Cardinal Peter Turkson says the quiet part out loud:
How much has the Catholic faith been promoted in the discussions with this group as the only authentic means of human salvation and, therefore, central to any plan to promote integral human development?
It’s not true that we have talked about salvation in any group because we recognize that it’s a multifaith group. So when we engage with these groups in conversation, it’s not to throw religion at them; and if we do that, it takes the form of the Church’s social teaching, where already faith has entered into dialogue with reason and the different natural sciences and formulated basic common principles: human dignity, the common good and all of that. … The objective is not to provoke conversion on the point of everybody, to bring anybody to their faith. If anything, it’s just about the point of our common humanity, as it were, and how we can engage the different institutions to promote that.
Go here to read the rest. The last thing the current gang in power at the Vatican is concerned with is converting people to Christ.
It seems far too often our church has invoked a PC culture, censoring four words from its teaching; sin, sacrifice, suffering, and salvation…..
“For your penance, pray for those misguided traditional Catholics.”
Because they don’t believe and are not even Christians. Truly, they are blind guides. I wouldn’t let Pope Chastisement teach an RCIA class.
I surely would not, having been ordained by Christ’s Church as a successor to the apostles, wish to stand before Him and have to explain which part of “teaching them all that I have commanded you” I did not understand. Just saying.
Syncretism, disguised or not is Syncretism.
And so too it’s twin Relativism.
In short a worldly horizontal Church with no vertical supernatural dimension to connect her to God. A spiritually flatline Church cut off from her source of life. Christ’s Temptations in the Wilderness were temptations to worldliness. The most vocal Catholic Social Teaching advocates are obsessed with government and governmental programs, producing an idolatrous concentration of power.
Sharing the good news of salvation through Christ our Lord is hardly “throwing salvation” at anyone. That’s what the Church is for and what Christians are called to do 24/7 is it not? And if the Church won’t do that who will? By contrast there’s no shortage of folks who will opine endlessly about how to best manage the affairs of the world.
I don’t think there is a “down time”, when it’s inappropriate to share the good news. The world has never needed it more.
It is frustrating and futile to try to understand why the current crop of Bishops, and their Bishop of Rome whom they installed, say and do what they do from a Catholic perspective. It seems so unfaithful from a Catholic perspective and impractical from a worldly financial perspective.
Until you shift the paradigm and see them as those whom Pope St. Pius X warned us about in his prophetic warning of an encyclical, Pascendi Dominici Gregis.
Modernists, who embrace not just one but every known heresy, apostates and Freemasons exist within the Apostolic line. The threat is within, not without. That was his message on the eve of the World Wars.
They are here. Inside the gates. Just as this great Saint predicted. Knowing this, what do we do about it?