Liberal Milwaukee priest reeling after Burke appointment

Fr Connell, SJ aka Grumpy Old Man

Tom Roberts(Fishwrap reporter) reprints something from a priest Milwaukee, Fr. James Connell, who threw a little nutty about Burke’s appointment calling it “unfortunate and disconcerting.”

The attack on soon-to-be-CARDINAL Burke has to do with the Dallas Charter.

The Milwaukee priest thinks Burke did something wrong regarding those provisions, that Burke disregarded the Church’s laws. Most people will simply scoff at that. I will go so far as to suggest that Archbp. Burke probably understood the parameters of the Dallas Charter and his own role as diocesan bishop pretty well.

Listecki's thinkin he needs to put his boot
on someones ass

The Milwaukee priest also thinks that Burke was unreasonable in requiring that people who make an accusation against a priest should have to offer proof.

Furthermore, the Milwaukee priest notes that the laws Burke set down for the Diocese of La Crosse way back when are still on the diocesan website today. We might point out that Burke hasn’t been bishop there for a long time now.

We might also point out that this Milwaukee priest is actually criticizing his own ordinary in Milwaukee. The present Archbishop of Milwaukee H.E. Most Rev. Jerome Listecki, was Burke’s successor in LaCrosse. Listecki chose to keep Burke’s norms. Thus, Fr. James Connell is also attacking Archbp. Listecki.

The priest in Milwaukee didn’t think this through very well before sending his attack on Burke to the NCR. NCR was nevertheless happy to use it to attack Archbp. Burke, thus instrumentalizing that priest in his naivete.

Story from National Catholic Fishwrap

Full post at WDTPRS 

You may remember that I posted on Fr. Connell's cowardly attack on Archbishops Burke and Listecki back in June.  Connell is a Liberal Jesuit and Vice-Chancellor of the Archdiocese of Milwaukee.  It must be getting lonely over there with Bishop Sklba now in retirement.  Just because Fr Connell disagrees with the Church's teaching on contraception(I'm just guessing, he is a Jesuit) he demonizes those who uphold the time tested Moral Law.  And instead of meeting with the archbishops to discuss the matter of abuse handling, he shamelessly headlines himself in dissident publications.  His grandstanding has made him counter-productive to his supposed cause.

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