THE WAR BY SOME BISHOPS ON THEIR FAITHFUL, INCLUDING THE BISHOP OF ROME WAGING THIS PECULIAR WAR…

Fr. Roberto Pasolini, OFM cap offered Pope Leo and the Curia a curious mediation on diversity in the Church, unity within diversity.

Below the quotes from Fr. Roberto, are my most humble but extremely astute comments in red.

Vatican City – This morning, in the Paul VI Hall, Fr. Roberto Pasolini OFM Cap, Preacher of the Pontifical Household, offered the Roman Curia and the Holy Father the second Advent 2025meditation, on the theme: “Rebuilding the Lord’s house. A Church without oppositions.” A reflection that brought into focus the ecclesial responsibility to welcome grace not only as individuals, but as a body, avoiding the shortcuts of uniformity and the polarizations that render discernment sterile.

Babel: unity sought as uniformity

To respond, the Preacher retraced the account of the tower of Babel: a project born of the fear of dispersion and presented as a “reasonable” operation, but in reality concealing a logic of control. The key phrase of the biblical text, taken up in the meditation, is: «Come… let us make a name for ourselves, so that we may not be scattered». Here unity does not arise from the composition of differences, but from homogenization: identical “bricks” in place of irregular stones, quick consensus instead of real confrontation. Pasolini then brought the temptation of homogenization into the present: yesterday totalitarianisms, today subtler dynamics - from information bubbles to standardized language - even reaching the Church when it confuses the unity of faith with the uniformity of expressions and sensibilities.

“Confusion” as therapy: God saves difference

The theological point is decisive: God does not “punish” Babel out of jealousy, but intervenes to prevent a process of death. The text places on the Lord’s lips words that are harsh and at the same time medicinal: «Let us go down, then, and confuse their language». Confusion thus becomes a protection, because it prevents a single voice from imposing itself as an absolute and restores to humanity the possibility of not all being the same. In the background,Pentecost emerges as a “mirror” account: not one single language for all, but a communion in which each person understands “in his or her own language”. Difference safeguarded, not abolished.

MY MOST HUMBLE BUT MOST ASTUTE COMMENTS: Why in the Name of God and all that is holy, did Pope Francis and many bishops, even under Pope Leo, wage war on faithful Catholics who expressed a diversity but within unity when it comes to the crystal clear permissions that St. John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI gave them to live within the splendid unity of the Church a diversity of ways to offer the Mass and the other Sacraments of the Church?

Why in the Name of God and all that is holy, are orthodox, traditional Catholics marginalized, mocked and ridiculed as if they are heretics, by the Bishop of Rome and even now certain bishops?

Why in the Name of God and all that is holy, are there bishops, even under Pope Leo, banning the use of altar railings in order to kneel for Holy Communion, in the modern Mass, mind you, as well as celebrating the modern Mass ad orientem and in Latin and even in some cases, as is purported from coming from the Diocese of Charlotte in the very Province in which I live, that the Benedictine Altar arrangement with the six candles and central crucifix can not be used in Masses facing the people?

All of these examples are within the unity but in diversity that Fr. Roberto touts as coming from God.

Why in the Name of God and all that is holy, would the Bishop of Rome and any other bishop wage war on faithful Catholics but fail in the primary duty to call sinners, real, actual MORTAL sinners, to conversion, a change of life and lifestyle and picking up their cross and following Jesus in the most personal ways possible? 

Why in the Name of God and all that is holy, would any bishop wage war on faithful Catholics and neglect to wage a spiritual war on doctrinal, spiritual and moral corruption of those under their pastoral care? 

IN THE NAME OF GOD AND ALL THAT IS HOLY, CAN ANYONE EXPLAIN THIS TO ME?