This, according to the Australian newspaper, The Age:
Father [sic] Greg Reynolds wants his church of dissident Catholics to welcome all - ''every man and his dog'', one might say, risking the non-inclusive language he deplores - but even he was taken aback when that was put to the test during Mass yesterday.
A first-time visitor arrived late at the Inclusive Catholics service in South Yarra with a large and well-trained German shepherd. When the consecrated bread and wine were passed around, the visitor took some bread and fed it to his dog.
Apart from one stifled gasp, those present showed admirable presence of mind - but the dog was not offered the cup!
Father Reynolds, a Melbourne priest for 32 years, launched Inclusive Catholics earlier this year. He now ministers to up to 40 people at fortnightly services alternating between two inner-suburban Protestant churches.
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Father Reynolds was a thorn in the side of Melbourne Archbishop Denis Hart when he preached in 2010 that it was God's will to have women priests. He resigned as Western Port parish priest last August and had his faculties to act as a priest in Melbourne removed....
''There's a sense of hopelessness and despair when you look at the hierarchy, and nothing one says gets through to these guys. They are wrapped up in their own sense of entitlement.
''Intelligent, educated, adult Catholics have had enough.''Please, continue reading here.
Commentary. Where do I start? Maybe by asking God how much longer do we have to suffer these errant brethren stuck in the Sixties among us. And they call themselves "intelligent, educated" Catholics? Right....
Behold "the future Church."
The newspaper's reporter couldn't have been more flippant, either. I am sure that if he had been reporting that liberal Jews had shared matzo with a dog, or dissident Muslims had been feasting on pork to end the Ramadan fast, his head would have been handed to him in a silver platter.