Pope Francis & Vatican II. Has he read the documents?
As Pope Francis seems to grow increasingly polemical in his comments, Raymond Arroyo and Dr. Peter Kwasniewski expose the incoherence in his increasingly rant-filled comments: far from implementing the Council (by which the Pope only means the Second Vatican Council), Pope Francis doesn't even seem to know what "the Council" taught, regularly conflating his comments on implementation with elements never even discussed by Vatican II.
It is highly unlikely that he has read the documents. If we take the example of a bishop who has retained the message of the core of the documents, even someone like Bishop Barron, he is even at odds with this interpretation. Francis is not even a Communio theologian. He has no interest in evangelisation or missionary values. He is not even really interested in the Novus Ordo liturgy from what I can see. He is acting like a CEO in a cheap cassock. He has the core of the gospel message which he puts across in garbled diatribes, and sometimes he is even inappropriate with his words in this context. He is like some officious, grumpy, and miserable old man who seems little different to a secular atheist, on many occasions. As I say, he really acts like a CEO in a cheap cassock. I have no other words to describe it.
ReplyDeleteHello! I am from Argentina!
ReplyDeleteIt is a pleasure to find this blog, normally to read healthy criticism of the ecclesiastical hierarchy I read the Caminante-Wanderer blog, also Argentine. But when I found this English blog, I am happy to be able to read other warning voices in the face of the sad surrender and betrayal of the faith by the high "Catholic" clergy.
On the other hand, and it is a pity that this has been the case, as England gave only one pope to the Church, Argentina had to give only one and a terrible one.
Cardinal Bergoglio was never a Christian prince, neither as bishop nor as primate of Argentina. He was an opportunist who preferred to look good with his interlocutors (be they heretics or communists), never applying the order of our Lord: "But let your speech be yea, yea: no, no: and that which is over and above these, is of evil" (St. Matthew V, 37). Being able to condemn "gay marriage" as "it is the destructive pretense of God's plan" in a letter to four monasteries in Buenos Aires, and at the same time speak in favor of legal civil unions for sodomites. And of these anecdotes we Argentines know many more about the two-faced Bergoglio.
Did the Pope read the Council? It really does not matter, since Bergoglio is not in favor of the mental effort that theology and doctrine imply, but of the practical (he calls himself "pastoral"). For him, "the council" means obeying the bishops, not something else. That is why he does not understand Catholics faithful to the traditional liturgy of Saint Pius V, just as he does not understand ecumenism (he has said that the "unity of the churches" will not come with a single doctrine), that is why he does not understand that "outside of the Church there is no salvation" and signs statements like Abu Dhabi.
We only have to pray to the good God, so that he gives us strength and perseverance in faith.
Laudetur Iesus Christus!
Thank you so much for your comment, your perspective is very much valued by myself and, I am sure, other readers of my blog. Please do continue to read and offer your insights on the devastating pontificate of Jorge Bergoglio!
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