Randall Terry has a bishop problem

Randall Terry got himself in trouble by using an interview (below) with the Vatican’s Archbishop Raymond L. Burke, in an attempt to pressure U.S. Catholic bishops:

Burke rebuked Terry and apologized for the use of his comments to attack Washington Archbishop Donald W. Wuerl and Arlington Diocese Bishop Paul S. Loverde. Terry was using the interview to pressure more U.S. Catholic bishops to deny Communion to politicians who support abortion rights, and those two were in the cross hairs.

Catholic Online has Burke’s entire statement about the matter.

Michael Sean Winters of America magazine writes that Burke’s failure to defend his brother bishops during the interview with Terry “was the Vatican equivalent of throwing them under the bus.”

The Rev. Thomas Reese, senior fellow at the Woodstock Theological Center at Georgetown University, told the Washington Post that Burke “violated the episcopal etiquette. You don’t criticize other bishops in public and you don’t tell other bishops how to run their diocese.”

Terry shoots back that Burke has been “deceived” about how the videotape is being use. Uh huh.

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