DEDHAM (MA)
Wicked Local Dedham
By Sara Feijo
Wicked Local Dedham
Posted Jul 05, 2013
DEDHAM —
Boston Roman Catholic Archdiocese Cardinal Sean O’Malley banned an Austrian priest from speaking at St. Susanna Parish in Dedham, even though the lecture would address ways to lessen shortage of priests.
Rev. Helmut Schuller, who is the founder of the Austrian Priests’ Initiative (Pfarrer-Initiative), was scheduled to speak at the parish on July 17.
St. Susanna’s Deacon Larry Bloom said that the Archbishop office did not allow Schuller’s lecture because he advocates positions contrary to the Catholic Church’s doctrine.
“I understand that the Archbishop has to do what he has to do,” Bloom said Thursday morning, June 27. “He has a bigger scope of individual responsibilities than a parish has, so I wasn’t upset.”
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