Priest Suspended over Communion -- [Forbidden Concelebration in Phoenix Diocese]

East Valley Tribune [AZ] ^ | April 30, 2004 | Lawn Griffiths

[Phx_RC]

Check the developing No Longer Silent thread
for the related names and details.



Note: Bolds, underlines, and broom added for emphasis.

[gbcdoj]

Good work for Bishop Olmsted! Here is a man who won't allow heretics to run free in the diocese.

[NYer]

The news out of Phoenix just gets better and better!

Kudos! to Bishop Olmstead for his steadfast adherence to Catholic doctrine.

[RobbyS]

This guy means business. A true counterreformation bishop.

[Arguss]

How long before half his congregation stands up and says what a wonderful Priest he is, and that the Church is making a terrible mistake?

[Canticle_of_Deborah]

Congratulations!

[RobbyS]

The bishop can tell them that the Episcopal Church is accepting members!

[narses]

A real backbone ping!

[TotusTuus]

Christos Voskrese!

Christ has risen indeed!

Do you think that there is more than a few (grey haired) Priests in Phoenix realizing that their heterodox games are over?

Bishop Olmstead is quickly sending the message!

[m4629]

Bravo.

Encore.

[Phx_RC]

How do you know that Fr. Cunningham is a "wonderful" priest?

Please share with us why you feel that way about him.

[Jeff Chandler]

I remember an article a few years back in the Catholic Sun, the official dioceses newspaper, in which Fr. Cunningham argued for Communion with non-Catholics. I was so incensed I wrote a letter to the editor, which they published (after editing out the insulting parts!)

My two married daughters live within his parish boundaries, but drive over to St. Mary's to attend Mass, for obvious reasons.

[Phx_RC]

[Salvation]

Did you see this?

[Jeff Chandler]

See #12.

[Cicero]

Concelebration is when two or more ordained priests alternately recite parts of the Canon of the Mass. That is a different matter from helping to distribute Communion. If this article reports the offense correctly, then the headline appears to be misleading.

I'm not saying that the bishop didn't do the right thing. I don't believe it would be proper for a non-Catholic to act as an extraordinary minister of the Sacrament either. Or perhaps there was also concelebration, which I should think would be a worse offense.

[kstewskis]

Hi mom-ping!

[kstewskis]

Hey Jay!

See what's been happening in our diocese! Our bishop is an angel!

[Arguss]

"How do you know that Fr. Cunningham is a "wonderful" priest? Please share with us why you feel that way about him."

The comment was a tongue in cheek reference to what parishioners are doing all across the country when their pastors are exposed for what they are. They rush to his defense.

Sadly what it really shows is how entrenched liberalism is in the Church, not only in it's leaders, but in the pews also.

[BlackElk]

If Cunningham's congregation wants to support him, the diocese should get photos of the support group for future excommunications. They will not be missed.