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After defeat of Cupich to head their pro-life committee,
US bishops nonetheless show their Bergoglian leanings in a big way
They voted overwhelmingly to move forward with developing the new pastoral plan based on Amoris Laetitia: 94 percent voted for,
5 percent voted no, with less than 1 percent choosing to abstain.... [That would seem to more accurately reflect the USCCB voting
at the recent annual assembly as a referendum on Pope Francis than the Naumann-Cupich vote (94-86)!]
Speaking in the absence of the chairman of the USCCB’s committee on laity, marriage, family life and youth, Archbishop
Charles Chaput, who was called away for meetings in Rome, Most Rev. Richard J. Malone introduced the pastoral plan initiative to
the assembly. [Would Chaput have delivered this message if he had been present? Or did he use a pretext to be conveniently absent
from the meeting?]
Bishop Malone explained the genesis of the project:
Marriage and family life have been a priority for our Conference for decades. Besides the pastoral plan on family ministry first issued in 1978, and reaffirmed in 1990, numerous statements, resources and initiatives have been offered over the years, including our national pastoral initiative on Marriage launched in 2005, and our pastoral letter on marriage in 2009.
The recent synods, and Pope Francis’s Evangelii Gaudium and Amoris Laetitia, provide a significant opportunity to present a renewed pastoral plan on marriage and family life, to assist the many good efforts underway now in our dioceses and parishes and to advance the pastoral conversion called for by our Holy Father.
First, a USCCB statement would be an important response to Amoris Laetitia, a fitting way to receive the exhortation at the national level and encourage a long-term appropriation and implementation.
Second, a pastoral plan would encourage a broader reading of AL and seek to advance more conversation and engagement around strengthening marriage and family life.
Third, It has been nearly 40 years since we developed a pastoral plan in this area. It’s time to take a new look...
And how about this?
If the above reporting is correct, it is yet another example of the unmilitant totally yielding but supposed-to-be Church Militant in the Catholic hierarchy. Not that it is a surprise at all, in the light of Ouellet's trueblue Bergoglian statements since March 13, 2013. And not that that his professions of ultra-loyalty have kept this pope from virtually ignoring him as Prefect of the Congregation for Bishops (do they even meet weekly any more to discuss episcopal appointments, considering that Bergoglio appears to do everything through the man he named to be Ouellet's #2, best friend of the pope's personal secretary Pedacchia who is himself still an official at Bishops?)
I cringe in utter shame when I remember that for the 2013 Conclave, I had favored Ouellet more than Scola, and shortly thereafter, Ouellet began making pro-Bergoglio statements that went far beyond just demonstrating 'good sportsmanship' because he also found it necessary to compare Benedict XVI unfavorably with the new pope.
Here is a link to the Ouellet article in OR in the Vatican's own English translation:
www.osservatoreromano.va/en/news/accompanying-discerning-integrating-...
It's worse than I could have imagined. It's Ouellet buying into AL and Bergoglio's intention/interpretation of it 1000 percent. Fr Spadaro could not have done better!
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