tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-253865779660854699.post4048923006886160155..comments2023-10-15T09:36:12.013+01:00Comments on Countercultural Father: Telling Fr Fisher's StoryBen Trovatohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15299230935468606845noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-253865779660854699.post-38451017621160294922015-07-20T12:54:42.204+01:002015-07-20T12:54:42.204+01:00To suspiciously malign the motives of Archbishop S...To suspiciously malign the motives of Archbishop Smith by intimating he deliberately imposed an unsuitable, fragile Parish Priest upon an Parish with the intention of its closure and sale is frankly disgusting.<br />[and yes I will concede that this form of outageous machiavellian machination has been known in the past [not by Archbishop Smith I may add] - especially in regard to Catholic schools perceived as a financial drain and deliberately made untenable with the plan for sale]<br />...but if we for a second conjecture on Archbishop Smith's discernment and bear in mind the Blackfen record of being a 'beacon of faithfulness' with a insurpassable wonderfully supportive set of parishioners and a glorious pastoral record - it would be the perfect place for a fragile priest [with a modicum of traditionalist affinity] to be placed to recuperate and be revivified by the exemplary support and good example of the parishioners - to be welcomed, strengthened and understood in charity...<br />...it would be the perfect place for Fr Fisher to be 'recalled to life and ministry'<br /><br />...little did anyone realise that most of this 'communal virtue' was more a veneer...<br /><br /><br />On the side of the angelshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05558623489507006790noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-253865779660854699.post-40190364565776896772015-07-20T00:22:27.352+01:002015-07-20T00:22:27.352+01:00This comment has been removed by the author.Jadishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15574649057747694825noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-253865779660854699.post-13188469396784771532015-07-19T16:51:28.397+01:002015-07-19T16:51:28.397+01:00and FWIW I thought Dr Shaw's approach was repr...and FWIW I thought Dr Shaw's approach was reprehensible.<br />It was utterly unnecesary to divulge any of the details of Fr Fisher's private life - the matter should have been left well alone.<br />I have no idea if it was his contribution to Rorate caeli which he referred to on his blog but nevertheless - irrespective of its veracity - this resorts to revealing private details - YES private [irrespective of it being on social media - certain Catholics had to deliberately pursue and stalk Fr Fisher's timelines and interactions to discover these details and distribute them] - this encroaches upon detraction and gives rise to speculations and conjectures which were utterly unfounded - including the accusations of Christian Niles that Fr Fisher has broken his vows of Chastity and was leading an actively homosexual lifestyle.<br />The widespread malicious lynch-mob witch-hunt which has ensued online has been deplorable and shameful for all involved - and frankly - given we have absolutely NO EVIDENCE WHATSOEVER that Fr Fisher is not a chaste homosexual seeking to follow Church teaching for the online campaign of hate to seek to drive him from his employment as a teacher in a Catholic school is despicable - and I felt you submitted too much to the browbeating of such shameful, deplorable pseudonymous vicious characters online.<br />I deplore Fr Fisher's recent thoughtless shameful activities which hold the priesthood and his parish in contempt - but frankly the reaction to him and the pursuant violent malice of those online has revealed a very much darker shade of indictment upon the whole situation. if the Blackfenites were innocent of helping drive Fr Fisher away from Holy Mother Church - their provocative hate-filled bile online might aggravate this antagonism and incite a furtherance to the pain. God forgive them.On the side of the angelshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05558623489507006790noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-253865779660854699.post-27615363266130295142015-07-19T11:16:22.288+01:002015-07-19T11:16:22.288+01:00FWIW (probably not much) I thought Dr Shaw's a...FWIW (probably not much) I thought Dr Shaw's approach - reporting facts with very little speculation as to culpability - is the preferable one. It certainly didn't seem to me to be an attack on someone who had done something the LMS did not like.Part-time Pilgrimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11183889477468203531noreply@blogger.com