Why complain about the Pope if you don’t like him? You can’t do anything about it, so just get on with doing what you can do with what you have where you are. Maybe before long we will have a different pope.” Is he a bad pope? I give him the benefit of the doubt and realize, sometimes we have good popes. What can we learn from him? Is he a great pope? Time will tell. He’s from a different culture and background. My attitude to the Vatican corruption, immorality amongst the hierarchy, financial skullduggery and Pope Francis’ ambiguous teaching was simply, “He’s the Pope. Some time ago I made it a policy to not criticize Pope Francis. Pedro Gabriel, Reading Benedict and Francis with a hermeneutic of continuity – Where Peter Is Pope Francis and Confusion Only then will it be possible to truly evangelize our world. This is how we acquire a fuller and more comprehensive understanding of the truth. Rather, we must seek to understand that both truth and mercy, both Benedict and Francis, complement each other. We should not try to see, preach, or sell rupture where it does not exist.
But we should also read Benedict in light of Francis’s developments. Yes, we must read Francis in light of the foundation laid by Benedict. When we run into a contradiction between the Magisterium and our own presumptions about the faith, we must rediscover a hermeneutic of continuity.
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When we free ourselves from a culture war mindset and take an eagle-eye view of history, the lines that connect both pontificates are obvious. The continuity between Francis and Benedict is real, and it becomes very clear when we distance ourselves from reductionist dichotomies that worldly ideologies constantly try to impose. Pope Francis and The Continuity With Benedict In this issue I present to you tunes from the BCCT on…ġ5 Things You Didn’t Know About Pope Francis I even added a few other things not found in the larger collage of writings. So I decided to take what I gathered and break it up into smaller posts based on themes instead of particular individual Catholic websites. UFO: Stanley Jaki and the Theology of Aliens ( June 16, 2021)- OnePeterFiveīut of course with so many samples of things to look at in one semi-long post, several nifty, pithy and unique writings and more can get lost in the shuffle.
I have found great consolation in the fact that someone holier and smarter than myself has likely asked my questions already my job is to find them and to listen, and then to make as many people as possible read block quotations about it. It is nevertheless important to listen, as much as we can, to a broad chorus of Catholic thinkers. The diversity of thought within Catholic teaching, like variety within the strictures of sonnets, is one of its most beautiful features.
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