Thursday, April 15, 2010
Priests and bishops slap cardinal.
Fr. Edward Beck, a member of the Passionist religious community, takes aim at Cardinal Bertone's absurd, ignorant and insulting public comments that attempted to link homosexuality and pedophilia. See http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Spirituality/gay-priests-problem/story?id=10381964&page=1 I have to say, that perhaps people like Bertone are actually working for the good side, because they are keeping the pot boiling. The bishops' conference of England and Wales has repudiated his remarks http://catinfor.com/en/2010/04/14/british-bishops-deplore-bertone-view/. This sort of open opposition to what a curial cardinal says is nearly unprecedented in recent centuries. It reveals that the local bishops, who are closer to the people and more in tune with the cultures, are more likely to "get it." Curial officials, in the rarified rooms of the Vatican, don't have a clue.
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Its a good start. Where are the American bishops?
Hey Sebastian, check out this post on Sullivan's blog, would love to hear your take on it: http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2010/04/a-church-in-crisis.html.
Speaking as an observer from the other bank of the theological river, as it were, I'm astonished at the very direct criticism of a sitting pope by a Catholic theologian; is this a revolution in the making, do you think?
No, it's not a revolution in the making, but it is an increasingly interesting brouhaha (love that word). Kung has been a gadfly for decades, and has nothing left to lose, really.
I am amazed at the complacency of so many people in the Church, and I find it very curious how so many people think that 'not saying anything' is what is required.
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