http://www.clmagazine.org/ backis...owisthetime.pdf
Padre Bill | Homepage | 04.03.08 - 12:22 am | #

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This is one of the funniest things I have ever seen!
Julie | 04.03.08 - 3:43 am | #

Arinze was serious, but remained jovial and gallant without being trivial or flippant. My only disappointment was that he punted on what can be done about sleeping or bad bishops.
Scott W. | Homepage | 04.03.08 - 8:48 am | #

Scott, He punted, but it doesn't take much "reading between the lines" to see that he believes something must be done w/the "sleeping or bad bishops"...
BTW, the URL above leads to an article in the current Celebrate Life Magazine issue on the Canon 915 scandal.
Padre Bill | Homepage | 04.03.08 - 10:01 am | #

Awesomest. Cardinal. Ever.
Galloglasses | Homepage | 04.03.08 - 12:11 pm | #

It doesn't matter if the whole College of Cardinals believe that "something must be done", so long as everyone waits for someone else to make the first move. Perhaps Cardinal Arinze and others prefer to work behind the scenes. The problem is that the scandal of dissident Catholics is a public phenomenon. It is the public nature of this dissidence that is not being addressed by tactful eminences who recoil from public scenes.
Romulus | 04.03.08 - 2:38 pm | #

Tom, why on Earth would I want to fast forward through ANY of that?

Hilarious, but I'll bet it would make some people very uncomfortable.

The devil can't stand to be laughed at.
Thomas | 04.03.08 - 6:41 pm | #

the skipping-ahead options are just for folks that are so busy that every minute counts. ;)
AmericanPapist | Homepage | 04.04.08 - 12:23 am | #

Yeah, His Eminence can talk tough about politicians and abortion . . . but, where's the follow-through? The Holy See issued a nice statement (a "note": http://www.vatican.va/roman_curi...litica_en.html) clarifying that Catholic politicians should be following their consciences, which had been duly formed by the Church's teaching on faith and morals. Okay, . . . and? All fizz and no pop.

Some conservatives in the American hierarchy rumbled about denying Holy Communion to pro-choice Catholics which, of course, went nowhere, especially after Theodore Card. McCarrick undermined the effort. He wanted to hold hands with both sides on the issue. Astonishing.

There's simply no backbone on this issue: Paul Vi didn't have it; John Paul the Great didn't have it; Benedict doesn't seem to have it.

So, Card. Arinze can say what he likes.
Matthew W. I. Dunn | Homepage | 04.04.08 - 11:33 am | #

He is truly a gem!
Kathy | 04.07.08 - 11:36 pm | #

Hi Thomas,

Thanks for the permanent place in the sidebar and the post!

Rob
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Rob Allaert | Homepage | 04.08.08 - 6:49 pm | #