. . . by stealth in some parishes, and outright disobedience in others. Little by little over the past decades, some priests have refrained from teaching legitimate doctrine, and/or made their parishes virtual branch offices of secular anti-Catholic political parties, and/or simply defied instructions from Rome with impunity. The parishes are now effectively Protestant; they have been “reformed” inasmuch as the majority of the parishioners no longer believe Catholic teaching in its entirety. All they need to do is have the honesty to change their name from Catholic to Church of Australia.
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:
: You may be interested in an article I came
: across today at Big Pulpit in which the
: author argues we are headed for a
: "second reformation" or rather an
: outright revolt which will see the Church
: split in two. He begins..
:
: "We are about to have another
: Protestant Reformation in the Catholic
: Church, and this one is going to be much
: larger than the last one. I think we had a
: window of opportunity to avert this crisis
: during the pontificate of Benedict XVI, but
: the bishops of the West (Europe, North
: America and Oceania) largely rejected this
: opportunity. Now that Benedict XVI is
: retired, many of these same bishops are
: doing everything they can to roll back the
: reforms he instituted -- or at least, as
: many as they can. In some dioceses now, it's
: as if there never was a Pope Benedict XVI.
:
: Thankfully, not all bishops are that way,
: and it shows in their dioceses were
: traditional liturgy and good catechises have
: been embraced. These dioceses will suffer
: the least when the "Second
: Reformation" comes.
:
: Please note, I use the term
: "reformation" loosely here,
: because there really is nothing being
: reformed. What I'm talking about here is an
: outright revolt against the apostolic
: teachings of the Church, just like the First
: Reformation was. Protestants, however,
: define this revolt as a
: "Reformation" and that appears to
: be the name that stuck. So I use that term
: strictly in its historical sense, and it
: shouldn't be misconstrued as a real
: "reformation" of any kind.
:
: This Second Reformation will be a similar
: revolt. It will be a revolt in the Catholic
: Church -- an outright rebellion -- but the
: leaders of this revolt (and the mainstream
: media) will call it a "Second
: Reformation.""
:
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