Posted on 12/22/2022 3:14:15 PM PST by ebb tide
In his December 22 Christmas greetings to the Roman Curia, nostalgic Francis praised the outdated Vatican II as "a great opportunity for conversion [= secularisation] for the whole Church" and an attempt to make the Gospel "current, alive, operative in this historical moment [of the 1960s]."
The disgraced Cardinal Angelo Becciu was present (video below). Francis pretended that the "current reflection on the Church's synodality [= Roman centralism] stems from the conviction that the path of understanding Christ's message is never-ending and continually challenges us." Synodalism, however, is an old heresy.
He railed against those who adhere to "fixation," that is, "the error of trying to crystallise the message of Jesus into a form [= 1960s] that is always valid." The same Francis who insists that the Novus Ordo is the only form now claims that "the form must always be able to change."
For him, true heresy consists not only in preaching a different Gospel, "but also in ceasing to translate it into current languages and forms." Socialism, National-Socialism, and Green-Socialism were also the "current languages and ways" of their time.
Rigid Francis referred to the Jansenist Abbey of Port-Royal, France: "They had cast out the devil, but he returned seven times stronger and, under the guise of austerity and rigour, he had brought rigidity and the presumption of being better than others" - just as rigid Francis did in his Christmas address.
But I ran across a review of this book, Christ's New Homeland - Africa, by several African Cardinals from a few years ago when he started pushing compassionate adultery acceptance, who essentially told him that he was wrong to push the newfangled ideas of the modern NWO that hedonism is good.
an excerpt
"At the synod next October we will address, I hope, the question of marriage in an entirely positive manner, seeking to promote the family and the values that it bears. The African bishops will act to support that which God asks of man concerning the family, and to receive that which the Church has always taught. . . . Why should we think that only the Western vision of man, of the world, of society is good, just, universal? The Church must fight to say no to this new colonization."
If you are following how the African Anglican bishops are opposing the gay takeover of the Church of England, you can see how the fault lines will be in the future for the USA.
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