Not since the so-called “insurrection” of four years ago, on January 6, has Washington experienced something like this kind of breaking news:
Washington, D.C., will now be home to 5 cardinals and one ex- cardinal, Cardinals Donald Wuerl, Wilton Gregory, ex-Theodore McCarrick, the three emeriti, Christophe Pierre, the apostolic nuncio, and now McElroy. Cardinal Sean O'Malley, the retired archbishop of Boston, has indicated he intends to spend about half his time at the Capuchin College in D.C.,
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Just when you think things can't get any worse....
New York should be coming up soon too. My money is on Card. Tobin…
Why has not Cupich been replaced? He turned 75 in March. I guess he has more damage to do before he goes!
The photo of McElroy confirms what I think of which team he plays for!
Maybe McKnight to Chicago…
And the clown show continues
The tone deafness of Rome concerning this appointment while disappointing is not surprising. Two years before the McCarrick scandal came to light, McElory was informed by Richard Sipe of the criminal behavior of McCarrick and did nothing with the information. He is now a successor to McCarrick in Washington. The whole thing stinks to high heaven.
The gift that will keep on giving for years to come.
We have a lot of evil men running things now, but they will be gone soon, and will receive their "reward."
McElroy, one of McCarrick's buddies, to ADW just means it will continue to be driven into the ground in the most corrupt, scandalizing ways possible.
Nick
This isn't a bit suprising. One can only hope that as this erudite leftist ideologe prances to the D.C. Archbishop's chair, it will be part of the last gasp of the self-hating Catholicism that has been a train-wreck/dumpster fire since 1964. (My apologies to the train wrecks and dumpster fires of the world--metaphors increasingly fail me).
Once Francis goes to his “reward” I expect the Church will revive some. His appointments have escalated institutional collapse
I will be interested to see who replaces Archbishop Schnurr of Cincinnati.
I appreciated the remarks that Cardinal McElroy issued during yesterday's press conference in Washington, D.C. He highlighted that we are rooted in Jesus Christ. We are called to conversion and holiness.
Cardinal McElroy also highlighted our need to protect the unborn.
Cardinal McElroy made clear his determination to promote the Holy Gospel/Culture of Life. I pray for Cardinal McElroy's holy success.
May the Blessed Virgin Mary, dear Saint Joseph, as well as all the Angels and Saints, please pray that Cardinal McElroy will achieve holy success.
Pax.
Mark Thomas
With Father McDonald's permission:
Excerpts from yesterday's remarks that Cardinal McElroy had offered:
"The “The process of synodality upon which our Church has embarked...consists of a journey, rooted overwhelmingly in a single event – the Resurrection of Jesus Christ.
‘Every new step in the life of the Church is a return to this source. It is a renewed experience of the disciples’ encounter with the Risen One in the Upper Room on Easter evening.’
"In that journey we are called to build up a Church centered in the Eucharist and devoted to the Word of God and the sacraments that sustain us.
"Synodality calls us to create disciples who, in the light of baptism, are co-responsible with every believer for the task of evangelizing the Church, the culture, and the world in which we live...called to conversion and change in our lives, and to reconciliation with God and one another.
“Synodality...seeks the participation of every disciple in the Church’s journey in this earthly pilgrimage, and is oriented toward the building of unity in society rooted in God’s justice, which cares especially for the unborn..."
Pax.
Mark Thomas
Hey Mark Thomas, you never told us how the priest saying a Novus Ordo "Mass" in the water on a raft in his bathing suit is holy, sane and sacred. What gives?
One priest commentator here wrote that the appointment of McElroy just shows how out of touch and “tone deaf” Pope Francis is to the needs of the Washington, DC Archdioces given the grave scandals associated with McCarrick and Wuerl and those who covered up the sex abuse crimes of McCarrick or knew about them and did nothing. Among those is McElroy.
Crux has a commentary on McElroy, his strengths and weaknesses, but it also calls him out:
“Yet McElroy’s appointment also points to the other issue facing Francis’s final years: The never-ending abuse crisis in the Church.
The cardinal is accused of not properly addressing accusations given to him from clerical sex abuse expert Richard Sipe in 2016. (Sipe died in 2018.)
The pope himself has long been dogged by accusations he tends to believe the protests of innocence from clergy over the accusations made from the victims.
Francis took the word of Chilean Bishop Juan Barros, Argentinian Gustavo Óscar Zanchetta, and Theodore McCarrick over the objections of their victims, before reversing course after public outrage.
Since the 1950s, conservative politicians in the West have generally been respectful towards the Vatican, often fearful of losing Catholic votes. The new populist leaders – who often have strong support from Mass-going Catholics – are less likely to fear offending the Church leadership by bringing up the Vatican’s own skeletons when they feel attacked by the pope.
The next few years might be interesting.”
As an aside, Richard Sipe quoted in the Crux article taught me several pastoral courses at St. Mary’s Seminary in Baltimore in the late 70’s. He was an eccentric character, a laicized Dominican married to a exclaustrated nun but within the Church. Despite his ecentric personality, he was very honest.
I have learned that the best way to get Mark Thomas to clam up is to ask him a direct question about his ludicrous assertions!
Fr McDonald, I have read a couple of Sipes’s books and they have been eye-opening.He called out Holy, Holy McCarrick years before the Vatican did anything. Under many State’s “duty to report laws” “men” like McElroy would be in jail.
Father McDonald,
Here is an interesting article by Alan Dershowitz where he goes after Pope Francis for bearing false witness against Israel. Although I am not a fan of non-Catholics commenting on any Pope, this article is worth a read. One factual point he fails to make is Pope Pius XII was praised by Chief Rabbi Isaac Herzog as a "righteous gentile." Pius XII being a tool of Hitler was started by a Communist smear merchant, Rolf Hochhuth, when he wrote a play called "The Deputy."
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/21295/pope-francis-bearing-false-witness
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