Cardinal Adam Maida of Detroit, who has sometimes been whacked for not doing enough to combat heresy in his archdiocese, gets supreme kudos from me for his order to a pastor to cancel a lecture by a Call-to-Action, former priest type. The neo-“Spirit of Vatican II” dissident’s response is just hilarious, too, right from the spot where he addresses His Eminence as “Adam.”
Is that the best defense you can offer for Padavano? Talk about getting hung up on petty things.
I don’t care if you’re old school buddies with the Pope or a Cardinal, you don’t call him by his first name in a formal letter. It’s not appropriate.