My, oh my! "Pope appoints leading opponents of Catholic doctrine to Ordinary Synod" (Voice of the Family, September 15, 2015):
Appointees who will be attending solely because of the Holy Father's invitation:
- Godfried Cardinal Danneels, Archbishop Emeritus of Mechlin-Brussels
- John Cardinal Dew, Archbishop of Wellington
- Walter Cardinal Kasper, President Emeritus of the Pontifical Council for Christian Unity
- Oscar Andrés Cardinal Rodríguez Maradiaga, Archbishop of Tegucigalpa
- Christoph Cardinal Schönborn, Archbishop of Vienna
- Donald Cardinal Wuerl, Archbishop of Washington
- Archbishop Blaise Cupich, Archbishop of Chicago
- Lorenzo Cardinal Baldisseri, General Secretary of the Synod
- Reinhard Cardinal Marx, Archbishop of Münich and Freising
- Vincent Cardinal Nichols, Archbishop of Westminster
- Archbishop Salvatore Fisichella, President of the Pontifical Council for New Evangelization
- Archbishop Bruno Forte, Special Secretary of the Synod
- Archbishop Diarmuid Martin, Archbishop of Dublin
- Archbishop Heiner Koch, Archbishop of Berlin
- Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, President of the Pontifical Council for the Family
- Bishop Franz-Josepf Hermann Bode, Bishop of Osnabrück
- Bishop Johan Bonny, Bishop of Antwerp
- Bishop Jean-Paul Vesco, Bishop of Orans
But of course this is all just a ruse by which to entertain the media and keep us all on our toes -- a brilliant tactical feint by which they're only seeming to lurch left, but at the last minute, are in fact going to lurch right and pull a Torquemada on us. Right? There ya go: thought we were gonna go all soft and theologically mushy on ya, didn't ya? Didn't know we were gonna start roast heretics again, eh? Gotchya good!
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Venerable Pope Pius IX, pray for us.
I rather hope that the reason to gather this collection together is to save individual preparation time for the rite of the unmaking of a cardinal.
And intentionally excluding Archbishop Cordileone.
http://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2015/09/double-standards-at-work-in-selection.html
A little schadenfreude here, but I cannot contemplate this list of names without just a bit of "hope" for a kind of mass event "People are Alike All Over" from the original Twilight Zone.
Species: derelicts circa 1970's - 1980's & progeny.
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