Looks like the time of teaching by example and gentle persuasion is over, as an Australian Catholic Bishop has been removed from his position (enforced early retirement) for teaching and supporting heresy.
Considering that a wide range of ideas has been tolerated to a certain extent in Catholicism over recent decades, leaving Bishops, Priests, Nuns and lay people to think that anything goes, Rome is far away. Except, Rome is not that far away as this ex-Bishop found out.
This should send ripples of shock throughout New Zealand Catholicism, we who consider ourselves the furthest away from Rome...
Related links:
Australian bishop removed from diocese for heterodox ideas ~ WDTPRS
Ex-Bishop William Morris is Right ~ Catholic Culture
You took the words right out of my mouth ~ Catholic Soapbox
THE Catholic Bishop of Toowoomba, William Morris, has been effectively sacked by Pope Benedict XVI over doctrinal disobedience for his support for ordaining women priests and other liberal reform.
Considering that a wide range of ideas has been tolerated to a certain extent in Catholicism over recent decades, leaving Bishops, Priests, Nuns and lay people to think that anything goes, Rome is far away. Except, Rome is not that far away as this ex-Bishop found out.
This should send ripples of shock throughout New Zealand Catholicism, we who consider ourselves the furthest away from Rome...
Related links:
Australian bishop removed from diocese for heterodox ideas ~ WDTPRS
Ex-Bishop William Morris is Right ~ Catholic Culture
You took the words right out of my mouth ~ Catholic Soapbox