Actions almost always speak louder than words but never more so than in this Vatican where orthodox Catholics receive nothing but words, and increasingly few of them, while the heterodox receive all the support they could wish.
PopeWatch: Actions and Words
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
One thing is certain–there is absolutely no need for a Pontius Pilate type today, since our Church leaders aren’t riling any feathers out there. Maybe it’s because they are so concerned with improving the “climate”?
Francis is out there defrocking nuns? Maybe traditionalist Catholics need to start a #MeToo movement in response to these spiritual assaults? Francis > Harvey?
One should not be surprised given Card. Aviz’s distain for contemplative life. He and the other Peronists are confederating Carmels all over Europe and America so as to sell off the property to offset the current and future financial insolvency.
Please go read the Crisis piece. The nuns thought they could avoid getting thrown out of their monastery if they donated it all to the Pope. He accepted, then threw them out anyway, ordering the remaining five nuns, who all wished to live together, to 5 different monasteries. One of the nuns was 97 years old. The rumor is that the Vatican wanted the property because it sits on the Amalfi coast and would make a great site for a hotel. The two nuns who refused to leave their home and were defrocked had to find free shelter from a local hotel owner. Apparently, these two formerly cloistered, voluntarily impoverished nuns were left to fend for themselves. Francis the merciful strikes again!
Braz de Aviz is a horror show, but he was appointed to his office by…Benedict XVI.
He and JPII wanted to keep peace by allowing diverse voices a voice.
Bergoglio wants to win.
That’s why the latter will have more impact on the Roman Catholic Church over the next century.
Sure, some future ressourcement scholar of the 23rd Century will probably dust off the works of the former men, and such will no doubt be of assistance to the 50,000,000-odd beleaguered Catholics across the globe.
I am far more optimistic than you are Dale. I think Francis is the Julian the Apostate of the Catholic Left. There foot soldiers are simply leaving the Church and not being replaced.
From an early age I have had a consistent problem with authority figures. PF is more proof it is not misplaced.
My son was in an engineering grad school that had a number of students from Latin America. Over two or three school breaks we had in our house the son and two brilliant students from Argentina.
I engaged them in conversation and recounted how Argentina like America is endowed with educated, industrious people and natural resources and asked why they thought Argentina was such a basket case. They said it’s the rotten caudillos that keep getting elected and keep mucking up everything. PF fits that mold.
We also had in our home over one Easter two brilliant young women – one from Colombia and one from Costa Rica. They made sure they got to Easter Mass with our two not unhappy sons. Also, that was the day the SEALS shot the Somali prates that held Capt. Phelps.
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Don, the problem is bigger than Bergoglio. He’s the worst symptom of a church which in the main is tired and wants peace with the world. Josiah didn’t fix Judah and better popes won’t fix our problems.
Josiah didn’t fix Judah and better popes won’t fix our problems.
We have Christ not Josiah at our head and the Catholic faithful are our long term solution, although no more popes like Francis the Worst would be a step in the right direction. Christ did not found His Church to see it end in a whimper.