Nice try.
Cardinal Egan should be doing more than just trying to get Rudy to agree to their little “understanding”.
The cardinal has the power and the responsibility to enforce Church law and doctrine.
I’ll give him points for raising the subject, but when there is overt sin, there needs to be reproof and correction.
The Apostle Paul set the standard in I and II Corinthians.
Sin has to be confronted by the shepherds, not accommodated by “understandings”. “Understandings” tend to get abused, as in this case.
The Cardinal also has the responsibility for setting the tone with the bishops.
So regardless of your opinion of my dyspepsia, nothing has been said that is not true. I did not ask to get the red robe, but if you are going to wear it, you better do the job the Chief Shepherd expects.
One could view this as a direct positive response by Cardinal Egan to an inspiring and empowering visit by the ontiff - a stern public rebuke of a supporter of mass murder and a public revelation that he has counseled Giuliani that he was not to take communion and a public promise that he will be counseling him again in the future about his disdain for the Church’s teaching on Life. This is an amazing development.
Or one could piss and moan that Egan is not wearing his red robes the way you think he ought to (all while pretending that you are not equipped to wear the scarlet - and ignorantly claiming that a man who asked to wear scarlet would be called to wear it).
One could view this as a direct positive response by Cardinal Egan to an inspiring and empowering visit by the pontiff - a stern public rebuke of a supporter of mass murder and a public revelation that he has counseled Giuliani that he was not to take communion and a public promise that he will be counseling him again in the future about his disdain for the Church’s teaching on Life. This is an amazing development.
Or one could piss and moan that Egan is not wearing his red robes the way you think he ought to (all while coquettishly pretending that you think you are not equipped to wear the scarlet while at the same time telling one who does what he is doing wrong - and ignorantly claiming that a man who asked to wear scarlet would be called to wear it).