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To: ninenot

What have they done? I promise, I won't be surprised.


53 posted on 07/27/2005 2:18:09 PM PDT by wideawake (God bless our brave troops and their Commander in Chief)
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To: wideawake

I can speak directly of the Milwaukee situation.

"What ha[s] he done?"

Precisely, damn little. He appointed two new men to Seminary posts--one came from Louvain, (vocations director) and the other from a parish assignment (formation director.) This last I know to be a VERY solid man.

That's about it, in two+ years.

Two weeks ago, I attended a service in a Catholic church. In the bulletin, it said "Mass," but it was invalid--so it was a service.

In order: no Penitential Rite, no Gloria (SUNDAY!!), no Creed, Offertory prayers were off-the-cuff (and in reverse order) Canon was off-the-cuff, including the Consecration; at the Our Father the "priest" skipped the embolism and went directly to the Prot version of the extended ending, and he (finally!) made up his own formula for the Blessing.

I know as a matter of fact that this particular "priest" has been reported to the Chancery before this.

(sound of crickets chirping...)

While at the same time, TWO solid and orthodox African priests were told "we don't need your steeenkin' help" by our Chancery--when all they needed was 2+ years' work to finance their advanced degrees at Marquette U.


68 posted on 07/27/2005 2:48:55 PM PDT by ninenot (Minister of Membership, Tomas Torquemada Gentlemen's Club)
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