I am old enough to remember the backlash from Catholics over St. Paul VI’s encyclical, Humanae Vitae. Catholics around the world, to include bishops, priests and religious, some of the bishops were cardinals, dissented from this teaching and bent over backwards to help Catholics not feel guilty about birth control pills, some of which prevented pregnancy through spontaneous abortion.
I knew family members who really had a hard time with this teaching and simply ignored it. But they didn’t have social media then to glory in their dissent.
Fast forward to today and all the social media platforms there are. Pope Francis and now Pope Leo promote respect and stewardship of our planet and Pope Francis even wrote an encyclical on it.
What’s the problem with respecting creation as a “sacramental” of God’s creating omnipotence and our need to respect it.
Pope Leo blessed, without a formal blessing, a kind of Fiducia Supplicans kind of blessing, a chunk of a glazier, a big junk of ice. You’d think that the end of the Catholic Church had occurred.
I hate to tell you, I’ve blessed all kinds of things, from human ashes, to homemade rosaries made of chunks of rock or dried rose pedals to automobiles, rvs, and all terrain vehicles. I blessed a cabbage patch doll and a little doll some little girl brought with her to the Communion Rail at a EF Mass!
Stop the silly dissent by the silly heterodox left and right and let the pope be the pope, even when you in your most gnostic way think you know something that the pope doesn’t.
Catholics have always believed that we are to respect creation, to include people, and to be charitable in all things.
The heterodox right seem to me to be the greatest sinners, mortal sinners at that, against charity. That is serious and could get the unrepentant mortal sinners the fires of hell.
I don’t recall the heterodox right complaining about this:
Two priests from Connecticut and New Jersey recently led Eucharistic processions via airplane, petitioning Our Lord for deliverance and healing from COVID-19, the novel coronavirus.
Both priests said an Italian priest inspired them to lead the processions.
Pastor Fr. Brian P. Gannon of St. Theresa Church in Trumbull, Conn. led the procession over the Diocese of Bridgeport with associate pastor Rev. Flavian Bejan. The church’s website explains the Knights of Columbus “underwrote the whole voyage” on Mar. 24, with the help of Coast Guard pilot John DeCastra.
“Fr. Flavian and I are eternally grateful to be instruments of Our Lady of Fatima and Our Lord in the Eucharist to bring His supernatural grace and hope of healing to as many people as possible. God is always victorious!”
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"Our Lady of Perpetual Traditionalist Perturbation, ora pro nobis."
At first I thought this was a cringy stunt, but what seems more likely to have occurred is that the pope's unfortunately-unserious staffers poorly planned his appearance at this event, and being pope, Leo figured he should bless the thing even if it wasn't in the script. Unless I misunderstood the context of the video I saw.
Nick
Benediction in a cope from an aeroplane seems like a publicity stunt to me. Don’t recall seeing that in the rubrics anywhere!
What is it Leo blessed?
A junk of iceberg. It was a bit of 1980’s creative liturgy hokiness …
Hunk not junk
https://www.indiatoday.in/amp/world/story/pope-leo-xiv-blesses-glacier-ice-challenges-climate-change-deniers-2796541-2025-10-02
So basically he blessed water!
Well a hunk of Greenland ice didn’t just materialise at castel gandolfo without permission and prior planning by vatican officials The blessing by Leo was intentional.
Yes basically that is what he did and not by accident. The paraliturgy was hocky. I had enough of those in the 80’s.
https://unherd.com/newsroom/why-are-catholics-melting-down-over-the-pope-blessing-ice/
Background:
In regard to the verbal venom that certain trads/right-wingers have spewed during the past couple of days at Pope Leo XIV: The good news is that said verbal attacks have pulled the cover off the trad/right-wing "Zip It" scam.
The "Zip It" scam has been employed by radtrads to present themselves to Pope Leo XIV as rational, moderate folks. In turn, said folks have hoped to convince His Holiness to toss something favorable to them in regard to the TLM.
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Where Peter Is blog has promoted the following outstanding video by Pedro Gabriel:
https://wherepeteris.com/should-traditionalists-zip-it/
-- Should Traditionalists "Zip It"?
During the video's final six minutes, beginning at the 12:25 mark, Pedro Gabriel predicted that Trad Inc.'s "Zip It" strategy would collapse as the "Zip It" campaign is a scam designed to mask Trad Inc.'s true face.
Pedro Gabriel has demonstrated the anti-Catholic spirt...the rebellion against the Church/Popes...that exists within the "Zip It" scam...the disturbing problems that have long existed within Trad. Inc.
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Not every trad/right-winger is on board with the vile verbal attacks that, during the past couple of days, have been directed at holy Pope Leo XIV.
But more than a few trads/right-wingers have demonstrated that Pope Leo XIV will receive the same treatment that said folks had inflicted upon Pope Francis (requiescat in pace).
That is, Pope Leo XIV, you will march in lockstep with our trad/right-wing extremism, or, we will resist you...we will defame you/trample your good name.
Pax.
Mark Thomas
I've more recently read it was an event hosted at Castel Gandolfo, but it was a conference put on by people who weren't Vatican officials, not planned by Pope Leo or his subordinates, where Leo simply accepted an invitation to appear, and the event organizers didn't expect him to do the blessing. Calling it "intentional" is a very low bar in any event; glad that the Pope is not an automaton.
Nick
MT,
Thank you for at least recognizing that not all "trads/right-wingers" are included in your sweeping, dramatic condemnations as Lord High Commissioner of the Southern Orders Commentbox.
Nick
Here is the quote of the day:
Today is the one-year anniversary of the installation of Bishop Michael Martin as the bishop of Charlotte.
I'm honestly impressed at how quickly he destroyed his reputation and alienated himself from his own diocese. This must be a new record.
Well, lots to digest here. On the other hand, the Benedictines of Clear Creek Abbey created a beautiful video regarding our Catholic faith. This should be highlighted by the Vatican versus whatever it does these days.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZSOd7Gphsc&list=RDfZSOd7Gphsc&start_radio=1
However, in his speech, Leo told listeners that “We cannot love God, whom we cannot see, while despising his creatures.”
What’s there to disagree with?
However, in his speech, Leo told listeners that “We cannot love God, whom we cannot see, while despising his creatures.”
“Nor can we call ourselves disciples of Jesus Christ without participating in his outlook on creation and his care for all that is fragile and wounded,” he added.
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