Posted on 06/26/2021 5:56:18 AM PDT by ebb tide
June 25, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) – Pope Francis used his general audience this week to denigrate online preachers who are “rigid” and who seek “solutions to the crises of today” in the past, while again choosing to say nothing about the ongoing persecution of Christians and others by the Chinese communist government.
Drawing from St. Paul’s Letter to the Galatians, the Pope seemed to be accusing conservative and traditionalist Catholics of being in league with the Evil One and of being no different from those who sowed discord and mistrust by demanding that the new Christians in Galatia subject themselves to Mosaic Law.
“At General Audience Pope Francis berates ‘preachers, especially through the new means of communication’ who present themselves ‘as true guardians of the truth; strongly affirm that the true Christianity is the one they adhere to, often identified with certain forms of the past,’” noted a Tweet by Catholic Sat.
At General Audience Pope Francis berates "preachers, especially through the new means of communication" who present themselves "as true 'guardians of the truth'; strongly affirm that the true Christianity is the one they adhere to, often identified with certain forms of the past" pic.twitter.com/caPmssi7Kz
— Catholic Sat (@CatholicSat) June 23, 2021
“These opponents of Paul argued that even the Gentiles had to be circumcised and live according to the rules of the Mosaic Law,” said the Pope. “They went back to the previous observances, those that had been superseded by the Gospel. The Galatians, therefore, would have had to renounce their cultural identity in order to submit to the norms, prescriptions and customs typical of the Jews.
“It is precisely the way of the evil one, of these people who divide, who do not know how to build,” he said.
“Today too there is no shortage of preachers who, especially through the new means of communication, can disturb communities,” continued Pope Francis. “They present themselves not primarily to announce the Gospel of God who loves man in Jesus, Crucified and Risen, but to insist, as true ‘keepers of the truth’ – so they call themselves – on the best way to be Christians.”
“They strongly affirm that the true Christianity is the one they adhere to, often identified with certain forms of the past, and that the solution to the crises of today is to go back so as not to lose the genuineness of the faith,” he said. “There is a temptation to close oneself up in some of the certainties acquired in past traditions.”
This new breed of online preachers “do not know what humility is, what fraternity is,” claimed the Pope. “The new preachers know neither meekness nor obedience.”
“Apparently the Vatican has received a new shipment of Straw Men recently,” quipped Crisis magazine Editor-in-Chief Eric Sammons, in response to the Pope’s remarks.
Apparently the Vatican has received a new shipment of Straw Men recently. https://t.co/eccjPmJhPM — Eric Sammons (@EricRSammons) June 24, 2021
Pope Francis’ berating of conservative Catholics in the free world stands in stark contrast to his continued refusal to comment on the Chinese Communist Party’s recent arrests of a Vatican-appointed bishop, seven priests, and a number of seminarians.
“Police arrested 63-year-old Bishop Joseph Zhang Weizhu of Xinxiang Diocese in Henan province on May 21, a day after they detained the priests and seminarians for allegedly violating the country’s repressive new regulations on religious affairs,” reported ucanews.com, an outlet which covers Catholic Asian news.
“Francis has been such a scandal on the most important issues of our age,” declared Jason Jones, a Catholic film producer, author, activist, and human rights worker defending the world’s most vulnerable.
“He was silent on the genocide of the oldest Christian communities in the world in Iraq and Syria,” said Jones. “He was silent when, in the middle of the greatest genocide since the holocaust, three million ethnic Uighurs in concentration camps were being killed and having their organs harvested.”
“He was silent when a prominent Catholic layman, Jimmy Lai was arrested, and now that we have Bishop Zhang, his priests, and seminarians sent off to be reeducated, tortured, and God knows what, he’s silent,” he continued. “His silence is deafening, and it’s one of the greatest scandals in Church history.”
“But because the silence is deafening, and because the scandal —the stumbling block— is so great, it gives us an opportunity to amplify as Catholic laymen our voices for the vulnerable,” emphasized Jones. “We need to stand on the stumbling block and make it a stepping stone for the Uighur, for the Christians of China, for Jimmy Lai, for Bishop Zhang and his priests and seminarians.”
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This Pope is a real dope.
The Poope is going to make a major swan dive into the Lake of Fire.
Pope Francis should be called The Great Equivocator. One has to admit, Francis is a very clever man.
So is the Devil. Figures.
Really bad move to have an agnostic as Pope.
Either the Bible is the word of the Lord, or it is not. Which is it Francis the fake pope?
The pope is a poof.
Their is no higher power than marxism for a marxist.
So modern problems require modern solutions, is basically what he is saying. Well, the issue I have with that is that when it comes to spirituality, there are no “modern problems”. We’ve got the exact same problems that we had the moment we got booted out of Eden.
Yet we are led to believe that he is adored by 82% of Catholics... NOT MY POPE!!!!
I follow Catholicism not “Marxist Liberation Theology”!!!!!!!
Same here. I am really adrift right now, because my ‘usual’ Church is infested with communist ideology. I refer to Francis as Pope Commie, and it irritates many of my friends.
I miss God’s Rottweiler, Benedict. He’s MY Pope.
AMEN!
But wasn’t Jesus kind of a rigid teacher, and isn’t Mr. Francis criticizing him, from whom he claims to get his authority and apart from whom he has none?
Examples of rigid teaching from Jesus, the Christ, the son of God, to whom God bare witness through signs, wonders and fulfillment of prophecy (none of which Mr. Francis has going for him) -
John 14
6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
Matthew 5
33 ¶ Again, ye have heard that it hath been said by them of old time, Thou shalt not forswear thyself, but shalt perform unto the Lord thine oaths:
34 But I say unto you, Swear not at all; neither by heaven; for it is God’s throne:
35 Nor by the earth; for it is his footstool: neither by Jerusalem; for it is the city of the great King.
36 Neither shalt thou swear by thy head, because thou canst not make one hair white or black.
37 But let your communication be, Yea, yea; Nay, nay: for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil.
Matthew 19
8 He saith unto them, Moses because of the hardness of your hearts suffered you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it was not so.
9 And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery.
10 His disciples say unto him, If the case of the man be so with his wife, it is not good to marry.
11 But he said unto them, All men cannot receive this saying, save they to whom it is given.
12 For there are some eunuchs, which were so born from their mother’s womb: and there are some eunuchs, which were made eunuchs of men: and there be eunuchs, which have made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven’s sake. He that is able to receive it, let him receive it.
...and as they say in sales, much, much more!
Fire Francis.
> ...a major swan dive into the Lake of Fire.
Interesting imagery. :-)
Good point: that is because truth is eternal.
9 (For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth;)
[Spiritual things are eternal, physical things are temporal:
2Cor 4:18 While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.]
I think Christ was fairly rigid in His belief. Down right intolorant in spots...
Exactly. Does this pope believe the truth that the word of God is eternal and unchanging? Or, does he believe the heresy that word of God evolves over time?
If he believes the truth, then there should be no differences between beliefs of traditional and modern Catholics.
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