Still busy, and I trust that those of you keeping up with WYD are…doing just that.
But aside from the links I listed below, here are some recent updates:
First, the Vatican translators are doing very well this time - all of the Pope’s texts are up so far - in every language. Makes you wonder why, when his texts are in Italian, it takes a week to accomplish the same task.
By all accounts, the Stations of the Cross were excellent. It will be rebroadcast on EWTN at 2:30 Eastern. Highlights are available at the WYD Video site, which is very good.
The “Stations of the Cross.” Remember, the “offensive” ones were eliminated.
I saw them last night live, and I was relieved.
They were very well done, and quite moving.
Mother Angelica will be pleased (this time).
Does anyone know if EWTN plans on showing them again?
The proportionalism comments-what nonsense. This is not what happened. In fact, a very Catholic cultural problem took hold. And the Philadelphia DA report documents this in spades-a routine, repeated habit globally (still being undertaken by Pell and his cronies) in which the power and prestige of the Church is to be “protected” by hiding the abuse, denying the abuse, and protecting the abusers. And then the “obedience” bit of the priests-certain high level priests in a diocese share the details of these problems, ut fail to act on these disgraces.
And now the habits and dispositions of the Vatican are sharply cidentified-can B16 identify a tragic culture of power that drove prelates into fearful embrace of evil practices enabling abusers?
Its not a bad philosophy-its a series of bad actions arising from warped dispositions. And ignored by the Vatican because why? Because certain privileged voices (prelates and others who have influence in these Vatican circles) misled the Church’s leaders in conversations over the past several decades. So that the influence of several voices had Ratzinger investigating the martyred Romero through the CDF and wasting time with this, while all the prelates (JP2 men or not) were overtly bullying abusers and lying?
I have seen this abuse crisis warp into a chance to bash gays and now it is used to carry on academic arguments.
The abuse crisis was a failure in leadership. All the way to the Vatican. A failure of an institutional culture wedded to power and appearance. I am not calling for mass resignations-just, this was the problem, this was our internal culture, we are going to change.
That’s all.
I was listening to the Holy Father’s homily at the final Mass, and did he quote Hopkins, lol. “The world is charged with the grandeur of God.” I’ll have to wait until the text is available.