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Article Category: 2007 February

Bishop's Arizona talks blocked by Vatican

Description: The Vatican has silenced an outspoken Catholic bishop, forcing him to cancel two planned talks in Arizona.

Article originally prepared on : 08 February 2007

http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/daily/local/41040.php

Bishop's Arizona talks blocked by Vatican

The Vatican has silenced an outspoken Catholic bishop, forcing him to cancel two planned talks in Arizona.

Bishop Thomas Gumbleton of Detroit must seek permission from localbishops anywhere he wishes to speak, by order of the papal nuncio, theVatican's ambassador to the United States, according to local leadersof Call to Action. The group has taken a variety of positions at oddswith church policy.

Bishops Thomas J. Olmsted of Phoenix and Gerald Kicanas of Tucson refused to grant the permission.

Normally, Catholic clergy need permission only to conductreligious services. The Vatican has penalized dissident theologians inthe past, but Robert Blair Kaiser, a Phoenix author who has covered theVatican since 1962, said he had never heard of a nuncio restricting abishop.

A source close to Gumbleton in Detroit confirmed the nuncio'saction. A man who declined to identify himself at the nuncio's officein Washington, D.C., said the office would not talk about any suchorder.

Call to Action leaders said Archbishop Pietro Sambi, the papalnuncio, laid down the requirement to Gumbleton several months ago,reportedly as a result of testimony Gumbleton gave a year ago to theOhio Legislature in favor of expanded time frames for abuse victims tofile lawsuits.

Frank Douglas, a Voice of the Faithful leader in Tucson, claimedGumbleton "has been blackballed by his own church" because of the Ohiotestimony.

Nicole Sotelo, a leader in Call to Action's Chicago headquarters,said the Arizona meetings would go on at other churches with Gumbletonon video.

M.J. Benton, a Phoenix Call to Action leader, said the meetingswould proceed in Tucson and Phoenix, with Gumbleton on video. TheTucson meeting is at 7 p.m. today at First Christian Church, 740 E.Speedway Blvd.Phoenix Diocese spokesman James Dwyer said the problemwas not with Gumbleton, who has taken positions at odds with a majorityof his fellow bishops, but with Call to Action.

The group, which has about 325 members in the Phoenix area,describes itself as "a Catholic movement working for equality andjustice in the church and society." It has called for an end to thecelibacy requirement for priests, approval for female priests and layparticipation in the choice of church leaders, among other things.

Such positions conflict with official church teaching.

"The bishop is pleased that Bishop Gumbleton has decided tocancel," Dwyer said. "I don't believe he or any bishop has to explainin detail why we do not endorse Call to Action. The record speaks foritself."

Sotelo said Gumbleton was disappointed in the bishops' reactions.Gumbleton declined to respond to numerous requests for comment.

Gumbleton's stance on expanding the amount of time sex-abusevictims have to file lawsuits and other positions have made him afavorite of liberal Catholics but also a maverick among Americanbishops.

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