Posted on 03/01/2018 12:18:57 PM PST by ebb tide
In a document for bishops published on Thursday, the Vatican has drawn attention to cultural changes and new ways of thinking which can be obstacles to salvation.
Entitled Placuit Deo (In His Goodness), signed by Archbishop Luis Ladaria, S.J., prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and approved by Pope Francis, the Letter is intended to “demonstrate certain aspects of Christian salvation that can be difficult to understand” in today’s culture.
It centers on neo-Pelagianism and neo-Gnosticism, which the document asserts are two contemporary schools of thought, rooted in the past heresies of Pelagianism and Gnosticism, and which have often been mentioned in speeches and homilies of Pope Francis.
(Excerpt) Read more at ncregister.com ...
Asked to give concrete examples of neo-Pelagianism and neo-Gnosticism, the CDF prefect pointed to references to the two tendencies made by Pope Francis, but he did not wish to “point fingers,” just to “point out these tendencies” to “self-reliance and to isolation.”
The only people whom Bergoglio has referred to as "neo-Pelegians" are those traditional Catholics, who observe the Ten Commandments, and try their to keep them as best at they can, and reject his heresies.
... yep ...
... uh huh ....
Because these are the kinds of words I want my Steward to say in public ....
¡ Hagan Lio !
From link provided:
The thoughtful reader will notice, however, that what lurks behind this unprecedented insult of observant Catholics by a Pope is the accuser’s own neo-Pelagianism.
The essence of the heresy of Pelagius is an emphasis on the primacy of human effort in salvation, with divine grace providing mere assistance to what man is capable of accomplishing on his own, as if his nature were not wounded by Original Sin.
It is implicitly Pelagian to reduce what the Church has passed down through the centuries in her teaching and worship to merely “certain rules” and “a particular Catholic style from the past,” as if the ensemble of ecclesiastical and apostolic traditions, a work of the Holy Ghost, were merely the collective result of human effort whose elements could be discarded willy-nilly in favor of a new human effort and a new “Catholic style.”
The last paragraph was direct, concise, logical, and brilliantly worded.
Good post!
‘in all this time, no one has been able to nail down what Francis Bergoglio means by his favourite insults, including, “Promethean neo-Pelagian” and “Gnostic”. [...] In all the shouting in the time since the advent of Amoris Laetitia and the New Bergoglian Paradigm, what has rarely been understood is that it is the shouting, the disorder and confusion, that is the point. The fact that everyone is being distracted by the arguing and squabbling is a great deal more important than the substance of the arguments. It’s well documented that Bergoglio is a divide-and-conquer governor, creating rivalries and enmity, factions and divisions, very often through his use of his own private language. [...] This is a pope who has clearly taken the advice of Mao who laughed at the insistence of western politicians that words must have meaning. Bergoglio’s methodology is clearly Maoist in that sense: “We will conquer the world because you fools think that words are labels that are properly or improperly pasted onto things. We know that words are little dynamite sticks in people’s minds and we hold the fuse.”’ - https://remnantnewspaper.com/web/index.php/fetzen-fliegen/item/3760-breaking-now-in-rome-ladaria-the-silent-speaks-defines-promethean-neo-pelagian-and-other-papal-insults
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