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The Knives that Were Out for Card. Burke, are Now Being Sharpened for… [Pell]
Fr. Z's Blog ^ | 11/12/14 | Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

Posted on 11/12/2014 2:07:27 PM PST by marshmallow

Marco Tosatti, more and more a guy to follow in the Italian press for analysis of churchy things, has a piece at La Stampa about Card. Pell and how things are going in the Curia.

I don’t have time to translate the whole thing for you right now, but here is a sample:

How annoying Pell is …

There are those in the Curia who are seeking to de-legitimize the straightforward Australian Cardinal, head of the Secretariat of Finance, underscoring his brusque and direct character. Also, because of his speeches and the Synod on the family. But perhaps there are other motives…

Now that the departure of Cardinal Burke from the Signatura has been formalized, taking power away from one of the most straightforward and independent voices, in the Roman Church, in the Curia they are talking about a slithery maneuver to de-legitimize the Australian Cardinal George Pell, head of the new financial and economic Secretariat. He, like Burke, is someone who does not mince his words.

(Excerpt) Read more at wdtprs.com ...


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1 posted on 11/12/2014 2:07:27 PM PST by marshmallow
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To: marshmallow

Francis is nearly 78 years old.


2 posted on 11/12/2014 2:15:17 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.)
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To: marshmallow

I have been trying to be patient, but I cannot help writing, “I sure miss Pope Benedict XVI”.


3 posted on 11/12/2014 2:19:46 PM PST by Gumdrop (woamn)
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To: marshmallow
If this sentiment is accurate, how long before the Catechism is ‘amended’?
4 posted on 11/12/2014 2:40:59 PM PST by Paulie (Get off the grid.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

That is why I say that this will last at least another two years.


5 posted on 11/12/2014 2:44:01 PM PST by Biggirl (2014 MIdterms Were BOTH A Giant Wave And Restraining Order)
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To: Biggirl

What are you talking about? 78 years old isn’t old. And this guy isn’t going to retire. He’s loving this gig too much.


6 posted on 11/12/2014 2:45:08 PM PST by piusv
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To: marshmallow

“Surprise, surprise, surprise!”

http://youtube.com/watch?v=2TnkJ8_BmSI


7 posted on 11/12/2014 2:57:53 PM PST by Brian Kopp DPM ( Regrettably, and by present necessity, more Catholic than the Pope.)
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To: marshmallow

Convert, repent, retire. Please!


8 posted on 11/12/2014 3:00:40 PM PST by GreensKeeperWillie (Sancte Maria, mater Dei, ora pro nobis.)
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To: marshmallow
How annoying Pell is …

Good! Keep annoying them, Cardinal Pell.

9 posted on 11/12/2014 3:02:56 PM PST by BlatherNaut
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To: marshmallow; 2ndDivisionVet

As long as Francis is Pope, the good will be demoted and exiled, and the wicked will be promoted and brought into the inner circle. He is a petty, vindictive man with a cheap mind.

Those of us who are considerably younger than he is can look forward to a Church without him. That’s about all we can do.


10 posted on 11/12/2014 3:06:19 PM PST by Arthur McGowan
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To: piusv

Well he said sometime back that he could do at most 2 or 3 years. He said it not me.


11 posted on 11/12/2014 3:15:29 PM PST by Biggirl (2014 MIdterms Were BOTH A Giant Wave And Restraining Order)
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To: Biggirl

That’s true. I wonder whether he’ll follow through on that.


12 posted on 11/12/2014 3:59:16 PM PST by piusv
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To: GreensKeeperWillie

If he converts to the Catholic Faith, then I wouldn’t want him to retire.


13 posted on 11/12/2014 4:00:38 PM PST by piusv
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To: marshmallow
George "Adam and Eve are myths" Pell? LOL!

Let these Bible-haters slaughter each other!

14 posted on 11/12/2014 4:04:54 PM PST by Zionist Conspirator (Throne and Altar! [In Jerusalem!!!])
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

He’s 78, but some these guys can live to be very old.


15 posted on 11/12/2014 5:20:40 PM PST by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them)
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To: piusv
What are you talking about? 78 years old isn’t old. And this guy isn’t going to retire. He’s loving this gig too much.

Which Senator is this?
16 posted on 11/12/2014 5:33:46 PM PST by Old Yeller (D.A.M.N. - Deport All Muslims Now! Starting in the White House.)
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To: piusv

Good point but I think his Bozo clown Mass disqualifies him forever.


17 posted on 11/12/2014 9:39:35 PM PST by GreensKeeperWillie (Sancte Maria, mater Dei, ora pro nobis.)
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