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Posted on 06/24/2024 4:27:11 PM PDT by ebb tide
“Fernández’s appointment was the most consequential of [Francis’s] pontificate,” said Massimo Faggioli, a Catholic theologian at Villanova University. “After one year of Fernández, we’ve witnessed a series … of frequent, specific, out-of-the-ordinary actions the likes of which have never been observed. And this from a prefect who knows full well that he’s Francis’s own alter ego and enjoys the pope’s complete trust.”
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Senior church critics insist it is no coincidence that Francis waited to place Fernández in the rulemaking post until after the death of Benedict XVI, the traditionalist pope emeritus.
“I think Pope Francis felt himself now freer to realize his ideas,” said Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Müller, an ally of Benedict who ran the dicastery from 2012 to 2017. “And therefore, he asked [Cardinal] Fernández to come [to] his side, and to promote this program, this agenda.”
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He (Tucho) also left open the door to a recasting of official church teaching — or catechism — that states homosexual acts are “intrinsically disordered.”
“All subjects can be refined,” he said. “And the language we use can always be much better. In this way there is a chance of greater clarity.”
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That’s my strategy, too, to hold on to what I’ve always known to be true. The problem is our children and grandchildren, who have grown up in an age of confusion we could not have ever envisioned when we were their age. I just hope they have as good a grasp of the Truth and the importance of holding onto it, no matter what happens. I think they do, but please, Lord, strengthen them!
I don’t care what Satan’s Pope does or says because I will continue to faithfully attend the liturgy as presented in the Roman Missal of the Catholic Church codified following the Council of Trent in 1570. When that Liturgy is not available I will attend The liturgy of the Eastern Orthodox. If neither is available I will pray the appropriate Mass in my Saint Joseph Daily Missal, copyright 1963.
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