Rejection of the Roman Rite is "Practical Atheism" - Cardinal Sarah
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He called this "practical atheism", which has also entered the Church, when Catholic morality, Catholic doctrine and Catholic liturgy are rejected.
The cardinal also sees practical atheism when "sociology" or "lived experience" becomes the principle for forming moral [and immoral] judgements. In this way, God is pushed aside. He criticises that we often hear from bishops and bishops' conferences "that we have to adapt our moral theology to purely human considerations".
Rejecting Catholic morality makes everything conditional and subjective, Sarah explains: "Welcoming everyone [except Catholics] means ignoring Scripture, Tradition and the Magisterium. "
Advocates of this ideology within the Church treat Revelation as "secondary". This shows how practical atheism works: "It does not deny God, but it operates as if God is not central."
Sarah also sees practical atheism in [Francis'] attempt to suppress the Roman liturgy: "Sacred traditions that have served the Church well for hundreds of years are now being presented as dangerous." Sarah explains that the focus of practical atheism on the horizontal crowds out the vertical, "as if God were an experience rather than an ontological reality".
The cardinal criticises attempts to describe tradition as "limiting" and "binding" rather than liberating and perfecting. Accordingly, happiness is believe to be "in being who we want to be" rather than in conforming to God and his order.
The cardinal goes on to warn of the "paganism" that has entered the Church and its hierarchy [through Francis]: "The real crisis is the lack of faith in the Church."
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