There is also a difference between "hearing" and "listening".
And synodality, I thought, meant more than listening -- do not forget about accompanying, walking with, etc. Though of course the definition seems to still be up in the air so perhaps I was mistaken...
There is also a difference between "hearing" and "listening".
And synodality, I thought, meant more than listening -- do not forget about accompanying, walking with, etc. Though of course the definition seems to still be up in the air so perhaps I was mistaken...
> And synodality, I thought, meant more than listening
Even if it *only* means that a decision has already been made and the question is how to deliver the news in a compassionate way through someone who has earned trust and brought healing to relationships, so far the process has successfully completed step 1 which is "someone needs to earn their trust and bring healing to relationships so that it's possible to receive difficult news with an open heart", and then in a surprising move BURNED IT ALL DOWN AGAIN which is unfortunate.
The news will be тАЬdelivered in a compassionate wayтАЭ via a canon lawyer who no one except other canon layers understand.
Despite his peerless pastoral, administrative, and ministerial/liturgical skills, my dear friend Bishop Paul J. Bradley is not a canon lawyer. Neither is Bishop Earl Fernandes of Columbus - He holds a doctorate in moral theology from the Alphonsian Academy in Rome.
That is why they dragged Kalamazoo Bishop Ed Lohse (Bishop BradleyтАЩs successor in Kalamazoo) into this ecclesial debacle. Bishop Lohse is a brilliant canon lawyer who was taught in Rome by another great bishop/canon lawyer whom I know. I pray for and feel sorry for Bishop Lohse, getting dragged into a dumpster fire only ~ 9 months after being ordained a bishop and being used primarily for his canon law brilliance. Leave it to Cardinal Pierre to pit two Western Pennsylvania friends and great bishops in a closed cage dog fight. Synodality YADDA YADDA YADDAтАж
Christophe Cardinal Pierre Pierre obtained his Master of Theology degree at the Institut Catholique de Paris and his Doctor of Canon Law degree from the Pontifical Lateran.
Hence it is merely a canon law decision requiring a canon law justificationтАж.
There is also a difference between "hearing" and "listening".
And synodality, I thought, meant more than listening -- do not forget about accompanying, walking with, etc. Though of course the definition seems to still be up in the air so perhaps I was mistaken...
> And synodality, I thought, meant more than listening
Even if it *only* means that a decision has already been made and the question is how to deliver the news in a compassionate way through someone who has earned trust and brought healing to relationships, so far the process has successfully completed step 1 which is "someone needs to earn their trust and bring healing to relationships so that it's possible to receive difficult news with an open heart", and then in a surprising move BURNED IT ALL DOWN AGAIN which is unfortunate.
The news will be тАЬdelivered in a compassionate wayтАЭ via a canon lawyer who no one except other canon layers understand.
Despite his peerless pastoral, administrative, and ministerial/liturgical skills, my dear friend Bishop Paul J. Bradley is not a canon lawyer. Neither is Bishop Earl Fernandes of Columbus - He holds a doctorate in moral theology from the Alphonsian Academy in Rome.
That is why they dragged Kalamazoo Bishop Ed Lohse (Bishop BradleyтАЩs successor in Kalamazoo) into this ecclesial debacle. Bishop Lohse is a brilliant canon lawyer who was taught in Rome by another great bishop/canon lawyer whom I know. I pray for and feel sorry for Bishop Lohse, getting dragged into a dumpster fire only ~ 9 months after being ordained a bishop and being used primarily for his canon law brilliance. Leave it to Cardinal Pierre to pit two Western Pennsylvania friends and great bishops in a closed cage dog fight. Synodality YADDA YADDA YADDAтАж
https://columbuscatholic.org/bishop-earl-fernandes
Thanks. Not that it matters to anyone else, but I don't like that grin.
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/e8r9fq72bwczq7bx3jbx4/Earl_Fernandes_3.jpg?rlkey=51lu38l0svkuolwmud6wd1wlc&dl=0
Christophe Cardinal Pierre Pierre obtained his Master of Theology degree at the Institut Catholique de Paris and his Doctor of Canon Law degree from the Pontifical Lateran.
Hence it is merely a canon law decision requiring a canon law justificationтАж.
Amen