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  • Excerpts from dispute between bishop, suspended priest

    07/03/2003 1:51:10 PM PDT · by B Knotts · 44 replies · 600+ views
    Erie Times-News/GoErie.com ^ | 7/3/2003 | Ed Palattella
    The dispute between Erie Catholic Bishop Donald W. Trautman and the Rev. John Trigilio of Harrisburg involves one main issue. The two are wrangling over what a Roman Catholic priest can publicly say under the church's canon law. Trigilio believes his remarks were justified. Trautman believes they were not. What follows are excerpts from what Trautman and Trigilio have written in the dispute, which centers on Trigilio's comments in the 2002 nonfiction book, "Goodbye, Good Men." n One set of Trigilio's comments particularly upset Trautman. Referring to effeminate seminarians, Trigilio states in "Goodbye, Good Men": "If you wore a cassock,...