My wife and I are trying to keep her mother from seeing this. She is a life long Catholic, with dementia, and not doing well. This may push her over the edge.
So in Frankenchurch, it's up to the individual priest to decide whether or not to bless active, unrepentant sodomites, but heaven help him, if he attempts to offer a TLM unless he has specific, personal permission from the dictator pope.
He does not have the mental bearing to be considered a serious leader.
So the idea of ignoring Catholic doctrine has been revised to... If you want to ignore Catholic doctrine, go for it???
It will take time to clean up this Pope’s mess of the Catholic church.
"[Catholic Caucus] Pope Francis to clergy: Decide for yourselves whether to ‘bless’ homosexual unions"
FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument
Based on Proverbs 14:12, there is a way that seems right to a man but leads to death.
In fact, 1 Corinthians 6:9-10 warns "Do not be deceived" about sexual immorality including same-sex sexual relationships because you will not inherit the kingdom of heaven.
Not a matter for the Church, the Pope, nor any person to decide -
God decided this already. Scripture is clear.
All opposition is Satanic in nature and must be resisted by all means.
So...can clergy decide for themselves that they will no longer be PC in sermons without being censured or even defrocked? That would probably get me back to Mass.
"Gallup: Voters Overwhelmingly Want GOP in Charge of 'Most Important Problems,' Reject Democrat Policies"
FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument
The Gallop poll completely sidesteps the idea of a constitutionally limited power federal government imo.
In fact, one of the main reasons that citizens would need get in contact with their peacetime federal representatives is to complain about the price of postage stamps, delivering the mail being one of the very few powers that the states have expressly constitutionally given to the feds to dictate domestic policy.
"Article I, Section 8, Clause 7: To establish Post Offices and post Roads;"
"From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added]." —United States v. Butler, 1936.
In other words, most federal policy is now wrongly based on state powers, and uniquely associated state revenues, that the corrupt, constitutionally undefined political parties that have pirated control of state and federal government have stolen from the states, state revenues and citizens' wallets stolen by means of unconstitutional federal taxes.
"Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States." —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
“If the tax be not proposed for the common defence, or general welfare, but for other objects, wholly extraneous, (as for instance, for propagating Mahometanism among the Turks, or giving aids and subsidies to a foreign nation, to build palaces for its kings, or erect monuments to its heroes,) it would be wholly indefensible upon constitutional principles [emphases added].” — Justice Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution 2 (1833).
From the congressional record:
”Simply this, that the care of the property, the liberty, and the life of the citizen, under the solemn sanction of an oath imposed by your Constitution, is in the States and not in the federal government [emphases added]. I have sought to effect no change in that respect in the Constitution of the country.” —John Bingham, Congressional. Globe. 1866, page 1292 (see top half of third column)
Pelosi: "We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it." (non-FR; 6 sec.)
“Cherish, therefore, the spirit of our people, and keep alive their attention. If once they become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, judges and governors, shall all become wolves [emphasis added]. It seems to be the law of our general nature.” - Thomas Jefferson (Letter to Edward Carrington January 16, 1787)
Democrats Are Terrified Of An Educated And Informed Public (3.12.23)
The next major political event in the US is not Democratic and Republican Trump supporters reelecting hopeful Trump for the second time, but patriots primarying ALL incumbent state and federal lawmakers and executives in 2024, except for MTG, Gaetz (others?), replacing them with Trump-supporting patriots.
After all, lawmakers and executives continue to show that they do not have the patriotism and leadership skills necessary to find legislative support for effective remedies for unconstitutional government policies.
Trump can endorse true patriots from lists that patriots who are up to speed on the federal government's constitutionally limited powers give him.
Pope Francis is a deeply confused man.
The question that nags me is, What was the Holy Spirit trying to tell us by allowing such a Pope in this time?
Neither side is keeping this very simple. Here’s how this should play out ...
“Pope ... can we bless gay marriages?”
“No.”
Simple question, simple answer. It shouldn’t take pages upon pages and repeated questions to resolve this.