“Change”, Francis’ Style.
I wish I would not read around so often that nothing major has happened after Francis’ election, because “he hash’t changed Church rules”. It just does not make sense.
In essentials, no Pope can “change the rules”, as both what is dogmatically defined and what the Church has always believed could not be changed even by an angel coming down from Heaven.
In all the rest, Francis is changing as much as he can, as fast as he can, as brutally as he can. He has shifted the Papacy from accuracy to improvisation, has introduced a system of uncontrolled, often senseless, not rarely heretical, rambling; an inordinate waffling that, whilst not officially changing any rules, certainly changes the perception of them, and of the need to follow them.
Francis himself leads, in this, by example, with a gross liturgical abuse on Maundy Thursday that clearly shows what respect he himself has for rules. The calls to lio and the huge confusion spread by his heretical rambling are making the rest.
No, he has not changed any dogma. He could never do it. Therefore, this is simply no argument.
I wonder if the neocon followers of a similar line of thought apply the same thinking to Obama. Hey, Obama has not declared himself King or Lord Protector, either; so they should have no reason to complain, should they now?
Mundabor
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Posted on October 16, 2013, in Catholicism, Conservative Catholicism, Traditional Catholicism and tagged Obama, Pope Francis. Bookmark the permalink. 6 Comments.
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It would surprise me in the least to learn that Francis has consented to be a contestant on Celebrity Jeopardy where any of his winnings would be donated to the charity of his choice.
I am actually waiting to have him in the X-Factor, or in some container is such disgusting things are still around.
How pastoral, would bloggers say from all over Patheos.
M
I get e-mailings from Courageous Priest, often very laudable stuff. But they too have drunk the Kool-Aid applauding the little Francis has said in regards to abortion. Yes, he may have said some very good things against abortion, to very narrow audiences, all of which was scarcely noted by the MSM. I wrote back to the editors the reminding them of the very poster you feature above from NARAL. It swept the internet like wildfire! The harm Francis has done to the mission of saving the unborn is enormous, IMHO.
Francis will run with the hare at the fox convention, and hunt with the hounds at the hounds’ congress.
An old heretic’s trick. I have tried to buy his clumsiness, but this is much more than clumsiness.
We must pray for him. He might think God is Buddhist in the end, so his prayers won’t be of much avail.
M
Mundabor,
Can the Pope not change dogmas? Ok. So, the traditionalists fight for what, at first place? Is it not because the Vatican II made a mess?
That kind of ad hoc rationalization is so typically Romish, Mundabor. Sigh!
But, for me, a happy non-Papist, it’s very funny to watch.
If you were trying to look smart, you failed miserably.
Vatican II made a mess, but without changing any dogma, though the muddling of waters was massive.
As the mission of the Church is in the intact transmission of Christ’s message and the work of evangelisation, every Catholic who loves Christ and His Church will have an obvious desire that these tasks be performed according to God’s will. Historically, this has happened with a varying degree of success; this is in the nature of everything run by humans, and the Church isn’t run by angels.
Dogmas do not need to be broken for the alarms to go off. We aren’t Presbyterians.
You will profit from staying near to this blog, because if you think faith alone will save you you might well be surprised at death, as countless heretics before you.
M