As I told you two weeks ago, Father Walter Cuenin has a new job as campus minister at Brandeis University, a Jewish school.
My question remains: Why is a known dissenter on fundamental issues of the faith concerning, among other things, sexuality being given a post at which he can spread his errors to a new generation? Why isn’t he just told to go home, we don’t have anything for you to do? Or given a job like answering phones at the chancery? I know that in these difficult times, we’re already short of priests, but that is preferable to filling the gaps with a priest who will continue to poison hearts and minds
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I agree. The bad fruits a really heretical priest will produce are worse than not having on around at all.
Ya just gotta love The Boston Globe, don’t ya?
From the very first line of their article: “The Rev. Walter H. Cuenin, the popular pastor of a vibrant Newton parish who was forced to resign over a contested allegation of financial impropriety….”
Bolded emphasis, mine.
Errmmmm……is it just me or does anyone else get the impression that The Globe is trying to send a message here??
Why, that mean bishop! Look how badly he treated wonderful Fr. Cuenin!!
Gag!!!
If Brandeis is a Jewish school, isn’t it their board’s prerogative to hire whom they choose. Maybe Cuenin’s theosophy fits nicely with theirs. A match made in Waltham. Is he under any ecclesiastical authority?
Are you quite sure this is a default decision and not a decision of choice? Is there compatibility between Fr. Cuenin’s heterodoxy and the philosophy and policies of Brandeis?
One has to wonder why a priest who preaches heterodoxy would be a priest of choice for interreligious activities.
It is also worth keeping in mind that those who would change the culture and the Church tend to target the youth.
The diocese assigns the chaplain for a school, the school does not get to hire whomever they like.
So the diocese palmed this ******* off on a Jewish college?
I guess I have to ask what they are supposed to be doing with him? It’s a problem. Once you own a turncoat, you can’t just lock them in the cellar when they go bad. Better in a Jewish college than a catholic one, I guess.
I mean, probably jobs in the basement of the dog pound are probably limited.
Better Brandeis than OL Help of Christians! Hopefully this will allow all the Cuenin fans from OLHC to leave there and start taking courses on Brandeis, and allow Fr. Coyne to reestablish OLHC as a solid parish in the Archdiocese.
Perhaps they will ask Fr. Cuenin to join the faculty and teach the following courses:
(1) Disobedience 101 – Private Dissent
(2) Disobedience 201 – Public Dissent on material teachings
(3) Disobedience 301 – Getting people to do the dissenting for you
(4) Disobedience 401 – Sandbagging your successor
(5) Disobedience 501 – Training the next generation in a University setting
If I was Archbishop O’Malley, I would have named Cuenin a “chaplain” …. chaplain to Voice of the Faithful! That way he couldn’t do more damage than he already has. Rumor has it that he’s the front runner for their “Priest of Integrity” award this year….