"Defending the Faith ... " (2) Some more remarks upon the Book

Amateur Brain Surgeon said...

Dear Father. The Pope could discharge his duties to Teach, Rule and Sanctify but instead of actualising the duties of the office established by Jesus Christ, he prefers to establish substitute offices such as "The Higher Committee of Human Fraternity."

Yes, at this time in the history fo the Catholic Church, what we really need is The Higher Committee of Human Fraternity.

11 March, 2021 

coradcorloquitur said...

Why, of course, such a ridiculous and subversive "Higher Committee" is part of the enactment of the Masonic unholy "trinity" of "egalite, liberte, et fraternite." That is the guiding principle of this pope, and some in this blog claim, with vehemence, that in the history of the papacy there have been worse popes than Francis. I guess for them mistresses and bastard children and nepotism---sinful and evil as they are in the Common Father of Christians who above all is called to holiness---are much worse offenses than the hubristic contempt Francis consistently shows for Tradition and Catholic Truth. I suppose that in that reading of ecclesial reality "pelvic issues" and personal corruption are worse offenses than brazenly despising the Truth defined by the infallible magisterium of the Church: the sexual and social offenses, in this inversion, are worse than trampling on truth---a naturalistic perspective, it would seem. Except that until now Christians knew better because they did not have a Puritanical, warped morality and knew the proper hierarchy of sin, as Dante so vividly depicts in his "Commedia." Liberal sentimentality (and its ancillary: self-righteousness) has indeed wrought havoc with the proper understanding of evil of many Christians.

11 March, 2021 

Francis said...

The Pope refuses to think in terms of a conventional, codex-based articulation of the faith -- "teaching" in your sense of the word -- which for him is the rigid and stuffy "old paradigm." He is trying to engineer a shift to an infinitely flexible, situationist dispensationism in which traditional rules become guidelines, ideals or holding patterns on the journey to a new articulation of the faith. It doesn't work of course, and a future Pope will have to ditch it formally. Great will be the fall of it!

12 March, 2021 

what said...

The mere fact that they are using their magisterial docens function to "nudge" (see Cass Sunstein's book by the same title) doctrine into heresy is sufficient evidence that they intend heresy. We have over two generations of nudging in only one direction: away from orthodoxy.

We must stop playing games with words. Abstractions are insufficient to describe what is happening because what is happening is very real.

The Church's teaching function has been impeded by a foreign secular power (most likely a U.S. intelligence service), and it has been done through vilest moral subterfuge and deception. The consequences of this unprecedented act of war against the Church are nothing less than apocalyptic.

How can we even begin to recover if we refuse to admit the severity of the damage!!

12 March, 2021 

Jared Olar said...

Our copy of "Defending the Faith" arrived via the post today. I look forward to reading it (though I've already read a fair amount of the contents). I expect this volume will prove a great aid not only to the faithful today, but to the Fathers of the eventual Sixth Lateran Council, which will (of course under the presidency of the Roman Pontiff) posthumously rebuke Pope Bergoglio and nullify all of his acts. (OK, a guy can dream, can't he?)

23 March, 2021