Sunday, May 17, 2009

I write this as President Obama speaks at Norte Dame. I am saddened that it happened but not surprised. Father Jenkins has more than once broken his vow of obedience with his Bishop. So this was in reality only a small step for him not the big OMG leap so many have called it. This day began shortly after he took his position at ND allowing theology professors to openly question the dogma of transubstantiation the allowing the Vagina Chronicles to be performed on campus. Each time the local Bishop told him NO. Nothing “happened” to Fr. Jenkins after each breech and the University still stands. So what’s one more sin? Fr. J. thinks that this is open discourse and the kind of open diversity that an University should be about he is rebelling against, um, ah…. well Orthodoxy.
Chesterton would say of his type:
“…But the new rebel is a Skeptic, and will not entirely trust anything. He has no loyalty; therefore he can never be really a revolutionist. And the fact that he doubts everything really gets in his way when he wants to denounce anything. For all denunciation implies a moral doctrine of some kind; and the modern revolutionist doubts not only the institution he denounces, but the doctrine by which he denounces it.”

I, along with others, have questioned if Fr. J. should not have been removed form his office after the first, ‘I know what’s better than you Bishop.’ Then I saw this Chesterton quote in a different light: “There are many, many angles at which one can fall but only one angle at which one can stand straight.”
His Bishop and the other Bishops were not pushing him to fall over but to help him get straight again.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Just a comment, Fr Jenkins is not a diocesan priest and has no obligation of obedience to the bishop. His vow of obedience is to his provincial in the Congregation of the Sacred Heart (CSC)

Alan Capasso said...

Thank you. Is it still OK to ignor the local Bishop as well as 61 others? Is he not to bend his will to the Bishops teaching that says Catholic Shools/institutions are not to give awards or honors to those who oppose Church teachings?

Trubador said...

Now that he's openly defied the Church and his Bishop in such an open and scandalous way, he should be removed immediately.

Period.