"My priest and I occasionally share articles with each other in an ongoing amicable discussion about the state of the Church. He recently gave me a copy of an article written by Walter Cardinal Kasper entitled 'On the Church' from the Jesuit magazine America (April 23-30, 2001), which was directed against Cardinal Ratzinger by name. My priest suggested that the comparatively young Kasper might make a good pope someday ('Kasper, the friendly pope?'), perhaps right after Cardinal Martini of Milan, who, he said, might make a good immediate successor to Pope John Paul II." ...
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The Kasper-Ratzinger Debate & The State of the Church
Pope Francis turns 85 tomorrow. For the occasion, this from Philip Blosser at the
New Oxford Review archive (April 2002). He began,
Pope wants investment in mercy with hospitals, schools
Cindy Wooden of Catholic News Service
reported at Crux
on remarks by Pope Francis at a Saturday prayer vigil and today's Mass for Divine Mercy Sunday.
P.S. For Seinfeld fans, it recalls an episode we might here call The Popy Remark.
"As a reminder, a 'monument' let’s say, to this Year of Mercy, how beautiful it would be if in every diocese there were a structural work of mercy: a hospital, a home for the aged or abandoned children, a school where there isn’t one, a home for recovering drug addicts — so many things could be done," the pope said.Here in our Archdiocese of Milwaukee, I remember that at one of Archbishop Dolan's early gatherings around 2004 a gentleman used the Q and A to suggest reopening St. Mary's parish in central Milwaukee. Nine inner city parishes had been merged into two in the mid-1990s. Reopening one now could accept our Pope's suggestion.
P.S. For Seinfeld fans, it recalls an episode we might here call The Popy Remark.
POPE FRANCIS "so many things could be done."
JERRY: "Well, of course it could be done! Anything could be done! But it only is done if it's done. Show me the levels! The bet is the levels."
Latest Pope Trump wall controversy development
(responding to)No please. Leave it up, I love walls. #MakeCatholicismGreatAgain https://t.co/h1KJp8CC4x
— Pope Trump (@PopeTrump) February 19, 2016
"Pope Francis, tear down that wall!"#vaticanwalls pic.twitter.com/mDGANFtApb
— Joe Scarborough (@JoeNBC) February 18, 2016
The Passion of the Bureaucrats
Tim Parks reviews
Avarizia: Le Carte che Svelano. Ricchezza, Scandali e Segreti della Chiesa di Francesco, by Emiliano Fittipaldi,
and
Merchants in the Temple: Inside Pope Francis’s Secret Battle against Corruption in the Vatican, by Gianluigi Nuzzi, translated by Michael Moore,
at
London Review of Books.
"As we read of the growing tension between pope and Curia we realise that some major upset must have occurred to cause someone inside the Vatican to make so much explosive material available to the press, someone certainly opposed to the old guard, but perhaps not entirely convinced by Pope Francis either."
Our man in Havana
Joint Declaration of Pope Francis and Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia, at
Whispers in the Loggia, and nota bene,
Given Moscow's core, eternal beef toward Rome – Ukraine's Greek-Catholics – the key graf of Pope-Patriarch accord: pic.twitter.com/lXSjd7PV2L
— Rocco Palmo (@roccopalmo) February 12, 2016
Now, the Pope is changing the meaning of marriage.
At
Althouse, a quote from Pope Francis,
"'Some [annulment] procedures are so long and so burdensome,' the pontiff said in 2014, 'and people give up.'"and her reaction,
"Some people give up on giving up on their marriages. Or should I say their marriages that are not really marriages because they are nullities and these poor people are deprived of the benefit of the formal recognition of the nothingness of the thing that prevents them from moving on and getting a real marriage?"draw numerous comments.
The Essential Guardini
Pope Francis regularly cites the works of Romano Guardini.
George Panichas provided some background on Guardini in this Comment from the Spring 2005 issue of Modern Age.
The Peronist pope
Pope Francis is a rock star, or at least that is how he is being greeted in Latin America http://t.co/TNU63brrGh pic.twitter.com/erFyxVZlZn— The Economist (@TheEconomist) July 14, 2015Just before the summer trip
Pope Francis Grills Burgers On Balcony Of St. Peter’s Basilica pic.twitter.com/m4fvEpK2mb— The Onion (@TheOnion) July 9, 2015Encyclical in brief
Too lazy to read all of #LaudatoSi? You're in luck – Vatican preps 12-page exec summary of Eco-cyclical: http://t.co/tFEYIdJWNX— Rocco Palmo (@roccopalmo) June 18, 2015P.P.S.
"22. These problems are closely linked to a throwaway culture which affects the excluded just as it quickly reduces things to rubbish. To cite one example, most of the paper we produce is thrown away and not recycled."So this will be the first encyclical that isn't going to be printed?
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