Posted on 04/25/2018 7:45:13 AM PDT by NKP_Vet
One of the keys to understanding Pope Francis is to grasp that much of what he says and writes is incomprehensible. Case in point from a recent homily:
Closeness, dear brothers, is crucial for an evangelizer because it is a key attitude in the Gospel (the Lord uses it to describe his Kingdom). We can be certain that closeness is the key to mercy, for mercy would not be mercy unless, like a Good Samaritan, it finds ways to shorten distances. But I also think we need to realize even more that closeness is also the key to truth; not just the key to mercy, but the key to truth. Can distances really be shortened where truth is concerned? Yes, they can. Because truth is not only the definition of situations and things from a certain distance, by abstract and logical reasoning. It is more than that. Truth is also fidelity (émeth). It makes you name people with their real name, as the Lord names them, before categorizing them or defining their situation. There is a distasteful habit, is there not, of following a culture of the adjective: this is so, this is such and such, this is like No! This is a child of God. Then come the virtues or defects, but [first] the faithful truth of the person and not the adjective regarded as the substance.
We must be careful not to fall into the temptation of making idols of certain abstract truths. They can be comfortable idols, always within easy reach; they offer a certain prestige and power and are difficult to discern. Because the truth-idol imitates, it dresses itself up in the words of the Gospel, but does not let those words touch the heart. Much worse, it distances ordinary people from the healing closeness of the word and of the sacraments of Jesus.
Go here to read the rest. A besetting sin of many clerics is a lack of clarity. With the Pope this besetting sin is constant and produces some of the most muddled and opaque prose to ever emanate from the Vatican, and that is saying something.
Sounds like the preaching of just about every other Jesuit (save a select few) I have ever heard. This is a good explanation for why those who attend modern Jesuit institutions tend to become apostates in large numbers.
Jesus Christ is the truth. His words are the truth. Christs words are not idols. Bergoglio wants to completely ignore the eternal words of Jesus Christ. I think he has lost what little mind he ever had. Did you know hes now completely surrounded by leftist Jesuits. Each time hes fired an orthodox bishop theyve been replaced by a liberal Jesuit. The vast majority want to turn the Catholic Church into a big version of the Evangelical Church. Open the window and throw 2,000 years of Catholic doctrine out the window. Bergoglio dreams about this at night.
“..and the gates of Hell shall not prevail against it.”
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Could you please pass the Italian dressing to me?
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The RC Church has done a pretty good job of that already The pope is just the icing on the whole toxic cake
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