Posted on 09/06/2018 9:22:46 AM PDT by ebb tide
“This is where Francis-era liberal Catholicism has so often ended up — in arguments that imply that the church must use Jesus to go beyond Jesus, as it were, using his approach to the ritual law as a means to evade or qualify the moral law, which means essentially evading or qualifying his own explicit commandments, and declaring them a pharisaism that the late modern church should traffic in no more. To fulfill Jesus’ mission, to follow the Jesus of faith, even the Jesus of Scripture must be left behind.” — Ross Douthat, To Change the Church
“This book is not inevitabalist. It is conservative, in the sense that it assumes the church needs a settled core of doctrine, a clear unbroken link to the New Testament and the early church, for Catholicism’s claims and structure and demands to make any sense at all.” — Ross Douthat, To Change the Church
The last, rather playful, words in Ross Douthat’s incisive new book, To Change the Church, are “‘Hagan lío!’ Francis likes to say. ‘Make a mess!’ In that much he has succeeded.” Whether this judgment of success is a compliment, a condemnation, or both is the burden of the book. We have a Pope who tells the youth to go out and make a “mess” of things. Francis himself, in Douthat’s estimation, seems to follow those elder gentlemen of whom Plato spoke who take their cue from the youth and not from tradition, lest they be thought of as “out of date.”
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Ping
I’ll get back to you on that one!
Jesus was protecting predators?
In brief, “going beyond Jesus” seldom leads back to Jesus.
What a disgusting question!
Thus, in changing certain basic aspects of tradition, Francis is retaining the tradition that now allows the opposite of what it previously forbade. In this approach, “change” would really mean “no change.”
Somebody’s got the wires crossed about Jesus.
Paul had warned, Romans 1:32 for example, paraphrased, that the blind would lead the blind.
No. Something about a millstone and the sea...
So normalizing pedophilic behavior is “our times”?
Who writes this stuff?
Even those churches that Jesus found to have been faithful?
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