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To: Notwithstanding
a) the Pastors of the Church need clearly to promote the correct moral teaching of the Church and publicly to reprimand individuals who spread dissent and groups which advance ambiguous approaches to pastoral care;

Bye bye to Dignity and bye bye to other open dissenters.

b) a new and serious Apostolic Visitation of seminaries and other institutes of formation must be made without delay, with particular emphasis on the need for fidelity to the Church’s teaching, especially in the area of morality, and the need for a deeper study of the criteria of suitability of candidates to the priesthood.

Clean out the seminaries. Sounds good to me. Now the bishops have to know that they need to do it, or move out of the way for someone who will.

SD

2 posted on 04/25/2002 2:22:28 PM PDT by SoothingDave
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To: SoothingDave
They will play dodge ball, half of them are involved and the rest don't care.
8 posted on 04/25/2002 2:35:13 PM PDT by Little Bill
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To: SoothingDave
Link to Over 20 Brand New Articles About the Homosexual Scandal


20 posted on 04/25/2002 2:47:53 PM PDT by Notwithstanding
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To: SoothingDave
a) the Pastors of the Church need clearly to promote the correct moral teaching of the Church and publicly to reprimand individuals who spread dissent and groups which advance ambiguous approaches to pastoral care;

Bye bye to Dignity and bye bye to other open dissenters.

Hasn't this been standing "official" policy of the Roman Catholic Church for years? Will simply iterating it have any greater effect upon purging the scandals? In today's climate I couldn't see anything working short of unceremoniously kicking the offenders out. (And the same goes for discipline within Protestant or Orthodox churches.)

56 posted on 04/25/2002 4:58:33 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck
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