Barron says Wuerl resignation was in ‘good conscience’ https://cruxnow.com/synod-of-bishop...ays-wuerl-resignation-was-in-good-conscience/
Hitler built good roads and made the trains run on time and was in many ways a good adminstrator as well..
The following statements from Pope Francis are much better imho, Pope Francis at canonization Mass: 'Jesus is radical' Pilgrims in St. Peter’s Square hold up an image of Saint Oscar Romero at his canonization Mass Oct. 14. Credit: Daniel Ibáñez By Courtney Grogan | https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/the-seven-saints-pope-francis-will-canonize-on-sunday-73292 Vatican City, Oct 14, 2018 / 05:19 am (CNA/EWTN News).- "Jesus is radical,” Pope Francis said in his homily at the canonization of Pope Paul VI, Oscar Romero, and five other new saints. “He gives all and he asks all: he gives a love that is total and asks for an undivided heart,” the pope told the pilgrims gathered in St. Peter’s Square Oct. 14. Christ “gives himself to us as the living bread; can we give him crumbs in exchange?” the pope asked. Francis officially recognized Pope Paul VI, Oscar Romero, Vincent Romano, Francesco Spinelli, Nunzio Sulprizio, Nazaria Ignacia March Mesa, and Maria Katharina Kasper as saints at the Mass. “All these saints, in different contexts, put today’s word into practice in their lives, without lukewarmness, without calculation, with the passion to risk everything and to leave it all behind. May the Lord help us to imitate their example,” Pope Francis said at their canonization. Oscar Romero, who was beatified by Pope Francis in El Salvador in 2015, was the archbishop of the nation's capital city of San Salvador. He was shot while celebrating Mass March 24, 1980, during the birth of a civil war between leftist guerrilla forces and the dictatorial government of the right. An outspoken critic of the violence and injustices being committed at the time, Romero was declared a martyr who was killed in hatred of the faith for his vocal defense of human rights. Saint Oscar Romero “left the security of the world, even his own safety, in order to give his life according to the Gospel, close to the poor and to his people, with a heart drawn to Jesus and his brothers and sisters,” Pope Francis said in his homily Sunday. “Let us ask ourselves where we are in our story of love with God. Do we content ourselves with a few commandments or do we follow Jesus as lovers, really prepared to leave behind something for him?” the pope asked. Pope Saint Paul VI, like St. Paul, his namesake, “spent his life for Christ’s Gospel, crossing new boundaries and becoming its witness in proclamation and in dialogue, a prophet of a Church turned outwards, looking to those far away and taking care of the poor,” Francis said. As pope, Paul VI oversaw much of the Second Vatican Council, which had been opened by Pope St. John XXIII, and in 1969 promulgated a new Roman Missal. He died in 1978, and was beatified by Pope Francis Oct. 19, 2014. Apart from his role in the council, Paul VI is most widely known for his landmark encyclical Humanae Vitae, which was published in 1968 and reaffirmed the Church’s teaching against contraception in wake of the sexual revolution. This year marks the 50th anniversary the encyclical. “Pope Saint Paul VI wrote: ‘It is indeed in the midst of their distress that our fellow men need to know joy, to hear its song,’” Pope Francis said. “Today Jesus invites us to return to the source of joy, which is the encounter with him, the courageous choice to risk everything to follow him, the satisfaction of leaving something behind in order to embrace his way. The saints have travelled this path,” he continued. The pope encouraged Catholics to imitate the saints’ detachment, “Is Jesus enough for us or do we look for many worldly securities?” “Let us ask for the grace always to leave things behind for love of the Lord: to leave behind wealth, the yearning for status and power, structures that are no longer adequate for proclaiming the Gospel, those weights that slow down our mission, the strings that tie us to the world,” he said. “Without a leap forward in love, our life and our Church become sick from ‘complacency and self-indulgence,’” he continued. “The problem is on our part: our having too much, our wanting too much suffocates our hearts and makes us incapable of loving,” the pope said. At the Sunday Angelus following the Mass, Pope Francis greeted Queen Sofia of Spain and the presidents of Chile, El Salvador, Panama, and Italy, who attended the canonization Mass. The canonizations took place midway through the 2018 Synod of Bishops on the topic of young people, the faith and vocational discernment from Oct. 3-28. Support Catholic News Agency Tags: Catholic News, Canonizations, Pope Francis, Oscar Romero, Blessed Oscar Romero, Pope Paul VI canonization, Pope Paul VI You may also like » October 13, 2018 The Seven in Heaven: Meet the new saints to be canonized this weekend Meet the seven people Pope Francis will officially recognize as saints of the Catholic Church on...
Che Guevara was a radical too. I think the term radical in this context is wrong as it has political overtones. Jesus' kingdom is not of this world --
Yes, the followers of liberation theology often called Jesus a "revolutionary". Today the word radical is laden with strong political overtones pertaining to the "progressive left".
garabandal, I thought about this for a moment too. I wondered why use the word radical but to say someone is a radical and to say that someone is radical is different. "Jesus is radical" is like saying that "Jesus is fundamental" or "Jesus is essential" or "Jesus is exceptional". I would have preferred that Pope Francis had used either of those three words instead of radical because I believe that the phrase that the pope chose will be much more likely to be confused with being a radical then being essential and being fundamental and being exceptional. "Jesus is radical. He gives all and he asks all: he gives a love that is total and asks for an undivided heart. Even today he gives himself to us as the living bread; can we give him crumbs in exchange? We cannot respond to him, who made himself our servant even going to the cross for us, only by observing some of the commandments. We cannot give him, who offers us eternal life, some odd moment of time. Jesus is not content with a “percentage of love”: we cannot love him twenty or fifty or sixty percent. It is either all or nothing." http://w2.vatican.va/content/france...francesco_20181014_omelia-canonizzazione.html P., We continue to be tested, as we have spoken of in the past.
Well, first of all, in today's world, whole generations have to known even how to "find" the real Christ and learn of His oneness with the Father, doing only what is Willed by Him, being actually the incarnation of the Mind of the Father through the Holy Spirit. And that Mind of the Father has real universal laws that must apply. To preach to millions in today's terms of "radical" with no other foundation...except what else has been forwarded to the public by this Pope....like no judgement needed; no standards from which to judge anything or anyone that might order those pre-conditions contained in scripture itself....just offers, again, simply one more point for generalized confusion as to why we're here. I realize that the Pope was finding a way to emphasize Romero's sacrifice and overcoming natural fears to continue his mission even to death, but the concern is with the "style" seemingly promoted here. The radical movements of today are well known....and they now incorporate violent means to "force" persons into that "detachment" from property or adherence to the law for "judgements". And such stolen property, with such groups, always seems to find its way to the "chief" radicals at the top....since in such new "utopias" the result nonetheless is nothing "new", but simply more repetitions of past "new" societies where, as usual, only those at the top get the dachas! It's only with St. Paul's message of becoming New Men, allowing one's self to be transformed, that anyone can fight the good fight while in this material world. The defectiveness of human beings is from original sin and only Christ's sacrifice and the sacrifices of the faithful, in many ways including those done in private offerings, can "match" the various heresies spewed forth by those fallen ones who influence this world with real power given to the "prince" of this world.
Did everyone hear that Cardinal Coccopalmiero's church roof collapsed in August? I wasn't here during that time and I'm not sure if it was noted or not. I just heard about it recently.
Here we go again. Pope Francis' revision of our Lady's role in salvation history. http://www.lastampa.it/2018/10/08/v...ormal-girl-KTgt8GlyojXrw5SXmhQaHJ/pagina.html
If my local priest gave a sermon like that on our Lady I would challenge him after Mass. I am lost for words at Pope Francis's ignorance of basic Catholic sentiment and the mystical. In fact this is just downright crass and an insult to Catholic piety. You are not excused just because you are Pope! I resent what you say and I rebuke you for what you have said about our Lady. Scandalous!
I have thought and prayed about what I have written. I will have to answer on judgement day. I am prepared to defend our Lady's honour with my blood. Blessed Art thou amongst all women.
I have not been able to understand how whenever Pope Francis makes new cardinals, he visits Pope Benedict with the new cardinals for Pope Benedict's blessing(?) I think I saw that before the recent saints were canonized Saturday, Pope Francis went to visit Pope Benedict https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2018-10/pope-francis-emeritus-benedict-canonization.html Although Pope Benedict is 91 and not as agile, he is still dressed in his papal white. This is such a confusing time. I hope there is some clarity soon for the young Catholics' sake and I guess for my own sake, too.
Check out the photo It says “archived photo” Who knows when it was taken It was said before the canonizations that Pope Emeritus Benedict was not “agile enough to attend” which could mean almost anything And yes, it’s weird to me that PF traipses over to PE Benedict with new cardinals It’s unprecedented to us
I didn't notice about 'archived photo' until you mentioned it. So potentially he is more frail then that photo shows.
I am trying hard to resist the temptation to say that it's a pity he wasn't standing under it. There, I've given in again!
It's primary intention might be to rub Pope Emeritus Benedict's nose in it, and a desire to make him share in the responsibility, but beneath this it could be seen as a lack of confidence in his own legitimacy on the part of Pope Francis. These are unprecedented times. Please God, the blessings of the Pope Emeritus will eventually induce many of these Cardinals to do the right thing in the next conclave.
