“When Pope Francis says that it is not his competence to give permission to a public sinner or non-Catholic to go to Communion, and then says that it is up to the conscience of the person involved, he is saying that the Pope has no role to play in the formation of the conscience of an individual, because it is all up to the individual before the Lord.”
“...because it is all up to the individual before the Lord.”
Yes, it is. Christ is the intercessor to God for us - not a Priest. I am Catholic.
THANK GOD!
What will Fr Byers do IF Pope Francis does make an ex cathedra pronouncement on this issue and he doesn’t drop dead, get murdered or incapacitated?
Oh really?
At times past when pointing out the same & similar, if memory serves, I've been accused of failing to make "proper distinctions" or some such, in the end that appeal to "distinction" effectively resulting in disavowal of pattern & practice being evidence of underlying mindset & theology, which mindset itself was being sought to be either protected --hidden from too harsh of light of public scrutiny, or else in other ways justified--- even while appeal to distinctions & difference were being made at the same time, people here essentially telling me to not believe my own lying eyes (and ears), but believe instead all the specialized pleadings for what should be simple, instead.
This thread touches upon one of those very issues.
Humans. Complicated critters, ain't we?
Does the man fancy himself to be a prophet? If so, then who's prophet is he, really?
This next tune goes out to the sedevacantists & semi-sedevacantists here at FR and elsewhere, that within themselves are cauldrons of simmering, unresolved inner conflict.
I find it slightly difficult to pray for this pope but I do, praying for him to get “straightened out”. My prayers are full of colloquial expressions.