POpe Francis' support of the Humanum Conference on Male-Famale Complementarity was tremendous, and he's set up yet another conference to trumpet the same messages: the World Meeting of Families 2015, in Philadelphia, which will come right before the 2015 Synod in Rome.
Maybe I'm crazy, but I see method in his madness. I think the denouement is that he's goingt to assert the truth about sex and gender, marriage and sacrament, God and man, in a big way.
Let us pray?
“I appreciate your knowledgeability and interest in this subject, and I agree with you that “de-facto” change (a.k.a. squishy pastoral practice) is very nearly as damaging a false formal teaching, and in some ways more damaging.”
Well, Mrs. Don-o, I do appreciate the time and effort you’ve taken to reply to me. I would advise not calling heresy and spiritual unfaithfulness anything else, though, including “squishy,” which doesn’t make it sound anywhere near as deathly a serious matter as it is.
And I don’t have much more time to write today, and I’m not sure anything really new would be said by either of us at this point. I’ll conclude, then, by saying that I don’t see the Humanum meeting as sincere, but cover. The de facto changes haven’t been repudiated and go on, signaling to homosexual activists that the leadership’s hands are still tied, but they’re working on things. And the Humanum conference is also “interfaith,” and I don’t agree with evangelicals taking part. It isn’t surprising that Rick Warren is, though. It’s sad he has such prominence since, among other things, he spoke disparagingly of fundamentalism, and used a faulty translation of Titus 3:10 (which substituted “divisive” for heretic) in order to justify getting rid of people in his church who disagreed with him, and in a newsletter to pastors, advised them to do the same.
I also do agree that prayer is the answer, and I pray for God’s Kingdom to come, and His will to be done on earth as it is in Heaven.