It’s said that everyone has their breaking point. Anyone who continues on the “Pope Francis” train past this station should be prepared to start questioning their own sanity. How many times do you need to see the law of non-contradiction *seemingly* broken, before you start to scratch your head and think, “Wait, that can’t happen”?
You know how someone should have told Luther that you can’t just rip out the parts of the bible you don’t like, and you can’t change the verses to better suit your liking? Well, someone should have told the Argentinian the same thing about the Catechism of the Catholic Church, because not only did he change it, but now he has driven a stake through it.
Conveniently, Diane Montagna has put together a powerhouse follow-up to her initial reportage yesterday of the Bergoglian Faux Mercy Machine on the Death Penalty HERE. Thank God for the work she is doing at LifeSite, since the general media blackout otherwise continues unabated. Her piece is a must read.
She first captures commentary by Edward Feser, and then she brings in an anonymous theologian: Dominican vs Argentinian in a steel cage death match. It’s a rather lopsided battle. Next up is a Catholic historian, Dr. Alan Fimister, who ends the scene by quoting the great Elizabeth Anscombe. Turns out Anscombe vs Argentinian is pretty decisive as well.
God is immutable. The Church, the Mystical Body of Christ, is immutable. It’s not that difficult a concept. When true popes teach, they document their orthodoxy by generously footnoting key points with references to Scripture, Fathers, Doctors, and past popes. A true pope goes out of his way to point out, “Hey, this isn’t new.” Go to vatican.va and pull up any document from any past pope. You will quickly see, this is how it’s done.
What can one say about a “Bishop of Rome” who claims the One True Faith was wrong – long on justice and short on mercy, with an immature conscience – from 33 A.D. to 2013 A.D. How could he contradict scripture, Tradition, Fathers and Doctors of the Church, and all of his “predecessors’? How can he deliberately misquote Aquinas (as he did in Amoris Laetitia as well) in trying to get support for his utterly novel teaching (which a scholar of ten years old can discover in ten seconds that Aquinas teaches exactly the opposite, and he does it in Articles 2-3 of the very same Question 64 that the Argentinian cites HERE.)
Imagine how profoundly UNPROTECTED one must be from the supernatural graces our Lord and Savior promised to Peter and his successors, to wake up one morning and decide to take on Saint Thomas Aquinas and invert his teachings. Imagine then GETTING AWAY WITH IT, cue the accompanying endorphin rush, BECAUSE SILENCE.
Oh yes, BTW he is still Argentinian, you know. Renewed his Argentinian passport, even though he’s the purported Head of State of a different sovereign entity. It’s almost like a sign, or something. He also doesn’t live where popes live. He also doesn’t wear what popes wear. He also doesn’t give the apostolic blessing like popes do. He also likes to be called bishop, not pope. Nothing to see here.
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I love the scare asterisks you put around the word, “seemingly.” What is the difference between seeming to contradict the words of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, and actually doing so, anyway?
The *seemingly* refers to the law of non-contradiction seemingly being broken by Bergoglio in a continual basis. Except the law cannot be broken. Ergo, Bergoglio must not be pope.
Never genuflects or kneels before the Blessed Sacrament. What previous pope would not have been ridden out of Rome on a rail if he did that?
But but but His Humbleness kneels to kiss the feet of infidels. You’re just a Prophet of Doom.
I venerate the Supreme Pontiff because his authority is bestowed by Christ and the product of the Universal Magisterium over time in Sacred Tradition.
The Supreme Pontiff is the servant of that which gives him authority. *Second*. Not first. Whoever validly occupies the Office is a servant *first*: to Christ; to the Universal Magisterium; to the Servants Of God; to the Faithful.
A Pope must be validly elected according to the sacred words of Christ and the binding Tradition of the Universal Magisterium. No shortcuts. No innovations. Nothing “new”. What we have is perfect. “New” means less than perfect – evil perhaps.
The Faithful have a right and a duty to demand that their Pope serve within the constraints of the Universal Magisterium which is the only road to heaven.