This is a good commentary on what Cardinal Zuppi has accomplished as it regards “rigid” traditionalists, who aren’t really rigid, but orthodox. There is a difference.
Cardinal Zuppi, who is pastorally progressive, especially in the area of sexual morality and gender ideology, is, nonetheless, a bridge builder to others with a different perspective, a more traditional perspective.
I suspect the good Cardinal sees pastoral theology as an art not a doctrine and certainly not a dogma. One cannot make infallible the opinions of pastoral theology as this theology cannot be made dogmatic. He knows that.
No matter if you love or despise Pope Francis, it is clear that His Holiness is the most polarizing pope in centuries. In fact, we might need to go back to the Borgias to find such polarization or a Pope Alexander.
If Pope Francis had only shown himself to be in continuity with the previous two popes, at least externally, but with his own pastoral theology and big tent ideology, with a special care for the marginalized to include traditionalists, I suspect the Church would be in a better place today and more unified and not as polarized. But how His Holiness has treated and denigrated traditionalists, with his untoward name calling and pseudo pop psychology, has weakened his papacy and ultimately his legacy.
This is from “Catholic World Report”. Press the title for the full article:
Analysis: The significance of Cardinal Zuppi celebrating with Summorum Pontificum pilgrims
By Andrea Gagliarducci for CNA
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1, 2, 3, … here come the non sequiturs!
Father McDonald, well said but I think I would add the good Cardinal maybe recognizes reality and knows these young folks will be the ones left to pay the bills!
Just a reminder what the Left (aka Dems) support:
"This past week Matt Walsh posted the following comments on Twitter. “The Democrats have settled on their closing argument: ‘Vote for us so that we can castrate children, use your money to pay for abortions, and put pornography in the schools. If you don’t vote for us, then you are a Nazi and democracy will die.’ Fascinating political strategy.” In these few words, Mr. Walsh highlighted a sad and sobering fact: The Democrat party is now so extreme that no serious follower of Christ can align with it. There is no longer any such thing as a “Christian Democrat.”
No matter what your political stripes, if you have an ounce of honesty left in your soul, you have to admit that today’s Democratic Party is no longer a party that any thoughtful Christian, whether they be Catholic, Orthodox, Anglican, evangelical or mainline Protestant, can support."
The statement from the Cardinal sounded restrictive, limiting the TLM to limited areas of historical interest. If we are tending a garden, to continue his simile, then the TLM appears to be strong and is only a threat to crowding out weaker stock.
Seems a rather brazen attempt to demonstrate for conclave voters that he not such a meanie, while being as much or more openly "progressive", as Francis. And him not afraid to go up against Francis (in the sunset of this papacy, big deal).
Where he hopes more conservative members will be willing to allow progressive views within the Church over basic moral and doctrinal questions, provided they are allowed to have their older style Masses, while knowing the Church-wide doctrinal shift eventually absorb them, too.
So, he offers a big tent where divorced and remarried, practicing gays, sexually active outside of marriage, and Latin Mass can all coexist in peace. What a great choice for a Pope. So long as folk can have their Latin Mass is all that matters.
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