The James Martin community in the Church is overjoyed at Francis’ new declaration for blessings of unnatural unions.
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I am reading a book called Saint Pius V by Roberto de Mattei and I find it interesting that Pius V had a massive cleanup job after the mess that was left by some less than good popes like Leo X and his predecessors. I mention this in response to your comment that once pope Francis is through with his pontificate, there will be those who scatter from the Catholic Church and following the likes of the Luther’s and Calvin’s of the past. Like Bishop Schneider, I pray that we get a holy man that will follow pope Francis. There seems to be historical hope that we can lean on.
[ all emphases are mine ]
Bravo! . . for Cardinal Müller and Cardinal Burke,
both thoroughly grounded in the supernatural,
the Eternal, in death, purgatory, Heaven, and Hell.
Whereas these Teilhardians and imprisoned Modernists,
and “latter day Franciscos” blather on and on.
Their speech is firmly rooted in the temporal. These
cannot POSSIBLY conceive of the Sacred, Sin, Eternal
Salvation and Damnation. These Realities have
been cancelled in their blinkered, disobedient
minds.
@2:50 ff ” . . about concepts such as the trinity
and the immaculate conception . . ” are not
concepts. The Church doesn’t go around clarifying
concepts. Concepts can easily be clarified by
normal human reasoning.
The Church clarifies Realities, SUPERNATURAL
Realities.
@3:00 ” MERE disciplines” ?? Really? Try them
some time!
@3:30 ” . . the CHURCH EVOLVES as I T ‘responds
prayerfully, pastorally etc. etc. yadda, yadda . . ”
All by itself. Automatically. In a vacuum. No competent
theologians needed. Teihardians like Bishop Stowe
are word-spinners detached from Reality.
To your question, has Prairie Grandpa “heard anything
about this” locally? Nothing, except our [ Ordinairiate
Parish ] prays for Papa Francis, our Bishop, King Charles,
and our Provincial Premier at every Mass. We’ve been
strongly admonished NOT to mess with Papal decisions,
sayings, and decrees, those being way beyond the
ordinary Parishioner’s “pay grade”.
Prairie Gramps has read both Archbishop Vigano’s
letter and Bishop Schneider’s response. The latter’s
is almost heart-stopping. The Bishop says that, just
as the father of a household can’t willy-nilly be
declared NO LONGER father of that household [ whether
a saint or a swampy derelict ], neither can Papa
Francis be deposed.
“ . . one should respectfully correct him (avoiding purely
human anger and disrespectful language) and resist
him as one would resist a bad father of a family. Yet
the members of the family could never declare that
he has automatically forfeited his fatherhood or been
deposed as father. They CAN correct him, refuse to
obey him, separate themselves from him, but they
cannot declare him deposed.” Bishop Schneider continues:
“Good Catholics know the truth and must proclaim it
and OFFER REPARATION FOR THE ERRORS of an
erring pope. Since the case of a heretical pope is
HUMANLY IRRESOLVABLE, we must, with SUPER
-NATURAL faith, implore God’s intervention. For
an individual erring pope is not eternal, and the
Church is not in our hands but in the hands of
Almighty God.
We must hold on to supernatural faith, trust,
humility, and a LOVE OF THE CROSS in order
to endure such a tremendous and extraordinary
trials [ which the Bishop HAS done, being raised
under Communism by HEROIC parents, especially
his mother ] . . . we must not yield to overly human
reactions and seemingly easy solutions by
declaring the invalidity of a pontificate, but instead
be sober and alert, keep a truly supernatural outlook,
trust in divine intervention and THE INDISTRUCTABILITY
of the Catholic Church.
+ Athanasius Schneider “