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...Congress remains out of session for a second week, he will also pose for photos in the Oval Office before meetings with the national commander-in-chief of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, Jim Mueller, a Vietnam veteran from Missouri, and with the Archbishop of Washington, Theodore Cardinal McCarrick, who participated last April in the selection of Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger as the 265th Pope, Benedict XVI. Bush will also make remarks on World AIDS Day; light the national Christmas tree during the ?Pageant of Peace? on the Ellipse on Thursday; and attend the Kennedy Center Honors Gala next Sunday...
...good luck. Instead, over the past two weeks, just about every hypothesis from every corner of the globe has been whispered in our ears: Australia's George Pell, Italy's Severino Poletto, Canada's Mark Ouellet, Chile's Juan Luis Cipriani Thorne, Ukraine's Lubomyr, United States' Theodore McCarrick. Each, for a different reason, seems highly improbable. Someone even dropped the name of the Cardinal from Lyon Philippe Barbarin to my colleague Jordan Bonfante, who promptly looked him up in the Vatican's Annuario Pontificio, to find he was born in 1950. ?Sure," Jordan quipped, "a French babyboomer...
Theodore Cardinal McCarrick of Washington declared it the "largest funeral in the history of the world," as outside the multitudes watched, on immense TV screens, the movement of the plain cypress coffin, a fitting last gesture by a Pope who understood so well how much images matter. Priests poured into the crowds to administer Communion, and over their heads, the flags sailed and swooped. Banners proclaimed SANTO SUBITO, Sainthood Now, and already reports were spreading of miraculous healings by the Pope last week. "The Cardinals have seen this outpouring, and it adds to the weight of their responsibility. It says...
...bishops will hear from a task force, led by Washington Archbishop Theodore Cardinal McCarrick, that is supposed to give them a set of guidelines on the issue shortly after the election. McCarrick has said he has "not gotten comfortable" with the idea of confronting anyone at the altar, even as he has asserted that Catholics conscious of grave sin should not take Communion. The antiabortion group American Life League responded in early May with full-page newspaper ads in the Washington Times featuring a picture of the crucified Christ and asking, CARDINAL MCCARRICK: ARE YOU COMFORTABLE...
...Governor of New Jersey, James McGreevey, under intense pressure from his local bishops, declared recently he would no longer receive Communion as a Catholic. A group of bishops headed by Theodore Cardinal McCarrick of Washington is pondering how far to push the issue with Kerry. McCarrick has said he is personally "uncomfortable" with barring public officials from Communion--and that has been the established pastoral practice in the past. But several other bishops have already said they would bar Kerry (and others) from Communion for a pro-choice stance, and the archbishops of Newark, N.J., and Colorado Springs, Colo., have...