Thoughts of a Regular Guy: Newest Klavan: Explaining The New York Times

Friday, April 23, 2010

Newest Klavan: Explaining The New York Times

I love his reason for the attacks on Pope Benedict!

(H/T: Is Anybody There?)

6 comments:

ABNPOPPA said...: Hi Paul, jtrgyk,

Stopped by to watch the videos and say thanks for stopping by Conservative Outrage. Hmmm Should have left the answer to your question here. Well guess you'll have to clik back on Conservative Outrage for your diet coke answer.

Pops; 4/23/2010 5:22 PM
Oliver said...: no reason in the video, I'm afraid.; 4/24/2010 2:43 AM
Al said...: Klavan nailed the Times attack on the Catholic Church right on the head. I am sure Fr. Benedict Groeschel CFR would applaud him for showing it, if Fr. G. had a computer to watch it. Fr. G. has been pointing out this fact for weeks on his EWTN show.; 4/24/2010 3:22 AM
Ori Pomerantz said...: How much can the Pope discipline a bishop?

Lets take a worst case scenario. Bishop Sanger holds a press conference at 10 AM and says that abortion is permissible and indeed moral in most cases. Later he ordains five women and marries his sweetheart, Joe. In the afternoon he visits a Catholic hospital, gives final rites to a patient about to be euthenized (per the patient's own request), and then holds mass and gives communion to the doctor who administered the lethal injection. In the evening he holds another press conference, and complains that the local Catholic university isn't doing enough embryonic stem cell research and working on cloning.

Can the Vatican do anything beyond publicly denouncing Bishop Sanger, and praying that God will have mercy on his soul, as soon as possible?; 4/24/2010 10:35 PM
Al said...: Ori, Nt sure of how quickly Canon law would let the Pope move, but clearly the Bishop you have described could possibly be considered schismatic & definitely heretical. & I am sure the Pope would remove him ASAP.; 4/25/2010 3:40 AM
Ori Pomerantz said...: Al, what would be the temporal effects of this removal? Would the former bishop be forbidden to enter Church property in that diocese, under the laws against trespassing, for example?

If the Vatican is able to remove a Bishop, then it is, to a certain degree, responsible for the Bishop's actions (under secular law, not necessarily canon law). The relevant questions are:

1. Did the Vatican know that the bishop was protecting a pedophile?

2. If not, was it gross negligence on the Vatican's part? I'd say the answer here is no. There are too many bishops, and it is hard to investigate all of them all the time, especially if when they want to hide something in their own territories.

3. Once the size of the pedophilia scandal was discovered, did the Vatican institute rules and processes to prevent recurrences in the future. IIRC, the answer here is definitely yes.

The question of how much a principal is responsible for an agent's misdeeds is a very convoluted one.; 4/26/2010 8:48 AM

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