Faustian partnership
Posted on 02/09/2015 5:48:12 PM PST by BlatherNaut
Cardinal Raymond Burke made headlines in early February when he said “I will resist” any effort of Pope Francis to allow divorced and remarried Catholics to receive Communion.
Yes, Cardinal Burke, the former head of the Roman Rota, has a corrupt program to resist, as do we all.
It appears Pope Francis has already made up his mind to “allow” divorced and remarried Catholics to receive the Eucharist. We will later demonstrate Pope Francis’ determination on this point, but will first quote Cardinal Burke.
Here are excerpts from Cardinal Burke’s February 8 interview, broadcast on France 2, which spotlighted the ongoing turmoil from Pope Francis’ Synods.
Burke said, “I cannot accept that Communion be given to a person who is living in an irregular union, because it is adultery. …”[1]
France 2 asked, “How do you intend to place Pope Francis on the good path?”
Cardinal Burke: “On this also, one must be very attentive regarding the power of the Pope. The classic formulation is that ‘the Pope has the plentitude of power, the fullness of power.’ This is true, but it is not absolute power. His power is at the service of the Faith. And thus the Pope does not have the power to change teaching, doctrine.”
F2: “In a somewhat proactive way, can we say that the true guardian of doctrine is you, and not Pope Francis?”
CB: [smiles, shakes head] “… let us leave aside the matter of the Pope. It is our faith, it is the true doctrine that guides us.”
F2: “If Pope Francis insists on this path, what will you do?”
CD: “I will resist. I cannot do anything else. There is no doubt that this is a difficult time, this is clear, this is clear.”
(Excerpt) Read more at cfnews.org ...
Wouldn’t surprise me if the hardassed Jesuit pope, who only appears cuddly, transferred Burke to a religious order requiring a vow of silence.
How does anyone really know if someone getting communion is divorced or not? I’m not a Catholic but my husband is so I go to mass with him sometimes. So many people get up and get the communion wafer and I have no idea what their marital status is.
It is a matter of conscience, so unless the person is known personally, the issue does not arise. Myself, It does not seem right to deny such persons the right to communicate when major political figures who openly oppose the teachings of the Church go to communion do so freely, but in the end the responsibility rests with the individual.
I doubt that the pope will take on a Cardinal of his stature. Cardinals remain outspoken even when they re out of favor with the pope.
A fundamental transformation of the Church is under way.
Faustian partnership
As can be seen by the return of the Latin mass and the veiling of girls and women.. I returned to the traditional mass and the veiling and find a growing group of the faithful . At every mass I see more and more attendees and more and more women veiling, We all yearn for the church to return from a church of the world to A church for God,
"Climate Change" and homosexuality
Imagine a pope that has contempt for his own faith. Well that’s what the Catholic Church now has. Protestants and liberal Catholics love Francis because all he does is put down the teachings of the church.
When he’s really grimacing, as in that photo, Barry often reminds me of the ear-to-ear grinning Negro on the Saigon billboard in “Full Metal Jacket.”
That’s gotta be the biggest fake smile I’ve ever seen.
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The Priest assumes that people coming up for communion know what they're doing, and are acting in good faith. If they have committed a mortal sin, for instance, but refuse to go to confession, that is their problem--and a very serious one--unless the priest has reason to know about it.
So, this really arises when it is public knowledge that a couple is divorced, or if another parishioner informs him of it. The same with gay marriages.
Thus, it is wrong for a priest to give communion to someone like Nancy Pelosi, because she is a known supporter of abortion, who is deliberately complicit in the murder of millions of babies. And Pelosi is well enough known so a priest or bishop can hardly plead ignorance.
Pope Francis seems to be supporting those who would give communion to those who are guilty of mortal sins, even though they are aware of the situation. Some of this may be misrepresented by the press, but I must say that the situation is looking worse and worse.
When we speak of divorced, of course, that is the brief way of speaking of those who are divorced and remarry.
He's a tool.
There is some variation, but in the Orthodox Church we usually ask for our spiritual father’s blessing to commune the Holy Mysteries. I have been to some liturgies (usually Russian) where if you are approaching the chalice and the priest doesn’t know you, be prepared for the 3rd degree...
Are you Orthodox?
Have you kept the fast for the last week?
Did you attend vespers?
When was the last time you went to confession?
The correct answers are yes, yes, yes and within the last 24hrs.
If people want to take communion unworthily (which St Paul talks about, by the way), that is on their own conscience. It is quite another thing for someone living in an irregular “divorced and remarried” situation to be told by the Church “no problem, take communion whenever you feel like it”.
Divorced people, any unworthy people who take “communion” in such a state receive the bread and wine but not the sacrament, and commit an additional sin by seeking the Body and Blood unworthily. Prominent is the sin of Pride in thinking that they know better than the Church.
There is no fundamental transformation of the Church. There is some superficial rearrangement being attempted.
Here's the book they're holding.............
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