A famous general of the War of Northern Aggression was Burnside. You couldn't really tell whose side he was really on as Lincoln remarked, “Only Burnside could manage such a coup to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory”.
The Catholic Church seems to have leader of similar, although far more malevolent if more slightly less comical, character. Cardinal Kasper is trying to upstage the jubilant arrival of the prodigal with insidious messages encouraging dissent. Cardinal Kasper is eager to redirect suggestions that this is after all, a victory for conservative forces, dragging out the overtried phraseology of false ecumenism, he said, “But if there are people who obeying their consciences want to become Catholic, we cannot shut the door” [But we really tried to shut the door, believe me].
In order to reassure the Archbishop of Canterbury, CNS reports, as if it might be a possibility that Dominican Inquisitors are ready to deploy to newly catholicized Anglican parsonages, he solemnly intoned another familiar cliche, “I think there is an agreement between us and the (Anglican) Archbishop of Canterbury that we have to respect their freedom of conscience and freedom of religion.”
Already, the ecumenicist of engagement arrives in England to help fight a rearguard action for the Magic Circle English Bishops who can only look on at something they attempted to prevent and frustrate all along.
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