From JD Flynn at The Pillar:
On Thursday, I was scheduled to give a talk about the work of Catholic journalists, as part of a “Catholic Culture” lecture series in Oak Brook, Illinois.
On Friday, I was scheduled to talk with college students and faculty about living the Christian life amid the shifting cultural ground of the U.S. and division in the Church.
On Saturday, I was scheduled to speak with high school students about the dignity and gift of people with disabilities. Disabled people. That’s what that talk was going to be about.
All three talks were organized by the Lumen Christi Institute, a unique intellectual apostolate whose work is mostly in proximity to the University of Chicago, but has a mission that resonates across the Chicago archdiocese, and indeed, across the Church.
Yesterday, the institute informed me that the talks were canceled. It was clear to me that it was not Lumen Christi’s decision to cancel them.
Flynn goes on to explain that his colleague, Ed Condon, was also recently cancelled in the Archdiocese of Washington, DC:
In truth, I almost let this go, and decided not to say anything, until Ed found out this morning that a talk he was scheduled to give tonight in the Archdiocese of Washington had been canceled, just after we reported on a Vos estis lux mundi investigation in that archdiocese.
And then an interview we had scheduled with a high-ranking Churchman was abruptly canceled too.
Apparently bishops like Cardinal Blase Cupich and Cardinal Wilton Gregory who have been strong supporters of the Synod on Synodality that has been characterized by Pope Francis being “the listening Church” don’t want to listen to voices like Flynn and Condon in their dioceses.