I have and my senior priest told me he was not happy with him. I told him I loved our new priest, he told me I was in the minority. That was two weeks ago, maybe three. I intend to go see Fr. Brian and I plan on finding that homily from Fr. Decelles where he mentioned being criticized. Fr. Brian said almost the same thing. He would not apologize for WHAT he said, but maybe for his “tone”....supposedly “arrogant and condescending”...wow. I disagree. Many were shocked to be told that adulatory is a mortal sin.
The senior priest needs to be reminded that their job there is not to make the congregants HAPPY, but to instruct them in God’s teachings. Ok, Fr. DeCelles said that all criticism should be done in charity, so if he wasn’t charitable, ok, apologize for that. but as far as content, OH WELL, God’s not interested in having people vote on which commandments they like and don’t like. And the priests are not there to win popularity contests.
Tell the old priest that the new priest was just comforting the afflicted and afflicting the comforted.
Lefties get off on that kind of talk.