Successor chosen for Cardinal Mahony in Los Angeles?

Catholic Culture.org ^ | Jan. 22, 2010 | Staff

[La Enchiladita]

Our Father Who art in Heaven... Thy will be done. Amen.

[MIchaelTArchangel]

I hope Pope Benedict elevates a Catholic to the Archbishopic rather than another Baloneyite.

[MIchaelTArchangel]

I hope Pope Benedict elevates a Catholic to the Archbishopric rather than another Baloneyite.

[BlessedBeGod]

Worst. American. Bishop.

Good riddance, when the time comes.

[dangus]

>> I hope Pope Benedict elevates a Catholic to the Archbishopric rather than another Baloneyite. <<

This sectarian nonsense is ruining Free Republic. I demand you apologize to all of us Bolognites. If you know so much about our religion, you could at least spell the rite properly. Geesh.

(I’ll pray to St. Oscar for you.)

[Tax-chick]

That was brilliant. Have a Guinness:

[chuck_the_tv_out]

“(I’ll pray to St. Oscar for you.)”

Every time I’ve asked a Catholic about them praying to saints, they said it wasn’t true. Was that wrong?

I just ask for my own understanding.

[Tax-chick]

Please do not confuse Bolognites with Catholics. They are totally separate religions.

[chuck_the_tv_out]

Google yields only 10 results for “Bolognite”

[Tax-chick]

Just wait a few days, it’ll catch on.

[chuck_the_tv_out]

I don't really understand, so here's a cat on a toy throne.

[Conservative Vermont Vet]

As a Conservative Catholic, I certainly hope his replacement is NOT another, clueless, naive, flaming, PRO-ILLEGAL ALIEN, law-breaking-supporting, Leftist, Moonbat!

[Tax-chick]

LOL! Great picture.

[Mercat]

Best answer yet... Read Purgatorio by Dante. We follow the saints and Our Lady up the Holy Mountain of God.

[SevenofNine]

GOOD I Hope so I hear about during the Week LA E

[CWW]

The Saint thing is actually very simple. We believe that living and deceased Christians are all part of the Body of Christ. The divide that we see between the living and the dead does not exist in terms of our souls.

So, just as I can ask for my fellow living Christian brothers ans sisters to pray for me now, so can I ask the Saints to implore Christ to aid me in my daily walk.

If you look at many of the formal prayers involving Saints, they all point to Christ; none edify the Saint either as an equal to God or above God -- NONE.

Catholic Saints are not perfect. They have the same human weaknesses and temptations the you and I experience on a daily basis. Rather, they are persons who lived their Christian walk in exemplary fashion and in a manner we should emulate.

So, as Catholics, we ask the Saints and the entire Body of Christ (living and deceased) to intervene on our behalf to God.

And yes, we can certainly pray directly to God, as we do. Its just like asking your Christian friends to pray for you. No difference. The key is that in terms of our souls, there is no living or dead; but rather a transition from life on earth to the beatific vision of God in heaven.

Hope this helps clear up any confusion.

[montag813]

“Cardinal” Mahony belongs in Gitmo, not a church. The Vatican should have stripped the traitorous bastard of his robes long ago.

[Arthur McGowan]

Patrick Madrid was pulling up to a Catholic Church once, and saw Our Lady of Fatima, with the three children kneeling in front of her. He said, “Look! Even our statues worship statues!”

[AnAmericanMother]

How to tell a Bolognite seda gestatoria from the Catholic variety:

[AnAmericanMother]