No it's not the only way This is a very serious matter that WILL be resolved, regardless of any action or non-action taken by Father Schumacher.
Here's one small initial step toward what will be an inevitable resolution:
Q:Sinkspur, are you an active, permanent deacon in the Catholic Church as you have stated numerous times on this forum?
Very simple question. "Yes" or "no" will suffice.
Impersonating clergy was punishable by death under levitcal law. Many people today have been arrested for it. In any case, those who impersonate clergy are precluded from ever becoming a priest in the Catholic Church without a dispensation... which is highly unlikely.
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Claiming to be an ordained active member of the clergy --when one has been instructed that to do so is a violation of Canon Law-- IS a serious canonical crime.
But we must again stress that NO ONE cares about or desires to know the identity of any FReeper presenting themselves in such a fashion.
However, the Catholics have a right to know, and his diocese has a duty to inform them if they are aware of this canonical violation, that someone publicly claiming to be an active ordained clergy member is forbidden to do so, and is, in fact, nothing more than an AmChurch Novus Ordo lay person with no authority in any diocese whatsoever to claim otherwise.
That gets it said. Did I just hear a pin drop?
This thread seems to have digressed into apologetics because the discussion was hijacked by an obnoxious poster who is both biblically and historically illiterate. But I would like to get back to this question of whether we have someone impersonating a deacon. Was this question ever resolved?