Burn of the Day

The deliberate ambiguity in every area—liturgy, moral teaching, dogmatics—is the worst dragon’s teeth sown at Vatican II. Every teacher, priest, bishop can come up with their own “Church teaching.”

Another recent example of this was P. Leo’s confusing comments April 23rd in response to his refusal to explicitly correct Card. Reinhard Marx’s allowing “same sex blessings:”

“ We tend to think that when the church is talking about morality, that the only issue of morality is sexual,” said the pope during the in-flight press conference. “And in reality, I believe there are much greater, more important issues, such as justice, equality, freedom of men and women, freedom of religion, that would all take priority before that particular issue.”

So, not only permitting by silence and re-direction something that was once morally unthinkable, the Supreme Teacher of the Faith communicated ambiguity, that immoral sexual acts are only unimportant “peccadillos,” not mortally sinful and ultimate impediments to eternal life: The “big sins” are against “justice, equality and freedom” —certainly a fair conclusion permitted by his failure to explicitly distinguish teaching on these matters. And his silence on Card. Marx’s actions prove that.

Yet S. Maria Goretti replied vehemently to her attacker Alessandro Serenelli when he suggested they should commit a sexual act, “Oh, no, Alessandro! Then we would both go to hell!”

No moral ambiguity there.