BELLEVILLE --Mediation between Bishop Edward Braxton and Belleville Diocese priests who have called for him to resign is under way in a process designed to give detractors and supporters equal time....
Give "detractors" and supporters equal time? Part of the problem is that those who are in error actually believe that they are entitled to a have their beliefs/opinions heard. Coddling dissension only leads to more of the same. Instead of acting like little children, maybe these "men" should grow up a bit, if that's even possible.
Four separate sessions with mediator Tom Reid of the Bellevue, Wash.,-based The Reid Group have been held; including two on July 1 in Paderborn. On that day members of the Southern Illinois Association of Priests, who are among Braxton's severest critics, met with Reid in the morning. Later that day other priests who signed their names to a letter in March that totaled 46 signatures calling for Braxton to resign, met with Reid.
The next day, international priests who are guests on temporary duty in the diocese attended a morning session at St. Peter Cathedral. In the afternoon, any priest not among the other groups, including supporters of the bishop, were invited to a second session at the cathedral....
The Southern Illinois Association of Priests? Have they unionized? Perhaps, if they spent more time in prayer they would have less time to publicly complain and stir up dissension? Maybe this little session will help them and make them "feel" better? God forbid that one might have to take up a cross sometime during his life.
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