Mahony Flies To Rome For Solemnities, Conclave (Cardinal from Los Angeles to Visit Vatican)

Los Angeles Times ^ | April 2, 2005 | K. Connie Kang

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Mahony Flies To Rome For Solemnities, Conclave

By K. Connie Kang
Times Staff Writer

April 2, 2005

"As he prepared to fly to Rome to probably attend the funeral of the current pope and help elect a new one, Cardinal Roger M. Mahony of Los Angeles asked for spiritual help to get through the momentous events ahead.

"I ask all the people in Southern California to pray for all the cardinals — that we listen wisely to God's voice, the Holy Spirit, and that we choose wisely the next shepherd of the universal church," Mahony told reporters Friday night at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels.

Mahony had celebrated a noon and a 5 p.m. Mass before heading to LAX and ... (Snip) ...then Rome."

"As with many of the other cardinals who will choose a successor to John Paul II, this would be Mahony's first participation in such a conclave. He described himself as being "very excited but also nervous."

Mahony, whose diocese includes an estimated 5 million Roman Catholics in Los Angeles, Ventura and Santa Barbara counties, said the pope had been given a "very special grace" to know that death was near.

"We hear so often about people who are killed instantly ... and have no time to prepare for the greatest moment of our lives — passing from this life into eternal life," Mahony said.

In Rome, he and other cardinals from around the world will be asked to set dates for nine funeral Masses, Mahony said. He said the pope's burial should take place between the fourth and sixth day after his death..."

>> Snip

"...Only the Holy Spirit knows how that will unfold, he said, declining to speculate on candidates..."

[onyx]

I greet you, Marie

I greet you, Marie full with graces;

the Lord is with you.

You are blessed between all the women and Jesus,

the fruit of your entrails, is blessed.

Holy Marie, Mother of God,

request for us poor sinners,

now and per hour of our death.

Amen.

[Diva]

I feel guilty for feeling this way, but I really wish Mahony had nothing to do with it.

I feel the same way but have no guilt feelings about it. :)

[Lauren BaRecall]

Cardinal Christoph Schoenborn

The new batch of cardinals includes several seen as "papabile" - potential popes. Among them are Vienna's new cardinal, Christoph Schoenborn, a highly respected theologian whom the Pope entrusted with preparing the church's new catechism....

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/58771.stm

[Petronski]

By my math, 60 or 61 now. And he was entrusted by John Paul with preparation of the new Cathechism?


Impressive.

[Diva]

Thanks for posting the French Ave Maria. It is beautiful.

[nickcarraway]

Nice Picture

[Mo1]

FNC is reporting there will be an update from Rome in an hour

[onyx]

Although I find it rather ghoulish to post about successors... this one caught my eye earlier today:


The African cardinal tipped to succeed the Pope


Friday, 01 April , 2005, 19:10

Lagos: The fourth-ranking cardinal in the Vatican and the African with the best chance of succeeding Pope John Paul II began his stellar church career as a child of poor pagan parents in a mud-brick bungalow in the forests of southern Nigeria.

As the current pope clings to life in a Roman hospital, Cardinal Francis Arinze, the 72-year-old Prefect of Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, is seen by many as a credible candidate to become the first African to rule the Holy See since the death of Gelasius I in 496 AD.

And if the college of cardinals sitting in the Sistine Chapel does decide that the Holy Spirit has chosen Arinze to lead the Church, the tiny Nigerian farming village of Eziowelle might well become a place of pilgrimage for the world's hundreds of millions of Catholics.
http://sify.com/news/fullstory.php?id=13707701

[Petronski]

I'm pretty excited about Arinze. It would be great.

This guy seems impressive too.

I don't think it's ghoulish to discuss this.

[Lauren BaRecall]

I do not eat meat on most Fridays. Many Catholics have been so poorly educated that they don't know that some sort of pennance must be performed on Fridays, whether it's abstention from meat or something else.

I wanted to tell you that I saw Pope John Paul in person, the last time he came to New York. He was riding in the "popemobile" and I was about 10 feet away from him, with no one in front of me to block my view.

I will never forget this: his white cassock looked whiter than any other material I had ever seen. There was actually a golden aura (for lack of a better word) around him. He seemed to glow in a beautiful, heavenly way. I have never seen anything like this before or since.

I was especially struck by the sight of him after communion. I could tell that there was real conversation happening between Jesus and the Holy Father, deep within his soul. I was impressed on another level with the reality of the True Presence of Christ, by witnessing this.

[NYer]

The Cardinal doesn't even wait for the pontiff to die before jumping a plane to escape LA.

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[Petronski]

Bells tolling in Vatican City.

[Lauren BaRecall]

I don't think it's ghoulish to discuss this.

No, it's not, because we know that Jesus will not leave us without a shepherd.

As the Holy Father has been aging, these thoughts have crossed my mind from time to time.

[Lauren BaRecall]

Yes. As a matter of fact, he made an impression on me as being a possible future pope as soon as the Catechism came out.

I've had my eye on him for some time.

[onyx]

Yes, I just read about that guy from the link provided here.
Arinze is my personal fav, and has been since he reamed the
libs during a speech at one of the universities not too long ago.... and I think Drinan was present... lol.

[onyx]

Bells tolling?
Oh no.
Going to tv now.

[Petronski]

I will look for him in the weeks to come.



I want someone to rebuke the AmChurch movement. I doubt it will happen, but it should be done.

[Lauren BaRecall]

I heard that they will not be in the Sistine Chapel this time.

[lainie]

Nothing on any cable news channel except "Vatican to issue statement on Pope's condition 4:30 eastern"

[cyborg]

What's that?