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A recent bulletin article from the same parish which promoted the Sr. Jeanne Grammick File, Catholic Action Network, and the "unHoly Familes" group, apparently felt it necesary to justify its participation in the the the Aquinas Institute's Apollos Program. Fr. Gerry Kleba of St. Cronan's explains:

KLEBA’S KORNER
THE PASTOR’S PEACE

THE TITANIC AND THE BARQUE OF PETER:
I was certainly saddened to read the Post-Dispatch account of the parishes accepted into the Apollos Program. Jamie Allman, the archdiocesan spokesman, spoke so disparagingly about the pastors of the nine St. Louis parishes that had been accepted into the program. The notion was that the pastors had failed in getting Archbishop Burke’s blessing and didn’t know his thoughts on the program. There was no sense that the Archbishop might sharpen his understanding of pastoral theology by listening to the pastors who saw this type of education and future leadership a MUST for a church system that is hitting a theological iceberg with a dwindling supply of ordained leaders and a reduced number of parishes. Then to add insult to injury it is noted that the Archdiocese of St. Louis is about to become allied with Ave Maria University to prepare lay leaders rather than the Aquinas Institute. For an Archbishop who prides himself on his conservative traditionalism to choose to align his theological underpinnings with a five year old school founded by a billionaire pizza baron rather than the thousand year old Dominican tradition that produced St. Thomas himself is at least disheartening. I hope the Captain of the Unsinkable Ship of Peter has his eye out for icebergs. Of course, they are inevitable.

A sad commentary from a priest who prides himself on "going against the flow" at every opportunity - of criticzing the Church and her leaders, a man who seems to think he knows more than the Church herself. One would think that this parish of heterdoxy would at least be thankful that they are still allowed to exist within the diocese, having been spared being closed. The failure to eradicate this cancer from the Archdiocese may have been a grave mistake, but I place my trust in the Archbishop and his decision to allow it to stay open. I am not privy to the REAL reasons it was not closed. Whatever good that might come from this parish, is constantly overshadowed by its embrace of heterodox opinions and practices. What buffoonery!

These confused souls are in need of our prayers.