Bishop Robert Morlino is failing badly in his role as a community leader. If the Catholic Church had any sense, they would replace him with someone more in touch with the community he should be serving. Of course, they won't.
…The bishop also has a pulpit -- literally. He has a particularly significant voice in the community. He could be speaking out against poverty or rampant gun violence or lack of respect for workers or the unequal distribution of wealth or binge drinking on campus or domestic violence or racial profiling or even the pollution of our lakes, which he would define as God's creation.
But no, he chooses issues like abortion and stem cell research, and now he even picks a fight with nuns who have had the audacity to try to build bridges of understanding with other faiths.
His point apparently is that unless you believe that the church is right about everything, you have no business speaking for it.
In a letter to the editor in this morning's State Journal, defending the bishop, Monsignor James Bartylla wrote that it was "necessary to protect the reputation of the church." Yeah, I'll say.
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