Posted on 12/01/2021 7:38:30 PM PST by marshmallow
Cardinal Angelo Scola celebrated his 80th birthday on Nov. 7 and consequently lost the right to vote in the next conclave. At the same time, The Catholic University of America Press published the English edition of his biographical interview book, Betting on Freedom: My Life in the Church, written with the Italian journalist Luigi Geninazzi.
In 1991, St. John Paul II appointed him bishop of Grosseto, a small Italian diocese, and then rector of the Pontifical Lateran University in 1995. In 2002, the pope named him patriarch of Venice, followed by cardinal in 2003. Pope Benedict XVI transferred Cardinal Scola to Milan in 2011 and, at his wish, Francis accepted his resignation in 2017.
In this exclusive interview with America’s Vatican correspondent, the cardinal spoke about some of the topics that he develops in depth in the book, including his close relationship with Popes John Paul II and Benedict XVI, his joyful time as a bishop over 26 years and his concern at the decline of the Christian faith in Europe.
Significantly, he strongly defended Pope Francis against attacks from within the church and emphasized that “the pope is the pope,” stating that to attack the pope is to do harm to the church.
On Pope Francis’ election
As cardinal, he participated in the conclaves of 2005 and 2013 and, in this interview, revealed these two experiences “had a mystical dimension for me.” He said he felt the Holy Spirit at work.
“In the first conclave, the figure of Ratzinger stood out in a very clear way, due to the great friendship and collaboration he had with John Paul II,” Cardinal Scola said. “I strongly felt he should be elected knowing his great humility. He showed this when he came out on the central balcony for the first time and presented.......
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LET’S GO FRANCIS!
Sounds kinda like the response of the money changers in the Temple.
Sorry. But Catholics are allowed to observe, think, come to honest conclusions and speak freely. Almost all of this pope’s pronouncements are of a political nature and almost none have been ex cathedra. Historically when a pope speaks and acts politically, the response has not just been harsh or disrespectful speech. There have actually been bloody wars.
What would Clement I say?
Or is he? A formal heretic ceases to be a pope, if he ever was one.
Frankie is nothing more than a low-life scumbag Marxist thug. And I’ll be more than happy say it to his face.
They attack him, because the "pope" does harm to the church you old fool.
Yet wasn’t Pope Honorius I later anathematized by the church?
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