Posted on 10/13/2016 8:49:17 AM PDT by ebb tide
Statistics put out by my Diocese indicate that over the past fifteen years the number of Catholics has fallen by 1/3 and Mass attendance has fallen by half.
Follow the Money.
“It will be hard-going for the Church, for the process of crystallization and clarification will cost her much valuable energy. It will make her poor and cause her to become the Church of the meek . . . The process will be long and wearisome as was the road from the false progressivism on the eve of the French Revolution when a bishop might be thought smart if he made fun of dogmas and even insinuated that the existence of God was by no means certain . . . But when the trial of this sifting is past, a great power will flow from a more spiritualized and simplified Church. Men in a totally planned world will find themselves unspeakably lonely. If they have completely lost sight of God, they will feel the whole horror of their poverty. Then they will discover the little flock of believers as something wholly new. They will discover it as a hope that is meant for them, an answer for which they have always been searching in secret.”
- Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger. “The church will become small.” from Faith and the Future (San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2009).
So, to follow the ‘logic’ of the newly appointed cardinal, when people make a decision of conscience to sin grievously, we have to support them in their sins and help them to go even further, because their decision is “inviolable”.
This is totally at odds with perennial Catholic teaching, and also with common sense.
I suspect a whole lot of the Bishops and Cardinals are not down with “poor and meek”.
I’ll take Archbishop Sample’s point of view.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3479570/posts
Will the good cardinal also respect the conscience of those priests in the Archdiocese of Chicago who disagree with him?
A putrid Cardinal from a putrid Pope.
Bing for EMMA BONINO POPE FRANCIS.
Benedict was the only man preventing Bergoglio from becoming Pope, and he ran away.
And now he says he resigned because he couldn’t fly anymore to those abominable World Youth Day sacrileges.
I like it..SUBJECTIVE CONSCIENCE....So,if I feel that destroying lib Catholics will save souls,those same lib Catholics will have nothing but praise for my actions..After all,I thought about it and in my good conscience felt it was the right thing to do....
Let’s see what cupich thinks when the abortion movement is destroyed....Let’s see what he thinks,after the 157 catholic universities are destroyed and bankrupted for supporting Planned parenthood and abortion...That day will come...Let’s see if he praises the “subjective conscience” of those prolifers......
But Pope Francis will be elevating the heretic Cupich, and not Archbishop Sample, to the College of Cardinals this November.
It’s less and less likely that our next Pope will be an orthodox Catholic.
I assume by your FR handle ... somewhere in Ohio?
Cardinal in Spe, Blase Cupich long ago ceased to be Catholic but he is one Hell of an Anglican.
Regardless of one's views on why Benedict resigned, etc, etc, his resignation merely sped up the advent of Bergoglio's "papacy". It twas going to happen eventually..it was just a matter of time.
Since there is a finite number of days until the end of time, it is not a waste of time to try to prevent a disaster like this papacy. I.e., not every evil “is going to happen eventually.” If the advent of such an evil can be delayed, it just might be prevented entirely.
There is also only a finite number of days before Bergoglio’s death, and the same principle holds. Every day Benedict could have stayed in office would have been a day closer to Bergoglio’s death.
There is an ample supply of Cardinals who are capable of being just as putrid in the papacy as Bergoglio.
It is true that some future Pope must begin the process of repudiating the vandalism wrought by the worst Pope in history (prior to 2013), Paul VI, and the abominations of Bergoglio.
I find it HIGHLY unlikely that Bergoglio or someone like him wasn’t going to be elected eventually. I find it equally unlikely that the next conclave will elect someone much different than Bergoglio. So far there is NOT ONE Cardinal who stands out as a winner. Chances are, he will be worse.
Only God can sort this out.
Surely you know that being a Cardinal is not a prerequisite for becoming Pope.
Yes, thanks for reminding me. Having said that, what is the chance that someone outside the conclave would be elected?
As you yourself has said, “Only God can sort this out”.
Don’t despair. Pray the Rosary and pray hard.
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