Bishops Gather to Watch Communist Propaganda and Relax in St. Petersburg

According to the Petersburg Times, the Bishops are still "wrestling" with the sex abuse crisis. It doesn't sound like they'll be having meditations on the Spiritual Exercises of the great St. Ignatius of Loyola and as far as we know they won't be discussing the new Pro-Abortion President of Catholic University, as far as we know. According to Bishop Lynch, they're going to watch Invictus, a pious homage to the alleged beneficence and wisdom of hard -core Marxist, Nelson Mandela.



Bishop Lynch had this to offer about the retreat:

The media was not allowed at the retreat, but Bishop Robert N. Lynch, head of the Roman Catholic Diocese of St. Petersburg, which spans Pinellas, Hillsborough, Pasco, Hernando and Citrus counties, offered an insider's peek at the weeklong gathering in his May 31 blog.

"It is relaxed and informal," he said.

"It is something like five days of continuing education and this year the general theme is 'the bishop and his priests' … Relationships between bishops and priests is an important topic because it has changed for the worse since the sexual-abuse controversy of 2001 and following. In many places priests don't trust their bishops any longer and are terrified that they will receive a call and be asked to come and see the bishop for fear it might be a complaint or something of that nature," Lynch wrote.

Maybe the Bishops could discuss the injustices heaped upon some priests by their colleagues in the last 50 years, like Father Mclucas, or all the Seminarians whose lives were made hell for no good reason, or perhaps the dissident priests teaching at their colleges and Universities. Sometimes, a priest can get dismissed by teaching unpopular things to their flocks, and sometimes priests even get hung out to dry by their ordinary.

Bishops assemble to refresh, reflect at St. Petersburg retreat - St. Petersburg Times