Webathon: Sacked bishop coverage is an example of NCR watchdog work

by Thomas C. Fox

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I hope you are following the NCR reports on this Web site this week about the sacking of Australian Bishop William Morris of the Toowoomba diocese He was removed by the Vatican this week after an Apostolic Investigation, which came in the wake of comments Morris made some years back suggesting the church be open to married and women priests.

Nowhere else can you get this kind of church coverage, which now involves reports of clergy in Australia who are offering the besieged bishop their open support. This coverage is just one example among many I can cite, and one among many with which you are familiar, that NCR offers to you day after day after day on this Web site.

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