This is not intended as any kind of criticism but to invite you prayerfully to reflect on this in prayer. Or to put it another way, talk to Our Lady about it.
While this information may be the case, it does not make Pope Francis a heretic. I would not want to be in anyone's shoes at this time who is working in anyway to diminish his papacy, lest one will have a very difficult time on judgement day. Best pray with a sincere heart and ask the Holy Spirit for the gifts of understanding and prudence.
Not sure about Sadie, but what she said that I put in 'red', means nothing. We all know prophecy state's schism will come and that has been true during losts of past papacies too. Then she say's the Church "is right now in a schism de facto". I heard this 20+ years ago at one of Servant of God, Father John Hardon's retreats. BIG DEAL! This is not a news flash and if this is the first time Sadie has come to understand this, she has been sleeping for the past several decades. If she is a 'messanger' she might want to get updated so she does not look like she is clueless.
True, every word the Pope utters is not bound in heaven. But lets be clear, it is not only Ex-cathedra pronouncements that are infallible and we owe the Supreme Pontiff this obedience even in his ordinary teaching athourity. The pope, nor any man is in a position to judge anyone's soul.
EVERY priest? My, you ARE in the know. As my now deceased little old Jewish mother used to say...."and you were there?" So then, from someone who is living the reality of that region of the world (and from one of your personally approved sites): No genius is needed to figure out that Pope Francis is not a liturgist the way Pope Benedict was. But the fear that Francis’ papacy may mark the “end of the reform of the reform” of the liturgical changes that were introduced after the Second Vatican Council is, frankly, unfounded. Let me present the evidence. Although his liturgical gestures as pope have not amounted to much so far, his ministry in the Archdiocese of Buenos Aires convincingly shows his mindset on the liturgy. In Buenos Aires, then-Cardinal Bergoglio did not express significant interest in the extraordinary form of the rite. However, he put up no resistance to it either. Following Summorum Pontificum, he made the traditional Mass readily available. In fact, Buenos Aires is probably the Latin-American city with the largest number of Masses celebrated in the extraordinary form. His lack of major interest was not hostility or indifference. Instead, he was concentrating on a far more daunting task: making sure that all of the faithful in his archdiocese had access to a decent Mass. Let me explain. In Latin America, beside the beautifully and carefully celebrated Masses associated with the major popular devotions, liturgical abuses are still alive and constitute a massive problem in the region. It is not a situation of omitting or changing the rubrics here and there. The liturgical problems are much more serious. They consist of events like priests “concelebrating” the Mass with the youth at the rhythm of tropical songs in Colombia; “consecrating” cakes with Guayaba marmalade in Venezuela; a “reggae” Mass in Panama; or a priest celebrating with vestments portraying Batman and Robin while squirting holy water with a green-and-red water pistol in Mexico. This is no exaggeration. Cardinal Bergoglio’s efforts for reform in Buenos Aires were not exclusively aimed at the liturgy. He sought to change priestly and sacramental life in general. ......Pope Francis’ vision of the liturgy as a crucial part of personal conversion, as well as his pastoral experience in Buenos Aires, should be a source for hope rather than suspicion. Returning to the faithful the right to attend a Mass that more fully transmits the experience of actually being the summit of Christian life is still a pending revolution, in many regions. Pope Francis’ vision of the liturgy as a crucial part of personal conversion, as well as his pastoral experience in Buenos Aires, should be a source for hope rather than suspicion. Try living a while in the specific regions yourself with their very own challenges even for a basic and true liturgy before throwing darts at one who improved not only those egregious problems to a great degree but the participation in a valid sacramental life which was ignored or left to status quo prior to Bergoglio's involvement. It's a different world from your ideal. What a dedicated and truly pastoral priest indeed. Read more: http://www.ncregister.com/daily-news/pope-francis-and-the-liturgy/#ixzz3J5fouXQv
Thanks for sharing this, Mike. Leon Bloy's famous quote was included: The only real sadness, the only real failure, the only great tragedy in life, is not to become a saint. Along with his equally powerful, but lesser known quote: Any Christian who is not a hero is a pig. Leon Bloy, from a cursory reading of his life, had serious struggles with himself. But I pray that those two quotes paved his way to paradise. My focus these days is to build up spiritual muscles that, with the grace of God, will enable me NOT to be pig during this storm, and to tuck myself safely in the Divine Will and give my fiat, day by day, hour by hour and minute by minute if necessary, to be made a Saint in whatever way Jesus sees fit. When I think of how God makes Saints, I often remember this passage from Isaiah. There's something here, I think, that explains our times of spiritual comfort, when we are carefully kept, and times of trial, when the stick and flail come out. Listen closely to my words, be attentive, understand what I am saying. Does the ploughman plough all day to sow, breaking up and harrowing his ground? Once he has levelled its surface, does he not scatter fennel, sow cummin? Then he puts in wheat, millet, barley and, round the edges, spelt, God has taught him this rule and instructed him. Fennel must not be crushed with a sledge, nor cart-wheels driven over cummin; fennel must be beaten with a stick, and cummin with a flail. When you are threshing wheat, you do not waste time crushing it; you get the horse and cart-wheel moving, but you do not grind it fine. All this is a gift fromYahweh Sabaoth, marvellous advice leading to great achievements. Isaiah 28: 23-29
Im not that well educated to disagree with Father Hadron ,Fatima. I cant be expected to show the problems here. All I can say is you wouldn't have been on St Athanasius side when he was excommunicated [for 25years]
Mark Mallett has knocked the ball out of the park again with his most recent post "What It Means To Welcome Sinners" http://www.markmallett.com/blog/what-it-means-to-welcome-sinners/
So much division with people that really don't and can't know the whole story. Again I state its ok to have discussions...that is the "way the Lord designed it". But to create division, disbelief and chaos is not from Our Lord Jesus Christ. Papa Frances just had a very "off the cuff" interview (no holds bar). Look what he said about Cardinal Burk. - A conservative sector in the US thinks that you removed the North American cardinal Raymond Leo Burke from the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura because he was the leader of a group that resisted changes of any type in the synod of bishops.. Is it true? - One day Cardinal Burke asked me what he would be doing as he had still not been confirmed in his position, in the legal sector, but rather had been confirmed "donec alitur provideatur". And I answered "Give me some time because we are thinking of a legal restructuring of the G9". I told him nothing had been done about it yet and that it was being considered. After that the issue of the Order of Malta cropped up and we needed a smart American who would know how to get around and I thought of him for that position. I suggested this to him long before the synod. I said to him "This will take place after the synod because I want you to participate in the synod as Dicastery Head". As the chaplain of Malta he wouldn´t have been able to be present. He thanked me in very good terms and accepted my offer, I even think he liked it. Because he is a man that gets around a lot, he does a lot of travelling and would surely be busy there. It is therefore not true that I removed him because of how he had behaved in the synod. Read the whole interview http://news.yahoo.com/pope-francis-god-has-bestowed-on-healthy-dose-060000447.html May Gods Will be Done
