Posted on 06/15/2017 4:40:50 PM PDT by ebb tide
The group of nine cardinals around Pope Francis considered at its June 12-14 meeting new ways to appoint bishops. They envisaged to transfer some faculties from Rome to the local bishops, Vatican spokesman Greg Burke said at a press conference June 14.
Burke mentioned a "fuller consultation" of lay and religious people when a bishop is appointed.
Further, the council of cardinals considered handing over powers to the dioceses such as allowing widowed permanent deacons to remarry so that one diocese would allow them to do so and the other not.
It’s time for some anti-antipope action by decent cardinals and bishops.
This guy isn’t even trying to pretend anymore.
Which means that some governments, China for instance, will inevitably interfere with the selection of those Bishops. They already try. Didn't we work all this out back in the 13th century?
When Pio Laghi came to America, he was told, “The Americans pick their own successors. Now we know what that meant—the Americans pick their butt-buddies as their successors. The Pope is pro-adultery, pro-sodomy, and pro-abortion. If he didn’t know that de-centralization will result in more sodomites as bishops, he wouldn’t be pushing it.
Yeah. I get all that. I’m just wondering if he realizes the degree to which he’s opening the door to government meddling in the church.
I agree.
Diogenes looking for one honest man.
Of course he understands. He wants it. Especially if the government is Communist.
He HATES the Catholic Church. Nothing he does is intended to help the Church.
It took years for Republicans to stop offering Obama advice on job creation, fighting terrorism, etc. They could not believe, or were afraid to say, that he hates America.
TRANSLATION: He wants to rig the game.
Do the voting people have legal voters' rights?
Is this just a lot of papal bull?
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