Posted on 08/05/2021 7:57:30 AM PDT by ebb tide
This heartfelt letter by several Italian lay people was published today in Italian daily IL FOGLIO. The laity are exhausted after 8 years of war conducted from on top: we want peace. Stop, Francis, just stop.
Holy Father,
The latest book by Andrea Riccardi, founder of Sant'Egidio and a well-known voice of the progressive Catholic world is entitled "The Church is Burning: Crisis and the Future of Christianity ”.
We have not written any books, we have not conducted any detailed analysis, but we see every day the slow fire that devours and destroys the Catholic Church in Italy and around the world.
The resignation of Benedict XVI, eight years ago, left many in desolation and others in hope. For some time there was talk of the "Bergoglio effect", alluding to a rebirth that unfortunately never took place. On the contrary! The "Church that goes forth" has remained a slogan with no real application. On the contrary, the holy city of Christianity [Rome], in the age of covid, was the first to barricade its churches, giving the world a sign of total desertion.
We have witnessed synodal journeys that have seemed like real civil wars, with maneuvers committed to guaranteeing a Soviet-style democracy, and which have led to controversial and practically completely useless documents. The churches, the confessionals, even the Vatican coffers are increasingly empty: a sign that the People of God do not recognize the voice of the shepherds.
Chinese Catholics, led by Cardinal Zen, suffer from the Vatican's agreements with the Chinese Communist dictatorship; cardinals who have been in the breach for years, alongside you, like Becciu, have ended up in economic scandals that had not been seen since Marcinkus; others, such as Caffarra, Burke, Sarah, Müller, Pell, were humiliated, silenced and ignored; still others, very close to you, have prevented the US Bishops' Conference from going deep into the pedophilia scandal...
As if this were not enough, entire conservative religious orders have been commissioned and have had to suffer persecution that was unimaginable even in the darkest times of the Holy Inquisition; even personalities of completely opposite orientation, such as Enzo Bianchi, were "mercied" overnight, with unprecedented harshness. So have bishops, priests, religious... throughout the country.
The Church today truly is a "field hospital", filled with wounded, which urgently needs not so much speeches on mercy, but true, real, concrete mercy. And peace.
Your latest provision against the so-called Latin Mass has further wreaked havoc and division, without any motivation. Why deny that which your predecessor had granted? Why humiliate a tiny flock of faithful, accusing them all in a summary way, without appeal, and -- as it appears ever more evident -- with no basis?
Thus, after 8 years the "Church is burning" as never before: it is divided and torn apart, in Italy, in China, in the United States, in Germany… as in Luther's time.
We lay people, too -- albeit freer and not subjected to the growing arbitrariness of the clerical world -- suffer from this climate that has become heavy, almost unbreathable, this now total disappearance within the Church of all healthy plurality. Mother Church seems more and more like a stepmother, imposes anathemas, excommunications, commissariats, continuously.
We therefore ask you humbly: put an end to this civil war in the Church, as a Father who looks towards the good of all his children, and not as the head of a clerical current that seems to want to use his monarchical authority to the full, often beyond the confines of canon law, in order to accomplish an ideological personal agenda.
Luigi Abeti, Tina Abbate, Francesco Agnoli, Sabrina Caporali, Teresa Di Chio, Claudio Forti, Silvia Frassinito, Giacomo Luigi Mancini, Simone Ortolani, Riccardo Rodelli, Manuela Zanzottera, Giovanni Zenone
[Source: Il Foglio, via Messa in Latino]
Ping
He doesn’t preach the Gospel.
He is a Communist, and he is doing what Communists do. His actions are consistent with a dialectical materialist worldview.
The only way for the Church to recover is to negate Vatican II and return to the 1600 year old traditions of the Church. The Latin Mass is the most devout adoration of The Christ.
To quote Pope Francis...
“Jesus, who knows us well, teaches us a secret: never let a day go by without asking forgiveness, or without restoring peace to your home.”
One must ask, has the pope only a (dictatorial) mouth, but no ears and no heart?
True, but it was past time for the laity to roar against the obvious dissolution of the Church.
The people begin to speak, more formally and more officially.
We do need ourselves, I think, to petition our own bishops and the USCCB.
On-the-record matters for lay people, as well as the power hungry Vatican.
Where are all the useless Princes of the Church (Cardinals) at? They are complicit in this!
Remove him for failing to,live up to his job Title and be done with it. He is an obvious anti-christ, there is no question at this point. The catholic church has suffered his presence in leadership long enough. Admit the mistake, and move on. Hold an emergency session, and do what needs 5o be done. Letters ain’t gonna accomplish anything.
I’m not catholic, but have watched him degrade God’s word for some time now, and it’s becoming fairly clear by observing and ,istenjng to what comes out of his heart that there is a very strong possibility that he doesn’t even know he lord, and itmis clear that he doesn’t know God’s word, and that he holds very anti-biblical beliefs, and that he will further erode and corrupt the catholic faith at the top levels if they don’t get someone who is actually, in leadership.
To the Italian laity: don’t bother writing letters. Stop donating money!
HIT your priests and bishops.
Make them feel pain.
#allwarislocal
According to a number of scholars, there are no procedures for removing him. However, as he has excommunicated himself latae sententiae, he is through his own actions no longer Catholic and no longer pope.
He is only the man Bergoglio Satanspawn.
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