Prominent Catholics call on pope to oust S.F. archbishop

[bear06]

I agree with Another Mary! It’s a fun one! onemadmomblog.wordpress.com Sad we have to know anything about it but the dose of sarcasm helps.

 

[Eddie_Mac]

I find that the more the non-catholics and cafeteria catholics scream about how bad a bishop is, the more faithful and Spirit filled is the bishop is and that he is indeed doing Christ’s work on earth.

 

[oneofmany]

I’m listening to Catholic answers radio now that is discussing this topic. They are having a picnic tomorrow to support him. Hope many turn out.

 

[Johann_du_Toit]

I find that the more the non-catholics and cafeteria catholics scream about how bad a bishop is, the more faithful and Spirit filled is the bishop is and that he is indeed doing Christ’s work on earth.

 

[Tigg]

Catholics become bolder in their opposition in the form of an open letter. Seems the dissidents are now theologians and “development of doctrine” has become their buzzword.

The letter is dotted with the same language we have seen heretofore: Archbishop Cordileone is using a “rhetoric of judgment and selectivity” to enact “the imposition of contested teachings” which will allegedly “lethally damage our students, our teachers, our schools, and our mission.” After calling the assertion that the archbishop is authentically representing Catholic teaching “incorrect,” Mr. McGarry states: “Our opposition to the Archbishop’s language comes from inside, indeed from the very core of the Catholic tradition.” And it is here that Mr. McGarry makes an incredible leap: the teachers’ position represents not dissent, by development of doctrine.

Even muted, the Archbishop’s rhetoric of judgment and selectivity about and atomization of the moral life of our students and their families is not simply a storm to be weathered. It is the precipice of a disaster.

crisismagazine.com/2015/san-francisco-protesters-redefine-catholicism

This is a “teachable moment” for the students all right, but one in the form of defiance and perversity!! May the Lord have mercy on us all.

 

[JimG]

Blessed John Henry Cardinal Newman would be utterly astonished at the uses to which his essay “on the development of doctrine” have been put. His aim was a rather modest historical analysis, never intended as an excuse for armchair theologians to glibly contradict doctrine to suit their own whims!

 

[dochawk]

Sometimes I think places named for Angels and Saints are particular targets for the devil.

The Communist Revolution began in St. Petersburg, Russia. Hollywood and its excesses are part of Los Angeles (Spanish for the Angels). San Francisco might be one of these too.

Even worse.

LA, is short for Los Angeles, short for “La Ciudad de Nuestra Señora, Reina de Los Angeles” (The City of Our Lady, Queen of the Angels."

hawk