CUF/Milwaukee Weighs In

The Milwaukee Chapter of Catholics United for the Faith (CUF) has issued a resolution concerning the upcoming appearance of the homosexualist heretic Fr. Bryan Massingale.

WHEREAS, on October 2-4, 2018, the organization “New Ways Ministry” will sponsor "a retreat for gay priests, brothers and deacons"  at the Siena Retreat Center in the Archdiocese of Milwaukee; and

WHEREAS, in 2016, the Vatican approved the document The Gift of the Priestly Vocation which declared that the Church “cannot admit to the seminary or to holy orders those who practice homosexuality, present deep-seated homosexual tendencies or support the so-called ‘gay culture’"; and

WHEREAS, in 1999, the Vatican published a Notification Regarding Sister Jeannine Gramick, SSND and Father Robert Nugent, SDS which censured these two founders of New Ways Ministry for their lack of adherence to Church teaching on the morality of homosexual acts by permanently prohibiting them "from any pastoral work involving homosexual persons"; and

WHEREAS, in 2010, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops declared that New Ways Ministry cannot legitimately speak for Catholics, due to its continued lack of adherence to Church teaching; and

WHEREAS, recent events have demonstrated that the American bishops, as a group, have failed adequately to discipline themselves (and their priests) regarding the Church’s teachings on sexuality; and

WHEREAS, the aforementioned failure has led to announcements of secular legal investigations of the Church in at least seven states to date; and

WHEREAS, New Ways Ministry has announced that Father Bryan Massingale, a priest of the Archdiocese of Milwaukee, will facilitate the aforementioned October 2-4, 2018 retreat; and

WHEREAS, in 2006, Father Massingale publicly opposed passage of the Wisconsin Marriage Amendment despite its support by all five Wisconsin bishops; and

WHEREAS, in 2017, Father Massingale publicly opposed a draft of a presidential executive action guaranteeing religious freedom, basing his opposition on the demonstrably false claim that “Christians are not under attack in this country”; and

WHEREAS, Father Massingale, at his Ordination, made a vow of obedience to the local ordinary and his successors;


BE IT RESOLVED, in order to prevent further damage to the Faith, and scandal to the faithful, the St. Gregory VII Chapter of Catholics United for the Faith (CUF) hereby urges you, as Archbishop of Milwaukee, to officially prohibit the exercise of Father Massingale’s participation in the New Ways Ministry retreat.

A copy was sent to the Apostolic Nuncio.

We have already made clear that the Archbishop of Milwaukee appears to be very reluctant to discipline Massingale according to the mind of the Church, and we doubt that Massingale would give a fig if the Archbishop gathered up the courage to order him to Sit Down and Shut Up.

And there we are.

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