San Bernardino Diocese Tries Priest on Heresy, Schism Charges

In a rare move reminiscent of medieval times, the Roman Catholic Diocese of San Bernardino convened a secret tribunal against a Riverside priest Tuesday after charging him with heresy and schism.

That's right...the actual use of the Code of Canon Law subjects one to the ridicule of being "medieval"...I would imagine that anyone who wishes to invoke the any of the rights of our Bill of Rights should then, in all fairness, be labeled as "backward" and "so eighteenth century"...?

Meeting at diocesan headquarters in San Bernardino, the tribunal took up the case against the Rev. Ned Reidy, 69, who said he left the Roman Catholic Church five years ago and formed his own parish near Palm Desert. The parish later affiliated with a new denomination that holds services resembling those of the Roman Catholic Church but rejects the authority of the pope, mandatory priestly celibacy, and prohibitions against blessing same-sex unions and ordaining women.
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Reidy said that in advertising and Sunday bulletins, he makes it clear that his new parish, the Pathfinder Community of the Risen Christ in Bermuda Dunes, near Palm Desert, is not a Roman Catholic parish, even though it follows traditional liturgies and holds to the church's seven sacraments.

"I have never left the priesthood. I am a Catholic priest of a different face of Catholicism," he said. "I'm no longer a Roman, but [I'm] more Catholic than ever."

Of course you are!

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