Posted on 01/19/2023 6:02:14 PM PST by ebb tide
Playing with words, Francis told Mundonegro.es (13 January) that evangelisation is "not missionary work" but "the proclamation of the Gospel according to the culture of each place".
There is "no Catholic culture as such", but only "a Catholic way of thinking", but "every culture is rooted in the Catholic", he blathered.
Religion "has no uniformity, it has harmony, the harmony of differences" - said the one who promotes rigid centralism, brutal repression and civil war in his Church.
Francis repeated several times that [Novus Ordo] evangelisation respects what it finds, helps to "create harmony" and "does not" proselytise. In reality, Novus Ordo evangelisation is dead as a doornail.
A nostalgic Francis said that so many things had changed "for the better" in the Church since the failed Vatican II. It is surprising that even for Francis the collapse of the Council Church is a "good thing".
He claims that "the liturgical effervescence" during the time of Vatican II is now "almost non-existent". That may be true, since the Novus Ordo is on its last legs.
But he laments that "anti-conciliar resistance" is emerging - as if it is a bad thing that the faithful are waking up in the face of the collapse and clerical delusion of bishops like Francis.
Francis, who lives in permanent puberty, dreams that his imagined anti-conciliar resistances are "something typical of every maturing process".
Ping
The original article:
https://mundonegro.es/africa-es-original-africa-te-sopapea/
“Some deviations that occurred in some other continent, for example the serious problem of the schools in Canada, where I was and there I spoke about it, were due to the fact that independence was not very clear at that time, but the missionary has to be there to respect the culture of their people, live with that culture, and carry out their work.... For this reason, the most serious sin that a missionary can have is proselytism.”
OK, that’s a little bit of a false context I created. The reality is that the 2nd part is from the answer to the NEXT question. But how amazing is it that he can in one breath speak of such alleged atrocities (I say “alleged” because so many of the deaths were caused by the deprivations inflicted by the secular government, but there were horrible atrocities among at least some missionaries) and then in the next sentence claim the worse sin is proselytism?
What sort of spawn of Satan would dare preach that the worst things done in Canada was that some of the First Peoples were led to the Christian faith despite the fact that others were neglected unto death, or sexually abused?
... at the same time, the charges leveled against the Pope by the OP article are simply reveling in poor translation. You would think the Pope is discouraging people from spreading the gospel.
Q: How important are the congregations, the Comboni Missionaries among others, in whose charism the explicit proclamation of the Gospel is emphasized?
A: How about? They are the ones who carry out the announcement that the Lord is alive. Does it seem little to you? Faced with other lawful and good options, the missionary who is going to announce the Gospel does something great, and he does it with work, he does not do it blah, blah, blah, because he is paid, but rather because he works.
But see what he does? His true admirers (not those who find him a useful idiot) think he is clever, condemning the religious man while calling to discipleship, but what he actually does is subject the faith-filled Christian to the scorn and hatred of apostates who feel justified by his words.
Those who heard Jesus listened to his entire sermons; what does the apostate or the socialist or the atheist hear of the Pope’s? Only that even the Man of God says that Christians are evil.
Will they see the slight wink he assures the faithful pro-lifer with, or will the see that he praises the Christ-hating abortion Nazis while condemning the flawed Christian pro-lifers?
The kind of person who doesn’t value the human soul’s potential for eternal life in union with its Creator.
As hard as it is for me to pray for this man, I have to say that we *must* pray for him.
God created us for this time.
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