Posted on 04/16/2018 6:46:53 PM PDT by marshmallow
April 11, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – Pope Saint John Paul II forewarned decades ago that priests, and indeed the Catholic Church herself, would pay a "high price" on account of remaining faithful to the Church’s perennial teaching on marriage and procreation.
The late pontiff said as well it would be a “very serious mistake” to presume that Catholic teaching on marriage is but an “ideal” in need of modification.
In his March 1984 address to Priests participating in a Seminar on “Responsible Procreation,” John Paul II spoke twice about the fact that men and women are entirely capable of grasping the Church’s teaching on marriage.
“Make no mistake: when your teaching is faithful to the Magisterium of the Church, you are not teaching something that men and women cannot understand. Even men and women today. Indeed, this teaching which you make resound in their ears is already written in their heart,” he said.
This teaching comes 32 years prior to Pope Francis’ suggestion that Catholic teaching on marriage is an “ideal” that is “too abstract, almost artificially constructed.” Critics have noted that Pope Francis’ 2016 exhortation Amoris Laetitia is pervaded by the notion that the Church’s teaching on marriage presents what the Pope calls an “artificial theological ideal” that is to be aimed at, rather than a reality that is binding on all.
Pope Francis’ teachings on marriage have caused numerous bishops and cardinals to champion practices contrary to Catholic teaching, such as welcoming so-called “second” marriages, supporting sexual activity (adultery) in such unions, and allowing such couples to receive Holy Communion.
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Neither my wife, nor I, could marry someone divorced, due to our convictions, shared with the Catholic church.
Dr. Richard Land, a Baptist theologian said about JPII: “Now, there’s a pope who knows how to pope.”
Is the pope Catholic?
How can the teaching of Jesus be an ‘artificial theological ideal’?
My Pope is a heretic.
St. JP2 worked hard for many years to teach and uphold the sanctity of life and marriage
(partly, but not completely, collected in his “Theology of the Body” book)
now?
John Paul II was a truly good man.
“[St Pope John Paul II] responded by referring ‘to the beginning,’ i.e., to the Creator’s original plan for marriage”
A great theological argument in modernity is whether God has unlimited power, such that He can change His plan at His will. True Catholics and Orthodox (and I think many Protestants?) argue that He could, but He chose and chooses not to. Scripture spells out His plan, in accord with human nature and His love for us.
(This, by the way, is one reason why Allah is not nearly the same God we worship.)
I agree. You should each find a nice single person to marry.
Wait. You shouldn't do that, either.
When will we ever learn?
Ironically, it was Pope John II, who had elevated Bergoglio, Kasper (Bergoglio’s theologian), and Schönborn (Bergoglio’s spokesman for Amoris Laetitia and its wink at adultery) all to the college of cardinals.
Correction: Pope St. John Paul II.
Pope Benedict said, quite correctly, that sticking to this teaching would result in a “smaller, poorer, Holier” Church.
The majority of Cardinals resoundingly rejected that.
Hence he was shown the door.
You don’t need a Vatican Weatherman to know which way
the wind blows.
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