Posted on 03/12/2014 5:28:20 PM PDT by BlatherNaut
On March 9, Cardinal Timothy Dolan, America’s foremost Catholic prelate, appeared on NBC’s “Meet the Press” and commented as follows on the “coming out” of a “gay” college football star:
Good for him… I would have no sense of judgment on him…. God bless ya. I don’t think, look, the same Bible that tells us, that teaches us well about the virtues of chastity and the virtue of fidelity and marriage also tells us not to judge people. So I would say, “Bravo.” “No sense of judgment…. Bravo.” That is how a Prince of Church in the Year of Our Lord 2014 reacts to a celebrity’s announcement that he engages in unspeakable acts—“men with men, working that which is filthy (Romans 1:26)”—acts that cry out to heaven for vengeance, as Churchmen used to teach before the “opening to the world” at Vatican II. Here we see the vast ripple effect of the “who am I to judge?” mantra that Pope Francis launched into the collective consciousness of humanity by going out of his way to speak to reporters about homosexuals in the hierarchy at “a surprise news conference” they had not even requested. The “Francis effect” is disarming prelates and priests alike. It threatens to disarm us as well, unless we take a stand against what is happening.
As Pope Leo XIII, citing his predecessor Felix III, teaches: “An error which is not resisted is approved; a truth which is not defended is suppressed.” (Inimica Vis [1892]). That is why this article has been written.
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On the other hand, there is a teaching function-- to teach that the Word means what it says, and that merely forgoing judgment in this world does not mean acceptance or approval or even that most venal of weaknesses masquerading as strength, "tolerance."
Do not judge, but also do not fail to call sin what it is. Forgiveness only comes after repentence, and how can one repent if they’re left believing that what they do is OK?
It sounds as if we cannot say anything about sinful behavior anymore.
If we’re going to say, who am I to judge, then we will be non-judgemental about all sin, not just homosexuality, right?
Yes, and then they’ll just keep on doing the same thing. Shouldn’t we be more concerned with their standing before God than their moral comfort in life? The end of that road is just telling them to do whatever feels good because God won’t care.
bumpus ad summum
Francis marks a disasterous turning point in what may be the final decline of the Church.
Same thing happened to all the liberal protestant denominations in the USA that embraced this stuff. Membership is steadily declining.
I lay the problem at a higher order issue. All the liberal protestant denominations embraced the arian heresy byo the higher criticism school which came to American liberal protestant seminaries in the first decades of the 20th century from Europe. With the the Arian heresy you wind up with a human sacrifice. This is really ancient and primitive stuff. In the ancient world that predates the Judeo Christian world human sacrifice and homosexuality —especially in the priesthood —went hand in hand.
Opus Dei? Could this be a papal turn at rope-a-dope?
You slammed that over the wall. Indeed God has rules and standards and He had them written down. Cardinal Dolan should heed Matthew 5:
Matthew 5:19 NKJV
Whoever therefore breaks one of the least of these commandments, and teaches men so, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever does and teaches them, he shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
Matthew 5:19 NKJV
Whoever therefore breaks one of the least of these commandments, and teaches men so, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever does and teaches them, he shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
How did Francis get passed the conclave?
They knew he was a Jesuit, and they knew what he was about to do before they voted..IMO
IB4TNRC
That's what I was thinking. Maybe they thought it would pacify their critics. We know it won't. The left is never happy without complete capitulation. Now, do we have Pontius Pilate for a Pope? It makes me doubt if Pope Benedict XVI really resigned of his own volution or if he was forced out.
Because there are that many cardinals just like him.
Benedict has made it clear that he chose to resign out of his own volition.
Yes, he had made it clear.
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