Posted on 04/11/2005 1:09:08 PM PDT by SmithL
Who will be the next pope? Whoever he is, the future leader of the world's more than 1 billion Roman Catholics is likely to stay the course on controversial issues like abortion, contraception and the ordination of women as priests.
All but three of the 117 voting cardinals, who will gather in secret at the Sistine Chapel on April 18 to choose a successor to John Paul II, were appointed by the late pope, who strictly adhered to conservative church doctrine during his 26-year reign.
But in the United States, where many Catholics tend to hold more liberal views on church doctrine, some are holding out hope for change. One of them is Sister Susannah Malarkey, a 70-year-old Catholic nun who directs the Santa Sabina Center, a spiritual retreat and conference facility in San Rafael.
I know you've been following the news pretty closely in the wake of John Paul II's death. What's been running through your mind as you watch the events unfold?
I wasn't particularly in sync with this pope's stands on a lot of disciplinary and doctrinal issues, . . .
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She actually believes that the Church will view gay marriage as "a legitimate union of love."
Who says God doesn't have a sense of humor?
LOL! I thought it was going to be a parody site. But then again, I guess liberals really can't parody themselves. Or if they try, nobody realizes it's a parody...
Anathema sit!!!
"My mother went to talk to them, to try to encourage them to hire blacks. WE HAD THEM FOR DINNER. I mean, it was a very open, liberal, enlightened atmosphere in which I grew up."
I didn't realise cannibalism was on the liberals' agenda as well!!!
Looks like a none, talks like a none - guess she probably is a none.
Remember the old '60s saying "never trust anyone over 30"? Well the whackos who coined that phrase are themselves now entering into their dotage. Sr. Susannah would have been 30 years old in the mid-60s and is, no doubt, one of those same '60s radicals who have grown older but not wiser. Caught in a time warp, she is still chasing that '60s mirage called "The Spirit of Vatican II", at least as she understands it.
A much better saying for today would be "never trust anyone over 60". For they are the 20-30 year olds of the '60s and '70s and are precisely the ones who sowed such confusion in the aftermath of Vatican II. Some, like Sr. Susannah, are still doing it.
Instead of self-important proclamations about "what I think the next Pope ought to do", why not zip it and pray for the Holy Spirit's guidance during the conclave and your own ability to humbly follow his teachings.
Oh man, I forgot about that Latin phrase!!!!! Most appropriate for this issue :)
Well said.
Your comments on the 60's relics infesting the Roman Catholic Church was far out, groovy and right on, Brother. At this very moment you can probably find Sister Malarkey poking around coffeehouses, trying to dredge up enough aging hippies to play sitar, flute and harmonica at the Saturday afternoon Folk Mass.
I lived in SF for years and still go back a couple of times a year to visit my family there - and sit and chortle at the Comicle while the fog banks build around mid-afternoon and the world grows gray...
Luckily, none of the Cardinals in the conclave will care what this nun thinks!
It took the Church awhile to condemn slavery, but from the Christian perspective slavery of the body nothing like slavery to sin.
Hopefully, but many at V2 were beguiled -as she is-- by the thought of DeChardin.
I've always wanted to name my dog "Anathema".
Wrong.
100% of the American delegation shares her views. Throw in the Cardinals from London, Beligium, Edinborough Scotland, at least one from France...and you've got quite a faction.
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