SPLENDID SINGAPORE PAPAL MASS AND POPE FRANCIS ONCE AGAIN SNATCHES DEFEAT OUT OF A VICTORIOUS PAPAL APOSTOLIC JOURNEY BY CREATING UNNECESSARY CONTROVERSY OVER ISSUES SETTLED UNDER VATICAN II'S LUMEN GENTIUS AND THE PAPAL MAGISTERIUMS OF ST. POPE JOHN PAUL II AND POPE BENEDICT XVI...

Pope Francis Mass in Singapore on Thursday for the Memorial of the Holy Name of Mary:

This is a very nice Novus Ordo Mass. Although it is in Singapore, the Mass is in English and uses the chants for the Gloria, Sanctus, Mystery of Faith and Agnus Dei in English that are in the English Roman Missal and mimic the Latin Chants. It is nice to hear these and the sobriety of these English chants. 

Overall this papal trip has been a success as have been most of Pope Francis' apostolic journeys.  The pope seems to have been energized by getting out of the Vatican where His Holiness has created a mess. But this seems to be His Holiness modus operandi and even in East Timor he asked once again, has he did on his first apostolic journey to Brazil, that the young people go and make a mess. It must be a South American thing?

But, as usual, at the end of his papal voyage of two weeks, His Holiness creates another mess yet again! Pope Francis created more controversy on his last day in Singapore by promoting a kind of neo-universalism neo-heresy. He said all religions lead people to God.  This was said off-the-cuff and thus cannot be seen as a magisterial teachings and it does contradict the more formal teachings of Vatican II, of St. Pope John Paul II and of Pope Benedict. 

Vatican II actually states that God can be revealed in most religions when what they teach and believe is consistent with Catholic doctrine. Vatican II also teaches that Catholicism is the true Church but Protestants are in partial or more partial communion with the True Church when they teach and believe what the True Church teaches and believes. 

What Pope Francis said off the cuff can be described by saying "yes, but". But he doesn't describe the "but"! He doesn't give any nuanced teaching about his grotesque generalization. That is sad and I suspect someone will correct His Holiness by expanding on "yes, but" that the Holy Father failed to do. 

This is a more formal papal magisterial teaching by St. Pope John Paul II which you can read HERE, DOMINUS IESUS.

This is what Crux says the pope said off-the-cuff:

SINGAPORE – In a line that may once again stir reaction in more traditional Catholic quarters, Pope Francis on Friday wrapped up a three-day visit to Singapore, a country with large pockets of at least five different faiths, that “all religions are a path to God.”

“They are like different languages in order to arrive at God, but God is God for all,” the pope said, who had set aside his prepared text and spoke largely off the cuff. “Since God is God for all, then we are all children of God.”

The pontiff made his remarks during a interreligious meeting with young people held at a Catholic junior college, just prior to departing Singapore for his return flight to Rome.

Such rhetoric has stirred controversy in the path among more conservative Catholics who fear that it calls into question Catholic doctrine on Christ as the lone savior of the world and also undercuts missionary efforts to bring people to the faith.