Will the Bishops Talk Back--for Once?
As reported on RealClearPolitics:
Reporter at Nancy Pelosi's weekly news conference: "You're a Catholic that supports gay marriage....[H]ow do you grapple with the idea that you support gay marriage as a Catholic?"
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi: "My religion has, compels me, and I love it for it, to be against discrimination of any kind in our country, and I consider this [opposition to gay marriage] a form of discrimination."
Is anyone listening--anyone, say, in the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops? Pelosi misstates the teaching of the Church so badly, and so baldly, that I see no way the bishops can permit her comments to pass without rebuttal--without, that is, abdicating their pastoral duty. Will we hear from Archbishop George Niederauer, the archbishop of San Francisco, Pelosi's home diocese, or from Donald Cardinal Wueril, the archbishop of Washington, D.C. (pictured here)? And if not from them, then from Timothy Cardinal Dolan, the archbishop of New York and president of the USCCB?
And if not, why not?
Watch this space.
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May '10
Re: Will the Bishops Talk Back--for Once?
Pseudodionysius
You are referring to Dominus Iesus. What do you find surprising about then Cardinal Ratzinger's CDF document? · 29 minutes ago
I don't believe I found it surprising. Joseph hit it on the head a few comments above. We are in territory where Catholics and Protestants are never going to see eye-to-eye. (Do me a favor and excuse the mixed metaphor.)
Edited on May 14, 2012 at 2:52amSep '10
Re: Will the Bishops Talk Back--for Once?
We Catholics wish we had the same willies.
Sep '10
Re: Will the Bishops Talk Back--for Once?
Matthew Gilley
Pseudodionysius
You are referring to Dominus Iesus. What do you find surprising about then Cardinal Ratzinger's CDF document? · 29 minutes ago
I don't believe I found it surprising. Joseph hit it on the head a few comments above. We are in territory where Catholics and Protestants are never going to see eye-to-eye. (Do me a favor and excuse the mixed metaphor.) · 40 minutes ago
Edited 39 minutes ago
I had a more liberal Lutheran complaining about Dominus Iesus a few years back: she said "I thought we were all the same."
I just let the statement hang in the air as I thought it acted as its own refutation without me adding anything to the mix.
Mar '12
Re: Will the Bishops Talk Back--for Once?
The cowardliness of the bishops is well known. Maybe if Benedict replaces them with some priests with spines who want to protect the Church and the Blessed Sacrament more than they want to protect whatever minimal political privileges they have, we'll have Catholics who resemble Catholics once again.
Jul '11
Re: Will the Bishops Talk Back--for Once?
Cowardice how? By not publicly chastising and embarrassing a powerful member of the government? By not setting themselves up as an opposing force against the government's will? Sounds more like good sense than cowardice to me.