Posted on 11/10/2017 6:55:12 PM PST by marshmallow
Annual meeting of priests hears bishops ‘not all as bad as painted’
Priests must stop calling bishops “spineless nerds and sycophantic half-wits”, the former Abbot of Glenstal Mark Patrick Hederman has said.
Speaking at the annual meeting of the Association of Catholic Priests (ACP) in Athlone, he said most bishops were “not all as bad as painted by your leadership” and accused priests of adopting the wrong approach.
“If the ACP is trying to change things and to galvanize the bishops of this country into positive action, then even the most junior politician and unseasoned diplomat would tell them that they are going about it the wrong way.
“Calling the bishops spineless nerds and sycophantic half-wits is not going to encourage them to adopt your point of view.”
Defending bishops, he said: “In fact, for the most part, many of their flock would hold that they are more pleasant, less pompous, and more approachable that others from the past”.
Separately, the meeting on Tuesday heard a confidential helpline for priests may need to be set up.
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Calling a Prince of Nothing who is a Prince of Nothing.
I say that as an RC and I abhor the current Pope.
LOL! I tell my son Tom to stop calling other people idiots and braindead nincompoops, but it doesn’t help. He’ll do it anyway until it causes him some personal or professional distress.
Would he prefer calling them “faggots”?
How about closeted sodomites and ‘The Lavender Mafia’?
Don’t care what you believe, that is the funniest title ever. LOL
There are Irish bishops in our Coingress? Who knew?
He’s right. It’s an insult to Nerds, and mathematically incorrect, as they’re not even tenth-wits.
Well sure ‘n’ begorrah call ‘em fecking ejits!
That’s pretty much what everyone calls their bosses. Why should bishops be immune?
That was in Ireland, right?
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