Saturday, July 30, 2011

Petition over Bishop Morris retirement

More than 1,000 people have signed a petition over the forced retirement of Catholic Bishop William Morris from the Toowoomba diocese on Queensland's Darling Downs, reports the ABC.

Father Ray Crowley says those behind the petition do not want Bishop Morris's treatment to be repeated elsewhere.

"We don't want the voice of a small minority, a lot of whom have come together and move around churches - they're not part of those communities.

"They take notes, whatever, and they pass those on to Rome, without going through the process of talking to the minister or the community involved."