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PopeWatch: Father George Rutler

Cardinal Blase Cupich is the point man of Pope Francis in Chicago.  To be very blunt he is an idiot.  At Crisis Father Rutler points out this fact:

 

In an interview the day before he lectured on the exhortation of Pope Francis, Amoris Laetitia at the Von Hugel Institute for Critical Catholic Inquiry in Cambridge England, on February 9, Cardinal Cupich hoped that his words “might bring some clarity for people who have raised questions, and then also to raise a challenge for them to also take a second look at the document.” In the lecture itself the cardinal quoted Amoris Laetitia, n. 38: “Many people feel that the Church’s message on marriage and family does not clearly reflect the preaching and attitudes of Jesus, who set forth a demanding ideal yet never failed to show compassion and closeness to the frailty of individuals.” A year earlier, on February 14, 2017, Cardinal Cupich said that the pope’s exhortation “expresses with absolute clarity marriage doctrine in full fidelity to traditional Church teaching.” One supposes that Cardinal Cupich’s lecture in Cambridge was intended to explain why the Exhortation’s clarity was unclear to so many around the world, even though they have the benefit of recording machines and all the social media, which Jesus lacked, although his voice could be heard by thousands on hilltops and seashores.

In the Von Hugel lecture, which was recorded and thus cannot be nuanced, Cardinal Cupich said by way of apophasis that “It goes without saying….” and then went on to say that Amoris Laetitia will also mean rejecting “an authoritarian or paternalistic way of dealing with people that lays down the law, that pretends to have all the answers, or easy answers to complex problems, that suggests that general rules will seamlessly bring immediate clarity.” There is clarity again, in all its frustrating opaqueness. And after rejecting authoritarianism and paternalism, the cardinal invoked Vatican II’s Dogmatic Constitution on the Church, n. 25 to declare that an innovative interpretation of Amoris Laetitia by the bishops of Buenos Aires, which, by virtue of “the publication in Acta Apostolicae Sedes [sic]” of the papal letter commending it, qualifies as an official Church teaching “which all are obliged to abide by and be in conformity with.”

It should be, and I think it is, clear as night and day, that Jesus would not have been crucified had he been more nuanced. There are those who have twisted themselves into pretzels trying to make clear by subtlety, with their own frail command of classical letters, that the official Latinity of Amoris Laetitia proves that it is faithful to authentic doctrine, and is not as flawed as its critics claim. This is on a par with Edgar Nye’s opinion that Wagner’s music is better than it sounds. Excuses like that are defeated by Pope Francis himself who told those Argentinian bishops that their eisegesis “explains precisely the meaning of Chapter VIII.”

Cardinal Cupich called Amoris Laetitia a “radical change” and Cardinal Parolin said “It’s a paradigm shift and the text itself insists on this, that’s what is asked of us—this new spirit, this new approach!” The exclamation point conveys His Eminence’s enthusiasm. Cardinal Cupich asks for a more “holistic” application of the Gospel, in fact using the term ten times without a clear definition of what it means. There have indeed been paradigm shifters in Christology, but there have been no Doctors of the Church among them, and none has been salubrious in the annals of grace. To skim the surface, they have included Arius, Nestorius, Priscillian, Montanus, Mohammed, Waldo, Luther, Calvin, Jansen, Joseph Smith and Phineas Quimby who coached Mrs. Eddy.

Go here to read the rest.  A good summary of the current pontificate might be:  dumb and dumber.  We are being misled by knavish fools and foolish knaves.

 

 

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Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus
Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus
Thursday, February 15, AD 2018 3:58am

These people – Jorge Bergoglio, Blase Cupich, et alias, – are heretics in the list provided above: “…Arius, Nestorius, Priscillian, Montanus, Mohammed, Waldo, Luther, Calvin, Jansen, Joseph Smith and Phineas Quimby who coached Mrs. Eddy.”

Phillip
Phillip
Thursday, February 15, AD 2018 4:57am

I fear they are not fools but quite willing devils. Using lack of clarity is part of the method for them. Prayer and mortification us. Then speak up wherever and whenever one can.

pat
pat
Thursday, February 15, AD 2018 11:00am

In a more sane, more Catholic Catholic church, Fr Rutller would be a cardinal and Cardinal Cupich would would be a Protestant minister.

Greg Mockeridge
Greg Mockeridge
Thursday, February 15, AD 2018 3:02pm

Mrs. Eddy was my fourth grade teacher.

Penguins Fan
Penguins Fan
Thursday, February 15, AD 2018 5:39pm

Cupich is a cross to bear for the poor faithful of the Chicago Archdiocese. Cupich should have been thrown out of the seminary and fulfilled what he is really meant to do – clean public restrooms at an Interstate rest stop.

Anzlyne
Anzlyne
Thursday, February 15, AD 2018 9:38pm

Thumbs up on Pat’s comment. I read that this ( what we are living through) is called the purgation of the Church.

TomD
TomD
Friday, February 16, AD 2018 8:34pm

I’ve decided that, when I get some spare change, the first thing I’m going to do is buy some of Fr. Rutler’s books.

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