Posted on 05/02/2021 11:17:45 AM PDT by ebb tide
On one hand, Francis plays "humble" and "bishop of Rome" but on the other hand, he is turning himself into a great dictator who treats the rest of the bishops as if they were his altar boys.
Francis' most recent coup is an April 30 Motu Proprio allowing bishops and cardinals to stand trial before the Vatican's civil and lay-dominated court.
Until now, the Apostolic Signature, composed of prelates, was allowed to judge such cases. The new motu proprio came in the wake of the Vatican's financial scandals for which Francis himself is responsible because he botched the Vatican financial reform.
Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò notices in a May 1 comment that the new norms promote a “tyrannical centralisation of power” while Francis gives the impression of "democracy," "collegiality," and "involvement of the laity."
By subjecting prelates to a lay tribunal appointed by Francis and depending on him, he takes away competences from other bishops and concentrates them it in his own hand, Viganò analyses.
This move will allow him to punish or absolve "whoever he wants at will, ensuring the subservience of courtiers and promoting a curia of flatterers."
Ping
Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?
The guy is a secular, tyrannical fraud.
Tune in next week when Francis announces St. Peter’s Basilica will be converted to a lending institution and flea market.
Hey, donations have gotten thin.
AHA. The Cardinals are Free Men, but the Pope is a Totalitarian.
This will not end well. The Medici Popes did not end well either.History is forgotten.
Soon the knives will come out.
Please, dear Lord, remove this heretic, and send us a good and faithful shepherd.
Like all Leftnicks, if you don’t get your way, get it through the courts. It’s justice through tyranny.
I have a feeling that the Lord Himself is gonna want to do the honors.
you mean troublesome
I think God, via the Bible, has something to say about this -
1 Cor 6:
1Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unrighteous, and not before the saints?
2Do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world will be judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters?
3Do you not know that we shall judge angels? How much more, things that pertain to this life?
4If then you have [a]judgments concerning things pertaining to this life, do you appoint those who are least esteemed by the church to judge?
5I say this to your shame. Is it so, that there is not a wise man among you, not even one, who will be able to judge between his brethren?
6But brother goes to law against brother, and that before unbelievers!
7Now therefore, it is already an utter failure for you that you go to law against one another. Why do you not rather accept wrong? Why do you not rather let yourselves be cheated?
8No, you yourselves do wrong and cheat, and you do these things to your brethren!
9Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor [b]homosexuals, nor [c]sodomites,
10nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God.
11And such were some of you. But you were washed, but you were [d]sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God.
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