Neo-Elect Cardinal Challenges Church Teaching and Discipline

Keith Michael Patrick Cardinal O‘Brien

Function: Archbishop of Saint Andrews and Edinburgh, Scotland, Great Britain

Title: Cardinal Priest of Sts. Joachim and Anne at the Tuscolano

Birthdate: May 17, 1938	Country: Scotland

Elevated: Aug 21, 2003	More information: www.catholic-hierarchy.org, www.archdiocese-edinburgh.com

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Neo-Elect Cardinal Challenges Church Teaching and Discipline
Sept 11, 2004
Among the recently named batch of 31 new cardinals, we have the execrable Archbishop Keith O'Brien of Aberdeen, Scotland. Within one day of his election as cardinal, O’Brien “used a Mass of thanksgiving as an occasion to question Church teaching and discipline regarding contraception, homosexuality, and clerical celibacy.

(CWNewsw.com, 10-2-03) Walter Kasper’s elevation to the summit of the Catholic hierarchy ranks among the worst scandals of the past forty years. But the Pope goes on raising such characters to the rank of cardinal, filling the next conclave with men who would have been censured and stripped of their offices by St. Pius X.

Among the recently named batch of 31 new cardinals, for example, we have the execrable Archbishop Keith O'Brien of Aberdeen, Scotland. Within one day of his election as cardinal, O’Brien “used a Mass of thanksgiving as an occasion to question Church teaching and discipline regarding contraception, homosexuality, and clerical celibacy. Archbishop O'Brien… said that the Church should re-examine her teaching regarding contraception.

He said that he assumed a large number of Catholic priests are homosexual, and is not troubled by that fact if they maintain their vows of celibacy. But he also questioned whether the discipline of priestly celibacy is necessary, pointing out that ‘throughout the world there are married priests and in England there are a number of converts from Anglicanism who are married and who became Roman Catholic priests’” .

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