(Wikipedia) - Richard Peter McBrien (born 1936) is the Crowley-O'Brien Professor of Theology at the University of Notre Dame. He is a dissident priest of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Hartford and the author of several controversial books and articles discussing Catholicism. He is most well known for his authorship of Catholicism, a book which received criticism from the U.S. Catholic bishops for advocating heresy and dissent from Catholic teaching....
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THE CATHOLIC KNIGHT: Naturally any list of favorite bishops from this man should raise some eyebrows, and it should cause us to look deeper into who is on this list and why. Of particular interest to me are those from Missouri, but you can read the
full list on the
National Catholic Register...
- John Leibrecht, Springfield-Cape Girardeau, Mo., 1984-2008
- Charles Helmsing, Kansas City-St. Joseph, Mo., 1962-77
- John J. Sullivan, Kansas City-St. Joseph, Mo., 1977-93
- Raymond Boland, Kansas City-St. Joseph, Mo., 1993-2005
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Of the three bishops listed from the Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph, McBrien writes: "whose good work the incumbent has done so much to undo." That "current incumbent" is none other than Bishop Robert Finn, whose work I deeply admire. Those of us in Missouri can only hope the current incumbent of the Diocese of Springfield-Cape Girardeau, Bishop James V. Johnston, will someday find himself the target of similar criticism from McBrien, as it would appear to be a badge of honor.
2 comments:
Bishop Finn has done an amazing job in Kansas City. Within hours of his appointment he fired many officials in the chancery and other key positions in the Diocese. He replaced dissenters with degrees with orthodox Catholics who had a proven record of loyalty to Catholic Doctrine, but no credentials, a brilliant move, truly innovative and fresh.
In Springfield-Cape we are still very much under the previous bishop's influence and administration. The Liturgy and Catholic Doctrine are very much under attack here, especially from those in high places. The Liturgy can be mistaken for a protestant sects "service" and the Doctrine as presented in "PSR" and RCIA is deplorable and protestant at best and universalist at worst.
Bishop Johnston has a huge Cross to carry and I admire him greatly for it. Our Lord gives the Crosses to us as a test, the size of Bishop Johnston's Cross indicates the level of confidence that Our Lord has in his abilities. I pray that we have only begun to see things change for the better here in Springfield. It has been very slow in the two years that Johnston has been here but I imagine with his background in Engineering that he is being deliberate and methodical in his approach. For Bishop Johnston to be singled out there must be a profound effect, and for that to happen he's going to need a significant amount of prayers, as he will surely encounter no small amount of resistance along the way.
Mr Knight, this reads like a "who's who" of apostates and dissenters. I can think of my own list of my preferred bishops (would be rather short, but oh well) Pete Frey
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