Forty years.
This man’s prominence isn’t due to his Catholicism, but due to his leftism. As far as the Catholic Church is concerned, he’s just another (soon to be ex) priest. Not only did they not make him a saint, they didn’t even make him a bishop.
In fact, looking at his background, I’m not sure they ever made him a pastor! He had been a secular expert at Vatican II on sociology, before drifting so far to the left, so it’s not like he never had a significant Church position, but he taught sociology, not theology. (One big, fat guess why: theology must be taught in accord with church teachings, that’s why so many universities offer “Religious Studies” instead of theology.) The expertise he offered was on interfaith relations with Buddhists.
And these men call themselves *another Christ*?????? What an affront to God and the name of Jesus.
Satan gets his best mileage out of people like that. Those who claim to represent Christ and behave in such an abominable manner.
They advised him to stay in the priesthood and concentrate on his academic work in religious sociology.
They're complicit. Instead of properly dealing with a child molester, they just rearrange things a little bit and cover it up and nobody is the wiser, until the victim has the courage to speak up.
For being such advocates of babies on the abortion issue, they sure bail on the kids once they're born.
Matthew 18:1-6 1 At that time the disciples came to Jesus, saying, "Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?" 2And calling to him a child, he put him in the midst of them 3and said, "Truly, I say to you, unless you turn and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. 4 Whoever humbles himself like this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.
5 "Whoever receives one such child in my name receives me, 6but whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a great millstone fastened around his neck and to be drowned in the depth of the sea.