...A tillerman, be he a Mohammedan? Goodness how your poor One True Church of Christ has adopted the barbary bambinos since WFB cooly introduced Davey Jones to Our One Maker and hightailed it out of your "Christian" world.
Posted on 11/01/2014 2:15:31 PM PDT by NYer
Many Catholics today have “a strong sense that the Church is like a ship without a helm,” Cardinal Raymond Burke said in an interview with a Spanish publication.
The American cardinal, who has become a focal point for the concerns of conservative Catholics, told Vida Nueva that many people have spoken to him about their fears for the direction of the Church. “They are feeling a bit seasick because they feel the Church’s ship has lost its bearings,” he said.
Cardinal Burke stressed that “I do not wish it to seem like I am speaking out against the Pope.” Rather, he said, he wanted to express a concern that many people now feel. The cardinal observed that Pope Francis has roused enthusiasm with his call for Catholics to go out to the peripheries to preach the faith. “But we cannot go to the peripheries empty-handed,” he said.
“Faith cannot adapt to culture, but must call it to convert,” Cardinal Burke said. “We are a countercultural movement, not a popular one.”
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Ping!
That’s a much more true title than yesterday’s posted article. That one made it sound like Burke said the Church was rudderless.
Praying this is our next Pope...or the one that facilitates Benedicts return.
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Definition of HELM
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a : a lever or wheel controlling the rudder of a ship for steering; broadly : the entire apparatus for steering a ship
The problem is not that the Catholic Church has nobody at the helm, but that Evil has been allowed to take the helm.
Ditto for all too many other faiths.
Did Diogenes really write this? Or is that a mistake?
It appears to have come from Catholic World News, not Diogenes.
Pope Benedict is too old to come back. I remember reading some time back that Pope Francis says he could be Pope for another 2 or 3 years. He is not young either.
I know what a helm is. I was referring to a previous article that apparently did not.
I agree, the Holy Father is confusing the heck out of everyone. He talks too much.
VATICAN CITY (RNS) American Cardinal Raymond Burke, the feisty former archbishop of St. Louis who has emerged as the face of the opposition to Pope Francis’ reformist agenda, likened the Roman Catholic Church to “a ship without a rudder” in a fresh attack on the pope’s leadership. In an interview with the Spanish Catholic weekly Vida Nueva, published Thursday (Oct. 30), Burke insisted he was not speaking out against the pope personally but raising concern about his leadership.
“Many have expressed their concerns to me. At this very critical moment, there is a strong sense that the church is like a ship without a rudder,” Burke said. “Now, it is more important than ever to examine our faith, have a healthy spiritual leader and give powerful witness to the faith.”
Cardinal Raymond L. Burke, prefect of the Supreme Court of the Apostolic Signature, leaves the concluding session of the extraordinary Synod of Bishops on the family at the Vatican Oct. 18. Photo by Paul Haring, courtesy of Catholic News Service
Burke is the current head of the Vatican’s highest court known as the Apostolic Signatura, but he said recently he is about to be demoted. There is speculation he will be made patron of the Order of Malta, a largely ceremonial post.
“I have all the respect for the Petrine ministry and I do not want to seem like I am speaking out against the pope,” he said in the interview. “I would like to be a master of the faith, with all my weaknesses, telling a truth that many currently perceive.”
“They are feeling a bit seasick because they feel the church’s ship has lost its way,” he added. Burke has expressed an uncompromising stance on keeping the ban on Communion for Catholics who divorce and remarry without an annulment, and is one of five conservative cardinals who aired their views in a new book, “Remaining in the Truth of Christ,” released on the eve of the bishops’ blockbuster synod in early October.
When the synod signaled a more welcoming tone to gay and lesbian Catholics, Burke publicly accused the global gathering of bias and was among those who pushed for a less conciliatory approach in the final report. Burke had previously said that Catholic families should not expose children to the “evil” of homosexuality by inviting a gay son home for Christmas with his partner.
In his latest interview, Burke said the church was “the pillar of marriage” and challenged the pope’s revolutionary “Who am I to judge?” remark on gay people. “The acts must be judged; I do not think that the pope thinks differently. They are sinful and unnatural. The pope never said we can find positive elements in them. It is impossible to find positive elements in an evil act.”
H.H. Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI: “Cardinal Raymond Burke is one of the great cardinals of the Church.”
St. Catherine of Siena, "We've had enough of exhortations to be silent! Cry out with a hundred thousand tongues. I see that the world is rotten because of silence."
“Cardinal Raymond Burke is one of the great cardinals of the Church.” >>>
yep, and I bet obama thinks the same as the diocese of St. Louis, MO participated in the CCHD, I bet every communist progressive just love these “orthodox” bishops; they’re laughing all the way to the bank...
Obama and his co-workers just love orthodox bishops.
http://www.dcpchicago.org/site/epage/86643_868.htm
the catholic bishops are listed as #1 at obama’s former employer...”viva communist supporting bishops” is the chant at these progressive dens of inequity.
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