Canon lawyer to Houston, where the bishop resides: Please reconsider your excommunication of Father Treco Strong argument here on the priest’s behalf, based on rules by which the Church protects the rights of the accused, limiting a bishop’s power, vs. kangaroo court approach

Accused of avowing heresy and fomenting schism in a homily subsequently widely viewed on a traditionalist site, Fr. Vaughn Treco got a canon lawyer to plead his case. Here is the nub of his argument  according to Canon Law.

April 11, 2019: Fr. Treco’s lawyer explains to Bishop Lopes why he should reverse his suspension and excommunication of Fr. Treco for his 11/25/18 homily:

First: No recognized legal procedure was followed, it was a conviction decided by the Bishop, who in a “pastoral action” lawfully made his complaints and gave instructions to his priest.

One of a series . . .

The Joy of Teaching

An unusual “take” on this:

Franz Schubert, quoted in Maurice J.E. Brown, Schubert: A Critical Biography (New York: Da Capo, 1988), p. 233:

“I would rather eat dry bread than teach.”

Ralph E. Hone, Dorothy L. Sayers: A Literary Biography (Kent: Kent State University Press, 1979), p. 24:

One of her own students had overheard her saying: “I would rather sweep the streets than teach children!”

Right?

Pennsylvania’s Mastriano rewrites debate rules to thwart anti-GOP bias

Running for governor, he says nuts to the usual debate arrangements:

“Typically, Republican statewide candidates fall prey to the trap of debates that are effectively a two against-one matchup, in which the mainstream media, who moderate the debates, are unpaid advocates and ideological allies of the Democrat candidates,” he said.

Says he and his opponent can work something out that confronts and negates the usual palsy-walsy Dems-and-tee-vee-buddies shows meant to satisfy lefties while cutting down the right.

Mastriano, a state senator who represents Gettysburg, wrote in a letter to Shapiro, the state’s attorney general, “I challenge you to two 90-minute debates in the month of October, one at a location of your choosing, and one at a location of my choosing.”

He suggested that each debate have two moderators, “again, one of your choosing and one of my choosing — who will be allowed an equal number of questions asked of each candidate. The topics for the debates can be open-ended with no limits.”

An equal-opportunity tangle. Should break viewing records.