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Posted by: Don Vicente -
May. 19, 2010 11:31 AM ET USA
Just a minute. Googling Alcuin Reed shows that he is or was a Benedictine monk. As such, he would come under his religious superior and not the local bishop. What is his status? Is he exclaustrated? Is he now a secular cleric? He seems to be a well-known liturgiologist.
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Posted by: -
May. 19, 2010 9:58 AM ET USA
I am really confused by the secular press headline "Pope Helped Tainted Deacon" I guess it's intended to attract readers to an otherwise pedestrian write-up that says the Pope wrote an Introduction to a book by this deacon but there is no information that he knew he had had his faculties revoked. It implies much more than is reported. I do not see any real issue here. There have been no accusations of abuse and his current bishop chose to ignore the information from his former bishop.
