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PDF versionRigali profile: explaining the man
by Tom Roberts on Mar. 13, 2011
One of the responses to Michael Sean Winters' posting today about Philadelphia and Cardinal Justin Rigali contains a link to a 2002 profile of the cardinal in the Riverfront Times, an alternative paper in St. Louis.
The piece was written by Jeannette Batz, a name that might be familiar to NCR readers. For a number of years she wrote a regular column for the paper. Batz is a wonderful writer, so the profile is worth it for the sheer pleasure of the read, but she is also a skilled and persistent researcher with an eye for telling detail and a talent for connecting dots that others might not even see.
Thank you for this link to
Thank you for this link to Batz's article. We are in for further hard times. Men like Rigali, however pious and obedient, will be the death of the church.
I get the impression that
I get the impression that Cardinal Rigali really did not want to be Archbishop of an Archdiocese, but was happier working in the Vatican. Perhaps he should have stayed in the Vatican? Perhaps it was unfair to the Cardinal to send him off to an Archdiocese. Perhaps it was also unfair to the priests and people of the Archdiocese as well?
Perhaps it was unfair to the
Perhaps it was unfair to the Cardinal to send him off to an Archdiocese. Perhaps it was also unfair to the priests and people of the Archdiocese as well?
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This is what you can expect when the people aren't consulted in his appointment or his removal. He's moved about as just another one of the pope's chess pieces.
Rigali should resign. the
Rigali should resign. the priests of Philadelphia should publically demand it.
Cardinal Rigali appears to be
Cardinal Rigali appears to be the ultimate "company man," You wonder however, how good of a pastor, can a good company man be?
Austin, all bishops today
Austin, all bishops today are "company" men. That's exactly how the Vatican wants them. One has to question the entire personnel system of the Holy Roman Enterprise. A combination of the Lutheran ,Anglican and Eastern Orthodox models of church governance make far more sense. Their forms of church polity are looking better and better as Pontiff Ratzinger screws up more and more. He and his predecessors have given the church little more than legions of losers; armies of "Yes Men".
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