Priest Suspended After Calling BLM Activists “Maggots”

The Indianapolis Star reports:

Rev. Theodore Rothrock from St. Elizabeth Seton Catholic Church in Carmel has been suspended from public ministry by Bishop Timothy Doherty Wednesday after calling Black Lives Matter organizers “maggots and parasites.”

“The Bishop expresses pastoral concern for the affected communities,” the Diocese of Lafayette-in-Indiana said in a statement Wednesday. “The suspension offers the Bishop an opportunity for pastoral discernment for the good of the diocese and for the good of Father Rothrock.”

Rothrock, who previously was poised to become pastor of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, will no longer transition to that role. Deacon Bill Reid will serve as administrator of St. Elizabeth Seton.

Here’s an excerpt from the priest’s homily:

The only lives that matter are their own and the only power they seek is their own.

They are wolves in wolves clothing, masked thieves and bandits, seeking only to devour the life of the poor and profit from the fear of others.

They are maggots and parasites at best, feeding off the isolation of addiction and broken families, and offering to replace any current frustration and anxiety with more misery and greater resentment.

Black Lives Matter, Antifa, and the other nefarious acolytes of their persuasion are not the friends or allies we have been led to believe.

They are serpents in the garden, seeking only to uproot and replant a new species of human made in the likeness of man and not in the image of God.

Rockrock is the former head of a local Catholic high school, but resigned in 2009 after a drunk driving arrest. (Via The Friendly Atheist)