Pope: ‘Malicious resistance’ to my reforms that ‘takes refuge in traditions’ is from the devil
Jan Bentz and Patrick B. Craine
Excerpt:
ROME, December 22, 2016 (LifeSiteNews) – Today, during his annual Christmas address to the Vatican’s top officials, Pope Francis laid out his vision for his ongoing reform of Vatican structures, while also mounting a brief but pointed critique of unnamed individuals who are “resisting” the reform.
This is consistent with declarations by Fr. Claude Barthe to Corrispondenza Romana earlier this month. [May, 2016]. The French theologian, who has many connections in the Vatican, noted in his interview that Amoris Laetitia clearly intends to introduce a new element in Church teaching, and that “the text of the post-synod exhortation was broadly elaborated in September 2015, that is, before the start of the second Synod on marriage and family.”
The inclusion of “gradualism” on the list is a matter of concern, given that it was a term used at the Synod on the Family to allow the gradual process of admitting people in irregular situations to Communion. In his Christmas address, he says that reforms can be approved as an experiment, but does not indicate what type of reform he has in mind. “Gradualism has to do with the necessary discernment entailed by historical processes, the passage of time and stages of development, assessment, correction, experimentation, and approvals ad experimentum. In these cases, it is not a matter of indecision, but of the flexibility needed to be able to achieve a true reform."
From Letters on the Article:
Maggie Sullivan
Key word being "my" reforms........
I did notice that in "my" reforms Francis never seems to mention Jesus, Mary, the Angels, the Saints, prayer, love for God, truth, goodness, doing good and avoiding evil....he sounds like a progressive university professor trying to purge his department of all tradition and any trace of western civilization while giving his students the usual socialist party line.
Steve Jalsevac
The frequency with which he has done such condemning and trashing of the character and motivations of faithful Catholics is astounding and would fill many pages. He has proven to be a very angry pope who does not tolerate anyone interfering with his personal plans to dramatically reform the Church and greatly lessen the authoritative role of the papacy, while contrarily using that authority with greater force than any pope in recent memory.
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: advisors more circumspectly, Peter, not to
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: about Magister’s findings is quite chilling
: – was the time and expenses of all those
: bishops at the two Synods simply wasted in
: such a cavalier manner? Were the acceptable
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