http://www.qohel.com/2009/03/29/dud-priest-continues-to-damage-the-church/ Make a Difference Mon, 06 Sep 2010 11:27:51 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://www.qohel.com/2009/03/29/dud-priest-continues-to-damage-the-church/comment-page-1/#comment-752 Peter Sun, 29 Mar 2009 23:38:21 +0000 http://qohel.com/2009/03/29/dud-priest-continues-to-damage-the-church/#comment-752 <p>I have no doubt Peter Kennedy is a 'nice' man. But that is not the issue.<br /> If you are a catholic priest, you have an obligation to teach the catholic faith. He has not done this, despite remarkably patient efforts by church leaders to assist and guide him.<br /> If he really felt so strongly that what the church has taught for 2000 years is not right, and what he now believes is, then he should have explained to the parish that he had reached a point where he no longer believed the faith, and left.<br /> Instead, by continuing as parish priest, he has claimed his beliefs are the catholic faith, or an acceptable variant of it. This, as has been pointed out to him repeatedly is not so.<br /> This is not negotiable. Archbishop Bathersby could listen till the cows came home, and it wouldn't make any difference, any more than extended listening would make 2x2=5.<br /> He has already caused great harm to St Mary's South Brisbane. Setting up his own church so near is simply wrong.</p> I have no doubt Peter Kennedy is a ‘nice’ man. But that is not the issue.
If you are a catholic priest, you have an obligation to teach the catholic faith. He has not done this, despite remarkably patient efforts by church leaders to assist and guide him.
If he really felt so strongly that what the church has taught for 2000 years is not right, and what he now believes is, then he should have explained to the parish that he had reached a point where he no longer believed the faith, and left.
Instead, by continuing as parish priest, he has claimed his beliefs are the catholic faith, or an acceptable variant of it. This, as has been pointed out to him repeatedly is not so.
This is not negotiable. Archbishop Bathersby could listen till the cows came home, and it wouldn’t make any difference, any more than extended listening would make 2×2=5.
He has already caused great harm to St Mary’s South Brisbane. Setting up his own church so near is simply wrong.

]]> http://www.qohel.com/2009/03/29/dud-priest-continues-to-damage-the-church/comment-page-1/#comment-751 Matilda Sun, 29 Mar 2009 23:17:24 +0000 http://qohel.com/2009/03/29/dud-priest-continues-to-damage-the-church/#comment-751 You obviously don't know anything about this. Peter is a caring man. He has tried to talk to church authorities but they have not wanted to hear anything has says. He has been a good friend to my family for 3 years and we will be going with him to his new church. You obviously don’t know anything about this. Peter is a caring man. He has tried to talk to church authorities but they have not wanted to hear anything has says. He has been a good friend to my family for 3 years and we will be going with him to his new church.

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