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Boston Catholic Insider
The international buzz about Cardinal Sean O’Malley has a few facts correct and a lot of them missing or wrong. In this post, we try to lay out everything as best we can, so you, the reader, can separate fact from fiction. This post will emerge by the end as a summary of the experiences in Boston over the recent years of his tenure.
We start with a discussion about what folks are saying the Catholic Church and Cardinals are looking for in the next Pope, then the positive references cited about Cardinal O’Malley, then the facts, results, and wrong or missing information about his track record in Boston in the areas of teaching and governing. Check back a few times between today and Monday morning as we add to the content.
Attributes Cardinals Say We Need in Next Pope
The key attributes we keep hearing repeatedly quoted in the press as desirable for the next pope are the following:
o Great governance, leadership and managerial skills: to shake-up and overhaul a Vatican curia tainted by internal political infighting and the “Vatileaks” scandal, restore financial transparency to the Catholic Church’s operations and assemble a solid team of people around him to support his teaching and apostolic ministry
o Great teaching skills—someone who can proclaim the Gospel and truths of our faith to all people, in-season and out-of-season, and who teaches not just by his words but also by his actions.
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