DANIEL S. writes:

I hadn’t seen this when it first happened several months ago, but Robert Spencer of Jihad Watch had posted the letter that the Bishop Robert McManus of Worcester, Massachusetts wrote after he canceled Spencer’s planned appearance at a Catholic men’s conference. The bishop was none too pleased with Spencer’s critique of Islam. After mentioning the usual mush about Vatican II and “mutual understanding” the bishop wrote:

My decision to ask Mr. Spencer not to speak at the Men’s Conference resulted from a concern voiced by members of the Islamic community in Massachusetts, a concern that I came to share. That concern was that Mr. Spencer’s talk about extreme, militant Islamists and the atrocities that they have perpetrated globally might undercut the positive achievements that we Catholics have attained in our inter-religious dialogue with devout Muslims and possibly generate suspicion and even fear of people who practice piously the religion of Islam.

To put it more clearly, the bishop didn’t want Robert Spencer to speak about ongoing, widespread religiously-inspired violence by Muslims against Christians because to do so would upset Muslims and thus harm some supposedly “positive achievements” in inter-faith dialogue. The bishop is sacrificing the viciously persecuted Christians of Syria, Egypt, Iraq, Pakistan, and Nigeria for the sake of empty, therapeutic, groveling, one way “inter-faith dialogue.” The shepherd has abandoned his flock to rub shoulders with the wolves.

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Don Vincenzo writes:

When I saw the piece on Bishop McManus, I recalled recently reading an article in which this spiritual shepherd had not, how to put it, acted or behaved as a leader of his flock should. Finding the article was not difficult.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — The leader of Worcester’s Roman Catholic diocese has lost his license for six months after admitting he refused a chemical breath test, but his lawyer says a separate drunken driving charge will be dismissed.

An attorney for Bishop Robert McManus tells WJAR-TV (http://bit.ly/13YW2ca ) the DUI charge is being dropped in exchange for his admission in traffic court Tuesday.

The station reports the 61-year-old bishop was ordered to pay over $900 in fines and court costs in addition to the license suspension.

McManus pleaded not guilty last week to charges of driving under the influence and leaving the scene of an accident in Narragansett.

McManus has said he “made a terrible error in judgment” by driving after drinking wine at dinner and asked for forgiveness.

His next court appearance is May 28.

What is disturbing about the conduct of the bishop is not that he had “too much wine” and got behind a wheel; many are guilty of that error in judgment. But what seems incomprehensible is that this religious leader, this saver of souls, was also charged with leaving the scene of an accident, a charge that has been dropped through plea bargaining, no doubt. But he refused to take a breathalizer test, which tells you something, and I seriously doubt if the initial charge of leaving the scene of an accident was made up by the police who were on the scene. If he did, indeed, plea bargain on this charge, then his moral corruption is greater than I thought, for that is inexcusable behavior for anyone in that one does not know if there was bodily harm to the other passengers, but for a man who is responsible for teaching moral behavior, it shows a serious moral failing on his part.

Therefore, before Bishop McManus decides to judge the behavior of Robert Spencer, I believe that it is far more important to examine the character and moral weaknesses of the man he sees in the mirror.

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