Posted on 11/07/2017 6:22:48 PM PST by marshmallow
BIRMINGHAM, Alabama, November 2, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) The Catholic Church is in crisis of authority under Pope Francis, with major figures like Cardinal Robert Sarah subjected to stinging papal rebukes and curial power plays, and dissatisfied Catholics positioning themselves to manipulate synods to change Church teaching.
Thats according to an analysis by EWTNs Papal Posse, which last Thursday galloped through a number of recent developments in the Catholic world during their featured weekly appearance on Raymond Arroyos The World Over Live.
Robert Royal, editor-in-chief of The Catholic Thing, and canon lawyer Fr. Gerald Murray agreed Pope Francis public correction of Vatican liturgy chief Sarah will still lead to questions over who has final authority to approve translations of liturgical texts in the Roman rite from Latin to the vernacular.
The rebuke is significant in light of the popes relationship with Cardinal Sarah, Royal noted, pointing out that Francis has seemed to be very sensitive in the past about what Sarah has said.
Notably, Sarahs recommendation that priests say Mass ad orientem, or facing the altar, was quickly dismissed by the Vatican as of no force.
Murray blasted the Roman curia for evidently leaking the popes correction of Sarah to the media before the cardinal had time to act on it.
For (Cardinal Sarah) to be in this power move, lets say, where hes being leaked on meaning that people are taking stuff thats private and putting it out in the public forum, this is not a Christian way of treating him, Murray said.
Thats the kind of infighting in the Roman curia that Pope Francis was elected to get rid of, and its unfortunate, in my opinion, that Cardinal Sarah is being marginalized.
Royal and Murray also agreed that it was odd but typical that the pope did.....
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I wish Sarah sat in the Chair of Peter
This Pope reminds me of Obama....he does something bad every day.
A cold civil war in the Church.
Prayers up for Holy Mother Church.
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