How our cardinals do sin….

Cardinals are the very princes of the Church. They are men given great Grace to elect the Pope, in addition to the torrents of Grace available through their ordination and then consecration as bishops.  But it seems so very few Cardinals cooperate with that Grace.  There has been the stomach-turning scandal of Cardinal O’Brien of Scotland, who resigned from his see in disgrace after numerous reports of depraved homosexual activity surfaced involving him, and men under his care, typically seminarians.  After this resignation, Cardinal O’Brien had esconced himself in the parish of his “lifelong friend,” a fellow priest.  When the Vatican began to intimate it would force Cardinal O’Brien to live a more retired and prayerful life than one of likely continued debauchery with his special “friend,” that priest-friend threatened to cause further scandal if his Cardinal-buddy were removed from his loving care.  Well, the Vatican wasn’t bullied by this threat, the Holy See just announced that Cardinal O’Brien is leaving Scotland.

Michael Voris has much more here, including additional details on the O’Brien scandal:

This homosexual crisis in the priesthood is, to my mind, the single greatest threat to the priesthood in its 2000 year history. Can men engaged in lives founded on lies and engaging in the most debauched of activities really have a valid vocation?  Do they really intend to confect the Blessed Sacrament, to change bread and wine+water into the Body and Blood of our Lord Jesus Christ?  The implications of this scandal are soul-rocking, to say the least.

And as if the scandal of Cardinal O’Brien was not enough (and we know he is far from the only homosexual cardinal the Church has been afflicted with in the past few decades), today we get word that Cardinal Dolan once again failed to speak Truth to power, once again caved when it came to standing up for what the Church believed when it might threaten his ego-boosting playing at politics with the governor of New York:

New York’s Timothy Cardinal Dolan warned Gov. Cuomo to be ready for a holy battle if he tries to strengthen state abortion-rights laws.

In an interview on an Albany radio station Tuesday, Dolan said Catholic bishops would be “as vociferous and rigorous as possible in our opposition” to the governor’s efforts.

Although Cuomo has yet to release an abortion bill, he’s announced plans to write into New York law protections now provided by federal court decisions like Roe vs. Wade…….

………..Archbishop Dolan said the conviction Monday of Philadelphia abortion provider Dr. Kermit Gosnell on murder charges calls for laws that go the other way instead.

“I am in a bit of consternation as to why in a time when there seems to be kind of a sobering up about these horrors of the unfettered access to abortion, why in New York we are talking about even expanding it further,” Dolan said. [Because there is nothing more sacred to a leftist than a woman’s right to kill her child, you dolt!  They will sacrifice ANY other policy position to protect that one!  When will you guys in the American hierarchy figure this out?  THE DEMOCRATS ARE THE PARTY OF ABORTION, AND WILL BE FOR AS FAR AS WE CAN SEE IN THE FUTURE. NOTHING – NOTHING (short of an act of God, which you are deliberately frustrating with your cowardice) – WILL MAKE THEM CHANGE THAT!]

When asked how Cuomo could still consider himself a Catholic in good standing while also promoting abortion legislation, Dolan responded: “That’s something that I talk turkey with him about.”

Dolan spokesman Joseph Zwilling later said the cardinal did not mean to suggest that Cuomo would not be a Catholic in good standing if he went forward with the bill.

Emphasis from Rorate above. My rantiness below.

Oh, Cardinal Dolan, you pathetic worldling.

How can we otherwise think, Cardinal Dolan, that you care so very much more about the opinions of men, and especially powerful men, than you do about either serving Christ OR even protecting the unborn on a natural level, that you immediately take the most powerful weapon you have against these apostate Catholics off the table?  Cuomo is pursuing the most radical expansion of abortion in this nation at present.  All around the country, abortion is being rolled back by drips and drabs, but not in New Yack!  Oh, no, there, it’s a brave new world of baby slaughter for all, with the great Cardinal of New Yack talking turkey as the sewer drains overflow with blood!  And so you have to clarify “oh……I didn’t mean to imply still-living-in-sin-with-his-concubine Andrew Cuomo wouldn’t be a Catholic in good standing if he is directly responsible for dramatically increasing what is already by far the country’s highest rate of abortion!”  It wouldn’t be politic to do so, right?!

Do you know, Cardinal Dolan, what an unthinkable insult that is to all those Catholics who DO strive to live submissive to the mind of the Church?  Do you know how much scandal such statements cause?  Do you know how much those statements undermine your own authority?  Do you really expect the Catholics of the United States to believe that you, or ANY of your brother bishops, would really go to jail over something like the HHS Mandate, when you can’t even bother to defend the sanctity of the Blessed Sacrament or tell a radically anti-Catholic catholyc that he is outside the Body of Christ?  What on earth would make us believe, you, Cardinal Dolan, as head of the USCCB, would incur so much as a hangnail to defend the Church?

But the real question is, why does Cardinal Dolan hate Andrew Cuomo so much?  Why does he want him to go to hell?  Why does he continue to allow Andrew Cuomo to publicly apostasize and, even worse, blaspheme the Holy Spirit through his sacrilegious reception of the Blessed Sacrament?  Why won’t he have even a bit of compassion on poor Andrew Cuomo’s soul, and try the last bit of medicine an interdict or excommunication could provide?  At least then, millions of souls would cease being scandalized by the head of the USCCB’s failure to defend the Faith.

I don’t think Cardinal Dolan is a homosexual. But he sure acts like one.

Any minute, attack dog Broadway Bill Donahue will swoop down to tell us just how exemplary is Cardinal Dolan’s leadership in this moment of crisis, while excoriating anyone with the temerity to question it. He just got off the phone with him, don’t you know.