WISCONSIN
National Catholic Reporter
by Eugene Cullen Kennedy on May. 03, 2012 Bulletins from the Human Side
Madison Wisconsin’s Bishop Robert Morlino, displays, among other items on his coat of arms, a golden turret that, according to the designers of his heraldry, symbolizes a place “in which to take refuge on the journey, to reset …”
It may be time for the good bishop, after months of contentious interactions with his people, to move, if not to a golden turret of refuge — the kind many bishops are said to prefer — then at least to a neutral corner in which to reset his relationships with his people.
The gods of irony wince at the news that in the very week of celebrating the Good Shepherd Morlino has threatened to deny communion, confession, and Christian burial to those of his flock who have objected to their treatment by the self-styled conservative priests of the Spanish Society of Jesus Christ the Priest whom he assigned to parish and other pastoral work in the diocese.
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