Posted on 05/22/2015 6:57:08 AM PDT by SweetAkitoRose
Pope Francis’ appointment of Fr. Timothy Radcliffe to the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace this past weekend was most disconcerting. Any openly dissident priest who advocates for Catholic acceptance of gay relationships and identity, women’s ordination, and the “Eucharistic” nature of sodomy — a sin that cries out to heaven for vengeance — should not be given a platform of any kind. In a sane world, they would be disciplined.
Since the Radcliffe appointment, I’ve spent a good bit of time looking at the reaction of Catholics on various websites and social media. Many are perplexed. Some are outraged. Some have said that they’re done with the Church. Others are offering the usual sort of justifications we have become accustomed to over the past two years. These are typically some variation of the following:
◾Maybe Pope Francis didn’t know who this guy really was and just rubber-stamped the appointment. ◾English isn’t the pope’s first language and this is an English priest; it might be a language barrier problem. ◾The pope’s advisers are bad men who are manipulating him! ◾Being appointed as a non-voting consultor on a Pontifical commission isn’t a “game changer.” ◾Maybe the pope is just trying to keep his enemies close to keep an eye on them! ◾[Insert your favorite here]
All of these credulity-stretching mental exercises are usually followed with, “Remember, Christ promised that the Gates of Hell will not prevail against the Church!”
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Deploying Cardinal Kasper to lead the charge.
Sorry but that the same argument the Pharisees made to Jesus to follow there teaching not God...
Do you follow Christ or do you follow disciples ?
No it is NOT “the same argument”!
Christ gave the “argument” I cited.
Such was NOT the case for the Pharisees.
Sure it is.. you want to put your church and its leader in the place of God.....you have a choice......are you save by Christ or by the church and the man that leads it?
The two are NOT in conflict!
There is no “Church before Christ” mantra!
Got it?!?!?!
If the Pope is not speaking ex- cathedra a faithful Catholic not only he/she can criticize the Pope, that they must when if he is going against the Magisterium of the Church.
Francis is disarming and silencing of Catholic bishops, priests, and laity. Holding firm to Catholic doctrine and practice seems like an act of disloyalty to the pope, yet to acquiesce is to betray the Church.
The fact that the Church’s traditional enemies approve highly of him raises concerns, not least because of the Lord’s warning that “If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you. If you were of the world, the world would love its own...
Melchior Cano, a Spanish theologian at the Council of Trent, warned against obsequiousness regarding the pope: “Now it can be said briefly that those who defend blindly and indiscriminately any judgment whatsoever of the Supreme Pontiff concerning every matter weaken the authority of the Apostolic See; they do not support it; they subvert it; they do not fortify it. … Peter has no need of our lies; he has no need of our adulation.”
In our time, the 1983 Code of Canon Law also recognizes the right of the faithful in this regard where it states that “according to the knowledge, competence, and prestige which they possess… the faithful have the right and even at times the duty to manifest to the sacred pastors their opinion on matters which pertain to the good of the Church and to make their opinion known to the rest of the Christian faithful…” (§ 212:3).
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