Fr. John Hunwicke in GB has a very insightful and well written article on his blog which you can read by pressing the title:
4 September 2018
It's different now.
Here is a soundbyte from that article that sums up my own feelings:
Yet the teaching found in Amoris laetitia, and the immorality disclosed out by Archbishop Vigano's 'Testimony', are essentially the same. The completely and radically flawed 'lenient'and laxist ethical casuistry proposed for the comfort of German adulterers could, with perfect logic and fairness, be called in aid by paedophiles. After all, there have been human societies in which paederasty and ephebophilia have been socially acceptable and on public display. They attracted their own extensive and distinctive romantic literature. I, of course, and my readers, will regard such ideas and such cultures with visceral disgust or with reasoned contempt. But the Vigano 'Testimony' has left PF and his faction without a leg to stand on.
My comments:
I personally believe that whoever wrote the footnote in Amoris Laetitia that is so catastrophic for Catholic sexual morality, be it Pope Francis or one of his compromised advisors, knew exactly what they were doing and it all harkens back to the first so-called synod on the family, opening the Church up to a variety of sexual acts between consenting adults in a variety of situations, which even until 2014 would have been anathama to consider.
The goal isn't so much adulterers finding a pastoral solution to receive Holy Communion in their illicit/invalid marriages, it is abot the gay agenda and fashioning a Church that is formed by modern secular sexual sensibilities born of the general sexual revolution of the 1960's and the gay revolution leading to civil marriage of the 2000's.
This is all tied to a corrupt understanding of mercy devoid of justice, God's justice. It is an enabling mercy that thwarts the word of God.
Bishops in the 1960's and 70's and well into the early 2000's did do something about their ephebophile priests, be they homosexual or heterosexual. They were sent to mental facilities for psychiatric care and moral and spiritual renewal. Sometimes they spent at least a year in these cushy instititutions. Then they were recertified and returned to ministry.
Some priest psychologists, and I heard them say it at conferences, wanted to treat the compulsion toward sexual abuse of minors like alcoholics. They wanted bishops to be transparent with parishes who received recycled priests and get them into AA type programs to prevent further abuse. That transparency didn't happen except for one case in Chicago during the time of Cardinal Bernadine and even Oprah covered it on her show!
The goal was for bishops to act as a field hospital for their perverted priests, get them into treatment, have them certified as healed and get them back into ministry.
I think every bishop in the country acted in this way until the zero tolerance policy of 2002.
This field hospital approach has led to the catastrophe we are experiencing.
When the sinner, be he a pedophile, ephebophile, adulter, murderer, rapist or you name it has more concern shown to him or her than his or her's victims, then Rome we have a problem.
8 comments:
I believe that Rome has more problems than can be overcome.
You're right. It is to advance the homosexualist agenda. They are prepared to destroy the Church in order to advance it, and it is coming from within. Problem is, I'm not prepared to accept that a "church" like this is still in possession of the Spirit of Truth.
What does "non dire una parola" mean?
Not it's direct translation; but it's best translation in context of recent times in the city of Rome and the World?
"Truth is treason in an Empire of Lies".
George Orwell,
But often quoted by Ron Paul, I think.
A quote applicable to much that has occurred in the Church of Rome in recent times.
Here’s a letter from an SSPX priest in Florida to other priests — Novus Ordo priests, I assume — discussing the root cause of these issues: http://www.sspxflorida.com/Files/Misc/letter-to-brother-priest.pdf
The "field hospital" metaphor is not bad in and of itself, but it needs clarifying and expansion, to wit:
1. Arriving at the hospital you must admit that you are wounded and need help (no black knight as in Monty Python's Holy Grail). In our case, you have sinned and need to confess and repent.
2. The physicians must agree that you are wounded; no saying to the black knight "nah, it really is just a flesh wound." In our case, not excusing or downplaying sin, but acknowledging it and helping the patient/penitent recover and improve. To be blunt, I've confessed sins that I (and the Catechism) consider serious breaches of God's commandments to priests who seemed to take it all with a wry, ironic smile. I'm not a Donatist, and I believe that the absolution was effacacious, but still...
NB: Sometimes one finds a physician who is too radical: "We'll treat the blister on your foot by amputation." Similarly, I realize that there are some priests who are overly censorious. My Dad was in a port battalion in southern France when the Battle of the Bulge took place. Terrified that he'd be called up to the front as cannon fodder, he tried to go to confession, but the chaplain wouldn't absolve him because "he was only confessing out of fear." Ya think?
3. Accepting and following the treatment protocol for recovery. In our case, gratefully and fully performing whatever penance has been given.
4. Sometimes the wounds are so deep that they prevent you from practicing your profession: "Sir knight - having lost your sword arm you must refrain from combat." In the present case, laicizing those who have harmed others, or who have violated their oaths of celibacy (and chastity) with impunity.
Some people (even Catholic bishops) can create their own storms and then get mad when it rains.
Anon 3.
Field Hospital or any hospital, really.
Triage applies, I think.
Spiritual triage for a fallen and sinful people? For priests or any in any leadership position in the Church?
1. Be aware of your own sinful nature.
2. Be compassionate without comprising Christian truth; when dealing with fellow believers.
3. Be as our Lord said when dealing with the world and also most of life in general:
As innocent as a dove but as cunning as a serpent?
Your:
1.
2.
3. ?
Anon 7.
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