Below is the open email that I just sent to Father Clifford, Gonzaga's pastor. I copied the Washington Archdiocesan Chancery. Given Bishop Gumbleton's past practices, it's quite possible that the Chancery was never received notification, let alone request for permission. Still, they need to be made aware of this and we need to urge them to take corrective action, should Father Clifford not see fit to do so. Father Clifford's email address is tclifford@gonzaga.org and the chancery can be reached at chancery@adw.org. Now the email, entitled "Please cancel Bishop Gumbleton's appearance at your church next weekend."
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Father, it is with deep concern that we write to you with the above-cited request. We only learned of it less than two days ago from the website of Pax Christi (see http://www.paxchristimetrodc.org/2012/02/12/retreat-with-bishop-gumbleton-march-3/). His reckless disdain of the Magisterium's positions regarding women's "ordination" and gay "rights" are well-known. How someone with so little regard for the truth can be deemed worthy of giving a retreat to the parishioners in your charge is beyond me.
As you can see, I am copying the Archdiocese of Washington's Chancery regarding this. There has been an unfortunate pattern of Bishop Gumbleton entering another diocese to speak without giving the host bishop the courtesy of due notice. Such happened a little less than two years ago when Bishop Alexander Samples had to publicly disinvite him from coming into the Diocese of Marquette (see http://www.dioceseofmarquette.org/upcarticle.asp?upcID=2123). Just several months ago, a similar situation occurred when Bishop Gumbleton issued statements favoring the unions in the Wisconsin tulmult. The local bishop, Robert Morlino, was forced to issue his clarifying statement (see http://ncronline.org/news/justice/wisconsin-exposes-bishops-split-unions).
Having now been made aware of Bishop Gumbleton's troubling pattern of spreading heterodoxy whenever and whereever he deems fit, won't you please do the proper thing and rescind that invitation? Else the DC Chancery may face that unpleasant task. Should his appearance go on as currently scheduled, there may well be a presense of some of our number to uphold the Majesterium of the Church.
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