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Posted on 02/01/2017 6:49:28 PM PST by ebb tide
In another in a long stream of apparent attacks on his critics, Pope Francis gave a homily last week accusing Christians who avoid taking risks out of concern for the Ten Commandments as suffering from “cowardliness,” warning that such people become “paralyzed” and unable to “go forward.”
“‘Not taking risks, please, no... prudence...Obeying all the commandments, all of them...,'” the pope said, characterizing the thinking of such Christians. “Yes, it’s true, but this paralyzes you too, it makes you forget so many graces received, it takes away memory, it takes away hope, because it doesn’t allow you to go forward.”
Such people become “confined souls” who suffer from the sin of “cowardice,” the pope added. “And the presen[ce] of a Christian, of such a Christian, is like when one goes along the street and an unexpected rain comes, and the garment is not so good and the fabric shrinks...Confined souls...This is cowardliness: this is the sin against memory, courage, patience, and hope.”
The remarks were made during a homily delivered on January 27th during a mass he was celebrating in Casa Santa Marta, a hotel for pilgrims situated inside of Vatican City where he currently resides. A translation was provided by both Rome Reports and Vatican Radio (the Rome Reports translation is quoted above).
The translation published by Vatican Radio rendered the Italian word “pusillanimità” (similar to the English word “pusillanimity”) as “faintheartedness.” However, Italian-English dictionaries translate the word “pusillanime” and “pusillanimità” as “cowardly” and “cowardice.” The pope used the word twice during his homily.
The pope’s remarks appeared to be directed against those who criticize him for using Amoris Laetitia to permit those who are living in adulterous second “marriages” to receive Holy Communion at the discretion of their priest. The practice contradicts the Church’s Code of Canon Law, as well as its perennial tradition of prohibiting the sacraments to those who are living in public mortal sin.
In particular, Athanasius Schneider, auxiliary bishop of Astana, Kazakhstan, recently decried those clerics who wish to give Holy Communion to remarried Catholics living in adultery. He labeled them “Aaronic” priests who enable their flock to sin against the Ten Commandments, like the High Priest Aaron in the Book of Exodus, who built a golden calf to allow the Israelites to violate the first commandment.
In a thinly-veiled critique of Pope Francis’ Amoris Laetitia, delivered at the Lepanto Foundation in Rome, Schneider warned: “This first clerical sin is repeating itself today in the life of the Church.” He added, “Instead of the First Commandment, as it was in the time of Aaron, many clerics, even at the highest levels, substitute in our day, for the Sixth Commandment, the new idol of sexual relations between people who are not validly married, which is, in a certain sense, the Golden Calf venerated by the clerics of our day.”
The pope’s statements are the latest in a volley of barbs apparently aimed at critics of Amoris Laetitia in recent weeks.
In late December, addressing the issue of resistance to his attempted reforms, Francis decried “malicious resistance” that “takes refuge in traditions, appearances, formalities, in the familiar, or else in a desire to make everything personal, failing to distinguish between the act, the actor, and the action.” The last reference seems to be to those who object to his insinuation in Amoris Laetitia that those civilly remarried and living in an adulterous relationship are not guilty of a sin if they commit it with the intention of maintaining unity for the sake of children, or if they fear they might fall into another sin.
On January 20 Francis complained in a homily about “lazy Christians, Christians, who do not have the will to continue, Christians, who do not struggle for a change of things, for new things to come, those that if changed would be a good for everybody.” He made an apparent comparison of his critics to “the doctors of the law who persecuted Jesus,” observing that “these men did everything prescribed by the law. But their mindset was distanced from God. Theirs was an egotistical mindset, focused on themselves: their hearts constantly condemned [others].”
I am Catholic and do not have heartburn because I recognize that it is impossible that this heretic can be a true pope.
I was going to post a critique of this pope’s most recent kerfuffle, but why bother?
Know them by their fruits. Confusion is the first word that comes to mind.
A) What Pope attacks his critics??!? A vain, petty POS one.
B) What Pope says it is okay to disobey GOD'S TEN COMMANDMENTS? An evil, heretical Satanic one.
C) Where are they 'going forward' to, if they listen to this apostate? HELL.
Catholics, mount a coup. You need to be rid of this guy, like yesterday.
In that case you should have made it a “catholic caucus” thread on the religion forum. That would have kept the discussion among Catholics.
I’m struggling to understand his message. Is the Pontiff endorsing ideology over faith? He seems to be saying we should be social justice warriors first and Christians second.
Just for reference, your excerpts were from the Treatise on the Power and Primacy of the Pope, which is one of the Lutheran Symbols collected in the Book of Concord of 1580. It was written by Philipp Melanchthon at the Smalcald League meeting in 1537.
In my view, we either keep to the traditions of the Church or we might as well forget the whole thing and become the type of Church that allows abortion, gay “marriage”, etc. I converted to Catholicism largely because I thought it was the last bastion of traditional Christianity. The point is to have standards and to apply them regardless. I attended Mass regularly without taking Holy Communion for two years before converting. I did this because my husband was Catholic and my oldest daughter as a teenager had just converted to Catholicism. I wanted her to fulfill her Sunday obligation. I was applying for an annulment of my first disastrous marriage. If the annulment hadn’t gone through, I was willing to keep taking the children to Mass and not take Holy Communion. It’s a little logistically difficult to remain in the pew when everyone else files up for Communion (perhaps even embarrassing for some), but it can and should be done if someone is not living within the requirements set out to receive Holy Communion. I don’t understand why the Pope feels the need to change the concept of adultery. For the sake of my children growing up in a faith where they understand that marriage is forever, I would have accepted whatever the Church decided regarding the validity of my marriage. Most people I have talked to just don’t bother filling out the annulment papers, because it is a big pain.
That about sums it up for me.
Enjoy your pope.
Your point is lost here.
He’s a cafeteria catholic.
Funny how the Pope projects his own cowardice against Bishop Schneider and other faithful Catholics who are urging him to do his job.
Unfortunately the “formal correction” is going to be unavoidable.
This debacle is going to highlight how the mystical Body of Christ deals with an acute (Pope Francis) and chronic (spirit of Vatican II) infection.
We are in Luke chapter 12:2-3 now, it is an exciting time!!
This pope is a gift that keeps on giving.
Why on earth should we listen to anything you have to say, mister ebb?
You’re the only one among us who is, on this very thread, an unrepentant liar.
And posting your go-to propaganda piece only proves your bankruptcy of ideas AND morals.
Yes, that is the gist of what he promotes/believes.
“And he shall speak words against the High One, and shall crush the saints of the most High” (Dan 7:25)
LOL!!
[6] But from the beginning of the creation, God made them male and female. [7] For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother; and shall cleave to his wife. [8] And they two shall be in one flesh. Therefore now they are not two, but one flesh. [9] What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder. [10] And in the house again his disciples asked him concerning the same thing.
[11] And he saith to them: Whosoever shall put away his wife and marry another, committeth adultery against her. [12] And if the wife shall put away her husband, and be married to another, she committeth adultery. [13] And they brought to him young children, that he might touch them. And the disciples rebuked them that brought them. [14] Whom when Jesus saw, he was much displeased, and saith to them: Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not; for of such is the kingdom of God. [15] Amen I say to you, whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child, shall not enter into it.
Mark, Chapter 10
Where did I lie?
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