I wonder why they ran with a story that never got around to getting a statement from the bishop. I can easily imagine him saying that he didn't want to give the rumors any further publicity by quoting them, which would probably be translated into "no comment" by the editor, but to have nothing at all is very odd.
I'm protestant, without a dog in the hunt about "lay ministers" in Catholic services. I don't think there are any other kind of ministers (alternatively, all ministers are holy), but I find the spokes-Catholics who think the same way to be uncongenial company. Maybe this is a spokes-critter bias (the noisy shout down the kind), or maybe it is a Madison-esque clustering of attitudes.
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For me it's a little like Episcopal bishops who aren't comfortable saying the Nicene creed. Obviously they should follow their own consciences, but should they be Episcopal bishops in that case? -- Someone who doubts whether priests are special probably doesn't belong in the Catholic Church, because for good or ill it's rather at the heart of that particular brand of church.
Lewis, as you might expect, references T99's thought in God In The Dock
For once I wasn't consciously quoting him! It's amazing how that man's thought has permeated mine. A friend gave me him to read when I was a teenager, and I've never been the same.
Yes, he was wonderfully lucid and a great blessing.
I wonder how the different tribes see him?
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