AmericanPapist Comments
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This whole cardinals-to-Las Vegas thing is ridiculous. CUA likes to hold the fundraiser in different dioceses throughout the country to raise the school's profile, which Cardinal Egan today on his Sirius talk show says is woeful outside of the East Coast. So hitting the road to raise funds and possibly awareness is a good thing.
If the decadence of Las Vegas disturbs people as it appears on the comments left on Diogenes' site, where should it be held? The idea of a monastery is preposterous when you're trying to induce rich people to be donors. You might not know this, but there are tons of rich people in Vegas. I don't think they can be lured to a nondescript monastery.
This dinner has been held in San Francisco as well as New York City, two cities synonymous with liberalism. So what? Imagine the horror if it were to be held in Ted Kennedy's hometown in the near future. Money is the same in those towns as it is in Lincoln, Nebraska.
Even the complaints that these cardinals are behaving like CEOs is short-sighted to me. The Church can't fulfill its global mission without cash, and if it takes meeting a prince of the Church for a person to pony up some extra cash rather than put it in an envelope on Sunday, so be it. I don't view these cardinals as any less pastoral because they ask for cash to aid good causes.
The bottom line is that this is a worthy cause, the cardinals are doing a good deed, and where the dinner is held should be of no consequence unless they dine at an abortion clinic or something.
I applaud the cardinals and CUA in their efforts to raise scholarship money for those students in need. I seriously don't understand the outrage.
I think it is good that the Bishops go to various cities for their meetings. Those cities need to be reached out to just as badly as any other, if not more.
The Bishops acting like CEOs is another matter altogether. I would add into that acting like politicians, slightly more acurate in reality. They are neither of these. They are the successors of the Apostles and need to act as such. There are many good Bishops out there, but few of these are in control of the national hiarchey (sp?). But that is changing for the better. In the end I may be biased having just finished reading Msgr. George Kelly's Keeping the Church Catholic with John Paul II and having read in the past his Battle for the American Church. Both are very informitive and well written books.
I wonder if next year's Cardinal's Dinner will be advertized as taking place in fabulous Boston.
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