http://www.fathercekada.com/Francis greets his Pentecostal “brother bishop” and gives away the store.
It is a cringe-inducing dose of emotional, dogma-free, Vatican II ecuмenical “niceness.” Give each other “hugs”! If you have even an ounce of Catholicism left, you want roll your eyes, say “yuck,” move the cursor, and quickly click on something (anything!) else. But as much as we might feel like averting our eyes from the horror of this train wreck, we have to force ourselves to look closely at the devastating doctrinal carnage that Bergoglio has strewn throughout a mere 600 words:
Bergoglio says he will not speak Italian or English “but ‘heartfully,’ a language more simple, and more authentic, and this language of the heart has a special language and grammar. A simple grammar.”
For Bergoglio, Tony Palmer, a bishop in something called the Anglican Episcopal Communion of the CEEC (Celtic Anglican Tradition) and a pentecostal, is “my brother bishop.“
It is a joy to Bergoglio that pentecostal groups like this come together “to receive the Spirit,” because this way “we can see that God is working all over the world.“
Bergoglio is filled with yearning because it happens “in our neighborhood [quartiere],” where there are “families that come together and families who separate themselves. We are kind of… permit me to say, separated.”
Why are the Catholic Church and pentecostal groups separated from each other? “It’s sin that has separated us, all our sins. The misunderstandings throughout history. It has been a long road of sins that we all shared in. Who is to blame? We all share the blame. We have all sinned. There is only one blameless, the Lord.”
Both of us, the Catholic Church and pentecostal groups, have our “currency” — “The currency of our culture. The currency of our history. We have lot of cultural riches, and religious riches. And we have diverse traditions. But we have to encounter one another as brothers. We must cry together like Joseph did. These tears will unite us. The tears of love.“
“Come on, we are brothers. Let’s give each other a spiritual hug and let God complete the work that he has begun. And this is a miracle; the miracle of unity has begun.”
“I ask you to bless me, and I bless you. From brother to brother, I embrace you.”
It almost sounds like a parody of reheated ’60 liberalism. Or, as if a sedevacantist ghostwriter were regularly feeding Bergoglio talking points over the Casa S. Marta breakfast buffet: “OK, Jorge, today start by calling the Protestant your ‘brother bishop,’ hint that the Holy Ghost is behind the jabbering in tongues, and wind up with teary hugs. Let’s see how the SSPX and The Remnant crowd will try figure out a way to insist you’re a real pope after that!” (Full disclosure: Bergoglio has not phoned me — at least within the past two weeks….) But duty obliges us to step beyond parody in order to examine the array of errors and heresies encoded in these idiotic vaporings.