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AMERICAblog: Catholic Bishop Accountability - h/t to "nicho"

  • Chino_Blanco · 2 months ago
    Miceli's best friend, Bishop Richard Malone:

    http://voicefromthedesert.blogspot.com/2007/05/...

    "Bishop Malone spends most of his time away from Maine's Catholic community attending meetings and conferences with his fellow bishops. Few, if any, of these meetings have anything to do with serving and laboring for Maine's poor and needy.

    It is interesting to note, though, that Bishop Malone extends a warm welcome to Rev. Paul E. Miceli, his best friend and Cape Cod house mate. Miceli is a frequent guest at the bishop's private mansion on the Promenade (Miceli and Malone own a home together in South Dennis, MA)."

    Friends or boyfriends? Roommates or soulmates?

    We've seen enough of the Malone-funded Yes on 1 campaign that none of us should feel any need to apologize for insisting on a clarification from the Bishop himself concerning his relationship with Paul Miceli.
  • Indigo · 2 months ago
    It's not a Church site confessing to misdeeds, it's a breathless mix of gossip, accusations and facts. Interesting.
  • Chino_Blanco · 2 months ago
    I see nothing wrong with drawing attention to the apparent facts re Miceli & Malone, as long as it isn’t conducted as a whispering campaign or spreading innuendo.

    Why should we give an inch to hypocrites, like Malone (and Marc Mutty), who choose not to get married, yet apparently consider themselves authorities on the subject.

    And, also by the way, the official Stand for Marriage Maine Facebook page has degenerated into a litany of insults against our LGBT family, friends and neighbors:

    http://www.facebook.com/StandForMarriageMaine

    As the largest local contributor to SFMM, the Portland diocese is now promoting raw animus and antipathy toward LGBT Mainers. The only tradition that Malone and Mutty are defending now is that of shaming this minority.

    Journalists covering the Question 1 contest ought to contact these brazen bachelors directly and ask them to go on the record describing and defending their own domestic living arrangements.

    In almost any other context, such a line of inquiry would be an invasion of privacy, out-of-bounds, and prurient, but not in this instance, not now. Malone is bankrolling a campaign that is painting the LGBT community as undeserving of the benefits of civil marriage. He now deserves no less than to be asked directly to defend the propriety of his own person.
  • Chino_Blanco · 2 months ago
    Introducing Rev. Paul E. Miceli ...

    Lord protect us from these defenders of "traditional" marriage:

    http://ignatiusgroup.blogspot.com/2009/08/intro...
  • Chino_Blanco · 2 months ago
    Just as a follow-up to my little rant from yesterday, the other question is whether or not Bishop Malone is in violation of Massachusetts Homestead Law, which states:

    "A Homestead can be declared only on an applicant’s 'principal residence'. A person can have more than one residence but the statute only allows the protection on one’s legal domicile. There is no legislative intent to allow the exemption to apply to a vacation and not primary residence."

    Is Bishop Malone a Maine resident? If so, what to make of his Massachusetts "Homestead"? Relevant docs supplied below:

    http://www.scribd.com/doc/21642238/Richard-Malo...

    http://www.scribd.com/doc/21642148/Richard-Malo...

    http://www.scribd.com/doc/21642103/Paul-E-Micel...

    http://www.scribd.com/doc/21641728/Richard-J-Ma...
  • DonG90806 · 2 months ago
    Tim, what does "h/t" stand for?
  • cowboyneok · 2 months ago
    "h/t" = hat tip