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To: jilliane
From the article:

Father Kennedy said leadership selection in the Catholic Church was "a very incestuous process and it starts from Rome", adding it would never change "until the people regain the right to elect their bishops".

The people never had the right to elect their bishops ... Fr. Kennedy has a very distorted idea of Church history. Does Fr. Kennedy also think that doctrine should be put to the vote?

47 posted on 01/13/2009 9:04:48 AM PST by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: ArrogantBustard
Again, from the article, direct quote from Fr. Kennedy:

"Most of the people who come here are what we call 'recovering Catholics'.

Hmmmm .... yes. The term refers to those who reject one or more matters of Catholic doctrine, usually regarding sexual morality. A better term for them would be heretics or schismatics. Apostates, even, in some cases.

49 posted on 01/13/2009 9:06:48 AM PST by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
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