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: So much for my hopes!
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: Maggie Sulivan's comments are very telling.
: Not to mention depressingly apposite and
: cogent.
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: https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/pope-malicious-resistance-to-my-reforms-that-takes-refuge-in-traditions-is
: 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.
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: 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."
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: 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.
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: 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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: Methinks the Pope could have chosen his
: advisors more circumspectly, Peter, not to
: put too fine a point on it.
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: And the final sentence in your paragraph
: 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
: conclusions of the Synods actually
: formulated before the Synods were held? I
: sincerely hope he is not right.
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