{"id":7404,"date":"2004-04-26T08:06:36","date_gmt":"2004-04-26T08:06:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2004\/04\/futurechurch_in_cleveland.html"},"modified":"2004-04-26T08:06:36","modified_gmt":"2004-04-26T08:06:36","slug":"futurechurch_in_cleveland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2004\/04\/futurechurch_in_cleveland.html","title":{"rendered":"FutureChurch in Cleveland"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brouhaha<\/a><\/p>\n

\nAn influential group of liberal-minded Catholic reformers is debating a response to Bishop Anthony Pilla, who recently banned the organization from meeting on Diocese of Cleveland property. <\/p>\n

Future Church, which claims more than 800 members locally, advocates allowing priests to marry and women to be ordained as the best ways to alleviate clergy shortages. <\/p>\n

\nThe group had operated unrestricted in the Cleveland diocese for more than a decade. But the truce ended unexpectedly April 1 after Pilla issued an edict to all pastors. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And, inevitably, coming back to bite:<\/p>\n

\n“My guess is that if pastors refuse to ban us and JCU and the CSJs [John Carroll University and the Sisters of St. Joseph, which host Future Church events] refuse to ban us, what can the diocese do? Kick out a priest for allowing discussion when they haven’t kicked them out for sexually abusing kids?” <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And then, a companion article on a conservative group<\/a><\/p>\n

But their mutual opposition to Future Church does not mean Save Our Church and Pilla are allies.<\/p>\n

Criticizing the bishop as a “Force of Darkness,” Webster has called on Pilla to retire, and has vowed to engage in “earnest and sustained prayer and fasting” until he complies. <\/p>\n

Webster has posted writings on his Web site accusing Pilla of mistreating sex-abuse victims and their families, of promoting homosexuality and dissident clergy, and of giving “foul-mouthed heretics” free rein in the diocese. <\/p>\n

“This man is a liar,” Webster said in a recent interview. “Hiding things and being dishonest are the worst of things, and typical of this diocese.” <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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