Posted on 07/17/2012 3:24:32 PM PDT by NYer
From a recent Chrism Mass in the Cathedral of the Diocese of Rochester, NY.
Retiring priest, Fr. Donnelly has been serving as the “Sacramental Minister” under laywoman “pastoral administrator” Anne-Marie Brogan (in alb behind the priest), who will continue on in that role.
Good bye and good riddance! Just one more year until we bid farewell to Albany NY Bishop Hubbard, who wreckovated this diocese as well.
I’m very happy for the denizens of the Rochester diocese, and prayers for patience to those in Albany.
Sadly, after 33 years of nonsense, it will take almost that long to recover with a diocesan bureaucracy firmly ensconced to resist any changes in the orthodox direction, with either open defiance or on the down-low (yes I used that term deliberately.)
The only hope is if a new ordinary is appointed who has the cajones to require that all diocesan employees submit resignations that he can choose to refuse or not on his own terms.
If he wants to be a protestant, there are dozens of denominations out there that would welcome him. If he wants female clerics, the Episcopalians would be glad to get him. If he wants to minister to the homosexual crowd, double ditto.
Why do these people stay in a Church that they obviously don't believe in? In business, we wouldn't accept a guy taking an executive salary from Coca-Cola and promoting Pepsi every time he turned around . . . no matter how much the guy said he liked Coca-Cola and just wanted it to change to be more like Pepsi . . . .
Yet Clark is in “full communion” with Rome. Is it any wonder many Catholics do not take the appellation of “full communion” (or threat of lack thereof) seriously?
It’s hard to defend the Faith when Rome has failed to defend its faithful from wolves like Clark.
Looks like Fr. Donnelly is holding up a plate of tacos and everyone else a bowel of Chex-mix. Nuts!
Good riddance. Unfortunately, after 33 years, the terrible legacy of a generation of improperly taught Catholic children will take quite a while to undo. They don’t know what they don’t know and they are raising their own children now.
More good seed that the crows will snatch away.
Come, Holy Spirit, and enkindle the hearts of your faithful.
Maybe if they reassigned a few of these loose cannon/canon Bishops and Priests to some more exotic places, like Antartica, or Siberia, or some place like that, before they reach 75, they might make other wobbly clerics think a bit more carefully before going off the deep end theologically or liturgically.
Sounds like a real pain in the ass.
the church, the country, and the world are where they right here right now because the watchman slept.
There is nothing wrong with Clark that burning him at the stake after a proper auto-da-fe would not cure (at least on earth). We need not limit the discipline to Clark. We need to add Howard Hubba Hubba Hubbard, Rembert Weakland, Charles Curran, and soooo many, many more of their ilk.
**that Clark was not to defend the man’s opinions any more.
But Clark didn’t back down.**
I bet the REAL Catholics of the Rochester diocese are so happy that he will be leaving soon.
Does he stay until he is replaced? Or has his replacement even been named yet?
This picture is a pi8cture of liturgical abuse.
Only the priest is to be at the altar, unless altar servers are there.
Also the hosts do not look genuine.
I agree with you, “Good riddance.”
Hopefully the woman goes too. She knows nothing about liturgy by participating in this way.
You know what they say, “The walls of hell are lined with the skulls of bishops.”
Well, here’s another skull — although I really can’t judge. Perhaps he will re-covert on his deathbed.
Just be patient, time does fly fast.
The burning at the stake will never happen.
Isn’t this the diocese that Bishop Peter John “Fulton” Sheen once ministered? Things sure changed rather quickly after he left.
The Bishop was obviously not being a very good 'shepherd', if he was allowing his flock to go over the cliff of sin, without even attempting to 'call them back' to repentance.
More’s the shame. As Cicero once said: O tempora, O mores! They would make a lovely light!
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