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William D. Lindsey
Brother Body can be a real ass sometimes, can’t he? I’m dealing with some health things right now, and finding it hard to concentrate on blogging. Please forgive the “lightness” of this posting, which is more or less a list of Catholic-themed news items or commentary I’d like to report to you, as I work on encouraging Brother Body to stop being so much of a donkey to me.
1. As many of you who have followed this blog for any length of time will know, I’ve posted repeatedly here about the former archbishop of St. Paul-Minneapolis, John Nienstedt, who resigned in June 2015. Click his name in the labels below, and you’ll find my previous postings about him.
I’ve also blogged about the big right-wing Catholic shindig that occurs each year out in California, the Napa Institute, at which right-wing Catholics pretend they’re being persecuted and celebrate Latin-rite Masses in pretend catacombs (otherwise known as wine cellars), before convening for lavish banquets at which expensive wine flows, where they listen to lectures about how persecuted “real” Catholics are in America today. One of my Napa Institute postings notes that in 2013, Nienstedt told the Napa crowd that the gay rights movement is linked to the devil.
Guess whom Napa Institute just invited back to officiate at several Napa sessions? Here’s Tim Lennon of SNAP on Nienstedt’s attendance at this year’s Napa Institute:
Archbishop John Nienstedt, the former head of the St. Paul/Minneapolis archdiocese, is at the Napa Institute for the next few days. Several sources have told us he works there permanently now. He’s accused of sexually exploiting and/or propositioning between five and ten young seminarians. In civil litigation and repeated media exposes (especially by Minnesota Public Radio), he’s been shown to have ignored or concealed child sex crimes by priests. And the archdiocese he ran for years faces pending criminal charges for refusing to report suspected abuse by clerics.
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