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#361165 - 03/05/11 10:21 AM
Cardinal Kasper Retires
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Pope Benedict XVI has chosen Swiss Bishop Kurt Koch of Basel to be the new president of Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity and of the Pontifical Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews. Bishop Koch, 60, succeeds German Cardinal Walter Kasper, 77, who has been at the council for 11 years -- first as secretary, then as president since 2000. http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/1002699.htmThoughts anyone?
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#361178 - 03/05/11 02:20 PM
Re: Cardinal Kasper Retires
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Pope Benedict XVI has chosen Swiss Bishop Kurt Koch of Basel to be the new president of Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity and of the Pontifical Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews. Bishop Koch, 60, succeeds German Cardinal Walter Kasper, 77, who has been at the council for 11 years -- first as secretary, then as president since 2000. http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/1002699.htmThoughts anyone? This news is a little bit dated!  Cardinal Kasper retired (resignation accepted by the Pope by reason of age; over 75) last year. His successor, now Archbishop Koch, assumed office on July 1, 2010. If I remember it right, there were no "outcries" when His Eminence retired. He served well under both Popes. Amado
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#361197 - 03/05/11 07:41 PM
Re: Cardinal Kasper Retires
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I guess that it's a 'whoops'. I, for one, have read a 'news' item more than once, started to or actually posted it, and then realized that it had dust on it. It happens.
Many years,
Neil
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"One day all our ethnic traits ... will have disappeared. Time itself is seeing to this. And so we can not think of our communities as ethnic parishes, ... unless we wish to assure the death of our community."
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#361202 - 03/05/11 09:18 PM
Re: Cardinal Kasper Retires
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One of the advantages of advancing age is that there is no old news, the same news is new everyday no matter when it happened.
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#361207 - 03/05/11 10:28 PM
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See - this has gone from a 'whoops, it's old news' hiccup to a social commentary on aging and an update on the old news! One can always count on our members to seize on any opportunity to find something more worth saying, no matter how tough it might be to do so! Many years, Neil (thinking that maybe he should have skipped that last dose of the pain med  )
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"One day all our ethnic traits ... will have disappeared. Time itself is seeing to this. And so we can not think of our communities as ethnic parishes, ... unless we wish to assure the death of our community."
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#361214 - 03/05/11 11:00 PM
Re: Cardinal Kasper Retires
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One of the advantages of advancing age is that there is no old news, the same news is new everyday no matter when it happened. The bible warns us about so-called news items. Ecclesiastes 1:10 "Nothing under the sun is news, neither is any man able to say: Behold this item is news: for it hath already gone before in the ages that were before us." Well, more or less.
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#361547 - 03/11/11 04:42 PM
Re: Cardinal Kasper Retires
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It is true that the Bishop of Basel is elected by the cathedral chapter of canons in accordance with the concordat of 1828 between the Holy See and the local Swiss cantons. The election is subject to confirmation by the Holy See. Also, which is less than ideal, all the local Swiss cantons have a veto on the election.
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