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DOLW PODCAST 16: April 12, 2021 Rite of Sodomy, by Randy Engel p.763-768


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In this episode of the Podcast we speak with Randy Engel, about “Wolves Not Shepherds”, Randy Engel is present to us through her writings. As Catholics we accept the reality of a twofold existence – we exist both in our essence and our operations this is illustrated by the angels; their operations are two fold, they exist where the operate at: Their operations are twofold: knowing and loving.

We cover: “What happens to a Diocese when a bishop, the shepherd of his flock and father to his priests, turns wolf?”  and “How has Rome reacted to a bishop turned wolf?”

THIS IS PART OF OUR ONGOING TASK OF FORMING BELIEVERS

HISTORY OF CHURCH IN USA – BISHOP CAROLL:

John Carroll SJ (January 8, 1735 – December 3, 1815[1]) was a prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who served as the first bishop and archbishop in the United States. He served as the ordinary of the first diocese and later Archdiocese of Baltimore, in  Maryland, which at first encompassed all of the United States and later after division as the eastern half of the new nation.

HISTORY OF CHURCH IN BARDSTOWN DIOCESE – BISHOP JOHN CARROLL AND LOCAL CLERGY –

HISTORY OF CHURCH IN BARDSTOWN DIOCESE – PROPERTY RIGHTS STRUGGLE, LAWSUITS, TRUST – GUARDIANSHIP THEOREY OF THE CASE

QUESTIONS TO ASK OF YOUR CLERGY, YOUR BISHOP.

IS IT TRUE:

Financial reform and lay involvement

Because the U.S. government and state governments did not regulate churches, as was done in nations with established churches, the former British colonists and immigrants who made up the Catholic Church in the new land had varying ideas as to how to structure their local parish communities in this new era. Some set up churches run entirely by laity without Carroll's permission, and in other cases clergy exercised excessive control. Carroll sought to navigate a new way of organizing the Church in a new country, taking into account both the need for lay involvement and a reasonable degree of hierarchical control. In 1791, the formal message of congratulations from American Catholics to President George Washington on his election was co-signed by Carroll and lay Catholics.

HOW DOES IT LOOK WHEN, clergy exercised excessive control

Is it also True: In 1788, an official letter from the American clergy was sent to Rome asking for a bishop, and seeking as well the right of the American clergy to elect their own. Rome conceded; the American priests elected John Carroll,

For further study see: The Toleration Acts of 1639

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