Fr. Michael,
You shared my article on your feed with no comment. When asked why you later deleted it, you claim you posted it only to show how “ridiculous” it was, yet you said nothing of the sort when you shared it.
You also describe the deletion as both a matter of “better judgment” and a “knee jerk response.” These two accounts cannot both be true.
You accuse me of keeping tabs on you. In reality, I have never shared any of your posts. It was you who shared mine first.
After you posted the article, I contacted you privately with concern for your mother-in-law’s surgery and offered my number. You responded courteously and with thanks. At no point in that private exchange, which took place well after you had already shared the article, did you raise any criticism of it.
You chose instead to make those claims publicly, while making no reference to our conversation.
You then deflect by accusing me of a “vendetta” against Fr. Josiah without evidence.
This does nothing to address the actual question: why you posted the article, deleted it without explanation, and offered contradictory explanations for your own actions.
A priest who receives a direct, fraternal message from the author of an article he has shared, yet raises no objection in private and only criticizes publicly afterward, reveals a clear inconsistency between his private conduct and his public witness.
@FrLillie
Father you posted "The Theater of Digital Orthodoxy" on your feed and later quietly removed it. Why?