Cardinal Pizzaballa on the Roman Rite: “What the Church Says, We Have to Apply”
“I am a consecrated person; I gave my life to God, so my life doesn’t belong to me,” Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, told NCRegister.com on December 12 about his offer to exchange himself for hostages in 2023.
His flock includes about 190,000 Christians in Israel, 45,000 in the West Bank, and 500 in Gaza.
Palestinian Christians in the West Bank, including Bethlehem, have been severely affected by the Gaza war, as tourism has nearly collapsed and work permits to Israel have been suspended. “This created a very problematic situation from the economic point of view,” the Cardinal said.
The conflict has also intensified tensions between Israelis and Palestinians in the West Bank, including settler attacks on Christian Palestinian communities. Cardinal Pizzaballa described the situation as “chaotic and very problematic,” adding: “What is scary for the people is that you don’t know how, when this will finish.”
Despite this, he sees the U.S.-brokered ceasefire …More
There are many things to like and admire about this man. But, as in the American War of Northern Aggression (aka "the Civil War"), the battle for the Faith that continues and remains will see brother pitted against brother, friend against friend, neighbor against neighbor. There is no turning back from the battle between the Faith of 20 centuries and the counterfeit conciliar "church" of the past 60 years.+ Pizzaballa must see that if he doesn't get God right (and the mitered devotees of the past 60 years have gotten Him very wrong), all of humanity suffers.
If the Church tells you to sin, you do not have to obey. Instead of acting like a mother, the V2 church is feeding her children poison. Throughout the years some additions were made to the TLM, but nothing that was as dastardly as the reform of the Mass under Pope Paul VI.
The Liturgy does indeed belong to the Church. It is not the private possession of anyone. The Church has ruled that every priest of the Roman Rite has and always had a right to offer the Traditional Roman Rite.
My life belongs to Christ, not to his betrayer Prevost!
He didn't say that. He said his life belongs to Christ... the other part is false, though, it is true that Leo is a betrayer.
Worth reading. Read it all beyond the title. It is not long.