Venezuelan Cardinal on Pell, Ganswein, Muller, and Pope Francis
Press the above title for an interview with a Venezuelan Cardinal calling out those who are vocally critical of Pope Francis. To be honest with you, while I agree with some of the notion “that one should not air one’s dirty laundry” it is this mentality that has allowed the sexual abuse scandal in the Church to fester, multiply and destroy the lives, as well as Catholicism, of so many.
I remember so many of rank and file Catholics, both clergy and laity, who criticized the National Catholic Reporter who began airing stories of priests sexually abusing minors. So many thought they should have kept that to themselves when they first began reporting it in the early 1980’s. I felt the same way then, thinking it was “airing dirty laundry and unseemly”. We know the rest of the story now.
Pope Francis has created the climate in the Church where we are in a catastrophic and unprecedented position in the Church not ever seen. I say, don’t blame the whistle blowers, no matter how indelicate they may be, but praise them and place the criticism onto the right person.
The other thing I fear the Cardinal is doing is dogmatizing the pastoral ecclesiology of Vatican II which is not a dogma but a pastoral theology. It’s theology, not dogma, especially what he believes, by a tremendous leap of logic that is not supported by Vatican II in any way, that Vatican II wanted the kind of synodality being imposed, not proposed, by Pope Francis.
I am glad for the transparency of Gaenswain, Muller, Pell and others. It is healthy. It is also important to hear the other side.
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PF made this "mess". Now he has to live with what he created.
I used to be like you, not to air dirty laundry publicly.
I would say that Catholics have become so accustomed to the airing of one thing, or another, they are mostly left unfazed. That said, total transparency should prevail. Make all known, the good, and the bad, then let's fix it and move on.
I had read that interview a couple of hours ago on the Where Peter Is blog. I thank Cardinal Baltazar Porras for his many astute remarks.
One thing that I have found interesting in regard to those who have denounced Pope Francis:
Cardinal Sarah is a supposed fierce opponent of Pope Francis. He despises Pope Francis supposedly.
However, unlike some of the folks mentioned by Father McDonald — "Gaenswain, Muller, Pell and others" — Cardinal Sarah has never conducted himself publicly in such fashion.
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-- Cardinal Sarah backs Pope, condemns divisive agents of the 'devil'
https://www.thetablet.co.uk/news/12109/cardinal-sarah-backs-pope-condemns-divisive-agents-of-the-devil-
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Cardinal Sarah has conducted himself in line with Pope Saint Pius X's call to love the Pope:
"Love the Pope!" - no ifs, and no buts:
https://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2012/11/love-pope-no-ifs-and-no-buts-for.html
Pope Saint Pius X:
"Therefore, when we love the Pope, there are no discussions regarding what he orders or demands, or up to what point obedience must go, and in what things he is to be obeyed;"
"...when we love the Pope, we do not say that he has not spoken clearly enough, almost as if he were forced to repeat to the ear of each one the will clearly expressed so many times not only in person, but with letters and other public documents; we do not place his orders in doubt..."
Cardinal Sarah has set a holy example in regard to the above.
Pax.
Mark Thomas
Father McDonald said..."Press the above title for an interview with a Venezuelan Cardinal calling out those who are vocally critical of Pope Francis. To be honest with you, while I agree with some of the notion “that one should not air one’s dirty laundry” it is this mentality that has allowed the sexual abuse scandal in the Church to fester, multiply and destroy the lives, as well as Catholicism, of so many."
Father McDonald, let us pretend that you disagreed with the manner in which your bishop had taught, governed, and sanctified his spiritual children.
I do not believe that you would attack your bishop publicly. I do not believe that you would author a "tell-all" book in which you aired your bishop's "dirty laundry."
I do not believe that you, in cowardly fashion, under the name...oh...let's say... "Demos," would attack your bishop in vicious fashion.
Rather, I am certain that you would find a respectful way, in line with Holy Mother Church, to address your concerns in question.
Conversely, if you had proof that your bishop were a sexual predator, then you would have every reason to air that "dirty laundry."
Pax.
Mark Thomas
MT,
Off your meds? At least the Borgia pope was orthodox
Speaking of “fair and balanced” there is a story on Fox News today where it is claimed Nasty Pelosi had priests come over to her home to perform an exorcism because her husband was “attacked” there. I am highly skeptical of this claim unless they were there to toss the demons out of her!
Alongside Cardinal Sarah, Pope Benedict XVI (requiescat in pace), as well as Cardinal Pell (requiescat in pace), must be included among those who had treated Pope Francis in line with Pope Saint Pius X'S declaration:
"...when we love the Pope, we do not say that he has not spoken clearly enough, almost as if he were forced to repeat to the ear of each one the will clearly expressed so many times not only in person, but with letters and other public documents; we do not place his orders in doubt..."
Pope Benedict XVI (then-Emeritus), as well as Cardinal Pell, declared publicly their obedience to Pope Francis. Then-Emeritus, as well as Cardinal Pell, insisted that Pope Francis was orthodox, as well as a man of fine character.
Then-Emeritus, as well as Cardinal Pell, did not rage against Pope Francis. Instead, they exemplified Pope Saint Pius X's exhortation to love, and obey, the Pope.
Pax.
Mark Thomas
MT,
If these posts of your are therapeutic for you fine, but they convince no one!
To all,
Nasty Pelosi’s daughter lied about an exorcism at her patents home - shocker! But for people who believe abortion is “healthcare” this should not come as a surprise
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