Posted on 07/13/2016 2:00:37 PM PDT by ebb tide
Bishop Schneider called it “very urgent” that the pope “states more clearly, in a very unambiguous manner — in such a manner which will not leave any space for misinterpretations — [on] the issues of family and the sacredness of marriage.”
The film contains an impressive lineup of international life and family advocates who decided that the time had come to voice their concerns for the good of the Church, of souls, and of nations.
(Excerpt) Read more at rorate-caeli.blogspot.com ...
Ping
See here, for instance: Pope Francis wants Catholics to doubt the Church. He's right.
Relevant quote:
In fact, Pope Francis has explicitly endorsed doubt in the life of faith. In a 2013 interview published in America Magazine, the pontiff said that the space where one finds and meets God must include an area of uncertainty. For him, to say that you have met God with total certainty or that you have the answers to all questions is a sign that God is not with you. Be uncertain, he counsels. Let go of exaggerated doctrinal "security." A devout faith must be an uncertain faith.
The makers of the video should save themselves the postage.
Agreed. I wonder what Bishop Athanasius will do when he doesn’t get the clarity he is looking for here.
Archbishop Forte has in fact revealed a “behind the scenes” [moment] from the Synod: “If we speak explicitly about communion for the divorced and remarried,” said Archbishop Forte, reporting a joke of Pope Francis, “you do not know what a terrible mess we will make. So we won’t speak plainly, do it in a way that the premises are there, then I will draw out the conclusions.”
St. Thomas Aquinas, Doctor of the Church:
Apropos of what is said in a certain Gloss, namely, that I withstood him as an adversary, the answer is that the Apostle opposed Peter in the exercise of authority, not in his authority of ruling. Therefore from the foregoing we have an example: prelates, indeed, an example of humility, that they not disdain corrections from those who are lower and subject to them; subjects have an example of zeal and freedom, that they fear not to correct their prelates, particularly if their crime is public and verges upon danger to the multitude.
“... Pope Francis wants Catholics to doubt the Church. He’s right...”
The article is damaging to the faith as it is full of ignorance, nonsensical, rebellious, and even has a typographical error (”form”).
Why, it sounds as if it were penned by Lucifer himself!
What the article (”Pope Francis wants Catholics to doubt...”) fails to do is recognize that The Gospels were written to dispel ambiguity and Jesus Himself therein was termed “The Word”.
It fails to mention that Jesus taught at length and demonstrated by acts who God is.
Besides, if the human language cannot clarify who God is, and ambiguity is desirable as the author with Mr. Bergoglio declare, then why did God send His Son Jesus as “The Word made flesh?”
Bergoglio (”Francis”) is a blasphemer and as such is a FALSE pope. Divine judgement makes it so that he cannot be called “The Vicar of Christ”.
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