Petition asking DC’s Archbishop Gregory to apologize to President Trump hits 33,800

LifeSite News ^ | June 16, 2020 | LifeSite News Staff

[ebb tide]

I have to give the Arch Bishop the benefit of the doubt in his liberal secular background or I deny the Church in some small way......

I find that attitude a form of papalolotry.

[reagandemocrat]

Past Grand Knight here, signed and sent.

[Secret Agent Man]

i don’t want a fake apology, they’re worthless

[ebb tide]

The Catholic Roots of Obama’s Activism

To expand congregations as well as the reach of his organizing program, Mr. Obama went to Holy Ghost Catholic Church in South Holland, Ill., to ask Wilton D. Gregory, an African-American bishop and a rising star in the hierarchy, for a grant for operating costs. Archbishop Gregory, who now leads the Archdiocese of Atlanta, recalled Mr. Obama as a persuasive man who “wanted to engage the people of the neighborhood.” He recommended that Cardinal Bernardin release the funds.

[ontap]

If you go to the site they want a donation

[ontap]

Who really gives a crap what this asshole says!!!!

[Marchmain]

What is the point of this petition? It’s not really a plea for any action because everyone knows it will be ignored. It’s not a large enough group to be an impact, it will not influence mainstream Catholics, nor the hierarchy.

All an online petition does is make a small group of people look like the stereotype of trads - inflammatory, angry, self-righteous, reactionary. It reinforces the worst petty attitudes.

LifeSite News puts up a petition for all sorts of things. It’s a way to draw readership, get attention and make you feel like you did something powerful by signing.

Why not perform an act of charity or kindness instead and offer it up? That might make a real difference.

Trying to reform Gregory by secular means like petitions is sheer vanity.

[MurphsLaw]

I believe that a Christ promised us a Church and would send the Hoy Spirit to guide it. My faith does not exist in (a) man. Nor is the Church God, but rather the temporal instrument Christ chose to bring us to him throughout the ages. I could write volumes of Pre-Vatican 2 human failings which we have all put out of our minds by now. This too shall pass into something else. I know little of this man other than his newsworthiness of disliking President Trump. So be it. I can dismiss him without denigrating him.

If I wanted to be my own Pope, I could become Protestant. I can love this Church- or attack and despise it. ONE thing I CANNOT DO is be luke warm about it. The communion of Saints deserve much more from us than burning it down to suit each of us and our needs individually as we wish.
Forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those.....and remember God is infinitely more powerful then the ego driven, fallen man, especially when they cloak themselves in the devil's pride.

[ebb tide]

All an online petition does is make a small group of people look like the stereotype of trads - inflammatory, angry, self-righteous, reactionary. It reinforces the worst petty attitudes.

There you go again, complaining about trads this and trads that, all the while claiming to be a trad yourself.

Do you also have a problem with the dubia cardinals, because they were a small group, not a large enough group to be an impact, that did not influence mainstream Catholics, nor the hierarchy?

If you don't like the petition, don't sign it.

But quit your bitching. Speaking of petty attitudes, sheesh.

[ebb tide]

I know little of this man other than his newsworthiness of disliking President Trump.

Well, I highly recommend you invest a few minutes to learn more about the man you are defending, including his sordid history with Obama and the disgraced Cardinal Bernadin.

[ebb tide]

The communion of Saints deserve much more from us than burning it down to suit each of us and our needs individually as we wish.

And who do think is trying to "burn down the church"?

[Marchmain]

I said these actions increase the STEREOTYPE of trads, not that those are trad characteristics. I notice you did not answer, what does this petition accomplish?

[Marchmain]

Many bishops are unjustly attacked and deserve at least a benefit of the doubt. However, Wilting Gregory is not one of them. He is clearly a secular prince in bishop’s clothing.

[hinckley buzzard]

That was a Pisky Church not a Catholic Church. but the irony still applies.

[ebb tide]

What did the dubia accomplish?

What did the Battle of Hattin accomplish?

What did the Holy Maccabee Martyrs accomplish?

[Marchmain]

Oh brother, you are comparing those to a formulaic online petition?

[ebb tide]

Do you not realize that it is you who is doing the stereotyping with your posts?

[ebb tide]

Answer the question: What did they accomplish?

Either answer or stop your bitching.

[Maudeen]

How many signatures to defrock or whatever they do to get rid of an Archbishop.

[ebb tide]

How many signatures to defrock or whatever they do to get rid of an Archbishop.

Silly question. The same amount it takes to get rid of a pope.

And where did the petition call for a defrocking? You're really grasping at straws now.

How about giving it a rest?