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"There
is a mind-set in Rome holding that change is wrong and frightening,
that to raise questions is in itself a challenge to the authority of the
Pope and to the integrity of doctrine. For those in power in Rome,
the Church is not 'the people of God' that Vatican II talked about.
It is an imperial monarchy that must maintain absolute control. In
such a system, those in charge can exercise raw power, because their judgment
is automatically correct and they need not worry about the consequences."
--Bishop Raymond
Lucker,
The New Yorker, 7/22/91, p. 52.
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"You have to continually
stand up to the guys in Rome, or they'll plow you right under.
If twenty-five American bishops were to gather together and issue a statement
proclaiming that they would no longer be dominated by Rome, it would be
over. They would have their autonomy, instead of allowing the ecclesiastical
twerps, the sycophants in their midst, to have such a disproportionate
say."
--Fr. Francis
X. Murphy,
The New Yorker, 7/22/91, p. 51.
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"John XXIII taught us
a
different idea of God. The Second Vatican Council surely was not
aware of this and certainly could not and did not address this specifically.
But a new God idea is a vision so powerful and comprehensive that it takes
decades for even a rudimentary restructuring of ecclesial life to conform
to it. From religious liberty, to ecumenism, from the vernacular
liturgy to collegiality, it is a new vision of God that is operative.
Current movements in the church from married priests to women priests,
from the call for inculturation and recognition of liberation theology
are all simply struggles to give a kind of incarnation to this new vision
of God.
--Rachel
Bemejis,
Coping with the Pope, p. 235.
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