This is an interesting Vatican image. Please note that Cardinal Parolin is dead center and Cardinal Fernandez sidelined. And then appropriately to the far left is a person that appears as non-binary or whatever but oddly included as well as a man on the right side in a coat and tie and the bishops and cardinals fail to wear their official bishop cassocks:
You can read what Crux has said about the German Synodal Way and how the Vatican has, in a so-called way, cracked down on it, here:
Vatican reigns in German bishops amid dispute over national reforms
When I read the article, I thought it would show forth a clear Vatican crackdown on the schismatic German bishops and the people who lead them. But the article was so convoluted, I found myself returning to sleep. Who has time for all this complexity of dialogue, discussion, cordial meetings and more meetings and more meetings. The synodal way is all about meetings, more administration, more committees and more and more people, most of whom are control freaks, putting forward their own agenda. It’s an absolute nightmare only enjoyed by the elites who get the power.
And the world knows that Pope Francis’ “Synod on Synodality” is precisely a “Meeting about Meetings!”
This, then, distracts bishops and their priests from being good shepherds through their priestly ministries of teaching, governing and sanctifying God’s holy people through Word and Sacraments!
A return to noble simplicity is simply to have the world’s Catholics, clergy and laity, once again respect the universal canon law of the Church. Even Pope Francis leads the way in ridiculing it! Then, from there, being faithful to the catechism of the Church, in terms of Scripture and Tradition, and the Faith and Morals of the Church, as well as, natural law, allow for noble simplicity in handing on the faith, organizing dioceses and parishes and bishops’ conferences once called subsidiarity.
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I did not view the article as "convoluted." I also did not expect a "crackdown."
In line with his immediate predecessor's style, I expected Pope Francis to have insisted upon cordial, charitable discussions with the bishops of Germany. We know that Pope Benedict XVI preferred to lead people to truth via cordial, charitable dialogue.
A perfect example of that regarded Pope Benedict XVI's employment of meetings, as well as back-and-forth exchanges of letters, to steer the SSPX away from doctrinal errors. Pope Benedict XVI operated in line with his immediate predecessors as he preferred to confront errors via the use of "the medicine of mercy rather than of severity."
Pope Francis, in line with Pope Benedict XVI, as well as additional predecessors, has promoted in charitable, merciful fashion, the Faith. May the bishops in Germany embrace without hesitation communion with Pope Francis.
Pax.
Mark Thomas
-- Pope Benedict XVI, 2010 A.D:
"Moreover, by letting myself be forgiven, I learn to forgive others. In recognizing my own weakness, I grow more tolerant and understanding of the failings of my neighbor."
“We need to remember that tolerance is not a Christian virtue. Charity, justice, mercy, prudence, honesty — these are Christian virtues. And obviously, in a diverse community, tolerance is an important working principle. But it’s never an end itself. In fact, tolerating grave evil within a society is itself a form of serious evil. Likewise, democratic pluralism does not mean that Catholics should be quiet in public about serious moral issues because of some misguided sense of good manners. A healthy democracy requires vigorous moral debate to survive. Real pluralism demands that people of strong beliefs will advance their convictions in the public square — peacefully, legally and respectfully, but energetically and without embarrassment. Anything less is bad citizenship and a form of theft from the public conversation.”[
Charles Chaput OFM Cap, Archbishop Emeritus, Philadelphia
Father, don't mention "kiss" around Tucho--he might get ideas!!
Honestly, it's laughable to think that a group of superannuated men who've spent their lives with barely any contact with normal people and who, if they were running any other institution but the Church, would've been fired for gross incompetence long, long ago, will bring the Church into some new thriving wonder land. One does not exactly see zeal for souls in their words and actions.
God help us. (Is there an echo in here?)
Nick
From which of these, Father, would you buy a second-hand car?
Ratzinger lamented that only the Pope could call a synod but he was pleased that, in his words;
If we may say that the synod is a permanent council - its composition as well as its name justifies this - then its institution under these circumstances guarantees that the Council will continue after its official end; it will from now be part of the everyday life of the Church. It will be no more mere transitory episode. but will be able to mature what was sown in the often stormy days of the sessions.
What member of the Faithful does not yet understand that V2 was a revolution that overturned the then existing order; literally everything was changed from The Holy Holocaust, to The Sacraments, To religious orders, , to a new raccolta, to. a new book of blessings etc etc etc.
Ratzinger and his modernist ilk (the progressive periti) successfully seized control of the Church and they are not about to willing surrender their control of it, thus, a permanent progressive council via Synodalism.
The permanent revolution is on the path marked out for it by the progressive periti , a path that leads to the quicksand of modernism and indifference and still invisibilium within the Prelature is tha cleric whose puissant possession of Tradition is such that it could be applied as a force against our Inertia into Indifferentism.
It is amusing (when not sad) to see the indefatiguable Mr. Thomas explain the clarity of our Holy Father's, and the Vatican's, twists and turns.
It called to mind a section of Shakespeare's "Henry V," in which the Archbishop of Canterbury is explaining the King's claim on France. The laugh-line is bolded:
Then hear me, gracious sovereign, and you peers,
That owe yourselves, your lives and services
To this imperial throne. There is no bar
To make against your highness' claim to France
But this, which they produce from Pharamond,
'In terram Salicam mulieres ne succedant:'
'No woman shall succeed in Salique land:'
Which Salique land the French unjustly gloze
To be the realm of France, and Pharamond
The founder of this law and female bar.
Yet their own authors faithfully affirm
That the land Salique is in Germany,
Between the floods of Sala and of Elbe;
Where Charles the Great, having subdued the Saxons,
There left behind and settled certain French;
Who, holding in disdain the German women
For some dishonest manners of their life,
Establish'd then this law; to wit, no female
Should be inheritrix in Salique land:
Which Salique, as I said, 'twixt Elbe and Sala,
Is at this day in Germany call'd Meisen.
Then doth it well appear that Salique law
Was not devised for the realm of France:
Nor did the French possess the Salique land
Until four hundred one and twenty years
After defunction of King Pharamond,
Idly supposed the founder of this law;
Who died within the year of our redemption
Four hundred twenty-six; and Charles the Great
Subdued the Saxons, and did seat the French
Beyond the river Sala, in the year
Eight hundred five. Besides, their writers say,
King Pepin, which deposed Childeric,
Did, as heir general, being descended
Of Blithild, which was daughter to King Clothair,
Make claim and title to the crown of France.
Hugh Capet also, who usurped the crown
Of Charles the duke of Lorraine, sole heir male
Of the true line and stock of Charles the Great,
To find his title with some shows of truth,
'Through, in pure truth, it was corrupt and naught,
Convey'd himself as heir to the Lady Lingare,
Daughter to Charlemain, who was the son
To Lewis the emperor, and Lewis the son
Of Charles the Great. Also King Lewis the Tenth,
Who was sole heir to the usurper Capet,
Could not keep quiet in his conscience,
Wearing the crown of France, till satisfied
That fair Queen Isabel, his grandmother,
Was lineal of the Lady Ermengare,
Daughter to Charles the foresaid duke of Lorraine:
By the which marriage the line of Charles the Great
Was re-united to the crown of France.
So that, as clear as is the summer's sun.
King Pepin's title and Hugh Capet's claim,
King Lewis his satisfaction, all appear
To hold in right and title of the female:
So do the kings of France unto this day;
Howbeit they would hold up this Salique law
To bar your highness claiming from the female,
And rather choose to hide them in a net
Than amply to imbar their crooked titles
Usurp'd from you and your progenitors.
Father Fox,
Bravo!
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