Church Musician Fired: Refused Vow of Chastity

Rockford Register-Star ^ | 6/25/02 | Edith Webster

[ninenot]

ROCKFORD

[kstewskis]

Do they think the Catechism is not binding?

They might think so, if they'd bother to read it.

[Jeff Chandler]

In a further development, the church will begin singing hymns at Mass rather than the customary show tunes.

LOL! Excellent, Smithers.

[saradippity]

As long as they continue to use the present system wherein the Board of Consultors,usually priests that the bishop trusts,sending a list of three recs (terna)to the Papal Nuncio,and the Papal Nuncio merges other ternas from the area,and passes it by some high level USCCB bishops we will continue to get dreck from dreck. Certainly your area headed by the archbishop of Loiusville has some strange birds.

Currently the USCCB is still governed by Bernardin cronies but we can pray that the tide is turning but until then I think your area is doomed to heretics or at best mediocrity.Sounds to me like you have a bad bishop. Yuk,baptizing in vitro children of a same sex couple.

If the Nuncio is of the saame mind as the leading bishops,he will just pass along three weak sisters to the Secretary of the Congregation of Bishops in Rome and he or his clerics usually send this along to the Pope. Poor Pope,he needs our prayers.

I reread your post,maybe we can pray that at this very minute your new bishop is planning action against that priest. Can you tell me anything about the priest who did the baptizing?

[ninenot]

Hate to tell you but Kentucky (both LEx. and Louisv.) Dioceses are real pits.

I assume you cut/pasted the story and forwarded to the USCC and the Papal Legate in DC, as well as to the Congregation for Bishops in Rome...

[ninenot]

Separating the issues on the Ky. story is important.

The babies are better off baptized, obviously. We recognize that the promises made by the "parents" will likely be broken--but that is the problem of the "parents."

It is, however, an interesting question as to whether the priest views baptizing the children as the 'primum bonum' adn thus proceeded.

Ping Sinky and ThomasMore for opinions

[Alex Murphy]

45 posts later, and no one has picked up on this yet. The day is mine!

Stein was hired five years ago to play organ

You can't make quotes like this up.

[ninenot]

Well, you took your opportunity to Carpe the Diem. Great.

However, as a (rusty former) church organist, I have heard such references a bunch of times....it has sort of lost its 'zing' for me...

[Terriergal]

Unbelieveable how brash and unashamed people are nowadays. Abominable.

[Terriergal]

Interesting article, o music director.

[Terriergal]

Bingo! Especially from someone in a leadership position. I'll heartily agree worship ain't about 'talent' - it's about obedience and one's relationship with God.

[Terriergal]

I agree. Our churches in every denomination embody the warning in Revelation 3:15-17

I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were either one or the other! So, because you are lukewarm--neither hot nor cold--I am about to spit you out of my mouth. You say, 'I am rich; I have acquired wealth and do not need a thing.' But you do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind and naked.

[Terriergal]

In a further development, the church will begin singing hymns at Mass rather than the customary show tunes.

YeGADS! What horrors!

LOL! Do you have the 'praise choruses vs. hymns' joke/email?

I tend to collect church music jokes. Freepmail if you want some.

[Terriergal]

You might find this article interesting.

[Eaker]

During his tenure he oversaw the purchase and installation of a $777,000 pipe organ,

Gee!! He was able to buy a pipe organ for less than a million dollars!!

Impressive!!! [/sarcasm]

Eaker

[ninenot]

Please send church music jokes. Pinging Desdemona who may also have an interest.

[ninenot]

Current price of piped instruments is about $10,000/rank. Not that long ago, a "decent" pipe instrument was about 35 ranks, with "large" being in the 70+ rank category, and "humungous" being over 100 ranks.

Frankly, if your church can't get along with 35 ranks, get a new organist.

[el_chupacabra]

I'm gonna give this guy a little bit of credit for, at this point, being honest about his intentions to continue to live in a state of sin. At least he is not pretending to be in harmony with Rome like the controceptive "Catholics" that no doubt weep for his ouster.

[ninenot]

Agreed.

[Eaker]

For that kind of money I can get you Garth Brooks!!!

[ninenot]

But only once. Pipe organs are supposed to last for centuries.