Posted on 04/12/2015 4:50:11 PM PDT by ebb tide
Cardinal Angelo Amato, Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, has announced, on the heels of the recent beatification of Pope Paul VI, an exciting new candidate for beatification on the increasingly crowded Expressway to the Ever-Widening Gate of Heaven. It seems that Cardinal Walter Kasper, President Emeritus of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, has now introduced the cause of Annibale Bugnini, the architect of the highly-touted liturgical reform of Vatican II, to the Congregation. Kasper reportedly gave his permission to open an investigation into Abp. Bugnini’s virtues in response to repeated and urgent requests from Pope Francis and his inner circle.
Cardinal Kasper’s correspondence to the Congregation is rumored to elaborate on a little-known connection between Kasper and Bugnini that apparently developed during the recent Synod on the Family. Apparently Kasper had been praying repeatedly to the spirit of Abp. Bugnini – whom he, Kasper, considers to be the apotheosis of the “Spirit of Vatican II” - to ensure that the revolutionary draft language on homosexuals remain in the final Synod document, despite stiff resistance from “conservative” bishops. When this language was in fact retained in the final document, by the anti-collegial order of Pope Francis, Kasper was ecstatic at this miracle, and redoubled his zealous efforts on Bugnini’s behalf.
In his long letter to Cardinal Amato, Kasper, according to unconfirmed reports, cites the heroic virtues of Bugnini at length, particularly:
. His devotion and enthusiasm for the cause of aggiornamento, as displayed by his heroic perseverance in reforming the liturgy in the face of fierce resistance from Curial reactionaries such as Cardinals Ottaviani and Bacci, the two-thirds of the bishops who voted against his “Missa Normativa,” right-wing prelates such as Abp. Lefebvre, rebellious priests such as Fr. Gommar DePauw of the American traditionalist movement and the Abbe de Nantes, and even secular figures such as Tito Casini.
. His prophetic ecumenical vision, which led him to invite six Protestants, four Aztec dancers, and an aborigine with a straw hat, to serve as informal advisers during the development of the new Mass, and to consult Protestant liturgical books and the Talmud in great depth, decades before the Council.
. His clarity of thought, which formed the foundation of the new countersyllabus of universalism, religious freedom, collegiality, community, futile dialogue and free love.
. His kindly refusal to investigate repeated allegations of sexual misconduct among certain members of his Consilium, while invoking St. John the Baptist and the power of ancestral waters to protect them.
. The steadfast courage of his radical Christian discipleship, as he stripped the old Mass of Catholic theology and anything else which might offend Protestants, describing the result as “a major conquest of the Catholic Church.”
. His pivotal role in the collapse of the ghetto of Catholic tradition and the “razing of the bastions” called for by Hans Urs von Balthasar, by his embrace of all world religions, from Animism to Zoroastrianism to “I’m OK, You’re OK.”
. His profound humility and personal holiness, exemplified by his silent acceptance of being twice dismissed under suspicion of Freemasonry, by Popes John XXIII and Paul VI, as well as his prudential refusal to explain his apparent kissing of the Masonic “Book of the Royal Arch.”
. The widespread impact he had during his travels, especially during his final journey to Iran, where, exiled by Paul VI, he celebrated many inculturated Masses and sprinkled many a receptacle of water, flour and hummus on the sacred sands of the former Persian Empire.
In his summary of these virtues, Cardinal Kasper reportedly hails this nomination as the “next logical step” after the beatification of Paul VI, dismissing those who raise the Masonic objection by referring to Bugnini’s devotion to his pectoral cross, which he received from Archbishop Rowan Williams. “It is high time,” His Eminence allegedly adds, “that the Church started casting her nets on the left side of the boat. Who knows how many saintly souls are to be found in those waters? At least 153, I’d venture.”
Meanwhile, Cardinal Amato, according to private sources, is grappling with one thorny procedural problem in this process, namely, how to raise Servants of God to the altars, when, thanks largely to the work of Bugnini, altars are no longer in use…
If you don't cry you gotta laugh.
Oh, dear. Bugnini did not succeed in destroying the Church by twisting Vatican II, but he certainly tried as hard as he could.
I guess this is about what you can expect from Walter Kasper, who seems to be the worst troublemaker and heretic at the present time.
Allium Cepa news network. It’s Latin, people.
I’ll have to go re read it I guess....I took it as Kasper being particularly sarcastic against Bugnini....in a good and truthful way...
You may be right. I just took this one at face value. I think Bugnini and Kasper are both big-time troublemakers, but it remains to be seen whether this will go anywhere.
From newadvent.org
There is Scriptural warrant for such worship in the passages where we are bidden to venerate angels (Exodus 23:20 sqq.; Joshua 5:13 sqq.; Daniel 8:15 sqq.; 10:4 sqq.; Luke 2:9 sqq.; Acts 12:7 sqq.; Revelation 5:11 sqq.; 7:1 sqq.; Matthew 18:10; etc.),
Not one of these passages tells us we are to venerate angels. Not one.
We do have passages though where angels do tell us not to worship them.
Rev 22:8-9 NASB
And I, John, am the one who heard and saw these things. And when I heard and saw, I fell down to worship at the feet of the angel who showed me these things. And he said to me, "Do not do that; I am a fellow servant of yours and of your brethren the prophets and of those who heed the words of this book; worship God."
The angel understand that bowing down/falling at the feet of the angel was worshipping him and he quickly corrected John's error.
whom holy men are not unlike, as sharers of the friendship of God. And if St. Paul beseeches the brethren (Romans 15:30; 2 Corinthians 1:11; Colossians 4:3; Ephesians 6:18-19) to help him by their prayers for him to God, we must with even greater reason maintain that we can be helped by the prayers of the saints, and ask their intercession with humility. If we may beseech those who still live on earth, why not those who live in heaven?
This is a supposition based on human reason based on a false assumption as noted above.
All of the examples noted were Paul asking real people to pray...people here on earth. Our departed loved ones cannot hear us. We have no injunction or example in the New Testament to pray to our departed loved ones.
Ummm... what are you talking about? I see no reference to angels anywhere in here.
the newadvent had the veneration of angels, and of course, mary, as examples of how the catholic church has "always" venerated certain people.
I was showing the premise catholics operate under regarding veneration of angels was biblically justified was wrong....hence if this is wrong the whole concept of "beautification" is wrong as well.
Oh, you were trolling. Sorry I didn’t understand. And the word is beatified not “beautification.”
still doesn't change the message points.
Yes, they are trying everything they possibly can to convince all Catholics and the world that Vatican II was the best thing that ever happened to the Church and that this NewChurch is where it’s at, not that OldStuffyRigidTraditionalChurch.
Unfortunately most Catholics have bought into it. Only God can fix this mess and I’m guessing it won’t be pretty.
He's actually correct....if we're talking canonizations for the NewChurch.
The cause of BUGNINI!? Oh this is just too much.
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