Posted on 03/12/2018 5:53:50 PM PDT by marshmallow
Preliminary Note: Today, 12 March, Vatican News published a report that Pope emeritus Benedict XVI wrote yet another letter. In this new letter, he praises a set of new books on the theology of Pope Francis which make clear to him “that Pope Francis is a man with profound philosophical and theological formation and [which] are helpful to see the interior continuity between the two pontificates, even with all the differences in style and temperament.” [emphasis added] In light of Benedict’s recurrent support of Pope Francis, the following report might shed some more light in understanding our current Church crisis and the underlying obscuring and deleterious compromises.
During the 2015 Family Synod, Cardinal Gerhard Müller – then the Vatican’s chief of doctrine – was the key person whose approval was needed in order to receive the long-desired compromise which Pope Francis then could use for his future document Amoris Laetitia. As we at the time reported, Marco Ansaldo – Italian journalist for La Repubblica – had a source that told him that Cardinal Christoph Schönborn and Pope emeritus Benedict had met in the last week of the synod at the pope’s residence Mater Ecclesiae for a lunch meal at which the Austrian cardinal received Pope Benedict’s encouragement for a sort of compromise between Cardinals Müller and Kasper. Our recent research has given us new sources that seem to confirm this original 26 October 2015 story; but, then, we have also still received some denials. Let us start at the beginning of this new research.
Marco Ansaldo had entitled his original report on this historic meeting with the words: “Compromise on the Synod born after Ratzinger-Schönborn Lunch.” Schönborn was the moderator of the German-speaking group – which had 16 members – and was later praised for his diplomatic role.......
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Benedict either addled or compromised. There can be no other possibility.
WTF???
Benedict should be Pope, not Francis.
The Permanence of Marriage
Indissoluble by Nature:
Saint Thomas: By the intention of nature, marriage is directed to the rearing of the offspring, not merely for a time, but throughout its whole life. Hence it is of natural law that parents should lay up for their children, and that children should be their parents’ heirs (2 Corinthians 12:14). Therefore, since the offspring is the common good of husband and wife, the dictate of the natural law requires the latter to live together forever inseparably: and so the indissolubility of marriage is of natural law. (Supplement Q. 67 A. 1)
Commentary: Marriage is founded on the primary end of marriage, whence comes a naturally inseparable union. Such permanence brings about the happy result of a stable family.
“After the first death, there is no other.” - Dylan Thomas
I don’t think they will ever tell us the truth of why Benedict resigned. Benedict is healthy and lucid, and Pope John Paul before him thought it was his duty to stay in office until death.
What a rambling display of words.
On the face of it, it is no wonder Benedict XVI so recently asked for prayers on his final journey, after dealing with these sharks and hearing of this twisted, scandalous story.
I pray he hasn’t even heard this nasty rumor. He deserves peace and a little comfort. Benedict believed he was not the one to over ride these vandals, but there is sorrow that he retired, only to let in the thieves.
I don’t pretend to know why he left, but I remember that he came in with dread.
Benedict and Schonborn had lunch. Everything else in here is rumor, speculation and innuendo.
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