Posted on 11/05/2004 7:37:55 PM PST by Land of the Irish
Next Pope to be Portuguese?
While the Portuguese Church has been discreet over the topic over who will succeed Pope John Paul II, it has become increasingly evident that Lisbon Cardinal D. José da Cruz Policarpo has a growing number of supporters who believe he should be Pope number 263, it was revealed this week by the Correio da Manhã.
The latest example of the 68-year old Lisbon Bishop’s growing favouritism comes from the French magazine Paris-Match, which, among 14 candidates, highlight six, one of them being D. José Policarpo.
In addition, the US publication, The National Catholic Reporter, has also forecast that D. Policaro could emerge as the consensual candidate from Ibero-Latin-Americas block.
In recent years, several meetings and conferences organised by the Vatican have been held in Lisbon, with analysts confessing this could be due to the extremely favourable light in which D. Policarpo is seen in the Catholic world.
The Lisbon Cardinal has a number of advantages counting in his favour, such as the fact that he his one of the longest serving bishops (he was ordained in 1978). Other features in his favour include the excellent relations he enjoys with bishops in Africa and South America, along with support received from so-called intellectual French Catholics and modernist wings of the Church. However, most significantly, he is also seen as the man who could serve as a bridge to close widening gaps in certain sectors of the Church.
A notable disadvantage is the fact that D. Policarpo is a smoker, which could be looked upon negatively in the English-speaking Catholic world. Having never had his own parish, and a certain lack in fluency in languages also count against him.
In another related story, the Lisbon Cardinal had his speech interrupted and was insulted by a youth while addressing thousands at the Notre Dame in Paris.
The young man rose to the altar, where he called D. Policarpo a “heretic”. The youth was rapidly overpowered, but was later seen distributing pamphlets with other youths that included photographs of Hindus worshiping at the Fátima Sanctuary.
The young man is reported to be part of a group of Catholic extremists that has been suspended by the Vatican.
Ooh -- ooh! Go get 'em, goombah!
I like to see an Italian with a fighting spirit.
The rampant apostasy throughout the "Counterfeit Church," as one perceptive commentator calls the Novus Ordo, makes the charge that traditional Catholics are "schismatic," "not in communion with Rome," or "in need of reconciliation" not only absurd, but downright laughable. All men need forgiveness for their transgressions. However, the shambles that the Church currently finds itself in is not the fault of traditional Catholics, but is an ungodly manifestation of the New Religion concocted by the present crop of Modernist prelates and their forefathers. It is Cardinal Dario Castrillon Hoyos and his fellow bishops, including those of the city of Rome, who need to seek forgiveness, not so much from this world, but, more importantly, from the next, for the incalculable harm that they have brought to Almighty God's once Holy Church.
The harm produced by the Novus Ordo knows no limits.
It is imperative for the average Catholic to protect his soul from the pernicious influence of the Novus Ordo at all times, especially on Sundays.
Modernism -- a term being abused these days. And why should we be surprised? After all it is a tenet of Modernism as defined by Pope Saint Pius X in Pascendi, 1907, to take Catholic terminology and use the words over and over in a warped sense, positivisitcally, so as to attribute some other meaning to them, so as to instill confusion and discord into the minds of the reader and/or listener. But what greater abuse could there be than to attribute not just a DIFFERENT meaning but the OPPOSITE meaning to the words? Such is the method of diabolical disorientation. Such is the way of the devil.
What exactly does it mean to "adhere to a schism?"
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