The hardest part of sorting these things out is that +Strickland's grievances are very real, and very justified. **We make the same laments as him about the same things going on in Rome here in Pillar comment sections.** Me included; I've staunchly railed against many scandals and failures here.
The hardest part of sorting these things out is that +Strickland's grievances are very real, and very justified. **We make the same laments as him about the same things going on in Rome here in Pillar comment sections.** Me included; I've staunchly railed against many scandals and failures here.
But starkly unlike Vigano, +Strickland reiterates again and again his unwavering devotion to communion with the See of Rome and the person of the Pope. What then? This man is clearly exercising a filial devotion of a man who loves his father, and publicly calls him to stop doing wayward things that hurt his children and bring discredit on his family. And considering how easity we've seen it is for clerics to go off the deep end into sede and wacko territory when put through this ringer, the fact that +Strickland is still committed to communion with and love to Pope Francis is remarkable and laudable - he's a far cry from the likes of Altmann and Vigano, who had similar progression stories. A man of lesser sanctity would have jumped ship by now, maybe to hang out with, IDK, a certain Spanish convent?
Sometimes it almost seems like, if you're a cleric, you can't make any comments that could even be misconstrued as disagreeing with Pope Francis on anything of even the smallet matters of personal taste. Strickland is absolutely correct that his brother bishops - even the "good ones" - are far too often pusillanimous yellow-bellies who cannot (and will not) make a strong and unapologetic stand on anything out of fear of the slightest risks.
May God bless +Strickland with continued fidelity to the heirarchal structure of Church unity, and bless his brethren with open ears and renewed backbones.
Cardinal O'Malley has never had any problem telling the Pope what he thinks. But he does so with obvious love and respect, which is more than saying I love and respect you while telling someone off bluntly.
The hardest part of sorting these things out is that +Strickland's grievances are very real, and very justified. **We make the same laments as him about the same things going on in Rome here in Pillar comment sections.** Me included; I've staunchly railed against many scandals and failures here.
But starkly unlike Vigano, +Strickland reiterates again and again his unwavering devotion to communion with the See of Rome and the person of the Pope. What then? This man is clearly exercising a filial devotion of a man who loves his father, and publicly calls him to stop doing wayward things that hurt his children and bring discredit on his family. And considering how easity we've seen it is for clerics to go off the deep end into sede and wacko territory when put through this ringer, the fact that +Strickland is still committed to communion with and love to Pope Francis is remarkable and laudable - he's a far cry from the likes of Altmann and Vigano, who had similar progression stories. A man of lesser sanctity would have jumped ship by now, maybe to hang out with, IDK, a certain Spanish convent?
Sometimes it almost seems like, if you're a cleric, you can't make any comments that could even be misconstrued as disagreeing with Pope Francis on anything of even the smallet matters of personal taste. Strickland is absolutely correct that his brother bishops - even the "good ones" - are far too often pusillanimous yellow-bellies who cannot (and will not) make a strong and unapologetic stand on anything out of fear of the slightest risks.
May God bless +Strickland with continued fidelity to the heirarchal structure of Church unity, and bless his brethren with open ears and renewed backbones.
Wow! Well said!
Cardinal O'Malley has never had any problem telling the Pope what he thinks. But he does so with obvious love and respect, which is more than saying I love and respect you while telling someone off bluntly.