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'The Danger of Criticizing Bishops and Priests'

3/5/2007
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In his excellent article in February's Homiletic & Pastoral Review, Fr. Thomas Morrow, a parish priest, draws from the Scriptures and the lives of the saints to explain "The danger of criticizing bishops and priests."

As Fr. Kenneth Baker, S.J., editor of Homiletic & Pastoral Review, comments on the HPR website, "Fr. Thomas G. Morrow . . . makes the case that instead of constantly criticizing bishops and priests we should pray for them and give good example to others of Christian Charity."

Read it here.

 

Related items of interest: CUF's Faith Fact "Following Our Bishops" and Leon Suprenant's May/June '06 Lay Witness column "Laity on the Line".

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