‘Rigid’ Seminarians

Church Militant ^ | 6/10/21 | Rodney Pelletier

[marshmallow]

Pope Francis chides traditional-minded seminarians and priests

According to Pope Francis, "rigidity" is a bad word. For the duration of his papacy, he has browbeaten Catholics trying to follow Church law, all while giving comfort to those who hate the Church and Her rigid teachings.

The pope continued this trend in a speech he gave on Thursday to seminarians at the Pius XI seminary in Ancona, Italy. There, he called rigidity one of the "manifestations of clericalism" and "a perversion of the priesthood."

He went on to say, "When I find a seminarian or a young priest who is rigid, I say 'something bad is happening to him inside.' Behind all rigidity there is a serious problem because rigidity lacks humility."

Afterward, he offered them advice on four aspects of their seminary experience: the human, spiritual, intellectual and pastoral dimensions. He extended his definition of rigidity to include "ritualism," saying "prayer is not ritualism — the rigid end up in ritualism, always."

For Catholics, rituals are a normal part of worshiping God. In fact, God directed in the Old Testament that He be worshiped in a very specific way. That has continued throughout the life of the Church where the recitation of the Breviary and the celebration of Mass have been very ritualized. In those specific cases, it's the individual who prays along with the whole Church, rather than the individual praying on his own.

Right after that, Pope Francis offered, "May prayer be an occasion for a personal encounter with God. And if you get angry with God, do it: because getting angry with your Father is a way of communicating love."

However, such an act may be a symptom of an infantile relationship with God, where the person whines when he doesn't get everything he wants. God is.....

[ebb tide]

I noticed not one seminarian in the photo was wearing a cassock. So they can't be that rigid, can they?

Compare:

[ebb tide]

Bergoglio doesn’t want holy priests; he wants social justice warriors, aka Jesuits, like himself.

[dsc]

Stop calling that heretic “the pope.” He is not the pope.

He has excommunicated himself, latae sententiae, and is no longer even Catholic, much less the pope.

In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Lord, please save us all from the heresies of this horrible, horrible man.
Amen.

[Army Air Corps]

A Pope who loathes his own church.

[metmom]

I guess the current impopester would not approve of Jesus either.

[dsc]

“A Pope who loathes his own church.”

Again, not the pope.

[FranklinsTower]

Jesus was “rigid” to the point of death on the Cross.

[circlecity]

Bergolia is very selective in what constitutes rigidity. The parts of the gospel he agrees about he is very rigid on - love, kindness, charity, service. But to also adhere to those parts of the gospel he doesn’t like - sexual sin, abortion, qualifications of pastors, elders, deacons, etc., - somehow that constitutes some kind of wrongful rigidity. He is not being faithful to scripture. Further, there can never be a conflict between the doctrinal and the pastoral - they must always conform to each other.