And does this contribute to family solidarity? 

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Clearly it does. How important to the health of family life? You answer the question.

Trumponomics, my friend. It’s blowin’ in the wind.

via WSJ

Ball is in whose court?

Misbehaving Cardinals (and heads of state) can only be judged by the Pope, but lesser mortals are handled by the Roman Rota. This court, which we have all heard of, remains rather obscure in its functions, at least to most of us, but there is absolutely no reason why it should not act in a way analogous to the Star Chamber of old.

Some years ago now there was talk that the Pope was going to set up a special court to deal with Bishops who failed in their duty with regard to child protection. (This new court would presumably have taken over some of the jurisdiction exercised by the Rota.) But though this was announced, nothing happened.

Yes. Ball dropped again by the incumbent Holiness, busy perhaps with climate control and other things he can do nothing about.

via   CatholicHerald.co.uk

As the Wuerl turns:

Catholic writer Elizabeth Scalia, a prominent critic of the website, said: “This is the sort of action we usually see being taken by a Chairman of the Board, or a CEO, or a politician, and that’s very telling; it exposes a mindset that is geared toward management and administration, with a less-than-optimal pastoral sensibility on display. It’s all too much of the world.”

Later on Wednesday, the archdiocese deleted the website, saying it had become a “distraction”

From what, your eminence?

via  CatholicHerald.co.uk

Comes the deluge.

Church Militant spoke with New York State Attorney General Barbara Underwood, who told us:

The Attorney General has directed her Criminal Division leadership to reach out to local District Attorneys — who are the only entities that currently have the power to convene a grand jury to investigate these matters — in order to establish a potential partnership on this issue.

Not only NY.

In the wake of the release of the Pennsylvania grand jury report, speculation around the country has begun that grand juries should be convened in every state — an idea that fed-up faithful Catholics are now supporting publicly.

Brad Miner: “I’m in favor, frankly, of 50 grand juries, including, you know, we’ve already had one in Pennsylvania, but we need one in the District of Columbia too — so that makes 50. Every single state, we got to do this, and it’s got to be the civil authorities, I’m sorry to say.”

Miner, senior editor of The Catholic Thing, is not alone.

Joining Miner are the likes of Illinois State Supreme Court Justice Anne Burke, who was a member of the 2002 U.S. bishops’ national review board [and threw up her hands and resigned, appalled at their politics]. Burke says, “I think every state should convene a grand jury into this culture of secrecy that protected offenders at all costs.”

Burke, as Illinoisans know, is wife of a Chicago alderman of high seniority and much power.

Miner’s and Burke’s public sentiments may soon become a reality. In addition to the Pennsylvania grand jury, Nebraska is now sending signals that it too is prepping for the possible convening of its own grand jury. This as a result of revelations of homosexual predation on seminarians in the diocese of Lincoln.

So we look to the state to police the church.

via Episcopal Sodomy: NY AG Outlining Grand Jury Plans

Words of the day from Chicago’s Catholic-in-Chief:

Anger, shock, grief, shame.

An exercise in distancing himself from the shocking news, insulating from the shock.

He knew nothing about it? Until he read it in the newspapers? Wow.

Who does he think he is, Obama, who famously knew nothing about the computer in Hillary’s basement? Until he read about it?

via Statements – Archdiocese of Chicago

Nice to know Fr. Martin’s thinking on the situation.

I was wondering.

Yes, James, and what of McC’s behavior for decades and his promotions right and left by church higher-ups?

via LifeSite

Part of ongoing investigation.

This is where the bishops all resigned after Pope Francis told them to do so, after himself stumbling mightily, denying multiple allegations and in general showing himself a paragon of insensitivity, even to the appearance of attempted cover-up.

Took a lot of flak over the whole thing, has tried to recoup. Meanwhile, matters proceed via secular authorities.

via Catholic News Agency

The beat goes on.

via gloria.tv

. . . 3 years ago on his 75th birthday in accord with canon law.

All it took from Francis was to tell him thank you, go in peace. He didn’t, because (a) he knew nothing of Wuerl’s record in regard to sex-abuse cover-up — if so, why not? — or (b) he knew but decided the hell with it, this guy is someone I trust to follow my program.

He’s my kind of cardinal, that sort of thing.

Wuerl with his distinguished predecessor when Wuerl received the D.C. baton in 2006.

Francis should take a cue from Chicago’s Cardinal Cupich, who canned a pastor on the first complaint — highly unusual in Chicago or anywhere else — and kept him canned when the months-long hearing of his case came up empty.

On second thought, no. Bad example there. Maybe consult Cardinal Burke?

Him? No, he being on the outs for some time with the reigning pontiff.

via RORATE CÆLI

Putting him in charge and loving it, regardless of Scripture and Tradition.

What a guy. What a pope, for that matter. Where’s his rebuttal of Fr. R. the uncanny Canadian who works for the Vatican still? None coming, is my bet.

via Vatican adviser: Pope ‘breaks Catholic traditions whenever he wants’ | CatholicHerald.co.uk