"GOOD JESUIT. BAD JESUIT."
Reverend William Brennan is a 92-year-old Jesuit priest in the Archdiocese of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. By all accounts he is a good and pious minister of the Gospel. He is morally and ethically sound. He is not a criminal. He is not a pedophile, not a sex offender, and not an abuser of any type. He is not a monster.
However, according to the Catholic Church's Archdiocese of Milwaukee, Reverend William Brennan is worse than the above-stated conditions:
He is a priest who presided who a Eucharistic liturgy with a woman priest last month in Columbus , Georgia .
As a direct result of his ministerial actions and involvement at the liturgy in which Rev. Janice Sevre-Duszynska was a participant, Rev. Brennan has been stripped of his priestly duties.
Among the severe penalties heaped upon Fr. Brennan by the Catholic Church in Milwaukee include:
- Suspension of priestly faculties, prohibiting him from performing any priestly duties in public [He is NO longer a priest];
- Refraining from contact with media, "through a phone, email, or any other means" [The proverbial "Gag Order"];
- Not appearing as a Jesuit at any "public gatherings, protests or rallies" [The classic "Stay Away" Order]; and
- Not leaving the Milwaukee area "for any reason" without his superior's permission [Essentially, "Incarceration"].
[usnews.nbcnews.com/news/2012-12-08/ "Priest Stripped of Duties for Celebrating Mass with Woman Priest"; ncronline.org/news/people/ "Jesuit, 92, Penalized After Eucharistic Liturgy With Woman Priest"]
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