Gumbleton Replaced; He Says It’s Retaliation

Who cannot be saddened at this! (cough)

In his last Mass as pastor at the inner-city parish in Detroit where he had served for 23 years, Auxiliary Bishop Thomas J. Gumbleton told his parishioners that he was forced to step down as pastor because of his lobbying efforts on behalf of the victims of sexual abuse by members of the clergy, a stance that put him in opposition to his fellow bishops.

Is this man not an exemplary example of a bishop?

Bishop Gumbleton, though he never led a diocese, is known nationally in church circles as a liberal maverick. He co-founded the peace ministry Pax Christi...He broke ranks with church teaching by preaching in favor of acceptance of gay men and lesbians and the ordination of women.

Why was he not excommunicated long ago?...His heretical and cancerous opinions have caused scandal for years, he has misled hundreds, if not thousands.

Yet so many think he is just so wonderful.

"...I don’t regret doing what I did because I still think it was the right thing to do,” [Gumbleton] said [last weekend], as the congregation rose and erupted in applause.
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Mary M. Black, a parishioner at St. Leo’s, said: “Almost universally, everyone in the parish is hurt and angry and upset and bewildered."

Bewildered? I'm certain...

Maybe everyone can raise a hand and say:Buh Bye!