Posted on 06/01/2022 6:25:39 PM PDT by ebb tide
Pope Francis on Wednesday criticized people who “call themselves guardians of traditions, but of dead traditions,” saying that failing to move forward is dangerous for the Church today.
Speaking to the organizers of a conference on education on June 1, the pope said that it was vital to make progress by “drawing from the roots.”
He said that “there is the fashion — in every age, but in this age in the Church’s life I consider it dangerous — that instead of drawing from the roots in order to move forward — meaning fine traditions — we ‘step back,’ not going up or down, but backward.”
“This ‘back-stepping’ makes us a sect; it makes you ‘closed’ and cuts off your horizons. Those people call themselves guardians of traditions, but of dead traditions.”
Pope Francis underlined that “the true Catholic Christian and human tradition … grows, progresses.”
“Education, for its part, is always rooted in the past, but it does not stop there: it is directed towards ‘forward-looking initiatives,’ where the old and the new converge to create a new humanism,” he said.
The pope underlined that true tradition is “what that fifth-century theologian described as a constant growth: throughout history, tradition grows, progresses: ut annis consolidetur, dilatetur tempore, sublimetur aetate.”
The pope was referring to St. Vincent of Lerins, who wrote about the development of Church teaching, saying that it “is solidified over the years, extended with time, and refined with age.”
Pope Francis has invoked this quotation numerous times since his election in 2013, including in a letter on Amoris laetitia in 2018.
The pope did not mention the liturgy or Catholic doctrine in his June 1 address, but focused his speech on education.
He said that Virgil’s Aeneid contains an image that “can serve to illustrate the mission of educators, who are called to preserve the past … and to guide the steps of the young towards the future.”
“An eloquent example of how to confront the crisis can be found in the epic figure of Aeneas, who amid the flames of his burning city, carries on his shoulders his elderly father Anchises and takes the young son Ascanius by the hand, leading them both to safety,” Francis said.
“Aeneas saves himself, but not by himself. He brings with him his father, who represents his past, and his son, who represents the future. And so he moves forward,” he added.
Pope Francis said that this representation of tradition being respected and preserved reminded him of “what Gustav Mahler said about tradition: ‘Tradition is the guarantee of the future,’ not a museum piece.”
The pope met at the Vatican with participants in a conference organized to evaluate the work accomplished so far by his Global Compact on Education and to plan for its development in the years to come.
“I thank you for all that you do in the service of education, which is also the specific contribution that you are offering to the Church’s synodal process. Keep moving in this direction, from the past towards the future, continuous growth,” he said.
“And be attentive to the ‘back-stepping’ so much in vogue today, which makes us think that by stepping back, we can preserve humanism,” the pope added.
He is an ignorant, hypocritical heretic. And he has just placed the most wicked enemies of the TLM, Roche, Cupich, Tagle, Farrell, Grech, di Noia, etc., in the Congregation for the Doctrine of Worship, with the evil (cock)Roche as its prefect.
Jorge the Hypocrite Ping
Yeah, right. And Biden really won the election as POTUS.
The Mass of 1970 is the one that is without life by comparison, which is why so few actually use it as written, but add yet more novelty. The Mass of 1970 as it was promoted is as dated as Peter, Paul and Mary.
No, that was the state of the Church in 2013.
With Bergoglio’s “cardinals”, the Church is in even a worse state now.
You do not live by bread alone. Nor by doing what is popular. Popularity is the broad road that leads to destruction. My opinion only.
My Tradition’s Living, too bad about yours!
“And be attentive to the ‘back-stepping’ so much in vogue today, which makes us think that by stepping back, we can preserve humanism,” the pope added.
Head. Exploding.
Dead traditions
Like opposing abortion
Man and woman marriages
Prohibiting those in mortal sin from the sacraments
I couldn’t have said it better myself!!!!
I am absolutely disgusted by this so called Pope!
He is no pope of mine.
How and why would Benedict abdicate????????
Throughout history there have been bad and even despicable popes. We can only hope this one is an anomaly and not a trend.
It’s incredibly infuriating to read this incessant garbage from Bergoglio. The man has drifted into self-parody. It’s like, “Yo, Bergoglio, we get it. You hate traditionalists. You don’t need to beat the drum on this once a week.”
‘He is no pope of mine.’
if this is something of such great importance to you, why worry about belonging to a church which has abandoned you...do the right thing; get yourself to an SSPX church and flip off the Vatican...
or you can do what I did, and discard religion in its entirety; but quite obviously this is a difficult decision to make, and beyond the pale for most...
as for Aeneas: Yes, he carried his dad on his back, but you know, he didn't help his wife so she lagged behind and was killed. And later, he seduced and abandoned Dido, who killed herself in despair. Not exactly a person I would hold up as an example.
Which traditions?
Friday fish fries?
Going to a bar after church?
“Popularity is the broad road that leads to destruction”
There’s a highway to hell but a stairway to heaven.
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