… the Holy Spirit will never permit any pope to propose an error in faith or morals in a Magisterial teaching that the whole Church is bound to obey.
The problem is that there are many audiences when the Pope speaks, and very few of them are truly educated in the Faith. Specifically in regard to Catholics, the vast majority are very poorly educated, and many of those who did receive the good Catholic education that was available in the 40s, 50s and into the 60s have thrown it off in favour of cafeteria Catholicism. Consequently, they can blithely ignore papal words that are personally inconvenient for them, while embracing with alacrity any loose expressions that appear to give them permission to indulge in further cafeteria delicacies.
For those who are well educated in the faith, the frustration alluded to by Jeff Mirus is only too real, and for months have been asking, “Isn’t there some way to persuade the Pope to stop giving ammunition to the uninformed, largely anti-Catholic media, and to the cafeteria Catholics to rejoice in what they perceive as the Church crumbling away." Along with Jeff, we … very emphatically applaud Cardinal Burke and all those prelates who seek conscientiously to correct Pope Francis’ tendency to confuse things, and who are willing to expose any tendencies on the part of the Pope to personally promote ideas and strategies he seems unable to teach officially (quite possibly owing to the protection of the Holy Spirit). God knows that those Catholics who actually accept all that the Church teaches are suffering a great trial under this Pope.
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