Canadian cardinal creeps quietly onto lists of 'papabili'

Catholic News Service ^ | 4/18/2005 | Cindy Wooden

[Rutles4Ever]

This is why a papal election cannot be handicapped like a horse race. As a disciple of Father von Balthasar and close in doctrine to Ratzinger and Ruini, this may be a pleasant surprise coming out of left field.

[hobbes1]

If they're gonna get close, they might as well go all the way, and elevate Cardinal Ratzinger.

[billorites]

Habemus pappam, eh?

[billorites]

"they might as well go all the way, and elevate Cardinal Ratzinger."

Can you believe the campaign of slur and innuendo aimed at Ratzinger?

The long knives are out.

[AbeKrieger]

I was thinking Ratzinger, but after reading some bios, I think it will be Claudio Hummes from Brazil. He's of European ancestry and represents a place where Catholicism is growing by leaps and bounds. Everyone's happy.

Well, except American a la carte Catholics who are looking for a liberalization or a nod to the secular world. NOT going to happen.

[sitetest]

Dear Rutles4Ever,

I doubt they'll elect a 60 year-old fellow.


sitetest

[rahbert]

Supposedly the Cardinals of Buenos Aires, San Paulo, and
Tegulcigalpa are also strong candidates.

Wonder how they would rate on a deck-of-cards scale?

[Semper Paratus]

The tipoff would be if maple syrup is served at breakfast.

[MadIvan]

Fits the bill nicely. We need a younger, conservative Pope to finish off the liberals.

Regards, Ivan

[hobbes1]

Kinda reminds one of W....


Hopefully the election will go the same way.

[MadIvan]

One thought occured to me - perhaps this will do some good in Canada: its government is rife with corruption and trying to do immoral things like legitimise gay marriage. Perhaps the new Holy Father (God willing), will pay a visit to Canada and have the same effect on the Canadians as JP II did on Poland...Liberal tyranny might be killed off by this.

How beautiful it would be if God struck back at the Liberals for their malfesance in such a way.

Regards, Ivan

[prairiebreeze]

ping

[A. Pole]

Read more about Hans Urs von Balthasar

[starfish923]

A pope from secularist Canada would be as surprising as a pope from America.

[Podkayne]

Quebec Cardinal Marc Ouellet, a polyglot academic...

If this guy becomes pope then you can count on Quebec leaving the union in the not so near future. Get ready for pandemonium.

[starfish923]

Can you believe the campaign of slur and innuendo aimed at Ratzinger?
The long knives are out.

Hey, he's a German. I'm not surprised at all. This IS America, after all, where Germans are generally treated this way.

Exceptions: Boris Becker, Steffi Graff and Michael Schumacher. They got a pass on our anti-Germanism. I guess because they wield no power.

[starfish923]

I was thinking Ratzinger, but after reading some bios, I think it will be Claudio Hummes from Brazil. He's of European ancestry and represents a place where Catholicism is growing by leaps and bounds. Everyone's happy.
Well, except American a la carte Catholics who are looking for a liberalization or a nod to the secular world. NOT going to happen.

All good points.

[metalmanx2j]

"Well, except American a la carte Catholics who are looking for a liberalization or a nod to the secular world. NOT going to happen."

I am ashamed by many of my American Catholic brethren. Many are so egocentric and think they are the only Catholics in the world. First off, I think the Catholics in America are some of the laziest most undevout people on the planet!!

Second, they seem to think that the Pope creates doctrine out of thin air! In fact, he merely interprets the Bible, the WORD OF GOD!!! He has no say so in how doctrine is supposed to be. It is God's to make or break, and I doubt God will break any of it.

Stupid lazy people. Don't even know how their own Church works...it IS NOT a democracy so GET OVER IT, MORONS!

[NYer]

Someone recently mentioned that prior to 2003, JPII commented that his successor had not yet been made a Cardinal. Cardinal Marc Ouellet was elevated in October 2003!

"In some ways he is a traditionalist, and has advocated a return to Eucharistic adoration and Gregorian chant, suggesting that Quebec’s 1960s “Quiet Revolution” marked too radical a change. Yet people who have worked with Ouellet describe him as friendly, humble, and flexible."
.... John Allen of the (liberal) National Catholic Reporter.

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[RFT1]

Actually the church has not done that well at all in Brazil in recent years, while Protestants, mostly Pentacostals and evangecals have grown dramatically in the last 20 years. Cardinal Hummes is considered to be a liberal.