Wednesday, July 06, 2005
EMAIL FROM DR. BOND
Dear Friends,
The Diocese of Scranton has announced on its web site that Bishop Joseph Martino ordained three men to the priesthood on June 25, 2005. See http://www.dioceseofscranton.org/mainpage/index.htm. Thanks be to God, Deacon Joseph Levine, former superior general of the suppressed Society of St. John, was not one of them.
Most of you will recall that I sent out an alert on May 7, 2005 outlining why Deacon Levine should never be ordained. Many of you, in response to that alert, wrote or telephoned the Diocese of Scranton to request that Levine never be made a priest. The Diocesan file on Levine was no doubt overflowing with your letters and phone messages. Although no one was given a straightforward response from the Diocese, nevertheless your objections may well have prevented Levine's ordination to the priesthood.
It may be, however, that the Diocese of Scranton will try to ordain Levine next year once the furor over the Society of St. John has diminished. After all, Bishop Martino has made no statement concerning the ultimate fate of Levine, nor has Bishop Martino responded to the objections presented to him, including those in my own letter imploring him not to ordain Levine. Hence, we will watch and wait until we can be sure that this man will never become a priest of the Holy Catholic Church.
May our Lord bless all of you for your efforts to keep His Church untainted by the likes of Levine. You should know that there are more battles brewing in the Diocese of Scranton as the depth of the moral rot is slowly uncovered. We continue to receive word of predator priests operating in the Diocese of Scranton, and we will expose them once the evidence is clear.
Pax vobiscum,
Dr. Jeffrey M. Bond
www.SaintJustinMartyr.org/news/notices.html
