Author Topic: Francis grants Absolution powers to SSPX Priests for Year of Mercy (Read 40802 times)

Matthew · « **Reply #30 on:** September 01, 2015, 12:56:58 PM »

Quote from: Ladislaus

I really cannot understand the bitterness here against Francis for this. No doubt he is just trying to be kind. I think we need to put aside the ranting and raving already. As far as we know, he's done this as a unilateral gesture with no strings attached.

You have got to be joking.

I assume this was sarcastic or tongue-in-cheek...

What are we supposed to do, forget all the anti-Catholic things and wanton destruction Francis has done in a short span of 2 years, and just assume the best?

As Catholics, we are not expected to play the fool or be naive. It's obvious what side "there is no Catholic God" Francis is on.

2Vermont · « **Reply #31 on:** September 01, 2015, 12:59:46 PM »

Quote from: covet truth

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The Society of St. Pius X expresses its gratitude to the Sovereign Pontiff for this fatherly gesture.

How can the SSPX be "grateful" for this "fatherly gesture" when up to Dec. 8th none of their confessions for forty years have been considered "valid" by Rome? I guess the day after the mercy year ends it will be back to "invalid"? What a joke this is and yet they are "grateful". Rome is calling the shots and the SSPX dances to their tune. It's over.

I completely agree.

2Vermont · « **Reply #32 on:** September 01, 2015, 01:02:32 PM »

Quote from: Matthew

Quote from: Ladislaus
I really cannot understand the bitterness here against Francis for this. No doubt he is just trying to be kind. I think we need to put aside the ranting and raving already. As far as we know, he's done this as a unilateral gesture with no strings attached.

You have got to be joking.

I assume this was sarcastic or tongue-in-cheek...

What are we supposed to do, forget all the anti-Catholic things and wanton destruction Francis has done in a short span of 2 years, and just assume the best?

As Catholics, we are not expected to play the fool or be naive. It's obvious what side "there is no Catholic God" Francis is on.

I'm hoping it was sarcastic as well. Soon the SSPX will be welcomed into indult-hood.

covet truth · « **Reply #33 on:** September 01, 2015, 01:03:23 PM »

Quote from: Ladislaus

I really cannot understand the bitterness here against Francis for this. No doubt he is just trying to be kind. I think we need to put aside the ranting and raving already. As far as we know, he's done this as a unilateral gesture with no strings attached.

Uh huh, just as he is "kind" to practicing ɧoɱosɛҳųαƖs, lesbians, alternative "families", divorced and remarried Catholics who want to still receive the Eucharist, and all other ecuмenical gestures to protestants without their conversion. There is just no end to his "kindness". Do we confess Our Lord Jesus Christ and his commandments or do we not?

JPM · « **Reply #34 on:** September 01, 2015, 01:10:23 PM »

Quote from: Matthew

Quote from: Ladislaus
I really cannot understand the bitterness here against Francis for this. No doubt he is just trying to be kind. I think we need to put aside the ranting and raving already. As far as we know, he's done this as a unilateral gesture with no strings attached.

What are we supposed to do, forget all the anti-Catholic things and wanton destruction Francis has done in a short span of 2 years, and just assume the best?

Well, yes, sort of. St. Thomas Aquinas: "Don't concentrate on the person of the speaker, but treasure up in your mind anything profitable he may happen to say."

The Pope did a solid. And, tomorrow there might be something which merits criticism.