Most bishops 'are presiding over the absolute decline and end of the Catholic Church,' said Father James Altman, and 'the traditional people are the remnant.'
Altman was informed yesterday that he has been removed as pastor of St. James the Less parish, and that his priestly faculties have been suspended indefinitely.
'Here's what happens when you resign,' explained the popular priest. 'You suddenly lose your canon law protections as a pastor, at which time they can say well, I want to send you to Saint Luke's for a little indoctrination training. I want you to go be a chaplain at an old folks’ home way out in Timbuktu, where nobody will ever hear from you.'
Altman, who rose to national fame when he declared last fall, “You can’t be a Catholic and a Democrat,” was asked to resign by his Bishop William P. Callahan.