Progressive Catholic bishop Walter Sullivan dies

Former Bishop Walter F. Sullivan, a progressive leader in the U.S. Roman Catholic church and the longest-serving head of the Richmond diocese, died Tuesday.

[Truth]

I wouldn't be surprised if the church gave him a little push over the edge, he sounds like he was a tolerant man.

[nhjeff]

So Ratzy will now reach deep into his bench of retrograde priests for a conservative to replace him. This Pope is severely weakening the Church in America.

[snyper]

Right, "nhjeff". He'll authorize the consecration of some tridentine bigot or other.

[Michael Francis]

Richmond has a bishop, Sullivan was retired already.

You're all trolls.

[snyper]

Well then, he's ALREADY authorizeD the consecration of some tridentine bigot or other.

[Bishop LL Lace]

Priests are the mother of harlots and fake. They like boys. Join the black baptist church. lawd hep you poor ole white catholics.

[nhjeff]

The Delegate wrote:

<quoted text>The Catholic church has been in deep shyt for well over 40 years. The pedophilia problem was covered up so many times there are no covers left. The policies of the Catholic church must change drastically if it is to survive and I don't see positive changes ahead for the Vatican.

I was a kid forty years ago, and priests' predilection for young men was hardly covered up at all. It was common knowledge. It was more-or-less a right-of-passage that followed a few years after confirmation.

But suddenly people started getting very upset about adults having sex with teens at the same time people began getting very upset about homosexuality.[People used to just pretend they weren't homosexual, and their friends pretended they hadn't noticed.] Add in the revelations of sex with pre-pubescent children, and you have the ingredients of a perfect storm for the church.

If there is any explanation for the church's continued stonewall, it is that they still don't accept the change in perceptions about practices that are as old as the church itself.