UPDATE: From one of my friends (a woman) re: Maureen Dowd (see below) - "My theory is she was never picked for the May crowning of Mary. Really, the bitterness never goes away."
I personally know a several people who are unhappy; they are "Traditionalists" of the extreme variety. Not only do they prefer the Latin Mass, but they think the current Mass is invalid, and the Pope is illicit. And they point to the horrible sex abuse – as if the Pope was personally responsible for the appalling behavior.
Now here are two voices from the "Progressive" kook fringe.
Eugene Kennedy is a bitter former priest who manages to spin 10 page magazine articles into 200 page books which no one reads.
Beatification of John Paul II leaves many Catholics cold
The metaphor suggests other questions. If John Paul knew how to make himself — or part of himself — present to a crowd, how much of himself did he ever really reveal to anybody? How well did you know the real man, Karol Wojtyla?
Are there unanswered questions about this pope who may have dazzled but seemed to exude so little real warmth for the believers at whom, above his Slavic smile, he never seemed to look directly?
Yawn.
The NY Times columnist Maureen Dowd, who fancies herself a Catholic theologican – and also bitter.
Now the Vatican is like Wall Street, where companies give their most disgraced C.E.O.’s golden parachutes to make up for the stress of outside attack. Except the Vatican gives golden halos.
Her beef, among other things – she can't be ordained.
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