxton has inheirited a mess.

[Patriotic1]

did not bring a required baptismal certificate?

Oooo-kay.

[Coleus]

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[SuziQ]

The controversy also resulted in a statement from Braxton to St. Michael's pastor, the Rev. James Voelker, and by inference to all diocesan pastors, that they need to ensure that those who seek confirmation, whether adults or young people, should first receive the necessary educational and spiritual preparation.

Why on earth would that be considered controversial? As I asked my CCD classes, when they complained that it took three years of classes to prepare for Confirmation, "Why would you want to be confirmed into a religion about which you know nothing?"

[marshmallow]

Schilling, an employee of King's House in Belleville, a religious retreat run by the Oblates of Mary Immaculate, did not bring a required baptismal certificate and was not known to the pastor of her home parish, Braxton said in a statement.

I guess this is what you call a "walk in".

Unlike hairdressing salons, they're usually unwelcome in Confirmation ceremonies.

[AuH2ORepublican]

In my archdiocese, candidates for confirmation must take more than 10 hours of special classes before they are deemed sufficiently prepared. If that young lady has not received adequate preparation, then she should sign up for a confirmation course instead of expecting the good Bishop to confirm her nilly-willy.

[Cicero]

God bless Bishop Braxton.

Obviously he has his work cut out for him and has inherited a mess. Here’s another article about a “protest” because he won’t release details about pedophile priests.

http://www.belleville.com/100/story/19062.html

When there is a shortage of priests because liberals has mismanaged the diocese, and when many of the priests you have are disloyal, then the bishop is between a rock and a hard place.

Where do you draw the line? Is it better to have a bad and disobedient priest like the one in this story, who can say the Mass and give people communion but is a source of scandal, or is it better to have no priest in that parish at all? Hard choices.