Posted on 12/27/2020 2:58:20 PM PST by ebb tide
Shortly before Christmas, Pope Francis delivered a speech to Vatican officials in which he decried “conflict” within the Church. It was an odd theme for a pope who routinely sows such conflict. Naturally, he didn’t mention his own role in fostering division. Instead, he appeared to equate “conflict” with resistance to his subversive agenda.
He said,
When the Church is viewed in terms of conflict — right versus left, progressive versus traditionalist — she becomes fragmented and polarized, distorting and betraying her true nature. She is, on the other hand, a body in continual crisis, precisely because she is alive. She must never become a body in conflict, with winners and losers, for in this way she would spread apprehension, become more rigid and less synodal, and impose a uniformity far removed from the richness and plurality that the Spirit has bestowed on his Church.
In other words, stop opposing my changes to Church teaching and practice. What he diagnoses as unhealthy is in fact a commendable opposition by the faithful to his dismaying and divisive pontificate. The Church would grow weaker, not stronger, if that opposition disappeared.
To the extent that the Church is “betraying her true nature,” that is due to the pope’s own flirtations with heterodoxy and his reduction of Catholic teaching to left-wing politics.
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Ping
Purge ALL Stalinazis, Satanists and Sodomites out of the Church.
Never trust a Jesuit
If anybody needed a gag order . . . .
Don’t forget papal imposters!
I covered all 3 with that.
I thought he was leaving.
This particular pope happens to be very RED.
This “pope” needs to look up to see a gutter.
OTOH, he’s serving his purpose: Kill off what’s left of the Catholic Church.
We need to start calling him “the Pimp”!
“The Pimple” on the ass of Catholics.
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