Posted on 09/19/2017 9:24:54 AM PDT by ebb tide
The Roman Pontifical Institute for Marriage and Family, founded by John Paul II to defend the indissolubility of Christian marriage and to fight abortion, has been abolished in its present form by Pope Francis through a recent motu proprio. The institute will now be called "John Paul II Pontifical Theological Institute for Marriage and Family Sciences". It had incurred Francis' wrath because of its defense of Catholic doctrine during the Synod of the Family, although Francis excluded the institute from the work of the Synod.
Now, Francis wishes that the institute propagates his controversial document Amoris Laetitia that relativizes the indissolubility of Christian marriage. This is also widely considered a slap in the face of John Paul II.
In a cloudy formulation, the motu proprio de facto dismisses Catholic doctrine and pastoral activity as "forms and models of the past", a common trick to dismiss the position of the adversary without confronting arguments.
The motu proprio made known on September 19, carries the date of September 8. This is two days after the death of Dubia Cardinal Carlo Caffarra, the founding president of the institute, who was a perspicacious critic of Amoris Laetitia.
With this move, Francis deepens the Amoris Laetitia schism in the Catholic Church.
Oh, I believe he has answered that Dubia, alright. With increasing frequency, loud and clear.
What’s left unanswered is the shocking silence of the College to answer the Dubia, as well. The College is wearing the face of complicity, by now.
I have been trying to tell y’all for over a year
this was how things were going to shake out.
The Vatican is a dictatorship. Thinking we’re going to call Bergoglio on anything is a pipedream.
Always interesting that the kind, humble and gentle pacifists are secretly ugly dictators underneath.
"Look how humble this pope is, although he is an Argentinean, he called himself Francis and not Jesus II", Jorge Bergoglio.
“And lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil. Amen.”
Vichy Cardinals. Concerned far more with things of this world, they prefer the security of conformity to the intangible rewards of Eternal Life.
Why never any links at GloriaTV? Annoying.
“The College is wearing the face of complicity, by now.”
“Vichy Cardinals. Concerned far more with things of this world, they prefer the security of conformity to the intangible rewards of Eternal Life.”
The only legitimate answer will shake the globe far more than the 7.1 earthquake that just hit Puebla, Mexico: The man who sits in the chair is not a Catholic; therefor not eligible for the office of Pope.
The Cardinals will find no appropriate way to address it as they are not authorized to redress a sitting Pontiff, as he has all authority over them.
They, however, once they (if themselves not non-Catholics, heretics nor apostates) recognized it, would have the authority to announce that a man who appears to be Pope isn’t!
In fact, any faithful Catholic possesses the authority to announce an observation if accurate and needful for the salvation of souls: Jorge Bergoglio is not Pope Francis because a non-Catholic cannot be a Pope.
It really is that logical.
It is deeply disturbing for any Catholic to work through the degrees of shock and distress to ever reach such a drastic conclusion that the pope is not pope.
EXCEPT, when it is sickeningly evident that we’re seeing the Chair of Peter destroyed before our eyes replaced with actions and words that do just that.
Or, when Sacred Scripture is defied, even mocked openly by more words and actions, twisted, in overt defiance by the pope and his cohorts.
The realization of what is unfolding is physically, mentally and spiritually painful. That Pope Benedict the XVI is still living in solitude near by swims in the head as background that insists on bringing more strange meaning to the scene and where that reality might fit in, against the debacle in the Vatican.
The Anti-Pope and what to do about him will come through the hand of Almighty God. There is no earthly influence that stops the madness, now that the College sleeps and simply awaits receiving new and delegated powers of the pope, each at the pleasure of his own interpretation.
Schism is unannounced but seems to have come, for who can dare stand with Rome now in any form or fashion. The task for many is to hope that holy priests with restored Traditional Mass can be found still standing, in the West.
I feel like the Chinese Christians must feel. Encompassed.
Lord, have Mercy.
It's even more disturbing to recognize a manifest heretic as the visible head of the Catholic Church.
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