Ostriches in Rome

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Did any of you read Cokie and Steven Roberts commentary in any of your local papers on Sunday Oct.30. Title of the commentary was “Ostriches in Rome” Here is just a little of what it said…
Catholic bishops from around the world have chosen to bury their heads in the sand. Apparently, even that uncomfortable pose is preferable to taking the steps necessary to deal with what many of them call the greatest problem facing the Church today-the acute shortage of priests. I wish I could find how to post it so you could read the whole article! They go on to say why is it right for priests in eastern rites to be married but not those in the western rites or Roman rites. It goes on and on from there…allowing women priests, allowing celebate homosexuals into the seminaries…etc
Am I wrong or right…I thought Cokie Roberts was Catholic, didn’t I see her in Rome as a expert at JP 2’s funeral. I feel a burning desire to correct some of these positions she puts in commentaries. When one professes that one is catholic it includes that our public positions will reflect church teaching. Can anyone answer this question for me…Is she Catholic?

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I’ve heard that she is, but as with many American Catholics the degree to which she agrees with Rome may be in question.
 
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Am I wrong or right…I thought Cokie Roberts was Catholic, didn’t I see her in Rome as a expert at JP 2’s funeral. I feel a burning desire to correct some of these positions she puts in commentaries. When one professes that one is catholic it includes that our public positions will reflect church teaching. Can anyone answer this question for me…Is she Catholic?

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Oh yea.
Cokie the Catholic…read here
Click the next button until you find the first page of the intro to this book ‘I like being Catholic’
Now I have a question for you.
Where in the heck does the name Cokie come from???..I don’t believe I’ve ever read about a St. Cokie.
 
Forget even the theology of it. Catholics such as Cokie Roberts just happen to be on the wrong side of history on these issues. They are a sort of disaffected Vatican II generation who still expects the Church to veer their way, when the Holy Spirit has other plans.
 
So she is Catholic, or claims to be Catholic I guess would be a better way of putting it. I have had some of the same opinions about our religion that she has, until the Holy Spirit smacked me and said listen up!! what I don’t get is this, how is this possible, how can a well educated women not know that what she professes in her columns makes her very Un-catholic for a lack of a better word. Is it that no one has taught her? I find that almost impossible to believe. I believe I have her e-mail address and I shall try to make her see the error of her ways in as christian of a way as possible!!! Thanks for your (name removed by moderator)ut. I just picked up tonights paper and found another commentary by the Roberts, I think I’ll skip this one and read something better!!!
 
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what I don’t get is this, how is this possible, how can a well educated women not know that what she professes in her columns makes her very Un-catholic for a lack of a better word. Is it that no one has taught her?
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She comes from a cohort of Catholics who sincerely believe that they are ahead of the curve and that the Church will eventually catch up. My own view is that they are behind the curve.

Every church council, including Vatican II, starts a sort of pendulum swing, where the pendulum first swings too far in one direction or another, but the radical swings eventually damp out. In the meantime, some people have mistaken an initial swing of the pendulum for an entirely new direction which they think must be the wave of the future. (And the pendulum also swings too far in the other direction–notice the overreaction of traditionalists.)
 
I agree Jim!! what totally amazes me is this… I grew up in a catholic household, big family, have an aunt that is a nun, lived across the street from the catholic church and school we went to. I was confirmed in 1980, and yet until about two years ago I knew virtually nothing about my religion. Maybe I just don’t have any recall or maybe I just wasn’t taught properly. Not to say my parents didn’t make sure we went to catholic school, or that we were in that front pew on every Sunday, Holy day of obligation, or Holiday. I just didn’t seem to know the “RULES” of our religion. One simple question(actually it was pretty complex,just didn’t realize it!)that I asked our young associate pastor put me on the road to knowledge of our faith. Maybe the Holy Spirit chooses when you get to know? This forum has been a font of info, some of it good some not so good. But with the help of the Holy Spirit and a lot of reading and questioning and praying I’m fairly certain I’ve “GOT” the “RULES”. How strange that all who seem to be so knowledgeable ,aren’t, and yet knowledge was so simple to find by asking a single question for me. Ahhhh such a mystery, I shall pray for Cokie that she shall ask that simple question someday and be answered as I was. Praise God.
 
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How strange that all who seem to be so knowledgeable ,aren’t, and yet knowledge was so simple to find by asking a single question for me. Ahhhh such a mystery, I shall pray for Cokie that she shall ask that simple question someday and be answered as I was. Praise God.
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Well, the past 30 years or so have not been great ones for catechetics, but that is changing, and the Holy Spirit eventually gets His way. And your prayers will do good; I think that not till we get to heaven will we see how much good our prayers have done; and by then I’m sure I will regret not having done much more praying.
 
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