Levada's Secret

SF Weekly ^ | January 4, 2006 | Ron Russell

[narses]

Me too, but HH is a man able to keep secrets. I have faith that HH has a good reason.

[Domestic Church]

Maybe HH is making him choose (with the world watching) whether to cut bait or fish.

[bornacatholic]

All of this will, eventually, be made public. I say wait for the deposition to occur. The alternative press doesn't care about the young men sexually assaulted by queer clergy (there are MANY more such homosexual sexual assaults committed by secular queers in the public school system). No, what the alternative press, and the MSM realy care about is this Catholicism-can-be-destroyed moment and while AmChruch has presented them with this excellent opportunity I see no reason to endlessly rehash the accusations prior to the deposition.

[bornacatholic]

To pretend there is no crisis, to pretend that the crisis is not related to HERESIES and HERSIARCHS within the hierarchy is wilful blindness. Since the truth WILL come out, we need to armor ourselves with the truth. I reject the idea that the source of this taints it. I wasn';t aware that Angelqueen is a forbidden site (by whose authority?) or that somehow FR has declared the SSPX to be bad, off limits or otherwise odious. Certainly HH didn't express that when he met with and embraced Bp. Fellay last year.

* I had to get offline for a second and didn't get to finish my response.

There isn't a FR American Catholic alive who doesn't understand this is a crisis. There isn't a FR American Catholic who doesn't understand the USCCB is involved, deeply, in the crisis. There isn't a FR American Catholic who thinks the USCCB has yet had a valid response to queer clergy. You are singing to the choir - but from Angelqueen's hymnal if you will.

FWIW, to me, Angelqueen is to the Magisterium what DU is to Conservatism. Angelquen is populated by, among others, many supporters of the SSPX who were kicked-off here because of their ceaseless agitprop about the sspx schism.

Let angelqueen be angelqueen. They are not about to promote any thoughtful piece about the crisis within the Church that is in any way exculpatory of any Bishop beacuse angelqueen exists to build-up the sspx schism by tearing down the church established by Jesus and, frankly, I see no good reason to assist them in their efforts by publishing their posts in here.

As for the Pope meeting with Fellay - big deal. The SSPX is dead. There ain't no reconciliation coming. He also met with Kung. Did that mean the Pope favors ordaining women?

[mirabile_dictu]

"I was NOT impressed when I attended a conference in San Francisco in the 90s and visited Levada's new cathedral there. The building is an atrocity, built at huge expense, one of the worst examples of modern architectural vandalism in the church that I have ever seen. I have heard that Levada considers it his legacy to the city."

You really have to become more discerning as to whom you listen to, or from whom you hear things.

From the archdiocesan web-site:
"Ground was broken in August 1965 and Apostolic Delegate Luigi Raimondi blessed the cornerstone on December 13, 1967. The building was completed in 1970. The new cathedral was formally blessed on May 5, 1971, again with Cardinal Raimondi presiding, and ceremonies completing its dedication took place on October 5, 1996 with Archbishop William J. Levada presiding."

It would seem well-nigh impossible for one's "legacy" to include events which occurred almost 20 years prior to the beginning of his episcopate. It seems to me that Archbishops McGucken and Quinn might have something to say about that. The ceremony completing the dedication took place about 8 months after Levada took office.

Your disdain for Levada is patently obvious, but you're going to have to come up with something a tad more significant than the putative architectural shortcomings of the cathedral when it comes to justifying your position.