Posted on 10/31/2015 6:44:03 AM PDT by marshmallow
Canada's Cdl. Thomas Collins responds to the spin of Cdl. Donald Wuerl and Vatican spokesman Fr. Thomas Rosica
ROME (ChurchMilitant.com) - Cardinal Thomas Collins of Toronto is defending himself and other prelates who have been accused of not liking Pope Francis because they voiced concerns about the Synod.
The Canadian prelate says sometimes it's a cardinal's duty to raise such concerns and give honest advice to the Pope.
Collins was one of around 13 Synod Fathers who signed a leaked, media-hyped letter to Pope Francis raising concerns about the Synod procedure a couple weeks ago. They warned that the gathering's working document, the Instrumentum Laboris, ran contrary to the traditional purpose of a synod and seemed rigged for certain predetermined results.
Among the alleged signees were Cdls. George Pell, Robert Sarah, Timothy Dolan and Daniel DiNardo.
Recently, the Jesuit America magazine interviewed Cdl. Donald Wuerl of Washington DC, who rebuked the prelates who get behind such letters, suggesting they simply hold a personal grudge against the Pope.
"I wonder if these people who are speaking sometimes surreptitiously, sometimes halfway implying, then backing off and then twisting around, I wonder if it is really that they find they just don't like this Pope," he said.
Vatican spokesman Fr. Thomas Rosica, whose media outfit Salt + Light TV is based in Cdl. Collins' archdiocese, sent Cdl. Wuerl's comments to a local newspaper stating, "I fully share Cdl. Wuerl's assessment."
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The letter in question raised specific issues relating to the Synod and was in no way personal. Typical of the childish, emotionally immature homosexual to make it so.
The only bishops that care for Pope Francis are fellow leftists.
The problem with the Catholic Church, or any major church really, is that it is first and foremost a political organization. Religion is way down the list of priorities.
Religion is the business of the Catholic Church, not politics. Otherwise it would not have survived for 2000 years.
When I was in training to be a clinical psychologist, my clinical supervisor said it isn’t that homosexuals are generally emotionally immature so much as plain old mentally ill.
We never saw a homosexual who wasn’t out of touch with reality.
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