A headline I really liked seeing
I see this headline "Cardinal Mahony bars Australian bishop with doctrinal ..." only to find that the Catholic News Agency site is down.
This obviously refers to Bishop Geoffrey Robinson who was an auxiliary bishop of the Sydney for twenty years. The Australian Catholic Bishop's conference recently issued a public warning about the doctrinal difficulties in his book. I only hope that this is a trend for Cardinal Mahony to ban dissident speakers. The Cardinal wrote after the Pope's visit.
I return to Los Angeles a different disciple of Jesus than when I left a week ago. Thank you, Lord, for sending us not only the Vicar of Christ and the Successor of Peter, but also a brother and friend who knows Jesus personally and gave us six extraordinary days of grace and hope!
May my pessimism be drowned in Christian charity.
Update: Unfortunately Bishop Robinson did speak in Washington D.C. last night to Voice of the the "Faithful" an event advertised in a parish bulletin. It would be nice to have a statement by Archbishop Wuerl about this.
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Yes, it is Bishop Geoffrey Robinson he banned.
If this is evidence of the change in Cardinal Mahony he claims happenned is real then we have definitive evidence that miracles do happen.
It's as if Benedict drugged him and replaced his abbynormal brain with a good one.
http://www.catholica.com.au/breakingnews/016_bn_150508.php
Thank you Fr Greg Rowles OFM Cap for pointing us to this site of a very "(un)excitingly different way of looking at faith and spirituality" that low and high discuss over TRUTH, not for the splendor of it but to sow seeds of doubt & distortion
Obi Wan Benedict put a Jedi mind trick on him:
"These aren't the dissenters you're looking for..."
"These aren't the dissenters we're looking for.. move along."
While I'm not surprised that the parish involved is St. John the Baptist -- I my experience, it's very much a trendy liberal suburban parish -- their bulletins do run to eight pages. This week's announcement for Bishop Robinson's talk appeared under the header "From All Around Town," which also included an announcement on an upcoming talk titled, "Lepanto: How the Rosary and Pius V Saved Catholic Europe." I think their policy is, "All the news fits."
Also in the bulletin: "Our parish has pledged a total of $289,716 [to the Archbishop's Appeal], which is 108% of our parish goal." And the Sunday collection for May 11 was over $25,000. So it's not exactly a hotbed of revolt against the hierarchical Church.
One suspects that the Cardinal would hardly have noticed any "heresies" nor have developed a vertebrae had not the prelate in question been an "activist" vis-a-vis sexual abuse scandals.
One hardly expects the Archbishop of Los Angeles suddenly to be reviewing faculty of Catholic colleges and seminaries for Orthodox teaching.
God works with us where we are. I'm glad to see bishops doing their jobs properly, whatever reason they have to do it.
But honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if a dose of B16 really hasn't changed some of our bishops. Sometimes it just takes an invitation from the right person, or the words to make them _want_ to get on board instead of skittering away. Also, B16 is the kind of speaker whose sound reasoning and beautiful words stick with you; so his influence may well be lasting.
Something is not right with this story. How could he let soooo many disenters from Call to Action headliners speak at the Religious Congress year after year and now this.
Michael II, brick by brick, if this is the new disciple of Jesus Christ that Mahony describes himself as.
According to the latest issue of The Wanderer, Bishop Robinson is scheduled to speak at the adult enrichment program at St. Susanna's in Dedham, MA. This program runs all year and
features prominent dissenters from the theology departments of Boston College and Holy Cross, as well as others, such as Sr. Joan Chittister. I'm told the Archdiocese of Boston is aware of this, but I don't know if anything has been done about it. The church was scheduled to be closed a couple years ago, but its rebellious pastor threatened to hold Masses (if they are valid Masses I have reason to doubt) in a nearby dance hall. The archdiocese backed down, and St. Susanna's is still a functioning parish.