US Cardinal soon to be outed as homosexual...Which one?

O'Reilly, NY Post, The Diocese Report, others... ^

[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"?

[maryz]

That college class pretty much killed any interest I might have had in modern theology (I'm really more of a literature person anyway -- up to the 17th century). And I came to despise Tillich on other grounds: I read a book of his sermons once, and liked them very much, but later read that this was what he gave the peasants (I always identify with the peasants) so they wouldn't know what he was really getting at.

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

"too smooth and suave"

Uh...it wasn't this Msgr. McSweeney who has been covering for homosexuals on MSNBC periodically by any chance?

[aculeus]

But in a nutshell, I don't know have any idea who they wrote about.

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

The first theology prof. wheeled out for the circus of my undergrad years was obsessed with Cambridge "Death of God" jargon and Latin American Liberation theology. There's nothing really wrong with reading such howlers, but, as with Batman or Superman comicbooks, it all has to be kept in some mythic perspective. The liberal-progressive parousia in modern theology has failed to materialize many benefits at any rate.

[Canticle_of_Deborah]

I think it might have been McSweeney. Does he fit that description? Is he straight? I haven't been watching the other channels so I couldn't put the face to the name but I do remember that particular guy. He was too smooth for me. I didn't trust him. He struck me as being pretty liberal too.

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

Was he grinning maniacly with a set of polished caps, bobbing his head affirmatively, and wiggling occasionally with deliberate gestures of Dale Carnegieesque public-speaking body English? I think it's a Hairclub job with that Jack Lord-like pile on top as well.

[maryz]

The liberal-progressive parousia in modern theology has failed to materialize many benefits at any rate.

Ah, you have a gift for understatement!

Batman and Superman are at least paradigms of justice: there are good guys and bad guys, and the good guys win and the bad guys lose, and it's all very satisfying!

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

Whereas Catwoman, the Penguin, Joker, Riddler, King Tut, and Mr. Freeze seem more like the preferred heroes for the "Death of God" and Marxist liberation gang?

[DreamWeaver]

What the gay cardinal does won't hurt you.

That's if your not a kid and he doesn't take a liking to you, and that's if you put aside the fact he will steal your soul.

[maryz]

Exactly! Along with Milton's Satan in some schools of criticism (not mine).

[Canticle_of_Deborah]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! He did have a strange grin/smirk, too perfect teeth, and weird body language. He was sitting back in the chair with one arm resting on the back of the chair. It was too 'snakey, 70's cool guy'. That's the best way I can describe it. I think his hair looked dyed too.

He seemed to like the camera and publicity.

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

You know, it would not be that hard to imagine The Joker or The Riddler weaving the Enneagram, Jungian dream analysis, or modern biblical criticism into their criminal jokes.

I'd actually like to see Batman and Robin chasing, say, Paul Shanley and, perhaps, Cardinal Law.

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

They run these PR and media training courses where they teach people how to keep nodding your head (like you agree with whatever the other person is saying, even if you don't). McSweeney nods his head affirmatively about every two seconds even when there is nothing to affirm. He used to work for "The Christophers" in NY and had been on their TV appearances. Now he is a religion "commentator" for MSNBC, I believe. Alan Keyes has had him on several times. He keeps denying that the scandals have anything to do with homosexuality. DUH? He grins widely and rather awkwardly even when the topic at hand requires no smile. It looks weird and...creepy.

[cardinal]

As a member of Free Republic, I wanted to raise my head to declare my screen name represents the beautiful Cardinals (birds) that grace my yard, flitting and "clicking," nesting and feeding and carrying on with their very own genetic programs which properly produce PROGENY!!!AMEN

[Canticle_of_Deborah]

So I take it then he wouldn't be "the studly heterosexual that's been making the TV rounds"?

[Palladin]

LOL! I was just saying to my wife at dinnertime that the St. Louis Cardinals ought to change their name, so as not to be confused with a bunch of fat old chickenhawks!

[Zorrito]

This is easy. It's Cardinal McCarrick without a doubt.

[victim soul]

I second your nomination.

[born yesterday]

If the sinner proclaims sin as God-like and Christian, how can you 'love' him?

[sinkspur]

You never seem to have anything positive to say about any conservative prelate. Why is that?

I don't have anything positive to say about liberal prelates either.

Bishops act more like CEO's than spiritual shepherds. They have little regard for their priests, and, the feeling is mutual from the priests' side.

Most of the faithful have little contact with bishops, and when they do, as in the current crisis, they come away feeling these guys are nothing but arrogant perfumed princes who don't care what they think.

They're right. Most bishops could care less about the opinions of their flock, evidenced by how rarely they make themselves available for frank discussions with them.