Dissenter Priest Names "his" Bishops

With a tip of the hat to Fr. Zuhlsdorf...

Fr. Richard McBrien has "fondly and gratefully" remembered:

• Leroy Matthieson, Amarillo, Texas, 1980-97;
• Francis Hurley, archbishop of Anchorage, Alaska, 1976-2001;
• John McCarthy, Austin, Texas, 1986-2001
• Richard Cushing, cardinal-archbishop of Boston, 1944-70
• Lawrence Shehan, cardinal-archbishop of Baltimore, 1961-74
• William Borders, archbishop of Baltimore, 1974-89
• Francis Mugavero, Brooklyn, 1968-90
• Albert Meyer, cardinal-archbishop of Chicago, 1958-65
• Joseph Bernardin, cardinal-archbishop of Chicago, 1982-96
• William Hughes, Covington, Ky, 1979-95
• Victor Balke, Crookston Minn., 1976-2007
• Maurice Dingman, Des Moines, Iowa, 1968-86
• John Dearden, cardinal-archbishop of Detroit, 1958-80
• William McManus, Fort Wayne-South Bend, Ind., 1976-85
• Donald Pelotte, S.S.S., Gallup, N.M., 1990-2008
• Lawrence McNamara, Grand Island, Nebr., 1978-2004
• Joseph Breitenbeck, Grand Rapids, Mich., 1969-89
• Joseph Imesh, Joliet, Ill., 1979-2006
• Michael Kenny, Juneau, Alaska, 1979-95
• Thomas Kelly, O.P., archbishop of Louisville, 1982-2007
• Cletus O’Donnell, Madison, Wis., 1967-92
• Rembert Weakland, archbishop of Milwaukee, 1977-2002
• Peter Gerety, archbishop of Newark, 1974-86
• Raymond Lucker, New Ulm, Minn., 1975-2000
• Terence Cooke, cardinal-archbishop of New York, 1968-83
• John Cummins, Oakland, Calif., 1977-2003
• Victor Reed, Oklahoma City, Okla., 1958-71
• John McRaith, Owensboro, Ky., 1982-2009
• Charles Buswell, Pueblo, Colo., 1959-79
• F. Joseph Gossman, Raleigh, N.C., 1975-2006
• Walter Sullivan, Richmond, Va., 1974-2003
• Francis Quinn, Sacramento, Calif., 1979-93
• Kenneth Untener, Saginaw, Mich., 1980-2004
• John May, archbishop of St. Louis, 1980-92
• John Roach, archbishop of St. Paul and Minneapolis, 1975-95
• Patrick Flores, archbishop of San Antonio, Texas, 1979-2004
• John R. Quinn, archbishop of San Francisco, 1977-95
• Raymond Hunthausen, archbishop of Seattle Wash., 1975-91
• Bernard Topel, Spokane, Wash., 1955-78
• John Leibrecht, Springfield-Cape Girardeau, Mo., 1984-2008
• Frank Harrison, Syracuse, NY, 1976-87
• Bernard Flanagan, Worcester, Mass., 1959-83
• James Malone, Youngstown, Ohio, 1968-95
• Robert Joyce, Burlington, Vt., 1957-71
• Paul Leibold, archbishop of Cincinnati, 1969-72
• James Casey, archbishop of Denver, 1967-86
• John Whealon, Hartford, Conn., 1969-91.
• Ernest Primeau, Manchester, N.H., 1960-74
• Carroll Dozier, Memphis, Tenn., 1971-82
• Thomas Grady, Orlando, Fla., 1974-89
• John Snyder, St. Augustine, Fla., 1979-2000
• Thomas Murphy, archbishop of Seattle, 1991-97
• William Friend, Shreveport, La., 1986-2006
• Joseph Maguire, Springfield, Mass., 1977-91
• John Nevins, Venice, Fla., 1984-2007.
  

Rembert Weakland? The disgraced homosexual embezzler of archdiocesan funds? I really don't begrudge anyone the right to a political agenda - even an ecclesiastical one: but, geez! Has Fr. McBrien entirely abandoned even the most basic tenets of human decency?

Go Vote "No!" to this Silliness

Fr. Zuhlsdorf alerted me to this:

It seems the bishop of Cincinnati has dismissed a woman religious (described, it would seem, inaccurately, as a "nun" - a term for cloistered religious women, if I am not mistaken) from her teaching duties because she refused to renounce her position in favor of the ordination of women, a position that is directly repugnant to the ordinary magisterium of Holy Mother Church, as the Servant of God, John Paul II recently expressed in Ordinatio sacerdotalis.

The Church does not ordain women because the Church cannot ordain women - the Church has not power to do so, because the priesthood is conferred on males of the species, exclusively, by order of Divine positive law. She has not authority, no competence to change the Divine dispositions.

Go vote "no!"