The first video, very brief as is the second video, is of Fr. Prevost giving an intervention at the Synod of Bishops in 2012, the last synod for Pope Benedict XVI and a few months before his abdication. Fr. Prevost is excellent and clear, very clear about the influence of culture and mass media on corrupting the morals of people and showing a different face from that of the Church. The media makes the Church look unkind and unsympathetic to people who choose lifestyles at variance with Church teaching, whereas the media supports them and offers acceptance and love.
In this video, we get a very clear view of Fr. Prevost’s understanding of the liturgy. He laments that in the past 50 years the liturgy has been turned into a spectacle within the context of what we see in non-denominational worship, with its music, light shows and feel of a rock concert all of which are superficial rather than what liturgy should be in terms of encountering Mystery.
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A fine line is walked here as societal norms change and press upon truth and the institution that provides that truth.
Agree, all should be welcome, their sins are between them, God and their confessor. Hopefully, a change of heart occurs. Endorsement cannot reasonably precede or follow.
As for the second video, as we move away from when photography and videography were luxuries, or in their infancy of development, we will have digital Pope's going forward. It's "new" watching Cardinal Provost now Pope Leo XIV doing normal people things, attending a game, celebrating Christmas, enjoying ice cream, wearing casual clothes. Maybe a good thing, or too much insight leading to out of context scrutiny? Time will tell as so much on social media is just downright nasty and evil.
Hopeful in oldest, less hopeful in later, and a nervous type when put on the spot, every thought plays across his face as he works out a proper response that began with waffling and only finished weakly with doctrine added as almost an afterthought.
But, of no matter, as I really think he can, and now should, as a monarch, dodge interviews putting him on the spot, where he can have time to make measured responses via writings, and have press pros handle questions in a pro manner and not speaking for their boss on the fly, but asking journalists to submit such questions in writing which are out of the press pros' compentence to answer.
As for nuanced and pastoral, that frequently ends up firmly saying nothing, and as for all are welcome, fails to address how to welcome transvestites and practicing queers without the families trying to live within the morals established by God being exposed to blatantly sinful behavior even within the church, where formerly and rightly such manifest sinners were not allowed in the church. And such twisted folk being allowed to have own parish where invariably them NOT called to repentance, but instead treated as if in full communion with the teachings of God is not the answer.
As for welcoming, I'm with the deceased Cardinal George: "All are welcome, but on Christ's terms, not your own."
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