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Tuesday, November 21, 2023

BREAKING NEWS, BUT PAPAL TALK ISN’T ENOUGH, POPE FRANCIS SHOULD ASK EVERY HETERODOX BISHOP IN GERMANY TO RESIGN, IF HE DEFENESTRATED BISHOP STRICKLAND, ULTRA ORTHODOX, HE CAN DEFENSTRATE THE GERMAN EPISCOPATE!

 



Bishop Strickland is hardly worth what Pope Francis did to him, but to him he did it. The German episcopate deserves far harsher penalties!

FROM CATHOLIC NEWS AGENCY (CNA)

BREAKING: Pope Francis intervenes in German Synodal Way, expresses 'concerns' about threats to Church unity


4 comments:

Anonymous said...

"'Instead of looking for "salvation" in ever new committees and always discussing the same topic with a certain self-absorption,' the pope urged the Catholic Church in Germany to 'open up and go out to meet our brothers and sisters, especially those who are ... on the thresholds of our church doors, on the streets, in the prisons, in the hospitals, in the squares and in the cities.'"

I'm glad the Navel-gazing on Navel-gazingality is on ice, if this comment is meant to be taken seriously, as opposed to being lip service.

Also, I thought that Vatican dicasteries could be led by laypeople because the power of the pope, rather than the apostolic charism of governance, is the basis of the Vatican's activities. How is the Synodal Way different? If the pope put his authority behind the Synodal Way, would there be no issue with lay governance thereby?

Nick

Fr. Allan J. McDonald said...

It is called incoherence. I truly believe there are cognitive issues.

Anonymous said...

Father, sad to say you may be right.

Nick

rcg said...

I think Pope Francis poses questions to the Church as a professor would to students. Like a philosophy or math class, he expects us to develop the proof of the classical concept. But people go off the rails and he has to draw them back. The progressive and marginal Catholics get a sort of participation trophy for wrong answers, even if they are supporting heresy. Heterodox Catholics get hammered because they are expected to know better and, more importantly, the traditional minded will remain in the Church no matter what and their heterodoxy frightens off the marginal Catholics. So Strickland gets slammed and homosexual bishops get to bless same sex unions. It’s only fair.