To: Polycarp
How are the local Catholics weathering this storm? Do you see any loss of faith or defection to other denominations?
3 posted on
08/28/2003 1:27:34 PM PDT by
Canticle_of_Deborah
(Proud card carrying member of the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy since 1984)
To: Canticle_of_Deborah
I know some who have stopped going to mass completely, others who have left for evangelical circles. Yes, having a heretical, homosexual-coddling bishop is deleterious to the flock.
5 posted on
08/28/2003 1:47:51 PM PDT by
Polycarp
("If God does not exist, everything is permitted" - Father Felix Lubyxsynsky)
To: Canticle_of_Deborah
This is most striking: there are allegations against NINETEEN clergy in our tiny Diocese of Altoona-Johnstown versus only 14 in Philadelphia and only 6 in Pittsburgh!
How can a bishop deny there is a problem when he lies so patholigically outside the curve of rates of abuse in neighboring dioceses?
6 posted on
08/28/2003 1:55:07 PM PDT by
Polycarp
("If God does not exist, everything is permitted" - Father Felix Lubyxsynsky)
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