Pope needs to have a word with fools like this and take them back to Rome or kick them out of the church
The Blessed Virgin Mary to Sr. Agnes Sasagawa; October 13, 1973; Akita, Japan.
Guy is retired, so not much they can do in terms of demotion, but he himself should now be denied communion.
Sounds like someone needs a reassignment to a nice quiet windowless cell in a very remote and devout Monastery.
How few people remember that Holy Communion is the only Sacrament that comes to us with both a blessing and an explicit curse:
1 Corinthians 11:27
Therefore whosoever shall eat this bread, or drink the chalice of the Lord unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and of the blood of the Lord.
"Guilty of the body and blood of the Lord." Blood guilt for the unworthy reception of this Sacrament.
And what does (retired) Bishop Gumbleton say?
"Hey, no big deal."
Lord, have mercy on us all.
Gumbleton is a familiar name from the days when the dissident bishops were riding high.
He favored gay priests and bishops and once appeared at Mass wearing a mitre “on which were symbols of the cross, a rainbow and a pink triangle.” (Wikipedia)
Evidently his brother came out of the closet, but I always suspected that Gumbleton himself was part of the gay mafia that infested the Church in America at that time.
He has no authority to teach Catholics anything. But regrettably he will be used by the mass media—as he was in the old day—to confuse as many Catholics as possible.
Sounds like this guy was a radical priest who got promoted due to the Peter principle (and I don’t mean “Saint Peter”.) Gumbleton’s Sunday homilies from St Leo’s parish are documented by the *National Catholic Reporter*, where he also wrote a regular column. NCR is so anti-Catholic that it has been asked to no longer call itself “Catholic”. It has refused.
“Gumbleton founded the Michigan Coalition for Human Rights in December 1980 with former Episcopal Bishop Harry Coleman McGehee, Jr. and Rabbi Richard Hertz.”
“We wanted a forum to discuss and act on racism, unemployment, sexism, militarism, and economic justice. Our core group of religious leaders contacted other religious, labor, community and business leaders from Detroit and the suburbs and decided to organize themselves.”
“MCHR continued to work and its sponsorship of Detroit’s first environmental justice gathering in 1994 developed into the Coalition for Environmental Justice. A conference on sanctions against Iraq led to the creation of Metro Detroit Against Sanctions (MDAS), one of the leading national groups challenging U.S. policy against Iraq.”
He is also a member of the following organizations:
Call to Action
Detroit Catholic Pastoral Alliance
Institute for Public Accuracy
Pastors for Peace
Nevada Desert Experience
New Ways Ministry
SHARE Foundation (El Salvador)
Equality Michigan
LOL!!! This flaming member of the lavender mafia fools no one.
God have mercy on his soul.
I’ve read something about eating and drinking judgement upon yourself. Now where was that?...
Does anyone really think these low level Progressives that are alleged Catholics will really “refrain” from communion? Their very existences are based upon lies and deception ... why would they change because of a “suggestion”?
Just guessing that HE is GAY.
wo you think gumbleton is retired and an ex-auxiliary bishop?
He will wish that he never opened his mouth.