Since, if I understand you correctly, "their" means "Modernist apostates'", I'd have to ask you to refrain from saying such things with a certainty you cannot possess. You could phrase it as "Is he one of their own?" Or "Is he being deceived and led astray by these apostates?" Or "One can wonder whether..."
I'm not advising being devious and equivocating in speech. I am advising justice in speech, which conforms to what is known.
Excellent! You said what many of us would like to say, and you said it well.
Some of the highlights of his brief pontificate:
Let's start with who's in and who's out.
-Cardinal Wuerl in, Cardinal Burke out. For those keeping score, Wuerl is a notorious "liberal" and Cardinal Burke was the most conservative and orthodox Cardinal in North America.
-In: Cardinal "Müller needs to “be a bit more flexible” Maradiaga. Scolded Muller for holding the line on church teaching regarding communion for divorced and illicitly remarried Catholics.
And then there's Cardinal O'Malley. His coddling and promoting of homosexual priests is certainly no secret, nor is his admiration for the Kennedys and his link with Obama fundraiser Jack Connors.
Some info about Jack, FYI:
"Connors once described his first meeting with Obama before a fundraiser in Chatham, Massachusetts. “I got in the car with him, kind of took the measure of him, and he did the same to me,” Connors told the Boston Globe. “By the time we got to Chatham, we were both smitten.”
The fundraisers were the latest barb for area Catholic activists, who have decried Connors’ simultaneous ties with the Archdiocese of Boston and the progressive political and social world – including the abortion industry.
Among Connors’ philanthropic projects is the Connors Center for Women’s Health, which The Globe described as his favorite among Connors Family Foundation beneficiaries “closest to the family’s heart”: it was named after Connors’ mother, Mary Horrigan Connors, and is where his eight grandchildren were born.
At the helm of the Connors Center is its co-founder Paula A. Johnson, a former chairman of the board for the Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts, who also served on the board for the Center for Reproductive Rights. When the HHS mandate for free birth control began this month, the Connors Center celebrated the news and Johnson appeared on local media as an expert touting the mandate’s benefits: Johnson herself was a member of the Institutes of Medicine Committee that recommended the contraception mandate to HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius in 2011.
Among the Connors Centers’ top goals is “training the next generation of leaders in the field of women’s health,” including future abortion providers: its Family Planning Fellowship, led by abortionist and Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts (PPLM) head researcher Alisa Goldberg, partners with PPLM to offer a nationally-recognized two-year program to “improve access to, and the quality of, pregnancy termination services through research and training.” The Center’s only other fellowship, the Global Women’s Health Fellowship, was expected to merge with the Family Planning Fellowship as of 2009.
Who can honestly deny that the pope is deliberately surrounding himself with advisors who are "partisans of error"? Should we just bury our heads in the sand and pretend this is not the case?
Pope Francis: "Those that are Christian, with the Bible, and those that are Muslim, with the Quran. The faith that your parents instilled in you will always help you move on.”
Anyone who puts the Bible on par with the Koran while disdaining gifts of Rosary Bouquets is a partisan of error.
This list does not even include the multiple bizarre statements of his that have had to be parsed and explained (more so than any other pope in memory).
Many Catholics who have eyes to see are concerned about the direction and emphasis of this pontificate. For those who think things are going well, I guess we have a difference of opinion.