Quote of the Day: Roman Catholic Spokesman Howard Lincoln

“What this is not is a Galileo trial of 1633. This is based on revised canon law of 1983. No one’s going to be burned at the stake.”

-The Rev. Howard Lincoln, spokesman for the Diocese of San Bernardino, Calif., on the church’s charges of heresy and schism against the Rev. Ned Reidy, a former priest. Reidy formed his own parish that rejects the authority of the pope, mandatory priestly celibacy and prohibitions against the ordination of women and the blessing of same-sex unions. Lincoln was quoted by the Los Angeles Times.