Posted on 10/27/2005 1:45:19 PM PDT by Gillibrand
Bishop blesses liturgical abuse by visiting parish to say Mass. Cathcon has already reported on this parish in Austria where the servers (mostly female) dress as if they were members of a sect and they follow a twig and not the Cross of Christ. (The window says "Infinitely far from us and yet so near" intended both to describe God and to address lapsed Catholics!!). So what were no less than two Bishops doing concelebrating Mass in this dreadful parish. One of the Bishops was the Bishop Ludwig Schwarz of Linz whose predecessor had to resign because of the liturgical abuse scandals in the Diocese, but now clearly can't recognise the same scandals himself. The other was Bishop Alois Schwarz of Kärnten. Unbelievably, the Church was specially chosen for Mass at the end of the annual meeting of Austrian deacons. The Bishop evidently believes that this Church and her resident deacon are examples to follow. Not if one wants to preserve the Catholic Faith in Linz and Austria.
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