Posted on 01/15/2017 5:45:57 PM PST by marshmallow
Vatican City, Jan 14, 2017 / 10:39 am (CNA/EWTN News).- On Saturday it was announced that Cardinal Sean O’Malley of Boston has yet another reason to come to Rome, with his appointment as the newest member of the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.
Already a member of the Pope’s Council of Cardinals and President of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors, O’Malley’s appointment to the CDF, announced in a Jan. 14 communique from the Vatican, adds yet another major role to the list of duties he is accumulating.
Headed by Cardinal Gerhard Muller, the CDF is also home to a new judicial section established by the Pope last June to handle cases of “abuse of office” on the part of a bishop or religious superior accused of being negligent in handling instances of child sexual abuse.
O’Malley was tapped to be one of the Pope’s cardinal-advisors when Francis established the Council of Cardinals, who conceived and proposed the new judicial section, in 2013.
Just a few months later he was asked to head up the Commission for Minors, assisted by Msgr. Bob Oliver, who had previously served the Archdiocese of Boston as assistant to the moderator of the Curia for Canonical Affairs.
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Bad. Poor persecuted Cdl Muller hangs on by a thread. Truth and political expediency don’t often mix.
Ping
Isn’t this the “office” that was responsible for the Inquisition??
Hopefully this will be better than appointing former Maryland governor and Democrat president candidate Martin O’Malley! (hopefully some sarcasm and humor.)
It used to be known as the Holy Roman Inquisition—the group having charge of inquiring concerning things Holy. The name was later changed to The Holy Office. Not to be confused with the Medieval Inquisiton or The Spanish Inquisition.
I have no pity for Mueller. Not since he said full, unconditional acceptance of VC II was a requirement to be a Catholic.
This appointment, among many other nefarious actions by Jorge Bergoglio, is one more event on a continuum that tells us exactly where this is going.
I am more interested in the loyal opposition gathering steam and eagerly if not patiently awaiting their intervention, or the intervention of Almighty God Himself.
Theoretically, this was done because CDF is responsible for prosecuting (at least ecclesiastically) priestly abuse cases, and O’Malley supposedly cleaned up Boston after its horrible scandals.
However Francis is removing priestly abuse cases from the CDF and giving them back to the dioceses, has restored faculties to a couple of laicized (and, in one case, convicted and jailed) priests, so I’m not sure what O’Malley is supposed to do at CDF now.
Vatican II was a disaster that honestly can no longer be defended.
Surely, even Raymond Cardinal Burke in his heart of hearts has to know that VII opened the Gates of Hell, whether the motives in its conception were in good conscience, or not.
It was at minimum a terrible mistake, and the participants were filled with the opinions and reports and suggestions of non-Catholics I understand, and also with outright enemies of the Traditional Church. There was no excuse.
Sadly no. “Cardinal Sean” is a socialist fraud.
From his recent interview with The Remnant:
That is a legitimate concern. And whenever I hear this language—the ‘spirit of the Vatican II’—I am immediately alerted because there’s no question, it’s been demonstrated and can be demonstrated more that a lot of what happened in the Church after the Second Vatican Council, which invoked the Second Vatican Council, had nothing to do with what the Council Fathers taught. We saw it in the devastation of the Sacred Liturgy and in other aspects, as well. So I think that what we must do is return to the constant teaching of the Church as it’s expressed in the Second Vatican Council, but in all of the ecumenical councils and in all of the authentic teachings of the Church down the centuries.
According to Cardinal Burke, the Second Vatican Council offers the constant teaching of the Church. Unfortunately, he is just one more Modernist who continues to profess the new anti-Catholic religion.
No Catholic should be surprised that a Modernist heretic is heading up the so-called "Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith".
You do realize that O’Malley isn’t be appointed to “head up” the congregation, and that Mueller still remains the head?
Burke might not be up to your standards, but I’d take him as Pope in a heart-beat. He is a fearless, courageous man. He speaks the Truth. He sees clearly.
They’re both Modernist. Doesn’t matter.
If Burke professes that Vatican II is the constant teaching of the Catholic Church (which he does), then he does not speak the Truth. He just speaks more truth than Bergoglio.
Vatican II Council was an a legally held ecumenical council whose decrees were approved by the Pope. That has to be the starting point for its interpretation. One cannot simply dismiss it out of hand. Popes St. JPII and Benedict XVI worked to instill a healing hermeneutic of continuity, and so interpreted there is no doctrinal problem with the counsel. Cardinal Burke is in that tradition and does not deserve your unjust scorn. Sadly, Pope Francis is trying to tear down the work of the previous two Popes and turn back the clock to the 1970s, and if he succeeds in the long term (i.e., if his heretical innovations to the moral teaching of the Church outlast his pontificate), one will have to reassess whether the promises made by Our Lord to St. Peter about the Gates of Hell are true.
Sadly, Pope Francis is trying to tear down the work of the previous two Popes and turn back the clock to the 1970s, and if he succeeds in the long term (i.e., if his heretical innovations to the moral teaching of the Church outlast his pontificate), one will have to reassess whether the promises made by Our Lord to St. Peter about the Gates of Hell are true.
There is a nice line which Pope Pius VII is said to have spoken to Napoleon: “You silly little man, how do you think that you can destroy the Church when We and our priests haven’t been able to do it in 1800 years.”
If you believe that, then I have a bridge to sell you.
The official problems in the Church started with Vatican II, not Francis the Fraud. Until Catholics including yourself and Cardinal Burke recognize this (and, in the case of Burke, do something about it), nothing will be solved.
My scorn for those who continue to teach that Vatican II is Catholic is absolutely just and warranted.
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