By removing a dedicated pastor at an Anglican Use parish, Archbishop Gustavo Garcia-Siller of San Antonio has not only engaged in a striking overreach, but he's fed perceptions that Catholic prelates are inflexible, authoritarian and aggressively assertive.For shame! The same nefarious bunch that maybe won't allow communion for same-sex couples! This whole thing is awfully confusing. The people behind this piece appear to be traditionalists, who in fact are mostly unhappy that bishops won't be inflexible, authoritarian and aggressively assertive. Unless their pet cause or pet martyr priest is involved.
This piece is remarkably silly. Farther down:
Now that the ordinariate is established, it should be obvious to everyone that the parish of Our Lady of the Atonement’s true home is in the non-geographical jurisdiction of the Anglican Ordinariate.Er, why is it "obvious to everyone"? The parish backed out of its first chance to join the Ordinariate in 2012 -- which the archbishop fully supported both ways. There was a personal agenda involved, or perhaps a conflict of personal agendas, in 2012, which was never made public. Is there a private agenda now? The bottom line is that we don't have all the facts, any more than we had in 2012, and it's hard to avoid thinking some of those withholding facts are on the parish's side.
Although Fr Phillips has been ordered not to contact parishioners, I've got to assume these articles (with the same photo of Phillips and his family) are being submitted by parishioners with his tacit approval. This can't help his case. I assume that, while he can't contact the parish directly, it ought to be possible for him to get the message through, perhaps via Bp Lopes, that this sort of thing can't be helpful.
