Posted on 12/20/2016 9:49:28 AM PST by ebb tide
Update: just for the sake of people who've raised questions about the title we'd like to clarify. Without consulting the canon law, and not having any real accreditation in it, we understand that it's necessary for a suspended priest to submit himself for laicization of his own free will. We know of cases where clergy have refused to submit to it, but they are effectively inactive. In any case, he's been thrown out of his parish into the street and can't act as a priest. So, as far as we know, he hasn't been laicized yet, but regardless, whether he submits himself for it or not, he's not going to get a parish in this diocese, or legitimately offer Mass probably anywhere in the Church unless it's in private that he does so. At this point, we're just wondering if Father has been offered a stipend, or the opportunity to live in a monastery someplace, as sometimes happens. Naturally, we hope this courageous priest finds another diocese with a sympathetic bishop, or joins the Society of Saint Pius X. We hope he finds some way to continue through this.
Does the Saint Benedict Center still need a priest?
Edit: in tomorrow's news, Bishop rewrites bible so as not to offend victim classes. Who cares if some people were offended. Are the claims true or not? Does anyone have a copy of this book? Never mind, here it is...
Father Matthew Despard had already been suspended in 2013 because of his book. After unsuccessfully appealing it, he must now leave his parish. The book was removed again from the market after complaints.
Blantyre (kath.net/CWN/jg) Father Matthew Despard, priest of the parish of St. John Ogilvie in Blantyre (Scotland) must leave his parish on instructions from the competent bishop. Despard was suspended in 2013 after publishing a book on the great influence of aberrosexuals in the Church of Scotland.
Joseph Toal, the bishop of the Motherwell diocese, has justified Despard's suspension by insisting that his book damaged the reputation of a whole range of persons, both laymen and clerics. Despard has challenged the suspension, albeit unsuccessfully. While his proceedings were ongoing, he remained in the parish. After all the possibilities of appeal had been exhausted, Bishop Toal has now instructed him to leave the parish.
In his book "Priesthood in Crisis," Despard claimed that a powerful gay mafia exerted great influence in the Catholic Church in Scotland. The book appeared shortly after the resignation of Keith Cardinal O'Brien, the Archbishop of Edinburgh. O'Brien had been forced to resign because of allegedly sexually molesting priestly candidates. Despard's book had been withdrawn from the market after some of the persons named in the book had threatened with complaints.
"Scottish Priest is Being Dismissed from Clerical State Because of Book Critical of Sodomites in the Catholic Church"
The francischurch purge continues.
This act only makes his case stronger.
They hate being called Sodomites.
This is bad, but as the update on the blog site hints at, perhaps not as bad as the headline makes things out to be. The author of the headline thinks that there is a direct line of causality between suspension and laicization, but admits that he is not an expert in the area—which he clearly is not.
THe headline should read “Scottish priest removed from ministry in parish”—whcih is a different ball of wax.
“Book Critical of Sodomites”
Uh...that would be the BIBLE!!!!
Is this pope really “Peter the Roman” after all?
Eponymous Flower is a vicious and unreliable blog. And they refuse to correct errors.
Example: They have never corrected their report that the bishop of Fargo has forbidden Mass ad orientem, and they directed insulting, demeaning epithets at a priest of the diocese who told them their story was false.
And if a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them. (Leviticus 20:13)
Harsh!
How about kath.net? How do you feel about them?
Going to rewrite the Book?
Maybe edit it?
What, get rid of Leviticus, etc.?
There is a higher power than the Bishop and the Pope who might have a problem with this.
5.56mm
Don’t know. Can’t remember ever seeing them.
So you just attack the messenger (i.e. translator)?
True. The Cardinal (Keith O’Brien) who presided over the homo culture that Despard collided with was already exposed as a perv and forced to resign. A fish rots from the head down.
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