Yes, the devil is happy with disobedience and prideful usurpation of authority.From that time on, Jesus began to show his disciples that he
must go to Jerusalem and suffer greatly from the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes, and be killed and on the third day be raised. Then Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him, "God forbid, Lord! No such thing shall ever happen to you."
He turned and said to Peter, "Get behind me, Satan! You are an obstacle to me. You are thinking not as God does, but as human beings do."
Matt 16:21-23 notes
My thought about the seemingly willful denials: we'll see the "blind obedience" label applied, we'll see SSPX
legalese, but we won't see what can be understood with the slightest modicum of common sense.
Jesus' words are valid even when he does not begin with "
Amen, Amen, I say to you...". I repeat myself for sure, but I do not accept, nor understand, why VII can not, or will not be accepted in similar manner.
Thank you FRiends for your posts. Pax et bonum.
"we'll see SSPX legalese, but we won't see what can be understood with the slightest modicum of common sense"
The exact opposite is true. It is common sensical to stick with Catholic Tradition at a time when all hell is breaking loose in the Church and the Holy See itself is rent with confusion and internal dissension. As for the SSPX speaking "legalese"--this is the claim of those who themselves have run out of rational arguments by which to confront traditionalist objections to what's currently going on. The reason you resort to such jargon is your own inability to discern the truth for yourself regarding what the Society has been saying. REAL common sense would see at once it neither teaches nor practices anything original or new--nothing but the Catholic faith unadulterated by novelties of recent vintage.