http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/news/2018/08/14/vatican-advisor-pope-breaks-catholic-traditions-whenever-he-wants/ Vatican advisor: Pope ‘breaks Catholic traditions whenever he wants’ by Staff Reporter Tuesday, 14 Aug 2018 (Getty Images) Fr Thomas Rosica said the Church is now 'ruled by an individual rather than by... its own dictates of tradition plus Scripture' Under Pope Francis, the Church is now “openly ruled by an individual rather than by the authority of Scripture alone or even its own dictates of tradition plus Scripture,” a Vatican advisor has said. Fr Thomas Rosica wrote that Pope Francis “breaks Catholic traditions whenever he wants” because he is “free from disordered attachments”. Fr Rosica, a Canadian priest and media advisor to the Vatican, was writing on the website of Salt & Light Catholic Media Foundation, of which he is CEO. The article, written two weeks ago, was republished by the news agency Zenit. After Fr Rosica’s statements came to attention on social media, Zenit removed the controversial statement and replaced it with “[…]”. Fr Rosica said that, as a Jesuit, Pope Francis is guided by the principle of “discernment” which at times results in “freeing him from the confinement of doing something in a certain way because it was ever thus”. The article, which was published on the Feast of St Ignatius of Loyola, the founder of the Jesuits, said that Pope Francis has brought “Jesuit intellectualism” to the papacy. Fr Rosica’s words came days before the Vatican announced Pope Francis had changed the Catechism to state the death penalty is now “inadmissible”. The alteration caused much debate as to what the term meant, and whether it contradicted traditional Church teaching, which holds that the death penalty is not intrinsically evil.
I am absolutely in no way excusing the article - in fact I'm glad it was posted because it serves to highlight more problems with the n.o. in my opinion, but they've been omitting these verses for years (please correct if wrong). I screenshot the readings listed from pdfs of the USA 1998 edition as well as the 1994 Canadian edition showing that the 28th Sunday in ordinary time from Tuesday to Wednesday skips these verses, but I can't figure out how to upload the screenshots
“Freeing him from the confinement of doing things in a certain way because it was ever thus” That about sums up Francis’ Papacy Btw I recently read an article that Pope Francis, because he is a Jesuit, really should never be Pope since Jesuit rules forbid it I am not sure of the rationale,but he needed special permission from the Order and no one can find if he got it or not Just another murky area edit: I just remembered where I read that...on a website called "Canon Law Made Easy" I am not going around saying we have an invalid Pope, but when I read that, it made me think about all of the murky stuff going on in the Vatican, changing things. Daily now, it seems.
Michael Voris isn't exactly Fr. Rossica's No. 1 fan. He gives some of his reasons in the attached, published last October: https://www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/p With the latest scandals coming to light in the US, some of the comments are interesting. Scroll down the comments to an exchange between Paul54 and S. Bond about the seminaries in Florida. There's a rather long comment from S. Bond which, if accurate, is downright scary
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A special place in Hell. McCarrick ought to cop on now and tell what he knows, if he wants to avoid the 'special place'.
Sickening. No other word. The Dragon seems to be crushing the Church. I believe that the enemy will be soundly defeated but when? I don’t believe I will see it from this side of heaven. But who knows.
God's ways are not our ways, and His timing is not our timing, but yes, I would like to see some very swift action along about now.
If anyone is closely following developments in the Church yet still asleep regarding this papacy, they are either willfully ignorant or in agreement with the apostasy being promoted by this Vatican regime. https://onepeterfive.com/playing-with-fire-rosica-francis-and-the-spirit-of-the-antichrist Playing With Fire: Rosica, Francis, and the Spirit of the Antichrist Steve SkojecAugust 14, 2018 0 Comments “And he shall speak words against the High One, and shall crush the saints of the most High: and he shall think himself able to change times and laws, and they shall be delivered into his hand until a time, and times, and half a time.” –Daniel 7:25 I wrote before, years ago, that I believe Pope Francis to be a type of the Antichrist. A forerunner. A precursor. A man who “shares some noteworthy characteristics and ideological predilections that have long been foretold” of this apocalyptic figure. Some people bristled at this. Some scoffed. Fewer, I think, would do so today, especially when re-reading in our present ecclesiastical context the quote I provided from Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen’s Communism and the Conscience of the West: The Antichrist will not be so called; otherwise he would have no followers…he will come disguised as the Great Humanitarian; he will talk peace, prosperity and plenty not as means to lead us to God, but as ends in themselves… He will tempt Christian(s) with the same three temptations with which he tempted Christ… He will have one great secret which he will tell to no one: he will not believe in God. Because his religion will be brotherhood without the fatherhood of God, he will deceive even the elect. He will set up a counterchurch … It will have all the notes and characteristics of the Church, but in reverse and emptied of its divine content. It will be a mystical body of Antichrist that will in all externals resemble the mystical body of Christ. I invite you to read and compare this to the words of the Basilian father, Vatican spokesman, and founder of Canada’s Salt & Light TV, published yesterday, about Pope Francis: Pope Francis breaks Catholic traditions whenever he wants because he is “free from disordered attachments.” Our Church has indeed entered a new phase: with the advent of this first Jesuit pope, it is openly ruled by an individual rather than by the authority of Scripture alone or even its own dictates of tradition plus Scripture. He shall think himself able to change times and laws, and they shall be delivered into his hand… The same Fr. Rosica gushed, back in 2015 during the pope’s visit to the United States, that he had “often wondered how Jesus taught on a Galilean hillside.” And that “tonight in Philadelphia,” he “saw how Jesus taught.” Again, the following day, as a caption to a photo of the papal motorcade, “‘See, your king comes to you, gentle & riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey’ -Matthew 21:15 (not in Philadelphia!)” Most disturbingly, Fr. Rosica said during an interview with Fox News: The backdrop [of the papal visit] is a world steeped in violence and bloodshed and rancor and hatred, and here we have coming — to your city, to your diocese — a real prince of peace. If there’s any princely title that should be associated with Francis, it’s “The Prince of Peace.” Con’t
Con’t This, Our Lord’s prophetic title in Isaiah 9:6, applied to a man who “breaks Catholic traditions whenever he wants” and who rules the Church by his own dictates “rather than by the authority of Scripture alone or even its own dictates of tradition plus Scripture”? This is some very dangerous fire Rosica is playing with here. Rosica, again, is not just any obscure priest with a papal idolatry problem. According to his own biography: Following the announcement on February 11, 2013 of Pope Benedict XVI’s resignation, Fr. Rosica was invited by the Vatican to join the staff of the Holy See Press Office and serve as one of the official spokespersons for the transition in the papacy that included the resignation, Sede Vacante, Conclave and election of the new Pope. Fr. Rosica assisted the Vatican during a critical period in Church history. At the end of the Papal transition in April 2013, the Vatican asked him to serve as English language assistant to the Holy See Press Office. From 2013 to the end of 2016, he served in this capacity on behalf of the Holy See Press Office. He is a man known to the pope. He has made comments that are idolatrous and arguably blasphemous. Comments so far beyond the pale that the Zenit news agency quietly made them disappear from an initial report that originally included them. Where is the correction from the pope? How could a good shepherd allow such a thing to be said without reproof? How could a man universally acclaimed as humble fail to be horrified at being described in such a way? In having it suggested that he could simply override Scripture and Tradition at whim? I’ll give you one theory as to how: he agrees. Because he has demonstrated time and again that what Rosica said is exactly what he believes. If not this, then what? Is he too busy overturning Catholic teaching to read someone talking about him doing it and, consequently, to correct him? As Francis continues to unmake the papacy, to shake the foundations of Catholic belief, and to chip away at the deposit of faith, the American Church awaits a grand jury report from the state of Pennsylvania outlining the alleged abuses perpetrated by three hundred priests in six of the state’s eight dioceses. Around the country, more allegations are surfacing as the faithful grow increasingly angry at an episcopacy that has betrayed their trust again. In Chile, just minutes before I began writing this, news broke that authorities were raiding the offices of the Catholic bishops’ conference to obtain evidence on clerical sex abuse. Chile, where Pope Francis stubbornly kept Bishop Juan Barros, accused of complicity in the abuse of young men, calling the people of that country “stupid” for believing the accusations, shaming the victims, until at last public pressure forced his hand. Chile, from whence comes Cardinal Francisco Javier Errázuriz, one of the pope’s council of nine cardinal advisers – a man also accused of complicity in abuse, but nevertheless allowed to retain his position by the pope. Last night, I was asked by someone what the path forward from here is. How can the Church restore the glory she once had? My answer: I don’t think there is a path from where we are to what needs to happen. There are many small communities doing it – intentionally living and believing as closely as possible the way Catholics always did before the second half of the 20th century – but I think they’ll always be marginalized as long as there’s an institutional need to perpetuate the lie that the changes were good and that they’ll ever bear fruit. We know they weren’t. We know they haven’t. The post-conciliar Church is a barren tree. And like the fig tree from scripture, I think Christ has cursed it. It is imploding at an astonishing pace as the errors, the perversions, and even the heresies it promotes continue to be ever more brazen. So I think, as I wrote in my Infinity War piece, that the Church must be almost completely destroyed to be raised up again. It’s the only way. And God is letting it happen – perhaps even accelerating it. It has to happen. And it’s actually a good thing, even though it doesn’t look like it, that it’s happening in conservative dioceses, too. Because the idea that there’s somewhere to hide from sin, or that careful cultivation of orthodoxy (or, often as not, the veneer thereof) can keep you safe is a big fat lie. I was inside the Legionaries of Christ and Regnum Christi. Their conservatism, their vocations program, their superficial orthodoxy would put the Lincoln Diocese to shame. We all know how that turned out. People need to be led back to personal holiness. They need to develop a sense of the worship of God, not this humanistic garbage. They need to understand the role of the Church in the world and in relationship to other religions, Christian and otherwise. They need to grasp the differences in the roles of the baptismal and ministerial priesthood, respecting and revering the latter without falling into the dangerous kind of clericalism. There’s so much we’ve lost. We need to get it back and then keep going. In this, as in all things we’ve suffered over these years of the true Church in exile, the only way out is through.
I just spent a week on retreat at a monastery in Lagrasse, France with the Canons Regular of the Mother of God. I recommend a visit there, much better than fleeing to the desert! Traditional Latin Mass, Divine Office sung in Gregorian chant and the most humble, joyful priests I have ever met. It was like a foretaste of heaven. So hard to come back to the world after it... One of their Canons was recently ordained by none other than Cardinal Sarah, a regular visitor.
IT'S OUT NOW: Finally another "swamp" being drained? And this stuff hasn't even begun in the secular (and other faiths as well) world. But it's coming in this time of purification and exposure. People must take one side or the other....good or evil. This can be a prep for the Warning! Of course there will be no pulling of the punches in such "journalistic" reports with their favorite target as there have been when it comes to the most notorious public school/education systems or elsewhere. But blessed are those who have the opportunity to repent and do something in reparation for the future. The others are being given no favors in the long run. Report coming from Shephard Smith (ugh!) on FOX at 3:00 eastern....titled "Crisis in the Catholic Church". Pray for the priests in general....another period of persecution coming for the good ones. 301 ‘Predator Priests’ Named In Pa. Grand Jury Sex Abuse Report: ‘They Were Raping Little Boys & Girls’ The 1,300-plus page document, two years in the making, shines a light into the dark corners of these dioceses going back seven decades, exposing the predators and the efforts of their bishops to protect them. The report begins with the following statement: “We, the members of this grand jury, need you to hear this. We know some of you have head some of it before. There have been other reports about child sex abuse within the Catholic Church. But never on this scale. For many of us, those earlier stories happened someplace else, someplace away. Now we know the truth: it happened everywhere.” The report cites 301 priests, clergy and lay teachers with credible allegations against them. There are 99 in the Diocese of Pittsburgh alone. Of those 99, a group of four groomed and violently sexually assaulted young boys, said Shapiro. Because of an on-going legal battle, more than a dozen names and identifying information have been redacted. But the report shows a consistent pattern of bishops having prior knowledge of the actions of these predatory priests, reassigning them and not alerting law enforcement. Attorney General Josh Shapiro said his office is not satisfied with the release of the redacted report. Shapiro said each one of those redactions represents a story of abuse that deserves to be told. He went on to say that he will fight to reveal the names currently redacted in the report. CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL REPORT The report states: “All victims were brushed aside, in every part of the state, by church leaders who preferred to protect the abusers and their institution above all. The main thing was not to help children, but to avoid scandal.” “Priests were raping little boys and girls and the men of God who were responsible for them not only did nothing: they hid it all.” “Diocesan administrators, including the Bishops, had knowledge of this conduct and yet priests were regularly placed in ministry after the Diocese was on notice that a complaint of child sexual abuse had been made. This conduct enabled offenders and endangered the welfare of children.” In addition, the report says administrators and Bishops “often dissuaded victims from reporting abuse to police, pressured law enforcement to terminate or avoid an investigation, or conducted their own deficient, biased investigations without reporting crimes against children to the proper authorities.” “Above all else, they protected their institution at all cost,” Shapiro said. The report includes some priests who stood trial and were convicted of sexual assault. In the Diocese of Pittsburgh, they include: Father Robert Wolk of St. Thomas More in Bethel Park; Father Richard Zula of Saints Mary and Ann in Marianna, Washington County, and Father Richard Dorsch, convicted of sexually assaulting a 13-year-old boy in North Park. Until now, the Pittsburgh Diocese had been considered a leader in those reforms since now Cardinal, then bishop, Donald Wuerl defied the Vatican back in 1993 by refusing to reassign pedophile priest Anthony Cipolla. Wuerl was a leader in formulating policies to protect children, but in the report, his record here also comes under fire. https://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/201...diocese-sex-abuse-grand-jury-report-released/
Fr. Kevin M. Cusick (Blue Check Mark here) @MCITLFrAphorism You are witnessing FrancisChurch collapse: hang on for a rocky ride all the way to the bottom but, when we get there, our Faith will still be intact though many of the powerful will have fallen. Not even Satan himself has the power to destroy that. Fr. Kevin tweeted that today. Raymond Arroyo, on Fr.'s twitter page, has said that the Pennsylvania Grand Jury Report encompasses 1947-to the present.
So sad to hear a priest say Catholic traditions are disordered attachments and to debase the Word of God to the level of a pope's rule when it is the Pope that serves the Word, not the other way around. It is via tradition that we have Jesus here today among us in the Eucharist, so thank God for the Catholic traditions. I pray to the Lord for this lost soul...
