Posted on 11/19/2018 7:39:11 AM PST by ebb tide
How long can they deny the obvious?
As I walked outside the hotel in Baltimore where the bishops gathered last week for their semiannual conference, I noticed a couple of bishops taking a smoke break. One was puffing a cigar, the other a cigarette. I overheard one say to the other: “What do you think of the conference so far?” The other responded: “Long and tiresome.”
Inside, the opinion wasn’t much better. As I sat at the café near the lobby, I overheard an adviser to one of the bishops fume: “There is nothing to show for this conference!” He was furious that even the toothless motion at the end of the conference — which merely asked Pope Francis to release McCarrick-related documents as soon as possible — failed. Cardinal Donald Wuerl, who stands to lose the most in credibility from the release of those documents, had dispatched proxies to kill the motion, such as Bishop George Murry of Ohio.
Wuerl served as a puppetmaster at the conference, yanking on this or that string attached to the backs of bishops who owe their elevations to his influence on the Congregation for Bishops. After the conference concluded, I saw Cardinal Daniel DiNardo, the ostensible head of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), sitting alone on a couch in the lobby waiting for his ride to the airport. I asked him why Wuerl and Cardinal Blasé Cupich, both of whom sit on the Congregation for Bishops, the body which officially ordered DiNardo to block any USCCB votes on the abuse scandal, left him in the dark concerning the Vatican’s intentions.
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And excellent column by Msgr. Charles Pope.
George is a pit bull on this. He has been relentless - and that is what’s required.
I think that the whole mess is best summed up by Arthur Brooks in this article though:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/06/opinion/couples-therapy-catholic-church.html
?? Did you mean Neumyer?
Correcting spelling
?? Did you mean Neumayr?
Mega Whoops. I had just read this article by Msgr. Charles Pope in the NCR and confused it with Neumayr’s article that was posted.
http://www.ncregister.com/blog/msgr-pope/the-pope-owns-this
I liked Nuemayr’s article as well.
Well, I guess we now know why Pope Frankie left Wuerl in place as acting Archbishop. To kill THIS.
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