Thanks to the person who commented on the post regarding the bishops' rebuke of Gansler. I would encourage one and all to examine the New Ways board. In all fairness to Archbishop O'Brien, I do believe he may well be unaware of the doings of Fathers Muth and Thomas.
Look at the rest of that board. Take Mrs Byers, for example. Three of her seven children are gay. That is to say that they are most likely engaging in practices that will endanger their immortal souls. Well, golly-gee-whiz! I thought a parent had a duty to facilitate their childrens' entrances into heaven, not the other place! Will she hand them "rainbow fishpins" on the way down?
Father Thomas is the board chair. Ostensibly he's "ministered" to gays and lesbians since 1974. As in Mrs. Byer's case, I must ask to where is he leading those to whom he "ministers"? If he is affirming their "gay identities", then he is failing them utterly.
I could go on and on, but time forbids me. I do urge one and all to contact Archbishop O'Brien to advise him of this situation, which I suspect existed before he came to Baltimore.
By the way - if ever there was a "case in point" to illustrate the posting about modernism, this is it!
With all due respect, it will do very little good to attempt to contact Archbishop O'Brien about this or any similar matter. While I would generally trust his judgment about specific moral issues, he is surrounded by a large curia of extremely heterodox, subversive pseudo-Catholics who do everything in their power to hide issues such as this from him. This situation is exacerbated by a strong personal and institutional pattern of delegating even some of the most crucial ecclesiastical matters and trusting fully (often unwisely) the person to whom they have been delegated. This is, sadly, true on many, many levels involving the publicly scandalous associations and actions of priests throughout the archdiocese. It is extremely painfull for me to write this--the potential for good in the archdiocese of Baltimore is great, but the entrenchment of evil here is profound.
ReplyDeleteWhile I can understand where you're coming from, I don't think the dim prospects exempt us from the obligation to at least try our best. Perhaps it might only do little good, but it will do the situation absolutely no good to simply shrug our shoulders.
ReplyDeleteAnd Father Muth (New Ways Ministry board member) was given the pastorate of a second parish (simultaneously) within the past few years, and is current serving on the high-level, blue-ribbon panel on Catholic schools, even though he obviously opposes crucial elements of Catholic moral teaching that should be upheld in those very schools. I hate to think what happens in the confessional in his parishes.
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