Remember "Fun Bobby" from Friends?
That could be the kind of pope Cardinal Christoph Schönborn of Vienna might turn out to be... if the photo here is any indication. (Love that photo BTW! How you say, so nett!)
John Allen takes a serious look at him...
Although the election of a pope is in many ways a carefully scripted process, the closest thing to a wild card this time around may well be 68-year-old Cardinal Christoph Schönborn of Vienna.Dominican - he already has the whites. He's descended from nobility - trads like that. And he's a Budweiser - beer drinkers of the world unite! What's not to like?
Depending on who's doing the handicapping, the erudite Dominican is either an obvious, slam-dunk contender or somebody who's basically taken himself out of the running.
Schönborn certainly has the right pedigree for the job. A member of the ancient Austrian noble family of Schönborn-Buchheim-Wolfstahl, he's one of two cardinals and 19 archbishops, bishops, priests and religious sisters his family has produced. He's not even the first Schönborn to be the primate of the Austrian church; that honor fell to his great-great uncle, Cardinal Franz Graf Schönborn, who led the Austrian episcopacy under the old Austro-Hungarian empire from his position as the archbishop of Prague. (He had previously been the bishop of Budweis -- hence he was, believe it or not, a "Budweiser.") - Source
And he's a fan of Medjugorje.
What?
I have to go paint now.
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ReplyDeleteAs JPII was, and even Benedict. He got the message... pray, pray, pray. :)
What? No comment from Bill? I can't take it.
ReplyDeleteTerry - have you seen this yet? Maybe you'll draw Cdl Schonborn. ;)
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Hope that link works.
Diane - Mr. Donohue was off today.
ReplyDeleteWait, you're pulling Bill for Pope?
ReplyDeleteWhat's not to like is the video that's circulated of Cardinal Schönborn celebrating a "cowboy Mass." It's pretty awful.
ReplyDeleteHe didn't celebrate it: he just authorized it. Bad enough.
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ReplyDeleteThe findings of the Commission will be presented to the CDF for further study and consultation. I can’t see any Pope overriding recommendations made by the CDF, whatever his personal belief is about the Medjugorje phenomenon.
I wonder how many other cardinals out there are sympathetic to the claims of Medjugorje. I know at least one cardinal, even considered papible, who has made two private pilgrimages to Medjugorje in recent years. And I am not referring to cardinal Schönborn.
As for resolving the question of Medjugorje, what is there to resolve? Everyone is free to accept or not accept, or even be uncertain about accepting or not accepting, even if the Church was to “approve”.
But if the Commission finds against the claim of apparitions then that’s the end of the show – or is it? To find against means the Commission has to prove ALL six seers are lying. If five have lied and one is telling the truth, then truth wins out.
It seems Our Lady has been smart to choose six witnesses in these skeptic times where proof is tested by the findings of science and not faith. Thankfully the Church still holds onto the benchmark of “by their fruits you shall know them”.
I wonder how Lourdes or Fatima would have stood up to the testing and level of investigation given to the Medjugorje phenomenon. I guess people of that time were inclined to a more simple faith and acceptance of God’s mighty hand at work in the world.
Faith was always the sign that drew power from Jesus for miracles to happen.
You might want to reconsider the term Budweiser since they've been charged with" watering down their beer"
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