Everyone knows that if I were the pope, I would be in continuity with Pope Benedict XVI and His Holiness liberalism and a bit of “live and let live” theology.
He knew well, because he is a true liberal, not faux, that both forms of the one Roman Rite could co-exist even in the same parish. They have in my parishes and without divisiveness.
He knew that fidelity to revealed doctrines, dogmas and moral teachings of the Church isn’t idolatry, but faithfulness to the source of these, Divine Truth who is Jesus Christ.
But alas I am not pope and the pope we now have is a pope of rupture with almost every moment of healing for the Church since the election of St. Pope John Paul II in 1978.
Pope Francis has recovered in a very backward way all the controversies, liturgical and otherwise, burning hot in 1978, when the John Paul II and Benedict XVI era began. I know this first hand as I was in this country’s most liberal seminary and most famous, St. Mary’s in Roland Park, Baltimore.
I was always taught that those who condemn this, that and the other in the most OCD way are more often than not, guilty of the very things they condemn. For this pope, it is backwardism of which he is most guilty. But his backwardism is the period of 1968 to 1978.
Nonetheless we are Catholic by our commitment to our baptismal promises and all the other promises and vows we have made within Catholicism, such as marriage, priesthood and fidelity to the pope.
For those traditionalists who are snowflakes and just can’t stand in-house persecution from the non-liberal far left of the Church; who are a caricature of true snowflakes and pouting that they can’t get their way so they quit either the Church, their vocation or the truth, I say to you:
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Fr. McDonald, snowflake??? I am crushed, maybe melted. The are comrades of mine who cheer on some of the more vituperative rants of hyper-trads but they all seem to quickly draw the line at quitting the Church.
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