The article would obtain a little more credibility if the author showed actual familiar with things Catholic.
In that Kansas City - St. Joseph is a diocese and not an archdiocese, the proper title for its ordinary is Bishop Finn, not Archbishop Finn.
It's surprising, as well, that anyone would complain when a Christian clergyman of any denomination would say of his flock that they are first and foremost subjects of "a kingdom." LOL. Yeah, the Kingdom of God. This guy Jesus told us about it.
* chuckle *
"As Dennis Coday reported in the National Catholic Reporter, A Respect Life Office was established to handle pro-life issues and battle stem-cell research."
Oh my! The scandal of it! A Catholic bishop who believes in the Catholic Church's teaching concerning life issues, and who ACTUALLY DOES SOMETHING ABOUT IT IN HIS DIOCESE!! The horror. The horror.
What will he do next?? Encourage people to PRAY THE ROSARY???
"To that end, he has ordered the editor of the diocesan newspaper to immediately cease publishing columns by the progressive Notre Dame theologian Fr. Richard McBrien."
That's just terrible! Banning a heretic from conveying his heresies in the local Catholic newspaper (Maybe the local MSM paper might want to pick the column up? No??)!!
And it really would be nice if the author could refer to his target here as Bishop Finn.
Why should he give McBrien a forum? I doubt that McBrien would invite him to speak to his classes at Notre Dame? IAC, McBrien is a lightweight. I once saw him on the same split screen with Father Neuhaus. McBrien was literally shaking as Neuhaus punctured all his assertions --I won't dignify what he said as argument. What a phoney.