"Hail to thee, blithe Spirit! Bird thou never wert, That from Heaven, or near it, Pourest thy full heart In profuse strains of unpremeditated art."
First thought on seeing this: B.S.
Second thought, reading this:
Cardinal Donald Wuerl has asked for forgiveness for his “errors in judgment” amid claims that he mishandled allegations of sexual abuse while a bishop.
If he thinks it’s errors or mishandling things, he still doesn’t get it.
Third thought: Lemme out o’ here!
And thinks it’s time Sessions got a new job somewhere.
[Outspoken DC lawyer] Toensing said it would take “new leadership,” because Jeff Sessions is a nice man, but clearly not fit for the job.
“He’s a southern gentleman. He doesn’t know how to kill at all,” she explained.
After show host Lou Dobbs said Republicans are weak and helpless in the face of corruption.
Southern gentleman part fits.
via Victoria Toensing Slams John Huber’s ‘Sham,’ ‘Potemkin Investigation’
If his treasure lies in this direction, therein lies his heart also?
via LifeSite
Ain’t necessarily so, says reader, longtime expert observer of the Chicago church:
Hopefully every diocese that will rely heavily on lay oversight will scrutinize those they choose.
Lay business managers in several Chicago parishes (and St. Joseph Seminary) stole hundreds of thousands under the nose of the priests.
Also we can’t have lay foxes watching the bishop-foxes, a.k.a. cronies and sycophants. Hard-nosed proven stalwarts are needed.
Sure, and do not bet the house on these stalwarts’ being brought into the situation. No sir.
He’s too busy with extracurricular activities to perform his assigned duties?
Say it isn’t so, your eminence. Do you approach your Chicago duties that way? Are you telling us Cook and Lake County residents about your own priorities?
Friend Blase can run but he can’t hide.
See? They find him from across the pond, hearing him speaking as one with back to wall.
As for the rabbit hole imagery, Cupich used it shortly after he had mouthed the currently acceptable generality about who, actually what, is to blame — the demon clericalism.
The clericalist mindset, responsible for so much of the scandal, must be purged from church life. As Pope Francis has urged, we need to remember that it is our baptism that unites us. We as a church must reflect more deeply on what we share in common, rather than what distinguishes us.
The one detail he specifies and endorses is the call from Cardinal Daniel DiNardo of Galveston-Houston, the U.S. bishops conference president, for “substantial leadership by laity” in any future invesigation.
Nothing about lay people who have resigned such positions out of frustration with churchmen they had to work with — or registered their disgust after working with them. Illinois Supreme Court justice Anne Burke being one of the latter.
Clericalism remains an approved catch-all for blame, unspecified as to who, what, when, where, not even in the wake of recent detailed reports by the Pennsylvania attorney general and Archbishop Vigano, to name just two.
Anything is preferred to citing a gay network that binds McCarrick, Wuerl, and others who benefit from their patronage. Among whom appears to be Cupich of rabbit-hole fame, captured in all his glory by NBC-Chicago veteran Mary Ann Ahern.
PayPal co-founder likes him because he’s real.
Peter Thiel is not ready to give up on defending President Donald Trump just yet.
The PayPal Holdings Inc. and Palantir Technologies Inc. co-founder praised Trump’s honesty, adding that unlike other Republican presidential hopefuls from the 2016 election, he isn’t a “zombie” and was the only candidate who addressed what Thiel considers politics’ biggest problem: political correctness.
“I got to meet a lot of people running for president on the U.S. Republican side in 2016 and they all felt like zombies,” he said during a Monday event on entrepreneurship in Sao Paulo, Brazil. “They couldn’t say anything different other than programmed ideological soundbites.”
Trump, Thiel said, is “a very healthy corrective to that.”
My thoughts precisely.
via Peter Thiel Says Trump Is the Republican Who Isn’t a ‘Zombie’ – BloombergQuint
That’s because he’s not a bullshitter.
Smiling when he doesn’t mean it. Or looking glum. Whatever.
He hasn’t got where he is by saying what he doesn’t mean. It’s a major part of his appeal.
via The Daily Caller
. . . gathered by “deeply saddened” and wholly supportive Fr. Z.
First, his apologia pro vita sua, explaining why this, why now?
I had always believed and hoped that the hierarchy of the Church could find within itself the spiritual resources and strength to tell the whole truth, to amend and to renew itself.
That is why, even though I had repeatedly been asked to do so, I always avoided making statements to the media, even when it would have been my right to do so, in order to defend myself against the calumnies published about me, even by high-ranking prelates of the Roman Curia.
But now that the corruption has reached the very top of the Church’s hierarchy, my conscience dictates that I reveal those truths….
Second, how Benedict corralled McCarrick, or tried to:
Pope Benedict had imposed on Cardinal McCarrick sanctions similar to those now imposed on him by Pope Francis: the Cardinal was to leave the seminary where he was living [fox, get out of the chicken coup], he was forbidden to celebrate [Mass] in public, to participate in public meetings, to give lectures, to travel, with the obligation of dedicating himself to a life of prayer and penance.
A through clipping of wings.
Third, the Wuerl effect:
Cardinal Wuerl, well aware of the continuous abuses committed by Cardinal McCarrick and the sanctions imposed on him by Pope Benedict, transgressing the Pope’s order, also allowed him to reside at a seminary in Washington D.C.
In doing so, he put other seminarians at risk.
Having abominably turned a blind eye to the s.o.b., not to mention thwarting Benedict, one of a long line of prelates who neutralized the Pope.
more more more to come . . .
via Archbp. Viganò testifies about corruption and cover up. Pope Francis knew. | Fr. Z’s Blog
