There is a true Papist blog I read frequently, and the writer there has given me the courtesy of writing and saying that he hopes I abandon my Calvinist heresy and am received into the Roman Church. He says this with all sincerity, for he sees there is no other church.
And I know enough Catholic theology to know where he is coming from, and why I disagree with that theology. Which is not the point of this post. It is that the strength of the Romans is the exhaustive catechesis: the difficulty in obtaining holy orders, the restrictions and disciplines they put their pastors under… many of which are tradition, and not scripture.
And the Romans stood against the secular state until Vatican II, when they let the sophists in. I was in nappies when that happened, and we can now see the fruit of that, and the fruit are strange.
I can’t think of an example of the little stuff that would set me off, but our TTC friend wrote something about seeing a pic of Pope Francis in the Church being enough. This is a good example of the spiritual post-traumatic stress syndrome that develops in a family that experienced toxic behavior of priests and parishioners who don’t want practicing Catholics around. That is a big part of the story, isn’t it. The shocking abusive conduct towards a family that came to Church to have what they are teaching at home affirmed. (otherwise the children think we are teaching our own values which even the Church doesn’t believe.)
When they bring an ex priest living with their lover to come and talk to the CCD class about how wrong Church teaching is on moral theology, we are the last people they want around. We’re going to call the Chancery and the program is going to be cancelled. I won’t get into the details of the toxic conduct from the heretics – suffice it to say, they make it clear they don’t want us around and they make a point to tell our children their parents are bad people.This is really the crux of the problem with Pope Francis, isn’t it?His conduct is that of the typical pastor who wants to bring in the heretics to teach our family, and when we point out the spiritual malpractice, he’s written a book of insults to give witness to our children that we are antiquated sourpusses who can’t enjoy a little clapping fornication.
He has shipwrecked thirty years of catechesis in the family and parishes trying to help us navigate through the clapping fornication they are drilling into children at schools and the culture. On top of the bozo the clown act, he is surrounding our children with the clapping fornication show and culture of death and applauding it on the sidelines.An absolute shipwreck that will take a generation to recover — some of our own children will be swept away and he’s fixed it so there is little we are able to do.
It is time to pray for the Romans. Their pope is a tool, he is allowing heresy to be preached, and the memes of the church are as heretical as any prosperity preacher. But… there is a tradition within that church that one should follow the leads of the bishop and priest, which us Protestants have less of.
This has made the Romans fragile. They have leaders, and leaders can be corrupted: It has always been this way: Paul said that after he left wolves would arrive, and they would ravage the flock. He was correct in all aspects.
It is a time to protest if you are Roman. and for the rest of us to pray for them.