Posted on 08/07/2022 5:33:03 PM PDT by ebb tide
The Buenos Aires historian Antonio Caponnetto, 70, wrote on NcSanJuanBautistas.com.ar (August 1) a Praise of Rigidity. Highlights.
• Francis suffers from an obsessive ideological fixation on rigidity.
• He cries out against “rigidity” but is the cruel head of a structure of stiffening, punishing and harshness against those he considers his contradictors.
• Francis’ rigidity is the self-righteous rigidity of the traitor of Christ and is directed against Catholics whom he never misses an opportunity to demean.
• The dictionary tells us that rigidity is the capacity of a body to resist bending under the action of external forces acting on its surface. Accordingly , therefore there is a holy rigidity practised by the saints and martyrs who didn’t bend before lies and confusion.
• There is a virtuous rigidity and a vicious rigidity.
• “A slap in the face can be the fruit of charity and a caress an invitation to sin" (Saint Augustine). Francis’ flexibility, appeasement, tenderness, syncretism, are such caresses.
• Asking Francis for a paternal, pontifical, pastoral, or charitable attitude, is like sending Christmas greetings to Herod, wishing happy Easter to Judas, or asking Caiaphas to prostrate himself before Calvary.
• Francis can give Catholics only the rigidity of the Synagogue, the inflexibility of Masonic sentences, and the vengeance of the Sanhedrin.
• Christ used the gall hand of his rigour and the sugar hand of his mercy to teach us to behave like men, not like amoebas.
Yet Bergoglio calls for "rigidity" in his Sin-Nods. Anything goes in Frankenchurch, except for tradition.
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The author, in my eyes, speaks the truth.
The Church used to be THE STANDARD for morality in the Western World.
I’m not dissing Judaism in the least-it’s older than Catholicism.
They are the two most important religions in the Western Hemisphere, indeed, the world.
The Catholic Church as an institution is only as good as the people at the head of it.
Well, the head of the Catholic Church is Jesus Christ, not some Jesuit apostate pretending to be His vicar.
I agree: Bergoglio’s warnings about rigidity is pure self-projection. At least he is aware enough to realize his rigidity is negative.
You’re right, of course. I meant the mortal men that we are supposed to trust, the Cardinals and high echelon officers of the Church.
I don’t like Francis’s socialism.
I respected Pope Benedict.
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