Where he learned this stuff is beyond me. It is these views that has the Church realing. "...bright new enlightenment in the 1960s." To him, maybe?
Oh brother. Big Fat phony!
Huh?!...Is Mario articulating his own theology?
And how about avoiding abortions that kill innocent and "unnecessary" people?
Mario Cuomo is as Catholic as an eggplant is!
And another thing... sorry this struck a nerve. American Catholics think it's all about THEM. But the Church has many many more adherents, in Latin America, and Asia, and Africa. And the Church must remain faihtful to those followers as well as to the teachings of the past. Mario Cuomo and his ilk must realize the Catholic Church is bigger than their concerns for gays and abortion and women priests.
Looks like you answered your own question.
Mario "the Mouth", you have identified exactly why you are NOT a Catholic. The Church IS instructing you and you have rejected it. You should be ashamed. Time for you and your kind to either submit to the authority of the Church or leave and join the rest of the Protestants. You have a gazillion different denominations to pick and choose from if you decide to do that. Don't let the door hit ya in the a$$ on the way out!
If Cafeteria Catholics could choose their own Pope, Mario I would be a contender.
Sorry, abortion-boy, but the Church has never altered its teaching on slavery, usury, salvation outside the Church or divorce.
Keep dreaming, Mario.
I'm pretty sure Jesus said, 'Go ye and conform yourselves to an ever-changing world.' It's in there somewhere, isn't it? Live according to the wisdom of the world. Yeah, I'm pretty sure I remember that one. The Gospel according to Mario.
Mario Cuomo just has no idea what he is talking about when it comes to infallibiilty. He is just repeating a total myth about only two cases of formal acts of infallibilty int the last centery.
Jimmy Akin's of Catholic Answers lays to rest this idea
http://www.jimmyakin.org/2004/06/two_instances_o.html
the position on salvation outside the Church and divorce has not changed.
Anyone that thinks that "women's role in the church" is a man-made policy that is changable doesn't understand the role of the priest in the Church, period.
It is just so pathetically sad that even some that attend Mass weekly don't understand what they are witnessing.
These people haven't a clue that the Catholic Mass is of a fundamentally different character than any other religious ritual (with the possible exception of the Orthodox liturgy)
Its bizarre, it would be akin to holding season tickets for a football team and not knowing what a touchdown was, it boggles the mind, but of course orders of magnitude more important.
Cuomo's own infallibility, however, is apparently limitless.
That must seem wildly out of place on this thread but whenever I see a piece by/about Mario Cuomo or Fr. Charles Curran, I am reminded why I canceled my National Review subscription. I cancelled it because Buckley promoted these heretics and provided them space in Nat Rev to promote their "nuanced" (girlie-man-speak for heresy) ideas on abortion, homosexuality, masturbation blah, blah, damnable blah.
And I will never forget the "Mater, Si. Magistra, No" abomination.
Heretics like these never tire of demanding the Christian Church imitate the hedonism, worldliness and materialism of secularism.
All their "advice" to Holy Mother Church can be distilled to Choose death.. The "culture" from which they draw their ideas to reform the Christian Church IS dead. And I say let's leave the dead to be buried with the dead.
**the cardinals have chosen a good and holy man who, we are told, rather than reform the status quo will reaffirm it more insistently than before**
Thanks be to God!
Coumo only needs to take the word "instead" out of his sentence. (And go to the Sacrament of Reconciliation!)