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Wednesday, November 15, 2023

THE KETTLE CALLING THE POT BLACK OR IS IT THE POT CALLING THE KETTLE BLACK? AT ANY RATE THE CARDINAL PAPAL NUNCIO STUCK HIS FOOT INTO IT, TO MIX METAPHORS…

 This is Pope Francis Wednesday November 15 audience (today as I post this post) and just a second before His Holiness enters the square. As with most papal outdoor events, from audiences to Masses to the installation of new cardinals, no one, but a small number of faithful, mostly tourists, attends.


I use this example to show how out of touch our papal nuncio is as it concerns not just the USA, but South and Central America and Rome itself, where in the past 10 years there has been a tremendous decline in Catholics attending anything. The elephant in the room, though, is at the top of this falling pyramid. 

This is what Cardinal Pierre recently said in an interview, and it isn’t very dipolmatic or even true for the most part in the the southern USA which is conservative and traditional, but certainly in places like San Diego, Chicago and the northeast, it is true, where progressivism and implementing Pope Francis upside down Church is much more prevalent:

Cardinal Christophe Pierre gave an interview in America Magazine in which he said the bishops need to change their pastoral approach to evangelization.


The nuncio praised the 2007 Aparecida conference as a divinely inspired model of synodality that leads to better evangelization, which should be a guide for the U.S. bishops, whom he described as “struggling” to evangelize.


“We are in the Church at a change of epoch,” Cardinal Pierre said in the interview. “People don’t understand it. And this may be the reason why most of the young priests today dream about wearing the cassock and celebrating Mass in the traditional way.”


The nuncio said that “almost nobody” goes to church, religious sisters “have disappeared,” and “seminaries are now empty.”





6 comments:

Jerome Merwick said...

The nuncio's comments are laughable at best, tragically clueless at worst.

Anonymous said...

One could ask the nuncio whether any of that matters, much less why anybody should pay any attention to him, if there is no deposit of the Faith.

Nick

ByzRus said...

I stand with holy Pope Francis.

Fr. David Evans said...

bishops need to change their pastoral approach to evangelization

Like stop trying to do as it has obviously been putting people off

rcg said...

I can accept his excellency’s point if he can close the circuit as to why the priests and people attending the traditional parishes should not attend Mass.

TJM said...

These guys are clueless. Latin Mass seminaries and convents are thriving by today’s standards if these guys bothered to check instead of closing their eyes and minds. Over at Rorate the other day they reported about St. Mary’s in Washington DC which may end up being shuttered because of Traditionis Custodes. It was a thriving parish until the Clown Cardinal (McCarrick protege) kicked them out. A Sunday Mass when the TLM was there regularly attracted 400 but now with the “new and improved” Novus Bogus, about 30 people showed up for a Mass the Cardinal himself celebrated. There is a word for this: Evil, from the top down