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Some of the idiotic things being said in a petition to retain him:

“a man of God is allowed to use his own words when talking to God”
Yes, but a priest prays the prayers of the entire Church, not his own.

“Certainly a humble people serving/God loving priest.”
Humble enough to replace 2,000 years of tradition and the faithfulness of billions with his own notions?

“The gospel is coming from his heart and lips as the Holy Spirit sees fit. glen”
The Holy Spirit works through a single man, acting in defiance, but not in the prayers of billions of Catholics, or the bishop who has been ordained to act in the Name of the Holy Spirit?

I have witnessed a Baptist minister, forced to conduct a baptism of a prisoner in a prison, where he could not do his Baptist thing. He struggled valiantly to explain the Lord’s Supper, and nearly re-created the entire Catholic Liturgy of the Word. That is the Holy Spirit in action. This is a man who was given the words of the Holy Spirit, through the hands of the Church which Jesus founded, and he has substituted his own wisdom for that of the Church.

>> If he is denounced by the Catholic Church, then he can still teach scripture as he sees fit. You don’t have to do what the system says, just to do what you think is right. <<
Of course, that presumes you don’t believe in the system, which means that if you claim to represent it, as the priest does, you are a fraud and a liar.

>> This is disturbing. What troubles me the most is the negative impact on the children. He is one priest who can communicate so well with our youth. Tying in scripture to something these young kids can understand makes a HUGE impact! That is where the focus of the Catholic Church should be <<

It’s for the chiiiillldrreeeeenn... They just can’t understand morality, if you don’t present it to them through disobedience, arrogance, and anti-authoritarianism!!! God forbid he should actually teach the children the meaning of the mass.