If you're the type of person who likes to watch train wrecks, check out the latest missive from Boston's own archheretic, Father Walter Cuenin. (See the "Pastor's Corner".) If you are still begging for more afterwards, go to the end of the bulletin and read "Boston Pride Interfaith Prayer Service and Parade" and "Catholics Worried About the Church".
I could accept the idea that we should welcome divorced and remarried people and gay people, except that Fr. Cuenin (or "Walter" as he is affectionately called in the bulletin, and "Wally" to his detractors) seems to be unable to make a distinction between welcoming someone and approving their misbehavior. This should be obvious in any grade school classroom where the children are welcome but their misbehavior is not. It may be hard to argue against the assertion that "to exclude th ese people seems contrary to the spirit of Jesus" but what is clearly in the spirit of Jesus is telling the adulterous woman, whom he accepts and saves from death, "Go and sin no more." If Fr. Cuenin would only follow Jesus in this, we'd have a lot less to complain about.
Anybody know what he means about Cardinal Lehman and Cardinal Kasper trying to get remarried Catholics without an annulment admitted to communion?
Meanwhile I can agree with what seems to be the understatement of the year — "This will continue to be a challenge for us — to be faithful to our church and to its entire people."
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