Soviet-Style “Psych” Tactics . . . Used Against Priests By Bishops
By FR. JOHN ZUHLSDORF (Editor’s Note: Fr. John Zuhlsdorf posted this commentary September 25 on his blog, http://wdtprs.com/blog/. It is reprinted here with permission. See this week’s Newsnotes column for another view of St. Luke’s.) + + + What I am about to post, read carefully. Over the last few months I have been contacted by diocesan priests (and a religious) who were being sent by their bishops (superior) to be “evaluated” at one of these psych clinics for clergy. The most (in)famous of these in these USA is St. Luke’s in Maryland. The pattern is alarmingly similar. The priest has some sort of dust-up in the parish (or wherever). For example, a woman gets angry because he preached about…Continue Reading