PopeWatch: Galatians Again

In a way this pontificate is a long playing album of the greatest hits of Pope Francis where he repeats himself over and over and over again:

The Pope added that throughout history, even today, similar situations can arise where some propose a rigid religiosity or an artificial asceticism, with an “inflexibility that takes away from us that freedom in the Spirit that Christ’s redemption gives us.” We need to be aware of this reality, he noted, and this Letter to the Galatians speaks about it and encourages us to go forward “in the paschal vocation of Jesus”.

That was from yesterday.  Go here to read the PopeWatch of October 11, 2016 on precisely the same subject.  PopeWatch quotes himself:

Gag. May we never make another Jesuit a Pope is my fervent prayer. Of course in Galatians Saint Paul was concerned with members of the Church seeking to impose Jewish ritual purity laws on Gentile converts, particularly circumcision. Contra the Pope, Galatians is not a general antinomian screed. Additionally, the Holy Spirit is not taught in Galatians to be a vehicle by which every half baked piece of tripe new teaching can be smuggled into the Church under the banner of being open to the Holy Spirit. Presumably Pope Francis is so hell bent to enact his changes in the Church that he is blind that his interpretation of Galatians leads to a Protestantism on steroids where every man, woman and child can claim that any teaching they dream up is caused by the Holy Spirit. However, perhaps for him that is a feature not a bug? Naah, the Pope gives little evidence of thinking through the logical consequences of anything he writes or says.

One reason this is a purgatory of a pontificate which stretches out endlessly is because the Pope says nothing which he has not said many times before.  Bad enough that we are cursed with a heterodox Pope, but a boring heterodox Pope is truly diabolical.

And with that PopeWatch will be on Labor Day hiatus until September 7, 2021.