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Bought the latest Milwaukee Magazine for the "Catholics in Crisis" cover story. Among those interviewed for the story were Bishop Richard Sklba and Father Javier Bustos. The article recounts how Bishop Sklba chaired a Catholic Biblical Association of America task force that produced a 1979 report suggesting there is "no historical reason not to ordain women." If that's not enough, here's more historical revisionism via the article's interview with Fr. Bustos, who came here in 1995. "But by the time the report was published, John Paul II had become pope and the church was moving in a different direction. Sklba,...

A Wanderer reader caught in a parish closing/consolidation project, begun during the misrule of the disgraced Archbishop Rembert Weakland, OSB, informs FTM: "In May, we forwarded Archbishop Dolan a booklet (along with supporting documentation) outlining the problems associated with the merger of St. Patrick's of Erin and St. Kilian's of Hartford. At the root of the merger problems, as spelled out explicitly in our documentation, was the difference between the worship styles of the two parishes - St. Patrick's Church being traditional and following the guidelines of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Sacraments and the new guidelines spelled...