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Interview with Bishop Geoff Robinson 
Ingrid Shafer,  ARCC Past Vice President

I recorded my conversation with Bishop Geoff Robinson in March, the evening before he was to leave for the East Coast.  Particularly, given current developments, I am convinced that he needs to be heard much more widely than by those who had a chance to attend his lectures. 

Dare I hope that this gentle man's courage, his choice to place loyalty to God and God's People before a loyalty oath to the pope, might inspire other bishops to speak out? After all, the loyalty oath is designed to stifle all public criticism of the pope and assure that the Catholic Church remain an absolute monarchy, trapped in what Bishop Geoff calls "the prison of the past." 

The magisterium may have "thrown away the key," but we who love the church as it can be, do, in fact hold that key.The video is available in a four separate parts version (ca. 10 minutes each) and a full version (ca. 40 minutes). Depending on your system, you may prefer the smaller files.

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Address by John Hushon on receiving the Hans Küng Award for the Righst of Catholics in the Church

Thank you for this wonderful honor—I accept it on behalf of the dozens of folks who toiled so long and hard to bring about the American Catholic Council.

I am relatively new to the reform movement compared with so many of you—because I had the privilege of finding small communities with which to worship over many years—e.g., Pax in north Virginia, Rice in Houston.  Like so many cradle, culture Catholics, I could ignore what was happening in the greater church—because my day to day experience of church was with Vatican II priests, trying to model our worshipping communities on the ideals of that Council.  We had liturgy committees, parish councils, finance councils, lay ministries of various types—we really knew we were Church in the fullest sense.  The hierarchy, if not supportive (and many were), was at least passive—probably for fear of losing more of their valuable priests.  In a sense we were lulled, perhaps naively, into thinking that the engine of Vatican II was stoked and moving at the inspiration of the Holy Spirit.

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(Bishop Geoffrey Robinson in converation with Dr Ingrid Shafer)