Posted on 01/02/2024 4:01:25 PM PST by NKP_Vet
“One of the standards the Church uses to measure the quality of her leaders is a simple line from Scripture: “God is not the author of confusion but of peace” (1 Cor. 14:33). So it was for Paul. So it is now. So it is for local pastors and bishops, including the bishop of Rome. Confusion among the faithful can often be a matter of innocent individuals who hear but fail to understand the Word. Confused teaching, however, is another matter. It’s never excusable. The transmission of Christian truth requires prudence and patience because humans are not machines. But it also demands clarity and consistency. Deliberate or persistent ambiguity—anything that fuels misunderstanding or seems to leave an opening for objectively sinful behavior—is not of God. And it inevitably results in damage to individual souls and to our common Church life.“
Ping
If memory serves, Archbishop Chaput was not only Cardinatially robbed, but was also dropped from his pastorship as local ordinary by Bergoglio like a hot brick the minute he (Chaput) turned 75.
Indeed. Preaching and teaching must be done in a way that is comprehensible to its intended recipients.
But it also demands clarity and consistency.
I have heard clear and consistent preaching and teaching from some priests, and a bare handful of bishops. In large measure, though, the preaching and teaching coming out of the Bureaucratic Church has reliably been confusing, ambiguous, verbose but lacking in content, duplicitous, and contradictory. This has been the case most of my life; this sort of confusion is, IMO, the true "Spirit of Vatican II".
“Preaching and teaching must be done in a way that is comprehensible to its intended recipients.”
Ya think!?
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