No risk of being a pure Church under this Pope.
PopeWatch: Relax
- 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.
Matthew 5:48 – Be you therefore perfect, as also your heavenly Father is perfect.
Eventually, God is going to be extremely violent towards those who do not repent of their errors. That is half the point of the Second Coming. Footstool, lake of fire, and all that. But of course Francis worships a different God, one that is perfectly fine with sin and error.
Responding to JFK:
How often I have seen this pope directly contradicting the very words of Jesus, and substituting his own ideas. Jesus says to his disciples “Be perfect”; Francis, misconstruing the Parable of the Weeds, says “The church doesn’t have to be perfect.” But the field of the parable represents the world as a whole, and not the church in particular. The church is supposed to be as holy as it can possibly be, in a world full of sin.
G. Poulin it is much worse. I saw these quotes last week from Archbishop Victor Manuel Fernandez.
Revolution From the Top in the Catholic Church – The Stream
https://stream.org/revolution-from-the-top-in-the-catholic-church/
“All Are Saved.”
Perhaps more importantly, Fernandez embraces universalism, the idea that everybody will receive eternal salvation regardless of their faith or deeds, as The Stream has discussed. Universalism neuters the Gospel by making Jesus’ atoning death and resurrection irrelevant.
Yet the new prelate for the DDF said in a 1995 interview, “I rely firmly upon the truth that all are saved.” That “truth” appears in Amoris Laetitia, which Fernandez heavily influenced: “No one can be condemned forever, because that is not the logic of the Gospel!”
A papal document ignoring Jesus’ constant warnings of eternal damnation effectively preaches a “new gospel.”
A friend wrote me, “To borrow from Frank Sheed, you can’t go more than two pages in the gospel without Jesus threatening someone with Hell.”
I get the impression that Fernandez (as well as Francis) wouldn’t understand the logic of the gospel if it bit them in the fanny. Unrepentant sinners are damned because: A) They deserve it; and B) Their eternal damnation is part of our eternal reward, our vindication for putting up with their crap our whole life long. God’s mercy is temporary, to give men a chance to repent and reform their lives. His justice is eternal. Our church leaders are dopes.
Every time I read something that this Argentinian nit wit says, I just want to yell and screem, “That’s NOT Catholic!” I pray that God removes him from the Seat of St. Peter as quickly as possible, preferrable by forced exile to an iolated cell in a monestary on Mount Athos (I can’t make myself wish him dead, the other way whereby he would vacate the Seat). Sadly, however, the way he has stacked the desk, we could get a Pope far worse than he.
This guy’s giving Presminent Joe the Wondercorpse serious competition for the 2023 Brainless Meanderings trophy.
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