Posted on 07/28/2010 7:16:28 PM PDT by schmootman
The Archdiocese of New York's answer to the gay goings-on at St. Francis Xavier parish stretches belief. (VIDEO)
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The parish is under the jurisdiction of the NY Province of the Society of Jesus.As such it is not actually answerable to the Archbishop of NY. My brother in law and his partner attended Xavier for some years before moving to Fla. While I have no problems with my wife’s brother, he’s a good guy and so is his partner of 20 years, I must admit to being uncomfortable when attending Xavier with them. Much more so than walking the Village or even visiting Provincetown in the summer. Several times he’d have Christmas Eve and the family would go to Xavier.I would instead take my wife and daughter to Mass at my old parish on 22nd Street, Epiphany.It was upsetting in a way since I’d spent 4 good years attending Xavier HS. Hence my tag.
Dolan has issued a statement that a gay-friendly parish in New York is in sacramental union with the Church, when that parish clearly advocates homosexual behavior. By the way, when Dolan was in Milwaukee, he refused to repudiate or reprimand the large number of priests who opposed a One-Man/One-Woman Marriage Amendment. Catholics, wake up! The apostacy and cowardice of our bishops matches that of the English bishops in the 1500’s. The overwhelming majority are in de facto schism. Let’s pray about it but let’s also pick up the telephone and tell them their hypocrisy has not gone unnoticed.
I watched the Michael Vooris video at pewsitter.com about the NYC parish and Archbishop Dolan.
Based on my observation of his behavior as archbishop in Milwaukee, I consider Dolan an orthodox pastor. For example, there was a woman in the diocese who was involved in the whole woman ordination nonsense. Dolan corresponded with her, privately, for some time before she went ahead with the “ordination.” At that point he told her that she was excommunicated and referred her situation to the proper authority in Rome.
His style is not confrontational and many here wished he would have done more to expunge the Weakland legacy. But his concern is foremost for the souls of the sinners.
Based upon his appearance on Father Groschel’s EWTN show, in which Courage was openly discussed and lauded by both Dolan and Groschel, I think Vooris may be hasty. I would give the Archbishop some time to win over to orthodoxy as many as possible in a very tough situation.
And certainly to call Dolan a coward and a hypocrite is a most uncharitable reaction. He’s been in NYC about one year. He has taken on the secularists strongly. Give him some time to deal with the heterodox, even if you would personally use different tactics.
Dolan is also the man who did absolutely nothing to silence the many Milwaukee priests who publicly opposed the Wisconsin Marriage Amendment. He is a coward and a hypocrite. I thought only leftists used the “uncharitable” accusation when they didn’t want to hear the truth.
Archbishop Dolan wrote and spoke out in favor of the Wisconsin Marriage Amendment. He also allowed Catholic opponents to express their view. This is usually the best course concerning public-policy, not doctrinal, matters. Given the amount you (and I) don’t know about all that the Archbishop has done, and is doing, charity requires that we put the most favorable interpretation on his actions. In my experience, it is usually conservatives who are charitable to a fault.
The misguided “charity” you advocate is that which allowed two/thirds of the sitting bishops to, at a minimum, cover-up sex abuse by their priests. http://www.bishop-accountability.org/AtAGlance/data.htm
I don’t know how you separate public policy from doctrine, but the average Catholic is totally unprepared to make these fine distinctions. Dolan’s cowardice on the Marriage Amendment was truly scandalous. Thousands of people had to conclude that the Catholic Church has no particular position on the sanctity of marriage.
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