[redgolum]

Quite a risk to publish this. The local bishop will not be happy! I will pray for the priest.

[surroundedbyblue]

My four year old offered a decade for this priest tonight, as well as all priests who are weak, tempted, persecuted, sick, lonely, or dying.

I love our priests & pray for them all, but Fr Marcel is in special need of prayer right now. May God bless him & keep him.

[marshmallow]

Yep, this statement is the "nuclear option". He is refusing to grovel and apologize, he has publicly defended himself AND he has contradicted the word of the auxiliary bishop (Knestout) in the most adamant and unambiguous way.

As a result, his ministry in the Archdiocese of Washington is almost certainly at an end and he may have to look out for incoming from his own bishop, also.