The news will be “delivered in a compassionate way” via a canon lawyer who no one except other canon layers understand.
Despite his peerless pastoral, administrative, and ministerial/liturgical skills, my dear friend Bishop Paul J. Bradley is not a canon lawyer. Neither is Bishop Earl Fernandes of Columbus - He holds a doctorate in moral …
The news will be “delivered in a compassionate way” via a canon lawyer who no one except other canon layers understand.
Despite his peerless pastoral, administrative, and ministerial/liturgical skills, my dear friend Bishop Paul J. Bradley is not a canon lawyer. Neither is Bishop Earl Fernandes of Columbus - He holds a doctorate in moral theology from the Alphonsian Academy in Rome.
That is why they dragged Kalamazoo Bishop Ed Lohse (Bishop Bradley’s successor in Kalamazoo) into this ecclesial debacle. Bishop Lohse is a brilliant canon lawyer who was taught in Rome by another great bishop/canon lawyer whom I know. I pray for and feel sorry for Bishop Lohse, getting dragged into a dumpster fire only ~ 9 months after being ordained a bishop and being used primarily for his canon law brilliance. Leave it to Cardinal Pierre to pit two Western Pennsylvania friends and great bishops in a closed cage dog fight. Synodality YADDA YADDA YADDA…
Christophe Cardinal Pierre Pierre obtained his Master of Theology degree at the Institut Catholique de Paris and his Doctor of Canon Law degree from the Pontifical Lateran.
Hence it is merely a canon law decision requiring a canon law justification….
The news will be “delivered in a compassionate way” via a canon lawyer who no one except other canon layers understand.
Despite his peerless pastoral, administrative, and ministerial/liturgical skills, my dear friend Bishop Paul J. Bradley is not a canon lawyer. Neither is Bishop Earl Fernandes of Columbus - He holds a doctorate in moral theology from the Alphonsian Academy in Rome.
That is why they dragged Kalamazoo Bishop Ed Lohse (Bishop Bradley’s successor in Kalamazoo) into this ecclesial debacle. Bishop Lohse is a brilliant canon lawyer who was taught in Rome by another great bishop/canon lawyer whom I know. I pray for and feel sorry for Bishop Lohse, getting dragged into a dumpster fire only ~ 9 months after being ordained a bishop and being used primarily for his canon law brilliance. Leave it to Cardinal Pierre to pit two Western Pennsylvania friends and great bishops in a closed cage dog fight. Synodality YADDA YADDA YADDA…
https://columbuscatholic.org/bishop-earl-fernandes
Thanks. Not that it matters to anyone else, but I don't like that grin.
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/e8r9fq72bwczq7bx3jbx4/Earl_Fernandes_3.jpg?rlkey=51lu38l0svkuolwmud6wd1wlc&dl=0
Christophe Cardinal Pierre Pierre obtained his Master of Theology degree at the Institut Catholique de Paris and his Doctor of Canon Law degree from the Pontifical Lateran.
Hence it is merely a canon law decision requiring a canon law justification….
Amen