Posted on 03/31/2014 2:43:50 PM PDT by Arthur McGowan
Cardinal Donald Wuerl has been the most outspoken of those bishops who refuse to obey Canon 915, but all of them are on record, as he is, as endorsing the commission of MORTAL SINS by their priests and other ministers of Communion. Cardinal Wuerl has even punished those who have obeyed Canon 915.
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Because the scandal hasn’t ended yet.
There’s always a point to the Church. To unite us in Christ through the Sacraments. We’ve had good popes and bad popes. Murderers, adulterers, etc. We worship Christ and not men.
I’ve seen three popes in my lifetime now. When JPII died I was somewhat distraught because I’d never experienced a conclave and didn’t know what to expect. I was ecstatic when Pope Benedict XVI was elected and subsequently dismayed at his resignation. Now we have Pope Francis. He obviously has a different approach to his Petrine ministry.
I couldn’t care less about his opinion on economics, the environment or government. In that regard he’s just another bum with an opinion and I’m not duty-bound to agree with him or concur with any of his pronouncements of a non-dogmatic nature. As for his pastoral approach I turn to the words of Cardinal Arinze when he said that not all Popes will have the same style or emphasis and that with BXVI’s resignation this will help us mature in our Faith.
Is a Jesuit-based Franciscan spirituality in our Holy Father what this world needs? In the final analysis I cannot say. I’ll let God work His will in that regard. What I do know is that faithful traditional Catholics who have a yearning to worship as we once did are being suppressed and when it comes to matters of discipline in the Church they are the ones suffering and doing so in humility and obedience to the Church. All the while the spiritual arm of the Democrat party (Read: USCCB)gets away with violating the Canons with impunity and leading fellow Catholics to scandal with their vacillation. It is our Catholic duty as lay men and women to correct our priests, bishops and sometimes even the Pope when the need arises.
The point is that as Catholics we believe the Church is Christ. Even if its appointed earthly representatives don’t always comport themselves to the teachings of the Church. After all it is a Church comprised of human sinners. The walking wounded and sometimes the doctors commit malpractice. However that does not diminish the love we have for the Church. We love it as we love Him. We do adore it and we won’t leave it. Even if we have to suffer for being a part of the Body of Christ.
Et semper tecum!
Bravo to that particular Voris video.
Unfortunately it appears that the majority of one trick pony “social justice” clerics have been permanently brainwashed. Having interacted with many Catholics who are “Die Hard Democrats” (priest included) I think Tobin’s epiphany unlikely to spark a trend. Furthermore, I have noticed that the most egregious, traitorous hypocrites within the priesthood are of the flagrantly lavender variety. The pro-abort pols who also support the homosexual agenda are singing their tune, so why would they want to step on their toes?
My theory is that Wuerl knows that if he riles Nancy Pelosi, she will phone the Washington Post, and his private life will be splashed across the front page. It is obvious that the killing of babies doesn’t actually trouble him.
I know you’re both right, and that I just need be reigned in a little.
The funny thing is I’m Noachide. But I studied Catholicism in my youth, and do care about it, and Christianity overall. The United States could not have been founded without it.
Which Modernism, as we all know, is a HERESY. Defined by Pope St. Pius X in “Pascendi Dominici Gregis,” 1907. He called it the “synthesis of all heresies.” Ergo, heretics within the Church.
Regarding your post #43, AMEN! I feel & struggle with the same, I just don’t have the words or clarity of expression that you do, THANK YOU for these today...
Blessings to You & All FReepers,
HK
“Our Lady of Fatima said that the great apostasy will begin at the top.”
Do you know of a good book on Fatima? One that contains most everything, but doesn’t run to a thousand pages?
I don’t dsc, sorry. You could try www.fatima.org for resources.
Salvation asked a great question; Why do you keep reposting this?
Why does it bother you and Salvation so much?
Thanks.
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