Friday, November 03, 2006
BISHOP MORLINO OF MADISON TAKING CHARGE
The bishop has issued a Personal and Confidential letter to all priests in the Diocese of Madison making mandatory the playing of a recording of his statements on defense of marriage. The letter is online at the diocesan website:
Enclosed with this letter, you will find a recorded message from myself both on CD and ordinary-cassette-tape format, for your convenience. It is mandatory that this recorded message be played for our faithful people at all Masses of obligation on the weekend of November 4th and 5th. ...
I must make it very clear that any verbal or non-verbal expression of disagreement with this teaching on the part of the priest will have to be considered by myself as an act of disobedience, which could have serious consequences.
Read the entire letter here.
The bishop's open letter is here.
Both letters are linked on the home page of the Diocesan website, as well as a link there to his 14-minute taped message. He has also provided a brief explanation as to why the strong words of the Personal and Confidential letter:
Due to leakage and misrepresentation of this confidential letter from Bishop Morlino to his priests, he has decided to publish the letter in its entirety.
If you live in the Madison Diocese and don't hear the tape at Mass this weekend, the bishop would probably like to know it.
Thanks to a reader for sending in the links.
