[pissant]

Since Benedict XVI was selected, the lib Catholics have gone nuts. Makes me feel it was the absolutely correct choice!

[1Old Pro]

Mario Cuomo, another one that just doesn't adhere to the curtain call and keeps running on stage over and over after the performance is long over.

[goldstategop]

If Mario Cuomo doesn't like his Church's teachings, he's free to convert to another religion. Sheesh.

(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)

[RexBeach]

Mario is a maggot. Why does ANYONE pay ANY attention to what he has to say?

He ain't Catholic. He's a Catholic in name only. Period.

[fourscore]

I guess Cuomo did not hear the Holy Father's sermon on moral relativism. Crawl back into your hole Cuomo.

[mewzilla]

Why doesn't Cuomo just become an Episcopalian?

[Sthitch]

to readjust those rules to better serve the purpose of helping modern Catholics to live fuller and holier lives in this ever-changing world. This would include, among other things, reconsidering celibacy, women's role in the church and other contentious man-made church policies.

I wonder if Mario the Pious includes a change of heart about the death penalty by the church as readjusting the rules?

[jwalsh07]

Marion studiously avoids abortion because he knows his appointment with St Peter at the gate grows near.

[Alberta's Child]

It's a good thing Mr. Cuomo decided to pen this op-ed piece in the NY Daily News. He's become so irrelevant these days that I was starting to wonder if he had passed away without any mention in the media.

[MWS]

Many of us who cling desperately to our Catholic Church for instruction, inspiration and support prayed that a new Pope would help heal the church's serious wounds and reconnect it more surely to modern realities.

I love how he opens with this line and then lays out exactly how he doesn't accept the Church's instruction, inspiration, and support.

Personally, I hope that Pope Benedict XVI pushes liberal Catholics in the US to the point where they run off to the Episcopal Church. It is EXACTLY that for which they are looking - an organization that runs according to beliefs that tickle their modern ears, without any of this nonsense about immutable doctrinal Truths laid out by a Divine Founder.

They'd be so much happier.

[PBRSTREETGANG]

I guess Mario decided it wasn't worth trying to "flip" the College of Cardinals as he tried to do with Electors after the 2000 election.

Cuomo is pond scum.

[wagglebee]

I would love to see the Pope start excommunicating Cuomo, sKerry, Tubby and a few more of their heretical leftist pals.

[leprechaun9]

Hey Mario - go back under your rock!

[Aquinasfan]

The current challenge of the church is twofold...

Time out, TIME OUT! Is this Mario Cuomo, the former governor of the state of NY, telling Christ's Church what it should and shouldn't do? It can't be...

The second challenge is to reassess the alterable rules made for us by the male descendants of Peter who were and are humanly frail, as he was, and to readjust those rules to better serve the purpose of helping modern Catholics to live fuller and holier lives in this ever-changing world. This would include, among other things, reconsidering celibacy, women's role in the church and other contentious man-made church policies.

I guess it is...

The church can do this without abandoning its fundamental commitment to the Gospel of Jesus, and has in fact done it in the past in changing its position on slavery, usury, salvation outside the church and divorce.

It definitely is. Sheesh.

[Tacis]

Mario's son, Andrew, was a climber in Willie's sewer squad and was going to run for Congress. He got involved in some nasty, nasty but typical scandals and didn't run. He's out there willing to spread filth and corruption as a dem again but he is carrying baggage. A new Pope with dem-like integrity, would have absolved nasty Andrew; this one won't. Thus, Mario's grump at Benedict.

[bandleader]

ABSOLUTELY!!!

[Lancey Howard]

Many of us who cling desperately to our Catholic Church for instruction, inspiration and support prayed that a new Pope would help heal the church's serious wounds and reconnect it more surely to modern realities.

Cuomo wants a "Catholic Church" which supports the Democrat party's agenda of transforming America into a European-style, secular socialist society. What a creep.

[Alberta's Child]

In fact, the church asserts its infallibility only under strictly defined limits, and it has happened very few times in church history. The only formal exercise of papal infallibility in modern times was by Pope Pius XII and dealt with Mary, the mother of Christ.

Cuomo is absolutely wrong in this statement about papal infallibility. He should go back and read the formal declaration on this subject in the documents of the first Vatican Council in the 19th Century.

[Scotswife]

Cuomo presents himself as an infallible source of what the Church can change or not change.
The only problem is that the Church has already ruled on Mario's "pet issues"
They are no longer up for discussion. There is no more debate.
Cuomo is only revealing his ignorance of catholic teaching and expecting those who HAVE the duty to uphold unchangeable teaching....to bend to the will of...Cuomo.

There is always the episcopalean church...the unitarian church. My goodness Mario, pick any church you want - but don't expect a 2,000 yr. old church to bend to your spoiled brat wishes.

[dighton]

“Can ya believe it, they didn’t make me Pope.”

[sheltonmac]

In fact, the church asserts its infallibility only under strictly defined limits, and it has happened very few times in church history.

So, is the Catholic Church infallible or not? Or is it only infallible when it officialy asserts its infallibility? What about the "infallible" popes who were condemned as heretics? What about the "infallible" decrees of popes and councils that were later overturned?

I've never understood this concept. Perhaps someone would be kind enough to explain it to me.