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By Fr. Wilson (articles ) | January 05, 2004 6:07 PM

The correspondence between Father Weinberger and his bishop is online. Go here, and then click on "Parish News."

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  • Posted by: - Jan. 06, 2004 4:11 PM ET USA

    See the Dallas Morning News blogsite http://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/blog/ Scroll down to 1/6 11:23AM where Rod Dreher reveals that the San Diegan recounting his conversation with Bronson Havard is NOT anonymous. He is John Giery, and has been deposed in this matter by an attorney.

  • Posted by: - Jan. 06, 2004 5:15 AM ET USA

    It's obvious that the Bishop carefully crafted his replies to the good Father knowing that they would be in the public domain. Apparently, the opinion of the liaty matters little, so long as there is canonical law to support an equally obvious miscarriage of justice.

  • Posted by: - Jan. 05, 2004 9:59 PM ET USA

    Bronson Havard, the spokesman of the Dallas Diocese, has spoken about the "alleged" comments he made concerning Fr. Paul Weinberger. An article can be found (no doubt written by himself) on the Texas Catholic website. www.texascatholic.com. In the article...err..statement..."People are using these allegations in a very unchristian way,” Havard said. “They are repeating third-party hearsay and it keeps getting worse and worse. None of it is true.”....(more in article)

  • Posted by: Pseudodionysius - Jan. 05, 2004 9:21 PM ET USA

    I will operate under the assumption that an appeal to Rome is little short of useless, and they will not intervene in such a case. Which is too bad, because the Bishop got trounced, in my opinion, in these letters.

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