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Posted on 02/01/2017 6:49:28 PM PST by ebb tide
In another in a long stream of apparent attacks on his critics, Pope Francis gave a homily last week accusing Christians who avoid taking risks out of concern for the Ten Commandments as suffering from “cowardliness,” warning that such people become “paralyzed” and unable to “go forward.”
“‘Not taking risks, please, no... prudence...Obeying all the commandments, all of them...,'” the pope said, characterizing the thinking of such Christians. “Yes, it’s true, but this paralyzes you too, it makes you forget so many graces received, it takes away memory, it takes away hope, because it doesn’t allow you to go forward.”
Such people become “confined souls” who suffer from the sin of “cowardice,” the pope added. “And the presen[ce] of a Christian, of such a Christian, is like when one goes along the street and an unexpected rain comes, and the garment is not so good and the fabric shrinks...Confined souls...This is cowardliness: this is the sin against memory, courage, patience, and hope.”
The remarks were made during a homily delivered on January 27th during a mass he was celebrating in Casa Santa Marta, a hotel for pilgrims situated inside of Vatican City where he currently resides. A translation was provided by both Rome Reports and Vatican Radio (the Rome Reports translation is quoted above).
The translation published by Vatican Radio rendered the Italian word “pusillanimità” (similar to the English word “pusillanimity”) as “faintheartedness.” However, Italian-English dictionaries translate the word “pusillanime” and “pusillanimità” as “cowardly” and “cowardice.” The pope used the word twice during his homily.
The pope’s remarks appeared to be directed against those who criticize him for using Amoris Laetitia to permit those who are living in adulterous second “marriages” to receive Holy Communion at the discretion of their priest. The practice contradicts the Church’s Code of Canon Law, as well as its perennial tradition of prohibiting the sacraments to those who are living in public mortal sin.
In particular, Athanasius Schneider, auxiliary bishop of Astana, Kazakhstan, recently decried those clerics who wish to give Holy Communion to remarried Catholics living in adultery. He labeled them “Aaronic” priests who enable their flock to sin against the Ten Commandments, like the High Priest Aaron in the Book of Exodus, who built a golden calf to allow the Israelites to violate the first commandment.
In a thinly-veiled critique of Pope Francis’ Amoris Laetitia, delivered at the Lepanto Foundation in Rome, Schneider warned: “This first clerical sin is repeating itself today in the life of the Church.” He added, “Instead of the First Commandment, as it was in the time of Aaron, many clerics, even at the highest levels, substitute in our day, for the Sixth Commandment, the new idol of sexual relations between people who are not validly married, which is, in a certain sense, the Golden Calf venerated by the clerics of our day.”
The pope’s statements are the latest in a volley of barbs apparently aimed at critics of Amoris Laetitia in recent weeks.
In late December, addressing the issue of resistance to his attempted reforms, Francis decried “malicious resistance” that “takes refuge in traditions, appearances, formalities, in the familiar, or else in a desire to make everything personal, failing to distinguish between the act, the actor, and the action.” The last reference seems to be to those who object to his insinuation in Amoris Laetitia that those civilly remarried and living in an adulterous relationship are not guilty of a sin if they commit it with the intention of maintaining unity for the sake of children, or if they fear they might fall into another sin.
On January 20 Francis complained in a homily about “lazy Christians, Christians, who do not have the will to continue, Christians, who do not struggle for a change of things, for new things to come, those that if changed would be a good for everybody.” He made an apparent comparison of his critics to “the doctors of the law who persecuted Jesus,” observing that “these men did everything prescribed by the law. But their mindset was distanced from God. Theirs was an egotistical mindset, focused on themselves: their hearts constantly condemned [others].”
In particular, Athanasius Schneider, auxiliary bishop of Astana, Kazakhstan, recently decried those clerics who wish to give Holy Communion to remarried Catholics living in adultery. He labeled them “Aaronic” priests whoenable their flock to sin against the Ten Commandments, like the High Priest Aaron in the Book of Exodus, who built a golden calf to allow the Israelites to violate the first commandment.
Heathen basket case...
I’m expecting this snake to say “listen to me and your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God.”
Can a Pope be impeached?
How about we follow the new covenant
This Fascist is no more Catholic or deserving of being a Pope than a junnkyard dog is!
Someone tell the POPE these are the 10 COMMANDMENTS, not the 10 SUGGESTIONS.
An obvious Commie sign.
If Catholics want to believe they have to keep the Law then they have to keep all of the OT Laws.
Lutherans recognize the pope as the Antichrist.
Okay, I’m reaching here...
does his Holiness observe April Fool’s Day?
I know he likes to orchestrate historic acts of confrontation.
I have never ,ever heard of any Christian deciding to complain about our thoroughness in devotion to the 10 Commandments.
I wonder what would happen of the Poopster here accused muslims of cowardliness for adhering to all the teaching of the quran...
Yes, but Jesus Christ has to come and do it. Let not your heart be troubled He is on His way. ;-)
...and hope. A kommunity organizer in holy gown and hat.
I am waiting for him to say “Do what thou whilst shall be the whole of the law”. Yeah, Aleister Crowley’s line.
Worst Pope in 400 years.
Is that still in Luther’s Small Catechism? Need to dig mine out..
The Ten Commandments are a la carte? Who knew?
wow. this Pope refuses to answer questions from Cardinals in whether his own stated policies are at odds with the words of Christ in the Gospels, then he implies they are cowards for wanting to obey all of God’s commandments. Stunning. He really hates the bible. Despises it and anyone who takes it to heart. I never thought I’d see the day.
Especially the 4th commandant: Honor The Shabbat.
Oops, very few Christians do that... although some honor _their_ sabbath. The theory of Christianity, known _Laws_ from YHVH, are superseded by theories that Yeshua did away with them. Just like the theory of Evolution, which disregards known _laws_. A very Babylonian place the western world has become; mixture to left of you, mixture to the right of you, stuck in the middle are the remnant.
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