Posted on 12/18/2015 8:07:32 PM PST by ebb tide
The Conciliar "method" beloved of Cardinal Kasper and his Comrades was a wicked one. We know it came "from evil" because His Eminence plainly admits that it was tailored to avoid the simple "si, si: no, no,'' demanded by Our Lord in Matthew 5:37. Marked by verbosity, ambiguity, and deceit, we have suffered the rotten fruits of this 'progressive' methodology for fifty dismal years: half-a-century of strife and destruction that has exhausted everyone but the Modernist ideologues, whose levelling lust is never sated. Buoyed by a papacy of their wildest dreams, and Kasper's assurance that it has "inaugurated a new phase" of Vatican II, they have duly recycled their evil modus operandi to serve the de-facto-Vatican III "processes" initiated by Pope Francis: to help him raze the dogmatic bastions of Catholicism once and for all.
(Excerpt) Read more at christianorder.com ...
A characteristic of our day seems to be that "science" can be "settled" but dogma is fluid.
"Le Sillon places public authority primarily in the people, from whom it then flows into the government in such a manner, however, that it continues to reside in the people," he wrote. The divine and natural truth, on the contrary, is that some men can command others only because "their authority to do so derives from, and is a participation in the supreme authority of God." Or as St Paul put it to the Romans [13:1]: "there is no power but from God: and those that are, are ordained of God....imply nefarious things about the Constitution of the US? Wouldn't it follow to someone who holds this view that the USA as constituted is evil?
Or is the distinction that the passage speaks of secular, atheistic interpretations of "power residing in the people"?
Wow, this was very good.
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