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I am getting behind in my personal posting and responding, and this may become a bit more frequent. I apologize for now and for later.
Meanwhile, my surgery is scheduled for May 18, not May 12 as I had thought. The Operating Room penmanship leaves much to be desired.
For once the Cardinals aren't talking. And I don't mean the ball team, if, indeed, they still exist.
They have said enough already to indicate the agreed upon general policy of the next Papacy, whoever is elected to it, according to the probably pseudonymous Sandro Magister, writing in Chiesa. His sources are significant (and public), and I find his analysis highly persuasive.
I hope my LJ friends who consider themselves progressive Catholics and their sympathizers do not find this too discouraging.
I strongly support interreligious dialogue, and have contributed to it in my own small way, but I don't think it is best advanced by glitzy summit meetings. I have mixed feelings about the apologies. The acknowledgment of anti-Semitism was needful and will not be retracted. The apologies to the Orthodox Christians were off target for reasons I can go into on another occasion. And the constant world travel and the organization of mass demonstrations of youth did little to help and something to hurt the vitality of the Church on the local level, which is, after all, where it lives. Significantly, this seems to be acknowledged even by Cardinals close to Opus Dei, the Legionaires, and the lay movements.
Today's news from Rome seems to be limited to a feeble protest of the deplorable Cardinal Law in his carrying out of a ceremonial function of the office to which the late Pope appointed him after his disgrace. We shall no doubt be subjected to more coverage when he and his fellows are locked up, perhaps fairly briefly, a week from now. Not the way he, in particular, ought to have been locked up.
Meanwhile, my surgery is scheduled for May 18, not May 12 as I had thought. The Operating Room penmanship leaves much to be desired.
For once the Cardinals aren't talking. And I don't mean the ball team, if, indeed, they still exist.
They have said enough already to indicate the agreed upon general policy of the next Papacy, whoever is elected to it, according to the probably pseudonymous Sandro Magister, writing in Chiesa. His sources are significant (and public), and I find his analysis highly persuasive.
I hope my LJ friends who consider themselves progressive Catholics and their sympathizers do not find this too discouraging.
I strongly support interreligious dialogue, and have contributed to it in my own small way, but I don't think it is best advanced by glitzy summit meetings. I have mixed feelings about the apologies. The acknowledgment of anti-Semitism was needful and will not be retracted. The apologies to the Orthodox Christians were off target for reasons I can go into on another occasion. And the constant world travel and the organization of mass demonstrations of youth did little to help and something to hurt the vitality of the Church on the local level, which is, after all, where it lives. Significantly, this seems to be acknowledged even by Cardinals close to Opus Dei, the Legionaires, and the lay movements.
Today's news from Rome seems to be limited to a feeble protest of the deplorable Cardinal Law in his carrying out of a ceremonial function of the office to which the late Pope appointed him after his disgrace. We shall no doubt be subjected to more coverage when he and his fellows are locked up, perhaps fairly briefly, a week from now. Not the way he, in particular, ought to have been locked up.