O MY! LOOSE LIPS WHO ARE DIM LIGHTS SINK THE BARQUE OF PETER

Cardinal-Designate Fernandez needs to think before he speaks so that he won't have to correct what he said which was quite wrong. 

Here's the first correction!

Archbishop Fernández Clarifies His Warning Not to Judge the ‘Doctrine of the Holy Father’

Sound byte:

“Now, if you tell me that some bishops have a special gift of the Holy Spirit to judge the doctrine of the Holy Father, we will enter into a vicious circle (where anyone can claim to have the true doctrine) and that would be heresy and schism.”

His comments led some to wonder if he was implying that Pope Francis had a doctrine of his own, independent of Church teaching, one that should not be judged or criticized. Such a novelty would not be in keeping with the dogmatic teaching of the Church which has always taught that the Pope, and the bishops in communion with him, are the guardians of the deposit of faith received from the Lord and handed down by the apostles. 

In a short clarification sent to the Register Sept. 13, Cardinal-designate Fernández said: “If you follow the argumentation above that sentence [about the Pope having two charisms] you will understand the meaning to be as follows:

“Only to Peter did Jesus Christ promise special assistance to ‘confirm the brethren in the faith.’ Therefore, it seems obvious that no one can say — directly or indirectly — that Francis does not have this assistance and that other, supposedly more orthodox bishops or priests, do have it. No one can attribute to himself this function and this charism that are proper only to the successor of Peter. This is quite obvious to a Catholic, but certainly not to a Protestant.”

My astute comments: Any Catholic and any person, baptized or not, can discover what the Catholic Church teaches because it is transparently out in the open. For someone, to include the pope, to think he has a doctrine known only to him is the heresy of Gnosticism. Fernandez should know better!  And to suggest that it isn't known to the college of bishops is an astounding mistake.

Please read Cardinal Mueller's response. Muller is far superior in intellectual capacity than our new Prefect Fernandez. It is all really very sad. 

Then we have this little ditty from another interview!:

Church teaching a 'treasure' that must be defended, Vatican’s new doctrine chief says

Sound byte:

The pope also asked him "to bring theological knowledge into dialogue with the life of the holy people of God," responding to new challenges and questions.

For that dialogue to work and for the church to effectively communicate the response of Christian faith, the cardinal-designate said, Catholics must be willing to embrace "an asceticism: to tolerate with charity the recurring aggressiveness that assails us."

"Might society's questioning be a mediation that God himself uses to disarm us, to open us to something else?" he asked.

The Catholic Church, he said, cannot "ignore the fact that the verbal violence of some groups is an understandable outburst after many centuries of our own verbal violence," for example, by using "insulting, very offensive language, or of manipulating women as if they were second-class."

Francis is a model of the kind of patience needed, he said, a patience that "comes from his heart as a father" and hopes that "with time a better balance will be found."

 My astute comments:

What the hell?????????????

We are to tolerate the recurring aggressiveness that assails us. Man-up Cardinal Fernandez! You are a man not a woman and act like one. We are to tolerate evil and not use the weapons of spiritual battle to confront the evil one? We are to roll over and die? 

And then, I would suspect in thee realm of the LGBTQ+++ ideologies assailing the Church that God is speaking through these evil ideolgies opposed to Scripture and Tradition to inform the Church  to open us to accepting these and to bless immoral unions as though these are marriages and that no kind of sex by anyone is immoral or a sin? REALLY??????????????????

In terms of verbal violence of some groups, like using "insulting, very offensive language or of manipulating (people), could the good Fernandez please remind the pope of his language toward traditionalists who accepted Pope Benedict's vision of the Church, whom he insults with words like "backwardists" and "rigid" and just plain crazy in need of psychiatric care!

I haven't read any clarifications on this yet.

I can say that in the less than one week Fernandez has been the Prefect of the Dicastery of the Congregation of the Faith, he has not had a good week. Is he up to the job? Ratzinger must be rolling in his grave!!!!!