Posted on 12/21/2019 4:37:21 PM PST by marshmallow
ROME — Pope Francis has underscored the need for the Church to embrace “epochal change,” insisting that resistance to change always hides some mental disorder.
Addressing the Roman Curia Saturday, the pope said that “tradition is not static, it is dynamic,” while proposing that “what we are living is not simply an epoch of change, but a change of epoch.”
He said:
We are therefore in one of those moments when changes are no longer linear, but epochal; they constitute choices that quickly transform the way of living, of relating, of communicating and elaborating thought, of relating between human generations and of understanding and living faith and science.
The pope cited fellow Jesuit Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini, the former archbishop of Milan, in saying, “The Church has remained 200 years behind the times. Why has it not been shaken up? Are we scared? Fear instead of courage?” These are words, Francis said, that “should make us think.”
“There is always a temptation to fall back on the past,” Francis said, “because it is more reassuring, known and, certainly, less conflictual. Yet this too is part of the process and the risk of undertaking significant changes.”
Memory itself “is not static, it is dynamic. By its nature it implies movement,” he said.
The pope went on to warn against the dangers of “rigidity,” an attitude he has often associated with conservatives who seek security in doctrinal truth, which makes them intransigent.
“Here we must warn against the temptation of adopting an attitude of rigidity,” he said. “The rigidity that arises from the fear of change and ends up sowing the terrain of the common good with stakes and obstacles, making it a minefield of incommunicability and hatred.”
“We always remember that behind every rigidity lies some imbalance,” he continued. “Rigidity and......
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Psychotics always project their psychoses onto others.
Excuse me but doesn’t tradition HAVE to be “static” in order for it to be “tradition” n
IOW, this Pope has called God “deranged”.
At least tradition can’t get boring if it’s always changing!
Go Pope!
Its happened before. A vile agnostic has again become pope.
I don’t think Francis has a clear understanding of UNCHANGING Almighty God.
They constantly preach change for the purpose of change.
They never seem to grasp there is much in the past worth preserving.
The Pope seems to be claiming that truth is ever-changing, which is utter nonsense.
But then, I find this pope almost impossible to understand.
I just recalled the words of a hymn.
“he is eternal, he never changes, tho seas rise up to cover mountain ranges”.
Open question to all of the Catholic faith :
Why should the rest of us have any respect for him as a major religion leader? And do YOU as Catholics have respect for him when he spews forth erratic statements such as this?
That is the statement of an evil man. The societal changes, particularly of the last 150 years, must be challenged and rejected by the Church. Marxism, humanism, secularism, atheism ... all are evil and anti-Christ.
“The rigidity that arises from the fear of change and ends up sowing the terrain of the common good with stakes and obstacles, making it a minefield of incommunicability and hatred.”
There are none so rigid in their thinking and philosophy
as liberals/democrats...for all their blather about
inclusion and tolerance.
Is the pope Catholic?
He's not a Catholic. He's not even a Christian of some other sort.
He's a revolutionary communist. His 'god' is Karl Marx.
Does that help?
I am so glad that I am not a Roman Catholic. The Daily Bread has turned into the Daily Gruel.
He either worships Allah or Karl Marx, hard to decide.
Jim this man is a Klingon!
“The pope went on to warn against the dangers of “rigidity,””
I only wish he was warning against the “rigidity” they get
so much of while going after their alter boys and each other.
Change for the sake of change and nothing else is also a mental disorder. Sometimes tried and true things shouldn’t be abandoned just to “try something new”. That’s the way of destruction.
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