I posted this picture a few months ago on FR!
I am There There!
H/T to freeper Heart-Rest for the link. Please keep ALL of the cardinals in your prayers. Live coverage on EWTN at 11 am ET today as we pray along with the cardinals. May the Holy Spirit guide them.
By most counts, he is a long shot..he didn't even make the "Sweet Sistine"
I will pray for him...
Yes.
I’m not at all Roman Catholic, but it’s funny how liberals are seeking to have one of their own installed.
I vote “No” on the guy who wears a paisley dress and feathered hat. My 11 year-old son looked over my shoulder and immediately said “Who’s she?”
I could just see that picture plastered on news shows all over the planet as they try to explain how the Church is getting past the pedophile scandal.
Yikes.
This comment from an x-catholic who left the church because too many of the priest around here NEVER gave sermons in church or speak out in public about abortion, homosexuality..... If it's not made clear how to live and what is right and wrong, what good are they? They do not take action against the Catholic politicians/leaders who lead people into believing sin is not sin by their inaction. Ex-communicate the pelosi's....and watch the people who maybe haven't left the church, but don't attend anymore come home as the church has been asking. Al Gore's rally at a Catholic Church helped me decide that I was following the blind. The church I was baptized in would let a democrat speak at their festival, but would not allow a republican to speak. I pray that the church puts in a man who will stand against evil. We also see this in too many of the Protestant churches. It's as if many religious leaders don't really fear or believe in God anymore. God help us all!
Two thoughts, one pro-, one con-:
The Church in America is the epicenter and chief promoter of the feminist and homosexualist heresies. The Church in the world will not be free of these until the Church in America is purged. Presuming the Holy Spirit concurs, only an American can get to the bottom of the mess the American bishops have created.
OR
The Church is a worldwide Church, and is strong in most places (Europe and America excepted). A Pope from the developing world could condemn, and then basically ignore, the American heresy and build the future of the Church elsewhere.
In 1978 the cardinals slapped communism in the face by selecting a cardinal from Poland. In 2013, I would love to see history repeat and secularism/relativism be slapped in the face by the election of cardinal Burke.
They’ve gotta change the vestments. He looks like an old lady in a Communist gardening club in that photo.
Way off base. Ain’t happening!
“Burke called the US Democratic party “the party of death” and accused Barack Obama of being “anti-life and anti-family.””
Sounds like when John Paul called out the Soviet Union.
To this outsider, Burke sounds like he would be a superb choice. But at that point, it’s open warfare within the Catholic Church.
An American for Pope?
Raymond Leo Burke (born June 30, 1948) is an American Cardinal[1] of the Roman Catholic Church.[2] He is the current Cardinal Prefect of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura, having previously served as Archbishop of St. Louis (2003–2008) and Bishop of La Crosse (1994–2003).
bio at wikipedia — http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Leo_Burke
Burke is who I'd like to see them select but I thought everyone had ruled him out right away.
“Burke called the US Democratic party ‘the party of death” and accused Barack Obama of being “anti-life and anti-family.’”
Sounds good to me!
Cardinal Burke is my favorite — I’d be delighted and relieved if he became Pope.
Regards,
But the main reason is tv. Dolan projects better than any other of his kind on cable and can handle the minute absurdities of the MSM.
I know no Pope has ever hailed from a superpower in the modern era, but no superpower has ever been run by a bitter secularist before, either.
We hope and pray that this would come to pass!
I’m not claiming to be special and I hope I’m not but sometime in the summer I was convicted to start praying for the pope in earnest and from there for the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church. Then came the prayers for Mary to show us her Son and to pray for the Church. Then prayers for our holy priests and then prayers for our not so holy priests, because God can make them holy.
I couldn’t wait to pray and sometimes I felt like I couldn’t pray fast enough to pray what I had to pray.