What the h... is happening?
Mueller flipping again????
When he was CDF Prefect under Bergoglio, Cardinal Mueller had the infuriating habit of speaking from both sides of his mouth about
Bergoglio and his more egregious anti-Catholic statements and actions. Most of the time as on AL and the dubia, he really straddled
the fence as much as he could that I feared for the integrity of his nether parts.
Then, I thought he had gone past all that with his decision to issue his much-praised Manifesto. And now comes this...
Gloria.TV is not on my A-list of news sources because I find their treatment of the news too superficial, even if they never hold back
on their sting. But their newsbits often mention their sources, and as poorly as they may convey the information and color their r
eporting with their obvious biases, they do not purvey falsehoods. Unless this is one...
So let the apparently back-to-flipflopping-and-fence-straddling cardinal explain himself. Is he really blaming everything that he
criticized and corrected in his Manifesto on the people around Bergoglio, and not on Bergoglio himself? They don't prompt him when
he makes all those extemporaneous venom-laden remarks from the chapel of Casa Santa Marta [I often think the saint must feel her name
being taken in vain whenever any anti-Catholic or even anti-Christian toxin emanates from the hotel named after her] - nor
during his inflight news conferences and his loose undisciplined blathering. Even if one can imagine the high-fives and backslapping
they must share with the pope over any of his ideologically driven insults!
Now let me lighten up with this amusing item from a satirical British blog...
What does a Camerlengo do?
February 15, 2019
The purpose of this blog is to provide education as well as spiritual nourishment, and many readers have asked me, "What is a camerlengo? Is it some sort of sexual practice known to Cardinal Coccopalmerio? Is it one of Massimo Faggioli's favourite ice creams? Is it an obscure papal garment like a fanon?"
Well nearly. When a cardinal is widely-respected and trusted, perhaps because he lived with Cardinal McCarrick but never actually met him, he may be appointed to the position of camerlengo.
Some widely-respected cardinals
[Tobin, Farrell, Cupich - McCarrick's musketeers. They'll carry on the havoc.]
The camerlengo's duties really begin when a Pope dies, and his first task is to check that the Pope is really dead (and not simply resting, like Benedict). "WAKE UP, POPEY, I'VE GOT A NICE CUP OF TEA FOR YOU!" he shouts, perhaps hitting the possibly-deceased with a small hammer called a
farrell. Another test that can be applied is to ask the presumed ex-pope some questions, called
Dubia, which no pope can refuse to answer.
All right, let's suppose that all tests have failed, and that the Pope is really dead. We have to get a new one! Now democracy isn't necessary the traditional way to go about this - for, remember that when Judas was disgraced, he purchased a field, and fell over, so that his bowels gushed asunder (Acts 1), and it was not long before the lot fell upon Matthias.
But let us suppose that we are going to have a papal conclave. Then the camerlengo has to organize it.
He kicks the seminarians out of the cardinals' beds (where applicable), locks up the supplies of drugs, and in general does all he can to make the participating cardinals look like holy princes of the church.
"Come on, Cocco, get that lampshade off your head and try and look holy."
What goes on in the conclave is a solemn secret, and we can only get to hear about it from tweets sent out by the cardinals.
Someone nominated Cupich! LOL
Send in more gin, I can't take much more of this!
The last time the St Gallen Mafia put a horse's head in my bed -
but they're being very quiet this time.
All in all, camerlengo is an important position: not exactly acting Pope, but still not one that you want to give to anyone who was in the least tainted by scandal. So we are greatly relieved that Kev the Rev has got it, and the last laugh will be Pope Francis's.
"Guess who the new camerlengo is!" [Uncle Ted and chums yukking it up!]
[Modificato da TERESA BENEDETTA 16/02/2019 07:08]