[Loyalist]

The signatories include the maverick, outspoken Father Raymond Gravel. Father Gravel -- who had a rough-and-tumble youth as a prostitute and barman in a leather bar before he entered the priesthood -- has often criticized the church's views on gays in the past.

Why do I have the sick feeling that these priests are going to be named as defendants in some ugly legal proceedings?

[Tax-chick]

Prof. Potworowski and another expert, Guy Ménard, a professor of religious studies at the University of Quebec in Montreal, agreed there hasn't been such a broad, open protest in Quebec since the 1968 Humanae Vitae encyclical that declared contraception immoral.

Interesting. It's rare for the connection between contraception and homosexuality to be openly acknowledged.

[sassbox]

I was thinking the same thing.

[Incorrigible]

What we have here is... a failure... to excommunicate.

[Aliska]

If homosexual acts are right, the bible and church has always been wrong, and there's no point in having a church and believing in the Christian religion. We may as well worship nature.

[siunevada]

The 19 who signed the letter could be gambling on the fact that there is a shortage of priests in Quebec to avoid disciplinary measures from their bishops

Doesn't matter. Show a little backbone and suspend all of them. They think they are independent agents anyway so send them packing. There are dioceses in this world where the faithful might see a priest only once a month. Better an actual priest than a pretender.

[NYer]

It should be interesting to read the response from Marc Cardinal Ouellet. He was amongst the top 12 cardinals to be considered 'papabile'.

[Antoninus]

Nice to see these clowns finally getting flushed out. Much of the damage they were doing to the Church was cloak-and-dagger until very recently.

Let there be light.

[Daffy]

I think several bishops will soon be identified as either orthodox or otherwise. My bet: otherwise.

[Teófilo]

All these priests have shown themselves to be unfit for ther ministry. Let the ax fall and the heads roll where they may.

[Mercat]

"Does the church "have the last word on the mysteries of political, social, family and sexual life?" "

Ah, well, yes.

[marshmallow]

Prof. Potworowski and another expert, Guy Ménard, a professor of religious studies at the University of Quebec in Montreal, agreed there hasn't been such a broad, open protest in Quebec since the 1968 Humanae Vitae encyclical that declared contraception immoral.

Nineteen priests is a "broad" protest? How many priests are there in Quebec? Twenty seven?

Looks like they've learned nothing from the 1968 protests, either. The effect on Church teaching will be the same as the effect of the 1968 protests. Zero.

The faithful Catholic should be grateful to the protestors for performing a public service. This letter identifies priests and parishes which will be avoided by those not wishing to fulfill their Sunday obligation at parishes infected with the homosexual subculture and propaganda.

[Unam Sanctam]

Issues of sexual morality are part of the core teachings of the deposit of faith as reflected in Scripture and Sacred Tradition from the beginning of the Church. They are not merely prudential matters as are many socio-political issues on which the Church voices its views.

[Frank Sheed]

Frank's "Jeopardy"!!

Define "heresy.

In an unusual public dissent with their leaders, 19 Quebec Roman Catholic priests published yesterday an open letter taking issue with the church's opposition to both same-sex marriage and the ordination of active gays into the priesthood.

[ArrogantBustard]

Rule One: No Poofters!

These 19 need to go.

Now.