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[Catholic Caucus] ADW Set To Implement Amoralis Lamentia, To The Detriment Of Countless Souls
Restore DC Catholicims ^ | March 4, 2018 | Restore DC Catholicism

Posted on 03/05/2018 11:28:22 AM PST by ebb tide

ADW Set To Implement Amoralis Lamentia, To The Detriment Of Countless Souls

I'm in the Archdiocese of Washington and didn't hear of the impending storm until I saw the news on Canon 212.  This webmaster in turn cited the Tablet and the Catholic Herald - both British websites.  I find it most peculiar that the news broke on foreign sites, not American.  But it's not the first time this has happened!  But I digress!

The "pastoral plan" (there's that word "pastoral" again!) is on the archdiocesan site.  I'd suggest that we all download it for safe-keeping.  It's a 58-page tome, but quite a bit of it is blank space and pictures.  The thing is rife with talks of "pastoral accompaniment".  For example, on page 11 of the pdf, right-hand column under "step by step", we read "In considering a pastoral approach toward people who have contracted a civil marriage, who are divorced and remarried, or simply living together, the Church has the responsibility of helping them understand the divine pedagogy of grace in their lives and offering them assistance."  The Church does that by telling them in no uncertain terms that they must quit their sinful situations and go to Confession.  Why, oh why, is that not plainly stated?  Their eternal salvation hangs in the balance.

On page 13 of the pdf, we read "If there is a breakdown that leads to separation or even divorce, that loving accompaniment by the Church needs to continue, said the Holy Father. “It is important that the divorced who have entered a new union should be made to feel part of the Church".  There is so much wrong with this.
As with Amoris Laetitia itself, probably the most egregious "poison pill" is found towards the end of the document.  In this case, it is on page 53 of the pdf, bottom right.  To wit:  "At the core of accompanying people on the faith journey and helping them appropriate the Church’s teaching stands the humble recognition that the culpability of any of us does not depend solely on exposure to the teaching. It is not enough simply to hear the teaching. We have to be helped to grasp and accept it. We must have “experiential” and not just “objective” moral knowledge, to use the language of Saint John Paul II in his encyclical letter, Veritatis Splendor (The Splendor of Truth). Priests are called to respect the decisions made in conscience by individuals who act in good faith since no one can enter the soul of another and make that judgment for them. As Pope Francis teaches, “We have been called to form consciences, not to replace them”

Let's be plain-spoken, shall we?  This gobblygoop is nothing more than an attempt at a disclaimer of responsibility for those who are literally hell-bent on thumbing their noses at God's moral teachings on marriage, family, sexuality, etc.  I'll point out some of the more obvious nonsense.
This "pastoral plan" is not the only thing written by the Cardinal regarding Amoralis Lamentia.  More can be found here.  I believe some fallout is soon to be manifest in the parishes.  Please advise in the comments if and when that happens, with details. 


TOPICS: Apologetics; Catholic; Moral Issues
KEYWORDS: coldcivilwar; francischurch; heresy; wuerl

1 posted on 03/05/2018 11:28:22 AM PST by ebb tide
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To: ebb tide

I wonder what Msgr Pope will have to say about this?


2 posted on 03/05/2018 11:57:53 AM PST by CatQuilt (Lover of cats =^..^= and quilts)
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To: CatQuilt

Msgr Pope had his hand slapped by Wuerl a few years ago.

He has since fallen into line.


3 posted on 03/05/2018 12:04:21 PM PST by ebb tide (We have a rogue curia in Romett)
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To: ebb tide

This Roman Knight will listen to The Cardinal in D.C. when he is on his knees praying the rosary with other 24-hour vigil pilgrims at EVERY March For Life until Roe v. Wade is overturned ....


4 posted on 03/05/2018 12:20:52 PM PST by Rocky Mountain Wild Turkey ("I have an open mind ... just not so open that my brain falls out onto the floor!!")
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To: ebb tide
Msgr Pope had his hand slapped by Wuerl a few years ago.

Yes, I remember...
5 posted on 03/05/2018 12:27:19 PM PST by CatQuilt (Lover of cats =^..^= and quilts)
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To: CatQuilt
The journalists at breitbart seem to do their homework. The linked article also mentions the recent scandal in New York and the tougher predecessor in reprimanding of Monsignor Pope, Father Guranizo.

No word has come out of the Washington, DC, Chancery office if Pope will be punished beyond having his column taken down. They kicked one South African priest out of the Archdiocese and the Holy See Mission to the United Nations after he criticized Cardinal Dolan for allowing the proposed closing of a small parish which serves the Catholic traditionalist community in New York. And just last year a priest visiting from Moscow, Father Marcel Guarnizo, was tossed from the Diocese of Washington for refusing to give communion to a lesbian at her mother’s funeral. 

It is good to know that the betrayal of Catholicism perpetrated by our stinking shepherds is slowly going out of the Catholic circles and finding a wider audience. I can imagine many Breitbard readers slowly becoming more interested in these people: the priest telling it .. straight to the dykes, the other so attached to the Latin Mass, a third criticising the Cardinal Archbishop of New York.

One blog post, one forum comment, one article at a time, we will one day manage to put many, many Catholics in front of the fundamental questions:

what the heck it’s happening?  What kind of Catholics are these? And why have I not opened my mouth before?  

Mundabor

“Popegate” Makes It To Breitbart September 2014

6 posted on 03/05/2018 12:38:03 PM PST by ebb tide (We have a rogue curia in Romett)
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To: ebb tide

That’s pretty much the same line of reasoning they use to justify serving the Eucharist to Nancy Pelosi.


7 posted on 03/05/2018 1:20:46 PM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Buckeye McFrog

One bishop has just said “no” to giving Sen. Durbin holy communion.


8 posted on 03/07/2018 4:23:49 AM PST by Biggirl ("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5W)
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