Pope Francis meets ‘Red Cleric’ who was exiled by Pope John Paul II

Religion News Service ^ | 9/2/15 | David Gibson

[BlatherNaut]

Anyone looking to understand the decades-long struggle between Catholic progressives and the late Pope John Paul II – who was aided in his conservative renewal by his theological wingman, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, now Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI – could do no better than reviewing the tale of French Bishop Jacques Gaillot.

Gaillot was named bishop of the Diocese of Evreux, west of Paris, in 1982, in the early years of John Paul’s pontificate, and Gaillot quickly came to stand as a symbol of the sort of social activist bishop – and theological liberal – that the Polish pope sought to sideline, or censure.

After years of tensions with the Vatican, and with his fellow bishops in France, John Paul in 1995 removed Gaillot – nicknamed the Red Cleric – from Evreux and, in a near parody of exile, named him titular head of Partenia, a defunct diocese in the desert of modern-day Algeria that has not existed as an actual Catholic community since the fifth century...

...Gaillot, who at 79 is just a year older than the pope, said he told Francis how he had recently blessed a divorced couple as well as a homosexual couple.

”I am in civil cloth(ing) and I just bless them. This is not a marriage, it is a blessing,” Gaillot said he told the pope, according to another French media report (translated by New Ways, a ministry of LGBT Catholics). “We have the right to give the blessing of God, after all we also bless houses!”

“The pope listened,” Gaillot said, “he seemed open to all that. At that particular moment, he specifically said that to bless people also involves to speak well of God to those people.”

Gaillot said Francis told him to “continue, what you do (for the downtrodden) is good.”

[arthurus]

Anyone looking to understand the decades-long struggle between Catholic progressives and the late Pope John Paul II

I think that should be:

Anyone looking to understand the decades-long struggle between "Catholic" progressives and the late Pope John Paul II

[Mercat]

We spent time two years ago with a long time same sex attracted friend and his then partner and as we left told them to take care of each other and told them God Bless. They knew that I did not approve of them but about the same time I said the same thing to my son and the woman he was living with. (they have since broken up) and felt that in each case it was appropriate. I would not have gone to the friend’s “wedding.” Our other same sex attracted friend has told use that marriage is for procreation and he would never try to procreate without being married to a woman. Both these men are conservative pro life people. They hate Obama.

[Dqban22]

Bishop Gaillot is not the first red cleric called to his side by Pope Francis. As soon as he was elected Francis called as one his advisers to radical Marxist Leonardo Boff, a liberation theologian that was silenced by Pope John Paul II and opened the doors of the Vatican to all the leaders of the Marxist liberation theology, a perversion of the Gospels that was proscribed by John Paul II following the Magisterium of Church that since H.H. Leo XIII to Pope Benedict XVI have condemn Marxism as intrinsically evil and incompatible with the Catholic faith.

[stanne]

Not sure what that has to do with Pope Francis countering actions of the late Pope John Paul II

[NRx]

"After years of tensions with the Vatican, and with his fellow bishops in France, John Paul in 1995 removed Gaillot – nicknamed the Red Cleric – from Evreux and, in a near parody of exile, named him titular head of Partenia, a defunct diocese in the desert of modern-day Algeria that has not existed as an actual Catholic community since the fifth century... "

Cardinal Burk's next posting.

[BlatherNaut]

"... A number of Catholics who read Laudato Si note that, while they do encounter Catholic terminology and various praiseworthy sections, the overall spirit does not seem Catholic.

If you have this sense when reading the document, congratulations: your sensus fidelium is up and running.

Brazil’s Leonardo Boff, the infamous Liberation Theologian and neo-pagan ecology enthusiast, was tapped for input on Laudato Si. Boff’s spirit pervades the document.

In the 2013 book Pope Francis: Untying the Knot, Paul Valley writes in admiration of Francis, “…not long after becoming Pope, Bergoglio privately got in touch with one of the liberation theologians most reviled by Rome – the former Franciscan priest LeonardoBoff, who was condemned to ‘obsequious silence’ and suspended from his religions duties by the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith for his theology. Pope Francis asked Boff to send him his writings on eco-theology in preparation for a majory encyclical Francis is considering on environmental matters.”[7]

Boff had been silenced by Cardinal Ratzinger’s CDF in 1984, primarily for his book Church: Charism and Power. Due to various pressures, the sanction was repealed in 1986, but the Vatican threatened him again with silence in 1992. Rather than submit, Boffeffectively renounced his priesthood, “promoted himself to the state of the laity,” and explained, “I changed trenches to continue the same fight.”[8]..."

Francis' Enviro Text - The Boff Connection - Religion at the Service of Ecology

[piusv]

The question is whether Cardinal Burke will speak out and do something. He seems to be fairly quiet these days. If not, I think his current post is safe.

[Zionist Conspirator]

"After years of tensions with the Vatican, and with his fellow bishops in France, John Paul in 1995 removed Gaillot – nicknamed the Red Cleric – from Evreux and, in a near parody of exile, named him titular head of Partenia, a defunct diocese in the desert of modern-day Algeria that has not existed as an actual Catholic community since the fifth century... "

Cardinal Burk's next posting.

That's so in-line with Francis' policy on bishops that that's no longer the satire it was meant to be.