Is Fr Kennedy the Mary MacKillop of our day?
Well known, shaven-headed, t-shirt wearing, modernist South Brisbane priest, Father Peter Kennedy was recently sacked from his parish. Why? His boss, mild-mannered, correctly-vestmented, Archbishop Bathersby, had warned him that he could not tolerate Father Kennedy using non-Catholic Mass liturgies and non-Catholic formulas in his Baptisms — i.e. not mentioning the Holy Trinity, the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost — and his “blessing” of so-called homosexual marriages. Did Father Kennedy leave quietly? He did not. He started conducting services in a nearby building, in opposition to the Masses being celebrated by the new parish priest who replaced him. Archbishop Bathersby warned him again of further penalties if he continues his disobedience — the loss of all, or nearly all, his faculties as a priest or even being excommunicated. Fr Kennedy’s response? He said threats of punishment were to be expected, because his so-called “St Mary’s-in-Exile” congregation poses a “confrontation t