https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/d...?utm_source=daily-2026-11-11&utm_medium=email I'm happy. Hurrah for my Bishop! A sad, but inevitable choice. Wish it had come sooner. Sad over a disciplined priest. Sad over embittered parishioners who fail to see the Truth. Lord, our hearts are so prone to blindness and so slow to repent (including my own at times). O Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee! Back in the '70s this parish was named in honor of the saint, for whom I also was named, Therese, the Little Flower. It was also the time period when my faith truly flowered.
(LifeSiteNews) — Father Fred Daley, the 79-year-old pastor at All Saints Catholic Church in Syracuse, New York, who identifies as gay, is being forced to retire by Bishop Douglas Lucia. In recent years, Daley has come to national attention for affirming LGBT-identifying parishioners, flying a “pride” flag in the church sanctuary, and permitting leftist politician Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, better known as AOC, to speak from the sanctuary. Daley famously hosted a “Pride Mass” in June 2025 when an LGBT pride flag with a cross superimposed over the rainbow colors hung over the altar. No crucifix was visible. “If you try to list the sacrileges, you’ll lose count,” noted Daniel O’Connor, who posted a video of the offensive service on X. “Those poor children. Lord, save your Church,” O’Connor prayed. “I watched to the end and not only did he refer to the Holy Spirit as ‘she’ but allowed a layperson to preach the homily, made up his own Eucharistic prayer and pronounced the final blessing in the name God who is a ‘Creator, Redeemer and Sanctifier,’” noted Father Dwight Longenecker, who said he watched video of the entire 2025 Mass. “So on Trinity Sunday an obvious Trinitatian heresy,” Longenecker added.
A couple of years ago I read the saddest report from a very ordinary Parish Church in Australia. A new priest took over who had a very traditional , Conservative view. Or in other words he was just a good Catholic Priest. One of the things he did was to wear a black soutane and wanted male altar servers. Nothing really all that radical he just wanted to go back to ordinary decent Catholic practice. But the thing is he came under the most horrible ferocious response from his congregation. One of them even spat at him. The most vilest, horrible insults and treatment. In the end the Bishop pulled the poor guy out because the situation had become impossible. I repeat he was not going to do anything crazy just restore acceptable Catholic practice but they pretty well rioted. It was the Satanic nastiness of the response that struck me. They pretty well rioted. Luke 9:5 And if a town refuses to welcome you, shake its dust from your feet as you leave to show that you have abandoned those people to their fate.” I heard another sad thing from a priest just yesterday. He said he did not get caught up in all the controversy in the Church. He said to himself he would just keep on doing his ordinary parish life not to get involved in the crisis and things could carry on in his parish as normal. But he went to a meeting of the ladies who helped out in the Church and one of them said she was so pleased that the Church had changed its attitudes towards homosexuals. Now the Church accepted this was fine she would no longer pray for her sons conversion. This shocked the priest so much that he understood all the horrible things going on had come to his own Parish too.
