Posted on 09/29/2014 2:36:41 PM PDT by ebb tide
My apology, if I misread what you intended to say. I guess it just wasn’t plain to me who and what you meant.
It’s probably my fault; as I tend to think a lot more stuff than ever gets written down.
I am not surprised by the strong liberal leanings of the Pope. Francis defined himself as soon as he took power and closed ranks with the liberation theology leaders, a Marxist movement infiltrated in the Church since the 1960s and proscribed by His Holiness John Paul II and Benedict XVI. Then Pope Francis began the ostracism of the Catholic conservatives who preferred the traditional Tridentine Mass used by centuries by loyal Catholics, and started a vicious vendetta against those religious orders and seminaries that faithfully followed the Magisterium and tradition of the Church.
Pope Francis and the Franciscan Friars
Michelle Arnold
July 30, 2013
http://www.catholic.com/blog/michelle-arnold/pope-francis-and-the-franciscan-friars
It all started with a clickbait headline in my Facebook news feed. Sandro Magister, a Vatican expert writing in Rome, declared, For the First Time, Francis Contradicts Benedict. Magister reported, in the tabloid fashion typical of Italian journalism:
[The] Franciscans of the Immaculate are one of the most flourishing religious communities born in the Catholic Church in recent decades, with male and female branches, with many young vocations, spread over several continents and with a mission in Argentina as well.
They want to be faithful to tradition, in full respect for the magisterium of the Church. So much so that in their communities they celebrate Masses both in the ancient rite and in the modern rite, as moreover do hundreds of religious communities around the worldthe Benedictines of Norcia, to give just one exampleapplying the spirit and the letter of the motu proprio Summorum Pontificum of Benedict XVI.
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