Evangelii Gaudium, Part II: Yesterday's Homily | National Catholic Reporter by MSW. MGB: I wonder how the cardinals, new and old, reacted to the sermon once they were away from the assembly? I am sure some are probably saying that it is what every priest should preech today, and to an extent that is true. Are some plotting againt him - in how to subtly stop the changes they don't like - after the model of Mitch McConnell, Ted Cruz the the House Republcian Study Group? Have some been waiting for the OK to b break free fr om the Trads (but still not sure this is the time to Rigali and Burke)? Are there some who needed no push and have been going this way for some time who are overjoyed? I hope so, I think there are.
On the remarried Communion thing, I suspect there are some who old school who are obeying the injunction to hang back. I bet most just don't show up for Mass and an equal number who have received and found the welcome arm of Christ greeting them (kind of like most of us did when we were told impure thoughts were a mortal sin, but when to Communion anyway and found no feelings of profound guilt or rejection. This issue is a baby step, there are bigger ones ahead involving things like Epicopal election and blessing gay unions, which are Sacramental with or without the blessing if made in devotion to God (which, of course, is a problem for those who want to explain away a non-Church wedding to get married again).
The leper analogy is interesting. These diseases are now treated without using leper colonies - rather easily actually. Gays are accepted by many, though not all - especially in that Evangelical-Catholic-more-holy-than-the-pope group. There are two groups, however, who face ancient prejucides and these have coninued. The Palestinians and the Roma (Gypsies), who are in essence the same people, the Samaritans who were the northern people of Israel and half of whom were led away, with both becoming some of the first Christians and who both face scorn. If they act out, it is mostly because they are being acted against by the IDF or the various European states (Italy is the worst). One wonders if the Pope or anyone else will react to this (and yes, I am Roma - quite well assimilated, thank you very much). Or how the Neocons, MSW among them, o my Jewish cousins - among the leading Zionists, will react. I would hope that in this case, knowledge will quell suspiceon and we can again be all one people, with the old animosities just a bad memory. One would hope - and the Holy Father shows us the way.
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