So true: they were very committed to defending a certain ecclesiology. I was recently skimming around in Gore's book on church and ministry. I had not realized that he was of the opinion that non-episcopal churches are not true churches.
Fr Deitch was a Jewish convert from Chicago. He had Deitch’s two laws of Catholic obedience: If the bishop says to do something and you want to do it, do it and call it Catholic obedience. If you don’t want to, you don’t and call it “defending the Catholic faith”.
Before this, there had been trouble in the parish. Bishop Myers, from the pulpit, pointed to the crucifix above the altar and said to the congregation, “That man was a Jew. I don’t know what Fr Deitch will choose to do, but if he leaves, it will be a very long time before you get another priest.”
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