Priest tried for heresy

[cmotherofpirl]

Clergyman tried for heresy by diocese
12/13/2005, 10:09 p.m. ET
By ROBERT JABLON
The Associated Press

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A rare heresy trial was held Tuesday for a Roman Catholic priest who joined a denomination that doesn't accept papal infallibility and has ordained women clergy.

The Rev. Ned Reidy did not attend the one-day closed trial, which was conducted by three priests at the Diocese of San Bernardino. Reidy, 69, called the trial "medieval" and contends it has no authority because he stopped being a Roman Catholic in 1999.

Rev. Howard Lincoln, spokesman for the diocese, said Reidy was automatically excommunicated when he went to another denomination, but under church law he remains a Roman Catholic priest until he is formally excommunicated and defrocked.

The heresy trial would "officially clarify his status within the church," Lincoln said. The court's decision will be announced to Reidy at an unspecified future date.

"I just think the discourtesy level is appalling," Reidy said of the trial. "I'm not a Roman Catholic priest. I used to be."

Reidy was ordained in 1962 and was pastor of a parish in Palm Desert, near Palm Springs, before he resigned to join the Ecumenical Catholic Communion. He now is pastor of the 100-member Community of the Risen Christ church in Bermuda Dunes, a few miles from his old church.

His denomination considers itself Catholic in the sense of celebrating its sacraments. But it does not believe in the infallibility of the pope and permits married and female clergy. It also holds more liberal views than the Vatican on divorce, birth control and homosexuality.

Some Roman Catholic scholars told the Riverside Press-Enterprise that they were aware of just two heresy trials in the U.S. — the current case and another in the San Bernardino diocese two years ago.

Such cases are rare anywhere in modern times, said Msgr. Thomas Green, a professor of canon law at The Catholic University of Washington in Washington, D.C.

"By and large, once you get past the Council of Trent and the 1600s and 1700s, you don't hear much about it," he said

[photosynthesis]

wow... that is SO not what I'd expect from the archdiocese of L.A. I think it's a good thing though... Yay for orthodoxy! And the AP actually consulted a decent Catholic scholar and not that Fr. McBrien guy from Notre Dame.

[Myles Domini]

HERESY TRIAL WHOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Alright!!! :

INXC
Myles

[Guest Rick777]

good for that diocese.

[Extra ecclesiam nulla salus]

now we need a couple thousand more and we will be good.

[son_of_angels]

Ah...but if only we didn't need them (not to obscure the fact that we do).

I only wish that Canon Law courts and heresy trials were televised (EWTN CourtTV) so that the Church could show off its prowess, and it might also help to show people that the Catholic Church means business.

[MC Just]

[quote name='Myles' date='Dec 14 2005, 03:02 PM']HERESY TRIAL WHOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOOO 

Alright!!!  :

INXC
Myles
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yeah we need about 1000 more of those.

[MC Just]

[quote name='Extra ecclesiam nulla salus' date='Dec 14 2005, 03:05 PM']now we need a couple thousand more and we will be good.
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haha i didnt even see your post, yet i posted just the same thing..

[Extra ecclesiam nulla salus]

hahah

great minds think alike

Edited December 14, 2005 by Extra ecclesiam nulla salus

[Myles Domini]

[quote]Ah...but if only we didn't need them (not to obscure the fact that we do).

I only wish that Canon Law courts and heresy trials were televised (EWTN CourtTV) so that the Church could show off its prowess, and it might also help to show people that the Catholic Church means business. [/quote]

If it works for Judge Judy... :

INXC
Myles

[Norseman82]

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We could call it "Canon Law and Order".....

[Dreamweaver]

While its great that the Church is doing something about this wayward "priest", its sad that it started in the first place (the whole priest thinking he's better off leaving the Church for a wacko group).

[argent_paladin]

I just wanted to point out that it did NOT occur in the Archdiocese of LA, but in the diocese of San Bernadino, which is far more conservative. It could never happen on Mahony's watch.

[dUSt]

EWTN needs to jump on this opportunity to get some good court TV programing.

[Myles Domini]

Maybe phatmass should send EWTN a petition urging them to televise heresy trials?

[JP2Iloveyou]

[quote name='Dreamweaver' date='Dec 14 2005, 07:47 PM']While its great that the Church is doing something about this wayward "priest", its sad that it started in the first place (the whole priest thinking he's better off leaving the Church for a wacko group). 
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Exactly. It really is sad that we have come to this. I can't get excited about this, really. Pray for this priest, because regardless of what he thinks, he is still a priest. He needs our prayers.