It's not feudal.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)

St. Louis Journalism Review | March 1, 2005| | Copyright

SJR: From afar, in Pine Point, Maine, on the shores of the Atlantic, I dare to speak my faith to the feudal system of church governance now being bludgeoned in the St. Louis Archdiocese, where a throwback to the ninth century fancies himself as emperor/pope rather than the mere baron/bishop he was ordained to be.

He should know, by now, that most bishops in the Roman Catholic Church have become adults and really believe in the graces given them on their ordinations as Ordinaries, an unfortunate word belied mostly by the antics of the current holder of that office in ...

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