What's this talk about a woman cardinal?
Photo ~ Her Eminence By February, there will be at least 14 “openings” for cardinals under the age of 80, who can vote in a conclave. The College of Cardinals is a human institution, not a divinely …More
Photo ~ Her Eminence
By February, there will be at least 14 “openings” for cardinals under the age of 80, who can vote in a conclave.
The College of Cardinals is a human institution, not a divinely mandated clerical Senate, and throughout its approximately 1,000-year history it has been remodeled and reformed many times. The title of “cardinal” is an honorific, not a sacramental order, and the rules about who could be named a cardinal have changed many times.
“Lay” cardinals existed for centuries, although strictly speaking they were men who were in minor orders but without having been ordained as deacons, priests or bishops. The current code of canon law says all cardinals must be bishops, but exceptions have been made to that rule in recent years (the late Cardinal Avery Dulles, for example.)
There’s been talk recently about naming a woman cardinal. It’s not a new idea, actually. I remember that during the 1994 Synod of Bishops, an African bishop said naming a woman cardinal would be …More
By February, there will be at least 14 “openings” for cardinals under the age of 80, who can vote in a conclave.
The College of Cardinals is a human institution, not a divinely mandated clerical Senate, and throughout its approximately 1,000-year history it has been remodeled and reformed many times. The title of “cardinal” is an honorific, not a sacramental order, and the rules about who could be named a cardinal have changed many times.
“Lay” cardinals existed for centuries, although strictly speaking they were men who were in minor orders but without having been ordained as deacons, priests or bishops. The current code of canon law says all cardinals must be bishops, but exceptions have been made to that rule in recent years (the late Cardinal Avery Dulles, for example.)
There’s been talk recently about naming a woman cardinal. It’s not a new idea, actually. I remember that during the 1994 Synod of Bishops, an African bishop said naming a woman cardinal would be …More
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And what's all this talk about a female carnival?
Oh, that's different. Never mind.
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And what's all this talk about a female carnival?
Oh, that's different. Never mind.
www.youtube.com/watch
Oh, that's different. Never mind.
www.youtube.com/watch
Surprising lack of insight in the article.
1. How can being a Cardinal be an honorific title when Cardinals vote in the conclave? It is honorific when someone receives the red hat who is already past voting age.
2. Cardinals run the dicasteries for the same reason that companies use vice presidents to deal with vice presidents of other companies--and that the Army doesn't have generals reporting …More
Surprising lack of insight in the article.
1. How can being a Cardinal be an honorific title when Cardinals vote in the conclave? It is honorific when someone receives the red hat who is already past voting age.
2. Cardinals run the dicasteries for the same reason that companies use vice presidents to deal with vice presidents of other companies--and that the Army doesn't have generals reporting to colonels.
3. The greater the number of Cardinals the less likely that a consistory would get anything done.
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4. Lay Cardinals? On the one hand, it wouldn't be hard to find someone better than the likes of Cardinal Schonborn. On the other, who would be named? Should they have secular occupations? Tom Monaghan? Joe Biden? How about an Opus Dei member?
5. The strength of the laity and the clerics/religious of the Church is that they are distinctly different. The Church exercises influence on the laity via subsidiarity (negative governance), and the laity exercises its influence via the sensus fidelium.
There is no greater example of clericalism than the wreckovation of various parish churches over the protest of the laity. Hundreds of thousands of dollars were spent on these projects of ecclesiasical destruction.
Some years ago in Rome, when the Australian Cardinal James Knox tried to "modernize" his titular church, only to be told that it belonged to the state and the Cardinal had no authority to impose his liberal ideology on it.
1. How can being a Cardinal be an honorific title when Cardinals vote in the conclave? It is honorific when someone receives the red hat who is already past voting age.
2. Cardinals run the dicasteries for the same reason that companies use vice presidents to deal with vice presidents of other companies--and that the Army doesn't have generals reporting to colonels.
3. The greater the number of Cardinals the less likely that a consistory would get anything done.
.
4. Lay Cardinals? On the one hand, it wouldn't be hard to find someone better than the likes of Cardinal Schonborn. On the other, who would be named? Should they have secular occupations? Tom Monaghan? Joe Biden? How about an Opus Dei member?
5. The strength of the laity and the clerics/religious of the Church is that they are distinctly different. The Church exercises influence on the laity via subsidiarity (negative governance), and the laity exercises its influence via the sensus fidelium.
There is no greater example of clericalism than the wreckovation of various parish churches over the protest of the laity. Hundreds of thousands of dollars were spent on these projects of ecclesiasical destruction.
Some years ago in Rome, when the Australian Cardinal James Knox tried to "modernize" his titular church, only to be told that it belonged to the state and the Cardinal had no authority to impose his liberal ideology on it.