Posted on 07/01/2017 4:43:01 AM PDT by BlessedBeGod
...In a statement issued at noon today, the Vatican said the Holy Father “thanked the Most Eminent Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Müller at the end of his five-year mandate as prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, as president of the Pontifical Commission ‘Ecclesia Dei’, and the Pontifical Biblical Commission and the International Theological Commission...”
There was no announcement of a new appointment for the German cardinal.
...rare for a cardinal prefect not to have his mandate renewed...
Born...on the island of Majorca, Spain, Archbishop Ladaria is known to be a kind, affable and theologically conservative prelate who has a special interest in patristics, the branch of theology that deals with the lives, writings, and doctrines of the early Christian theologians...
He also said does not like “extremisms, either progressive, or traditionalist ones” but believes “there is a via media” which is the “correct path to take, even if each of us has his own peculiarities, because, thanks be to God, we do not repeat, we are not clones.”
In the same interview, he underlined the role of the CDF which is first about “promoting and then, if necessary, protecting” the faith. He added that the Congregation “always moves with discretion and speaks exclusively through its acts.”
The Spanish prelate has publicly said little, if anything, about the Pope’s apostolic exhortation Amoris Laetitia... How he will deal with the thorny issue of interpreting the document is therefore unclear, but as a Jesuit and given his personality, he is expected to take a less disputed position than that of his predecessor...
Having a Jesuit in charge may help bring it in from the cold, but some will feel uneasy about having two members of the Society of Jesus holding the two most senior positions in the Church...
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I can call you anything I choose. The fact that you disrespect the head of the Catholic Church makes you Anti-Catholic in my eyes.
I believe that the Catholic Church is guided by The Holy Spirit. The Lord has seen fit to entrust the leadership of His Church to His vicar on earth, who happens to be Pope Francis. That some here take umbrage to that fact is too bad.
It would be hypocritical to respect a heretic.
Enjoy your bile. I am perfectly happy in my vocation.
So you agree with Bergoglio and his gang of heretics on giving Holy Communion to adulterers?
Very interesting. And look who’s calling others “Anti-Catholic”!
You don’t seem to be happy. You appear to be very angry.
Why are you sure?
Did I ever claim to have one? Does Bergoglio have one? Do you have one?
A doctorate in Theology? No, but I have a Master's in Theology from the Washington Theological Union, why do you ask?
Ah, I love that comeback. So someone who is passionate about defending The Catholic Church is deemed "angry". Cute.
You keep falling on that single line of argument. That's rather Obsessive-Compulsive of you. As I said above, I believe in the Holy Catholic Church and the Magisterium.
Very interesting. And look who’s calling others “Anti-Catholic”!
LOL! OCD and Projection!
What did they teach you at the Washington Theological Union?
Papalotry?
Apparently, not as passionate as I am. I have repeatedly stated my position on the heresy of giving Holy Communion to adulterers while you refuse to give yours.
When the Catholic Church is run by the Angels in Heaven, get back to me. Until then, I am not interested in your complaints.
So you do condone Holy Communion to adulterers?
If you are so disgusted by the Catholic Church, I'm sure there's a nice little Bible church down the road that will welcome you.
So you’re answer is, “Yes”?
No thanks. I attend Mass at an FSSP church. I’m quite satisfied.
We pray for the Pope, we pray for the Church, we pray for its leaders.
Why won't you?
Teresa Martin, an adolescent, shut her prayer book at the end of Mass, and suddenly she saw an image of Crucified Jesus on the margin: it was only the nailed hand of Jesus, and the drops of wine seemed to fall into emptiness…
Later on she told how much sorrow she had experienced in that moment, «at the thought that blood had fallen on the ground and nobody had paid any attention about collecting it…», and that was when she promised to spend her life at the foot of the Cross to collect the precious blood of Christ and give it to souls.
Thus began the ecclesial mission of Theresa of Lisieux.
However, there is a very interesting note, which she added to this episode: « Even the cry of Jesus on the Cross continuously echoed in my heart: «I am thirsty!» These words aroused in me a very strong burning never experienced before…I wanted to give my Lover to drink and I myself felt devoured by the thirst of souls. These were not yet the souls of priests who drew my attention, but the ones of great sinners – I was burning with the wish to pull them away from those eternal flames…» (Ms A. 45v).
When Theresa was about fourteen years of age, she thought of the great sinners, and implored for the salvation of a well-known criminal who was about to be hung.
She was not even thinking of priests at that time, because she was absolutely convinced of their holiness.
We know that as a child she simply identified them with Jesus.
Writing about her first confession, she said:
«Beloved Mother, how careful you were in preparing me by saying that I was telling my sins not to a man, but to the good Lord. I was really convinced of this. Hence I said my confession with a strong spirit of faith and even asked you whether I should say to Don Ducellier that I loved him with all my heart since I was talking to the good Lord through his person…» (Ms A 16v).
But when she took part in the pilgrimage to Rome organised by the dioceses of Coutances and Bayeux (one hundred and ninety-five pilgrims of whom seventy-three priests), her apostolic anxieties began to turn in particular towards priests.
She explained that change by simply saying the following:
«Praying for sinners fascinated me, but praying for the souls of priests, whom I thought were purer than crystal, seemed strange to me! Ah! I understood my vocation in Italy: it was not going too far to have such useful knowledge… I lived with many holy priests for one month and understood that, if their sublime dignity lifts them above the angels, this does not mean that they are not weak and fragile. If holy priests, whom Jesus calls in His Gospel «Salt of the Earth» show by their behaviour great need for prayer, then what must one say about the ones who are lukewarm? Did Jesus not also say: «If the salt lost its taste, what could one use to make it salty?» Oh Mother! How beautiful is the vocation to preserve that salt destined for souls! This is the vocation of Carmel, because the only purpose of our prayers and our sacrifices is to be an apostle of the apostles, to pray for them whilst they evangelise souls by words and above all by example…» (Ms A 56r).
Hence something deeply struck her during the pilgrimage: if even the most «holy» priests did not hide their weakness and fragility, and «showed by their behaviour to have great need of prayer»…Then what happened to the «lukewarm» people who spoilt «the salt destined for souls»? The question did not scandalise that young maiden who was going to Rome to ask Pope Leo XIII the grace to be able to enter the Carmelites at eighteen years of age. On the contrary: she threw a dazzling light on her vocation which so many people considered too immature. «Not having ever lived intimately [with priests]» – explained St. Theresa – «I could not understand the main purpose of the reform of the Carmelites». However, during that journey towards the centre of Christianity, those priests who so clearly needed prayer and contemplation made Theresa feel she was called to become «an apostle of the apostles». She was not yet fifteen years of age. And she was not yet seventeen when, from the Carmelites, she wrote greetings for 1889 to her sister with these words: «Celine, in this new year we must create many priests («que nous fassions beaucoup de prêtres…»)who know how to love Jesus» (LT 101). Hence at the right time she did not hesitate: «What I came to do at the Carmelites, I declared this at the foot of Jesus the Holy Host, at the examination which preceded my profession: «I came to save souls, and above all to pray for priests»…» (Ms A 69).
I pray for this wayward pope every night. He needs them very badly.
You seem woefully ignorant of the writings of the Saints regarding priests and the consecrated life. I posted an excerpt of St. Therese of Lisieux. She learned a valuable lesson that they need prayers dearly.
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