[ebb tide]

We shall now fittingly keep insisting, however, that Pope Francis himself needs to stop bringing the Catholic Church into a deeply uprooted state of confusion and demoralization. Because, as even Mr. Kopp acknowledges in his official response to me: the new German pastoral guidelines derive from Amoris Laetitia and the mind of the pope.

[heterosupremacist]

Yikes! Another stellar post...

Whether or not the divorced and “remarried” persons who were to receive the proposed “accompaniment” and “discernment” concerning their possible having licit access to the Sacraments of Penance and of the Holy Eucharist may now be counseled by a pastoral caretaker who is a layman.

(If this were to be the case, would it not also raise serious questions about a layman’s effective jurisdiction in the Catholic Church?)

YES! A layman (even Deacon of The Church is NOT QUALIFIED!)

imho, of course..

[DuncanWaring]

Ping.

[DuncanWaring]

Ping.

[RitaOK]

There is a common saying, “You teach what you tolerate”.

Possibly, the Bergoglio has heard it, too.

This is his shepherding method. Anything goes, but for that which he clearly rejects by insults and intimidating statements.

Period.

[arthurus]

There are no straight answers because a straight answer would exhibit openly the heresy. So long as it is ambiguous it skirts heresy and is therefore subversion rather than open rebellion.