To: St. Johann Tetzel
I further state that I accept and intend to defend the law on ecclesiastical celibacy as it is proposed by the Magisterium of the Catholic Church; I accept and promise to defend the ecclesiastical teaching about the immorality of the homosexual act; I accept and promise to promulgate always and everywhere what the Church's Magisterium teaches on contraception. So help me God and these Holy Scriptures which I touch with my hand. He broke his solemn oath - either he lied at the time he made the above statement or he is lying now - doesn't even matter whether you agree with a celibate priesthood or not. This cardinal is someone who lies and breaks oaths in order to maintain his red hat. Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me.
Not a cardinal I could follow in good Catholic conscience.
To: american colleen
"I further state that I accept and intend to defend the law on ecclesiastical celibacy as it is proposed by the Magisterium of the Catholic Church He broke his solemn oath - either he lied at the time he made the above statement or he is lying now - doesn't even matter whether you agree with a celibate priesthood or not. This cardinal is someone who lies and breaks oaths in order to maintain his red hat.
Dittos. And for that, NOT for his recent statements on celibacy per se, he should be removed.
98 posted on
05/26/2005 10:00:31 AM PDT by
St. Johann Tetzel
(Sometimes "Defending the Faith" means you have to be willing to get your hands dirty...)
To: american colleen
Not a cardinal I could follow in good Catholic conscience. How positively 'Mother Angelica' of you!
Applause for Colleen's incisive comment on this Cardinal's authority with regard to the Catholic Lay Faithful of Christ's Body.
150 posted on
05/26/2005 2:23:21 PM PDT by
Siobhan
("Whenever you come to save Rome, make all the noise you want." -- Pius XII)
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