Posted on 04/25/2002 4:43:48 PM PDT by history_matters
I think our model in seeking cleansing of the Church should be St. Catherine of Siena IMO because she was a lay woman, a 3rd order Dominican, and did not flinch when God called on her to speak the truth to Pope, cardinals, clergy, politicians, laity. She also never lost sight of the dignity that attends the office of Pope, bishop, priest, deacon, religious. She raised high the standard and called to individuals in those offices to live up to the high calling of Christ Crucified and Risen.A timely suggestion: St. Catherine of Siena's feastday is this coming Monday, April 29. She was a "holy anorectic" who rarely slept, virtually lived on the Eucharist, and was highly instrumental in convincing the Pope to return to Rome from Avignon.
No, St. Catherine did not flinch from the Truth, which she properly understood to have a force of its own. Mr. Brady, would be well advised to emulate St. Catherine's faith in the intrinsic force of Truth to make his point and less on histrionics.
patent
If this is true, then it is best for the flock. This is unfortunate, but the Church should learn a valuable lesson from all this.
PS: I asked to mention Deacons because they also are not immune to falls. We had a deacon arrested in our diocese for sexual abuse. All good deacons, priests and bishops, to include all the honorary titles as well, need mucho prayers!
The first statement above that Mr. Brady attributes to Cardinal George, taken out of context, does seem to cast aspersions on the Cardinal's character. Having followed a link to the RCF website the other evening, however, the vile graphics that Mr. Brady has posted there say more to me about Mr. Brady's character than the Cardinal's. IMO, the Cardinal showed charitable restraint.However, when we attempted to provide you with photos of clergy misconduct last year in connection with the St. Sebastian Website, you faxed me a letter in which you said that you would not look at these homosexual photos because they could be a near occasion of sin for you.What are we, the faithful, to make of such a statement from a Prince of the Church?
We need to fight right now, and it needs to be a fight for the Church, not for us.Bump.
This is very sage advice. Thank you.
Bet he amused himself with that one.
Some will listen, patent. The question as always is the fruit that comes from such a thing.
Because of RCF and the late Fr. Hardon, of blessed memory, the Vatican already had an enormous amount of information before this scandal broke. I know that the Church's thinking is glacial and its movements usually slow. But the festering scab has been ripped off the wound, and now is the time for a vigorous Vatican-directed disinfecting and cleansing.
[I understand from a SSPX friend that their chapels were overflowing this last Sunday. I am not surprised to hear that, nor am I surprised when I hear many Episcopalian churches in the northeast have had a sudden influx of refugee Catholics. I pray for them all in their confusion and despair.]
Since many feel that Cardinal George has been moving steadily in the proper direction -- if too slow for some -- then I hope this current moment opens the door for him to move with all do haste to cut out the cancer and cleanse the archdiocese from top to bottom.
I appreciate your position and your defenses re: same.
Still, the banning of General Absolution overnight should be a no-brainer.
And there will be proof in the pudding. Hopeful the beleaguered traditional will take the bit in their teeth now that the homosexuals and pervs have dropped the reins for a moment.
Your comment was really unnecessary.
What are you trying to say?
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