[choirboy]

I received this via e-mail.

[choirboy]

Bump

[browardchad]

The "exercise the pastoral leadership" includes the ability to openly discuss homosexuality within the church. (BTW, this article doesn't mention the word.)

[Varda]

Thanks for posting this.

[Diago]

The Pope needs an American Cardinal he can trust. Time for Cardinal Bruskiwitz! [sp?]

[Mike Fieschko]

But the real question is whether the American bishops will do their duty.

Correct.

Now, based on the track records of Cdls McCarrick, Law, Mahony, George, Keeler, Maida, and Egan, what may we likely expect?

I didn't list Bevilacqua, since I have heard that he has taken steps to do some cleaning up at St Charles Borromeo Seminary.

Each of these men is a bishop. Each bishop, whether or not he's also a cardinal, is fully authorized and empowered to investigate the seminary in his diocese.

[nickcarraway]

One cardinal, who spoke to the Los Angeles Times anonymously that the US cardinals would make a forceful argument for the removal of Boston's Cardinal Bernard Law.

This is laughable. Does anyone not know which cardinal this was, who has a direct line to the L.A. Times? Why did he even bother making it anonymous when anyone interested knows who he is?

[vannrox]

Q:What Really Happened in Rome?
A:Nothing.

[Canticle_of_Deborah]

Hmmm. Perhaps the Pope is going to give them one last chance to get their acts together before he rolls some heads. Law doesn't deserve another chance. Perhaps in a few months he will 'offer' his resignation.

[Dajjal]

I nominate Eugene Cardinal Clark.