H.I.F.
Interesting
I'm coming off the week from hell at the office, so other than checking out Twitter at odd moments of the day, I've done virtually no reading. Yesterday, while brain-dead surfing and unwinding at the end of the week, I ran across this piece at Catholic World Report. I knew that Cardinal Kasper has been in the news a lot (I kept seeing headlines about him), but I didn't realize how disreputable he had become. If this the following passage is true, I think we can safely discard him and his "wing" of the Church:
Kasper had previously denied he'd made the remarks attributed to him by journalist Edward Pentin, then stated that he had been recorded speaking to journalists without his knowledge.
Link.
Again, if true and fully accurate, the man is a scoundrel and he walks in the shoes of dishonest progressives over the past fifty years: it it advances the liberal agenda, it's acceptable, even if it's dishonest, inaccurate, abusive, or otherwise dishonorable.
The whole episode reminds me of Richard John Neuhaus recounting debate between European clerics and African clerics in the Anglican Church over things like homosexuality. I don't remember the details, but one of the European clerics made reference to the less developed Africans. Neuhaus said something like, "Of course, these people were just swinging from vines a generation ago." Pretty funny. I wish I could find it online.
