[Anitius Severinus Boethius]

I truly believe Arinze will be elected the next Pope. I wonder if all of these offended Catholics will suddenly be proud that the Pope spoke at their Commencement.

[RAT Patrol]

Ping

[Gman]

{Thus, we see Anglican bishops from Africa standing against Western apostasy by ordaining American clergy who will uphold historic Christian teaching on faith and morals.}

That would be us...

http://www.anglicanmissioninamerica.org

[Steve_Seattle]

I continue to be amazed how homosexuality continues to be treated by liberals almost as if it were preferable to heterosexuality, as conferring a status of superiority. As for a theologian walking offstage during the speech, that does not surprise me - liberal Catholic theologians are among the most brain-dead people on this planet - complete and utter morons.

[evets]

Robert Ashley, news director at Dallas radio station KHVN-AM, asked Cardinal Arinze: "So you can still get to heaven without accepting Jesus?"

Cardinal Arinze answered: "Expressly, yes (he laughs with the audience)."

Dallas Morning news

[Defiant]

At my Georgetown graduation, we got Mother Theresa as the commencement speaker. We expected her to speak of her work with the poor, and to remind us to always remember the less fortunate as we advanced through our careers. We got a very long anti-abortion speech. I am anti-abortion, but the speech on commencement day was kind of a downer. Now I look back on it and think that I was lucky to hear from Mother Theresa in person while she was alive. Back then, I was wishing we got Jeanne Kirkpatrick or Ronald Reagan.

Georgetown is a school that lets in students from all religions. Catholics are no longer a vast majority of the students as they once were, and may even be a minority. A school that has that demographic should probably not have a Catholic theologian as the speaker, because it disrespects the tradition of those who are not Catholic. If Georgetown were still a Catholic institution, I would have no problem with this guy speaking. But it's not--it's an institution run by Jesuits but the Catholic influence is minimal, a couple theology courses and that's it.

[SMEDLEYBUTLER]

Nice to see that Colson has added the word Catholic to his vocabulary. It wasn't part of it when he described the funeral Mass of Catholic David Bloom.

[Vic3O3]

Hey RP, have any idea how to email Card. Arinze to show our support for his stance?