Opening the General Assembly of the Italian Bishops' Conference, Pope Francis expresses his concern with rigid seminarians, "We have seen, frequently, seminarians who look good, but who are rigid. Rigidity is not of a good spirit; behind that rigidity there are some big problems" pic.twitter.com/rZCwFVOEg9
— Catholic Sat (@CatholicSat) May 24, 2021
The Pope never ceases to proclaim how much he hates orthodox young priests.
Pope: “Why are your hands put together?” “Are the stuck?”
Altar boy; “Because I’m praying to God that your not some imposter infiltrating our Holy Catholic
Church.”
Altar boy; “Why don’t you put your hands together Holy Father?”
fictional dialogue, however the Pope did confront an altar boy at the very beginning of his papacy. “Are they stuck?” He did, jokingly or not, say that to a humble server and it was disturbing to me.
Orthodoxy is rigid PF?
Here’s what’s rigid inho.
Agreeing to a communist regime to allow the selection process of Bishops be solely the government’s responsibility. That’s a very rigid position to take. Removal of Jesus in his own Church and substituting Him with the national leader is about as rigid as it gets.
When St. Pope JP II, at the time Bishop, was pressured to “stay in his own lane” by the communist government in Poland, he did the opposite. He refused to allow the government to subvert Our Holy Catholic Church. He refused to be silenced. The stones from faithful Catholics were hauled in to build that Church, the Ark, in defiance of the government.
That’s more than moxie.
That’s strength in God.
Pope Francis and China?
I’ll leave those opinions for the persecuted Catholics living there.
They know what the meaning of rigid is. It’s the color of bruises, welts and beatings. They would love to have orthodoxy but they risk punishment to have it.
They can get catholicism lite directly from their government clerics…you know, the one the Pope supports.
Please excuse my typos…
(they) are many.
What does he even mean when he says Rigid? I mean, he says it, but I don’t have a clue what he’s talking about.
People more religious than him. A low bar.
Are the Germans and Fr. Martin rigid in their endorsement of sodomy? Asking for a friend.
The broken record that is the Roman pontiff continues to skip.
Driving out men with a calling is part of his long game, which is for one of his successors to ordain women. The question is, will the fanatically progressive and moneyed Teutons force the issue before the frog is cooked?
Oh, and note the rumblings from the Italian bishops’ conference, which show him being in favor of returning the Latin Mass to indult status. I am hearing conflicting authoritative reports on that. But the strawman he’s quoted as using sure sounds like the Master of Convenient Anecdotes we’ve heard over the past 8 years.
The Church was built on a rock, not a Jell-O mold. Sounds rigid to me.
I assume he’s talking about the actual clericalism seen in South America, but he keeps seeing it everywhere he looks. Has anyone seen a copy of the letter from the Congregation for the Clergy?
Oh, good grief. There he goes again. When I saw this tweet I thought it was from yesteryear when PF blathered on about the same subject. So happy to hear we still have”rigid” seminarians that so trouble Him.
Truth is rigid. The Way, the Truth and the Life was quite explicit.
By modernist standards the biblical prophets could be called rigid. I can think of a devil’s advocate presentation where the modernists would end up on the side of Cain against Abel and on the side of the mob stoning St. Stephen to death. The outlines of such a presentation can be found in Christ’s woes in both Luke 11:37-54 and Matthew 23.