Europe in the time of the Luther
Posted on 11/12/2010 10:57:17 AM PST by julieee
Catholic Bishops to Elect New President After Major Abortion Battles
Washington, DC -- The Fall General Assembly of the U.S. Conference of Catholic bishops is nearly read to begin and the Catholic church leaders will have to decide on a new president who will lead them after some major abortion battles.
The late of candidates includes one pro-life champion and one bishop who lay pro-life Catholic leaders say presents some concerns.
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The American bishops are in de facto schism. The possibility of a Kicanis USCCB presidency shows how out of touch and arrogant they have become.
I was glad to see Kurtz onthe short list. He’s a good man. He’s in -— should I put it this way? -— the Catholic wing of the Catholic church.
Bishop Kikanas is a very good shepherd as Bishop of the Diocese of Tucson. However he is extremely timid on abortion, gay marriage and the proper role of Catholics in the public square. Moreover, as far as I know, he has said nothing about the persecution of Christians by Muslims and others.
He would be a very poor choice to be the spokesman for the US bishops.
By my rough count, there are 10-15 (out of 300) American bishops in the Catholic wing of the Catholic Church. The latest news concerning their faux-reform of CCHD is sickening.
What a “good shepherd”! According to Mary Ann Krietzer:
“One of Bishop Kicanis’ claims to fame is his enabling of mega-sex abuser, defrocked and jailed priest, Daniel McCormack. Kicanis was the rector of Mundelein Seminary in the 1990s when McCormack was a seminarian there and knew of three cases of ‘sexual improprieties,’ one involving a minor. Kicanis recommended McCormack’s ordination anyway. His assessment even after McCormack’s history of child sex abuse was, ‘It would have been grossly unfair not to have ordained him. There was a sense that his activity was part of the developmental process and that he had learned from the experience. I was more concerned about his drinking. We sent him to counseling for that.’ Sexual activity with a minor is part of the ‘developmental process?’ Please!”
McCormack went on to abuse 23 children in Chicago, all the while being promoted by Cardinal George and the other enablers.
If you want to know where Archbishop Chaput stands on the issues, read his book, “Render Unto Caesar”. We Catholics need several hundred more Bishops just like him.
The good news is that, as I "hed through the grapevine" my diocese (Knoxville/Bp. Stika) is keeping the donations from the Thanksgiving collection in the diocese this year --- this is the collection that customarily goes to CCHD. But the bad news is that neither the Bishop nor his chancery guys will comment one way or the other. Won't confirm or deny.
So even the comparatively good guys are still protecting the ACORN wing. Grrrrr...
The clericalism of the American bishops rivals that of the clergy in Martin Luther’s day. Luther chose the wrong remedy but I can commiserate with his frustration. I believe we need a Catholic Tea Party, in which authentic Catholics cut off the bishops’ purse strings. Money seems to be the only thing they respond to.
Archbishop Chaput has his merits, but at the end of the day he is still part of the good old boys network. There is absolutely no excuse for defending CCHD, which he does.
The problem is that in your analogy, Martin Luther would be Cindy Sheehan. There was one and only one reason for his support among the nobles: he provided an excuse to abandon the war against the Muslims who were sweeping across Europe. By a few years after Worms, the Muslims were laying siege to Vienna.
Imagine Richmond, VA in flames, and the Moslem horde occupying from North Carolina to Texas, and then you’ll get a sense of German lands in the 1480s (just prior to Luther) and again in the 1520s (just after Wittenberg). Now picture a snake-oil salesman convincing the upper Midwest that battling the people of Dixie are far worse than any Moslems, and deserve to be killed by the hundreds of thousands... and you’ll get a sense of Luther’s early rhetoric... and why the Southern Germanic peoples never were interested in being Lutheran.
Europe in the time of the Luther
Luther’s success with the nobles had more to do with greediness for Church lands than anything else. At any rate,I’m not defending what Luther did. All I’m saying is that the American bishops have lost all moral authority, and that’s not good.
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