Posted on 01/22/2022 5:38:39 PM PST by ebb tide
Mass of Reparation, celebrated in response to clerical abuse revelations in 2018.
Cross-posted on LMS Chairman.
Hence, writes Bergoglio, “we could say that while sin is forgiven, corruption cannot be forgiven,” for at the root of corruption is a refusal of God’s forgiveness. The corrupted person or organization sees no need of repentance, and their sense of self-sufficiency gradually comes to be regarded as natural and normal.
Conversely, the sinner—even when not ready to repent—knows that he is a sinner and yearns to throw himself on God’s mercy. This is the key distinction: the sinner remains, however obscurely and unconsciously, open to grace, while the corrupt deny that they sin. Enclosed by their pride, they shut out the possibility of grace.
“We are ready to convert if party spirit or pride has polluted our hearts.” Why if and may? Isn’t “party spirit and pride” one thing traditionalism has become famous for?
Rosary Crusade of Reparation in London
It (adultery) is like the sin of someone born into a schismatic ecclesial group, a Lutheran, say, who can't be blamed for being a Lutheran ( or an adulterer) unless and until he realises that Lutheranism (or adultery) is wrong and he ought to become a Catholic: at which point of course he is likely to become one. Pope Francis is not noted for being hard on Lutherans (or adulterers).
Ping
Come on over the the Eastern Church, the water is MUCH better!
It is unfortunate that for the few days that Mr. Ivereigh was troubled by Francis’ suppression of Tradition in the Catholic Church, he only looked for a justification for Francis’ actions and did not consider the possibility that Francis was acting unjustly.
The justification that Ivereigh came up with, the idea that resistance to the spirit of the age is a “corrupting ideology” strikes me as decidedly un-Catholic.
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