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	Letter to Tucson Bishop Kicanas: Why Does the Pope Fire a Bishop Who Advocates Discussion of Women Ordination and Allow Bishops Who Cover up Child Sex Crimes by Priests to Remain? Voice from the Desert May 4, 2011 http://reform-network.net/?p=10024 Most Rev. Gerald F. Kicanas, D.D. Bishop of Tucson 111 S. Church Ave. P.O. Box 31 Tucson, AZ 85702 Dear Bishop Kicanas, Yesterday I read in an MSNBC story (http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/42878448/ns/today-today_news/) that Pope Benedict XVI fired Australian bishop William Morris for advocating that the Roman Catholic Church consider ordaining women to alleviate the shortage of ordained ministers. On the other hand, bishops who have covered up crimes of sexual abuse of children, thus exposing future children to rapes by predator priests, go unpunished. Cardinal Bernard Law, the notorious protector of pedophile priests in the archdiocese of Boston, received, and still enjoys, a high church honor having been named by Blessed John Paul II the archpriest of St. Mary Major, one of the crown jewels of the Church in Rome. Recently, Cardinal Justin Rigali of Philadelphia was named in a grand jury report as allowing numerous priests in his archdiocese who have been credibly accused of sex crimes against children. Cardinal Rigali, unlike Bishop Morris, remains in office, with the tacit approval of Pope Benedict and the Vatican. Bishop Kicanas, would you kindly explain to me this shortfall in application by the Roman Catholic Church of gospel principles that the above named facts indicate? How long can the Roman Catholic Church remain a strong moral force in the world in the face of these kinds of decisions by Pope Benedict XVI and Blessed John Paul II? Reports are that one third of baptized Catholics have left the Church in the United States. How much longer can this loss of members and the lost revenue that 30,000,000 ex-Catholics represent be sustained? Sincerely, Frank J. Douglas President, Very Best Home Healthcare, LLC President, Desert Voices, Inc. Publisher of the Voice from the Desert blog (an initiative of Desert Voices, Inc.) National Director of Send the Bishops a Message (an initiative of Desert Voices, Inc.)
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