Father Federico Lombardi said the decision to release a statement clarifying comments made by Cardinal Robert Sarah, of Guinea, came after the prelate met with Pope Francis on Saturday.
That didn't take long. The Church is not known for moving quickly....except in extreme emergencies. Looks like Francis dragged him in and read the riot act.
Facing east like the Muslims? Might as well since Pope Francis says Catholics and Muslims worship the same God...Allah. Glad us Christians worship the God of the Bible.
Yep. Let’s stab Cardinal Sarah in the back.
Will be interesting to see how these Francis fits are framed and presented when poor Fr. Lombardi is replaced by an Opus Dei layman.
“The work of the devil will infiltrate even into the Church in such a way that one will see cardinals opposing cardinals, bishops against other bishops.” , Our Lady of Akita, October 13, 1973.”
The Second Vatican Council closed in 1965.
The GIRM does NOT recommend facing the people, except in the FAKE, PHONY, FRAUDULENT ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF THE GIRM.
A Vatican spokesman also rejected the vocabulary of a “reform of the reform” in liturgical practice, saying that phrase is “at times the source of misunderstandings.” Father Federico Lombardi said the decision to release a statement clarifying comments made by Cardinal Robert Sarah, of Guinea, came after the prelate met with Pope Francis on Saturday....
Lombardi’s rejection of the phrase “reform of the reform” is also noteworthy in light of Sarah’s comments in early July. In his remarks, Sarah had said that during a private audience with the pope last April, Francis had asked him to study “the question of a reform of a reform” to see how to enrich the twofold use of the Roman rite - the “ordinary form,” meaning the post-Vatican II liturgy in the vernacular languages, and the “extraordinary form,” or the pre-Vatican II Latin Mass....
Sarah was appointed to the Vatican’s Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments by Francis in November 2014.
Interesting that Francis was the one who asked Sarah to look into these things only to turn around and tell him to STFU. It is clear that Francis has made it clear to Sarah that he needs to toe the company line or he may not remain on the "Vatican's Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments". Lots of deceit here. Lots of deceit.