Posted on 05/20/2002 7:49:43 PM PDT by Polycarp
On Fox tonight O'Reilly said a cardinal is about to be outed as an active homosexual. Rumor has it Bishop Bruskiwiecz sent a letter telling this Cardinal to "resign, or else..."
NY POST: WHICH American cardinal recently disclosed to insiders a confidential letter he received from a bishop urging the cardinal to resign for the good of the church? The cardinal is being urged to quit before his much-gossiped-about homosexual indiscretions are uncovered by the media . . . WHICH ranking priest of a major diocese predicted over a boozy dinner the other night that if the media outs this particular cardinal, "then the dominoes will really start to fall"?
At a parish I used to attend, the pastor once asked the congregation flippantly some years ago how many knew what Benediction was. About 1/3 held up their hands. He laughed (with no real intention to revive the practice). Give places like that 30 more years and 1/3 will know what a crucifix is.
"I have never had sexual relations with any man, woman, or child in all my seventy years. Never!!"
The quote was given totally out of context and without coaxing. Perhapth The Lady Protesteth Too Muth.
"Cardinal Bernard Law loves his red hat. He loves the power that comes with his position. He is ambitious, and he is determined to hold on to his job despite the embarrassment and pain he has caused his church and his Catholic brethren. Law is no different than a Gary Condit in his thinking. Both men were responsible for causing other people much personal pain. Both men refused to give up power. Condit's was taken away from him, but Law continues to reign."
All the great saints wished to live to see this day."
Amen.
Your brother in Christ.
Gosh, I hope so! The loss of the Latin Mass was the outward and visible sign of the doomed and self-destructing state of the Roman Catholic church. I stuck with it for all these years, now only to find out it's being run by a bunch of homosexual perverts. All the old anti-Catholic calumnies are being proved true, by the priests themselves!
This is a disgrace and a disaster. I really, truly don't even know what religion I am, for the first time in my life.
Who needed this after 9-11? My fairly anti-catholic hubby thinks it is all related, which would make it Armageddon I suppose, which in fact it may well be.
Ok, was that rambling and raving enough for all? Sorry about that chief!
Right! It's a fixed, relatively small set of words. Also, Church Latin (or medieval Latin) is much easier than Classical Latin to the speaker of most modern languages because it was moving in an analytic direction, i.e., less dependence on the case endings to carry so much and more dependence on word order (not as much as modern English, of course) and more use of prepositions.
You are a Christian whose leaders have failed and disappointed you. That changes nothing about who you are and what you believe.
A priest at any level who has broken his vow of celibacy should be sanctioned by the Church. A homosexual priest who has remained celibate should be left alone.
This being said, the Cardinal who has not remained celibate and is currently an "active" homosexual is no true cardinal; he is a true hypocrite.
A homosexual priest who has remained celibate should be left alone.Any priest who has encouraged others to indulge his urge to act out sexually with a member of the same sex should be shown the door, irrespective of whether that priest has done so himself.
I agree with you. I also believe that 'His Church' may, in the future, no longer be identified with Rome, but with Him.
That anti-traditionalist Catholic monk named Martin Luther tried to 'Reform' the Catholic Church back to Christ's teachings. Failing in convincing the 'church fathers', his continued 'protestings' got him associated with the 'Reformation' and those Protestant types.
The 'fellowship of believers' are known by their love, not their building or hierarchy.(i.e., Mother Theresa--having nothing and yet having everything, as compared to those who have everything and have nothing).
Blessings from your brother in 'His' church.
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