FAGGIOLI INADVERTENTLY PROVES POPE BENEDICT’S POINT ABOUT THE HORIZONTAL, SELF REFERENTIAL CHURCH THAT EXCLUDES GOD…
What a boring waste of time and resources!
It's nonsense to accuse the new synod document of tilting the process in favor of an agenda
Secretary General of the Synod of Bishops Cardinal Mario Grech, right, delivers his speech during a presentation of the new guidelines for the Synod of Bishops at the Vatican June 20. At left is Helena Jeppesen Spuhler, a synod participant from Switzerland who was among those presenting the document. (AP/Domenico Stinellis)
BY MASSIMO FAGGIOLI
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Massimo Faggioli's interesting article contains several solid points. For example, at the beginning of the article, we find:
Massimo Faggioli:
"The caution church leaders are using in talking about the document, known as an instrumentum laboris, so far contrasts with the salvo of the responses coming from conservative Catholic influencers.
"One example is the latest anti-Francis article by New York Times op-ed columnist Ross Douthat. Douthat laments that the Catholic Church is about to "water down or just talk less about its teachings on sex and marriage and family, rather than find a way to reassert them or offer them anew" and worries about falling into the trap of "reconciliation with our decadent culture, our depressing post-Dionysian world."
"There is no such thing in the synod text, which is not a document of the magisterium and is not definitive nor definition of anything."
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The idea that Pope Francis would permit anybody to "water down" teachings related to "sex and marriage and family" is preposterous.
As two of Pope Francis' supposed "enemies" said of our Holy Father:
-- Cardinal Pell (requiescat in pace): "Francis said he’s a loyal son of the Church, and his record shows that. He’s a completely faithful exponent of Christ’s teaching and the Church’s tradition."
Quoting Pope Francis, Cardinal Sarah declared that proposing less than what the Church teaches on marriage proposes less than what Christ offers the human person.
"This is why the Holy Father openly and vigorously defends Church teaching on contraception, abortion, homosexuality, reproductive technologies, the education of children and much more," said Cardinal Sarah.
Pax.
Mark Thomas
Sophia here: You may find the following rather interesting.
"Popes Who Fail to Rule for the Common Good" by Peter Kwasniewski
https://traditionsanity.substack.com/p/popes-who-fail-to-rule-for-the-common
Just one of several money bytes:
"That list includes popes from the fourth, sixth, seventh, ninth, tenth, eleventh, twelfth, fourteenth, fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth centuries. Other candidates could be considered for inclusion, and it would be a breeze to add examples from the past hundred years—and that’s not even touching the past ten years, which have doubled the register.
In a stunning document read at the Diet of Nuremberg in 1523, Pope Adrian VI admitted that a corrupt papacy and priesthood were largely responsible for the rotten state of the Church at that time. He wrote:
We know well that for many years things deserving of abhorrence have gathered round the Holy See; sacred things have been misused, ordinances transgressed, so that in everything there has been change for the worse. Thus it is not surprising that the malady has crept down from the head to the members, from the Popes to the hierarchy…. Therefore…we shall use all diligence to reform before all things the Roman Curia, whence, perhaps, all these evils have had their origin; thus healing will begin at the source of sickness. We deem this to be all the more our duty, as the whole world is longing for such reform…. We desire to wield our power not as seeking dominion or means for enriching our kindred, but in order to restore to Christ’s bride, the Church, her former beauty, to give help to the oppressed, to uplift men of virtue and learning, above all, to do all that beseems a good shepherd and a successor of the blessed Peter. Yet let no man wonder if we do not remove all abuses at one blow; for the malady is deeply rooted and takes many forms.¹
What an outstanding example of honesty and humility in a Roman Pontiff unafraid to admit the source and magnitude of the evils threatening the Church’s common good in that Renaissance era!"
Father McDonald,
Obviously no one cares about these nuts
MT, Faggioli is duplicitous in his commentary. Of course the instrument isn’t magisterial and Douthat knows that! It is the synod that will change the moral teachings on sex to allow blessings and inclusion of active sexual lives of any and all LGBTQ++++++combinations to include polygamy for everyone. All the non binary genders can be allowed to ordination. Initial gestures that lead to processes and full inclusion of the epochal changes in the acceptance of a new ideology of gender and sex and lives freed from sexual guilt and scrupulosity. Pope Francis said again for the millionth time on June 29th, that we don’t need to hold to doctrine, just follow Jesus that makes possible new paths. Only a fool would not know what the pope means.
MT = Fool.
TJM, the nuns who taught you in pre-Vatican II times would smack your knuckles with their Rosary beads or a ruler for the name calling you resort to, to denigrate those with whom you disagree and they would have taught you and correctly so, that this kind of uncharitable behavior is a mortal sin worthy of the fires of hell. Why not just engage MT in the areas where you think he is wrong without humiliating him or anyone here. And if you don’t think it is worth an engagement, ignore him.
Father McDonald,
Good one but I was just using your words. He is good at name calling too about conservative bishops and Catholics so I expect he will receive the same lesson!
Father McDonald,
This will ruin your priest buddy's day:
The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) issued a sharp rebuke to 31 Catholic Democratic members of Congress who have used their faith as a defense for their pro-abortion views.
"Members of Congress who recently invoked teachings of the Catholic faith itself as justifying abortion or supporting a supposed right to abortion grievously distort the faith," said the June 28th statement, which was entitled, "U.S. Bishops' President and Chairmen Rebuke Distortion of Church Teaching in Abortion Statement by Members of Congress."
The "corrective statement" was signed by USCCB President Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio of the Archdiocese for the Military Services, USA, and Bishops Michael Burbidge of Arlington (Virginia) and Daniel Flores of Brownsville (Texas)."
Notice the Archbishop of Washington did not sign it. Now that might be USCCB protocol but I assume he sides with the Party of Moloch, ironic, since Black babies are aborted in disproportionately high numbers.
Father McDonald, thank you for your reply to my comment.
Have a blessed evening, Father.
Pax.
Mark Thomas
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