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Unsurprisingly, Bishop Conry ("Bishop Kieran," as he preferred to have himself called up to the end) was known both for his hatred of the Traditional Mass (that "can't become a regular Sunday Mass," and can only be granted if the "stable group" is "sizable") and traditional doctrine on... moral questions ("Church teaching on birth control could be wrong"), also considering himself droll enough to make jokes about the Sacraments and hip enough to meet repeatedly and unapologetically with homosexual activists and Call to Action. And who can forget his belief that it is not possible to talk about salvation to the young and that regular confession is a bad idea? All of this was apparently enough for the Conference of Bishops of England and Wales to choose him as chair of the Department of Evangelisation and Catechesis, and therefore the most important bishop in England overseeing the teaching of Catholic Doctrine...


1 posted on 09/28/2014 12:15:03 PM PDT by ebb tide
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2 posted on 09/28/2014 12:18:29 PM PDT by ebb tide
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“What is needed is not a slick media-savvy operation, but enforced purification in the ranks of hierarchs. Yes, there was one traitor in the original Apostolic College, but he still comprised only one-twelfth of its original composition. Enough is enough.”

But 10 abandoned our Lord at His Passion. Only one was constant.

3 posted on 09/28/2014 1:04:55 PM PDT by sitetest (If Roe is not overturned, no unborn child will ever be protected in law.)
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To: ebb tide

“The Church will be punished because the majority of Her members, high and low, will become so perverted”.

St. Nicholas von Flue


4 posted on 09/28/2014 3:55:30 PM PDT by BlatherNaut
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