“Boiling with rage” is not an attitude one expects of a Pope when addressing the educated concerns of a group of Princes of the Church. Assuming this report to be true, and I think NCR would have checked their source on this one, rage, as a conclusion to the much-vaunted Year of Mercy, is not the emotion one would expect as the product of the working of the Holy Spirit.
But equally importantly, the Pope characterizes as “legalism” the endeavours of the four Cardinals to clarify the wording of a document that has caused widespread confusion among the Faithful, and given an immense cache of ammunition to the enemies of the Church. As the Crisis Magazine article PDH has quoted points out, (as if it were really possible to forget, or not notice), the Church has always had enemies, has them now, and will have them ‘til the end of time. It has been, in order to combat the Church’s enemies, the practice of the Church to express its doctrines in legal terms. What else is Canon Law for? What else have all the Councils in the Church been for? Why else has the Church’s doctrine been so carefully enshrined in Heinrich Denzinger’s Enchiridion Symbolorum : Compendium of Creeds, Definitions, and Declarations on Matters of Faith and Morals? To now characterize as “legalism” the sincere efforts of the Cardinals to relate the Popes loosely expressed words in Amoris Laetitia to the legal structure of the Church’s doctrine is very disappointing, and allows the continuance of the confusion that the Church has experienced from the start of this Pontificate.
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: VATICAN CITY, November 18, 2016 (LifeSiteNews)
: – Pope Francis is "boiling with
: rage" over formal criticism of Amoris
: Laetitia from four cardinals, according to a
: Vatican insider.
:
: The National Catholic Register's Edward
: Pentin told EWTN's The World Over Live that
: "sources within Santa Marta" say
: "that the Pope is not happy at
: all" and is "boiling with
: rage."
:
: "I do understand from sources within
: Santa Marta that the pope is not happy at
: all," said Pentin. "In fact,
: he's...boiling with rage. He's really not
: happy at all with this."
:
: The pope's rage is reportedly over a dubia,
: or formal request, from four cardinals that
: he clarify whether his controversial
: exhortation is at odds with Catholic moral
: teaching. Pope Francis didn't respond for
: two months, so the cardinals went public
: with their concern.
:
: Now, in a new interview with Avvenire, Pope
: Francis is rebuking the "legalism"
: of Amoris Laetitia critics.
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