Archbishop Niederauer blaming filmers and bloggers

The Archdiocese of San Francisco is finally speaking out about the debacle at Most Holy Redeemer where Archbishop George Niederauer gave Communion to two Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. The problem is, the Archbishop and priests of the diocese aren’t focusing their heat on MHR, they’re taking shots the people who caught the incident on video and who are writing about it on the internet.

For some reason the diocese can’t manage a little humility for their mistake. They’ve now resorted to attacking the faithful that are offended that the source and summit of their faith has been defiled. These faithful the same people who have been begging for relief from the antics that are a common occurrence at MHR. This is not some new problem that suddenly appeared on October 6, 2007. This is the culmination of years of dissent in the parish of Most Holy Redeemer.

Archbishop Niederauer has missed the golden opportunity to educate the laity of his diocese regarding the teachings of the Church on homosexuality. The people videotaping were probably hoping that he would do just that when he went to MHR. The Archbishop giving Communion to some of the most depraved dissenters in the diocese was probably beyond their worst nightmare. This event gave the Archbishop a chance to show Most Holy Redeemer parish the error of their ways. Instead he chose to go after people wrote about it on the internet. "The blogosphere is a kind of dangerous, endless recess in a global schoolyard," he said, "where the bullies with the biggest bullhorns can shout whatever they want."  We have yet to hear the Archbishop explain to the laity of MHR that Catholics in good faith cannot "tolerate" sin but we have heard that anyone that exposes sin in the diocese is a great, big meanie.

Most Holy Redeemer is out of control. Most of the faithful are going to figure this out when they hear the concelebrant, Jesuit Father Donald Godfrey, contradict himself at the travesty defending the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence by saying of the "sisters" that they were "disrespectful to religious sisters" but then went onto say that "it probably wasn't their intention (to offend.) They knelt in all the right places. They stood in all the right places. Except for the way they were dressed, they weren't doing anything disrespectful." Their organization's very existence is disrespectful. Local Catholics have the right and duty to make it known that the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence exist to mock the Church and to promote immorality everywhere.  MHR is banking on people outside