As a worker in the Catholic Church I am really at a loss in determining what an appropriate response should be to the Pope’s recent decisions. I would guess most of you have heard about them. There were actually three decisions. The first was letting some priests back in the Church who were excommunicated for not accepting the stuff in Vatican II. The second was naming one of these people to be a bishop. Well it turns out the guy has publically stated that the Holocaust never happened. The final decision was appointing a bishop who blamed Hurricane Katrina on sins of New Orleans.
So what does a guy do whose collecting his check and keeping his family fed by working for this guy (albeit indirectly)? If your boss decided to hire a professed racist to a high ranking position in your company, what would you do? What do you think the customers would/should do?
Okay and then a couple of weeks later, your boss hires someone to run accounting department who thinks using paper ledgers instead of computers is the way to go. Right this bishop’s theology is clearly from the Old Testament. He hasn’t accepted all that junk in the New Testament apparently.
My guess would be if your boss made these decisions you would be a) scratching your head b) very concerned about the future of the company c) be looking for employment elsewhere.
Am I making too big of deal about this? It did happen. It wasn’t a mistake or an accident; they had to be deliberate decisions, right. I suppose the Pope might be losing it or has surrounded himself with nut-jobs. Either way, the result is the same so I suppose it doesn’t really matter how it happened.
Maybe the most practical response is just to forget about it… That nutty Pope, look what he’s doing now. He must know best – not my problem in Plymouth, Minnesota. Keep your head down and nose to the grindstone and let the big boys figure it out.
Any suggestions?
February 22, 2009 at 11:05 pm |
That isn’t exactly what happened.
1 bishop who was a legitimate RCC bishop founded splinter group from the RCC. In this group, he ordained 4 more guys. When he did this, he (and them) were officially excommunicated because they didn’t follow Apostolic succession through the Papacy.
All Ben XVI did was to un-excommunicate them from participation as regular catholics. He did NOT install them as bishops in the RCC and they are not official RCC Bishop (and maybe not even priests). Their ordained faculties haven’t been returned to them. All that was done was that AFTER a proper reconciliation they would be welcome to receive the sacraments. They are NOT to act as bishops of the RCC.
2 of these guys have said some wacky stuff, but they are not representatives of the RCC (or at least NOT as bishops). They are just ordinary members of the RCC and are free to receive the Sacraments. The media doesn’t understand how excommunication or ordination works, so relying on them for accurate info on this is risky at best.
I am working on a good catholic resource that explains this better. Ck
March 1, 2009 at 3:30 pm |
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