The Pope is going to have to dig deeper.
Burke's 'Rule by fear' approach to church affairs is still news, and his Rush Limbaugh style is an embarrassment to us all.
There must be some bureau in Vatican City even more irrelevant than the court where Archbishop Burke has been banished. Perhaps he could be assigned somewhere The Grand Silence is observed.
God bless all who read here! This is intended to be a news resource for progressive Catholics in the Greater St. Louis area.
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I don't really think it accurate to say an "embarrasment to all." Lots of us are quite pleased and proud.
And I have yet to hear someone from the Progressive Catholic Rite explain how Canon 915 should be interpreted.
Your disrespect for His Grace should, but probably won't, make you ashamed.
I say this in all sincerity. You should make a good confession and pray for grace to be a faithful child of Holy Mother Church.
Encouraging contumely for the shepherds of the Church is wrong. Criticism can be justified if they are leading people to sin, but even you cannot pretend this is the case here.
Extra ecclesiam nulla salus.
Your soul is at stake.
You've been pretty consistant in your criticism of Archb. Burke.
I think you owe it to your readers to cite a Bishop or Archbishop whom you think is NOT an embarrassment to progressive Catholics.
I'm serious. Your critique would have a lot more weight if you would kindly point to the example of another prelate who when faced with similar problems of dissent, acted differently.
For this blog to have the "loving" approach to pastoral rule it pretends it needs to lead by positive example, and show positive examples, not just beat up on prelates unliked by the blogmaster.
I would like you to point to an American prelate, faced with similar problems of dissent who acted differently.
BTW South American Bishops supporting peasant rights and land reform do not count.
I dare you to give positive examples.
Guy, why don't "South American Bishops supporting peasant rights and land reform" count?
Tom,
South American prelates would count in the context of what Bishops face in South America.
I'm trying to get the blogmaster to make an "apples and apples", not an "apples and oranges" comparison which shows that Archb. Burke could have reacted differently to Louise Lears and Marek Bozek.
In any case, I will accept your suggestion. If the blogmaster can find a prelate anywhere in the world who had "pastoral associates" applauding newly married gay couples from the altar, lauding abortion supporters in defiance of their bishop, and participating in the ordinations of women of a different sect; and, if the blogmaster can show that the prelate, being "pastoral" did nothing to discipline his charges, then I will accept the argument that Archb. Burke had other choices than to react as he had to react to Ms. Lear, Mr. Bozek and their associates.
My view is that nobody on planet earth gets to insult the leader of their organization and survive.
It can be the R.C. Church or Dunster Mifflin Paper Company.
If you call your boss a 'hippopotomous" as openly as did St. Cronan's in their bulletin, somebody is going to get called on the carpet.
Common sense. Your kids know you can't insult the teacher, the coach or the crossing guard without consequences.
Only in the "progressive" wing of the R.C. Church is their this childlike view that Daddy will never spank.
He spanked.
The english Telegraph speculates on who one of the new Cardinals might be. Damian THompson writes,
"Irrespective of when it is held, we already know who two of the new cardinals must be: Archbishops Angelo Amato and Raymond Leo Burke, the Prefects, respectively, of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints and of the Apostolic Signatura."
Maybe not everybody, but certainly somebody likes Raymond.
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