[frogjerk]

Keep fighting the good fight Archbishop Chaput!

[uncbob]

Cardinal Cottier’s essay gives witness to his own generous spirit. I was struck in particular by his praise for President Obama’s “humble realism.”

Talk about DELUSIONAL --Anybody that thinks Obama is humble needs a brain transplant

[NYer]

Ping!

[Kolokotronis]

Archbishop Charles is well known for his political positions and his attempts to justify his own brand of secular politics with what he presents as Latin Church theology. Sadly for the American Latin Church, this very high profile prelate, whose opinions are surprisingly parochial for a hierarch of a universal particular church, is considered a true theological lightwieght.

[Kolokotronis]

Archbishop Charles is well known for his political positions and his attempts to justify his own brand of secular politics with what he presents as Latin Church theology. Sadly for the American Latin Church, this very high profile prelate, whose opinions are surprisingly parochial for a hierarch of a universal particular church, is considered a true theological lightweight.

[Campion]

But defense of the unborn child is a demand of social justice. There is no “social justice” if the youngest and weakest among us can be legally killed. Good programs for the poor are vital, but they can never excuse this fundamental violation of human rights.

Needs to be repeated, daily if not more often.

[ELS]

Il Foglio article:
L’ascia del vescovo pellerossa

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

Chaput:"Regrettably and unintentionally, Cardinal Cottier’s articulate essay undervalues the gravity of what happened at Notre Dame. Thus, the fierce debate in American Catholic circles this spring over the Notre Dame honor for Mr. Obama was not finally about partisan politics. It was about serious issues of Catholic belief, identity and witness – triggered by Mr. Obama’s views -- which Cardinal Cottier, writing from outside the American context, may have misunderstood."

Nice. European modernists sometimes miss the nuances of American politics and culture. Perhaps not being a native English speaker and not being familiar with South Chicago and Harvard affirmative action con artists who follow Sual Alinsky's Rules for Radicals, the cardinal may not have picked up on when Obama was smirking and being insincere in his Notre Dame address. But surely he should have noticed the banality of using a Notre Dame commencement to promote abortion and embryonic stem cell research on consecrated ground. They might want to give Cardinal Cottier an MRI just to check and be sure everything is working OK between the ears.

[Salvation]

for later

[Antoninus]

Based on the status of Catholicism in most European countries, one would think that their prelates would be the *last* ones anyone would listen to on such issues. When it comes to moral gravitas, they are almost completely exhausted. Rome will have to bring in the SSPX eventually because no one else will even claim to be Catholic by the time the liberal European bishops are done.