Posted on 04/11/2005 10:35:09 AM PDT by donbosco74
Protocol is meaningless in the Vatican or anywhere else in the Church today. If they wanted to change it, they would've.
Law was also the one responsible for delaying the CCC's publication in English because he was fighting for Inclusive Language.
Bernard Law was also the dude that wanted the pro-lifers to stop demonstrating outside of clinics after the murder of Dr. Gunn. That tells you that Law thought they were the cause and that babies should be sacrificed in order to preserve the "peace."
As far as Weakland, Symons and all the rest of the delinquents and reprobates, because they got away due to the connivance of JPII and the Vatican isn't reason that Law shouldn't be pummelled until he exiles himself into a monastery for life.
Oh my heart aches for him, not.
He was once the Archbishop of the preeminent diocese of the United States, now he's the equivalent of a parish priest.
And Our Lord provided him with enormous graces to fulfill that task faithfully.
It's a daily humiliation.
Compared to what? Being sodomized? I don't think so. Tell him to offer it up.
And believe it or not, Bernard Law does not have horns or a forked tale.
No, but the one he serves may. According to some, who seem to know these things.
Before a few years ago, he had a long tenure of respectable service to the Church.
Not everyone thought so:
"Bernard Law is not a conservative. He has one interest in life and that's Bernard Law."- Fr. Malachi Martin, in an interview in 1996.
He failed miserably in his duty, but so did many of his confreres. Most of them have sinned, but only one of them has had to pay.
So, because we do not have perfect justice we should strive for less perfect justice?
The guy selling hotdogs on the street corner on campus knows who Bernard Law is, and his children's children will probably know enough to spit on the man's memory.
He's got a lot more than that to be worried about:
"And whosoever shall scandalize one of these little ones that believe in me; it were better for him that a millstone were hanged around his neck, and he were cast into the sea." Mark 9.41
Do you have any idea how much damage was done? Not only were the bodies and the minds of the victims harmed, but far worse, many of them and their family members were so scandalized that they lost their faith, some may never return.
If law was really repentant, he would gladly accept going to jail or a remote monastery to do penance in reparation for all the damage he's caused, to the individuals souls and to the Church for the rest of his life.
I gotta tell you. Dwelling on Cardinal Law's sin and how best to exact punishment for it is not healthy. It's not good for the Church, it's not good for anybody. It's torturous and destructive for everyone involved. Perhaps he deserves it, the rest of the Church does not.
Why are we dwelling on Card. Law's actions? Simply because the Church has not done anything about him. He's a destructive force within the Church. To give him a pass and pretend that everything is hunky dory now is ridiculous.
It's not our rebuke of him that is destructive. It's the heirarchy elevation of him to the center of the Church that is destructive.
Throw him in a monastery for life. He doesn't have that much time left, it may be the only way to save souls. Including his.
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