Bishop Daly Distances Spokane Diocese from Group Trying to Dig Up Dirt on Cardinal Cupich

The Inlander ^ | 3/25/19 | Daniel Walters

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Even if you didn't read our cover story on the division within the Catholic Church earlier this month, you may have seen the advertisements that Stephen Brady, of the Roman Catholic Faithful, has run in the Inlander.

Brady has been going to the former dioceses that Cardinal Blase Cupich, archbishop of Chicago, formerly led. He's already been to Rapid City. He is coming to Spokane, where Cupich served as Bishop until 2014, this Saturday.

By design, the Inlander's advertising department is separated from the newsroom. Reporters don't get a say in which ads run.

In reporting our story on the Catholic Church, however, we did interview Brady, who is part of a far-right contingent trying to use the sex abuse scandal to unseat Cupich, who they believe is far too liberal.

Tellingly, Brady's advertisement doesn't mention anything about Cupich's handling of the sex abuse crisis, instead focusing on Cupich's alleged heresies, including locking Rapid City Latin-mass participants out of an Easter church service, expressing openness to gays and remarried Catholics getting Communion, and removing a priest who burned a rainbow flag from his parish.

But Brady's mission of unseating Cupich hasn't necessarily been welcomed by local Catholics. While Spokane's Bishop Thomas Daly represents a more conservative wing of Catholicism than Cupich, he put out a statement in church bulletins Sunday stressing he was not supportive of Brady's efforts:

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Now that the civil authorities are involved, I don’t know why anyone cares what their bishop says; the civil authorities are charged with legally protecting victims from these primarily homosexual predators, and are certainly much more serious about it than those charged with “morally protecting them”.

Michael Voris is right; they are trying to squeeze the last dollars out of the grayheads because after that the spigot is turned off permanently. There may be a few people in the pews, but they won’t be blindly giving to the lavender mafia or their enablers who did nothing.

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>> They note how he banned, without explanation, pro-life blogger Mark Shea... , but welcomed Jesuit James Martin <<

Is this why Shea has become a hot-headed Marxist? Or was he a hot-headed not-so-Marxist before? Because the dude is seriously leftist and seriously unbalanced. If you tangle with him, as I have, you will become the target of a torrent of obscenities and abuse that make the snowflakiest snowflake look like John Wayne in comparison.