Will someone please help me out? Has there ever been any aspect of Catholic Theology, which would authorize this airhead to issues pronouncements, claiming to speak for the Roman Catholic Church? Can anyone suggest any basis, theoretical or not, which even implies that someone who daily issues the sort of statements that are appearing, attributed to Mrs. Pelosi, is even in possession of normal & rational mental faculties?
And while on the subject, is there no one--even in her own party in Washington--who sees how looney this is?
William Flax
There has long been an unacknowledged schism in the American Church. California is famous for the liberalism exemplfied by Cardinal Mahoney, the former archbishop of Los Angeles. Having reached the age of 75, Mahoney was forced to vacate the see, but he has plenty of bishops on his side inCalifornia and elsewhere. What Pelosi spouts is what he has heard from priests sand bishops, which is why she is so confident in speaking out. What has happened in the Catholic Church is something like what has happened in the Episcopal and other mainline protestant churches, except that in Catholic Church, the liberals are no longer so much in the ascendency. Dolan’s ascendency to the chair of the bishop’s council was not welcomed. because the pope has increasingly intervened to remove liberals from seats of power. The new archbishop of Baltimore, the primate in America, is also a traditionalist, as is the new archbishop of Philadelphia. But the liberals remain powerful and the likes of Pelosi serve as their mouthpiece.