Screenshot/YouTubeThe resurgence of this cabal of progressives under Pope Francis has renewed this virulent infection of CLERICALISM which now seeks to over turn Catholic moral teachings concerning marriage, sex and natural law. It is also the elevation of a footnote concerning pastoral judgments to the level of a dogma. This resembles the dogmatizing of a purely pastoral council which Vatican II was and is.
I fear the aging "hippies" of Vatican II's virulent CLERICALISM to destroy the preVatican II Church are not the ones to foster healing since they are the infection.
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At this point I would not be surprised to find out that the rumors of a satanic mass taking place at the Vatican, are indeed true.
"The Catholic Church has been in internal polarization since Vatican II"
Fr McD:
No and Yes. No because the Modernism that is at the root of the polarisation today began over a hundred years ago, prompting Leo XIII to make Thomism a defence against it, and forcing Pius X to write Pascendi condemning it. A main reason John XXIII called the council was to address it. He died before it could, in fact it became hijacked to a large extent by the Modernists, but not fully which is why today the internal polarisation is the worst it has ever been in terms of Modernism. The Holy Spirit did not allow Modernism to be victorious at the Council, so we are still left with the issues Vatican II was originally meant to address but never did. There is no question Francis is to a large extent a Modernist, calling for change of doctrine; but he has opposition, and Modernists tend to be quite devious to get ways.
All the preparatory documents for the Council were cast aside by the maneuvering of the Modernists in the Council, and new ones created, except for the one on the Liturgy which had already been drafted in the stronghold of Modernism at the time, in the liturgical movement of which Bugnini and Gelineau were major protagonists. Modernism seeks fundamental doctrinal change, notably "reforms", for the Church to comply to the exigencies of the world. The world, in other words, holds the truth, to which the Church must acquiesce. I believe St Paul warned us many times against acquiescing to the temptations of the world. The problem is that the Modernists fail to see relativity of the truth in the world, being very closed minded and dogmatic may I add, fully convinced because of their worldview and the presuppositions that go with it, that the world holds the truth in an obvious way for them.
It would be convenient if the hand of Satan was so obvious or even detectible. It would give us a great excuse. But an awful lot of this, maybe all of it, rests on us and what might be a superstitious view of clerics that supports bad clericalism. Satan is no doubt present, but he may be there as an opportunist rather than the instigator.
What happens to justice? Should a priest be considered guilty until proven innocent? How can we prevent accusations from being used as weapons?
This is a question for any serious crime and the Church can help mankind find ways to deal with them.
The Church and the culture exist in a symbiotic relationship. For centuries the Church enriched the culture, at the same time the culture left its marks on the Church also, not always and in every way positively on the Her. In this historical give and take the Catholic Church guarded its dogmas, the Gospel of Christ and ancient biblical truths, God's revelations for mankind. It did successfully until Vatican 2. At that point, at the height of its confidence and influence, its hierarchy lost its nerve and lusted for worldly, secular recognition and approval. It let the world know that its dogmas were up for negotiation by embracing a new, all so sophisticated vocabulary. Nuance, negotiation, dialog, proposed an ecumenism of sort that sacrificed our ancient rites and made ambiguous biblical truths its saint sacrificed their lives for.
Today, when AB Vigano identifies the criminal and sinful activities of his fellow bishops, we have clergy, even Cardinals who say never mind the abuse of boys and young men by our hierarchs, because the plastic pollution in the oceans is a more important issue for the Church. How do you develop a program of self reform when this kind of thinking dominates Church governance?
We need a new Council where laymen and women are given a voice. The last one was all bishops and they messed it up. We can do better.
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