Comparing Materials on Female Cardinals

[Cojuanco]

No need to reconcile it. NC Reporter isn’t an orthodox Catholic organization. They have even been told by the local Bishop to stop using the word Catholic in their name.

They will twist and distort anything they get a hold of to promote their various dissident agendas.

Uh, I don’t hold a brief with the Reporter, but given the last few pages of discussions, we’ve established that female cardinals are at least theoretically possible, because the restriction to bishops is per se only a creature of Canon Law (which the Pope can dispense from), that it’s not likely to happen, and that even if it did, there is no real cause for concern, unless you’re the kind of person that regularly deals with the Curia, which for most laypeople, tends to mean you’ve attracted the wrong sort of attention from the Holy Office.

Just because the Reporter has a poor editorial stance, doesn’t mean they don’t say the truth, if only by accident, from time to time.

 

[JReducation]

Uh, I don’t hold a brief with the Reporter, but given the last few pages of discussions, we’ve established that female cardinals are at least theoretically possible, because the restriction to bishops is per se only a creature of Canon Law (which the Pope can dispense from), that it’s not likely to happen, and that even if it did, there is no real cause for concern, unless you’re the kind of person that regularly deals with the Curia, which for most laypeople, tends to mean you’ve attracted the wrong sort of attention from the Holy Office.

Just because the Reporter has a poor editorial stance, doesn’t mean they don’t say the truth, if only by accident, from time to time.

I’m not sure what you mean by lay people and the Roman Curia. There are many laymen and women who occupy important posts in the Roman Curia. The cardinals in the curia are the minority. They are the heads of their respective departments, but there are departments headed by laymen, religious sisters, religious brothers, and secular priests. The curia is not run just by cardinals.

I don’t foresee women being named cardinals. However, I do foresee more women heading departments as cardinals retire. I think that they will be laywomen, not women religious. We can’t spare women religious to sit around all day pushing papers.

 

[Cojuanco]

I’m not sure what you mean by lay people and the Roman Curia. There are many laymen and women who occupy important posts in the Roman Curia. The cardinals in the curia are the minority. They are the heads of their respective departments, but there are departments headed by laymen, religious sisters, religious brothers, and secular priests. The curia is not run just by cardinals.

I don’t foresee women being named cardinals. However, I do foresee more women heading departments as cardinals retire. I think that they will be laywomen, not women religious. We can’t spare women religious to sit around all day pushing papers.

I mean that women appointed to the cardinalate (if that happens) would almost certainly work in the Curia or similar administrative posts, because they cannot be named bishops, naturally, therefore they cannot have cure of souls.

 

[JReducation]

I mean that women appointed to the cardinalate (if that happens) would almost certainly work in the Curia or similar administrative posts, because they cannot be named bishops, naturally, therefore they cannot have cure of souls.

That’s possibility. In reality, a cardinal who is not a diocesan bishop is not too different from the rest of us.

This is one of those subjects that’s I find more entertaining than important. I could care less if we have women voting in a conclave. Sometimes I wonder if Catholics enjoy suffering by putting themselves through mental gymnastics.

 

[otjm]

Sometimes I wonder if Catholics enjoy suffering by putting themselves through mental gymnastics.

Then they become muscle-bound?