Posted on 09/08/2005 1:37:09 PM PDT by NYer
I especially appreciated that he required all of his catechists to sign statements attesting to their commitment to Catholic teachings. What a hullabaloo he caused. They howled at his being so unreasonable as to require that Catholic teachers believed and followed Catholic teaching. Imagine the chutzpah of that shepherd!!
In "Salt of the Earth," the then Cardinal Ratzinger talked about the mistaken perception that the priesthhod is a position of "power." The cliche that it is a ministry rather than power is no less true for being a cliche. Men like Loyola do not lust for power, are not proud prelates. IMHO, the liberal reformers are the ones who confuse spiritual and earthly powers. They would reduce the Church to a kind of polity, which is a thing of earth. They have not hestiated to impose their wills on the people they are suppose to serve, far more so than the most autocratic old priest of pre-Vatican II.
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Two choices. You can reread what I wrote (which wasn't about all seminaries, chanceries and dioceses) or we can just leave it that you don't get what I'm saying.
No. I'm afraid I don't see that as evangelization.
My oldest daughter had a very mild, chaste crush last year, on a cute young man who played the guitar for the youth choir. This fall he entered the seminary. However, he has a younger brother who is also cute, and taller!
"When you look at the likes of Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict, they have something very important to say us in part because they went through such diffuculties--WWII, Nazism, Communism, the disarray of marxist student rebellions."
So did thousands of others face difficulties and I cannot think of anything particularly illuminating said of their experiences by the two you mention. No doubt like most they kept their heads down and waited for posterior to fabricate something heroic.
Sadly, Wilton Gregory has taken his place and I fear it will all go downhill, though I hope I'm wrong.
Aw, jeez, Greeley ... is he still alive?
Yeah, I know. As far as I know, we're still stuck with "father" Greeley. He's the man I told Catholic friends some years ago (when I was still Anglican) was one of biggest episcopagans I'd ever seen!
LOL!
Do I'm afraid I don't. I just know of the huge number. I am planning on attending a dinner for the seminarians at the end of October with our church group. Maybe I can find out and report back to you!
Good to see you!
You are so right. It is a beautiful location. Some of my friends travel up there for vespers.
And the library is beautiful and extensive.
Yes, and as Pope Benedict XVI explained so eloquently in his inauguration Mass homily, the burden is light.
"The first symbol is the Pallium, woven in pure wool, which will be placed on my shoulders. This ancient sign, which the Bishops of Rome have worn since the fourth century, may be considered an image of the yoke of Christ, which the Bishop of this City, the Servant of the Servants of God, takes upon his shoulders. Gods yoke is Gods will, which we accept. And this will does not weigh down on us, oppressing us and taking away our freedom. To know what God wants, to know where the path of life is found this was Israels joy, this was her great privilege. It is also our joy: Gods will does not alienate us, it purifies us even if this can be painful and so it leads us to ourselves. In this way, we serve not only him, but the salvation of the whole world, of all history. The symbolism of the Pallium is even more concrete: the lambs wool is meant to represent the lost, sick or weak sheep which the shepherd places on his shoulders and carries to the waters of life. For the Fathers of the Church, the parable of the lost sheep, which the shepherd seeks in the desert, was an image of the mystery of Christ and the Church. The human race every one of us is the sheep lost in the desert which no longer knows the way. The Son of God will not let this happen; he cannot abandon humanity in so wretched a condition. He leaps to his feet and abandons the glory of heaven, in order to go in search of the sheep and pursue it, all the way to the Cross. He takes it upon his shoulders and carries our humanity; he carries us all he is the good shepherd who lays down his life for the sheep. What the Pallium indicates first and foremost is that we are all carried by Christ. But at the same time it invites us to carry one another. Hence the Pallium becomes a symbol of the shepherds mission, of which the Second Reading and the Gospel speak. The pastor must be inspired by Christs holy zeal: for him it is not a matter of indifference that so many people are living in the desert. And there are so many kinds of desert. There is the desert of poverty, the desert of hunger and thirst, the desert of abandonment, of loneliness, of destroyed love. There is the desert of Gods darkness, the emptiness of souls no longer aware of their dignity or the goal of human life. The external deserts in the world are growing, because the internal deserts have become so vast. Therefore the earths treasures no longer serve to build Gods garden for all to live in, but they have been made to serve the powers of exploitation and destruction. The Church as a whole and all her Pastors, like Christ, must set out to lead people out of the desert, towards the place of life, towards friendship with the Son of God, towards the One who gives us life, and life in abundance."
Maybe you can help remove the log from my eye.
Why do you notice the splinter in your brothers eye, but do not perceive the wooden beam in your own? How can you say to your brother, Brother, let me remove that splinter in your eye, when you do not even notice the wooden beam in your own eye? You hypocrite! Remove the wooden beam from your eye first; then you will see clearly to remove the splinter in your brothers eye.
I call this ecclesiastical homosexuality.
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