Over in San Diego

Geoffrey Robinson, a RAB from Oz, has been requested not to speak in several American diocese. Including San Diego. So, he's speaking at the UCSD Faculty Club. The topic is how the evil, "Lordship Based" church didn't do enough to eradicate and prevent the
abuse Scandal.

Normally, with Bishop Brom and Cdl Mahoney saying don't speak in their diocese, and given the topic, I would be on his side. Except he's the codger whose book was denounced by the Australian Bishops for doctrinal problems. It's not that he's critical of the Bishops and the Administrative apparatus of the Church--it's that his ecclesiology is entirely modernist. It's that he lays the blame for the scandal, not on sinful activities, and the infiltration of the Anglophone clergy by Gay chicken hawks, and those who sympathize and covertly embrace the Gay lifestyle, but on the structure of the church and the Administration there of.

He doesn't really get Lumen Gentium.

And so, he speaks in the diocese of other bishops, who have asked him not to. Nice going, dude.
Let's just be part of the problem of disobedient bishops--the ones who disregarded long standing directives to enable the problem in the first place. I guess now I know why you didn't get a diocese of your own.

I wish those bishops who have asked him not to speak in their diocese had used their authority in a more proactive fashion: they could have simply forbade him to do so, which would then render his activities an action that could be disciplined. But they left him wiggle room.

Shepherds don't sweet talk sheep--I've watched them wrestle them into position. and, shepherds don't ask predators to leave the sheep alone--they fight them off.