Good Catch: We're Up To 4

A friend of this blog noticed a bash in a recent post. It seems at first glance to be merely praising a Catholic Bishop for making a tough decision. On further inspection, though, the phrase "catches hell" gives it away.

The article cited mentions one angry parishioner from the removed priest's parish and the letter she wrote.

Our Lady of Guadalupe church member Julia Broyles said she wrote an angry letter to Vann when Father Gil was dismissed, telling him that she didn't approve of what he did and asking for his reasoning.

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None of that mattered to Broyles, she said. "That was way back when he was a oung man," she said. "We see where Jesus forgave the adulterous woman. Why can't we forgive? The man's trying to be good."

She would not be inclined to hold her leader to a higher standard than anyone else, she said. "Jesus talked to the woman caught in adultery and told her to go and sin no more, your sins are forgiven. I think we should not even think about what was in his past. It's none of our business."

Heck, is that catching hell? Hell, that's not even catching heck!

I'm sorry, but one person writing a letter, even an "angry letter" to a bishop does not constitute a "hell-catching", even if contains (faulty) reasoning that the bishop is in error. Phrases like "Why can't we forgive?" and "It's none of our business," are mild compared to the kind complaints diocesan offices sometimes get. This is another effort to paint Catholics as insensitive to The Scandal™ using an isolated anecdote.