The Crystal Lake (IL) pastor who suggested sending to hell or another parish the critic of his preaching has made it across the seas, with the added twist of THE RECORDED TELEPHONE MESSAGE:
A Roman Catholic teacher is suing his parish priest and diocese for “immediate emotional distress, embarrassment and humiliation” after a recording of his unflattering remarks about a sermon was played to his church congregation.
Replaying the message, in which former religious-ed director Angel Llavona said he had “seen poor homilies, but yesterday broke all records,” the priest, Rev Luis Rios, said at two masses, “This is the person in charge of religious education here last year. That’s why it is no surprise to me we had the kind of religious education we had. That’s why we didn’t get altar boys. What should we do? Should we send him to Hell or to another parish?”
Llavona is suing for
at least $50,000 (£25,000) in damages, claiming he was defamed and so humiliated he had to change parish.
Actually, seminary professors should take this as a golden opportunity, seizing on it as an object lesson of the first water.
Blithe Spirit 