Posted on 09/17/2022 1:29:27 PM PDT by ebb tide
Francis who is a nostalgic of the failed Vatican II, delivered another rigidity rant on September 15 when telling the local clergy at Astana Cathedral, not to be "nostalgic," not "to be stuck in the past” and not to be "paralysed and immobile.”
In a complaining, rigid, ideological and moralising attitude, Francis insisted on a Church that is “uncomplaining, rejecting rigidity, dogmatism and moralising.”
He insisted on giving more room to the laity “lest our communities become rigid or clerical” - but did not say where the money should come from to pay their salaries.
He preached that seminaries should not be “places of rigidity and formality” although this danger is low as most Novus Ordo seminaries are empty.
In a speech at the VII Congress of Leaders of World and Traditional Religions whose declaration was secretly changed, Francis said that “rigid and suffocating forms of religion belong not to the future but to the past."
These words aptly characterise Francis' dying Vatican II religion that is indeed rigid and suffocating and belongs to the past.
Ping
“not focussing on the past” is another version of “at this point what difference does it make?”
Kinda: the murdered guy is dead. persecuting/prosecuting the murdered won’t being him back, so let it go.
Everyone should expect this from this pope since he has a history of defending and covering up paedophilia. The last thing any pedo wants is someone (like the abused kid grown up) coming after him waaaay after he has amassed power and $$ — something that could be taken away if there were any sense of justice left in the world.
“...uncomplaining...”
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As in, failing to raise hell?
Or, what was that regional Argentinian turn of phrase that Bergoglio uttered? The one that, roughly, meant, “raise hell”?
This one word says it all.
He has utter contempt for the faithful, the sheep, and is not at all shy about showing it.
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