“This is what we want the next Pope to be like” (theologians paint portrait of successor)

Vatican Insider ^ | February 15, 2013 | GIACOMO GALEAZZI

[RobbyS]

Indeed. And the way this woman governs has reduced the Episcopal Church to a shadow of what it was just thirty years ago.

[Bigg Red]

Petition? What? Electing the pope is now a democratic process?

I guess we can expect the silliness to continue until the Holy Spirit has completed His work.

[Bigg Red]

That such a letter can exist suggests what dangers face us.

&&&
Excellent point.

The prayer petitioning the help of St. Michael is needed with these demons swirling around.

[Syncro]

Who will choose the next Pope?

Should Sex-Abuse-Scandal Cardinals Be Allowed to Vote for New Pope?

by Barbie Latza Nadeau Feb 21, 2013 1:25 PM EST

As the conclave for new pope nears, Catholics are calling for cardinals embroiled in sex-abuse scandals to abstain from voting.

Can he who has sinned cast a vote for the next pope? Apparently so.  But a growing number of the Vatican’s cardinal electors are being questioned over their knowledge of past sex-abuse scandals, calling into question their ethical right to vote in the next conclave.

Cardinal Roger Mahoney, right, speaks with other church leaders at a conference in Chicago, Illinois in 2005. (Scott Olson/Getty)

In less than a week, the majority of the 117-strong College of Cardinals is expected to descend upon Rome to prepare for the conclave in which they will elect a replacement for Pope Benedict XVI, who resigned February 11.  But as the Vatican prepares for the pageantry of the occasion, survivors of the church’s sex scandals and everyday Catholics are raising concerns about whether it is appropriate for certain cardinals to be allowed to dictate the church’s future. “In our view, it’s very safe to assume that almost every one of the prelates who'll pick the pope ... have ignored, concealed, or enabled child sex crimes,” Zach Hiner, a spokesman for SNAP (Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests), tells The Daily Beast.

While many cardinals have been stained by the extensive clergy sex scandals, Archbishop Emeritus of Los Angeles Roger M. Mahony has become a poster priest for the corrupt cardinals of this conclave. Mahony was effectively let go as head of America’s largest diocese in January by his Vatican-endorsed replacement, Archbishop José Gomez, when a California court released 120,000 pages of internal church documents sequestered during investigations of 120 predatory priests in the Los Angeles diocese. The documents show that Mahony was directly involved in moving known pedophiles between parishes in an attempt to conceal their crimes. “I find these files to be brutal and painful reading. The behavior described in these files is terribly sad and evil,” said Gomez in a statement when he fired his predecessor.  More than $600,000 has been paid in lawsuits to victims in the Los Angeles diocese.

This Saturday Mahony will appear in a Los Angeles court to give a deposition in a criminal case involving a Mexican priest who is accused of raping 29 children over just nine months in 1987.

It seems all cardinal will be able to vote.

I wonder how influential the pedophilia enabling cardinals will vote for?

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