NEW POPE WILL INFURIATE “PROGRESSIVES”

[MC Just]

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[MC Just]

April 15, 2005

NEW POPE WILL INFURIATE “PROGRESSIVES”

Catholic League president William Donohue commented today on why the new pope will infuriate “progressive” Catholics:

“In November, 1997, before a packed house of ‘progressive’ Catholics at the annual Call to Action convention, Sister Maureen Fiedler exclaimed that ‘a lot of people in this Church are waiting for a person in this Church to pass away.’ Translated, this means they couldn’t wait for John Paul II to drop dead. Indeed, I have personally heard many disaffected Catholics, including quite a few nuns, say the same thing. Now that the conclave is about to begin, they think their moment has arrived. Watch for them to crash once the new pope is named.



“Whoever the new pope is, he will not turn the Church over to the Call to Action fringe. That’s because they represent a dying breed. Consider what happened in 1996-97.



“In April, 1996, Sister Maureen Fiedler of Maryland’s Quixote Center launched a petition drive aimed at getting one-million Catholics to sign a statement calling for radical changes in the Church’s teachings on women and sexuality. The campaign was dubbed We Are Church, and was well-greased by fat cats who hate the Catholic Church: the Ford Foundation, which funnels millions to Catholics for a Free Choice, used its ‘Catholic’ group to give big bucks to Fiedler. ‘We were blessed with substantial grants,’ Fiedler admitted. ‘We had organizing kits,’ she said, ‘we had grass-roots [efforts]; we did full-page ads [in newspapers]; we had massive mailings; we did public collections in front of cathedrals, like St. Patrick’s in New York.’ They even bribed kids by giving them a dollar for every signature they got. When the year was up, the campaign was such a bomb that it was extended for six months. In the end, it netted only 37,000 signatures. It was at the Call to Action 1997 convention in Detroit that Fiedler reported the sorry results. She blew up at lay Catholics, saying that progressives overestimated their ‘theological maturity’; she concluded by sounding her death wish for the pope.


“It is for reasons like this that the new pope is not about to turn Left, for to do so would be tantamount to going South.”

[Aloysius]

sweet

[Renz]

[quote name='MC Just' date='Apr 17 2005, 02:21 PM'] “In April, 1996, Sister Maureen Fiedler of Maryland’s Quixote Center launched a petition drive aimed at getting one-million Catholics to sign a statement calling for radical changes in the Church’s teachings on women and sexuality. The campaign was dubbed We Are Church, and was well-greased by fat cats who hate the Catholic Church: the Ford Foundation, which funnels millions to Catholics for a Free Choice, used its ‘Catholic’ group to give big bucks to Fiedler. ‘We were blessed with substantial grants,’ Fiedler admitted. ‘We had organizing kits,’ she said, ‘we had grass-roots [efforts]; we did full-page ads [in newspapers]; we had massive mailings; we did public collections in front of cathedrals, like St. Patrick’s in New York.’ They even bribed kids by giving them a dollar for every signature they got. When the year was up, the campaign was such a bomb that it was extended for six months. In the end, it netted only 37,000 signatures. [/quote]

[Thy Geekdom Come]

THE GATES OF HELL...

[crusader1234]

I think the next Pope will infuriate everyone. Most people in the Church have a bias from the truth, so the Pope is bound to infuriate both the left and the right.

[rachael]

hah.

[Brother Adam]

[quote name='crusader1234' date='Apr 17 2005, 06:48 PM'] I think the next Pope will infuriate everyone. Most people in the Church have a bias from the truth, so the Pope is bound to infuriate both the left and the right. [/quote]
Tee hee. I do the same thing. I tick off the traditionalists and the charasmatics.

[Thy Geekdom Come]

[quote name='Brother Adam' date='Apr 17 2005, 06:51 PM'] Tee hee. I do the same thing. I tick off the traditionalists and the charasmatics. [/quote]
The enemy of my enemy is my friend...and when that friend is also my enemy...I just step back and let my enemies destroy each other...mwahahahaha...

[toledo_jesus]

[quote name='MC Just' date='Apr 17 2005, 05:21 PM']

Maryland’s Quixote Center [/quote]
Did anyone else find this slightly humorous?

[Socrates]

How prophetic!

Habemus Papam!

Viva Pope Benedict XVI!

Time to tick off those "progressives"! Yeah!!!!

Edited April 19, 2005 by Socrates

[Cam42]

I know one who already is.....he called it a shame..... Isn't that sad....

[St. Catherine]

When will the media and progressives understand that within the Church change is not equal to progress.

[dUSt]

Well, if this truly is the new springtime in the Church, Ratzinger is the man to get a little "spring cleaning" done. hahaha

[vianney]

Hey Cam who is upset?

[jezic]

Ratzinger is going to be great for the church.

Many won't like him though. My guess is he is going to start ultra-hardcore Apostle style and keep it that way.

Now we wait again ...... and watch

ohh and God has spoken conclusively about where the church should be, now will we listen .....

[St. Catherine]

[quote]ohh and God has spoken conclusively about where the church should be, now will we listen ..... [/quote]

That is what I was just thinking. Someone else is being called to change and it is not the Church.

[thessalonian]

[quote name='dUSt' date='Apr 19 2005, 03:22 PM'] Well, if this truly is the new springtime in the Church, Ratzinger is the man to get a little "spring cleaning" done. hahaha [/quote]
My guess is there will be a storm before the calm.

[jezic]

the storm is coming, there might never be another calm

[thessalonian]

[quote name='jezic' date='Apr 19 2005, 05:05 PM'] the storm is coming, there might never be another calm [/quote]
The new springtime is promise by our blessed mother. I feel like God has been prepaparing many of us for what is to come. Teaching us our faith. Gird your loins and put on your armor (the armour of God). The promised land had to be taken. Trust in him. Be not afraid.