Has the Synod brought into the light an old split; A submerged schism?
source Father Ray`s blog Excellent Catholic Blog The 'S' word Fr Zed has this little quote from Marco Tosatti, “Two observations to close. Newspapers are saying that this Synod has broken the Catholic …More
source Father Ray`s blog Excellent Catholic Blog
The 'S' word
Fr Zed has this little quote from Marco Tosatti,
“Two observations to close. Newspapers are saying that this Synod has broken the Catholic Church. False: it brought into the light an old split, perhaps as old as the Church herself. Without going too far back, decades ago now the Catholic philosopher Pietro Prini had written about a submerged schism, invisible, on the part of many (bishops, priests and theologians included) in respect to the official Magisterium. In this split, it is instinctive to find oneself in sympathy with the progressives, but, and I have to add this out of love for sincerity, not without some discomfort. Between some of the current “progressives” and the immovable “conservatives”, my esteem goes to the latter, faithful to their own line of thought even when it is inconvenient to sustain it. In just a few months the change of wind has seen many bishops and pastors, who for decades accused the “reformers …More
The 'S' word
Fr Zed has this little quote from Marco Tosatti,
“Two observations to close. Newspapers are saying that this Synod has broken the Catholic Church. False: it brought into the light an old split, perhaps as old as the Church herself. Without going too far back, decades ago now the Catholic philosopher Pietro Prini had written about a submerged schism, invisible, on the part of many (bishops, priests and theologians included) in respect to the official Magisterium. In this split, it is instinctive to find oneself in sympathy with the progressives, but, and I have to add this out of love for sincerity, not without some discomfort. Between some of the current “progressives” and the immovable “conservatives”, my esteem goes to the latter, faithful to their own line of thought even when it is inconvenient to sustain it. In just a few months the change of wind has seen many bishops and pastors, who for decades accused the “reformers …More
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I see an eternal split in and outside the Church, one long existing before the Church came to be. And what is this factor? The PANsexualism (= any form of sex is acceptable) of Antiquity, particularly in its more decadent moments. The Church has sought to remove priests and nuns from this inner tension through celibacy. More than one time in Church history sexualism has entered the Church destructively …More
I see an eternal split in and outside the Church, one long existing before the Church came to be. And what is this factor? The PANsexualism (= any form of sex is acceptable) of Antiquity, particularly in its more decadent moments. The Church has sought to remove priests and nuns from this inner tension through celibacy. More than one time in Church history sexualism has entered the Church destructively (Borgia popes come to mind). This time around pansexualism has been more coy and more effective. The serious consideration of communion for remarried, discussion of positve aspects of premarital sex or even cohabation outside of marriage, the pushing of not tolerance, but acceptance of the positive features of homosexuality plus the scandals of massive homosexual abuse among clergy all the way to the Vatican --all this bespeaks the rise of pansexuality. The goddess Venus is beckoning. For me the homosexual marriage discussions are but the wedge being used to open the full can of pan-sex-uality. Correlativve to opening to modern sexuality will be and is the correlative need to alter Church teachings (or ignore them via "gradualism") that ustifies no longer really condemned behavior >> an new theology arises. Pansexuality is but one important product of (post)modernism.