Too bad it didn’t happen sooner.
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Another rotund, over-fed, smiling cleric.
Post script: Something needs to be added to
my “bald” depiction of Bishop Stika. I found
ind Servant of God, Catherine Doherty, her
memoirs:
“In Canada [ she survived the Bolshevik
Revolution in 1917, being from a well-to-do
family ] I discovered that the Church was the
People of God. It took me a long time to
understand that the People of God was the
Mystical Body of Christ, and that Christ was
the head of this body. Why didn’t I understand?
Because of sin, the terrible sins of THE
PEOPLE OF GOD. I was torn by a contra-
diction: this sinless Bride of Christ was also
the sinful bride of Christ ! How could that
be? (Again) it took me a long time to understand
a very simple thing —that Jesus came to
reconcile us SINNERS with His Father. As
Dostoevsky wrote: ‘He loved man IN HIS
SIN’.
And further: “The sin of one member of the
Church was the sin of all, that is, if I sin,
If I sin, I affect the whole Church.”
—Fragments of My Life, ch. 17 “The Church
And I”
An obvious observation arises: Francis aims
to Christ and His Church one better, namely,
accompany the sinner AND “OK” his/ her
sin, which translates into moral syncretism.
The hoped-for fruit of the just-begun Synod
i.e. “Synodality” for the lonely, the lost, the
confused, and the marginalized might just
run out of band-aids in the attempt to cover
and heal surface wounds which, in reality,
are deep Original Sin defacements.
Corrections: “I FOUND IT IN . . “; “BOURGEOIS family”;
“Francis aims to DO Christ and His Church . . ”
” TO accompany . . “