Wednesday, May 11, 2011

William Morris, former Bishop of Toowoomba QLD

The Bishop of the Toowoomba Diocese was stepped down, or resigned, depending on who you ask - The Vatican or the Bishop, William Morris.

Here are a couple of news articles, from two different perspectives. One from a Catholic news-source, the other from "The Age", a Melbourne newspaper that, in my view, are a great source of news except for Catholic affairs... they seem somewhat anti-Catholic, anti-Papist...

Some things seem strange, like how the former-Bishop chose to wear a neck-tie instead of the Roman-collar. Sounds fine to me, he doesn't want to be "above" everyone else! However, the neck-tie was emblazoned with his episcopal coat of arms - that draws even more attention to being "above" others than the Roman-collar in my view. I don't see the Roman-collar as being "above" anyways, I see it as a thing that deserves respect, that shows who they are, that they are approachable by anyone in the community, a sign of love and humility, poverty and charity!

Here's the news from the Catholic news-site "Catholic Culture"
http://bit.ly/lRdfvj

This is the one from the Melbourne newspaper "The Age"
http://bit.ly/kkrWr9

1 comment:

  1. I prefer priests to wear black clerics anytime they're engaged in pastoral work and for any priests present at Mass to concelebrate, but I have known and greatly admired priests who do neither! Bishops seem like they should be a better example, though. It was like the teacher dress code listed in our handbook. The students had to wear uniforms. We were advised to dress at least as well as they did (polos and khakis), if not better.

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