Below, you can read an article from the NCR about how grieved parishioners are that their Paulist Priests were removed from their parish. Crocodile tears, I say, crocodile tears! Those poor people, they had a religious order of priests removed from their parish replaced with diocesan priests. The tragedy, the authoritarian move by the bishop the horror of diocesan priests replacing Paulist priests! An outrage, a scandal, a top down authoritarian decision!
Compare that with what has been written about the canceling of the Traditional Latin Mass by the current pope to the point that it can’t even be said in a parish church, it has to be moved to some other kind of building between now and its complete cancelation.
No crocodile tears for those parishioners who prefer the TLM (a much maligned minority of Catholics by the way). And those who get together to plan ways to keep its celebration, even to the point of asking FSXXP priests to set up shrines or parishes for them, they are called schismatic. But a progressive that does something similar in the opposite direction is called courageous, synodal and celebrated.
Duplicity anyone?
Press title:
A year after Paulists' removal from Ohio State, community 'fighting anger and grief'
(please note the tabernacle under the crucifix, cleverly concealed by plants and ferns so as not to distract Catholics at Mass, who might show reverence to the Most Blessed Sacrament in the tabernacle—sarcasm alert, no tabernacle with a veil of ferns, just ferns to distract Catholics from the Mass :))
The interior of the St. Thomas More Newman Center in Columbus, Ohio, is seen in 2017. This year, the diocese is overseeing a $3 million renovation of the center. (Wikimedia Commons/Nheyob)
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I occasionally attend Mass in that diocese and am surprised at that move only because they are very short staffed with priests. The reasoning is probably due to the youth of the bishop and his being influenced by higher powers.
There's a tabernacle in there? No s#!t.
Was reading your comments again, which I misread. No tabernacle under there. Just the usual VII potted plants.
The bishop is entitled to act as he did.
Diocesan priests should obviously be welcomed to encourage growth of local vocations.
Agree, Fr. AJM, the people want so much consultation and articulation when its not the way they want things.
I'm not fond of "All Are Welcome" notices when, as a closed communion, that simply isn't the case. All are welcome and their full participation is conditional.
The sour grapes crowd will disperse, students will graduate and move on and in time, it too shall come to pass.
oooh....felt banners, modern stained glass shards, track lighting, large projection screens, stackable chairs to ease vacuuming, ferns in place or in front of tabernacle....I can FEEL the spirit move me, the spirit of the age, the spirit of, (dare say I his holy name?) Francis.
What happened was that the Paulists refused to continue providing priestly ministry at the Newman Center according to the plan proposed by Bishop Fernandes. He didn't show them the door, they quit.
And the N"C"R article asserts the laypeople who came to Mass there were "evicted." I would bet real money that no one prevents them from coming to Mass there. That said, I do marvel at the mindset of people who expect that, 60 years after they left college, they expect a college Catholic ministry to be about them. I was very involved in a faith group in college (not Catholic, but that's a story for another day); as far as I know, that group is still active at my college. A number of us stayed connected for a few years after graduation, but we moved on. Wouldn't it be weird to keep showing up, now 40 years later?
Father Fox,
You have matured and are rational
Uuuuugggglllyy!
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