Pope John Paul II, with the able assistance of Josef Cardinal Ratzinger and B. (?) Cardinal Gantin did the honors on SSPX in 1988 in Ecclesia Dei. They are already declared excommunicated schismatics, despite their defense that: "OOOOOHHH, don't you see? It was an emergency! If old Marcel had not spit in the face of John Paul II by defying his direct orders and consecrating the Econe 4, we SSPXers would not have gotten our way. I mean, we had no choice! The pope was openly disobeying Marcel. What else could we do???"
Can we create a Catholic Hierarchical Action Committee to which Catholics can contribute toward the end of electing bornaCatholic at the next conclave??? I like bornacatholic's style in that last paragraph particularly. It has a real papal ring to it. Even if bornacatholic is a married layman (bac is a man, yes???), we can figure out a rationale for the next conclave to get around that rule.
Visualize: "We announce to you a great joy! We have a pope! B. A. Catholic who has chosen to be known as Pope Torquemada in honor of the first saint to be summarily canonized after the new Holy Father's election. The Holy Father wants you to know that all curial resignations have been accepted, that the laity will take charge of some of the critical offices. New congregations are to be created. Ninenot will head the Congregation for Membership in the Faith, no one to be listed without proof adequate to Ninenot of orthodox Catholic commitment, knowledge and zeal. The Holy Office is to be renamed the Congregation for Sacred Discipline and will be chaired by Black Elk. Executions in the traditional fashion (prolonged form after appropriate forms of inquiry and preliminary discipline shall commence on the first Friday after this announcement and trials will be held thereafter beginning in six months. Transcripts of the testimony of the deceased miscreants will be edited and admitted at trial only as ordered by the Holy Father. The Congregation for Disciplinary Engineering and Neat New Toys will be headed by Arrogant Bustard. An appropriate program of Gregorian Chant shall be provided by Desdemona who will chair the new Congregation for Sacred Music. Upon her approval of specific music, the use of such music by individual members of the Faithful shall be protected activity and, in the absence of satire or disrespect by the performer, shall exempt the performer from rack, rope, stake and probably even pit and pendulum." Watch this space for further announcements!
Any adult male Catholic can (in theory) be elected Pope.
Oh, cut it out!
Everyone here knows it's BlackElk or bust at the next conclave!
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:) A "Religion" thread with a sense of humor? It can't be!
It is Friday, after all.
Strictly speaking, ummm, I can program the music, but a proper Gregorian Chant choir is actually a schola and we ladies would not be included.
First Day...
I'd fillet Fellay
I'd give a faithful Irish Catholic from Southie five minutes to use a shillelagh on Schillebeeckx and see if Schille is silly or serious once the heat is on.
I'd let a cranky Catholic campesino tie a plow to the sorry ass of "Liberation Theology" toss-pot, Fr. Gustavo Gutiérrez,and make him turn-over 15 acres while Ol' G.G. sings "L'Internationale" in pig Latin and all the Catholic kids get to pelt him with rotten tomatoes (provided, for free, by Hugo Chavez)
I'd send Fr. Robert Nugent to a Dude Ranch on Brokeback Mountain telling him Popes don't let their cowboys grow-up to be boyfriends and that unless he repents, and I mean Pronto, Tonto, he's just another goat playing grab-ass with Satan .
VOTF would be given the Phone number to the local Episcopalian Church and told to bugger-off
Then, I 'd break for 6:00 am Mass
Hey I wanna be in charge of somthin! How about the Congregation of Pseudo-Catholic Movements?
I am letting my subscription to Chronicles run out - for obvious reasons - but I gotta tell you about this latest issue "New words for old."
Bill Buckley is savagely and insanely attacked in the issue. Tom Fleming "Lost in translation" article cites a column by Buckley and concludes "Mr. Buckley's reality is of a piece with Mr. Bush's facts. Both are subjective mental states that can only be analyzed by speech therapists and abnormal psychologists. The bizarre speech of pundits and politicans reveals more than ignorance; Sloppy imagery, mixed metaphors, and confused syntax are indications of a mental disturbance that is somewhere between imbecility and dishonesty."
Sobran, predictably, attacks Buckley in an article "Conservatism's Ancient Mariner" in which he (after a few paragraphs praising Buckley's humor) derides Bill as, essentially, a faux conservative who took his marching orders from Mr and Mrs Podhoretz (Again with the Jews). Of course, Sobarn has written the same damn article about Bill repeatedly - several times in the Wanderer, in his own "Sobran's" and in the "Catholic Family News" He can't let it go.
PJB is another old horse recently welcomed into the Chronicles We hate Bush and Israel sucks Stable
Is it any wonder I am one of scores who are just letting their subscriptions run out?
BTW, the old BBC pundit, Srdja Trifkovic was recently (six weeks ago?) warning us that the President of Syria was an independent we could work with but the bad old Bushies were working behind the scenes to unhorse him. Trifkovic is often right but he sometimes makes insane statements in his "The American Interest" articles. And, need it be said it was in the American interest to, essentially, abandon Israel?
What is it with the "Paleos" and their antipathy towards the Jews and Israel?
Again, I know this is WAY off the topic but I just had to post something about this craziness.
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