Posted on 05/27/2021 6:42:54 PM PDT by marshmallow
More than 60 American bishops have signed a letter to Archbishop José Gomez, the president of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), urging him not to go forward with plans for a full discussion of the challenge posed by prominent Catholics who oppose Church teaching on the right to life.
The Pillar news site, which broke the story of the bishops’ letter, reports that these bishops say the conference lacks a "high standard of consensus" on the question of Eucharistic coherence.
The letter in effect says that the USCCB should shelve a discussion that the conference has already approved for the agenda of its next meeting.
Among the prominent prelates who signed the letter, Pillar reports, are Cardinals Wilton Gregory, Blase Cupich, and Sean O'Malley. Cardinal Timothy Dolan originally expressed support but then withdrew after seeing the text of the letter, Pillar says.
Cardinal Cupich had reportedly lobbied the Vatican to intervene on the question, prompting the recent letter from Cardinal Luis Ladaria, the prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, saying that the USCCB should not issue any unless the American bishops could reach a strong consensus— an outcome that seems highly unlikely in light of their clear public divisions.
Although Cardinal Ladaria did warn the American hierarchy that a strong statement could be divisive, he did not suggest that the USCCB should postpone discussion of the issue. The Vatican official also observed that individual bishops are free to enact their own policies regarding Eucharistic coherence, without waiting for approval by the episcopal conference.
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The destroyers of the American Catholic Church - Cupich, Gregory, and Dolan.
“The destroyers of the American Catholic Church - Cupich, Gregory, and Dolan.”
Well, yes.
Plus all the gutless wonders who signed the letter.
Closeted sodomites?
At least Dolan would not sign once he read it.
O’Malley is very bad, and we can probably guess the rest. Stowe, Tobin, McElroy...
In the past I would have been offended by your casting of such aspersions, but given the history of American bishops, it is a fair question.
Certainly not believers in the Catholic Church’s teachings.
It’s been a fair question for a long, long while. “Smoke of Satan” etc. https://www.amazon.com/Goodbye-Good-Men-Liberals-Corruption/dp/0895261448
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