Posted on 03/04/2013 12:55:59 PM PST by NYer
.- Cardinal Sean P. O’Malley listed clerical sex abuse, reforming the Church’s administration and Christian persecution as some of the issues he thinks the next Pope will have to tackle.
“The new Pope will also need to face the sexual abuse crisis that is really worrying our people,” he stated in a March 4 interview with CNA.
Another issue on his radar is the need to improve the relationships between the various departments of the Church’s central governing body, as well as with the universal Church.
“The relationship between the Church and the Muslim world is very important as well as the Church’s persecution in many countries and the lack of education in others,” Cardinal O’Malley added.
But Cardinal O’Malley also sees that there are positive developments for the Church, since it is “growing and flourishing.”
“We know that this is true since four million young people are hoping to meet with the new Pope in this summer’s World Youth Day in Rio de Janeiro,” said the cardinal.
Cardinal O’Malley of Boston is currently attending preliminary meetings with fellow cardinals in preparation for choosing the new Pope. The gatherings include both cardinals who can vote for the next pontiff and those who are above the age limit of 80.
At the first general meeting this morning, 142 cardinals were present but 12 had not yet arrived in Rome.
“The meetings are very important because they give us the opportunity to know us better and to share information about the Church’s situation in different parts of the world,” Cardinal O’Malley explained.
“They also help us discuss about the Church’s governing body and the characteristics we should look for in a possible papal candidate,” he added.
And it’s important that cardinals with a “very rich experience and wisdom” share it with those participating in a conclave for the first time, including himself, Cardinal O’Malley said.
The assemblies are also a “spiritual retreat” that carry “a prayerful atmosphere, of deep reflection and of a searching of God’s will,” he explained.
As he and his brother cardinals continue to meet and prepare for the conclave, Cardinal O’Malley is hoping that it will be like a novena.
“This needs to be like the novena before Pentecost so that the Holy Spirit can pour over us to help us find our new Peter,” he said.
In his view, the most important thing Catholics can do now is to pray so that the Holy Spirit guides the cardinals in the upcoming papal election.
“It’s important to pray with a lot of faith and to try to do our duty of being spokespeople of the Gospel and to try to live the New Evangelization, inviting others to follow Christ,” he said.
You will find it here.
Agree.
In "Render Unto Caesar: Serving the Nation by Living Our Catholic Beliefs in Political Life", Archbishop Chaput recounts the story of Archbishop Joseph Rummel of New Orleans, who actually excommunicated three prominent Catholics (a judge, a writer and a community organizer) for "publicly denying the teaching of their church". The issue was racial integration. Pro-abort politicians deserve the same response, yet most bishops weakly pretend that there's nothing they can do to discipline these scandalous, hypocritical Catholics.
We had two men in the family (husband's side) picked off by the pervs in the scouts when they were children. The Scout management was protecting a nationwide homo perv ring from exposure like the Catholic church. They kept it up until the lawsuits began and the homo pedos have been squealing ever since.
I used to be Catholic and sometimes went to Catholic schools as our family moved around, but your portrayal of the church staff and organization as moral, was not my experience. I had a few very holy adults influence me and for that I am forever grateful. I managed to unload all the others who worked in the opposite direction on my ethics, mind, heart and faith.
If it comforts you, I have avoided all church organizations. There are none that are better than your church. But I am as close as I can be to Christ. The Catholics introduced me to Him and my faith in Him and relationship with Him has never wavered. I understand that may not match your Catholic doctrines.
I have a couple of sisters who go to Catholic churches still. I am not anti-Catholic and I don't want the church to disappear. I do want the evil to fall but that is not the church. I am anti-perv and triple that when done in the name of Jesus. Raping and molesting young men and boys is a serious sin to be protested but doing it behind a curtain of God is horrific.
Just because I condemn the Catholic power structure for feeding homo perv. operations, that does not mean I don't go after all the other pedo organizations and actors, too. I wrote a bunch of letters recently to the Scout Board members, urging them not to give into the money pressure of the pedos. Love you, NYer. Sara
As LifeSiteNews.com reported yesterday, in a recent interview with Time magazine, Cardinal Rodriguez was asked if he agreed with bishops who deny Holy Communion to pro-abortion politicians. The Cardinal responded, ""Who am I to deny Holy Communion to a person? I cannot. It’s in the tradition of moral theology that even if I know a person is living in grave sin, I cannot take a public action against him. It would be giving scandal to the person. Yes, he should not seek [communion], but I cannot deny it from him."
In statements to Carlos Polo, which were reported late yesterday by the Catholic News Agency, Cardinal Rodriguez said his comments to Time magazine should be reformulated "in light of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith teaches in its document, ‘Worthiness to Receive Communion’."
That document was written in 2004 by then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, who was at the time the head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.
It was sent to the US Bishops to use as a guide in their deliberations over dealing with Catholic pro-abortion politicians. The letter pointed out that obstinately pro-abortion Catholic politicians, after being duly instructed and warned, "must" be denied Communion.
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For example, I would urge you to first honestly ask yourself if Jesus founded a Church, just like he solemnly promised he would.
Then honestly ask yourself if Jesus instituted the Sacrament of the Holy Eucharist within that Church He founded, as a mechanism where human beings could be united in a special way with the Sacred Presence of Our Lord Himself, just as He spoke about and promised in a number of places in the Gospels, and as confirmed in the writings of St. Paul.
If those two things are true, then honestly ask yourself why you would let some bad people keep you away from those special things the Lord provided.
While it is just a tiny minority of all the Priests in the Church who have ever been truthfully found to have engaged in that perverted sexual abuse (and they should be removed and receive human justice), there are certainly a lot more sinners than that inside that Church that Jesus founded. In fact, every single person, in every single seat, in every single pew, in every single Church in the world, as well as every single Priest, Bishop, Cardinal, Pope, and all of the other people walking the earth today who are not involved in any Church, are all sinners.
In fact, that is who Jesus came for. Jesus said, “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick; I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.” (See Matthew 9:11-13, Mark 2:16-18, Luke 5:30-32.)
Would you have let the extraordinarily evil actions of a small minority of the original Apostles of Jesus (namely, Judas Iscariot) keep you away from Jesus Himself, just because you did not want to be near Judas?
We can all do our best to eliminate sin, and should do our very best to screen out sinful clergy and other Church leaders, but sin will not be completely eradicated till the end of time, and each of us will then be judged by God and receive God's perfect justice (including every pervert).
Please don't decide to go to Church or to stay away from Church just because of the goodness or evil of anyone there - go for Jesus, because He set up His Church and His Sacred Sacrament of the Holy Eucharist for you, and He wants you there.
(I have to go now, but I truly hope you will reconsider your decisions.)
God bless you.
Gee, I missed it -- and I'm in Boston. I do recall his being quoted as saying to some Dem group, "How can you be so wrong on abortion when you're so right about everything else?" This being MA, "everything" presumably includes religious freedom (Boston did not file suit with those other Catholic 53 entities against ObamaCare -- an archdicese spokesman said "we don't have to; if anyone's suing that's enough" though apparently Jones Day is representing them all pro bono), transgender rights, gay marriage and such.
For another view, see Boston Catholic Insider featuring such posts as:
o Cardinal O’Malley’s Vatican PR Campaign
o Does Boston Archdiocese have a “gay network” of clergy too? (If you read this, be sure to read the comments)
o Insider Questions: Is Cardinal O’Malley Really “Papabile”?: Part 1
o Parallels between Vatican politics/corruption and Boston diocesan corruption
Not surprising, considering the incestuous political relationships between Obama/Biden and the Donilon bunch.
Cardinal O'Malley certainly evidences the validity of the Peter Principle, and as such is one of the last people who ought to be installed in the chair of Peter.
Thanks. I don’t live anywhere near Boston and cannot claim to be well-informed about the situation there. I had quickly looked over the Wikipedia article on Cardinal O’Malley—not necessarily a reliable source of information.
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