THE PRE-CONCLAVE DISCUSSION CONCERNING THE VERY SOUL OF THE INSTITUTIONAL CHURCH AND MORE IMPORTANTLY THE INDIVIDUAL SOULS OF CATHOLICS!

Sandro Magister has a great commentary as everyone in the Church, well, almost everyone, starts thinking about the next conclave and who will be pope and which direction things must go, either the fuzzy thinking of liberal Catholicism symbolized by the chaos of the Bergolian papacy and its self-referential, horizontal concerns which involves the worship of various liberal causes and idols, or that of orthodox Catholicism symbolized by both Saint Pope John Paul II and the still living Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI.

Clearly, the next pope needs to clean up the surreal corruption of the Vatican and the “who am I to judge” mentality that exacerbates that corruption which includes sexual peccadilloes and perversion right in the Vatican itself not to mention the corruption of power and money!

But between the two schools of thought symbolized by two living popes, one that is emeritus of course, the question remains to be answered, which way will the new pope go, choosing the devovling theology of the Bergolian school or the uplifting and no nonsense, orthodox school of the Ratzinger superior direction for the Church. Might there be a third way unknown currently?

Press Sandro Magister’s title for his full article and a guest post by Cardinal Ruini with the major sound byte below the title:

Conclave Rehearsals. Those Too Much Forgotten Questions on God and Man

…The priorities on which Joseph Ratzinger was focusing were and are the capital issues on which the Church lives or dies. They were the ones he had indicated in the memorable homily “pro eligendo pontifice” of April 18 2005, on the eve of his election as pope. They were the ones he had reiterated in his touching letter to the bishops of March 10 2009:

“In our days, when in vast areas of the world the faith is in danger of dying out like a flame which no longer has fuel, the overriding priority is to make God present in this world and to show men and women the way to God. Not just any god, but the God who spoke on Sinai; to that God whose face we recognize in a love which presses to the end (cf. Jn 13:1) – in Jesus Christ, crucified and risen. […] Leading men and women to God, to the God who speaks in the Bible: this is the supreme and fundamental priority of the Church and of the Successor of Peter at the present time.”

But today? The top stories in Church news are the issues imposed by the dominant culture: married clergy, women priests, homosexuality made a virtue, democracy instead of hierarchy. With its “synodal path,” the Church of Germany is the emblem of this submission to the spirit of the times, feebly reprimanded by Pope Francis in public and in private - most recently last March 28, during an audience with the concerned leader of the Polish bishops - but without getting the stars of the production to back down one step, from Munich cardinal Reinhard Marx to German bishops’ conference president Georg Bätzing to cardinal and synodality synod relator general Jean-Claude Hollerich, all giving up for dead the sexual morality preserved in the Catechism of the Catholic Church, and not only that.

In a future conclave, there is no doubt that some cardinals will push such issues to the center of the discussion over the selection of the new pope. Obscuring once again the real issues on which the Church stands or falls…