Episcopal bishop says he was denied entrance to Catholic archbishop’s installation Mass

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By Kevin Eckstrom
Religion News Service
Updated: Friday, October 5, 2:11 PM

... Andrus said he arrived at St. Mary’s Cathedral 30 minutes before the installation Mass of Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone was scheduled to start, but was kept in a holding area with an employee of the Catholic archdiocese until after the service started ...

“At 2 PM, when the service was to begin, I said to the employee, ‘I think I understand, and feel I should leave.’ Her response was, ‘Thank you for being understanding.’ I quietly walked out the door. No one attempted to stop me,” Andrus wrote on his blog.

George Wesolek, a spokesman for the Archdiocese of San Francisco, described the event as a misunderstanding that arose because he said Andrus arrived late and church officials were working to get him into the cathedral without disrupting the service, already in progress ...

Days before Cordileone’s installation, Andrus had written an open letter, saying Catholics who disagreed with Cordileone’s hard-line stance on homosexuality could find a home in the Episcopal Church. Cordileone is an outspoken opponent of gay marriage, while Andrus helped lead the fight to overturn California’s Proposition 8, which ended same-sex marriages in the state in 2008 ...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/on-faith/episcopal-bishop-says-he-was-denied-entrance-to-catholic-archbishops-installation-mass/2012/10/05/1036c6ba-0f18-11e2-ba6c-07bd866eb71a_story.html

[Swede Atlanta]

1. Well the Catholic Church are following Robme and Lyin-Ryan's example..

Just lie...lie often, as often as you can.

In my view it would have been totally acceptable for the church to quietly "un-invite" Andrus from the service. The installation is a semi-private event and someone who has taken such a public view against Cordlileone should not be surprised if he/she was uninvited.

But to handle it the way they did...not doing in this advance and having him arrive for the service and secondly then by lying about the reason for the situation made it even worse.

But for the Catholic AD, especially in San Francisco, to have publicly stated they refused to allow Andrus to enter for that reason would have invited unwanted criticism and anti-ecumenicalism.

[cbayer]

2. Agree. Handled very badly.

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3. Given its Cordeleone, he could have kept him out for the encycical Saepius Officio alone.

His mind is rooted in a worldview that no longer exists.