tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post2663851431075404556..comments2024-03-28T05:17:04.006-04:00Comments on southern orders: IT DOES SEEM THAT POPE FRANCIS IS A POLARIZING FIGURE GENERALLY IN SOUTH AMERICA AND SPECIFICALLY IN HIS NATIVE ARGENTINA NOT TO MENTION THE JESUITS AND THE UNIVERSAL CHURCHFr. Allan J. McDonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16986575955114152639noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-15816275054277549602018-01-17T12:18:27.440-05:002018-01-17T12:18:27.440-05:00Rood Screen, Santita is engaging in the typical li...Rood Screen, Santita is engaging in the typical lib sport of "virtue signalling." Isn't he just swell?TJMnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-53938581461225581722018-01-16T19:41:12.208-05:002018-01-16T19:41:12.208-05:00I think we still don’t quite understand the man. N...I think we still don’t quite understand the man. Not that that inscrutability excuses the confusion he has encouraged. Recall that he does not himself offer communion to politicians. I think this is pretty savvy on his part and may explain why he has avoided returning to Argentina: to avoid being exploited by opportunists. Yet the symbolism of living in the simple quarters and meeting with the people at the fringes comes across as disingenuous if he cannot also be firm with those he holds as friends. Certainly, the office of Pope is not for protecting and rewarding friends without regard for their actions. That is certainly pharisaical. I do not think he is like that but rather knows that he does not have the strength to stand up against friends and countrymen, so hides in a sort of manufactured humility so that they might not ask him for too much. rcghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09131930849106490711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-82499498315779806912018-01-16T15:21:30.895-05:002018-01-16T15:21:30.895-05:00We're supposed to notice him carrying his own ...We're supposed to notice him carrying his own briefcase up the steps to the aeroplane. This indicates that he is better than his predecessors, who relied upon assistants to help them with such tasks.Rood Screenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09816036539243214384noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-80002000330522548882018-01-16T15:09:19.027-05:002018-01-16T15:09:19.027-05:00Each person on earth "polarizes" certain...Each person on earth "polarizes" certain folks. Everybody is a "polarizing" figure. <br /><br />John Wayne "polarized" people. This comedian, that actor...this or that talk show host..."polarizes" people.<br /><br />Each pastor "polarizes" certain members of his congregation. Each Cardinal and bishop "polarizes" this or that faction within the Church.<br /><br />Bishop Fellay and the SSPX "polarize" left-wingers and right-wingers. Many left-wingers despise the SSPX as the Society is attached to the TLM.<br /><br />Plenty of right-wingers have denounced Bishop Fellay and the SSPX as having bowed to "modernist Rome." The SSPX Resistance despises Bishop Fellay and the SSPX. Incredibly, certain right-wingers insist that the SSPX is "liberal". <br /><br />In some way, each person on earth is a "polarizing" figure. Mother Teresa was/is a polarizing figure.<br /><br />Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ is a polarizing figure...a big-time polarizing figure.<br /><br />Pax.<br /><br />Mark ThomasMark Thomasnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-14502598298735435262018-01-16T14:51:21.486-05:002018-01-16T14:51:21.486-05:00Pope Francis' successor will also be accused o...Pope Francis' successor will also be accused of "polarizing" the Church. If Cardinal Burke were elected Pope, left-wingers would bash him daily.<br /><br />There are also plenty of right-wing traditionalists who insist that he is just a "conservative"...a "Vatican II, Novus Ordo" "sellout" who is not radical (as a right-winger) enough to suit their tastes.<br /><br />There simply isn't a Pope who would satisfy the Church's special interest groups.<br /><br />Pax.<br /><br />Mark ThomasMark Thomasnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-3865747320326380912018-01-16T14:36:28.999-05:002018-01-16T14:36:28.999-05:00We need to add Pope Saint John XXIII to the list o...We need to add Pope Saint John XXIII to the list of Popes who polarized (supposedly) the Church. To this day, plenty of right-wingers insist that Pope Saint John XXIII was a heretic/communist.<br /><br />To return to Pope Benedict XVI.<br /><br />He was cast as a right-wing, "Rottweiler"...he turned the Church back in time...etc.<br /><br />Within and without the Church, the left-wing despised Pope Benedict XVI. He was accused repeatedly of having aided priests who had abused children sexually. Even many so-called "moderate" Catholics believed that Pope Benedict XVI had covered for child abusers. Plenty of right-wingers insist that he is a modernist. They also denounced him for his having resigned as Pope. <br /><br />Throughout my lifetime, one Pope after an other has "polarized" Catholics. <br /><br />Translation: The reality is that the overwhelming amount of Catholics love the Pope..each Pope. The overwhelming amount of Catholics are not concerned with the special interests that concern right-wing and left-wing factions within the Church.<br /><br />It is the right-wing and left-wing factions...fanatics...within the Church who stir up trouble...who attack Popes...special interest groups who attack the Pope whenever they perceive that he doesn't march in lockstep with them.<br /><br />In general, the left-wing reacts negatively whenever a Pope promotes Holy Tradition...the TLM, Latin, Gregorian chant, indulgences...denounces the Culture of Death (abortion, artificial birth control, homosexual "marriage," etc..."pre-Vatican II," "old Church" Catholicism.<br /><br />In general, the right-wing reacts negatively whenever a Pope promotes Catholic Social Teaching. <br /><br />When we move past left-wing and right-wing fanatics, we find that the overwhelming amount of Catholics hold their Pope in high regard.<br /><br />Pax.<br /><br />Mark ThomasMark Thomasnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-50458087503058890872018-01-16T12:18:12.087-05:002018-01-16T12:18:12.087-05:00Is His Holiness Pope Francis as polarizing (suppos...Is His Holiness Pope Francis as polarizing (supposedly) as Pope Blessed Paul VI? <br /><br />He was attacked by left-wingers and right-wingers.<br /><br />Pope Saint John Paul II was attacked by left-wingers and right-wingers.<br /><br />Pope Benedict XVI was despised by left-wingers...and plenty of right-wingers have denounced Pope Benedict XVI as the suit-and-tie wearing Vatican II "modernist" peritus who never really changed his ways.<br /><br />To return to Pope Saint John Paul II, here is what Archbishop Lefebvre, the leading right-winger of his (Archbishop Lefebvre's) time said about Pope Saint John Paul II:<br /><br />http://archives.sspx.org/archbishop_lefebvre/1986_declaration_against_assisi_archbishop_lefebvre-bishop_de_castro_mayer.htm<br /><br />"Adopting the liberal religion of Protestantism and of the Revolution, the naturalistic principles of J.J. Rousseau, the atheistic liberties of the Declaration of the Rights of Man, the principle of human dignity no longer having any relation with truth and moral dignity, the Roman authorities turn their backs on their predecessors and break with the Catholic Church, and they put themselves at the service of the destroyers of Christianity and of the universal Kingdom of Our Lord Jesus Christ.<br /><br />"The present acts of John Paul II and the national episcopates illustrates, year by year, this radical change in the conception of the Faith, the Church, the priesthood, the world, and salvation by grace.<br /><br />"The high point of this rupture with the previous Magisterium of the Church took place at Assisi, after the visit to the synagogue. The public sin against the one, true God, against the Incarnate Word, and His Church, makes us shudder with horror. <br /><br />"John Paul II encourages the false religions to pray to their false gods — an immeasurable, unprecedented scandal."<br />=======================================================================<br /><br />Again, were not Popes Blessed Paul VI, Saint John Paul II, and Benedict XVI just as "polarizing" as Pope Francis?<br /><br />Pax.<br /><br />Mark ThomasMark Thomasnoreply@blogger.com