[Polycarp]

I can't recall now where I posted it, or where I found this explanation, but I'll re-post it here:

Regarding the Assissi event, the Buddha statue and the Tabernacle:

Buddhists were allowed to use a church for prayer (an imprudent decision IMHO!!!). As is their custom, they placed a small statue of Buddha in a prominent place. The most prominent place was the tabernacle. They may have even believed it was for such a purpose. As soon as Catholic hosts (NOT the Holy Father himself) discovered the gaffe, they explained to the Buddhists that this was offensive. The Buddhists gladly moved the statue.

So a minor mistake has somehow been ginned up into the Pope's desecration of the Eucharist.

Pathetic.

The Holy Father did not even know about the incident at the time.

Those who make these types of assertions cannot be trusted in any other claims.

[Tantumergo]

Thanks for your info.

"So a minor mistake has somehow been ginned up into the Pope's desecration of the Eucharist."

I wish these people would give the Pope a break - they want him to be impeccable and infallible from the moment he wakes up each day to the moment he goes to sleep. As if he didn't have enough pressure already! Even if the Pope had given personal permission for this to happen, it would only amount to poor judgement - not heresy or apostasy.

It seems to me that both extreme traditionalists and extreme conservatives tend to feed off the same error:

the extreme traditionalist thinks that the authorities in the Church should never make human mistakes, so evidence of misjudgement, imprudence etc. is seen as evidence of heresy and apostasy.

the extreme conservative thinks that the authorities in the Church can never make human mistakes of misjudgement, imprudence etc. so everything they do/say must be followed to the letter and anyone who questions this is a heretic and apostate.

IMHO both views lead to a lot of unnecessary heat and polemic, even though both spring from worthy motivations.

[Catholicguy]

Those who make these types of assertions cannot be trusted in any other claims.

<> Amen. Of course, that will not stop them. They have no shame. They will continually repost the same lies and fabrications even after those lies and fabrications have been repeatedly knocked-down.

That is just another indication of what happens to those in the fevered swamps of schism. They get so turned around in there that they become hopelessly lost and confused. Their only hope is to STOP where they are and pray for Divine guidance out of that swamp, or, they may be lost forever