Good for Bishop Braxton. Remember, he was the one that invited his Catholic Charities to disassociate themselves with the Church over the issue of homosexual adoption a few months ago. Likely this former pastor was teaching a perversion of the gospel as well as celebrating a perversion of the liturgy.
Good for the bishop. Father Rowe evidently forgot that vow of obedience. Not to mention “Say the black, do the red.”
I see the papers are beginning to look for reasons to begin to criticize the Catholic Church in defense of their little dictator. Religions are based upon faith. If you do not follow that faith it is silly to pretend that you belong. This former priest calls himself Catholic but doesn’t believe in his church. He can’t do both.
Alice Wirth, principal of St. Mary’s School in Mount Carmel, described Rowe as “the backbone of our church. ...To make him resign over something he said in the Missal is senseless.”
Wirth said that she regularly attends Mass where Rowe is the priest but never objected or even noticed the changes in the way he spoke portions of the Missal.
FIRE HER TOO!
I knew I preferred the latter because it was more reverential even if msgr. could turn a daily mass around in 25 mins., something the bearded or mustachioed priests were incapable of doing as they couldn't resist straying from the text.
I now attend Latin masses where ad libbing would serve no purpose. It's encourgaging to see such a diverse bunch at these masses. Critics said only the elderly would attend out of nostalgia or intractability. Not so.
If anyone is curious about "say the black, do the red" they should attend a Latin mass.
My heart bleeds for the little modernist whackjob ...
“Rowe said he routinely made small changes to make what he was saying ‘more understandable and more meaningful to parishioners.’”
What condescending rubbish.