“Final” or “climactic” it appears not. At least one prominent diocesan conservative priest has (in an e-mail being CCed about) zinged Bishop O’Neill for deciding that no canons had been broken — since, after all, we’re talking about a same-sex committed relationship, clearly <\/i>(according to the writer) at odds with Scripture, and thus at odds with all sorts of canonical stuff.<\/p>\n
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