Same for his good friend from seminary, Bishop Hubbard, who has shut down and closed up nearly half the parishes in this diocese.
It's really hard to avoid the conclusion that these men truly hate and despise the Church they are sworn to defend with their own blood. Both Clark and Hubbard are also at the forefront of teaching the laity to accept priestless parishes, as their "answer" to the "vocations crisis" they themselves have largely created. They destroy the buildings, they destroy the priesthood, they destroy everything they touch.
See my tagline ...
Those of us Catholics who have read about the nefarious exploits of these two disgraces to the episcopacy for many years in The Wanderer are appalled, but certainly not surprised.
About ten years ago, John Paul effectively removed the Bishop of Evreux in France, Jacques Gaillot, for similar mindset and acts of defiance as this unfortunate man from Rochester manifiests. John Paul asked the bishop to resign. He refused. At this point, rather than excommunicating the French bishop (too messy, I guess), JP merely "reassigned" him. To the Diocese of Partenia. No one knew where this was. It turned out that Partenia had been buried under hundreds of feet of sand in the Sahara Desert since the sixth Century!
Thanks to the Moslem hordes rampaging through North Africa, there must be *lots and lots* of other defunct dioceses similarly buried to which the likes of Clark, Hubbard et al can be "reassigned." ;-)
Note to Pope Benedict: Get out the old medieval maps of the Southern Mediterranean and feel free to assign this guy to the most obscure, most deeply buried former see you can find!
Benedikt, Gott Geschickt!