Connecticut Archbishop Calls for Female Deacons, Moving Vatican Out of Rome “That would be the first thing I’d say,” he continued. “Is there any way we can move out of Rome and just kind of start over with a different bureaucracy?”
Connecticut Archbishop Calls for Female Deacons, Moving Vatican Out of Rome
Archbishop Coyne also said that he sees more church closings in the future for the archdiocese.
A recently appointed coadjutor archbishop in Connecticut said he would, if asked, advise Pope Francis to “get [the Church] out of Rome” and move its headquarters elsewhere, and consider allowing women to serve as deacons.
Pope Francis appointed Bishop Christopher Coyne as coadjutor archbishop of Hartford in June of this year. As coadjutor, Archbishop Coyne will assist Archbishop Leonard Blair in the administration of the Hartford archdiocese and should succeed him as archbishop upon the latter’s retirement, expected once Blair turns 75 next year.
In an interview with local news station WTNH News8 this week, Archbishop Coyne told network anchor Dennis House that, if asked by Pope Francis for advice on how to improve the Catholic Church, he would tell the Holy Father: "Get it out of Italy. Get it out of Rome.”
“We need to put it someplace [else]. It’s too Roman,” Archbishop Coyne said.
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Joseph Conrad wrote: “. . . no man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow of self-knowledge.” Lord Jim
Gonna need an awful lot of popcorn for the stupidity that's about to be unleashed in this town. Shame on Blair... Clerking his time away.
Sure move your false "church" outside of Rome ... and give the sacred sites over to real Catholics.
I hope such a campaign by the faithful is mounted against him, that he is forced to resign before he begins.