tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6312447.post3868492859176225337..comments2024-01-29T08:39:40.754-05:00Comments on Musings of a Pertinacious Papist: Robert Spaemann alarmed by Amoris Laetitia: fears rupture, schismUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6312447.post-1047289347335631812016-05-04T21:54:00.927-04:002016-05-04T21:54:00.927-04:00At work today a professor and I both read some adm...<br />At work today a professor and I both read some administrative tripe and both spontaneously at the same time responded with, "WHAT DOES THAT EVEN MEAN?" That's the same emotion I have reading almost anything Pope Francis says. At least Isabelle Allende is artful. Francis is more like a Catholic Joel Osteen. Sorry, but as a convert I feel no obligation to further that Vatican smoke and mirrors. Francis is pope, yes. A bad pope... I don't know, but I am willing to say it sure seems like it. If he can call people bad, why can't I? Peter was certainly a screw-up.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6312447.post-62515742224594269002016-05-04T11:41:41.674-04:002016-05-04T11:41:41.674-04:00And he continues: “To admit exceptions in individu...And he continues: “To admit exceptions in individual cases is an impasse. I made this clear in my interpretation guide. What is impossible for reasons of Faith, is impossible also in the individual case. This was valid before the publication of Amoris Laetitia, just as it is valid thereafter.”- Cardinal Walter Brandmüller<br />http://www.onepeterfive.com/brandmuller-retreats-but-repeats-his-affirmation/<br /><br /><br />But judgment is not only about condemning; it also means acquitting.The presumption here, and throughout the chapter, is that pastors can in fact render a judgment of acquittal on consciences so the people in irregular unions can move forward. But if we cannot and should not judge the souls of others, then we can neither condemn them by saying they are certainly guilty of mortal sin, nor can we acquit them saying they are not subjectively culpable for choosing grave matter. We cannot judge.-E. Christian Brugger, Five Serious Problems with Chapter 8 of Amoris Laetitia<br /><br />http://eucharistandmission.blogspot.it/2016/04/but-if-we-shouldntand-indeed-cantrender.html<br /><br /><br />Moral and faith teachings have been changed by the contemporary magisterium by assuming we can judge what only God can judge<br />http://eucharistandmission.blogspot.it/2016/05/moral-and-faith-teachings-have-been.htmlCatholic Missionhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06025127342963192930noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6312447.post-29624693096541261042016-05-04T10:14:33.883-04:002016-05-04T10:14:33.883-04:00Spaemann's second last answer in his interview...Spaemann's second last answer in his interview describes exactly the process of induced corruption which distinguished Vatican II: concocting in documents as well as in the public statements of participants "filled with the Spirit" an ambiguous language that can be twisted like taffy. Said participants, however, understand that beneath the ambiguity is a favored subtext, an interpretative key, that only those "filled with the Spirit" of cronyism can understand CORRECTLY. These pneumatological cronies, of course, assume positions of authority in the Church, control communications, control promotions, etc, thus assuring that their interpretation, and only theirs, becomes the dominant one. Their pneumatological putsch is of course abetted by a dumbed down laity and squadrons of flannelmouthed "convert" commentators, the latter usually paid for their services. <br /><br />That is the way it was done at the council. In the absence of a council, a synod will do.<br /><br />Kind of makes you wonder, doesn't it? You have a modernist pope who despises traditionalism, but is nonetheless going beyond the efforts of any previous pope to entice the traditionalist SSPX back into the fold. Why?<br /><br />Maybe because, once they are in, their voices will be that much easier to squelch, especially in the face of future semi-schismatic charm offensives issuing from future synods. They will be subject to the most severe forms of discipline, and will be unable to leave a second time without losing all credibility. They will be rendered totally ineffective as the leaders of the Catholic Church continue their fifty year razing of the sacraments, our bastions in happier days.<br /><br />Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer, teaches Pope Helterskelter I. Poor Yoricknoreply@blogger.com