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To: ebb tide
No. He's not changing doctrine. He's allowing "pastoral practice" to proceed untethered from it, which is pastoral malpractice to the highest degree.

This is the very definition of corruption.

Don't you get the significance of that?

To use Cardinal Robert Sarah's metaphor, he's not throwing doctrine into the dumpster. Oh, no. He's putting doctrine in a jeweled reliquary, giving it a couple whiffs of incense and then storing it in the back of the closet behind the old altar linens, where (maybe) seminarians will still be permitted access to it if they want to write their feckless theoretical academic papers.

He's savvy enough not to officially rescind anything in the Catechism or Canon Law.

Rather, he turns it into a dead letter.

In some ways, this is worse, because the disorder, though deadly, is subtle enough to slip past the immune system.

9 posted on 05/13/2016 8:16:26 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (You will see Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the kingdom of God and you yourselves cast out. Luke 13:28)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

Sorry. I don’t agree with you or Cardinal Sarah about Francis not throwing doctrine in the garbage.

However, I do agree with the perinneal Catholic Church Magisterium.


12 posted on 05/13/2016 8:37:13 AM PDT by ebb tide (We have a rogue curia in Rome.)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

From the Catholic Encyclopedia:

Christian Doctrine

Taken in the sense of “the act of teaching” and “the knowledge imparted by teaching”, this term is synonymous with CATECHESIS and CATECHISM. Didaskalia, didache, in the Vulgate, doctrina, are often used in the New Testament, especially in the Pastoral Epistles. As we might expect, the Apostle insists upon “doctrine” as one of the most important duties of a bishop (1 Timothy 4:13, 16; 5:17; 2 Timothy 4:2, etc.).

The word katechesis means instruction by word of mouth, especially by questioning and answering.


14 posted on 05/13/2016 8:48:58 AM PDT by ebb tide (We have a rogue curia in Rome.)
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