Return Father Leatherby to active ministry

God blesses to Fr. Jermy

Father Leatherby should be returning to the Church and to active ministry

I am looking forward to see Fr. Leatherby raise the Body of Christ.

He has blessed our family. He needs to come back!!

I pray that you will stop lying to us and finally tell your flock what is really going on in this matter. We are the church and have equal dignity in the eyes of God. You have no more athority over us in this matter, especially when you stray from the teachings of the one True Holy Catholic Apostolic Church founded by Jesus. Please follow his teachings!!!!

Please re-instate Fr Leatherby. Why would you deprive the Catholic. Faithful of such a holy priest? Thank you

He is a holy man. God be with him.

Almost 40 years ago an abusive Bishop with same sex lifestyle railroaded and laicized a very holy priest in the Santa Rosa diocese and ruined his life and many souls were affected by his selfishness. That same diocese went broke settling and paying out claims of sexual abuse. This situation smells the same Bishop Soto. Let this priest resume what God has consecrated him to do. You must repent and resign.

Our family is blessed to call Fr Jeremy a very close friend. His priesthood is who he is. Your diocese is blessed to have him and I pray if you don’t know his value that he will move to the Los Angeles diocese where I’m sure Archbishop Gomez would immediately recognize Fr Leatherby’s holiness and love for the church.

Please return Fr. Leatherby to active ministry. I have been praying for him 2 1/2 years.

Praying for justice

Father Leatherby is a good and holy priest and I personally witnessed his sincerity and true faith as he celebrated the Mass. His faithfulness was apparent to all. I do not know the reason but I believe the diocese has left Father in limbo these past 2.5 years as a means of pressuring him to give up his priesthood where they lacked sufficient evidence to do more. As has been said, the diocese started this with a lie so the credibility of Bishop Soto is diminished from the start. I therefore fear Father will not be provided a fair process. The only remedy is transparency and so I pray that the diocese will recognize past errors and strive sincerely to find truth and grant mercy to all involved. I pray now that the Bishop allow Father to return to his ministry in Sacramento or release him to join another Order or another diocese.

My family has known Fr. Leatherby since he was a young boy. He grew into a fine, moral man and a very holy priest. I can attest to his outstanding character. We visited him in seminary in Rome and traveled with him as our spiritual guide to Medjugorje, Rome and Israel. With his influence, I have seen people find their faith and men become priests. Restore his ministry, he is a truly holy, blessed and gifted individual and priest.

My strong suggestion is that Fr. Leatherby file civil suit against Soto, Berg, Richards and the Diocese of Sacramento.

We need Fr. Leatherby in our diocese.

Bring this wary shepard back to his flock.

Please be accountable and transparent with regards to the Fr. Leatherby case, Deacon Leatherby's status and the handling of the homosexual abuse and cover-up scandal in the Church.

In Gods name do the right thing and release Father Leatherby to active ministry immediately.

He should never have been put on leave in the first place. It was probably related to his sermon on the sin of homosexuality

We need good priests.