Posted on 04/09/2011 9:54:12 AM PDT by 0beron
Bishop Adamec of the highly troubled Altoona-Johnestown Diocese retired in January of this year. How was it it was missed? Someone should have been popping the cork of champagne. But like the despot of a distant oriental country flooded with sand and camels tethered in the ruins of better days, his unhappy reign has passed like the report of a swinging rusty sign, deep in the rust belt somewhere between Detroit and Saginaw.
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Discuss the issues all you want, but do not make it personal.
I was simply stating a fact, not making it personal. They spoke about this new bishop with no personal knowledge, in a very uncharitable manner.
This priest served as canon lawyer in at least one case where a religious superior went to bat to get rid of a priest who was credibly accused of serious wrongdoing. They are pressing Rome for the monk to be laicized.
Again, I had very good reasons for stating Dr. Eckleburg didn't have a clue about this priest, which is a part of a clear pattern of posting on this forum. This is not "making it personal," its simply correcting an obvious slander.
This priest is one of the good guys, and there is no basis whatsoever for claiming Rome is not trying to clean house with this appointment. On the contrary, this is exactly the kind of priest we need elevated to bishop to clean up a diocese like ours.
If your original reply had been so carefully considered, it wouldn’t have drawn any attention from the RM. Maybe counting to ten before hitting “reply” would be a good habit to form, for everyone who participates here as well.
Nonsense. The rebuke should have gone to the original poster, who was posting as usual out of ignorance and bigotry.
The Religion Moderator told you not to make that statement, but in defiance of the stated rules and a personal admonishment by the RM to you in post 21, you repeat the remark.
You have no idea what I know or do not know about this priest.
This priest is one of the good guys
That is your opinion and you are entitled to it.
there is no basis whatsoever for claiming Rome is not trying to clean house with this appointment
There is tons of information that Rome refuses to clean house, not the least of which is the opinion offered by the author of this thread.
Which he is entitled to.
Kindly abide by the stated rules of the FR Religion Forum.
Yes, that is "making it personal."
You can write whatever you think about this priest. You cannot, however, tell me what I "as usual" think about this priest.
Is it impossible for RCs to discern the difference? Discuss your own thoughts. Or the beliefs and practices of other churches or institutions or faiths. Just don't make personal comments about individual, named FReepers, as you have done.
And thus we see the unbridled conceit of the RCC -- everyone is wrong but the papacy, including the Religion Moderator.
We also see you "making this personal."
AGAIN.
I'll do what I please, and the RM can do whatever he feels best. I call them as I see them, and I'm usually correct. I apologize when I'm wrong, which is obviously not the case this time, and which is something you never do.
And I'll never compromise the Truth simply to stay in a moderator's good graces or maintain internet forum posting privileges, thanks.
It appears to me that you’d have been better served by sticking with the well-considered tone of your reply to the RM.
Great information and great hope for Altoona Johnstown Diocese.
Several more are leaving this year. Have hope!
I'll do what I please, and the RM can do whatever he feels best.
That seems the best way of dealing with this madhouse.
Outside of this Bizzaro World, people who habitually post out of ignorance and bigotry - over the course of a decade or so - would be considered trolls or disruptors, and shown the door. Here such behavior is coddled, and anyone who objects to it is labeled "thin-skinned" and, himself, disruptive.
This is a classic psychological double-bind, in which the systematically abused are blamed by the abusers for causing their own abuse.
And, after the incident with the LDS, it can no longer legitimately be claimed that the management is even-handed, independent of confession. But that should come as no surprise - as I recall that someone who asked for this sort of neutrality was informed that "fairness is not a conservative value". Odd, I thought "equal justice under law" was. Hence, lex mulla, lex nulla is le mot juste.
Leave the thread.
Wow, that seems harsh. I went and read the rules for open discussions, and I just don’t see anything that warranted making Dr. Kopp leave the thread...if anything, it makes my heart glad to see men be men and speak the truth.
Generally, I instruct posters to leave a thread when they ignore my warnings and/or are too upset to continue on that thread.
I see that you are new in town, and this is your first post - welcome to Free Republic.
Ahhh another new comer
“...another newcomer”
We all were once.
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