Posted on 02/15/2012 8:44:32 AM PST by schmootman
Last Friday, I posted on Ricochet a piece entitled American Catholicism’s Pact With the Devil. In it, among other things, I traced the crisis now faced by American Catholicism to the reign within the American Church of Joseph Bernardin, Cardinal-Archbishop of Chicago. In my haste, I got a detail or two wrong, and I was challenged not only with regard to the Cardinal’s cursus honorum but also with regard to the role he played in the scandal concerning the sexual abuse of children by Roman Catholic clergy. This post is meant to correct the record with regard to minor details, to flesh it out with regard to the profound damage done the American Church by Cardinal Bernardin, and to suggest that we might be witnessing a turning of the tide.
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“Support the bishops, but know that they have long-since betrayed you and the Gospel, “
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Too broad a brush. There have been and ARE several GOOD bishops.
Got to thank both Blessed John Paul II and now Pope Benedict XVI for appointing better bishops.
You’re right. Roughly 10 out of 300 oppose spending $9 million/year on CCHD. http://www.reformcchdnow.com/ Roughly 15-20 out of 300 support Canon 915 (withholding communion from obstinate heretics). http://www.canon915.org/
Do you need a “300” count on the above to withdraw your comment that the article is too broad-brush?
You’re right. Roughly 10 out of 300 oppose spending $9 million/year on CCHD. http://www.reformcchdnow.com/ Roughly 15-20 out of 300 support Canon 915 (withholding communion from obstinate heretics). http://www.canon915.org/
Do you need a “300” count on the above to withdraw your comment that the article is too broad-brush?
My comment stands.
Obamacare delenda est!
That makes you part of the problem, not the solution.
No, it does not.
You would have been more accurate to say “many bishops”...rather than give the idea that all bishops have been responsible.
In addition, we should not waste our time focusing on who did or did not. The point is that MANY are beginning to wake up AND Pope Benedict is giving them wise counsel.
I honestly believe that we will eventually see many of these CINO’s leave the Church, particularly as she begins to emphasize the truth and encourage authentic holiness of her members.
Stand by....and keep praying.
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To quote a great man: “My comment stands.”
Your quote of a woman is your choice. And that’s OK...as long as you pray like crazy!
;-)
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