The good and the bad, emphasis on Trib and Sun-Times
It will be a serious problem, in fact, for Francis to make an opening for the married priesthood and the female diaconate after his predecessor and a cardinal of profound doctrine and of radiant holiness of life like Sarah have taken such a clear and powerfully argued position in support of priestly celibacy, addressing themselves to the reigning pope almost in the words of an ultimatum, through the pen of the one but with the full agreement of the other.
Speaking up, they rise to the occasion.
Joy to the world . . .
Sunday sermons, weekday observations
The Holy Father devoted more attention [than to
U.S. actions in the Middle East, about which he was “clearly distressed] to his own proposal for a “global compact on education”—an initiative that will be launched at a “worldwide event” on May 14. The Pontiff described this effort as a bid “to rekindle our commitment to and with young people,” to provide for “a process of education and the creation of an educational village capable of forming a network of open and human relationships.”
Something for the United Nations, maybe. Equally vaporous.
There he goes again, working to make the Church one big one-world social services provider — with a dollop of Catholicity, not enough to offend anybody.
Something I hear called the Deep State? I think that’s it.
At Power Line, we sometimes refer to the Washington Post as an adjunct of the Democratic Party. To an even greater degree, the Post is an adjunct of official Washington — the cadre of career bureaucrats and former officials who consider it their God given right to set policy, regardless of what elected officials desire. (There is, of course, considerable overlap between official Washington and the Democratic Party).
Thus, it’s not surprising that a few minutes after I read Steve’s post called “Trump’s sin: Conducting foreign policy without permission,” I read this Washington Post story called “Trump is short on advisers, allies as he faces Iran crisis.” In this article, the Post argues, is essence, that Trump is committing the sin of conducting foreign policy without permission.
Who or what does he think he is, anyhow?
But stayed within the leftist cocoon where he found a lot of other Jesuits, embracing the elusive “option for the poor” and other seductive Marxist initiatives. Alas, this meant certain activities or inactivities which ignore the plight of the oppressed, as is observed in this NC Register article about a questionable jubilee:
An emphasis on social reform becomes a slippery thing, as the preferred means of social reform — political action — can displace the gospel itself. Consider Father Sosa, who is from Venezuela.
Venezuela’s Maduro regime is the leading violator of human rights in Latin America, the cause of starvation levels of poverty in what should be a rich country, and the largest producer of refugees in the world.
Yet Father Sosa is largely silent about all of this, embracing instead a politics that prefers not to criticize leftist regimes. Politics here trumps social justice.
That would be Father Arturo Sosa, the Jesuit superior general, who was on hand for the celebration in Rome of a major Jesuit social-action initiative.
He also “denies the historicity of the gospels” and “doesn’t believe that the devil exists.” Or didn’t until changing his mind three months later.
Wot the hell? Wot the hell, Archie?
He makea-me laugh . . .
. . . He opens today’s loving analysis of the Monsters of the Midway at season’s end:
The Bears finished near the bottom of the NFL in offensive production, but let’s keep our eyes on the prize, folks: They led the league in teammates who really, really care about each other.
Coach Matt Nagy preached the camaraderie gospel all year, and it figures to pay off in a big way when the guys share feelings and toast marshmallows at the postseason camping trip.
Alas, however, “a ton of issues.”
Land of Lincoln, land of lost dreams. . . Too blue, you know.
Illinois loses population for 6th straight year — and it lost more residents than any state this decade
Blue-hoo.
via Chicago Tribune
Sanctifying grace . . .
Dominus Vobiscum: Notes from a massgoer's underground
Pat preached. He had two points to make, he said, “before I get to Peter.” Peter was the deceased, his friend of 49 ½ years, since the two of them entered the Jesuits. Pat’s two points were that he stood on “holy ground” there in the retirement center for Jesuits of eight upper Midwestern states and that their suffering (as sick, invalided, dying) was “salvific.”
This “salvific” is related to “terrific” in its ending. The s-a-l-v part is related to “salvation,” as of souls. If something is salvific, it makes for, contributes to salvation of souls. It’s a Latin-word-turned-English, a staple of the course on divine grace – God’s gift to people that brings them around to (a) straight-and-narrow-path behavior and (b) everlasting life.
If you knew the vocabulary, as the Colombiere Center congregation did, you got Pat’s message: Pete, stricken with polio 45 years earlier, had not wasted his…
View original post 182 more words
So they could see no evil.
The disgraced former cardinal Theodore McCarrick sent more than $600,000 in cash gifts to Vatican officials and other influential prelates during his term as Archbishop of Washington, the Washington Post has revealed.
A legendary fundraiser, McCarrick brought in $6 million in tax-exempt donations to an “Archbishop’s Special Fund,” over which he had complete control. He drew on that fund to send gifts that included, for instance, $19,000 to Cardinal Angelo Sodano, the Secretary of State; $6,500 to then-Archbishop Leonardo Sandri, the sostituto who handled everyday Vatican administrative affairs; $5,000 to the late Archbishop Gabriel Montalvo, who was the papal nuncio in Washington; and a one-time gift of $250,000 to Pope Benedict XVI shortly after his election.
Including Benedict? God help us.
via Catholic Culture
