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Offline dymphnaw

Re: Fr. Joseph Collins Funeral Announcement
« Reply #75 on: May 08, 2019, 06:58:48 AM »
So after all this carrying on did anybody here go to the viewing? 
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Offline Maria Auxiliadora

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Re: Fr. Joseph Collins Funeral Announcement
« Reply #76 on: May 08, 2019, 01:24:12 PM »

I just got a call from our priest, Fr. Waters (not a SV) who went to the funeral at the invitation of the Sharpe family and to pay his respects to Fr. Collins whom he met when Fr. Collins came to York, PA last year to sing with the Sharpe family for the Holy Week ceremonies. Fr. Ahern celebrated Mass with two other priests (not Fr. McMahon or Fr. Ringrose) Fr. Waters didn't know their name or the name of the bishop in the front pew (around 50 yrs. old), maybe +Neville? The place was packed.

Maybe someone present will know the names of the other priests and confirm the bishop's name.
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Offline Mithrandylan

Re: Fr. Joseph Collins Funeral Announcement
« Reply #77 on: May 08, 2019, 02:32:00 PM »
Thank you for the update, Maria. I would suspect there will be some pictures later.  Bishop Neville is younger so that may indeed have been him.  As far as the other assisting priests, perhaps it was a few of the nine who weren't too busy throwing hissy fits over this whole affair (Frs. Zapp and/or Berry; probably not any of the SSPV fathers). 
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Offline TKGS

Re: Fr. Joseph Collins Funeral Announcement
« Reply #78 on: May 08, 2019, 02:45:06 PM »
Quote from: Mithrandylan on May 08, 2019, 02:32:00 PM
Thank you for the update, Maria. I would suspect there will be some pictures later.  Bishop Neville is younger so that may indeed have been him.  As far as the other assisting priests, perhaps it was a few of the nine who weren't too busy throwing hissy fits over this whole affair (Frs. Zapp and/or Berry; probably not any of the SSPV fathers).
I see that you, too, have joined in the clergy-bashing party on the forum.  
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Offline Mithrandylan

Re: Fr. Joseph Collins Funeral Announcement
« Reply #79 on: May 08, 2019, 03:18:39 PM »
Quote from: TKGS on May 08, 2019, 02:45:06 PM
I see that you, too, have joined in the clergy-bashing party on the forum.  
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What would be your preferred term-- to "hissy fit"-- to describe SGG having taken their behind-door grievances over the administration of Fr. Collins' estate to the public by using sensational language, impugning the reputations of the organizers, and all but accusing the estate's administrators of fraud?  Of turning what was (I would guess) a private miscommunication between conflicting understandings into a nasty public affair that only (and could only have) divided Catholic mourners at a time when they could and should have united over a holy priest's memory?
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I thought "hissy fit" was a pretty mild and decidedly playful description, when justice would probably allow for stronger criticisms.  

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