Dang straight!
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"?
Well, what do you do, as a seminary rector preparing men for a Novus Ordo world, when none of 48 men at your seminary are interested in attending a Tridentine Mass? Force them to attend one?
1. I remain to be convinced that, in fact, none of the seminarians are interested in Tridentine Mass.
2. I would be interested to find out if this was the real reason (or primary one) why Bruskewitz pulled his seminarians.
3. I wonder where the deep harm is in preparing your priests to conduct Novus Ordo and the 1962 mass?
Granted that most will use the Novus Ordo during their ministry - but it seems odd that no attention whatsoever is given to one of the two main valid mass liturgies authorized by the Roman church.
A seminary is a community. Breaking them into "Tridentines" and "Novus Ordos" wouldn't seem to foster community worship.
I do not follow how allowing some room for Tridentine Mass necessarily breaks the seminarians up into two groups.
I'm getting the real story.
I didn't share other details of their encounter with Bruskewitz. I'm trying to be charitable.
Let's just say they're not going to miss their yearly encounters with the good bishop.
I see your agenda against anti-traditional Catholicism appears undiminished.
Actually, I'm not against anti-traditional Catholicism.
Hate the sin; love the sinner.....Yeah.
But don't make hime a priest, for Christ's sake!
Did I malign him?
Somebody accused me of maligning Archbishop Eldon Curtiss of Omaha, until I posted THIS ARTICLE.
Seems that if the Church were true to its own teachings, it would remove that priest/Cardinal from his position and minister to his needs. Leaving him in a leadership role surely sends the wrong message to the faithful.
Actually, I'm not against anti-traditional Catholicism.
I am sure that you are not.
But pardon the typo just the same.
Learning about it is one thing. Being forced to worship at a Liturgy that is totally foreign is something else.
BTW, there are occasional Novus Ordo Latin liturgies at the seminary.
Interesting article on Curtiss. I had not seen that.
If it is true, I find it deeply disappointing.
The priest in question needed help. He also needed to be cashiered.
But I would give everything I own, including my own personal freedoms, to preserve the innocence of my beautiful three children and help them on the road to heaven. That is the bottom line.
Dang straight!
With luck they won't be seriously damaged by the experience.
Everyone is tempted by some vice, but what is important is how we deal with the temptations. God will not allow us to have any temptation greater than we can handle with his help. The homosexual problem in the Church really comes down to a lack of faith, prayer and spiritually by the Priests and lack of proper supervision by their superiors. Heterosexual or Homosexual, no one should be allowed to serve as a Priest, Bishop, Arch-bishop or Cardinal if they are not first faithful to their vows to God and the Church.
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