Posted on 06/08/2006 5:15:26 PM PDT by Aussie Dasher
My question is how long will it take for him to get the call from the Vatican for a little sit-down with the Pope. McCarrick should get the smack down he deserves.
What a f****** ass that man is... People like him destroyed the Catholic Church. Allowing queers to fill the seminaries was the beginning of the church's downfall. The CC has lost so much... they don't even know it yet.
Absolutely. These wannabe Popes need to be reigned in, canned if necessary. Who does he think he is? John McCain?
Pope Benedict, please please please start cleaning house in American.
I do a fair bit of travelling and, consequently, attend Mass in different places. Trust me, the views of McCarrick are mild compared to some of the garbage I have heard from others in the clergy. It's time for the Vatican to replace those here who blatantly ignore Church teachings.
Ted McCarrick is a Pagan
Says he's the outgoing Archbishop, but he's a Cardinal. Is that a promotion?
He's retiring, next week.
The good thing is he will no longer be the archbishop of Washington in a couple of weeks. The Bishop of Pittsburg will be replacing him. THANK GOD for that!
Beat you to it.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1645912/posts
I'll say this... what a kick in the teeth that was to every one of the ever-shrinking number of practicing catholics in the US.
Maybe it really is time to let the church in America have a schism, so that those of us who struggle and worry about trying to be faithful have a church whose individual regional administrators don't throw us under the bus and pander to outsiders.
What an awful thought.
The Washington archdiocese carries with it the cardinalate. It is one of the premier sees in America.
He retires next week.
McCarrick (if I am not mistaken) INTENTIONALLY withheld Vatican letter (at Bishops Conference) advising Catholics to question Catholic leaders/politicians who were Pro Abortion and strongly advocated this position.
Thus, Bishops voted NOT to urge/order Priests to withhold communion from Politicians who favored and advocated abortions.
Also think he met with Kerry and more or less supported this Snake.
No. He's not. He is leaving Washington with 65 men in seminaries, the largest number of aspirants to the priesthood of any diocese in the country. He ordained 12 priests two weeks ago.
McCarrick's a very good man and a good bishop. It appears he's giving his personal opinion here rather than the Church's teaching.
Some three decades after I first made McCarrick's acquaintance, I can finally say something nice about him.
He's retiring.
It didn't show up when I hit "search".
Very strange...sorry, brother!
Does he get a gold watch?
Uh, who is in line to replace this waste of carbon? Maybe a Christian man? That would be cool. Da?
Donald Wuerl, bishop of Pittsburgh.
This bishop can't retire soon enough. He's a walking scandal factory.
The memo itself outlined the gravity of abortion and euthanasia and classical distinctions in moral theology between formal and material cooperation in evil, and the church's norms for who should and should not receive Communion.
It said that for a Catholic politician "consistently campaigning and voting for permissive abortion and euthanasia laws" involves "formal cooperation" in those grave evils. It said a bishop dealing with such a politician should meet with him, instruct him on the church's teaching, inform him that while he persists in that position he should not receive Communion, and ultimately, if necessary, warn him "that he will otherwise be denied the Eucharist."
http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/0403723.htm
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