Lafayette, IN Bishop: Politician? Wrong Choice!

News Item:

Last week, Lafayette Bishop Timothy Doherty suspended Father Theodore Rothrock, the pastor of St. Elizabeth Seton Catholic parish “in the wake of Father Rothrock’s June 28 bulletin article”...

...In his article, Father Rothrock acknowledged that the “brutal murder of a black man in police custody has sparked a landslide of reaction to the alleged systemic racism in America” but the anger has been co-opted by violent Antifa groups that have no real interest in the black community....

...“Who are the real racists and the purveyors of hate? You shall know them by their works. The only lives that matter are their own and the only power they seek is their own,” he said.

“They are wolves in wolves clothing, masked thieves and bandits, seeking only to devour the life of the poor and profit from the fear of others,” he declared. “They are maggots and parasites at best, feeding off the isolation of addiction and broken families, and offering to replace any current frustration and anxiety with more misery and greater resentment.”...

So the Bishop--a clueless fellow--suspended Fr. Rothrock.

Why "clueless"?  Because "Black Lives Matter" has enabled a massive uptick in shootings and murders of blacks over the last 3 weeks.  How did BLM enable them?  Simple:  the riots and demonstrations removed cops from high-crime areas.  What followed was mayhem in NYC, Chicago, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, and dozens of other cities in the USA.

...Black Lives Matter declared war on the police on behalf of criminals. The death toll in black lives is shocking. And the toll in the lives of black children is even more heart-rending. When the police leave, the criminals take over, and the hospitals and morgues pile up with the black victims of gang violence.

That’s the BLM Effect.

Supporting Black Lives Matter means not only supporting criminals over the police, it means enabling the mass deaths of black people and black children that inevitably follow in the wake of the riots.

If you support Black Lives Matter, you’re killing black children.

The Bishop danced around the question, of course.  He attempted to distinguish "good" BLM demonstrators from "bad" ones.  That's not a distinction which will be accepted by parents who are burying their children, is it?

It's not likely that H.E. Doherty will apologize to black community members whose children have died, or are maimed, or who will grow up without a parent who was assassinated in the present malaise.  It's even LESS likely that H.E. Doherty will rescind his discipline of a priest who told the truth. 

We note that the wrong side of this question is also occupied by a large number of politicians.  Apparently this Bishop thinks that he was elected to shilly-shally, not chosen by God to proclaim the Truth.

Wrong thinking, Excellency.