From the file of "you can't make this stuff up!"
American Viganò: Archbishop Chaput divides episcopacy even in retirement
His Excellency, the Most Reverend Charles Chaput, emeritus archbishop of Philadelphia, has come out of retirement to explain to the rest of his benighted brothers in the episcopacy — and to the rest of us — that an impending scandal looms for the Holy, Roman, Catholic and Apostolic Faith: President-elect Joe Biden might be given Communion. The horror!
Chaput set forth his reasonings, such as they are, in an article at First Things, the magazine of record for culture warrior conservative Catholicism. He begins by recalling the 2004 election when another Catholic, Sen. John Kerry, ran for president and some bishops, egged on by Judy Brown of the American Life League, argued that Kerry should be denied Communion because of his support for liberal abortion laws. Then-Archbishop Raymond Burke was the acknowledged leader of the effort to deny Communion to pro-choice politicians, with Chaput adopting a lightly less extreme posture.
Chaput mentions two bishops in his first paragraph, former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick and then-Bishop of Pittsburgh, now-Cardinal Donald Wuerl. I am not sure if he mentions the two together because he wants to slime the latter by associating him with the disgrace of the former. It is true that Wuerl was one of the principal voices opposed to Chaput in 2004, but there were others. After all, the conference as a body did not adopt the position Chaput advocated.
3 comments:
Seeing is believing. Spin knows no limits.
Michael Sean Winters said..."Chaput has become an American Viganò, and, like the disgraced former nuncio, he is dividing the episcopacy even in retirement."
Nonsense.
Archbishop Chaput has not divided the episcopacy.
In addition, the claim that Archbishop Chaput is "an American Viganò" is preposterous and defamatory.
Unlike Archbishop Viganò, Archbishop Chaput is in full communion with Pope Francis.
Archbishop Viganò is a proven, discredited liar.
Archbishop Viganò, via his mutiny against His Holiness, Pope Francis, has thrown in with Satan.
Conversely, Archbishop Chaput has declared publicly his fraternal love of, and respect for, Pope Francis.
Archbishop Chaput is in full communion with Pope Francis. Archbishop Chaput has praised Pope Francis.
I hope that Michael Sean Winters will apologize for having defamed Archbishop Chaput.
Pax.
Mark Thomas
Michael Sean Winters said..."Chaput has become an American Viganò, and, like the disgraced former nuncio, he is dividing the episcopacy even in retirement. That is the scandal here."
Mister Winters has a pastor and bishop. Mister Winters' superiors at National Catholic Reporter, who authorized the publication of the defamatory article in question, have pastors and bishops.
Are the pastors and bishops in question unaware as to the public defamatory declarations in which their prominent spiritual children (via print, or, additional media) traffic?
It is unbelievable that a Catholic who traffics in defamation, publicly and prominently, online, and/or in print, escapes direct, merciful correction from his or her pastor.
Mister Sean Michel Winters, for example, would do well to recall that Vatican II teaches:
"...the Church welcomes and promotes with special interest those which have a most direct relation to men's minds and which have uncovered new avenues of communicating most readily news, views and teachings of every sort."
"The most important of these inventions are those media which, such as the press, movies, radio, television and the like, can, of their very nature, reach and influence, not only individuals, but the very masses and the whole of human society, and thus can rightly be called the media of social communication.
"The Church recognizes that these media, if properly utilized, can be of great service to mankind, since they greatly contribute to men's entertainment and instruction as well as to the spread and support of the Kingdom of God.
"The Church recognizes, too, that men can employ these media contrary to the plan of the Creator and to their own loss.
"Indeed, the Church experiences maternal grief at the harm all too often done to society by their evil use."
Archbishop Chaput has the right to his good name. In turn, Mister Winters, as a Catholic, should repent for having trampl2ed Archbishop Chaput's good name.
Pax.
Mark Thomas
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