So Now That We're All Saying What We're Thinking...
Over the years on this blog I have offered some commentary on Pope Francis and his bizarre, scandalous and increasingly diabolical pontificate. Of late, I have tried to keep it light, trying to offer some comic relief on the papacy arranged meticulously in a conference room in Hell. Later still, I stopped blogging, mostly due to time constraints, domestic and work commitments. Before I stopped blogging, I was confident enough in my own limited knowledge of the Church to offer some insights into what I thought had gone wrong in the time since 13 March 2013.
Reasons for the catastrophe I offered over the time were varied, from the election of a 'mad Pope' to the election of an apostate Bishop to the Papacy, to someone who was elected Pope but who resisted the Truth and simply taught his own beliefs instead. Who hasn't thought, 'Oh, he's a Jesuit, what could anyone expect?' Did I say these things explicitly? Some yes, others I expect not, because with this situat…
Reasons for the catastrophe I offered over the time were varied, from the election of a 'mad Pope' to the election of an apostate Bishop to the Papacy, to someone who was elected Pope but who resisted the Truth and simply taught his own beliefs instead. Who hasn't thought, 'Oh, he's a Jesuit, what could anyone expect?' Did I say these things explicitly? Some yes, others I expect not, because with this situat…
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Whatever can His Holiness mean?
If he confirms he knew and did not make either a defiant opposition or any attempt to prevent it?
We're in trouble...
Maybe Ivereigh has just fallen for the usual Italian tittle-tattle but then he is no naïve newcomer to Roman matters and surely should have checked his sources most carefully. I think he needs to explain himself further.
I suspect we will be left with the usual fog.
http://books.google.de/books?id=eWOYAwAAQBAJ&pg=PT360&lpg=PT360&dq=Hall+of+Benedictions+francis+cardinals&source=bl&ots=g4zIoeNGqb&sig=TOCBbJUj6hxZ19r3My0mxUm-mQo&hl=en&sa=X&ei=TCt_VNvwLsvKOcekgMgF&ved=0CCgQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=Hall%20of%20Benedictions%20francis%20cardinals&f=false
And Card. Murphy O `Connor said the same as Ivereigh in his book:
Cardinal Murphy-O’Connor said: “All the cardinals had a meeting with him in the Hall of Benedictions, two days after his election. We all went up one by one. He greeted me very warmly. He said something like: ‘It’s your fault. What have you done to me?’
http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/news/2013/09/12/pope-sent-greeting-to-queen-straight-after-his-election-says-cardinal/
Yes, there was a liberal/Modernist faction who apparently pushed Bergoglio. There were I’m sure normal Catholic factions who pushed others. The important thing is that the liberal/Modernists seem to have won the day. Now that tells a lot about the opposition, i.e., not very strong or rather not very clever!
But then Francis is Pope, Keeper of the Keys and Successor of Peter. No matter who elected him he cannot change Catholic doctrine or the meaning of Catholic Doctrine, by using what is now known as the “Inductive” approach.
Or to put it another way regarding the two main issues raised, the divorced and re-married are committing adultery, are in a state of Mortal Sin, and commit Sacrilege if the continue to receive Holy Communion, and any priest or lay distributor who gives them Holy Communion and has reason to believe they commit adultery, is complicit in that Mortal Sin and/or Sacrilege.
This is also true of active homosexuals, but not, repeat not, of chaste homosexuals any more than of chaste heterosexuals.
So much of this has arisen because of those who have sought to change the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass in into a protestant style communion service where everyone receives and is expected to receive Holy Communion whether they are in a state of Mortal Sin or not.
This has got to stop.
It was just Pope Francis's humble and grateful way of saying, "Really, you shouldn't have."
[But I really, really like it that I'm now the Pope. Thanks.]
Or he wouldn't be smiling.