Liberal US catholics dismayed at choice of Pope

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[Jim Noble]

Amchurch was put to the vote today in the conclave.

Amchurch lost.

[Antoninus]

Antoninus to "liberal" catholics:



Ha, ha.

[hinckley buzzard]

Good point. It appears that Latin America will see an attempt to replace Christianity with a resurgence of "liberation theology". Given the fecklessness of the American liberal churches, they will aid and abet this movement and it will take clarity from the Vatican to help keep it in check.

[Petronski]

You just don't see nuns anymore. When did this happen?

We have a Benedictine Convent here in St. Marys (duh?), a few of the dear ladies can be seen driving about town in their pickup trucks.

The 'disappearance' of nuns as we know them can be traced directly, IMHO, to the birth control pill and the feminism that drove it. Not only did it teach selfishness and self-absorption, it also drastically reduced the size of Catholic families (the big Catholic families always had an 'extra' child for the vocations).

[Jim Noble]

Go find a Protestant church somewhere that shares your views. God knows there are plenty of them out there. They will welcome you

We don't want 'em, either. They've destroyed the Episcopal Church and will, no doubt, be getting on to the others.

Your liberal "Catholics" reject Christianity, not just Roman Catholicism.

You can keep 'em.

[reg45]

Imagine how dismayed they will be when Kennedy, Kerry, Biden, Lahey, Mikulski and Durbin are all excommunicated.

[Mr Ramsbotham]

Hey, it wasn't us Episcopalians that went around "boofing" alter boys.

No, it was Catholics. But boofing altar boys wasn't policy.

[Jaysun]

Under the Pope John Paul II, American Catholics' attendance at weekly Mass declined as many were put off by what they saw as increasingly conservative Vatican doctrine.

Attendance may have declined, but how in the hell do they know it's because American Catholics "were put off by what they saw as increasingly conservative Vatican doctrine"?

[MisterRepublican]

One could hope these liberals would leave the Catholic Church. But like the Democrats that didn't go to Canada after the election, they won't leave but will stay around and whine about everything.

[cyborg]

Someone tell Gene Robinson he's not a christian but a homosexual libertine yet?

[Petronski]

The AmChurchians are sucking lemons (dusted with alum) today. The evidence of this is very close at hand. **wink**

[GatorGirl]

There are plenty on EWTN. After the Pope's death, I was watching a wonderful show with interviews with faithful YOUNG nuns and hip YOUNG Franciscan priests. It made my heart glad to see the future of the Catholic church!

[Antoninus]

Actually, it was 4% of priests, and over 11,000 different young people were abused, according to the US Bishops Clergy Review Board.

As usual, you're being disingenuous. This interview, if I remember correctly, came out way before the Review Board report when the true extent of the abuse could only be guessed at.

[michaelt]

I heard a while ago that US Catholics are only 6% of the total of world catholics.

Yeah, but there's another story posted that says lots of Third World Catholics are disappointed too, so that means just about everyone doesn't like the new Pope. After all, the MSM said so.

[sinkspur]

This interview, if I remember correctly, came out way before the Review Board report when the true extent of the abuse could only be guessed at.

Then he shouldn't have guessed.

[ishabibble]

Upset? Please watch the C-span speech given by "Gay Gene" Robinson to the Planned Parenthood audience. I watched it on Sunday night, and at first, thought that I had had more wine with dinner that I'd originally thought. Nope. That snotty braggart was sucking up like nothing I've ever seen.

"What your cause and my cause have in common..." was the frame for a long and sleazy lovefest by Gene for Gene. I didn't hear anything about the word of God, so I guess that isn't part of Liberal religious leaders duties.

The conclave did the right thing by Roman Catholics today, and the shrieking wingnuts who defame all religions by pretending to be involved in it can go pound sand.

[Antoninus]

Under the Pope John Paul II, American Catholics' attendance at weekly Mass declined as many were put off by what they saw as increasingly conservative Vatican doctrine.

Of course, what this doesn't say is that those parishes which have suffered the worst and most precipitous decline in attendance are almost universally the most liberal and least Catholic. Coincidence? I don't think so.

[don-o]

I have not laughed this much in a long time over the nit wittery that Kissling and her ilk are spewing.

Su-weeet

[GatorGirl]

I hope you're not holding your breath while you wait! ;-)

The media wants to paint the entire Catholic Church in America as a bunch of liberal CINOs. If you polled only regular churchgoers instead of those who call themselves Catholic and show up only on Christmas and Easter, I'd suspect that the percentages would be quite different!

[NeoCaveman]

I heard a while ago that US Catholics are only 6% of the total of world catholics.

60 million out of 1.1 billion, sounds close to 6% to me.