Cardinal George keeps pot boiling

Dear Sir,

Perharps you could recomend to his grace the reading of the Salem Witches trials? They were quite efctive in the "batle against evil".

Articles like this of Mr. McClory do more to fan the flames of anti-Catholicism then anything else.

Cardinal George needs to prayerfully reflect on what, exactly, one of the sources of anti-Catholic sentiment might be. He should perhaps do so in front of a mirror.

Cardinal George, and the Catholic hierarchy generally, are fairly good at trying to protect the rights of the Catholic Church, but somehow fail to apply two other rules: The long-held Catholic position that rights entail obligations and duties; and the very simple rule that "what's good for the goose is good for the gander" -- in other words, that other people and organizations have the same rights we do in this democracy.
On the other hand, the hierarchy are not so good at upholding the rights of individual Catholics, especially those Catholics who must, by their employment or office, make decisions in the broader world which is multicultural, multiethnic, and multireligious. What those Catholics do and believe as Catholics may not be the same as the public policies they propose, or endorse, or uphold as civil servants.
Perhaps a good analogy is the Jewish position that Jews are held to the provisions of the Torah, but non-Jews are held to a less-strict standard, the Seven Laws of Noah. Or, take the position of the Dalai Lama, who teaches in a very detailed, traditional, and scholarly way to Buddhists, but much more generally to others. He has even said that Westerners, in most cases, should stick with Western religions, but put them into practice.
We have had enough historical experience to know that we cannot spread the Gospel by force. Many object to the call of many Muslims to implement Sharia Law; we need to realize that we cannot similarly enshrine Catholic canon law in our own civil codes. "What's good for the goose is good for the gander" is worth pondering.

Maybe this is part of Cardinal George's campaign strategy for the next conclave?

RCC has been violent and murderous to many over the centuries. RCC has behaved like the KKK, torturing, shaming and murdering many people through its Inquistion and its draconian applications of its Canon laws interpretations of the day.

There was RCC holocaust of women from the 14th century right up to 1796 when the last woman was executed for """witchcraft""". Over a million women, and men who tried to help the women (their sisters, aunts, grandmothers, neighbours, friends, cousins, daughters, mothers) were killed by the KKK equivalent of the RCC over the centuries.

Cardinal George speaks like a vile KKK type with the venom he spews against gays and against women. That gay organization withdrew its timing of its parade so it would not interfere with church attendance times. The gays were most co-operative, civil, and polite, and gracious. Cardinal George continues to be an unrepentant unChristian unCatholic self-loathing bigot. He plays up to Fox news. Sadly too many RCC hierarchs act and speak like they themselves are members of the KKK, including Cardinal George.

It is a sad day when one of the princes of the Church and a leader of the USCCB could allow his bigotry and prejudice come out this way he has destroyed his own credibility and witness and hurt the witness of those of us who are trying to do GOD's will through LOVE Paitence understanding and acceptance of others.

An insult to the Democratic Party!

The KKK is "one of the most murderous organizations in the history of our country". Get real!

What about the have mass murder of 55 million innocent children? Thanks to great liberal statesmen, NCR favorites, like the Kennedys Carter, Mondale the Clintons President Obama Biden Gore Kerry, Durbin, hundred more.

Murderous organizations? Lets give credit to where credit is due!

"Critics have suggested that George's rash comments do more to spread anti-Catholicism than do the pronouncements of those who do hate the church."

George's comments go beyond "rash" into the category of 'inflammatory' — the sort of comments that have potential to incite violence toward the target of those comments,   while still other individuals get caught in the cross-fire.     The cardinal is not the victim here...   though he seems to like to play one on radio and TV.     Much of the anti-Catholic sentiment has been generated by the words and behavior of individuals like Francis George and Bill Donohue,   among others.     They play with verbal fire and then complain bitterly because they are burned by their own flames.     The cardinal claims to be operating in his "authoritative" teaching capacity...   but since when do odious,   caustic,   and grossly unfair comparisons evangelize anyone?     It merely stirs the pot of hatred and bigotry.
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George should resign but not only for this reason, as should Chaput (the Air Force cadet blesser) and Dolan (the Wall Street bell ringer) and the rest of this incompetent cowardly gang

Sticks and stones can break your bones but names can never hurt you.

Time to get over it, folks.

Cardinal George has committed a stupid and avoidable gaff.

One should never make comparisons to the KKK, or to Hitler, Nazis and the like, unless one is actually talking about real mass-murderer dictators or real killer-terrorist groups. Never.

The reason you do not make such comparisons is that whatever point the speaker thinks he is making becomes lost, and the conversation becomes dominated by the discussion of the propriety (or impropriety) of the comparison.

A casual news consumer today likely has no idea what message Cardinal George was trying to articulate. All such a news consumer knows is that Cardinal George said gays are like the KKK.

This is a truly sad thing that has happened, especially for those of us who work in the trenches. Cardinal George has seriously damaged his own witness and potentially crippled the work of those of us who actually do the hard work by trying to live out the life and mission of Our LORD and Savior. It is going to be a very long time before those who have left the church come back especially with a "prince" of our church says the hateful ignorant things he has recently said.

I am a Lay Minister in my diocese (Charlotte, NC) and I was working with someone who I was trying to coax back into the church who had been away from the church for over 20 years.

I had been suggested to him by a friend of mine who is not catholic but knew how much this young man wanted to reunite with the church, and knew my personal history of being teased and bullied and harassed during my school days but he had some issues that we were working on, but due to what was said by Cardinal George the young man has broken off contact with me and I do not know whether or not he will ever come back. He was very hurt by what was said.