[Apologetics] Re: Arinze a Top Contender According to The Washington Times

Wed Apr 6 22:04:58 EDT 2005

Cardinal Arinze is my choice for the next Pope.

Art

--- Bret <bbellamy at mindspring.com> wrote:

> Bret has sent you an article from The Washington
> Times.
> 
> Bret's comments: Obviously, they are speculating.  I
> would not mind Arinze, but history has shown that
> the Holy Spirit is not above a surprise or two.
>
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> OUTSPOKEN NIGERIAN CARDINAL A TOP CONTENDER
> By Julia Duin
> THE WASHINGTON TIMES
>
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> Cardinal Francis Arinze of Nigeria, one of the top
> contenders to become pope next week, is best known
> for his interfaith experience with Muslims and his
> meteoric rise from a poor African village to the
> halls of the Vatican.
> 
>     He was the youngest Catholic bishop in the world
> when he was consecrated Aug. 29, 1965, at 32. Today,
> he's a favorite of traditional Catholics because of
> his withering denunciations of dissent on all the
> hot-button topics: population control, homosexuality
> and pro-choice Catholic politicians.
> 
>     Born in a small Nigerian village, the
> 72-year-old cardinal is now tied with Milan Cardinal
> Dionigi Tettamanzi as top contender on the betting
> Web site www.paddypower.com -- at 11 to 4 odds.
> 
>     A tongue-in-cheek song, "Papa Nero," about him
> was even broadcast on Italian radio in 1996 after
> the selection of Denny Mendez as the first black
> Miss Italy.
> 
>     "And if he is a man from the black continent,
> will it be true?" go the lyrics, penned by Pitura
> Freska. "After Miss Italy, to have a black pope?
> That doesn't seem likely to me."
> 
>     But what has won the cardinal the most attention
> is not his race, but his outspokenness. A year ago
> this month, he bluntly said U.S. Catholics have no
> moral option to vote for pro-choice candidates.
> 
>     "The norm of the church is clear," he said at a
> press conference. "The church exists in the United
> States. There are bishops there. Let them interpret
> it."
> 
>     In a February interview on granting Communion to
> pro-choice politicians and Catholics who wear
> rainbow sashes to Mass to demonstrate approval of
> homosexuality, Cardinal Arinze said "The answer is
> clear. ... Do you need any cardinal from the Vatican
> to answer that?" 
> 
>     He added that the interviewer, with the Catholic
> cable channel Eternal Word Television Network,
> should "ask the children for first Communion
> [class], they'll give you the answer."
> 
>     The cardinal -- who leads the Congregation for
> Divine Worship and Discipline of the Sacraments,
> which regulates how Mass is to be celebrated --
> raised hackles at Georgetown University in May 2003
> when he said the family is "mocked by homosexuality"
> along with divorce, pornography and adultery.
> 
>     Seventy faculty members circulated a letter
> protesting the speech.
> 
>     Because of his dozens of visits to the United
> States in the past 20 years, Cardinal Arinze might
> be the foreign cardinal most familiar to U.S.
> Catholics.
> 
>     Two of his most frequent stops are in eastern
> Ohio: at Franciscan University of Steubenville, a
> school known for its commitment to "dynamic
> orthodoxy," and at Catholic Familyland, a
> Bloomingdale-based camping resort on 950 acres also
> known as the Apostolate for Family Consecration.
> 
>     The latter has the world's largest repository of
> teachings by the cardinal; at least 5,000 sermons on
> video, said Theresa Schmitz, the group's vice
> president. 
> 
>     "He is our primary teacher," she said. "The
> families love him, and he is so well-received by
> them. We sell out as soon as we make it public which
> events he'll be at."
> 
>     Several years ago, the cardinal, in a blunt
> speech against overpopulation at Familyland,
> suggested that those in favor of population control
> be shot.
> 
>     "He said, 'If people are concerned about
> overpopulation, maybe they should volunteer
> themselves to be eliminated rather than the helpless
> innocent,' " Mrs. Schmitz said. "He doesn't
> sugarcoat his beliefs."
> 
>     Photos of the cardinal are sprinkled all over
> the resort's www.familyland.org Web site along with
> downloads of his speeches. The cardinal, who is on
> the group's advisory committee, spends two weeks
> there every summer. 
> 
>     On the international front, the prelate is
> "serious but engaged and connected," said Trace
> Murphy, the religion editor at Doubleday who edited
> the cardinal's 2002 book, "Religions for Peace."
> 
>     From 1984 to 2002, the cardinal oversaw the
> Vatican's Pontifical Council for Interreligious
> Dialogue, which reaches out to non-Christians.
> 
>     "His writing the book shows a certain world
> awareness that might be lacking in other cardinals,"
> Mr. Murphy said. "He's met with a variety of world
> religious leaders and his openness to dialogue is
> extremely important."
> 
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