Attended Mass at St. Joseph’s of Nashville (Tennessee, USA) yesterday morning, and was interested in a letter Father Joseph read to the community at the end of Mass, straight from the Bishop.

An “ecumenical catholic church” has started in the Nashville area (apparently a few of them have) and the Bishop put out this letter to clarify for the faithful that they cannot receive valid sacraments at these churches.

Here’s an article from The Tennesseean about it.

And here’s the piece de resistance from the Bishop’s letter (just scroll down past the first story):

These groups are misleading people into thinking that they are Catholic and that they offer valid sacraments. Neither claim is true. They could call themselves a cantaloupe but the claim would not make them such.

Methinks the Bishop’s lunch included cantaloupe the day he wrote this letter.