tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post8938656437751172702..comments2024-03-28T20:30:10.681-04:00Comments on southern orders: IT WAS BOUND TO HAPPEN AND IT HAS, THE ULTRA SCHISMATIC AND LEFTEST PUBLICATION, THE NATIONAL CHISMATIC REPORT (NCR) TURNS ON POPE FRANCISFr. Allan J. McDonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16986575955114152639noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-44744553482920074162014-03-07T11:00:10.516-05:002014-03-07T11:00:10.516-05:00Actually the downfall began with Pope Benedict whe...Actually the downfall began with Pope Benedict when he first came out on the balcony after being elected. He did not have on a long sleeve white shirt with cuff links under is cassock, but rather a black sweater that stood out like a sore black thumb! Oh, the humanity! Fr. Allan J. McDonaldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16986575955114152639noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-19936471266917516732014-03-07T10:55:03.559-05:002014-03-07T10:55:03.559-05:00Oh no! He wore a house cassock onto the balcony -...Oh no! He wore a house cassock onto the balcony - from thence comes the downfall of the papacy... Bill Hobbshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10134670944420445567noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-72009554434957370292014-03-07T08:57:25.159-05:002014-03-07T08:57:25.159-05:00@JBS:
Likely, Pope Francis doesn't understand...@JBS:<br /><br />Likely, Pope Francis doesn't understand what they were thinking either. In one of his books (I forget which one), then-Cardinal Bergoglio called reassigning those questionable priests to different parishes stupid or absurd or something like that, and that he didn't understand such policy.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-90735471214998968972014-03-07T07:52:26.965-05:002014-03-07T07:52:26.965-05:00Thanks for posting this, Father McDonald.
Bisho...Thanks for posting this, Father McDonald. <br /><br />Bishops have certainly done much to improve the ways in which they respond to these evil acts. What I wish they would do now is explain to us why their predecessors in the Seventies and Eighties assigned known predators to positions of authority over minors. I think we can understand that bishops were embarrassed to admit the crimes, and why they sent abusers to treatment centers. But, after the perpetrators were released, what possessed the bishops to reassign these men to positions of authority over children? Perhaps if Pope Francis would just honestly explain what they were thinking, we could understand, forgive and move on. Rood Screenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09816036539243214384noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-21476396643249096222014-03-06T23:53:13.170-05:002014-03-06T23:53:13.170-05:00The NCR is culpable for publishing such an invecti...The NCR is culpable for publishing such an invective, but the focus should be Fr. Doyle. To be fair, the sex abuse crisis is HIS issue. He warned the US Bishop years ago about what was going to happen and they ignored him. Unfortunately, while he is right on the money about the problem and its gravity, he is terribly wrong about the solution.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-86925852541246173582014-03-06T23:37:16.441-05:002014-03-06T23:37:16.441-05:00It is extremely impolitic to label Fr. Doyle a whi...It is extremely impolitic to label Fr. Doyle a whiner, IMO. And, FRAJM, it strains credulity to say that Doyle's indictment represents a whole cloth association with NCR.<br />I don't think the timing of this essay's publication coming on the heels of NCR's secular counterpart, Public Television's "Frontline" miserably researched "expose" of how Benedict's tenure was flawed and failed due to his pastoral inability to deal with the curial handling of the scandals of pedophilia and active homosexuality in the Roman clerical scene, as well as the banking and other residual issues.<br />The honeymoon of NCR with HHF amounts to nothing. HHFrancis' cup runneth over, and he's (mixed metaphor alert) sipping/swimming as fast as he can, IMO.Charlesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-45678305968337730222014-03-06T19:57:56.947-05:002014-03-06T19:57:56.947-05:00The media made the pope into a celebrity when Fran...The media made the pope into a celebrity when Francis ignored centuries old protocol and walked out onto that balcony wearing a house cassock. They made him and they will never turn on him. They will just ignore things like marriage is between one man and woman. They will never turn on him, why should they? Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-60723273307841708752014-03-06T18:44:22.000-05:002014-03-06T18:44:22.000-05:00It is only a matter of time before the rest of the...It is only a matter of time before the rest of the NCR people join this priest as they are all lemmings now that their one good reporter left.<br /><br />Father, I remember as a kid when the neighborhood boys would get together to play ball and one would start to whine about something. One of us would punch him and he would either conform or go home. Isn't there something like that you faithful priests could do to these whiners like Doyle? That would not only accomplish getting rid of loud mouth heterodox priests like this, but it would also send a message to those passive-aggresive liberal priests who harm the Church in more quiet and sneaky ways.<br />Vianney1100Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-8478096377314241052014-03-06T18:29:05.177-05:002014-03-06T18:29:05.177-05:00It seems to me that one writer criticized the Pope...It seems to me that one writer criticized the Pope on one issue... I am not sure how that qualifies as the entire National Catholic Reporter turning on the Pope.Bill Hobbshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10134670944420445567noreply@blogger.com