We live in a time that people are more inclined to obey an unlawful executive order than they are to follow a court order 🤦🏾♀️.
Dictators are created due to cruelty, cowardice, & compliance! IF THEIR ASSES will ignore the Supreme Court, we can definitely IGNORE HIM!
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staffers are still cleaning up the Kristi Noem mess after she got gutted/filleted by Senator Chris Murphy
The elevation of Pope Leo XIV is a profound and historic occasion. Like so many around the world, I am praying for him and wishing him and the Church well as his papacy begins.
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So let me get this straight, we finally get an American pope, and some of the America first crowd is mad because he cares about the poor and immigrants. Am i missing something here?
This is tangential, but still relevant. When an episcopal see comes open, fifty to a hundred people are asked to confidentially suggest 3 names for the appointment. It is almost certain that no one recommended Weisenburger for Detroit, McElroy for DC, McGovern for Omaha, or Casey for Cincinnati. When KC is soon revealed, the same pattern will hold. It is another proof that synodality is a sham. Synodality for thee but not for me.
You are right. For one, Cardinal Cupich is on the Dicastry for Bishops which determines the order of preference for the 3 candidates to submit to the Pope.
Second, the Pope can bypass that Dicastry altogether and listen to anyone he wants to in choosing a bishop. Cardinal Rai, the retired Prefect of the Congregation for Bishops, stated McCarrick was not one of the 3 candidates recommended for Arrchbishop of Washington.
Cupich was himself a personal choice of Pope Francis as he could never get a m…
I don't want to imply that the process was perfect and unpolitical prior to Pope Francis and Cardinal Cupich. It certainly was! And the pope always has the right to appoint the bishops he wants. I would hate to have that policy changed.
What we are seeing now are disturbing trends: the appointment of ideologues to major appointments because of their ideology, the appointment of mediocre priests, some of whom are morally questionable, to other dioceses, and in spite of all this talk on synodal li…
