Never too Old to Be a Fool: US Bishop Wants to Marry

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291Nov 22, 2022

“In the case of Bishop Hubbard, it is he alone who voluntarily removed himself from any public celebration of sacraments,” the diocese’s statement said.

Vitam Aeternam

Nov 20, 2022

Hey, at least its a female he's interested in..unless its a tranny.

A more intelligent ecclesiastic Cardinal Wolsey, Lord Chancellor and Archbishop of England under King Henry VIII didn't ask to be laicized. He just lived with his mistress but never married. I'm not advocating this but only pointing out that not all bishops in the history of the Church have been Saints. BTW all of the Medieval and Renaissance priests, bishops and popes who kept a mistress acknowledged …More

A more intelligent ecclesiastic Cardinal Wolsey, Lord Chancellor and Archbishop of England under King Henry VIII didn't ask to be laicized. He just lived with his mistress but never married. I'm not advocating this but only pointing out that not all bishops in the history of the Church have been Saints. BTW all of the Medieval and Renaissance priests, bishops and popes who kept a mistress acknowledged they had been undisciplined, sinned, and repented at the end of their life. They were also very orthodox!

Dr Bobus

5 Nov 19, 2022edited

Just the latest foolishness from Howie Hubbard. He always was an airhead. Perhaps there is some satisfaction in his consistency

John A Cassani

4 Nov 19, 2022

Has there ever been a bishop who was voluntarily laicized? Until a few years ago, Canon Law didn’t even envision the possibility of a bishop being dismissed, even by a penal process. Now this? The only shock with Hubbard is that he wants to marry a woman.

Kenjiro M. Yoshimori

Nov 19, 2022

@John A Cassani -THank you for this good laugh. I was reading thru all the posts until I came to the last line of your post. Very true....I am surprised too. Considering the type of bishops Paul VI, and JPII appointed, as well as now Francis (Benedict XVI at least half/way tried to appoint good men mostly), I expected Hubbard to be wanting to marry his gay lover. A bishop like him however, who was …More

@John A Cassani -THank you for this good laugh. I was reading thru all the posts until I came to the last line of your post. Very true....I am surprised too. Considering the type of bishops Paul VI, and JPII appointed, as well as now Francis (Benedict XVI at least half/way tried to appoint good men mostly), I expected Hubbard to be wanting to marry his gay lover. A bishop like him however, who was among the worst of a rotten lot during his reign, I would not be surprised if he, and his kind of bishops throughout the Catholic world, have had both male and female lovers.

P. O'B

Nov 19, 2022

A bishop James Shannon, auxiliary in St. Paul, was voluntarily laicized in 1968 or so, and soon after married. He dissented from Humanae Vitae, as many did, but he was at least honest enough to leave the Church. He also was upset because of what he saw was the Church's endorsement of the View Nam War. In that he now seems to have been prescient.

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