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Why is Cardinal Mahony promoting such speakers?" (California Daily Catholic, March 16, 2010):
"Group calls for picketing at LA archdiocese’s 2010 Religious Education Congress, calls it ‘dissent-fest’." Imagine, Catholics having to picket outside an archdiocesan-sponsored event (the world's largest training event for Catholic schoolteachers, held this year in Annaheim, CA), and call for an end to the archdiocesan promotion of public dissent from Church teaching.
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And that is the way it has been every year with the majority of workshops done by public dissenters with a couple token speakers actually faithful to the Church.
I note some other speakers such as the Sister who promotes shamanism and new age thought using pseudo-science and a range of others on the Call To Action circuit in open defiance to the Church.
http://www.splendoroftruth.com/curtjester/2010/03/here-we-go-again-4/
Meanwhile, SPPX people are suspect, and Mahoney is Rome's official man in Cali. Any wonder the Church is in shambles. Plain speaking is very very noticably absent. I love Benedict XVI, but it is more of the same toothlessness. If Truth is true, does it not merit at lest a bit of vigorous practical defense?
What JM said.
Donna
Becasue he's not a Catholic.
John L
Do you mean that JM is not Catholic? Is he SSPX? The SSPX are in schism but it you weigh their dissent against the dissenters within there is no contest. I grew up in Mahoney's diocese under James Francis Cardinal McIntyre. If people could roll around in their graves, surely Cardinal McIntyre is doing just that.
Donna
Donna,
My take on John L's comment is that it refers not to JM but to the title of the linked post from California Daily Catholic, "Why is Cardinal Mahony promoting such speakers?" That is, "because [Mahony's] not Catholic."
One could debate the different senses of Catholic and what it means to be Catholic, but my assumption is that John L is saying there comes a threshold some prelates may cross when the content of their personal religious commitments can no longer be meaningfully described as "Catholic." I doubt you'd disagree.
Correct Dr. Blosser. I do not disagree. I'm from the school of James Francis Cardinal McIntyre. I know I mentioned it before but I like to use his name and again point out the fact that I was raised in the L.A. Diocese when he was the Cardinal. :)
Donna
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