Posted on 09/29/2013 5:18:07 PM PDT by markomalley
Renouncing worldly good is a common theme in Catholic Christianity and a constant attribute of sanctity.
Observe: the saint's very father is "opposing". Figures.
Once again, you have things quite backwards.
What you see as "encyclical" was titled (or subtitled, take your pick);
The quote was among a hundred others which was condemned -- by a Roman church "pope", with ratifying concurrence for that opinion by two succeeding "popes" of Rome.
Here is the ending;
"Declared and condemned as false, captious, evil-sounding, offensive to pious ears, scandalous, pernicious, rash, injurious to the Church and her practice, insulting not only to the Church but also the secular powers seditious, impious, blasphemous, suspected of heresy, and smacking of heresy itself, and, besides, favoring heretics and heresies, and also schisms, erroneous, close to heresy, many times condemned, and finally heretical, clearly renewing many heresies respectively and most especially those which are contained in the infamous propositions of Jansen, and indeed accepted in that sense in which these have been condemned.
You say;
While the quotation which "renounced" worldly goods was itself renounced BY THREE popes IN A ROW.
I told you you should have emailed that priest.
Unigentium did condemn certain 101 propositions of Quesnel, including #33, — I was not reading attentively. However, the statement about the renunciation of worldly goods is quite orthodox in itself since I am not advocating Jansenism with it, — nor was St. Francis, or Giotto. The controversy around Unigentuim resulted precisely because several of the 101 propositions were just fine by themselves: for example, #2.
If you want to talk to the Father, just talk. If you have a question to me, I’ll do my best answering. Sorry I did not pay due diligence on Unigentium, but my views are not Jansenist in the least. I don’t think that wealth is in itself sinful or dirty, I just think that anyone attracted to it should seek a cure in a monastery, if his circumstances allow, or some similar setting.
Stuff it.
You sound upset.
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