text: BTW: Sr. Kyran was my 5th grade teacher in Spartanburg SC. She passed away at the nuns home in P.A. around 2001. I actually went to see her there before she passed.
  She was the Bomb, the golden gloves of Irish Catholic Nuns. She could have been a Marine Drill instructor the way she herded us delinquents (and yes I was not the only one), but most important she was a good and true Catholic who love the Church and the Truth, and I loved her for what she taught me.
  “In his mentality there is only true or false. But I say: The world, my brother, the world is not like that. You should be a little flexible, if you hear other voices, so as not to only hear them and say, no, here is the wall. ”
  I thought that true or false are the only options. Is he saying we should believe in gray areas (flexible) as opposed to things being black or white?
  What Cardinal Maradiaga said in the part of the interview that preceded those remarks about Cd Mueller seems imo even more astonishing: firstly, on the subject of the divorced and remarried
  “Christ says: ‘What God has put together let no man put asunder.’ This statement is fixed. But there are many ways to interpret it. For instance, after the failure of a marriage we can ask ‘Were the married partners really joined together in God?’ So there is a lot of room for a more in-depth penetration [ie of the matter].
  In answer to the journalist’s question, “Why another Synod on the family? We had one in 1980, and we have Pope John Paul II’s beautiful apostolic exhortation ‘Familiaris consortio’,” Maradiaga replies: “That was 30 years ago. For most people the family of those days doesn’t exist any longer. We have divorces, patchwork-families, lone parents, phenomena such as surrogate motherhood, childless families, not to mention same-sex partners. In 198o, none of that could even be glimpsed on the horizon. [Oh, really?!] All that demands answers for the world of today. It’s not enough to say ‘For that we have traditional doctrine.’ Traditional doctrine will continue to exist, of course. But the pastoral needs demand contemporary answers. And they do not come any more from authoritarianism, or moralism. That is no ‘New Evangelism’, no, no!”
  Fr. Z, if you are correct (your logic is good), does this support Benedict being the Pope in the famous St. John Bosco dream of the two pillars?
  This situation with the princes of the church sniping at each other brings to mind the message of the Blessed Virgin at Akita, Japan, and in particular this part given in 1973:
  Each day, recite the prayers of the Rosary. With the Rosary, pray for the Pope, the bishops and the priests. The work of the devil will infiltrate even into the Church in such a way that one will see cardinals opposing cardinals, and bishops against other bishops. The priests who venerate me will be scorned and opposed by their Confreres. The Church and altars will be vandalized. The Church will be full of those who accept compromises and the demon will press many priests and consecrated souls to leave the service of the Lord.