Day: January 15, 2020

Ratzinger/Sarah Book: Francis Loses Battle, Resorts to Smear Tactic – gloria.tv

Popes also lose, as when facing a recalcitrant publisher:

The first edition of the Ratzinger/Sarah Book is already printed and the French publishing-house Fayard will not change anything.

Francis was not pleased, Was “Furious,” Wanted A “Total Defeat”

When the Ratzinger/Sarah book [arguing against removing
the celibacy requirement for priests] became known, “all hell broke loose in the Vatican,” Bergoglio [Francis] was “furious,” writes Francis critic Antonio Socci (FaceBook) referring to anonymous sources.

Why? Because:

Such an authoritative pronouncement from Benedict XVI prevents him from smashing priestly celibacy, as had been his intention to do in the forthcoming Post-[Amazon] Synodal Exhortation.

Details are messy indeed, with Francis personally calling and giving orders to Benedict’s spokesperson.

A Faithful Catholic Condemns Timothy Cardinal Dolan, Archbishop of New York: Anti-American Oaf

This homily set untoward thoughts in motion . . .

Blithe Spirit

The beef is mainly about immigration politics as practiced by U.S. hierarchs, but the image of a glad-hander (bear-hugger) is telling:

Last Sunday, to pep up his homily, a visiting monsignor regaled our Long Island congregation with an anecdote about how he had recently learned, at the cost of bruised ribs, just what a firm-grippin’, bear-huggin’ guy good old Timothy Cardinal Dolan, Archbishop of New York and president of the U.S. Council of Catholic Bishops, actually is.

The Church previously did not inflict such incontinent showmen on America. All Americans deserve better. American Catholics need shepherds, not sellouts.

From monarchs to showmen in, say, 75 years.

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