This is +Francis talking and it's music to the ears of CBS; the evil Roman Inquisition of Benedict was persecuting fearless activist nuns fighting for social justice.
This is the way it is in the new "merciful" Church; one bishop publicly trashing a fellow bishop in the media. The FFI has been beaten senseless for reasons which have never been made clear but a group of heretical, New Age apostates are hailed as persecuted heroes.
As for Finn, he will be eviscerated in the same way as his fellow Opus Dei prelate, Livieres in Paraguay. If the standards being applied to them were enforced universally, the Church would lose half its bishops. The discredited, lavender-friendly, molester-protecting Card. Daneels from Belgium whose track record in this area is utterly atrocious, was given a complimentary invitation to the recent Synod on the Family for his heroics. Of course, he's a liberal modernist who's done his best to dismantle the Belgian Church and has no time for tradition so he gets a pass.
Amen, Marsh. And don’t forget the funeral Mass for Menino the hater of the unborn and the lover of making perversion Sacramental union. And the blacked-out Communion line at that scandalous use of Holy Mass for the Dead, a fitting title to describe those legion politicians bringing their own judgements upon their souls as they receive the Corpus Christi.
They have learned their lesson from demoting Cardinal Burke.
Now the demotions and defrockings will all be tied to “protecting children”. The fact that they will all be conservatives will be coincidental.
Funny - wasn't it yesterday that we learned about the dismissal of Bishop Livieres, head of the Paraguayan diocese of Ciudad del Este.? Livieres is only suspected of protecting a priest!
Maybe it's different in the United States. After all, concerning two lawsuits alleging papal oversight of the abuse scandal, the Holy See's legal team argued that
....there has been no factual determination that the priest who committed the abuse is an employee of the Holy See. Without a showing of the priest's employment by the Holy See, there is no jurisdiction. In fact, Father [Andrew] Ronan was a priest of a religious order, the Friar Servants of Mary. In our view, the indicators of employment simply are not present. The Holy See did not pay the salary of the priest or provide his benefits or exercise day-to-day control over him or have any other connection with him indicating the presence of an employment relationship. This priest was a member of the Friar Servants of Mary. His very existence was unknown to the Holy See until after all the events in question. I do not believe that the plaintiff has any information to contradict that view....So how can the pope dismiss a bishop for failure to act, unless the bishop is in the pope's employ? And if the bishop is in the pope's employ, and the priest is admitted to be in the bishop's employ, doesn't the legal team's argument evaporate?....The Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act is built upon the existence of certain precise exceptions. Here, the required exception is that the priest be an "employee" of the Holy See. This is simply factually inaccurate. Prior to this time, the case has been about whether the plaintiff's complaint was "adequate." Now the question is whether there are any facts to support the plaintiff's complaint....
.... One of the most important parts of that defense is to help people understand that the Church is not a monolith. It is composed of different entities that operate with relative autonomy and make their own decisions about the hiring and firing of personnel. Thus, just because a priest is a member of a religious order, it does not make him an employee of the Holy See.
-- from the thread Defending the Holy See [Vatican Lawyer Discusses the Supreme Court’s Decline of Abuse Appeal]
I went to a Vocations dinner during the 90s for the Archdiocese of Louisville. I was seated at a table full of nuns. None of them had habits on and they kept going on and on about environmentalism and how wonderful Vice President Gore is. I started to say to them: “Do you know Al Gore is Pro-Abortion?” But I didn’t. They had definitely lost their way. The visitation was long overdue.
I started out with such hope for O’Malley but am steadily growing more disappointed as I am also for the Cardinal-Archbishop of New York.
This is just O’Malley kicking a man when he’s down. He hates Finn because Finn is a Catholic.
Of course, O’Malley, Dolan, Wuerl, Chaput, etc., etc., continue to commit the mortal sin of giving Communion to pro-abortion apostates.
The hypocrite "nods silently". O'Malley allows the lavender mafia free rein to corrupt the sheep in his own back yard. Appears to be another case of the fox guarding the chicken coop.
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Boston pastor praised by Cardinal O’Malley puts Holy Family on par with homosexual couples
The pastor of St. Catherine of Siena parish in Norwood, MA, Msgr. Paul Garrity, published a letter in his bulletin last weekend that puts the Holy Family at parity with families that have two mothers and two fathers. Incidentally, Cardinal O’Malley had commended this same pastor months earlier for his focus on promoting Catholic education. This is yet another example of the ongoing problem of Cardinal O’Malley and his senior staff coddling pastors who promote homosexuality.