CREEPING INFALLIBILITY TO MANIPULATE A DESIRED OUTCOME IN THE CHURCH: IS THIS RIGHTLY CALLED SPIRITUAL AND MORAL ABUSE AS WELL AS MANIPULATION?

The National Catholic Reporter, emboldened in its heterodoxy by the current papal magisterium, has an article about some things that Cardinal Tagle recently said.

When I read it, I thought to myself, “self, this is manipulation, self-serving and spiritual abuse” in order to promote heterodoxy as a good thing. He uses the Holy Spirit, too, to do it, which seems to me to be a “blasphemy of the Holy Spirit.” 

But there is also psychological warfare here to manipulate a desired outcome.

Cardinal Tagle, self-righteously, wishes people would actually read the documents of Vatican II which would prove that he, who has read them, is infallibly correct in his interpretation! 

Well, I will one-up, His Eminence and say that I have both read, reread and studied the documents of Vatican II and have discovered, infallibly, as Pope Benedict XVI knew infallibly, that the position of Pope Benedict on the documents of Vatican II, is that it clearly taught what the Church had always taught, that it wanted renewal in continuity with what the Church has always taught in continuity with Vatican I, The Council of Trent and all previous ecumenical councils. It did not create a new Church or any new dogmas and did not issue any anathemas as Cardinal Tagle has issued towards those who strongly question Pope Francis’ synodal way which has not be defined either! 

I report; you respond to this NCR headline, which is also a link to the full article, and the moneybytes below the title:

Cardinal Tagle tells US priests that resistance to pope is rooted in fear of change

"Where there is that insecurity about our identity, the tendency is to define clear parameters, clear boundaries in order to distinguish who I am over and against the others," he said.

"Imagine how an attitude of fear and insecurity would stop all links of communion, all dialogue, all listening processes. Those will be threatening activities," he added.

The Second Vatican Council established the framework from which the current discussion of synodality in the church has emerged under Francis, Tagle explained, saying that "my vision for a synodal church is a church that rediscovers this wonderful gift of the Spirit given to the whole church in Vatican II."

"It really, in a way, pains me and shocks me," Tagle said of efforts to undermine the synod. "I don't want to judge people. But sometimes I just wish people would calmly, calmly read the documents of Vatican II and get in touch with the teachings of Vatican II rather than rely on some caricatures or biased presentations for what Vatican II stands for."