The Lavender Mafia faces pushback:
Catholics from the Diocese of Parramatta, Australia, have submitted a formal appeal to the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith calling for the removal of their bishop over his apparent support of same-sex relationships.
The complainants are also seeking the removal of the diocese’s vicar general and its executive director of Catholic education.
Their appeal, which follows multiple petitions that have received thousands of signatures, accuses Bishop Vincent Long Văn Nguyễn and his vicar for education in the diocese, Father Christopher de Souza, of causing scandal by promoting in diocesan schools teachings on homosexuality that contradict Church teachings.
The formal appeal, which accuses Bishop Long of alleged canonical violations, also contains a series of other complaints, including allegations that two diocesan priests were harassed out of their positions because they do not share the diocese’s approach to homosexuality, claims related to financial corruption and mismanagement, and a lack of consultation regarding some building works at the cathedral.
*******************************
The accusations made against Bishop Long, who in 2017 said he was an adult victim of sexual abuse by clergy in Australia, specifically include statements he made that failed to oppose Australia’s same-sex “marriage” legislation in 2017.
The following year, he invited all diocesan Catholic school leaders and staff to a symposium on “LGBT” inclusivity in the diocesan St. Patrick’s cathedral parish in 2018 (the symposium was run in conjunction with the Rainbow Catholics Inter-Agency Ministry for Australia that aims to affirm Catholics in their “faith, sexuality, gender identity and intersex status” and works toward “ending homophobia, biphobia, transphobia, intersex erasure in our church and in our communities where discrimination, exclusion and prejudice occurs”).
Go here to read the rest. Is it too much to ask that enemies of the Faith not be appointed as bishops? The answer under the current pontificate is apparently yes.
“Rainbow Catholics”? These must be the folks that are causing all those mile-long confessional lines at church.
Hmmm.. giving me ideas.
That’s the diocese is a stones throw from us. That Bishop has been bad news from day dot. I think they will succeed in getting rid of him, in Gods good time.