Posted on 04/20/2015 6:43:23 AM PDT by marshmallow
A group of San Francisco Catholics threw a Hail Mary Thursday, asking Pope Francis to fire their archbishop. Among those calling for a replacement of Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone is the father of New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady.
Tom Brady Sr. joined about 100 other Bay Area Catholics in signing a full-page advertisement in the San Francisco Chronicle Thursday, in which they ask Pope Francis to remove Cordileone as archbishop because of what they say is “an atmosphere of division and intolerance” in the archdiocese.
“Holy Father,” the ad reads, “please provide us with a leader true to our values and your namesake.”
Cordileone has been under assault from some Catholics since news broke in February that teachers in archdiocesan-run schools would be required to sign a contract that states they “accept the Church’s teaching that all extra-marital sexual relationships are gravely evil and that these include adultery, masturbation, fornication, the viewing of pornography and homosexual relations.”
Blowback was swift, with lawmakers, teachers, and now major donors voicing opposition.
But Cordileone’s supporters have stood by his decisions, noting that the clause is common in other dioceses and fully in line with Catholic teaching.
(Excerpt) Read more at bostonglobe.com ...
I don’t get it. You don’t have to belong. Just quit the team. The religion is not a buffet to take what you like and leave the rest
Unimaginable.
Why don’t they ask the 49er’s to change their colors, their name, the rules of football because they ‘don’t like it’ or it ‘doesn’t fit their VALUES’
the world won’t last long in this state. This country died when Stonewall Jackson died, and now it is finally kicking it’s last death throe….
AMEN!
Good point.
They don’t leave the Church because they want to change it to enshrine the reigning sexual depravity that has destroyed the Episcopalians and other Mainline Protestant churches.
Well then, friend, lets give it a strong, furious last stand. Slash and burn, seek and destroy politics. Ruthlessness. And if alas we lose, let’s get a strong drink and watch the country burn, knowing we tried.
CRUZ WONT LOSE
They should go in peace and join their fellow travelers at the Episcopal Church. That church was founded by the decadent Henry VIII and its followers have remained loyal to its origins by readily accommodating any sort of perversion.
Amen. Just like communists, and I’m sure some muslims, the idea is to infiltrate and destroy. We can do it also.
I used to get Black Car home from work in Manhattan. Mostly muslin drivers. After 9/11 I used to make believe I could see the other side’s view. And then they would burst open with the anti Israeli tirade, and how America’s allegiance to it caused the attacks.
Michael Corleone was right. Keep your fiends close but your enemies closer.
[Well then, friend, lets give it a strong, furious last stand.]
There are a great cloud of witnesses who are cheering us on. Let us keep our eyes on Christ Jesus and finish the race. We can’t let them down.
2 TIMOTHY 4:7
I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.
Here's a prayer compiled by St Francis (the Pope's namesake) that Archbishop Cordileone can justly pray:
Ant. Holy Virgin Mary.
Ps. 55: 9. O God, I have declared to Thee my life; Thou hast set my tears in Thy sight.
Ps. 40: 8. All my enemies devised evils against me.
Ps. 70: 10. They have consulted together.
Ps. 108: 5. And they have repaid me evil for good and hatred for my love.
Ps. 108: 4. Instead of making me a return of love they detracted me; but I gave myself to prayer.
Ps. 21: 12. My holy Father, King of heaven and earth, depart not from me; for tribulation is near and there is none to help.
Ps. 55: 10. When I cry unto Thee, then shall mine enemies be turned back; behold I know that thou art my God.
Ps. 37: 12. My friends and my neighbors have drawn near and stood against me; and they that were near me stood afar off.
Ps. 87: 9. Thou hast put away my acquaintance far from me; they have set me an abomination to them; I was delivered up and came not forth.
Ps. 21: 20. Holy Father, remove not Thy help far from me: My God, look toward my help.
Ps. 37: 23. Attend unto my help, O Lord, the God of my salvation, ...
http://www.sacred-texts.com/chr/wosf/wosf23.htm
Are all these awesome quotes I see really from the bible? Why did I bother going to catholic school. We NEVER looked at the scriptures. I think other denominations place a lot more emphasis on it.
Feel like I hear the same verses all the time at church.
“I don’t get it. You don’t have to belong. Just quit the team.”
Right. Maybe that very question should be asked to these apostates. Just amazing.
Abp Cordileone is not going to fold.
Let these 100 one-percenters shower their favors on the Episcopal church --- the Church of Christ the Rich --- which already has everything they want: lesbian bishops,liberalism and better music.
Let the Catholics be Catholic.
St. Francis of Assisi, pray for us.
It's hard to understand. I think part of it is the influence of the old heresy of Americanism, i.e., seeing the Church as a democracy. I imagine there is just deep cognitive dissonance, which is why these anti-Catholic Catholics tend to be perpetually outraged.
Logic to Liberals is as a Cross to vampires.
I would have written, “because they are poopy heads”. But y our answer works too.
Hear our prayer, Oh Lord.
10,000 people support the guy, 100 don’t, and the MSM is all over them.
Scr@w them, and scr@w the MSM.
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