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!
Venerable Pope Pius IX, pray for us.
ReplyDeleteI 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.
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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.
ReplyDeleteSpecies: derelicts circa 1970's - 1980's & progeny.