Posted on 08/25/2025 2:41:11 PM PDT by ebb tide
This writer spent a lot of time writing about the late Pope Francis and his attacks on Catholic traditionalists and the suppression of the Latin Mass. It was -- and remains -- a gross injustice in the Catholic Church, especially because the attacks on the Latin Mass were based on lies.
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The push by some to make the Catholic Church 'modern' and 'relevant' to the current culture has turned some parishes into bastions of what this writer calls 'morally therapeutic deism' as opposed to, you know, Catholic Churches.
What does this look like in reality? Well, one priest in Denver is finding out:
“There has been a liberal schism in the Denver Archdiocese,” said David Thomas, a former Most Precious Blood parishioner. “I really view this as a problem with Aquila and not a problem with Daniel (Fr. Daniel Ciucci). I think Daniel is a symptom. The bigger problem is the overreach or micromanagement of the parish from Aquila in order to reel it back into compliance with his personal philosophy about what a Catholic parish ought to be.”
After reading the online petition and dozens of accompanying testimonials, Ciucci delivered a homily earlier this month — titled “Why Hell Is Welcoming” — that he said was inspired by the conflict. He lectured about the dangers of putting anything or anyone above God and the sin of not attending Mass every Sunday.
(Excerpt) Read more at twitchy.com ...
Ping
Thought this had to be a Babylon Bee headline.
It was not so long ago that Denver had a decent bishop, Chaput.
Very sad
Maybe this is a homo parish and don’t want a straight heterosexual ordained priest because he won’t go along with changing Christ’s teachings and Church laws to pacify queers desires.....
One the one hand, there is the catholic church, the bride of Christ, the collection of the called, chosen, and faithful. Whether that is only the Roman Catholic church or whether it consists of all Christians regardless of denomination is an issue for another time.
But then there is the political unit [and I’m using “political” in the broadest sense of an organized social unit] that calls itself the Roman Catholic church (and I don’t mean that in any negative sense). That unit, politically and socially, is no different than any other Christian denomination—again, whether it is theologically different or different in God’s eyes is a separate issue.
It’s been over 200 years since the advent of the massive thought-change that began with Romanticism and Hegelism progressive-dualism, which led to Marxist “prophecy” of where the world was headed, and then tyrants like Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Castro, Guevara, and now Mondami and his ilk. All that thinking, combined with sexual perversion and anti-Europeanism, has infiltrated every Christian political unit, aka denomination, with the possible exception of the Orthodox. Every other non-Catholic denomination has experienced an actual schism, with the leftist heretics in one unit and the Biblical/doctrinal Christians in another: PCUSA and PCA/ARP, ELCA and LCMS/WELS, American Baptist and more fundamental Baptists (the SBC is going to split soon), most recently the United Methodists and the Global Methodists.
The Catholics have a Catch-22. They can’t schism, they can only excommunicate. But there is a large collection of cardinals and bishops who would gladly excommunicate, not the heretical, but the faithful, precisely because they are heretical. If they were an actual denomination, they could split into, say, the Lefist Catholic Church and the Traditional Catholic Church (”tradition” in the Catholic sense), and the LCC could happily go on the highway to hell, while the TCC could continue Catholic orthodoxy/orthopraxis. But it can’t happen, even though Paul specifically says we need division for the sake of knowing who was of the truth (I Cor. 11:19).
Unfortunately, the way Catholicism has handled such situations in the past was to go to war and wipe out the heretics. That isn’t going to happen now because there are no political rulers who see themselves as warriors for Christ, but as secular leftists, with a few exceptions (Trump, Milei)—or, of course, as warriors for Allah, or Krishna.
This whole issue concerns me, even though I am not Catholic, because for any group of Christians I want nothing more than to see any anti-Trinitarian heretics plucked out like the poison they are. I would much prefer discussing the differences between Catholics who love Jesus and Lutherans who love Jesus, than the differences between Catholics who love Jesus, and Catholics at the highest ecclesiastical and political levels who love Satan.
Bring it.
Jesus did not come ti bring peace, but to pit one against the other, like demons against angels.
Hellheaders against repentants.
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