Opinion: Unrepentant scandal-ridden W.Va. bishop offers offensive non-apology

UNITED STATES
LifeSiteNews

August 21, 2020

By Phil Lawler

Bp. Michael Bransfield’s ‘apology’ is of the sort that could have been delivered with a one-finger gesture.

This morning I had planned to write about the disgraceful excuse for an “apology” proffered by a former bishop. But I see that Christopher Altieri, writing in the Catholic Herald has beaten me to the punch:

“Let’s be clear about two things: Bishop Michael J. Bransfield — improbably emeritus of the Diocese of Wheeling Charleston — did not apologize; nor did he get the “justice with a gesture of mercy” that his successor, Bishop Mark E. Brennan, suggested he might have got.”

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