tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807826652341078989.post8987224788231782184..comments2023-11-24T06:43:02.286+00:00Comments on Aspicientes in Jesum: Viennese WhirlPastor in Montehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05949810648656544072noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807826652341078989.post-5659272344039412142012-02-23T21:41:17.695+00:002012-02-23T21:41:17.695+00:00I know people who live in Vienna, and one who has ...I know people who live in Vienna, and one who has worked for the diocese. They all agree on one point: The only thing Cardinal Schönborn is interested in is pleasing everybody and making a good figure in the media.<br /><br />I absolutely believe what you tell about the liberal priest and the conservative religious. But they will not have met the Cardinal at the same events, and he knows very well how to tell people what they want to hear. Especially before the Internet was widely used this worked quite well, but now the scales are falling off from many eyes.<br /><br />Cardinal Schönborn will have blessings of gay couples in his Cathedral as well as having Medjugorje seers having apparitions. <br /><br />He allows depictions of the last supper as a gay orgy in his diocesan museum, and upon protest he has the picture removed telling the conservatives he is sorry about it, while allowing the work that depicts Jesus with an erection on the cross to stay.<br /><br />He once managed to give a rousing pro-life speech to a group of pro-lifers and in the same month give an interview to Austrian media in which he told people that the Church has absolutely no intention of working for a change in the Austrian abortion law (which allows abortion on demand), because "the Church does not want to criminalize women who are in difficult situations".<br /><br />Also, you should not trust the tablet. The "Pfarrer-Initiative" has not moderated anything. They are at the moment working on internationalizing their movement. Please notice that they are very open with what they are doing, while Cardinal Schönborn does absolutely nothing to stop them. You can read their manifesto <a href="http://www.pfarrer-initiative.at/unge_en.pdf" rel="nofollow">here</a>. Their boss is the former Vicar General of the diocese of Vienna.B.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807826652341078989.post-34225975986623652362012-02-22T11:17:42.584+00:002012-02-22T11:17:42.584+00:00It does appear that there is an emergence of noted...It does appear that there is an emergence of noted <i>diplomats</i> in the Catholic hierarchy of late. I would add Cardinal Dolan to Cdl. Schonborn and Ab. Martin of Dublin, which Br. Tom noted. One might even mention the Holy Father himself in certain respects. Though in the Holy Father’s case I would advance that his is a more <i>robust</i> diplomacy! No one should be in any doubt as to where Pope Benedict stands. The others…? Not so much.<br /><br />Admittedly, I don’t understand Schonborn. I can respect him in some ways, but get mad at some of the things he has allowed to happen in his diocese. Undoubtedly his task in modern-day Austria is herculean and I wouldn’t want to be in his shoes. Your report of his interaction with his seminarians is encouraging and very like Cdl. Burke’s when he was archbishop of St. Louis. But there the similarity ends. Burke is no ‘respecter of persons’ and never shirked from laying down the law and would never countenance some of the goings on which Schonborn has. But then St. Louis - while was not without its own issues - is no Vienna, and Missouri is not Austria.<br /><br />Dolan is another case in point on the diplomacy front. While in Milwaukee many wanted to see a firmer hand in dealing with the aftermath of the Ab. Weakland disaster. But while there were some attempts at that, he preferred a more conciliatory approach as in: the force of his personality. When it comes to Cardinals, Dolan is certainly <i>sui generis</i>. Who else would have introduced some humour into his address to the Holy Father and the assembled Cardinals prior to the Consistory? (his crack about wishing to be exempted from the “shedding of their blood” in the cardinalatial oath…).<br /><br />Perhaps diplomacy will win out and we need more ‘diplomats’ like these.GORhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14313101159848740722noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807826652341078989.post-90779216895313125772012-02-21T23:33:02.464+00:002012-02-21T23:33:02.464+00:00I have read his book on the Christological backgro...I have read his book on the Christological background to the Iconoclast crisis and he is no dunce. You make a valid point about the need for diplomats - we have one as Archbishop in Dublin. Unfortunately diplomats can end up papering over the cracks which re-emerge later on with devastating effect. Unless the orthodox side of the Church is built up and her life nourished all the good will and diplomacy in the world will be of no good effect.<br /><br />As you rightly say he has a difficult job but then what bishop today does not?Tomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09140244586477682905noreply@blogger.com