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Corrupt Bishops Are Canceling Conservative Priests

They’re pushing back and so can we!

kit_carmelite
10 min readAug 13, 2023
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Catholic media have of late reported on a number of cases where priests have been quite simply canceled, summarily removed from their pastoral assignments and charges, most often without the benefit of any prior consultation or due process. –Canceling Conservative Priests

Neither I nor any of the many Catholics I know had ever heard of bishops removing priests from their parishes and refusing to re-assign them. A traditional Catholic friend told me about this and it horrified me.

“There are hundreds, maybe thousands” of American priests who have been sidelined by their ordinary. “Very few of the faithful know that daunting fact, and, of most of those who do know, most are never told why it happened. And that’s true for many of the canceled priests as well.” –Fr. John Lovell . . . Talks About The Problem Of “Canceled” Priests

Catholic media organizations and content creators are raising their voices to publicize the plight of priests bullied by their bishops. These include LifeSite News, OnePeterFive, Catholic Citizens.org, The Catholic Herald, and Crisis Magazine among others. They have pulled priests persecuted by their bishops from the silent shadow into the light. Following the example of Church Militant (the loudest and…

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Written by kit_carmelite

Married 25 years. Retired SAS programmer from Statistics Canada. Member of Secular Order of Discalced Carmelites since 2008. Love chess..

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