You cannot be absolved from sins in the confessional unless you have the intention to go forth and sin no more. Not that Francis seems to care about that.
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The hierarchy doesn’t seem to care. This is the most scandalous thing. The second is the Catholic media insisting that he’s a legitimate pope who teaches formal heresy but is not a heretic. How are converts supposed to believe in the faith.
ALL Catholic media? Certainly not Remnant TV. Secondly,
converts are drawn to the Church because its Sacred Deposit
of Faith —or anything True, and Beautiful, and Good — is
REAL . . . whether or not the MEDIA care. “Where evil abounds”
says St. Paul about Christ, “MY GRACE abounds MORE”.
If people are drawn to the Church because of Pope Francis
and his promotion of, for example, Synodality —such as EWTN
is is in sync with —then we’d better believe that God DOES
and WILL “write straight with crooked lines”.
What does the Church teach about formal heretics holding offices in the Church? What does Canon Law teach?
Don’t worry, I’m not leaving the Church, but you do understand the frustration with the gaslighting by most of the Catholic media?
Great questions. Thank you. Will do my own homework
on them per the Catechism of the Catholic Church
( . . and subsequently Fr. Francis Spirago’s exhaustive
volume, “The Catechism Explained”. . first printed and
published in 1899 by Benziger Brothers, Printers to the
Holy Apostolic See, “A practical manual, made attractive
and interesting by illustrations, comparisons, and
quotations from the Scriptures, the Fathers, and other
writers”.)
RE-published by Forgotten Books, 2012,
http://www.forgottenbooks.org.
Post Script: Oops !! . . after checking out this website
I immediately wondered how many of this titles USED
to belong to the INDEX OF FORBIDDEN BOOKS !!
Hang on tight to your precious Faith, fellow Catholics!
. . i.e. study it and KNOW it !
Prairie Grandpa Bob
From the early CATHOLIC America Missions.
Two very brief excerpts. Fr. DeSmet was from Belgium:
“Black Robe, welcome to our country. Long have we
desired to see you and be enlightened by your words.
Our fathers WORSHIPPED THE EARTH AND THE SUN.
I remember distinctly the day we first heard of the one
and only true God. Since then it is to Him we have
addressed our prayers and supplications, and yet we
are much to be pitied. We DO NOT KNOW THE
TEACHINGS OF THE GREAT SPIRIT, and we sit in
darkness. But now I hope you have come to bring
us light. I have finished. Speak, Black Robe! Every
ear is open and eager to hear your words.”
—1842, welcome from a Flathead (Salish) Indian chief.
” . . If old Europe repudiated the Faith, the Church
now beheld new sons coming to her from the
other side of the ocean . . ” (ch XXV)
Pope Bl. Pius IX’s gratitude for the gifts, concern, and
prayers —July 31, 1871 —from the Coeur d’Alènes
(another Rocky Mtn. tribe): ” . . . Your sorrow over the
attacks made against the Church, as well as your
devotion and filial love for the Holy See, is a striking
proof of the faith and charity that fill your hearts,
ATTACHING YOU FIRMLY TO THE CENTRE OF
UNITY . . ” ( ch. XXV)
This being the first brief ever addressed to an
Indian Chief by a Sovereign Pontiff, it was
communicated (Aug. 15, 1872) to the Coeur
d’Alènes. One is reminded of current Liturgical
celebrations where the Knights of Columbus
lead a Eucharistic procession:
Fr. Cataldo (fellow missionary with Fr. DeSmet)
assembled several mountain tribes, ” . . each
one of which was represented by a large
delegation. The resultant procession was . .
” . . headed by twelve acolytes in surplices
(holding) tapers. Then came the missionaries
in copes and dalmatics, preceding a statue of
THE BLESSED VIRGIN, placed on a dias
ornamented with flowers and garlands and
carried by the four head chiefs. To the right
and to the left of the statue walked two lines
of Indian Soldiers in full dress and armed.
Then followed an immense concourse in
serried ranks, RECITING THE ROSARY &
CHANTING LITANIES. (ch XXV)
The procession stopped before the improvised
altar. High Mass was said in the open and the
neophytes received holy communion. The
ceremony over, one of the missionaries read
(in Latin) Pope Pius IX’s letter, (which) was
then translated into the dialects of the
Coeur d’Alènes, Kalispels, Kettles, Nes
Percés, and Yakimas. Every head was bowed
to receive the Holy Father’s benediction, and
from that time [ these mountain tribes ] felt
themselves ennobled . . (It) was their charter
of admittance into the fold of Christ”
As for Fr. DeSmet, he found in the Holy Father’s
benevolence and in the neophytes’ fervour
the greatest recompense for his labours.”
(ch. XXV)
— Apostle Of The Rocky Mountains: 1801-
1873. The Life Of Fr. DeSmet SJ, by Fr. E.
Laveille SJ ; transl. from French by Marian
Lindsay; TAN, 1915, P.J. Kenedy & Sons, NY.
Reprinted in 1981 and in 2000 by TAN in
arrangement with the Southern Belgian Province
of the Society of Jesus. Illustrations c/o Midwest
Jesuit Archives, St. Louis, Missouri, & the
Jesuit Oregon Province Archives, Gonzaga
Univ., Spokane, WASH.