Rather like the French Marshal who took over a German town during the Napoleonic Wars and pronounced: You are all free now, but don’t let it go to your heads. Do anything without my approval and you will be shot.
PopeWatch: Synodal Pope
- 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.
Colossal waste of “tax-payer” money by the ruling elite at the expense of the “little people.”
Do they remember voting on the spontaneous blessing of ss people on steps of church? Yeah.. I didn’t think so.
Btw, are they using the steps like they once used side altars (mixed couples couldn’t marry at high altar)
Isn’t it about time for a massive sick out?
Maybe they could all collect in St. Peter Square, get on their knees and scream at the sky?
Good.
The more of a train wreck the Synod to Approve Odd Sin becomes, the easier it will be for later, holier Catholics to ignore it.
Next, we all attend the listening sessions, invited or uninvited, and tell them this is stupid dangerous idiocy. It will likely have no effect on the Kool Aid drinkers running the session, but it might wake up somebody else in attendance.
Yes, it’s (much) easier to rail about Francis from across an ocean, but saints have spoken in far riskier situations than these.
Possibly the example of Pope Formosus in the 9th century will remind some that Popes come and go and often leave a mixed record. He was tolerated by the curia until he died. Later dug up and tried for malfeasance and his remains thrown into the Tiber. While that would not be done today, it is quite possible that a deceased Pope could simply be relegated to the ranks of the unmemorable and not be spoken of in polite company.
Would not be done today…
In 1910, Europe was Victorian. By 1940, soldiers were slaughtering and raping civilians in cities.
The crowd that hailed Jesus on Palm Sunday had him crucified within a week.
Man is always a step away from barbarism.
Thankfully, he is also always one confession away from salvation.
MrsOpey, my grandparents were married in the rectory since my Grandfather was a Protestant of some sort and wasn’t allowed to be married in the Church building. A few years later he became Catholic.
Truth and beauty are attractive. Logic and facts persuade. Francis has none of those things on his side. So, since he cannot attract and persuade, he must impose his will by fiat and manipulation. Every one of his pointless synods has been engineered to give the appearance of consultation, when in reality the results were prearranged.
Francis has made it perfectly clear he doesn’t give a damn about collegiality nor does he care what either the bishops nor the laity think— unless they happen to agree with him.
JFK, the part of my family who were Catholic were married that way (all marrying non-Catholics).The other side were staunch anti-Catholics.
My family fought each other over beliefs
JFK/Mrs.Opey: Same with me and my late Baptist wife. By the time my current wife and I married (she is Buddhist) it was in church with both families present. No arguments.
Mrs.Opey, Christmas and Thanksgiving dinners must have been fun. Luckily my own in-laws don’t bring it up. I won’t back down if pressed on a matters of faith or discipline.
My grandfather’s sisters and their husbands were always Protestant. As a little kid, I never understood why they didn’t go to the same churches and go up for Communion when they came to our parish for a special event such as a Baptism. It would be much simpler if everyone just became Catholic…
The Vatican chattering class continues to spend the pewsitters money.
My parents were married in the church rectory with only the maternal parents, matron of honor and best man present. Mother wore a long white gown and an heirloom veil. Dad and his best man were in uniform. For years my mother (Catholic) was miffed about being married in the rectory instead of the large, beautiful church her family had supported. My father (Congregational Protestant ) had no qualms about agreeing to bring up children in the Catholic Faith. He always went to Mass with us and when on TDY (temporary duty assignment) always attended Mass. He insisted we attend Catholic schools. After his widowed mother died he became a Catholic. My brother and I attended his Baptism and Confirmation.