who’s the priest?
Kennedy tangled with him a little while ago. ++Tobin had written him privately quite some time ago - almost a year I think - cautioning him that he was violating the Church's teaching in voting for abortion.
Kennedy decided after his daddy died to make the correspondence public, figuring that sympathy for Ted would get everybody in his corner.
He didn't figure on ++Tobin being a vertebrate bishop. He said, "Fine, you take it public - let's rumble!" and delivered another blast not only chastising Patches all over again, but chastising him for making a private, pastoral correspondence public.
Patches took a rubber knife to a gunfight.
Bishop Tobin of Providence, who had a little talk with Patches not long ago.