Posted on 03/10/2015 4:31:30 PM PDT by BlatherNaut
That’s what I see, too. That and the cold ruthlessness of a progressive who has been given power.
I don't buy it. You see what you want to see. I just see the face of a man. He looks kind. Cunning? Vain? Please. Here's a man who refused to live in a palace. Good for him.
I see vindictiveness. He is NOT TO BE TRUSTED.
The pope wants to help the poor and not embrace the worldly things; is that so bad?
You sure don't sound very Christian-like to me. More of a gossip. Aren't you suppossed to love and pray for your pope rather than think of nasty words to call him?
His treatment of Cardinal Burke spectacularly showcased that nasty vindictive streak.
With respect... imagine if the POTUS decided to live in a hotel rather than the White House, consider the security nightmare, the logistics problems etc,. There were permanent residents of the domus martha who had to go find other accommodations. People lost their jobs and homes so the pope could live in the hotel rather than the papal apartments.
It's his decision to make, but prudentially it looks bad when you scratch the surface of it.
These are judgments one is not actually entitled to make.
No need to look into his eyes; his words and actions are sufficient to form objective judgments, which one is certainly entitled to make.
Then form objective judgments, not guesses about the looks of his eyes.
I agree with you.
Regards,
really...
And Judas wanted to help also!!
“Lord should not this woman SELL this OIL!
(Mary was crying and washing Christ’s feet)
“ to GIVE to THE POOR!”
FROM-
King James Bible
This he said, not that he cared for the poor; but because he was a thief, and had the bag, and bare what was put therein.
JUST LIKE THE DEMON -RATS!!
Do it for the Children!
Do it for the Poor!
Do not Discriminate against sinners- welcome them!
(and their SIN!)
I do not like what the MSM is putting into print
about this man-
At a gathering I was at the other day, someone asked a member of a traditional order what they were thinking in light of recent events, he responded, "we are scared to death".
Why are some truly holy Catholic men afraid of this Pope? Perhaps they see the signs of the times.
Did you read the article? The comment was made by a priest of 25 years who has “never experienced such ill-will coming from the Holy See” and fears the outcome if this Pope “continues to push the Church toward heresy”. Under such conditions, quibbling over the look in his eyes is comparable to rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.
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I'm not saying your anxieties or your judgments are without substance. Far from it. I would just like to see the argument set out on stronger, better terms.
I'll take one Salvatore Cordileone or one Raymond Burke to 100 Anonymous Priests.
A few thoughts on Francis completing ignoring and disregarding any and all teachings on the liturgy from B16.
With Francis leading the church the Traditional Latin Mass is all but dead.
http://www.onepeterfive.com/we-go-forward-in-the-liturgy-when-the-sacred-is-restored/
This past Saturday Pope Francis travelled to the parish of Ognissanti (All Saints) in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the first vernacular Mass celebrated there by Pope Paul VI in 1965. Immediately following the Mass, the Holy Father exited the church to address the faithful gathered in the courtyard:
“Let us thank the Lord for what he has done in his Church in these 50 years of liturgical reform. It was truly a courageous gesture for the Church to draw near to the people of God so that they are able to understand well what they are doing. This is important for us, to follow the Mass in this way. It is not possible to go backwards. We must always go forward. Always forward (applause)! And those who go backward are mistaken…”
Taken at face value, the pope’s words are troubling to say the least and seem unnecessarily provocative. They also appear to dismiss the “reform of the reform” of the Roman Rite sought by his predecessor and embraced by a whole new generation of priests and faithful. The view expressed by Pope Francis seems inconsistent with that of Pope Benedict who (when addressing the world’s bishops upon the release of Summorum Pontificum) said:
“What earlier generations held as sacred, remains sacred and great for us too, and it cannot be all of a sudden entirely forbidden or even considered harmful. It behooves all of us to preserve the riches which have developed in the Church’s faith and prayer, and to give them their proper place.”
Indeed, rediscovering our rich liturgical tradition, in many ways epitomized by the celebration of the Extraordinary Form of the Mass, cannot simply be dismissed as going “backwards”. If there is one overriding lesson we should have learned from the papacy of Benedict XVI, it is that the Church is always moving forward-and toward the Lord-when the sacred is restored to the liturgy.
As I read the Holy Father’s comments from Saturday, a variety of images entered my mind. Pictures like the ones below, illustrate better than any words possibly could the liturgical reality of the post-conciliar years, and the possibility of what can be for those who have rediscovered what was lost.
“Let us thank the Lord for what he has done in his Church in these 50 years of liturgical reform…”
“It is not possible to go backwards. We must always go forward. Always forward (applause)! And those who go backward are mistaken…”
We always “go forward” when we restore the sacred to the liturgy.
Perhaps you've failed to consider the fact that a lack of "moral fortitude" is not necessarily behind the priest's choice to remain anonymous.
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