Posted on 09/01/2020 5:54:06 PM PDT by marshmallow
Vatican City, Sep 1, 2020 / 01:00 pm MT (CNA).- Cardinal Pietro Parolin has written an introduction to a book describing the continuity between Pope Francis and his predecessor Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI.
The book, published Sept. 1, is entitled “Una Sola Chiesa,” meaning “Only One Church.” It is a compilation of papal catecheses that places the words of Pope Francis and Benedict XVI side by side on more than 10 different topics, including faith, sanctity, and marriage.
“In the case of Benedict XVI and Pope Francis, the natural continuity of the papal magisterium has a unique feature: the presence of a pope emeritus in prayer next to his successor,” Parolin wrote in the introduction.
The Vatican Secretary of State highlighted both the “spiritual consonance of the two popes and the diversity of their style of communication.”
“This book is a lasting sign of this intimate and profound closeness, presenting side by side the voices of Benedict XVI and Pope Francis on crucial issues,” he said.
In his introduction, Parolin recounted that Pope Francis’ concluding speech at the 2015 Synod on the Family included citations of Paul VI, John Paul II, and Benedict.
The cardinal used this as an example to express that “the continuity of the papal magisterium is the path followed and carried out by Pope Francis, who in the most solemn moments of his pontificate always referred to the example of his predecessors.”
Parolin also described the “lively affection” that exists between the pope and the pope emeritus, quoting Benedict as saying to Francis on June 28, 2016: “Your goodness, evident from the moment of your election, has continually impressed me, and greatly sustains my interior life. The Vatican Gardens, even for all their beauty, are not my true home: my true home is your.....
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More like cognitive dissonance. Or the Gaslighting of Catholic orthodoxly.
Yep. Two Modernist Vatican II peas in a pod.
Here we go again with the tiresome, “hermeneutic of continuity”.
I hope there is a rebuttal to this ridiculous idea.
The hermeneutic of continuity is not a bad idea.
It needs to be tempered with two other principles found in Pius XII.
The first is interpret the less clear in light of the more clear.
The second is pay attention to the level of the teaching in the document, and Vatican II further qualifies by pay attention to how seriously the Pope is when writing or speaking. I don’t think Francis reads his own stuff, so I appeal to Lumen Gentium 25 and largely ignore it, especially when out of sync with more authoritative and clearer stuff—in the words of St. Teresa of Avila, pay no attention the mad woman in the room.
And we should respect St. Teresa. In the words of Pope Francis, female theologians are the “Strawberries on the Cake.”
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