Posted on 09/26/2019 5:28:47 PM PDT by marshmallow
The outspoken cardinal from Guinea speaks at length about faith, atheism, secularism, hope, liturgy, prayer, and much more in a new National Catholic Register interview.
Robert Cardinal Sarah’s new book The Day Is Now Far Spent: In conversation with Nicolas Diat is now available in English from Ignatius Press and the Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments was recently interviewed by Edward Pentin of National Catholic Register about the book. Here are some brief excerpts from that interview.
On the purpose and scope of the book: “I don’t develop personal theses or academic research. This book is the cry from my heart as a priest and a pastor.”
On the crisis of faith: “The decline of faith in the Real Presence of Jesus the Eucharist is at the heart of the current crisis of the Church and its decline, especially in the West. We bishops, priests and lay faithful are all responsible for the crisis of faith, the crisis of the Church, the priestly crisis and the de-Christianization of the West. … The profound crisis that the Church is experiencing in the world and especially in the West is the fruit of the forgetting of God. If our first concern is not God, then everything else collapses. At the root of all crises, anthropological, political, social, cultural, geopolitical, there is the forgetting of the primacy of God.”
On the priesthood and secularism: “The forgetting of God finds its first and most serious manifestation in the secularized way of life of priests. They are the first to have to carry the Good News. If their personal lives do not reflect this, then practical atheism will spread throughout the Church and society.”
On authentic freedom and civilization: “We convinced our contemporaries that in order............
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Ping
We’d sure have a better church if Sarah had been elected in 2013 instead of the Argentine tyrant. I feel guilty about this now... but before the 2013 and 2005 conclaves, various media talking heads said, “It’s time for an African pope!” and my thoughts were, “Ugh, affirmative action for the papacy, too? How ‘bout just the best guy?” The truth is, though, that any of the African cardinals would have been better than Bergoglio. It’s hard to imagine a worse man getting the gig. Hell, even an uber-liberal like Cardinal Kasper is by all accounts a more pleasant person than Bergoglio.
We are. I mean, I believe this is our first communist Pope. We’ll see how that works out.
But fortunately, The Church is bigger than any single Pope.
“Gender ideology is a Luciferic refusal to receive a sexual nature from God... Transhumanism is the ultimate avatar of this movement. Even human nature, because it is a gift from God, becomes unbearable to the Western man.”
Well, they had a good run.
The next big turning point for the Church is the rapture.
I wonder if Cardinal Sarah will be called. Tweet-Tweet!
“But fortunately, The Church is bigger than any single Pope.”
Too late. Who do you think selected the pope.
I think we’re way past it.
No
More church
Just G-d
Yep.
Don't be fooled. He is yet another wolf in sheep's clothing.
I had been waiting for this to come out and I am 70 pages into it already.
My experience with Christians from Africa, from just about any church, is that they are extremely strong in their faith.
Tested and strengthened by difficult living conditions and centuries of taking crap from Muslims.
Nope. The College of Cardinals is NOT "the Church" (i.e. the Body of Christ). The Magisterium is ultimately decided on by that Body. If it, as a whole, accepts a teaching, then said teaching is "of the magisterium", otherwise not.
Once upon a time, the Arians were a huge majority, yet the Body of Christ eventually rejected Arianism. Similarly many other heresies.
AFAIK, Bergoglio, for all his machinations, has not yet promulgated any infallible teachings...so that acceptance has not yet been tested.
College selects socialist pope who then appoints more ocialist cardinals who the select next socialist pope ...
...and the point you are making is one of the points that Robert Cardinal Sarah is making in this tome he has written encapsulating his cry of outrage for the direction of all the Christian world. He lambasts the tendency for politicalization, relativism and all the rest of the secularization of all Christian groups who are being subverted.
It is like reading Ratzinger before he became Benedict. This is one the “good guys” that even those conservatives outside the RC Church can find some common ground with in battling the secular decay.
I suspect the Arians had the same overconfidence. God has a way of tossing unexpected happenings in the way of the best-laid plans. I await developments.
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