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Fiorenza is "no more a Catholic than Ian Paisley - and no more a bishop than Billy Graham".

Quoting the room-temperature Oswald Baker, whose congregation numbered 20 before his retirement.

9 posted on 07/15/2004 8:43:26 PM PDT by sinkspur (There's no problem on the inside of a kid that the outside of a dog can't cure.)

Fiorenza may well be LESS of a Catholic than Ian Paisley but he is a bishop. In this instance, like the twice-daily experience of a stopped clock, Fiorenza just happens to be right in suspending a disobedient priest who rejects the authority of his diocesan ordinary.

If Fellay's excommunication is ever lifted and he becomes a diocesan ordinary (which, absent repentance and penance, may God forbid) of the actual Roman Catholic Church, will you expect his priests to obey him? Will it depend on his intentions? Does the end justify the means?

191 posted on 07/16/2004 9:11:35 AM PDT by BlackElk (Dean of Discipline of the Tomas de Torquemada Gentlemen's Club)