{"id":732,"date":"2009-02-22T01:46:07","date_gmt":"2009-02-21T14:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lanuera.com\/cmwp\/?p=732"},"modified":"2009-02-22T01:46:07","modified_gmt":"2009-02-21T14:46:07","slug":"not-a-catholic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/?p=732","title":{"rendered":"Not a Catholic"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"justify\"><span class=\"dropcap\">R<\/span>alph has recently returned to St Vincent&#8217;s after an absence of many weeks following a particularly unpleasant encounter with the Neocat clergy in which Clesio Mendes told him in no uncertain terms that he was not a Catholic, and that he was allowing himself to be led astray by the community. This was not the first time that a member of the community has been attacked in this manner.<\/p>\n<p>On January 30 Ralph wrote this letter to the bishops of Australia:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-1250\" height=\"373\" width=\"550\" src=\"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/Ralph_RWT.jpg\" class=\"imageCbordered\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"373\" \/><\/p>\n<p>To date he has received replies from the following:<\/p>\n<div class=\"quote\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/Ralph_RWT10090204-Anthony_Fisher-800.jpg\">Bishop Anthony C Fisher<\/a>, OP DD VG &#8211; Auxiliary Bishop of Sydney<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/Ralph_RWT10090204-Apostolic_Nunciature-800.jpg\">Archbishop Giuseppe  Lazzarotto<\/a> &#8211; Apostolic Nuncio<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/Ralph_RWT10090204-Dennis_Hart-800.jpg\">Archbishop Denis J Hart<\/a>, DD &#8211; Archbishop of Melbourne<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/Ralph_RWT10090205-Kevin_Manning-800.jpg\">Bishop Kevin M Manning<\/a>, DD &#8211; Bishop of Parramatta<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/Ralph_RWT10090210-Geoffrey_Robinson-800.jpg\">Bishop Geoffrey J Robinson<\/a>, DD &#8211; Former Auxiliary Bishop of Sydney<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/Ralph_RWT10090210-Peter_Ingham-800.jpg\">Bishop Peter W Ingham<\/a>, DD &#8211; Bishop of Wollongong<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/Ralph_RWT10090217-Gerard_Hanna-800.jpg\">Bishop Gerard J Hanna<\/a>, DD &#8211; Bishop of Wagga Wagga\n<\/div>\n<p>\n(Click on a bishop&#8217;s name to read his letter)<\/p>\n<p>\nTwo more have been received:<\/p>\n<div class=\"quote\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/Ralph_RWT20090227-George_Pell-800.jpg\">Cardinal George Pell<\/a> &#8211; Archbishop of Sydney and &quot;fellow Catholic&quot; [In his letter Pell has, not surprisingly, chosen to take the word of his clergy in favour of Ralph&#8217;s. There were at least 5 witnesses to the incident that is the subject of Ralph&#8217;s letter, and there are many more St Vincent&#8217;s community members who have been similarly maligned by Pell&#8217;s Neocats over the last 6 years or so.]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/Ralph_RWT20090303-Philip_Wilson-800.jpg\">Archbishop Philip Wilson<\/a> &#8211; President, Australian Bishops Conference\n<\/div>\n<p>And another three:<\/p>\n<div class=\"quote\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/Ralph_RWT20090318-Christopher_Saunders-800.jpg\">Bishop Christopher Saunders<\/a> &#8211; Bishop of Broome<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/Ralph_RWT20090320-Don_Sproxton-800.jpg\">Bishop Donald Sproxton<\/a> &#8211; Auxiliary Bishop of Perth<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/Ralph_RWT20090323-David_Walker-800.jpg\">Bishop David Walker<\/a> &#8211; Bishop of Broken Bay\n<\/div>\n<p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ralph has recently returned to St Vincent&#8217;s after an absence of many weeks following a particularly unpleasant encounter with the Neocat clergy in which Clesio Mendes told him in no uncertain terms that he was not a Catholic, and that he was allowing himself to be led astray by the community. This was not the first time that a member of the community has been attacked in this manner.<\/p>\n<p>On January 30 Ralph wrote this letter to the bishops of Australia:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-1250\" height=\"373\" width=\"550\" src=\"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/Ralph_RWT.jpg\" class=\"imageCbordered\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"373\" \/><\/p>\n<p>To date he has received &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/?p=732\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[29],"class_list":["post-732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-our-pastors-appointed-by-george-pell","tag-most-read"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}