Posted on 02/26/2013 1:17:24 PM PST by Alex Murphy
....The pope's historic Feb. 11 announcement has been overshadowed, however, by an extraordinary wave of revelations and accusations. There were calls for cardinals accused of mishandling the sex-abuse crisis to abstain from voting. Then came a report that Britain's top cleric, Cardinal Keith O'Brien had been accused of bad behavior by priests, followed by his resignation on Monday. Over the weekend, the Vatican had to deny an Italian newspaper report that Pope Benedict abdicated because an internal probe into the so-called Vatileaks mess had uncovered a network of gay priests who were being blackmailed. Now comes the news that the pope will only let two people see the report on the document leaks — himself and his successor — despite calls for the Holy See to become more transparent....
"...the cardinals are going into the conclave blind, not knowing who among them may have stuffed their pockets or been part of gay sexual enclaves"
I saw this article earlier. I thought it was overblown nonsense then too.
Gee, you’d never guess this article came from NBC, would you. /s
Reese is a radical leftist who was actually removed from the editorship of the Jesuits’ rag (”America”), so why anybody would consult him, I can’t imagine. Except that he is the MSM’s favorite “Catholic.”
BXVI was seriously undermined by people like him, and I think a lot of people realize this, even without the report. If there’s a housecleaning, it’s not going to favor people like Reese.
Supposedly, btw, Cardinal O’Brien (who was appointed by JPII, not by Benedict) was the result of an error. There were two Bishop O’Briens in Scotland (the other one being very orthodox) and JPII’s secretary, a Pole with a lot of consonants in his name, sent the notice to the wrong one.
Yes, there has been an obsession with all things Roman Catholic here for a long time.
Are other Christian churches secretive and full of palace intrigue and deep hidden historical mysteries and institutional concealment, I know that Mormonism is, and Scientology, but are there normal religions or Christian denominations that are like this?
Why is there a private face, and a public face, for church people?
Welcome sinners.
All of you are welcome to the fullness of Jesus Christ’s Church.
LOL! Doe the words two-faced and duplicitous mean anything?
Only the ones with members who are sinners.
There. Fixed it.
All members of all churches are sinners, so it isn’t that, is there any other Christian denomination that is secretive, institutionally hidden from view, and that has a public face, and a private face?
Never saw such a DISGUSTING article at a time when the Church is going through a very major transition.
All of us are sinners in need of a savior and that is Jesus.
John 17, that ALL believers in Christ will be ONE.
is there any other Christian denomination that is secretive, institutionally hidden from view, and that has a public face, and a private face?
Yes: all of them. The technical term is "politics".
http://www.ewtn.com/tv/live/journeyhome.asp
Former Anglican priest tells former Presbyterian reverend why “those deep in christian history...cease to be Protestant.”
I wasn’t being obtuse, your post just wasn’t very clear.
I’ve never noticed what you just claimed, regular churches seem open and non-mysterious, and without a walled off base somewhere that lives in secrecy and isolation, and which has it’s own private operations within the institution and it’s permanent leadership elites, and then a public face that it presents outside the walls.
I know that Mormonism does that, no one really knows what goes on with it’s Pope and the inner council of the holiest, and it has institutional secrecy and history, we know that there is a level of division between the deep, inner Mormon church, and regular Mormons and the public.
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