Not exact matches
To be fair to the
bishop though, if you've got guns so big that suit coats can literally no longer contain them, what
other options do you have?
We find some affinity with some of the
other Movements: like them we have grown and flourished
though on a more modest scale and with a quite different style: we are much smaller, we are not international, we own no properties or schools, and our priests are all diocesan, working in parishes under the direction of their
bishops.
Mr Barros and
other Karadima - trained
bishops never acknowledged having witnessed his abuse, even
though his victims have long placed them at the scene.
The Congregation for
Bishops (which in Cardinal Marc Ouellet has a firmly Ratzingerian prefect, who may well with the appointment of Mgr Egan be confirming that England's problems have at last been noticed in Rome) will soon be making a good number of
other episcopal appointments in England, and they will be relying on Archbishop Mennini's advice; it has been surmised (
though as far as I know, unsupported speculation is all it is) that Cardinal Ouellet is waiting for the retirement of Cardinal Murphy O'Connor from his Congregation before he moves ahead with these appointments,
though he wasn't deterred from appointing Mgr Egan before this event.
Though Catholic
bishops and
other church officials in each country purport to adhere to the same theological underpinnings and Church teachings, there are glaring differences in their official responses.
If the
bishops and
other negative absolutists would speak of tradition, let them speak of it in its full ambiguity and subtlety, instead of acting as
though the tradition were a simplistic, Platonic negative floating through time untouched by contradiction, nuance or complexity.
Even
though Cuomo had assured Timothy Cardinal Dolan and
other bishops it was a done deal.