[sinkspur]

"Julie Green is living a lie!" writes Mary Therese Helmueller in an October 25, 2002, letter to Archbishop Gabriel Montalvo, Papal Nuncio to the United States. "[She] is a transsexual, a biological male. He is really Joel Green, who had a sex operation to make him physically appear as a woman...."

If Mahoney did this out in LA, the vultures would be all over this thread, condemning him, posting pictures of clown masses, and heaping ridicule.

Watch them try to explain this away.

Burke then asked the conservative Latin-rite religious order, Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest, to perform the Tridentine Mass at what was formerly St. Mary's. In February 2002, the order's superior, Monsignor Timothy Svea, pleaded guilty to exposing himself to and molesting teenage boys.

Uh-oh.

I'm sure Burke is fostering the same unity among the priests of St. Louis.

I'm sure.

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Uhnnnn, Sinky, I recall you defending to the HILT the Bishop of Rochester (?)--something about a priest who committed suicide after a little go-round with the Bish...

Are you morally certain that this nun IS what's claimed in an article which is flawed in other regards?

Good heavens! Burke consolidated a couple of parishes in a town with a diminishing population!!!

And, my o my, a Father left in disgust. Are you aware of all the circumstances on that one? I am. And there's a very good reason why this screed doesn't mention it.