Benedict Names Pugnacious Archbishop to City of Brotherly Love

[SoDesuKa]

Pope Benedict has named a slugger to head up the Philadelphia archdiocese, Archbishop Charles J. Chaput. Maybe Benedict figures that's what demoralized Philadelphia Catholics need now - a guy who's not afraid to throw a punch. But this sort of move has backfired on other Popes. By the time Cardinal Egan retired in New York he was universally despised, especially by his priests.

Chaput's book Render Unto Caesar calls for war on abortion.

American Catholics and other persons of good heart are part of a struggle for our nation’s future, says Charles J. Chaput. Our choices, including our political choices, matter. Catholics need to take an active, vocal, and morally consistent role in public debate. We can’t claim to personally believe in the sanctity of the human person and then act in our public policies as if we don’t. We can’t separate our private convictions from our public actions without diminishing both. In the words of the author, “How we act works backward on our convictions, making them stronger or smothering them under a snowfall of alibis.”

Vivid, provocative, clear, and compelling, Render unto Caesar is a call to American Catholics to serve the highest ideals of their nation by first living their Catholic faith deeply, authentically.

http://www.archden.org/renderuntocaesar/summary.htm

Just what we need. Rush Limbaugh as the head of a major diocese.

[AndyTiedye]

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