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It seems to me this thread belongs in another forum. What does it have to do with the SSPX Resistance? Unless it's another reason that +F is barking up the wrong tree with his agenda for 'normalization' with these Modernists.
In Los Angeles for some 30 years, we had a chief of police named Daryl Gates, who proudly went by the nickname "The Chief." One of his boasts was the development of the SWAT team (Special Weapons And Tactics), which has now spread nationwide. Another was the DARE program (Drug Abuse Resistance Education), which a Freemason proudly explained to me, had used a Freemasonic slogan from some 30 years prior, "Just say NO to drugs."
One of The Chief's quips was when someone asked him about how often he seemed to make headlines in the news, he would reply, that, Yes, I seem to be able to accomplish that, don't I? Notice they weren't complimenting him on producing any viable message that would be good for the city, in fact, it was all too often of no substance but merely sensationalism and shock value.
Roger Cardinal Mahony took a lesson from The Chief. He too enjoyed getting his face on the front page of the L.A.Times and other newspapers (like The Tidings). This was before the Internet. All too often the substance of the news wasn't at all edifying, but was merely sensational, and did the Church no good.
Has Pope Francis taken a lesson from Cardfile Balony --- woops, I mean Cardinal Mahony?
Of what enduring value is it for a pope to say something that conflicts with defined dogma?
One has to wonder if he's warming up to more heinous statements like the Real Presence is just symbolic, or when it comes to the Immaculate Conception it depends on what you mean by 'immaculate', or Reconciliation is there to help you feel better and you shouldn't worry about absolution. Yes, that's wild speculation, but tell me, a year ago could any of us have anticipated the litany of nonsense that has emerged since, AS IF ON A SCHEDULE?
Nonetheless, it is our place to do penance, to pray for the Pope, and to persevere until the end, such that we may be saved.
God does not expect anything of us that His grace will not give us the strength to endure, for with God, all things are possible.
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