We know you are smarter than everyone else, and holier, but we must all answer to a higher authority.
"This would include, among other things, reconsidering celibacy, women's role in the church and other contentious man-made church policies."
"other contentious man-made church policies"
Hey Mario, what part of "Thou shalt not kill" dost thou not understandeth?"
Speaking of irrelevance, where's Phil Donahue?
If the Church changes any rules which allow homosexuals to marry it will die a slow death. Women should not be allowed to become Priests.
If a church has to die let it die from being right.
Other Churches allowing an openly Homosexual Bishop to live in openly adulterous relationship are killing themselves by doing wrong.
I dont believe women should be Priests and I dont believe the Pope will allow it , nor should he.Women have a historic role in the Church , There are still some convents left, Join them.
The Pope has to take a strong stand on Homosexuality in the Priesthood, That stand should include allowing the civil authorities to deal with acts of pedophilia and not trying to hide these people. Bernard Law should be sent into retirement, not placed in charge of a parish.
Cuomo:a typical "cafeteria Catholic" who wishes to pick and chose which elements of church doctrine he's "comfortable" with.Memo to Mario: if you're that uncomfortable with the direction of "your church" then do as I did and walk. I left the Episcopal Church 2 1/2 years ago because it became apparent that it no longer accepted scripture as doctrine and merely sought to please as many as possible. I am now, proudly and comfortably, a Catholic.
Mario, the Episcopal Church(if you can call it that)has lots of pews you'd be more comfortable in.
Try searching first.
I could almost agree with the celibacy part because the Bible doesn't call for it, in fact it even claims that a stable, married man is appropriate for a teaching role (Timothy 3:2 and 3:12), but the "womens' role in the church" part is pretty clear - the Bible insists that men are the spiritual leaders and the only time that was not so is when the men failed to do their duty; then there are a couple instances where a woman assumed the lead role.
somewhere I have a 'Rush the TV show' video clip of 'facia brute' Cuomo complaining to an audience that the constituents...."sheep" are now telling the politicians "shepherds" how to run the government. This was right after he lost the governorship and right after a death penalty was voted in, in NY.
He is a worthless POS. and so is his son.
Mario seems to forget that the Catholic church isn't a democratic institution. The people don't elect a Pope with an agenda that will satisfy their whims of the moment based on polling data.
Mario's been in politics so long that he seems to think that everyone, Popes included, should pander to the crowd's flavor of the month religious/political preferences. That kind of thinking may work, short term, in the heart of liberal New York City, but it doesn't stand up to the test of time or the teachings that have been handed down for two thousand years.
Praying for instruction, but ignoring the messenger.
MC, "Oh, please Lord, send us a Pope that will justify my personal failings."
"The church can do this without abandoning its fundamental commitment to the Gospel of Jesus, and has in fact done it in the past in changing its position on slavery, usury, salvation outside the church and divorce."
Of these, the Church has only changed its "position" on usury.
Extra ecclesiam nulla salus still remains. How to understand "ecclesiam" has tweaked ever so slightly.
Mario, ascenda me. Tu se propriano Spatchime!!
(Or something like that - spelling uncertain.)
Mario, "The Slippery" Cuomo, friend of the infanticidal zealots of unborn children, master of left-wing jive, and con artist in a Party of con artists speak on the moral issues facing the new Pope.
Maybe it is sour grapes and he wanted to be Pope Mario I.