Posted on 07/24/2022 4:59:16 PM PDT by lowbridge
Pope Francis has demoted the leader of the conservative Opus Dei group from bishop to priest, revoking the structure ordained by Saint John Paul II.
In an apostolic letter ironically titled “Ad Charisma Tuendum” (In defense of the charism), Pope Francis reversed measures enacted by Saint John Paul II in 1982 that ensured that the Opus Dei personal prelature would always be governed by a bishop, thus guaranteeing a certain degree of independence and flexibility.
Francis has transferred the oversight of Opus Dei from the Congregation of Bishops to the Dicastery for the Clergy in a move widely interpreted as a backhanded slap to the group, which has traditionally focused on the sanctification and salvation of souls rather than contemporary concerns close to Francis’s heart such as climate change, immigration, anti-free market capitalism, and multilateralism.
In explaining why in the future the head of Opus Dei will no longer be a bishop, Francis states that for the good of the group’s “particular gift of the Spirit,” what is needed is “a form of government based more on charism than on hierarchical authority.”
In 1982, Saint John Paul II established Opus Dei as the Catholic Church’s first personal prelature under the leadership of its own bishop with his apostolic constitution Ut Sit, giving it a juridical configuration “suited to its specific characteristics.” John Paul wrote in that text:
The Ordinary of the Prelature Opus Dei is its Prelate, whose election, which has to be carried out as established in general and particular law, has to be confirmed by the Roman Pontiff. The Prelature is under the Sacred Congregation for Bishops, and will also deal directly with the other Congregations or Departments of the Roman Curia, according to the nature of the matter involved.
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Opus Dei is the conservative group that Justice Amy Coney Barrett is a part of, and this is a stinging rebuke of her participating in the recent conservative opinions which go against everything that the Pope supports. The pope has fired a warning shot to all conservative Catholics. In doing so, he also retrospectively vindicates Martin Luther, who could see the church slipping away even then.
Opus Dei doesn’t push globohomo...
And yet he won’t condemn Pelosi for actual anti-Catholic actions.
I don't recall--where is the Lutheran Church on environmentalism, abortion, feminism, female ministers, homosexuality. . . ?
I was a devout Catholic from kindergarten, through first communion, to fourth grade in a Catholic school (in Rio). Then I dropped out when I was in the Navy, forward deployed, in the early 1070s until I moved here (south central Louisiana), in 2011. Organized the local church’s extensive library. Dropped out again a year and a half ago after I went to confession and was confronted with a priest with a huge chip on his shoulder. Don’t need that anymore and God understands why. I am now free to communicate with God on our own terms.
That's an incredible arrangement; how did you get to set up your own rules with Him?
“I was in the Navy, forward deployed, in the early 1070s until I moved here (south central Louisiana), in 2011”
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[Cue dramatic music]
Sword-weilding Scotsman: There can be only one!
(Sorry, coukdn’t resist! 😉)
One of the perks of being the oldest people on earth by about 900 years.
You collect certain hookups the younguns can’t get their grubby little mitts on.
Good Father, please contact your nearest Eastern Orthodox bishop post haste about joining “The true Church”.
Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a narration of the things that have been accomplished among us;
According as they have delivered them unto us, who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and ministers of the word:
It seemed good to me also, having diligently attained to all things from the beginning to write the in order, most excellent Theophilus,
That thou mayst know the verity if those words in which thou hast been instructed.
Aye chumama...🙁
With Him.
If you understand God loves you and you understand love, you’re almost there.
Did you do anything like that for your religion?
That’s not a valid Mass.
Anyway, I drove around in the passenger seat with Benny Thompson driving his pickup (when reporting for the Jackson Daily News) and I had no idea he would end up there. I thought he was a dud.
And I might ad, He is with you.
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