When Will Fr. Bob Pierson Be Disciplined?

Fr. Pierson made this shameful speech in June. I can find nothing anywhere to indicate he has been disciplined. Apparently publicly attacking the teachings of the Church because your "conscience" tells you to is A-okay. Pierson is a Benedictine monk at St. John's in Collegeville, MN which has a reputation for being riddled with gays, a number of whom were abusing children.

But Fr. Pierson doesn't just talk about his approval for gay sex, he runs the guest house at St. John's and allowed the scheduling of an LGBT "naked retreat" where participants would take off their clothing and touch one another. Fr. Pierson was the one who scheduled it and he is the treasurer of the sponsoring organization. The retreat ended up being cancelled when faithful Catholics exposed it, although who ordered the cancellation is unclear. Check out the description of the retreat here (It doesn't mention the getting naked part.) and note the contact email for Fr. Pierson.

Fr. Pierson illustrates what Fr. Haley warned against. Gay priests are undermining the Church and the hierarchy won't touch these guys. Why not? How many Fr. Piersons are out there hiding their identity pretending to give up wife and family to be the bridegroom of Holy Mother Church? I suspect their name is legion. The fact that this priest has apparently suffered no consequences for his in-your-face challenge to Church teachings and blatant promotion of sodomite activity indicates something very sick in the Benedictine Abbey in Collegeville and in the diocese of St. Cloud.

It is a deep irony that this renegade priest, whose lack of fidelity is on YouTube for all to see, remains a priest in good standing attacking the faith while Fr. Haley has been forcibly removed from the priesthood and excommunicated. Something is sick in the state of Rome.

Read more here and send your complaint to:

João Bráz de Aviz, Cardinal, PrefectCongregation for Religious
Palazzo della Congregazioni
00193 Piazza Pio XII, 3
Vatican City, Europe