Posted on 12/21/2020 6:12:24 PM PST by marshmallow
Those who resist the novelties of the crisis in the Church are condemned to be 'alone' and 'sterile', he said
VATICAN CITY, December 21, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) — Pope Francis has renewed his attack on members of Vatican bureaucracy who object to the theological novelties being forced on the Church. Some of the novelties arising in the crisis, he said, come from the Holy Spirit.
In his annual Christmas greeting to the Curia, the 84-year-old Argentinian pontiff said today that the crisis in the Church “is a necessary moment.” Crises should not be confused with conflicts, he stated.
“Crisis generally has a positive outcome, whereas conflict always creates discord and competition, an apparently irreconcilable antagonism that separates others into friends to love and enemies to fight. In such a situation, only one side can win,” Pope Francis said. (Official English translation here.)
The pontiff said that “conflict” seeks to divide people into the “guilty” and the “righteous,” leading to a loss of the sense of “common belonging”, the growth of “certain elitist attitudes” and “‘cliques’ that permit narrow and partial mindsets, which weaken the universality of our mission.”
Pope Francis emphasized that crisis is normal, whereas conflict is bad.
“When the Church is viewed in terms of conflict—right versus left, progressive versus traditional—she becomes fragmented and polarized, distorting and betraying her real true nature. She is […] a body perennially in crisis, precisely because [the body] is alive. She must never become a body in conflict, with victors and vanquished,” he said.
“For in this way she would spread apprehension, become more rigid and less synodal, and impose a uniformity far removed from the riches and plurality that the Spirit has bestowed to His Church.”
The pontiff then stated that the Holy Spirit is introducing “novelties” (or, in the official....
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bwahaha!!
This clown created the “crisis.”
He needs to be sent to an isolated monastery.
In Tierra Del Fuego.
““Crisis generally has a positive outcome,”
Right out of Marx and his dialectic. I never thought I’d see a marxist pope who loves islam and celebrates homos and trannies and pagan idols from South America. Pray for our Catholic brothers that they will not labor under this fool much longer.
More convinced than ever that the ImPopester is a minion of Satan.
Don’t you worry your pretty little head about that. There’s plenty of Fuego in the Tierra where he’s headed.
A “spirit” may be introducing “novelties”, but it ain’t the Holy Spirit.
There are two things the world deserves to know.
1, Just why Benedict XVI resigned (or was forced to resign).
2. Just how Joe Biden stole the 2020 election.
But the powers that be will never tell. We will never learn the real truth.
IMHO, the problem for those who claim to be guided by the Holy Spirit is reconciling their claims with John 1:1. The Holy Spirit is not going to change what the Bible says.
I want someone to show him how much church attendance of Catholics has declined since he became Pope.
I think a prison would be more appropriate.
:)
Barf Alert Ping
Wait! I have never seen Ben’s head, but I am betting it’s neither pretty nor little.
I’m sure that back in the day “inconvenient “ Popes occasionally had a pillow held over their face.
September 28, 1978.
Bergoglio is not the pope.
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