Sandro Magister reminds us that no matter how bad we think things are in Rome, they are worse:
He will take office in Rome at the end of the summer. But Philippe Bordeyne (in the photo), the new president of the John Paul II Pontifical Theological Institute for Marriage and Family Sciences, has already shown his cards in advance. And he has done so precisely on the most explosive issue in the Church today, that of the blessing of homosexual couples.
In an essay in “Transversalités,” the magazine of the Institut Catholique of Paris of which he has been rector up to now, Bordeyne holds that yes, it is a good thing to bless homosexual couples “when they solicit the Church’s prayer to accompany their love, their union,” albeit with the double precaution of blessing them “preferably” in a liturgical form “of a private nature” and with a personal blessing for each member of the couple, “in order to mark the difference with the nuptial blessing prayers.”
The essay is worth reading in its entirety. But this is already enough to understand how Bordeyne ranks not among the obedient but among the rebels against the “Responsum” with which on March 15 the congregation for the doctrine of the faith prohibited the blessing of homosexual couples. A “Responsum” immediately rejected by bishops, priests, and faithful above all from Germany and thereabouts, including Cardinal Christoph Schönborn, and instead defended with drawn sword by another cardinal like Camillo Ruini, with Pope Francis in the middle leaning now this way and now that, without ever making it clear which side he will end up on for good.
Now, that the new president of the John Paul II Pontifical Theological Institute for Marriage and Family Sciences should thus place himself at the antipodes of the doctrine and pastoral care of the perennial Church – and on “something that the Church cannot do, neither now nor ever,” as Cardinal Ruini has reiterated, because “only what is in keeping with God’s plan can be blessed, not what is contrary to it, such as unions between persons of the same sex” – is a sign of a definitive route reversal in the history of this institute, just as it celebrates its forty years of life.
It is a route reversal that is coming to fruition today but started long ago, beginning with the exclusion, in 2014, at the behest of Pope Francis, of any representative of the John Paul II Institute from the synod on the family, precisely the subject of its most specific expertise.
Then there was in 2016 the appointment of the ultra-Bergoglian Vincenzo Paglia as Grand Chancellor, followed the year after by the motu proprio with which Pope Francis changed the institute’s name while maintaining its attribution to John Paul II, the founder.
In the summer of 2019 the statutes were rewritten, the curriculum revamped, the teaching staff purged, starting with president Livio Melina. The protest of professors and students even gained the public support of pope emeritus Benedict XVI. But without any effect whatsoever. Even new president PierAngelo Sequeri – a Milanese theologian of acknowledged merit inexplicably retooled for this task – soon found himself on the sidelines of the new course, because of the autonomy with which he forged ahead in his theological reflection, among other things by strongly defending an interpretation of Paul VI’s highly contested encyclical “Humanae vitae” faithful to its original meaning.
But now that Sequeri has also been put on leave and replaced by Bordeyne, the institute’s alignment with the new course desired by Pope Francis is practically complete.
Go here to read the rest. Heckuva job Conclave 0f 2013, heckuva job.
The creeping mold of heresy continues unabated under anti-Pope Bergoglio. What else should we have expected as it is the game plan of Modernism in the form of Vatican II which is now in nearly full fruition undermining Catholic sexual morality?.
If God can build His church with a hand-picked Judas in it, we can certainly live with His church with a confused pope in it. Perhaps we might consider withholding the sending of any pieces of silver to Rome, or tainted charities. Remember that Christ spent much of his ministry chastising his “church’s” many hierarchal high priests long before Judas did the dirty deed. The Church; the traditional faith as handed down by the apostles, and the sacraments are holy.
Despair is the enemy now.
I’m wondering where this will all end. I’ve seen in mentioned more than once that the push for widespread acceptance of homosexuality as a normal lifestyle choice, is a deliberate agenda in order to reduce the global population (clearly gay people don’t reproduce and if they do have kids it’s via surrogates and it’s 1or 2. And it becomes a trickle effect…It seems many of these “global” issues which the Pope is deliberately taking onboard such as climate change, social and economic equity are in keeping with the global population goals. The Church is selling this blessing of homosexual unions as a way to “accept” everybody into the Church and make the Church more loving and less judgemental to increase Church numbers. But in actual fact not only will it not increase Church numbers and capture those people who have turned away because of their lifestyle or views. It will actually help to achieve this global agenda of population control. So clever!
“When you see the unholy thing in the holy place,…” Mt. 24:15
“Rome will lose the Faith,..” -Message of Our Lady at LaSallette related by Melanie Calvat, 1879 testimony
I am aware that the quote by Melanie Calvat (“4th Secret”) has been challenged by some “experts” as “inauthentic.” It was no doubt from a time in Calvat’s later life of much trial and confusion. (Nonetheless, the message of LaSallete was so threatening to “liturgical reformer” Annibale Bugnini that it was he personally who struck the September feast day from the church calendar according to Fr. Louis Bouyer. LaSallette “had to go.”)
And yet every day, elements of the 4th Message of LaSallette come more clearly into focus, much more clearly than the predictions of a “New Pentecost”resulting from Vatican II by its authors.
@Steve Phoenix: My money’s on LaSallette, too.
Will this endorsement of homosexual “relationships” not split the church in two? I don’t intend to attend a parish where this is going on. Not will I give money. There seems to be nothing that can be done.