Posted on 02/27/2018 5:31:43 PM PST by ebb tide
Something’s coooommmiiinnnnng!
Press Conference Notice
Accredited journalists are informed that on Thursday 1 March 2018, at 11.00 am, in the Press Office of the Holy See, in Via della Conciliazione 54, the Press Conference will be held presenting the [encyclical] letter Placuit Deo to the Bishops of the Catholic Church on some aspects of salvation Christian.
Speakers:
– HE Msgr. Luis Francisco Ladaria Ferrer, SI, Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith;
– HE Mons. Giacomo Morandi, Secretary of the same Congregation.
I think the Holy Father is about to tell us how much he likes us!
….A new document, along with new cardinals, seems imminent….
The possibility of a new papal document has began circulating in recent days. The document – reported to be an encyclical – would deal with Catholic spirituality in the modern world.
In particular, the Pope is expected to tackle the issue of worldliness, which he has often described as one of the main problems within the Church.
In Evangelii Gaudium, the Pope underscored that worldliness “can be fueled in two deeply interrelated ways.”
First is “the attraction of gnosticism,” namely, “a purely subjective faith whose only interest is a certain experience or a set of ideas and bits of information which are meant to console and enlighten, but which ultimately keep one imprisoned in his or her own thoughts and feelings.”
The second is “the self-absorbed promethean neopelagianism of those who ultimately trust only in their own powers and feel superior to others because they observe certain rules or remain intransigently faithful to a particular Catholic style from the past.”
“According to rumors, pelagianism will be a main focus of any forthcoming papal document.”
Not if we're Americans, or orthodox, or Evangelicals, or attend the Latin Mass, or voted for Trump, or...
PELAGIANISM
Definition
Heretical teaching on grace of Pelagius (355-425), the English or Irish lay monk who first propagated his views in Rome in the time of Pope Anastasius (reigned 399-401). He was scandalized at St. Augustine’s teaching on the need for grace to remain chaste, arguing that this imperiled man’s use of his own free will. Pelagius wrote and spoke extensively and was several times condemned by Church councils during his lifetime, notably the Councils of Carthage and Mileve in 416, confirmed the following year by Pope Innocent I. Pelagius deceived the next Pope, Zozimus, who at first exonerated the heretic, but soon (418) retracted his decision. Pelagianism is a cluster of doctrinal errors, some of which have plagued the Church ever since.
Its principal tenets are:
1. Adam would have died even if he had not sinned;
2. Adam’s fall injured only himself and at worst affected his posterity by giving them a bad example;
3. newborn children are in the same condition as Adam before he fell;
4. mankind will not die because of Adam’s sin or rise on the Last Day because of Christ’s redemption;
5. the law of ancient Israel no less than the Gospel offers equal opportunity to reach heaven.
As Pelagianism later developed, it totally denied the supernatural order and the necessity of grace for salvation.
Social Engineering is the main concern of this Pope.
Premarital abstinence? Monogamy? Logical conclusion to above.
If he likes “us”, few of us would be flattered, or find any spiritual comfort in such a pronouncement. :)
Thank-you for posting the definition of Bergoglio’s slur against traditional Catholics whom he states they “observe certain rules or remain intransigently faithful to a particular Catholic style from the past.”
Most welcome!
A commercial for an encyclical? A PSA to look out for new cardinals? A preview coming to a screen near you? Ok, just don’t use Twitter - we don’t need more TV stations under interdict or nighty-night kisses.
Btw, note crucifix turned over?
It he referring to the late ‘60s?
“the self-absorbed promethean neopelagianism of those who ultimately trust only in their own powers and feel superior to others because they observe certain rules or remain intransigently faithful to a particular Catholic style from the past.”
well Earth day is merely weeks away which will give this pope another chance to talk about something cool and hip
I followed her on Twitter, but she quit tweeting last November.
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