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Re: Fr. Cordaro not a priest
« Reply #15 on: December 20, 2017, 02:45:58 PM »
I could not find the reference in "Catholic Light" (play on words for Scranton NO?) to the priest in question, but as a side note did you see the photo on page 3 of the "sisters"  ???  
I went to Catholic "light" (pun intended) and put Fr. Cordaro in the search box.  This immediately came up, and the date is April 2017   Perhaps the Oblates of St. Joseph may have more information.
Link here:    http://www.dioceseofscranton.org/notice/
HOME / NEWS/PRESS RELEASES / NOTICE

Posted on: 04-13-2017 Posted in: News
This notice is to inform the Christian faithful that John J. Cordaro, formerly a priest of the Oblates of Saint Joseph, was dismissed from the Oblates by their Superior General on August 8, 1989. He currently has no faculties whatsoever to minister in the Catholic Church. Because he has no faculties, he is forbidden to function as a priest in the Roman Catholic Church.  Furthermore, the Catholic faithful should not receive the sacraments from Mr. Cordaro or attend his celebration of the sacraments, wherever they may be held.

Ooops! Sigh/Re: Ordained?/Re: Fr. Cordaro not a priest
« Reply #16 on: December 20, 2017, 02:51:01 PM »
I'm trying to finish some tasks today before rebooting to resolve a [expletives deleted!] thrash-a-thon that I'm enduring on my Internet computer, which makes it nearly impossible to successfully make even quite modest edits to a just-submitted posting, before CathInfo's timer, which is counting down on the scarce-few minutes & seconds CathInfo allows for its "Modify" operation, completely rejects my editsSooo, editing in haste to avoid that frustration, it happens that ummm, mistakes are made.

Arrrgh!  I fouled my quoted reply's 1st bulleted list by clobbering it with my 2nd bulleted list.  This is what readers should have seen as my 1st bulleted list:
Quote from: AlligatorDicax correct 1st bulleted list
[....] readers have no way to know what the right-side text "Diocese of Scranton" signifies, e.g.:
·  Whereabouts last-known to USCCB?
·  Last diocese known to incardinate or issue faculties to that individual?
·  Diocese in which the individual was ordained as a priest, or otherwise installed?

The following bulleted list should have appeared only as the 2nd bulleted list:
[....] question for which CathInfo readers are overdue to be provided with a docuмented answer:
·  Where & when was he ordained as a priest, or otherwise installed?
·  By whom?  (any reason to doubt the validity of the ordaining bishop's consecration?)
·  Using what ordinal?  (what edition or year of publication?)

This CathInfo member regrets his hasty error the CathInfo "Modify" count-down timer.


Re: Fr. Cordaro not a priest
« Reply #17 on: December 20, 2017, 04:47:35 PM »
Fanny, is there no summary of why he was kicked out?  All you posted was that he no longer has faculties.  Why does he not have faculties anymore?  Does the docuмent not say?  If it doesn't say, are we supposed to google and come up with our own opinion?  What does that solve?
No summary that I can find and rightly so.  An order is not supposed to say why someone left or why someone was kicked out.  
Saying that he is now "Mr." indicates he has been laicised.  Laicization is generally done only for very serious crimes and generally of a moral nature.

Re: Fr. Cordaro not a priest
« Reply #18 on: December 20, 2017, 06:37:49 PM »
I could not find the reference in "Catholic Light" (play on words for Scranton NO?) to the priest in question, but as a side note did you see the photo on page 3 of the "sisters"  ???
Would you mean the photo of the large group that seems to consist of 2 nuns in habits lost amid a herd of elderly Avon ladies?  :facepalm:

Re: Fr. Cordaro not a priest
« Reply #19 on: December 20, 2017, 08:59:16 PM »
Would you mean the photo of the large group that seems to consist of 2 nuns in habits lost amid a herd of elderly Avon ladies?  :facepalm:
I'll have to remember that one, Avon ladies :jester:. Very good description. And probably not one under 65. Don't they ever wonder why they do not have young women joining?  Even conservative NO orders have a few postulants, particularly those that have a Latin Mass.