RCF Rips St Joan of Arc Parish and Those Who Fail to Address the Problems

Catholic Activist Rips Diocese for Liberal Stance on Abortion, Homosexuality

St Joan of Arc Parish is well known among a number of faithful Catholics for being a hotbed of heresy and dissent in the Archdiocese of Minneapolis/St Paul. Why Archbishop Flynn continues to allow this parish to remain open, spreading its poison, is anyone's guess.

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis, Minnesota, is being criticized for allowing a parish to openly promote abortion and homosexuality and to claim the Bible is not the inerrant Word of God.

Stephen Brady, founder of the group Roman Catholic Faithful (RCF), says there is "nothing Catholic" on the church's website.

"The real scandal, the biggest scandal in all of this, is the fact that Archbishop [Harry] Flynn would allow this priest to do this," says Brady. "And the fact that this priest feels enough courage, enough gumption to put something like this on the Internet for thousands if not millions to see, shows that he has no fear of his bishop."

It's not difficult to see the scandal caused among the public in general and faithful Catholics, in particular. The public sees a so-called Catholic parish advocating positions at odds with the Church...Faithful Catholics see the silencing of a priest such as Fr. Robert Altier for opposing programs damaging to children and which deny parents of their canonical rights.

I have heard some speculate on parishes similar to St Joan of Arc that keeping a parish as this open contains the poison and keeps it from spreading...I'm not certain that that policy really produces such results and that it may even contribute to infecting others, especially when others witness no disciplinary action for spreading dissent or even heresy.