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Post by assisi on Sept 28, 2021 13:12:51 GMT
It is not so long ago since she was praising him, but she obviously reckons he did not deliver. Talking about how disorganised is probably won't help either. There may be a strategy to gaslight the Pope. When 'respected' liberal types like McAleese call him ultra conservative his aides may point this out to him and this may push him towards more liberalism in the Church. I do think that Pope Francis is more at ease with the liberal mindset and is probably susceptible to subtle pressure. As for McAleese, the less said the better.
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Post by Askel McThurkill on Sept 29, 2021 8:19:26 GMT
It is not so long ago since she was praising him, but she obviously reckons he did not deliver. Talking about how disorganised is probably won't help either. There may be a strategy to gaslight the Pope. When 'respected' liberal types like McAleese call him ultra conservative his aides may point this out to him and this may push him towards more liberalism in the Church. I do think that Pope Francis is more at ease with the liberal mindset and is probably susceptible to subtle pressure. As for McAleese, the less said the better. I think she seriously overestimates her own importance - the Pope probably doesn't even notice. The Secretariat of State probably noticed alright - there is a certain Curial resentment at Mary McAleese accepting their hospitality while using her, if the truth be told, insignificant public position as a former figure head president to attack them. She may have studied Canon Law in Rome, but she never learned the difference between what the Italians call bella figura and brutta figura.
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Post by hibernicus on Sept 29, 2021 20:25:43 GMT
The PHOENIX's prediction that she will receive a red hat seems unlikely to be fulfilled.
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Post by Alaisdir Ua Séaghdha on Oct 16, 2021 15:17:36 GMT
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Post by assisi on Oct 21, 2021 14:49:13 GMT
In a recent conference speech Pope Francis said of the BLM protestors and rioters: “This movement did not pass by on the other side of the road when it saw the injury to human dignity caused by an abuse of power. The popular movements are not only social poets but also collective Samaritans.” Now the protesting, looting, rioting and burning left over 25 people dead and many people's lives and businesses ruined. The BLM leaders are unashamed Marxists and the BLM protest was supported by almost all corporate and financial America as well as the Democrats. Yet we are to equate them to Good Samaritans? And social poets (whatever a social poet is). Would that he was more inclined to call anti-abortion protesters as 'social poets' and 'Good Samaritans' but maybe he finds them to be a little rigid and not as globally 'sexy' as BLM? Either the Pope (and/or his advisors) are incredibly naive or they are more interested in placating the liberal world order and liberalising the Church at the same time.
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Post by Alaisdir Ua Séaghdha on Oct 22, 2021 17:06:47 GMT
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Post by assisi on Oct 24, 2021 14:01:39 GMT
You get the feeling, as the author of this piece concludes, that there will be a fudge or a compromise regarding communion and pro-abort senior politicians. One has to be careful about the when, how and who relating to refusing communion. On the 'who' element I would avoid Biden completely as he is obviously suffering from the early stages of dementia and cannot defend himself; it would be a PR disaster. On others who have supported and approved abortion over a long period of time, such as the now disgraced and former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, there could certainly be a case for refusal. Regarding the 'how' on this matter, it would be wise to put the onus in the court of the sinner. In other words the Church could write to the likes of Cuomo telling him that because of his continued support and celebration of abortion and due to his high rank and standing as an influencer on other Catholics, that he should not put himself forward for communion until he publicly rejected abortion and stopped supporting it. As Cuomo has effectively gone into hiding since his resignation, that would leave Pelosi as the other high ranking Catholic who is still in office and influential. Elsewhere there is a bit of common sense among the Bishops if they are going to address the re-education of Catholics on the subject of the real presence in the Eucharist and the need to go to the sacrament of confession regularly, as understanding of this area is lacking among many.
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Post by hibernicus on Oct 24, 2021 16:21:03 GMT
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Post by assisi on Oct 24, 2021 20:38:47 GMT
This is a good measured essay. The section that stood out for me was the following: "The Pope’s concerns are not focused on theological precision, but on pastoral application. And in the service of the latter he sacrifices the former, reducing the teachings of the Church, especially on moral matters, to mere “ideals” that do indeed act as proper teleological goals but not as binding moral commandments requiring confession, conversion and true repentance when we fail them. This is why Pope Francis routinely, and wrongly, pits doctrine against mercy, truth against compassion, and treats the commandments as “rules” that are pharisaical when applied with anything approaching a robust rigor."
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Post by hibernicus on Dec 19, 2021 20:52:53 GMT
This interview with Henry Sire, formerly of the Order of Malta and a very hostile critic of Pope Francis is offered for information only. gloria.tv/post/C2J3kXXdkU2R6q99YY6UoyKEGSome points that should be borne in mind: - A brief examination of Gloria.tv reveals some frankly dotty material - e.g. Queen Elizabeth II denounced as 'mother of freemasonry' and puppet of a supposed Rothschild globalist conspiracy. Mr Sire is doing himself no favours by appearing amidst this sort of dreck. Mr Sire writes as an avowed opponent of Pope Francis and his speculations - e.g. on the motives of pope Francis and others - are just that; speculations. His accusations of careerism similarly don't seem to distinguish between actual careerism and the view that the Papal office deserves deference whatever may be thought of a particular occupant.
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Post by hibernicus on Jan 8, 2022 18:37:47 GMT
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Post by hibernicus on Mar 12, 2022 23:34:06 GMT
It is interesting to see that the FRancis Cheerleaders at WHERE PETER IS are developing their own brand of conspiracy theory - that is, they are lumping all Pope Francis's trad/conservative critics together and implying that they have some sort of nefarious hidden motives. For example, they recently produced a post suggesting that George Weigel and his ilk declare the American free-enterprise system the only way forward for Catholic social teaching because they are in the pay of right-wing American foundations. Now, I firmly believe that George Weigel is away with the fairies when he says this, and that developments in Poland have undermined his presentation of the Church there as exemplifying how Vatican II ought to have been applied, but that doesn't mean he doesn't believe it himself, any more than it would be just to say that the Americanists and Modernists were frauds or fantasists (and I might add that even if he had been bought and paid for, this would not by itself disprove his ideas): wherepeteris.com/review-us-catholic-discordance-long-precedes-pope-francis/ Similarly, here we see a piece which is not content with pointing out, correctly, that Archbishop Vigano's ever-increasing lunacy casts doubt on his earlier accusations against Pope Francis and by extension casts doubt on the judgment of everyone who endorses him, but implies that no criticism of Pope Francis can be legitimate: wherepeteris.com/has-vigano-changed/and another which lumps in those hard-trads who support Putin with trads who oppose him, and by extension with all critics of Francis such as the dubia cardinals (who made a perfectly reasonable request for clarification of AMORIS LAETITIA, a request which is the standard method of establishing church teaching. Incidentally, CS Lewis points out somewhere that the unjust judges condemned in the Psalms and elsewhere in the Old Testament are not presented as giving false judgments, but as refusing to hear a case when the evidence is so overwhelming that if they hear it they would be compelled to find for the litigant): wherepeteris.com/the-trads-and-the-tyrant/
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Post by hibernicus on Mar 22, 2022 23:53:57 GMT
This is a very simple and incisive criticism which points out that Pope Francis's praise for Ukrainian resistance to the invasion of their country contradicts his earlier statements that there is no such thing as a just war. This point goes deeper than it may seem. An absolutist pacifist stance has its drawbacks, but it is compatible with great personal bravery and integrity. The concept of a just war can be misused, or too easily invoked by those of us who are insulated from the consequences, as I was when I supported the US-Iraq war in 2003. But switching between one and the other raises a suspicion, however unjustly, of facile grandstanding. www.catholicculture.org/commentary/on-just-war-pope-contradicts-himself/
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Post by Askel McThurkill on Apr 22, 2022 17:45:41 GMT
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Post by hibernicus on Apr 30, 2022 22:39:37 GMT
Pope Francis is currently unable to walk because of an inflamed ligament in his right leg. This can be excruciatingly painful; we should pray for him.
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