Interesting homily today at church. Our priest--not known for bombastic rhetoric--weighed in on the recent controversies involving Archbishop Nienstedt. Although he didn't get into the specific details, his message seems to be that we're heading toward a showdown of some sort and that it likely will not be pretty. He mentioned that most priests don't like to get publicly involved in such intra-Church disputes, but intimated that the time was coming when sides would have to be chosen. There isn't much doubt which side he is coming down on.
One of his most telling comments was that if you go to some of the various Catholic churches in the Twin Cities, you would scarcely be able to recognize them as the same religion. That state of affairs is not tenable. He also decried the media circus that's been going on for the last six months on this matter and appeared visibly upset about it. There appears to be a day of reckoning coming for the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis. And not everyone is going to be happy about what that reckoning will be.
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