Pope Francis Hails Cardinal Martini as 'A Father for the Whole Church"
CatholicHerald - (9/2/13)
by: Carol Glatz
On the eve of the first anniversary of the death of Cardinal Carlo Martini, Pope Francis called the late Jesuit and biblical scholar a "prophetic" figure and a "man of discernment and peace."
The late cardinals, who died on August 31, 2012, at age 85, was "a father for the whole Church", and remembering one's fathers "is an act of justice", the Pope said during a meeting with a group of Italian Jesuits.
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According to the Independent News dated Sept. 3, 2012:
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The leading daily paper Corrierre della Sera printed the cardinal's final interview, in which he attacks the Church - and by implication its current leadership -for being "200 years out of date."
The cardinal goes on to say: "Our culture has aged, our churches are big and empty and the church bureaucracy rises up, our rituals and cassocks are pompous," the Cardinal said. "The Church must admit its mistakes and begin a radical change, starting from the Pope (Benedict XVI)…More
Francis has to know that Martini was one of the biggest liberals within the hierarchy. Why praise the man when he openly spoke against church teaching? Francis is only causing more confusion as with his "who am I to judge" comment, right after he had just openly exposed in a private meeting the "gay lobby" within the Vatican. These mixed signals do not help anyone!
It is revisionist history to say that chances for a Martini papacy fell away when it was revealed that he had Parkinson's Disease. His candidacy was little else than the fantasy of liberal journalists who deceived themselves into thinking that by promoting the most liberal European Cardinal they can move him to the head of the line. They were victimized by their own sense of self importance.
In fact, Cardinal Martini never had a chance to be elected pope.
And the Church is 200 years out of date? Does that mean Martini's Jesuits were out of date in the 1950's when they were flourishing?
Beam me up, Scotty. There's no intelligent life down here.