Five Things That Haven’t Happened
1. The Pope hasn’t gotten out of the bedrooms of good Catholics and claimed birth control is good.
2. The Pope hasn’t ended the discrimination against homosexuals that wish to marry.
3. The Pope hasn’t ended the discrimination against women who want to be priests.
4. The Pope hasn’t stopped repressing priests from freely engaging their natural desires, e.g. allowing them to marry.
5. The Pope hasn’t stepped on the authority of the various bishops around the U.S. for a one-time chance to deny communion to various people.
None of these things were unexpected. If you were disappointed and surprised that any of these items didn’t occur, you may wish to evaluate how you came to the conclusion that they were likely to occur. Before flaming on point 5, read it again and make sure you criticize the statement I made and not the one you wanted me to make.
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I was not disappointed over any of the five.
1. I imagine about 98% of married Catholic couples didn’t care what he had to said, anyhow.
2. I bet 2% of weekly mass-attending Catholics are beside themselves.
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5.“We shall go before a higher tribunal – a tribunal where a Judge of infinite goodness, as well as infinite justice, will preside, and where many of the judgments of this world will be reversed.” B/Gen. Thomas Meagher
I would have been disappointed if he had not said three little words.
Deny Communion? Is the priest certain of what happened immeditely prior to the beginning of Mass? Perhaps the politician received the Sacrament of Reconciliation and accompanying graces and is therefore implicitly drawn to reception of the Eucharist.
Who was the the first person into Heaven, after Jesus? The good thief.
Jim H,
Legally the removal of interdiction is reserved to the one who issues it, barring grave circiumstance. This means a private confession before mass wouldn’t be sufficient.
The Pope didn’t say anything to bishops about communion policy, but if you believe in leadership by example, his actions at today’s Mass puts him on the side of Wuerl, and contrary to Chaput and Burke. ROMA LOCUTA, CAUSA FINITA
Katherine,
Leadership by example would be dictating communion in the diocese of Rome. While he does enjoy ordinary jurisdiction throughout the world, it is quite extraordinary for any Pontiff to exercise it.
That bit of Latin from Katherine is remarkably impressive.
The pope is in the bedroom of good Catholics? Is that what got my dogs all riled up last night? I thought I was just dreaming.
Yeah, mine too! What was that about?