Posted on 04/18/2002 9:07:57 PM PDT by Pokey78
Edited on 04/23/2004 12:04:24 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Let's get it over with. Those Catholics who think the Episcopalians took the right path with priestesses and birth control should follow their consciences and leave. Bishops included.
Sorry, my latin is poor. What does "Ex Corde Ecclesiae" mean?
Who are the leading contendors for the next pope? Isn't one of them of Jewish heritage and another an ultra-liberal Italian? Isn't there a chance we'll have the first Black (African) Pope? John Paul II was quite a surprise, and I think history will be kind to him. I believe that the Malachi prophecy says the next pope will be "the glory of the olive" .. whatever that means. I think the election of the Pope is an amazing ritual and am excited that, god willing, I will get to see it.
What does that mean? Has the Pope been setting himself on fire?
Like many older institutions (the Federal Reserve Bank) the power of the Church is badly skewed towards the East. This means the cardinals tend to come from cities and cultures that are aggressivly liberal. It's a Blue Zone heirarchy. Is it a Blue Zone church? The West seems relatively more Protestant, but aren't states like New Mexico and Texas heavily Catholic?
Confidentiality agreements were forced on plaintiffs. The defense lawyers make the offer: take the money and shut up or we go to court where your son will be slimed by our lawyers as a liar (or worse) and you may end up with nothing.
Such agreements are insisted on by the defendants for many reasons but number one is to keep the news away from other prospective plaintiffs.
The families are victims. They are not to blame.
Blame the perverts and the perverts' lawyers.
Just asking
WHICH high church official (not from N.Y.), among those summoned to meet with Pope John Paul II at the Vatican, might be cruising Rome's gay bars this week? Church insiders are taking bets on when the tidal wave of dirty clergy secrets is going to knock down the hotblooded holy man's closet door. Although he is not believed to have a problem with altar-boy types, all the hunky, young priests he's surrounded himself with for years weren't chosen solely for their pastoral skills.
A practicing gay Cardinal?
Wow!
I don't know, but it was the name of this encyclical on Catholic colleges and universities.
One of the most important recommendations contained in the encyclical is that bishops appoint all professors of theology at Catholic universities.
This recommendation was greeted with howls of protest from "Catholic" university presidents and widespread indifference by the U.S. bishops when it was first issued. Since then the bishops have proceeded to do absolutely nothing with regard to reigning in wayward theologians. Their performance in this area has been as pathetic as their treatment of the child molestation scandal.
Peggy was stretching for that one.
She also could not have been close enough to make eye contact. When my husband & I kissed his ring last fall, we did make eye contact & there was nothing "half-submerged" about his expression at all. I'll never lose the memory of his smile.
I was going to just start listing the ways in which these Bishops have publicly opposed the Pope but I wouldn't be done typing the list until - until - until, I don't know
It all started with open dissent on Humanae Vitae, in an already corrupted clergy. Priests and bishops practicing sodomy have no moral authority upon which to call the faithful in the pews to marital purity. All non-procreative sex must be opposed, and Catholics in the pews dissenting on Humanae Vitae, and the rest on Christianity embracing non-procreative married sex, have no place pointing everywhere but themselves.
Our entire culture, our entire Church, both priesthood and laity, have divorced the unitive and the procreative aspect of sex.
This whole thing is a fundamental rejective of God's plan for Creation, which is to bring forth and raise saints that will know, love and serve God in this life and be happy with Him forever in the next.
It is a pandemic problem that infects those in the pew as well as those in the sanctuary.
The only answer is a return to ALL of the Church's teachings on sexuality, by both clergy and laity!
And that teaching is simple:
1)No sex outside of a sacramental marriage between man and women,
2)If you can't somehow get pregnant in the process, it ain't according to God's Will for sex.
The priesthood's sins are monstrous, muderous to body and soul, and criminal. The hierarchy's sins are even greater for hiding it and protecting it.
But the laity is not innocent in their own embrace of the sodomitic sins of marital contraception.
What will come of this is a return to basics in the whole of the Church.
But the path to that end point will be vicious and unfortunately strewn with many lost souls.
God Help Us! God have Mercy on us all!
"From the heart of the Church".
She is a columnist and will write many more columns that will go deeper. I think this column is a good beginning for her even if the description of the Holy Father is in terribly poor taste.
Not one of the American Cardinals should take the lead on this. The Pope must rule from the Chair of Peter and "remove the red hat and ring" from each of them if necessary.
Now that's a frightening prospect, given the lifestyle of some bishops! Hence, the contribution to the Lavendar Mafia in the seminaries.
Well, that stricture isn't anything I have heard the magisterium decide. I have no doubt you are much better informed than I am about this issue and so I wonder if you can cite a decision taken that supports that statement.
. I am not being arguementative, I am a big fan of yours. It just seems to me that as God has both an active and permissive will, that includes a lot of wiggle room (I was gonna excise that phrase but when one discusses sex it is nearly imposible to avoid double entendres).
I am sure you know that as Karol Wotyla, the Pope wrote a tome on sex (I let a friend read my copy and never got it back) and he spoke about that natural infertile time when it certainly is permissible for one to have sexual congress (another one, I know) and not be engaged in anything opposed to the will of God.
It is my understanding that is what Natural Family Planning teaches also.
I think I must be misunderstanding you and I look forward to your reply. Please keep up your great work...
Amen! Thank you, RonDog.
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