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To: marshmallow

This is very sad. We know a good, orthodox, hard-working priest here in Florida who really had to struggle, first of all to get ordained (his anti-homosexual attitudes in the notorious diocesan seminary resulted in his being forced to wait another year for ordination) and then to get assigned anywhere. When we got a new bishop, this priest was finally assigned to a rural parish and is now the pastor there, although he feels he has to tread very carefully so that nobody will consider him a - gasp - "traditionalist." He's too young even to have known the "tradition" that is supposedly so dangerous (Tridentine Rite Mass), but that's code for "orthodox," which is apparently now a bad thing in the minds of many Catholics.

Another good priest we know keeps his association with Opus Dei a deep dark secret. He's not a member, but goes to their retreats and knows some priests who are members - and he said he'd be run out of town by the pastor and the dread "permanent deacons" if they ever knew about it. He's also young.

Very sad, we have to pray for these men and encourage them.


4 posted on 06/14/2006 9:01:06 AM PDT by livius
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To: livius
Our priest says that that is why he is here in our state. He says Florida is full of homosexual priests and that good priests are persecuted. We have people who live in Florida who send their donations to our parish because they don't want the hierarchy in Florida to have a penny for their agenda.

I don't think it is as prevalent in our diocese but we do have some, one especially, who is not only homosexual but is on a personal power trip. This is a small town so the grapevine is very active. He recently got a wealthy older woman to sign her home over to him, not the diocese or the parish but to him personally. He hangs out with her and goes on vacations with her and she pays for everything (I know the woman who takes care of her finances.) He lives in an apartment, away from the parish and his number isn't listed. We think he must have something against the bishop because he gets away with murder and the bishop won't do a thing. He is in a poor parish and the parishioners are basically being held hostage by him but many of them now come to our church.

30 posted on 06/15/2006 5:59:18 AM PDT by tiki
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