Here’s a quick primer on how to get quoted in a major metropolitan newspaper. Ready? Mention Catholic bishops and Nazis in the same sentence. It’s a sure-fire thing that your quote will not be left on the cutting room floor.
That is reportedly what Father Ronald Nuzzi, who trains Catholic school principals at the University of Notre Dame, did when asked by the Washington Post about a new Arlington Diocese requirement that all Catechism teachers sign an oath of fidelity to Church teaching.
Father Nuzzi reportedly told the reporter he keeps a picture on his desk of German bishops giving a Nazi salute. He said it reminds him that the wisdom of the bishops is limited.
Read his outrageous comments and my reaction by clicking here.
July 16, 2012 at 8:26 pm
Maybe I should get a picture of President Obama being honored at Notre Dame to remind me that just because a University is named after the Blessed Mother and is known as THE Catholic University it may betray me and the Faith for a pot of gold at any time.
July 16, 2012 at 8:44 pm
Turn the argument you make in your article around… how many bishops have wholeheartedly in the recent past been accessories to the very things we stand against- abortion, sexual promiscuity, horrible liturgies. Maybe the good father has a point (though, agreed- not in the context of a fidelity form).
July 16, 2012 at 9:12 pm
Fr. Peter, would that the university had received at least a pot of gold, then they might not have been said to have sold out cheaply.
Pray for our bishops, that they may find their spines, and stand up for the faith, in all its truth.
July 16, 2012 at 10:24 pm
Funny, I keep a picture of Blessed Clemens August Graf von Galen on my desk to remind me that Catholics need to stand up for the Faith and not cave in to tyranny. Of course, I don't work at Notre Dame. Which is another way of saying I'm Catholic.
July 16, 2012 at 10:39 pm
If the TRUTH were not the TRUTH, then it would be a lie. Infallibility is that simple. If a person does not sign on to the TRUTH, then he is a lair.
July 17, 2012 at 2:52 am
So, in Fr. Nuzzi's world, bishops who act to ensure the fidelity of
Catholic schools to Catholic teaching is a sign of… their limited
wisdom?
July 22, 2012 at 3:11 am
I listened to this priest once upon a time. A statistician, nothing more. When asked about whether the weak Catholicism found in most parochial schools had anything to do with the decline of the parochial school system, he denied the premise. OK, all is bright and holy in Catholic schools…
Then once the sham open session was finished, Fr. Nuzzi, the diocesan superintendent of schools, and other selected VIPs went into another room to talk about what later became the diocesan schools plan. We pastors were simply patsies for the diocesan newspaper.
Disgusted CA pastor