THE SYNOD ON THE FAMILY AND A HISTORIC TURNING POINT FOR THE PAPACY OF POPE FRANCIS AND A MORE POLARIZED, RADICALIZED CHURCH

There is no doubt now where Pope Francis' ideologies reside. When a Cardinal, still but not for long a member of the pope's curia, says publicly and perhaps as a surrogate for other cardinals too timid to be so bold because the personal stakes are just too high for them, that the pope is not fulfilling his role as teacher, you know that things are at a crisis level. Was Cardinal Burke a surrogate voice for Pope, so-called emeritus, Benedict?

Many had opined that Cardinal Ratzinger was a polarizing force in the Church, but Papa Bergoglio has proven he can raise polarization to radicalization of polarized opposites! This is far from being a Pontiff, another word for Bridgebuilder.

The Holy Father seems to suggest that the possibility of changing doctrine, moral doctrine which can never really be dogmatized in every situation, would be a suprise from the God of suprises. We should not fear change because our God is a God of these sorts of things. Certainly this is merely opinon and easily ignored by Catholics.

At any rate Rorate Caeli provides the opinion of a non conservative  Antonio Socci about the week that was, an important page in the colorful history of the Church:

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[T]he "uprising" of the orthodox prelates of the past Thursday (the anniversary of Wojtyla's election) was an epic and almost miraculous event.

The Church faithful to Tradition prevailed on that day. It was thus established that, just as it had happened in the [February 2014] Consistory [after the presentation of the Kasper proposal], Papa Bergoglio found himself in the minority, practically with a "vote of no confidence".

For this reason, in his final address he rushed to repair things, trying to detach himself from the more Progressive [Fathers], and find for himself a tardive position super partes. Between those who said that two plus two equals four (the orthodox) and those who supported that it equals six (Kasper), Bergoglio proclaimed that it equals five. Jesuitical. But wrong.

The "revolutionary" position of Kasper, who always said (which was never denied) that he spoke in Bergoglio's name, did not win. But it is not clear what the conclusions of the Synod are.

Bergoglio, quoting Benedict XVI, recalled a truth that many of his supporters during these days have forgotten: "the Church is Christ's" and "the Pope... is not the supreme lord but rather the supreme servant ... the guarantor of the obedience and the conformity of the Church to the will of God, to the Gospel of Christ, and to the Tradition of the Church, putting aside every personal whim."

Perhaps the truth is that he tried it and (for the time being) couldn't do it. In the end, there is only one sure outcome: the split of the Church, and great confusion in her Magisterium. [Source: Libero, October 19, 2014]