SPOKANE (WA)
The Inlander
March 25, 2019
By Daniel Walters
Bishop Thomas Daly may be conservative, but he isn’t a fan of the right-wing group trying to take down his predecessor.
Even if you didn’t read our cover story on the division within the Catholic Church earlier this month, you may have seen the advertisements that Stephen Brady, of the Roman Catholic Faithful, has run in the Inlander.
Brady has been going to the former dioceses that Cardinal Blase Cupich, archbishop of Chicago, formerly led. He’s already been to Rapid City. He is coming to Spokane, where Cupich served as Bishop until 2014, this Saturday.
By design, the Inlander’s advertising department is separated from the newsroom. Reporters don’t get a say in which ads run.
In reporting our story on the Catholic Church, however, we did interview Brady, who is part of a far-right contingent trying to use the sex abuse scandal to unseat Cupich, who they believe is far too liberal.
Tellingly, Brady’s advertisement doesn’t mention anything about Cupich’s handling of the sex abuse crisis, instead focusing on Cupich’s alleged heresies, including locking Rapid City Latin-mass participants out of an Easter church service, expressing openness to gays and remarried Catholics getting Communion, and removing a priest who burned a rainbow flag from his parish.
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