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Posted on 02/01/2017 6:49:28 PM PST by ebb tide
In another in a long stream of apparent attacks on his critics, Pope Francis gave a homily last week accusing Christians who avoid taking risks out of concern for the Ten Commandments as suffering from “cowardliness,” warning that such people become “paralyzed” and unable to “go forward.”
“‘Not taking risks, please, no... prudence...Obeying all the commandments, all of them...,'” the pope said, characterizing the thinking of such Christians. “Yes, it’s true, but this paralyzes you too, it makes you forget so many graces received, it takes away memory, it takes away hope, because it doesn’t allow you to go forward.”
Such people become “confined souls” who suffer from the sin of “cowardice,” the pope added. “And the presen[ce] of a Christian, of such a Christian, is like when one goes along the street and an unexpected rain comes, and the garment is not so good and the fabric shrinks...Confined souls...This is cowardliness: this is the sin against memory, courage, patience, and hope.”
The remarks were made during a homily delivered on January 27th during a mass he was celebrating in Casa Santa Marta, a hotel for pilgrims situated inside of Vatican City where he currently resides. A translation was provided by both Rome Reports and Vatican Radio (the Rome Reports translation is quoted above).
The translation published by Vatican Radio rendered the Italian word “pusillanimità” (similar to the English word “pusillanimity”) as “faintheartedness.” However, Italian-English dictionaries translate the word “pusillanime” and “pusillanimità” as “cowardly” and “cowardice.” The pope used the word twice during his homily.
The pope’s remarks appeared to be directed against those who criticize him for using Amoris Laetitia to permit those who are living in adulterous second “marriages” to receive Holy Communion at the discretion of their priest. The practice contradicts the Church’s Code of Canon Law, as well as its perennial tradition of prohibiting the sacraments to those who are living in public mortal sin.
In particular, Athanasius Schneider, auxiliary bishop of Astana, Kazakhstan, recently decried those clerics who wish to give Holy Communion to remarried Catholics living in adultery. He labeled them “Aaronic” priests who enable their flock to sin against the Ten Commandments, like the High Priest Aaron in the Book of Exodus, who built a golden calf to allow the Israelites to violate the first commandment.
In a thinly-veiled critique of Pope Francis’ Amoris Laetitia, delivered at the Lepanto Foundation in Rome, Schneider warned: “This first clerical sin is repeating itself today in the life of the Church.” He added, “Instead of the First Commandment, as it was in the time of Aaron, many clerics, even at the highest levels, substitute in our day, for the Sixth Commandment, the new idol of sexual relations between people who are not validly married, which is, in a certain sense, the Golden Calf venerated by the clerics of our day.”
The pope’s statements are the latest in a volley of barbs apparently aimed at critics of Amoris Laetitia in recent weeks.
In late December, addressing the issue of resistance to his attempted reforms, Francis decried “malicious resistance” that “takes refuge in traditions, appearances, formalities, in the familiar, or else in a desire to make everything personal, failing to distinguish between the act, the actor, and the action.” The last reference seems to be to those who object to his insinuation in Amoris Laetitia that those civilly remarried and living in an adulterous relationship are not guilty of a sin if they commit it with the intention of maintaining unity for the sake of children, or if they fear they might fall into another sin.
On January 20 Francis complained in a homily about “lazy Christians, Christians, who do not have the will to continue, Christians, who do not struggle for a change of things, for new things to come, those that if changed would be a good for everybody.” He made an apparent comparison of his critics to “the doctors of the law who persecuted Jesus,” observing that “these men did everything prescribed by the law. But their mindset was distanced from God. Theirs was an egotistical mindset, focused on themselves: their hearts constantly condemned [others].”
ANAXIOS!
“The matrimonial duty is never performed without sin", Martin Luther.
You have been corrected multiple times re: your using of the ‘sin boldly’ misquote, and you have yet to correct it; in fact you used it again just this thread AFTER it was shown that you took it out of context in order to make it mean something different than it meant.
That’s a lie my friend.
YOU. ARE. A. LIAR. An unrepentant liar.
Why should I believe anything you say? You’ve proven utterly untrustworthy to do anything except lie and accuse.
You know, like the liar from the beginning, the Accuser, SATAN.
Oh joy, more quotes taken out of context to mean the opposite of the intent.
In other words, lies.
Just like you always post. Lies.
Just like your daddy.
That’s a very nice Scripture verse.
Now how about you tell me why St. Mark is so great and St. Matthew should be thrown out? They’re both in Scripture.
Oh, right. Because you don’t care about making sense; you only care about spreading falsehood.
This is what I quoted of Luther, ""Be a sinner, and let your sins be strong"?
Don't lie about by my quotes of yours and Lucifer's hero.
Like most prots, you are a cherry picker. Did you know yours and Lucifer’s hero, excised entire books out of the Bible?
How old are you? Ten or eleven?
Hey, you were the one who called me demon-possessed first.
Whassamatter baby, can’t take what you dish out?
By the way, yes. Yes, you intentionally cherry-picked a quote yet again, and that’s THREE times that you’ve done so, twice on this very thread.
You are a liar, just like your father, the devil.
Like most prots, you are a cherry picker. Did you know yours and Lucifer’s hero, excised entire books out of the Bible?
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Pffft. Says the unrepentant liar who constantly cherry-picks Luther’s writing.
And yes. I know that Catholics have extra books in their Bible. So? The books in question had always been in question until you Papists needed something to bash Protestants with, and they were still praised as useful for study and instruction anyways.
But you don’t care about truth. You care about justifying your lies.
I never called you a demon or demon-possesed. I just demonstrated that you are you are in good company with them.
You have been bearing false witness.
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Never thought a pope was anyone to listen to, but preaching that it is cowardly to obey God?
Put him in the booby hatch.
How old are you? Ten or eleven?
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This coming from the whiny little liar who claimed that I was possessed by the devil and who intentionally cherry-picked Luther quotes to make them the opposite of what the man believed. And kept doing so after being corrected three times, twice on this very thread.
If that’s not a definition of a liar, I don’t know what is.
And unrepentant.
You know what the good Lord says about unrepentant sinners, right? You DO follow the commandment against bearing false witness, right?
Ha ha ha.
You whine at me because you directly told me that my words were coming from the devil and I take it to its logical conclusion.
Meanwhile, you still haven’t apologized for your intentional cherry-picking of quotes and your unfounded accusations at me.
When I lie; I’ll apologize to you.
It is you who has been bearing false witness against me.
Yes, yes, we’re all frightfully impressed with your ability to swallow moronic talking points and regurgitate them like the good little snowflake that your Papist masters have made you into.
What next?
“Luther got MARRIED!” Yeah, so? And your so-holy Catholics were running whorehouses specifically for priests.
Gonna claim that Lucifer is using my fingers again?
Or maybe you’ll just quote that ‘sin boldly’ line again and prove that you’re either an idiot or a liar.
I know how this will go, so let’s just get to the part where you look like an easily-angered idiot to everyone but yourself and I get bored with your expert argumentum ad nauseum skills and ditch you until next time you spew stupid talking points and I get to call you out on your intentional, unrepentant lies again.
Buh-bye, Princess.
On the contrary, it has been you who has been easily angered with such ad hominems as "idiot", "princess", "liar", "baby", "little man", etc.
You appear to have the temperament of a ten-year old.
I have no idea what you and Lucifer are using your fingers for and I'd rather not hear the details.
Why have you been posting on Catholic Caucus threads? The caucus does not include apostates.
Should I be beheaded?
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