The strategy was wrong, but the intentions I consider to have been good. Much like the appeasers of Hitler at Munich. The official Church in John's time was not arguing that Communism was benevolent, despite its lack of conviction. It is much more difficult to argue that current intentions are benevolent.
Agreed. I was deploying 'liberal' in its more traditional, historical sense. I tend to be reactionary in temperament myself, but there is a spectrum of diversity in approaches to liturgy and morality, as demonstrated through constant, historical debate right from the beginning of the Church. For example, St. Paul could have been defined as a 'liberal' in opposing the 'reaction' of St. Peter in the latter's approach towards the behaviour of gentiles. Most would agree, and Peter himself came around to it, that Paul had the right of it. Of course you are right-'liberalism', in its modernist definition has come to mean something else completely, namely 'do as you will'. I am hoping that quite a few are still defining it in their hearts as in the older, proper sense and will eventually reject the satanic version. Maybe it's a vain hope.
And yet who is the world leader that PF seems to like the least as far as his comments and gestures have related but the only one who outwardly protects life, protects his own citizens against the unbridled flow of unknowns across the border, and has suggested that his coming policy towards U.S. money going to foreign nations be connected to their treatment of Christians and those of other faiths or minorities? Pres. Trump. It was reported that VP Pence's recent visit to PF had a rather long private conversation. Would liked to have been a fly on that wall!
Cardinal at center of 2 Popes storm doubles down on celibacy VATICAN CITY (AP) — A Vatican cardinal at the center of a storm over a book about celibacy and the Catholic priesthood is denouncing the “brutality” of criticism directed at him and his collaborator, Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI. In an interview with Italian daily newspaper Il Foglio published Saturday, Cardinal Robert Sarah doubled down on his argument in the book, “From the Depths of Our Hearts,” that the Catholic priesthood is incompatible with marriage. “If you weaken the law of celibacy, you open a breach, a wound in the mystery of the church,” Sarah told the newspaper. Sarah, who heads the Vatican’s liturgical office, insisted on the sacramental link between the priesthood and celibacy, even though the Catholic Church has for centuries had married priests in its Eastern Rites as well as in the ranks of Anglican and other Protestant converts. The book’s publication earlier this month sparked furious debate, given that Pope Francis is currently weighing whether to allow married priests in the Amazon to counter a priest shortage there. Benedict’s involvement appeared to be a clear effort to influence his successor’s decision and called into question Benedict’s promise to live “hidden from the world” after he retired in 2013. The controversy prompted Sarah to announce that future editions of the book would list Benedict as a contributor, rather than co-author. The Italian version of the book, which came out this week, has on its cover “Robert Sarah with Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI.” Sarah has insisted he acted in good faith and denied allegations that he manipulated the 92-year-old Benedict into participating in a frontal attack on Francis. The cardinal tweeted amid the initial criticism that he had visited the retired pope and “there is no misunderstanding between us.” Sarah, a Guinean prelate who is a hero to the church’s conservative and traditionalist wing, has insisted he remains obedient to Francis. But the two have clashed repeatedly, and the Vatican under the progressive Francis has found itself in the unusual position of issuing public corrections of Sarah’s positions. The Holy See, for example, intervened in 2016 after Sarah told a London liturgical conference that it was “very important” for the church to return “as soon as possible” to its old practice of the priest celebrating Mass facing east, with his back to the faithful. The Vatican press office insisted Sarah’s call was taken out of context by the media. A year later, Francis publicly reprimanded Sarah for misinterpreting a new instruction giving bishops’ conferences the right to translate Mass missals. Sarah had already sent his interpretation off to a French journal for publication. Sarah is due to offer his resignation to Francis in June when he turns 75, the mandatory retirement age for Catholic bishops. https://apnews.com/0967d5598e4c36a34b3f5babc5ebde87
Does this offer some hope? Archbishop Chaput says successor is 'exactly the man our church needs' https://www.catholicnews.com/servic...essor-is-exactly-the-man-our-church-needs.cfm
Who in their right mind ever thought this trans gender stuff would have taken over such a large part of society. It’s a nightmare.
Way Back in my day - this sentiment would sound somewhat yes foreign.. Later down the road a bit - I was "privileged" to hear some "theology" from whom now I can only label as false shepherds - who indeed took that notion to the extreme.. Anything Goes! Even Diametrically opposing ideas... Except? Catholic Church Teachings! The same "group" also taught the notion of "Loyal Opposition" .. A subtle oxymoronical notion if there ever was one. Their target? Pope John Paul II.. Rome... The Vatican.. After some discussion it was acknowledged to be Disobedience.. I prefer our Lord's POV .. that the Road to Him is Narrow... Peace in Jesus..
My use of the word 'always' was meant to convey those times which preceded the emergence of modernism and which extended back to Our Lord's time. You are perfectly right, the Road is Narrow and this implies strict boundaries. However, within those bounds the Church has historically been a scene of lively debate which has given us the greatest thinkers the world has known, such as St Augustine and St Thomas, to give two examples. However, until the emergence of modernism, it was usually implicit that all divergence of opinion had to remain within the bounds of the Magisterium. Of course there were occasions when these divergences over-stepped the mark, leading to the break with the East and more particularly the schisms of the Reformation. What has been happening for the last century has been far more virulent and represents a rejection of the actual concept of boundaries. However, one can run the risk of becoming overly-narrow, leading to factionalism which only weakens the orthodox side in its struggle against the apostates and heretics. This is the principle behind the current 'uniting of the clans'. If some, or hopefully many, of the liberal-tending cardinals balk in the next conclave at the prospect of electing a Francis II and go for a middle-of-the-road pope, I for one will welcome it. Of course, another St Pius X would be better, but this seems very unlikely without a very direct and particular Divine Intervention. With an orthodox, though somewhat liberal-leaning pope (and St JPII and Benedict were both in this category), there would be a prospect that some and hopefully many of our liberal Cardinals would be influenced to return to a more traditional mode of Catholicism, thus isolating the extremists. We live and pray in hope. Our Lord did say that whoever wasn't for Him was against Him. He also said to the Apostles (Mark 9:39, Douay-Rheims) 'he that is not against you, is for you'. To put it another way, I would prefer to see Communion administered on the tongue to people kneeling. There are also times I would prefer to kneel at Mass than to stand. Likewise, I'd love to see priests say Mass ad orientem. However, I'm not going to consider anyone who prefers the alternative practices as being a heretic. The grounds for anathematisation need to be more fundamental, such as opting to permit Communion for those in a state of mortal sin. Communion in the hand might not be respectful enough, but it is not comparable with the horror of the latter example.
The Chinese Catholics have truly been betrayed by Bergoglio and his team. They have been thrown to the wolves. This seems to be the case. Dearest Lord Jesus, as you continue to hang on the cross, with your hands and feet nailed, looking at this inhumanity of man to man, taking this pain anew into your most sorrowful passion, pour forth the ocean of Your Mercy upon these victim souls and give them rest and peace inside your Sacred Heart. Amen
Yes.. And of any sense of any Christian Fundamentals - aka Apostasy.. Thank you for your open candidness. Yes.. Opposition to the Church began in earnest soon after Pentecost via interlopers within Congregations - who faced the admonitions of the Apostles.... Later, Lively debates between those who were on the opposing sides (Faithful vs Heretics) of the narrow path led to the noted great apologetics of those aforementioned Doctors of the Church.. Placing the problems of the past circa 50 years to Today in context - against the backdrop of circa 1000 years ago (The Great Schism of the Apostolic Church) which orbited around the disagreement over a single phrase, "Filioque", Apostasy Itself comes into sharper focus and appreciation... Today's disagreements are as nuclear compared with that of The Great Schism (1054 A.D.) In the Church of e.g., 1960 - terms such as, Liberal and Conservative did not exist. Nor did that have any equivalent counterparts. They are direct borrowings from the political-ideological upheavals of the Global Counter-Cultural anti-authoritarian 'revolution' of the mid-1960s' onward. They found their way into the Church carrying the same anti-authoritarian spirit several years after the conclusion of Vat II (1965). AND.. Conservative referred to the orthodox - and Liberal to the heterodox... Changes for Change Sake flourished via parroting the simple mantra, "In the spirit of Vatican II...". Many - including priests and bishops, were very bewildered... My point is that there isn't really hardly any wiggle room within actual Catholicism.. The False Shepherds created face it Post Vat II "schism" via inculcating widespread Theological and Liturgial Abuses. ... This set the stage for Sexual Abuses which were given birth in many Seminaries (becoming priests and bishops).. And the Laity left in waves.. All Catholic Stats (such as Vocations) began their thus non-stop plummet.. Since Then? Like a cancer growing, the False Shepherding - and those who unwittingly follow their lead - continues thus far unabated... And Faith itself needs all the shoring up that we can muster...
Father Aemilius is the Pope's new Personal Secretary The Uruguayan priest, whom Pope Francis has known since 2006, is chosen to take the place left open by Father Pedacchio last December. By Vatican News Pope Francis and the Uruguayan priest, Gonzalo Aemilius, have known each other since 2006, since Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, Archbishop of Buenos Aires, made contact with him because he had heard of Father Aemilius’ work with street kids. Gonzalo Aemilius, a Doctor of Theology, is the Pope's new Special Secretary. He takes the place of Father Fabian Pedacchio, the Argentine priest who worked alongside the Pope from 2013 to 2019, and who returned last December to his post at the Congregation of Bishops. Father Aemilius was born in Montevideo on 18 September 1979 and was ordained a priest on 6 May 2006. His face may be familiar to many because he is the one, who the Pope greeted and summoned to him when he was part of the crowd gathered outside a Vatican Gate to welcome Pope Francis at the beginning of his pontificate on the morning of 17 March 2013. He recognized him and invited him to accompany him into the church where he was about to celebrate his first Mass with the faithful after his election. At the end of the liturgy, Pope Francis introduced Father Aemilius to all those present, asking them to pray for him and for his work with street children. Interviewed by the “Osservatore Romano” on the following day, Father Aemilius said that Archbishop Bergoglio's ability to integrate different values and channel them in a single direction had struck him deeply: “Experiencing this ability of his was decisive in my life," he said, "He taught me to take the best that is in each individual, however different he or she may be from others, and to put it to good use for the good of all". The Uruguayan priest chosen by Pope Francis will accompany his current Personal Secretary, Father Yoannis Lahzi Gaid. https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2020-01/father-aemilius-pope-francis-personal-secretary.html
We are getting closer to the 7th anniversary, Feb. 11, 2013, date of his resignation, and also the feast of Our Lady of Lourdes.
I don’t know if I should be angry or sad https://www.churchmilitant.com/news...-francis-can-join-protestantism-says-cardinal Sad Sad Sad
