I was just in Silos last week, and it’s quite orthodox. However, the orthodox places are under the gun, and unless they go out and pledge allegiance to Pope Francis, who is of 100% Italian blood and “Latin American” only because he was born there to Italian immigrant parents, they will be in trouble.
Francis seems to hate Spain, btw, and his stunning refusal to attend the commemoration of the 500th anniversary of the birth of St Teresa de Avila has really upset all of Spain. I would have thought he’d have wanted to go - important foundress, first woman Doctor of the Church, etc. But I guess his hatred for Spain, which loved BXVI, got the better of him.
Life Site News ^ | May 22, 2015 | Fr. Linus Clovis
The Francis Effect is disarming and silencing of Catholic bishops, priests, and laity. Holding firm to Catholic doctrine and practice seems like an act of disloyalty to the pope, yet to acquiesce is to betray the Church.
The fact that the Church’s traditional enemies approve highly of him raises concerns, not least because of the Lord’s warning that “If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you. If you were of the world, the world would love its own...
Melchior Cano, a Spanish theologian at the Council of Trent, warned against obsequiousness regarding the pope: “Now it can be said briefly that those who defend blindly and indiscriminately any judgment whatsoever of the Supreme Pontiff concerning every matter weaken the authority of the Apostolic See; they do not support it; they subvert it; they do not fortify it. … Peter has no need of our lies; he has no need of our adulation.”
In our time, the 1983 Code of Canon Law also recognizes the right of the faithful in this regard where it states that “according to the knowledge, competence, and prestige which they possess… the faithful have the right and even at times the duty to manifest to the sacred pastors their opinion on matters which pertain to the good of the Church and to make their opinion known to the rest of the Christian faithful…” (§ 212:3).
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No big deal, as long as he doesn't snub Martin Luther.