That was not a Cletus quote. That was Cletus epitomizing the way in which Novus Ordo clerics put down laymen who in any way resist the Novus Ordo.
The reason why I brought up the arrogance and hypocrisy of the Novus Ordo tyrants is that the ungodly comments of the Bad Novus Ordo Catholic Biden are being accorded approval here in an odd, back door way.
Biden certainly does not share the ecclesiological views of "Mr. Infallible."
So in that respect is Biden a better Catholic than Pius IX?
The Church of Christ offered Catholic souls a lot more than worldly politics in Biden's formative years, the 1940s and 1950s. That's not what people tuned in to Fulton J Sheen for.
We have to try to be clear on what we believe and what our gripes are and with whom we have those gripes. We can't just be confused and unhappy as Catholics and start lashing out in all directions. Sooner rather than later, the Father of Lies directs us in ONE direction. And then we declare open season on Pius IX and start finding nice things to say about Hans Kung, insofar as Hans Kung does not share this or that theological defect of Pius IX.
Could there be ways in which certain theological and pious trends in, say, the Counter-Reformation period ironically lent themselves to the evil doings of the false Vatican Council of the early 1960s?
I believe that that's exactly what happened. A certain "prophetic" sense was excommunicated from the Church in favor of a prissy, fussy, Baroquely unctious fear of "scandal", of rocking the official Catholic boat.
This is how the unorthodox likes of Cardinal Newman were allowed to become Big Catholic Noises as the orthodox sat on their hands. Newman made a mockery of Biblical Inerrancy. His clerical Catholic opponents squawked a bit and then backed down. Under pressure from their superiors, no doubt. Criticizing a bona fide Catholic big shot such as Newman was bad for Catholic business. Dirty politics have always been a big part of how the Catholic Church operates even insofar as doctrine and the salvation of souls are concerned, "humanly speaking". Absolutely.
It is sickening to compare what such "prophets" as Saint Bridget of Sweden and Saint Bernard said and did in the case of corrupt Churchmen to what even some of the greatest saints of the fussy, old maidish post-Trent era said and did.
But Jesus Christ Almighty was wrong to make His Vicar infallible because...? Because....? Because....?
It's mere "street sense" to view the Dogma of Infallibility in terms of Church politics.
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