[donbosco74]

PLEASE EXCUSE ME if this topic has already been covered here on FR, but I could not find any posting of it since April 8th:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1380090/posts

I thought those posts insufficiently discussed this news, because there is a lot more to the story. Maybe this article will help fill in some gaps.

[ardara]

I did not know two was a group. A lot of press for two ambulance chasers.

[A.A. Cunningham]

Blaine said bluntly: "The Vatican's decision to have Law celebrate the Mass was inappropriate."

A sentiment echoed yesterday by Raymond Arroyo and Father Neuhaus on EWTN.

[ksen]

You heard it here first......Cardinal Law will be the next Pope.

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......or not.

[lilylangtree]

I heard about Law performing a celebrated mass. This is the same man that covered up all the pedophile priests by shifting them to different churches while knowing that these priests would keep molesting others. Yet, Law was recalled to Rome by the pope to protect Law from all the civil lawsuits filed against him and the Catholic Church.

[Grut]

It's boilerplate doctrine, settled at the first Council of Nicaea, that the character of the priest doesn't affect the validity of his functions.

[murphE]

IMHO Cardinal Law should be in jail, which he probably would be had he remained stateside and was not whisked away to Rome.

[Lilllabettt]

I think enough is enough.

He's been publicly scourged in the press. (A punishment the secularists gleefully administered.) He was once the Archbishop of the preeminent diocese of the United States, now he's the equivalent of a parish priest. It's not a cushy job, either. He's expected to be a fund-raiser, which is penitential, because he is equally infamous among the Italians, and now he has to go to them with his hand out all the time. It's a daily humiliation.

And believe it or not, Bernard Law does not have horns or a forked tale. Before a few years ago, he had a long tenure of respectable service to the Church. Without him, we wouldn't have the Catechism. Alas, he was the appointed fall guy for the American bishops. He failed miserably in his duty, but so did many of his confreres. Most of them have sinned, but only one of them has had to pay.

Remember Rembert Weakland? Is he eviscerated in the international media? How many people outside Milwaukee even know who he is, or what he did? The guy selling hotdogs on the street corner on campus knows who Bernard Law is, and his children's children will probably know enough to spit on the man's memory.

He didn't get to say this Mass because somebody was doing him a favour. They were following protocol, and he was up. But there's a big to do, because people wait around, licking their lips at the chance to humiliate the man some more. For everyone's sakes, as far as Cardinal Law is personally concerend, its time to let it go.