For all those progressives in high and low places in the Church who wish to call out clericalism and backwardness, physician heal thy self. The new ultramontanists in our midst require blind obedience to the synodal process because not to do so would be a sin against the Holy Spirit. Creeping infallibility anyone?
But worse, when spiritual abuse is occurring in the Church by an individual or its institutions, clericalism demands obedience to the abuse and makes the abuse look good. Priests who sexually abuse the innocent must convince their victims who are hesitant that the abuse is actually good and there is no sin in the sexual experiences foisted upon them.
Father Raymond de Souza is like the whistle blowing National Catholic Reporter which in the early 80’s began to report on the sexual abuse of minors by priests. They were derided for doing so. I am sure Fr. de Souza will be derided by those at “Where Peter is” and other new ultramontane papists, as creating dissent.
The debacle the Vatican had with the recent ad Limina visit of all the German bishops there explains a lot to us and the direction Pope Francis seems to allow for Germany without constant reiteration of his concerns. But with traditionalists, he constantly calls them out, uses derogatory names for them and repeats himself over and over again, backwards, rigid, mentally ill. There is no such rhetoric aimed endlessly toward the Germans and their bishops who present the greatest threat to an actual new Reformation since the 1500’s! Schism with them is of no concern because the Germans are leading the way in accomplishing what the plan is for the synodal process to accomplish. The problem is that the Germans are going too fast, are too honest and have shown their hand too publicly.
But facts speak for themselves. Read Fr. de Souza’s commentary and let me say first “OUCH!”
German Bishops Take Perilous Detour From Unity With Rome
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Rome asked — begged, actually — the German bishops to take an off-ramp from their Synodal Way, which demands significant changes in Catholic doctrine, sacramental practice and ecclesial governance. The Germans refused. At the speeds traveled on the autobahn, the coming crash is going to be dreadful.
What recently unfolded in Rome was devastating for the unity of the Church. That the threat of division would come from Germany is absolutely to be expected in the long view of history, but it remains something of a surprise under Pope Francis.
While Pope Francis initially dreamt of a “poor Church for the poor,” he pursued instead an agenda for the rich: Holy Communion for those in invalid marriages, more national control over liturgical books, pastoral priorities light on sexual morality and heavy on climate change. No matter. The richest of all local Churches is now committed to rebellion, and there is nothing that Rome can do about it. The Pope inveighs against “backwardism” but finds himself, vis-à-vis Germany, in the morass of the 1970s. It will be different this time around, though. The rest of the Church is not similarly situated. Thus the Holy Father’s synodal process on synodality for a synodal Church will soon become a high-speed multi-vehicle crash.
7 comments:
3, 2., 1 - non sequiturs will be forthcoming shortly
Just more blind leading the blind, as if it could have any other outcome. When ignorant of God, what else could happen?
HFPF is not a stupid man. He knows precisely what he is doing. He is a chess player and has played chess his entire priestly life. Many would say he is the root of the problem but as Coach Lee Corso would say..."not so fast". Some may see it this way (HFPF is the problem) BUT others would say that he sees himself as the solution. What is the solution you ask? Exactly what the Germans are advancing. HFPF is an autocrat. He could have stopped this train wreck at any point along the way. That he hasn't makes it pretty obvious I think....this is what he ultimately wants. No bomb throwing here. No impugning other commentators on this blog. Just sharing a thought.
Tom, no argument here....Francis is ham fisted and ruthless....against conservatives....and uses kid gloves otherwise, including on perverts...a pope who sees the world only through wordly eyes.
One need only look at his encyclical on prayer...a less spiritual writing on prayer has never been penned, at least inside the Church, or by a pope, nor one as harsh to both perceived critics and those seeking a spiritual life. Thank goodness it has been ignored at least by laity, although the dismemberment of successful contemplative orders continues relentlessly. What he wants is revolutionaries and revolution, no suprise from his background and poor formation/education.
Tom Makin,
I think of PF as the ultimate empty cassock! A smart man would handle things in a much more subtle manner. The Church will be much better off when he is gone. The Francis Effect has been a disaster, finishing the job Vatican II started. Basta
Pope Francis is a symptom of a bigger problem within the Church. If he hadn't been born and bred to be the kind of...er, "pope" that he is, the College of Cardinals would have invented him.
In that respect, he is the perfect representative of the goals of the modernists: Verbose, lacking substance, intellectually dishonest, intolerant wearing the mask of "openness" and "tolerance", determined that he will have his outcome, canon law and tradition be damned. He is the catalyst for implementing the Ape of the Church.
Jerome Merwick,
And Clueless Cleric and Captain Sanctimony are his acolytes
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