We know from the John Jay Report on the sex abuse scandal in the USA, that the highest number of Priests abusing minors, mostly adolescent boys, occurred around 1975, perhaps the Zenit of what the sexual revolution of the 1960’s initiated with a conclusion toward not only abuse of the 6th Commandment but also of minors in the most dastardly and victimizing way and thus victimization of the entire Church.
Part of this revolution, included the “summer of love” where tenderness toward victimizers, be they rapists, murderers or thieves, eclipsed the tenderness towards their victims. Thus bishops sent abusing priests to cushy psychiatric facilities for these priests and after a time of rehabilitation to include therapy and mind altering drugs, were returned to ministry, but strict silence and confidentiality maintained concerning their abuse, in some cases, serial abuse. This is mercy run amuck.
Today, with Pope Francis recovering the ethos of the 1960’s both in the culture and the Church, we see a redefinition of sin and in some cases making what was once called mortal sin a virtue.
Thus, when that Pandora’s box is opened, we see all kinds of sins, now virtues, coming to light and being confirmed by leaders of the Church who listen to the sinners who think their sins aren’t sins but virtues. And mercy, of course, is at the core of this, even for actual perversion and victimization.
And now a lay liturgical theologian who holds much sway in the Vatican for things liturgical and otherwise, Andrea Grillo, shows us the way to pervert the word of God and the 6th Commandment and stunningly he links that perversion as a renewal in much the same way Vatican II initiated the reinterpretation of the pre-Vatican II Mass and its ecclesiology:
“The analogy between the Tridentine rite and marriage nullity is based on the need to translate tradition. What was delivered to us by the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century no longer has any structural evidence. The ‘fiction’ of nullity is only an extreme case of a theology of marriage conditioned not by Scripture or theology but by the Tametsi Decree. The inability to distinguish between these levels is the ‘meanness’ at play. That only marriage justifies the use of sex is a Pauline view that history has profoundly altered. And it calls for a profound rethinking, even as the Second Vatican Council inaugurated with the liturgical reform and with the rethinking of the Church, the Word, and the relationship [of these] with the world.”
2 comments:
He’s bats and evil, ergo, the Vatican will listen to him
And will go on and on until the Church becomes both unrecognizable and empty as an inch becomes a yard which then becomes a mile and then goes onto infinity?
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