The Four Points of Cardinal Brandmüller.
The Four Points of Cardinal Brandmüller
Cardinal Brandmüller was unfairly maligned for stressing the relation between clerical abuses and homosexuality, Bill Donohue wrote. He noticed that Brandmüller made four key points, all of which are eminently defensible. 1) 80% of the cases of sexual assault in the Church are homosexual, affecting male youth, not children. 2) Only a vanishingly small number of priests, 0.005%, have been predators. 3) It is “hypocritical” for society to condemn clergy sexual abuse, Brandmüller said, while not condemning the same problem in other quarters. 4) Brandmüller righlty expressed concerns about homosexuals in the priesthood.
Pope Francis Remembers Archbishop Zur, Kiko Argüello
At the end of his Tuesday morning Mass, Pope Francis recalled with emotion Archbishop Giorgio Zur, a former Apostolic Nuncio to Austria, who lived with Francis in Casa Santa Marta and who died hours before. Then he sent greetings to Kiko Argüello …Mehr