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#USCCB17 SHOCKER!
CARDINAL BURKE HACKED THE ELECTION!
November 14, 2017
In what he surely thought was a serious analysis from High Atop The Thing, over at Fishwrap, Michael Sean Winters, the Wile E. Coyote of the catholic Left and one of the New catholic Red Guards, looked at the beginning of the USCCB’s annual November meeting. He wrote (Fr Z's comment in red):
Some of the bishops are good friends with Cardinal Raymond Burke who has asserted that Amoris Laetitia is not a magisterial document. [How ominous!]
Everything about the culture of the bishops argues against them ever allowing their division to be aired too obviously in public. The divisions are clear, this year most tellingly in the race for the next chair of the Pro-Life Activities Committee, which pits Cardinal Cupich against Archbishop Joseph Naumann of Kansas City, Kansas.
Naumann is the embodiment of the culture warrior style of episcopal leadership and Cupich personifies the consistent ethic of life approach* advocated by his predecessor in Chicago, Cardinal Joseph Bernardin. No one is sure how that vote will turn out. Everyone is sure the vote will be a quasi-referendum on support for Pope Francis.
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[Don't be fooled by the tag 'consistent ethic of life' which Bernardin used to describe his so-called 'seamless garment' preaching. In one of Cardinal Mueller's unambiguous statements, he described it thus:
"The 'seamless garment' image was used to great effect to root the Church’s response to various moral issues — from nuclear proliferation to poverty — within the overarching teaching on the sanctity of human life, from natural conception to natural death.
Unfortunately, however, it is also true that the image has been used by some theologians and Catholic politicians, in an intellectually dishonest manner, to allow or at least to justify turning a blind eye to instances of abortion, contraception, or public funding for embryonic stem cell research, as long as these were simultaneously accompanied by opposition to the death penalty or promotion of economic development for the poor.
This morning the bishops voted to elect Archbishop Naumann, not Cupich, as head of the Pro-Life Committee, 96-82.
212 bishops participated in a “practice” vote. 178 voted on the matter of this committee. So, 34 abstained.
[Shall we interpret that one balloting to indicate that among the active US bishops today, 96 are still leaning orthodox, 82 are definitely Bergoglian, and 34 do not want to show their hand?]
But… “Everyone is sure the vote will be a quasi-referendum on support for Pope Francis.”
It will be interesting to see what Wile E.’s analysis will be of this! NB, his ominous mention of Card. Burke. Hmmm….
I know!
CARD. BURKE HACKED THE ELECTION!
[Modificato da TERESA BENEDETTA 14/11/2017 17:26]