During a lengthy tenure, unusual in the Seattle archdiocese, Fr. Ryan refurbished St. James, banished guitars at Mass, brought in a women’s’ choir, and GLBTQ activists took the pulpit at the Catholic cathedral to read scripture.
Such views helped to qualify Kent for a top counterterrorism posting in the topsy turbulent territory of Trumpland. But this week he walked away, reasoning that we are buying oil from people we are bombing.
What I see with the resignation of Joe Kent is a bleacher full of people who agree with him about this war, but will not stand up to cheer him because he is not on their team.