To: Desdemona
May was a hero around here. Well, unless one believes that laymen are just totally gullible and stupid (which, according the article, St. Louis laymen are not), May had a pastoral style that Rigali did not. The way one relates to people has nothing to do with "conservatism."
Rigali was a Vatican bureaucrat for so long he apparently can't relate to average Catholics any longer.
13 posted on
01/25/2004 6:21:06 PM PST by
sinkspur
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To: sinkspur
The average Catholic being someone who does not believe in the real presence?
14 posted on
01/25/2004 6:38:20 PM PST by
RobbyS
(XPqu)
To: sinkspur
Rigali, doesn't relate well to AMERICANS. He does loosen up. It just takes a little time.
May was out in the community all the time and that resonnated.
20 posted on
01/26/2004 4:34:25 AM PST by
Desdemona
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To: sinkspur
What May had, that Rigali doesn't exactly, was a visibility. Rigali was gone a lot. May wasn't. What people around here don't always appreciate is that sometimes in order to move ahead, we need help from other quarters. Rigali saw some of the ridiculousness in expenditures and wasn't sentimental about cutting and that's what a lot of people here resent.
24 posted on
01/26/2004 6:44:46 AM PST by
Desdemona
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