Pope Francis Demotes Status of Conservative Opus Dei Group

Breitbart ^ | July 23, 2022 | THOMAS D. WILLIAMS, PH.D.

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Pope Francis has demoted the leader of the conservative Opus Dei group from bishop to priest, revoking the structure ordained by Saint John Paul II.

In an apostolic letter ironically titled “Ad Charisma Tuendum” (In defense of the charism), Pope Francis reversed measures enacted by Saint John Paul II in 1982 that ensured that the Opus Dei personal prelature would always be governed by a bishop, thus guaranteeing a certain degree of independence and flexibility.

Francis has transferred the oversight of Opus Dei from the Congregation of Bishops to the Dicastery for the Clergy in a move widely interpreted as a backhanded slap to the group, which has traditionally focused on the sanctification and salvation of souls rather than contemporary concerns close to Francis’s heart such as climate change, immigration, anti-free market capitalism, and multilateralism.

In explaining why in the future the head of Opus Dei will no longer be a bishop, Francis states that for the good of the group’s “particular gift of the Spirit,” what is needed is “a form of government based more on charism than on hierarchical authority.”

In 1982, Saint John Paul II established Opus Dei as the Catholic Church’s first personal prelature under the leadership of its own bishop with his apostolic constitution Ut Sit, giving it a juridical configuration “suited to its specific characteristics.” John Paul wrote in that text:

The Ordinary of the Prelature Opus Dei is its Prelate, whose election, which has to be carried out as established in general and particular law, has to be confirmed by the Roman Pontiff. The Prelature is under the Sacred Congregation for Bishops, and will also deal directly with the other Congregations or Departments of the Roman Curia, according to the nature of the matter involved.

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Like I said I’ll take Sola Scriptura any day because it provides me an objective God breathed foundation.
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I understand your thinking but my contention is that in the final analysis everyone who reads the God-breathed foundation proceeds to INTERPRET what is read, and that is why there are countless denominations and sects, and why there is never-ending jousting re the meaning of Scripture on this board. See, e.g., my post to Elsie, #136.

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And you have just as many sects within the Catholic church as I pointed out already. That some may try to twist scripture is as old as Satan’s temptations in the garden. Both Peter and Jude in their epistles warned that it was already going on. And Jesus condemned the Pharisees for trying to put their traditions on an equal level with scripture.