It took them three days and a deafening chorus of disapproval before they ostensibly agreed on a one-grope-and-you're-out policy. They can still water that down at the bishops conference in June.Sickening.
Law was probably with one of his homo/pedophile buddy Cardinals doing their homo sex rituals too?
15 "Beware of false prophets who come disguised as harmless sheep, but are really wolves that will tear you apart.
16 You can detect them by the way they act, just as you can identify a tree by its fruit. You don't pick grapes from thornbushes, or figs from thistles.
17 A healthy tree produces good fruit, and an unhealthy tree produces bad fruit.
18 A good tree can't produce bad fruit, and a bad tree can't produce good fruit.
Oh if only that were true!
Dowd's biggest self-contradiction here is that she advocates "grayness" in virtually all areas of the faith. She's right to criticize the waffling and dishonest application of standards in the American cardinals and bishops. But her remedy seems to be to shift their waffling into areas where she'd like to see it, rather than to return to a firm moral standard in ALL areas.
This is the most sickening statement of all. When I heard about this last week, I was in shock, that Catholic Leaders would condone child rape as long a it is held to a minimum. Raping one or two is ok, it is only raping a lot of little boys that is bad.
This religion needs to be abandoned, immediately, that or this man needs a good lynching, for he just said it is ok to rape YOUR little boy!!
This is where she wanders off. If she wants to be a New York Times editorial writer she must adhere to the rules of her office. She is free, of course, to pursue something else.
I really don't think she is qualified to say what the doctrine of the Catholic Church should be. I don't think someone should just go into a denomination and say "I am Catholic, but I don't believe this this this and this..." and expect an entire Church to say "Okay, let's change our entire belief system to accomodate you." There is a religion to fit everyone in this Country. If there isn't, make one up yourself. It's done all the time. But this idea of verbal intimidation and coercion to force an assembled group of people to accomodate every contrary belief Maureen Dowd thinks they should is crazy. She makes herself into an Opinion Nazi when she does that. If she doesn't like it "No views for you!!!!"
Typical Dowd column; long on rhetoric, short on facts. She leaves out the capital sins of sloth and wrath, which she has been repeatedly guilty of committing, including in this piece. Her contempt for Law and his fellow aiders and abettors, which is well deserved, is undermined by her venom for the disciplines and doctrines of Roman Catholicism.
Is her point that Egan is a conservative or that he is hailed by conservatives or that the conservatives "yammering" are wrong?
The cardinals chose defiance over deference to the expectations of their devastated flock, which thought that celibacy, women priests and married priests might be discussed.
Some of us thought that dealing with priest-molesters might be discussed, or does that constitute mere conservative "yammer[ing] about a return to clerical austerity"?
"Christianity shall die of its own mendaciousness"-A Great Historian 1888.