Posted on 11/08/2014 12:31:31 PM PST by right-wing agnostic
U.S. Roman Catholic bishops are gathering at a moment of turbulence for them and the American church, as Pope Francis moves toward crafting new policies for carrying out his mission of mercy - a prospect that has conservative Catholics and some bishops in an uproar.
The assembly, which starts Monday in Baltimore, comes less than a month after Francis ended a dramatic Vatican meeting on how the church can more compassionately minister to Catholic families.
The gathering in Rome was only a prelude to a larger meeting next year which will more concretely advise Francis on church practice. Still, the open debate at the event, and the back and forth among bishops over welcoming gays and divorced Catholics who remarry, prompted stunning criticism from some U.S. bishops.
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Pope Paul was the liturgical reformer.
http://whispersintheloggia.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-hammer-falls-and-then-some.html
“With Burke’s effective demotion, for the first time in three decades, no US prelate leads an office of the Roman Curia as traditionally understood. As Francis’ reform of the governing apparatus is expected to roll out in early 2015, it nonetheless bears reminding that alongside his seat on the Pope’s supreme council of nine cardinal-advisors Boston’s Cardinal Seán O’Malley OFM Cap. now heads up the newly-created Pontifical Commission which reports directly to Francis on the church’s response to clergy sex-abuse and the care of survivors”
Pay attention to the last sentence. This is like the fox watching the hen house.
You mean like how they emphasize the hot-button issue of abortion by continuing to allow pro-abort politicians to receive communion? With a few exceptions, I don't think the US Bishops are struggling much at all. In fact, I'm willing to bet they had a huge hand in electing Francis knowing full well what he was like.
Bergoglio hates the Catholic Church.
He demotes and banishes the Catholics, and elevates the gay activists and abortionist-snugglers—O’Malley, Dolan, Wuerl, and many, many others most of us have never heard of.
I’m sure Bergoglio received many votes from naive Cardinals who are now horrified at what he is doing. Watch for a swing back to Catholicism in the next conclave.
Happy Feast of the Dedication of the Basilica of St. John Lateran.
I'm not so sure.
Some years ago, at Little Flower Church in Bethesda, Md. (where I was baptized), Wuerl said: “I will never deny Communion to anyone who has not been formally excommunicated.”
I have thought, ever since reading that, that he was being inconsistent, because, of course, Wuerl has been denying Communion to the divorced-and-illicitly-remarried, while giving Communion to pro-aborts.
Now, he’s trying to remedy that inconsistency, by supporting the Kasperites, who want to give Communion to the divorced-and-illicitly-remarried. And, though he’s too smart to say it out loud, Wuerl has always supported giving Communion to gay couples and singles.
Wuerl has never made a statement on the mortal sin of giving Communion to those delineated in Canon 915 that wasn’t a tissue of sophistries. It’s all been prolefeed.
Neither am I. But hope springs eternal!
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