Meanwhile, here on the Far Left Coast, the tide runs in the other direction, with liberal Catholic priests headed for the Episcopal Church, many with a boot in the tush by the Holy See. I've attended services at an Episcopal church with a priest who ducked out of Catholicism because he wanted to marry. He did it in the apropriate order. Nice fellow, great speaker, devout Christian.
And then there's Matthew Fox, a former Catholic priest who wrote books--a couple quite good and thoughtful--but also incorporated the witch, Starhawk, into his services, along with other New-age idiots. He got a warning or two and then was ejected from the Cartholic Church, only to cross the street and find a home at San Francisco's Grace Cathedral where he famously ran "Raves." I'm sure the pope and other Catholic officials were crazy about raves. LOL
Ah, Matthew Fox, one of several "catholic" candidates for the position of being the "catholic" John Shelby Spong! When Fox departed for the Episcopagan church, the scalawags welcomed him with open arms. Birds of a feather. I keep hoping for a population exchange, where the rad-lib-revisionist-kumbaya-1960s-leftover-New-Age types will leave the Catholic Church and all the Christians left in the ECUSA will migrage to the Catholic Church. SF Grace Cathedral is a pagan a place as St. John the Divine in NYC. Both places were, once upon a time long ago, Christian places where Christ was worshipped.
A high-school classmate of mine (Marquette University High) went to the Jesuit Order, became a priest, and then, because he was a queer, left and went Episcopalian in San Fran.
I understand that he was the rector of the ECUSA Cathedral out there. Somehow, I forgot to keep up...