Image: Left: Fr. Thomas Weinandy, OFM Cap. (CNS); top right: Fr. James Martin, S.J. (Wikipedia); bottom right: Msgr. John Strynkowski (YouTube)
Fr. Thomas Weinandy, OFM Cap., is owed a debt of gratitude for his courage and forthrightness in making public his letter to Pope Francis respectfully criticizing and encouraging the Holy Father to fulfill his principal charge: to secure the unity of Christ’s Church in faith, charity, and holiness.
Weinandy’s letter comes at a time marked by widespread doctrinal confusion in the Church to a degree heretofore unknown in living memory. Ours is a time when the fierce and beautiful truth of Christ’s saving Gospel is being eclipsed and the Church is undergoing balkanizing fissures threatening her very stability. His letter is important because it comes from a man with a distinguished career as a faithful Catholic theologian and a doctrinal guardian for the Church in the United States. In it, Fr. Weinandy identifies five problematic areas, indicates how he thinks the Holy Father is involved in them, and encourages the Holy Father to fulfill his mandate from Christ. After receiving no response of any substance he made the letter public and in doing so has edified the faithful by reaffirming the solemn duty of the papal office, the truth and relevance of Christ’s doctrines to the spiritual life, and the need for the Holy Father to make wise episcopal appointments.
Some pundits from both progressive and orthodox quarters have been quick to criticize and even condemn Fr. Weinandy and his missive to the Pope. The condemnations I am aware of seem unjust and libelous (more on those in a moment). The criticisms seem to come either from an unreasonable eagerness to defend every word and deed of the Holy Father or from a fear of scandalizing the faithful by publicly expressing disagreement with the Pope (on account of his behavior or his non-definitive and problematic teachings). Thus, a brief defense of Fr. Weinandy is in order.
“Superstition” and “dissent”
In his opinion piece in America magazine online titled “Dissent, Now & Then: Thomas Weinandy and the meaning of Jesuit discernment,” Fr. James Martin, SJ, claims that Weinandy “dissented from Pope Francis’ teachings” – something Martin finds ironic since Weinandy led the committee that scrutinized Sr. Elizabeth Johnson’s Quest for a Living God and found it wanting, doctrinally. Martin also charges Weinandy with the sin of superstition and he expresses acute fear about the way Weinandy asked for a sign from God before composing his letter.
First, a couple of points on the matter of superstition. The sin of superstition has a very precise meaning in Catholic moral teaching: it is a vice contrary to the virtue of religion in which a person “offers divine worship either to whom he ought not, or in a manner he ought not” (Aquinas, Summa Theologiae II-II, q. 92, a. 1). The three classic species of this vice are idolatry, making a compact (explicitly or implicitly) with demons for divination, and performing ritualistic observances contrary to reason, for example, using religious ceremonies not approved by the Church. Weinandy’s account of his prayerful discernment doesn’t fall under any of these species or the genus of the vice of superstition. The prudence in asking God for a sign in particular cases is surely a matter of debate, but a simple act of asking God for a sign is not something immoral per se (see, for example, Isaiah 7, where Ahaz is instructed by Isaiah to ask God for a sign; or the instances of this in the New Testament, such as when the Apostles sought a sign from God in selecting a replacement for Judas in Acts 1:26 or when God himself provided signs for the faithful, such as in Luke 2:34, etc.).
When it comes to dissent, the CDF’s 1990 document, Donum Veritatis (Instruction on the Ecclesial Vocation of the Theologian, hereafter “DV”), explains that dissent is “public opposition to the Magisterium of the Church” and it “must be distinguished from the situation of personal difficulties treated above” (a. 32). That is to say, “dissenting” is an act distinct in kind from one in which a person expresses difficulties with magisterial teachings. It is clear from a fair reading of his letter that Weinandy has not opposed Francis’ magisterium; rather, he asks the Pope to correct five matters of concern:
(1) the well-known ambiguities in “Amoris Laetita” (hereafter, “AL”) chap. 8;
(2) those statements of the Pope which seem to demean the importance of Church doctrine;
(3) the Pope’s appointment of bishops who have supported and defended those who “hold views counter to Christian belief”;
(4) the Pope’s emerging brand of “synodality” that has resulting in fracturing the unity of faith and praxis in the Church; and
(5) the atmosphere of fear of retribution brought about in no small part by the actions of the Pope and his surrogates.
Say what you will about Fr. Weinandy’s concerns, but not one of them amounts to anything approaching dissent. Asking for clarification of ambiguous statements in a magisterial document hardly constitutes dissent. And his second concern is actually about preserving respect for the teachings of the Magisterium. What magisterial doctrine is Fr. Weinandy even calling into question let alone opposing? In fact, it is precisely his concern for the Church’s doctrine and its importance for the salvation of souls that clearly motivated him to implore the Pope to make a course correction. As the former chief of doctrine for the Church in the United States, Weinandy is a man sensitive to the potential for pastoral disaster caused by the rejection of sound doctrine. So much for Fr. Martin’s preposterous condemnation of Fr. Weinandy’s “dissent” and “superstition.”
Monsignor Strynkowski’s response
Fr. Weinandy has also been impugned by Msgr. John Strynkowski, one of his predecessors at the position of the Secretariat of Christian Doctrine at the USCCB. In an America article (“An open letter to Father Weinandy, from his predecessor, on ‘Amoris Laetitia’ and Pope Francis”), Strynkowski attempts to redress each of Weinandy’s five concerns, prefacing his remarks by claiming that AL is “an act of ordinary Magisterium, and thus enjoys presumption as having been guided by the Spirit of the Lord.” To be sure, Weinandy knows that even non-definitive magisterial teachings “are not without divine assistance and call for the adherence of the faithful” (DV, a. 17). The Church’s indefectibility would be imperiled by a substantive amount of errors in such teaching.
And yet this does not preclude all possibility of error in non-infallible magisterial statements, as the CDF points out in DV, 24: “It could happen that some Magisterial documents might not be free from all deficiencies.” Some claims found in AL reaffirm infallibly defined doctrine; others are not magisterial in the strict sense. Still others appear to run contrary to infallible dogma. The Holy Spirit guarantees that any error in non-definitive magisterial teachings will not destroy the Church. Situations like these, thankfully, are painful and rare but such is our lot. And publicly identifying problems in non-definitive teachings (such as critical ambiguity) in no way entails a failure to recognize God’s assistance to those who exercise magisterial authority. It is beyond facile for Strynkowski to imply otherwise.
Most of Strynkowski’s criticisms are not worth dwelling on at length as they are brief and dubious and, thus, easily dismissed. The sheer number of articles, open letters, books, episcopal statements, and press releases displaying a conflicting variety of theological interpretations of AL on the pastoral care of divorced and remarried Catholics living in more uxorio suffices to belie Strynkowski’s bald assertion that most bishops and theologians do not agree with Weinandy’s perception of ambiguity in chapter 8 of AL. The Holy Father frequently signals that he is no fan of dogma which he regularly portrays as antithetical to mercy and pastoral accompaniment. The Pope’s record of episcopal appointments, promotions, and firings speaks for itself. Weinandy charitably exercised restraint by not including a laundry list of well-known problematic bishops and I will follow suit.
For evidence that Pope Francis has promoted a range of problematic “doctrinal and moral options within the Church” under the rubrics of a flawed “synodality” we need look no further than the current balkanization of the Church under his leadership where what is a mortal sin in Poland and Philadelphia is permissible in Germany and Malta regarding Communion for divorced Catholics living in more uxoriowith their civil partner. Finally, while there are plenty of instances of the Holy Father not welcoming but perhaps resenting criticism (some of which are plausibly deniable), the recent humiliation of Cardinal Sarah suffices to show why there is an atmosphere of fear among bishops and theologians who dare to disagree with Pope Francis.
Scandalizing the faithful?
This leaves us with the final and, in my estimation, the most important point of criticism, one shared by Catholics of varying dispositions – lay and expert, progressive and orthodox alike. Some faithful Catholic thinkers have publicly expressed concerns that the publication of Fr. Weinandy’s letter might scandalize the faithful—but without specifying exactly how. For his part, Msgr. Strynkowski closes his letter by warning Fr. Weinandy that “Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, as Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, urged that dissent from ordinary Magisterium should be disclosed privately to church authority—see ‘Donum Veritatis’ (No. 30).”
Aside from the false suggestion that Fr. Weinandy is dissenting from Church teaching (refuted above), the striking fact in Strynkowski’s parting shot is that Ratzinger and “Donum Veritatis” said no such thing! In his prepared remarks delivered publicly in 1990 at a press conference upon the release of DV, Ratzinger is on the record as saying precisely the opposite. Here is what he actually said:
Taken out of context, in fact, they [namely, articles 29 through 31 of DV] can give rise to the impression that the Instruction allows the theologian the sole option of submitting divergent opinions to the magisterial authorities in secret…. It is quite obvious that the Instruction is not proposing ‘secret’ communications but dialogue which remains on an ecclesial and scientific plane and avoids distortions at the hand of the mass media…. In actuality, the point is precisely to use arguments instead of pressure as a means of persuasion”. (Emphasis added. Cited in the July 5, 1990 issue of the USCCB publication Origins and in the book The Nature and Mission of Theology [Ignatius Press, 1995], p 117.)
This citation comes from a section of Ratzinger’s public address entitled “The Magisterium, the university, and the mass media,” in which he specifies the precise and narrowly-circumscribed limits of the directive regarding the mass media. One should avoid using the media as a means to exert political pressure on the Church; yet one may use media outlets to pursue reasoned argumentation in the light of faith. The entire section of his press release comments are worth reading through carefully several times. It bears emphasizing: The Church and the CDF do not prohibit faithful Catholics from expressing grave concerns about the Church and the Magisterium in public fora. But when using public media, the Church requires the faithful to mount charitable and reasoned arguments rather than rhetoric of political machination, the latter being a hallmark of the kind of dissent that was ongoing from Humanae Vitae up to the publication of DV in 1990. DV explains exactly when and why, “the theologian should avoid turning to the ‘mass media’” by adding this qualification, “for it is not by seeking to exert the pressure of public opinion that one contributes to the clarification of doctrinal issues and renders service to the truth” (30).
This explains the paradox that puzzles folks such as Fr. Martin: the theologians scrutinized under Fr. Weinandy’s tenure at the USCCB were actually dissenting from Church doctrine and some of them used the media as a tool to manipulate the faithful. Whereas those who publicly express problems with Pope Francis’ pontificate, like Fr. Weinandy himself, are not dissenting but are serving the truth of the Gospel by contributing to the clarification of doctrinal issues. The difference is stark and should be obvious to all.
In his letter to Pope Francis, Fr. Weinandy adheres faithfully to the Church’s directives by expressing cogent reasons for the five principal issues he raises with the Pope. He is clearly concerned for the success of Francis’ pontificate, the Gospel of Christ, and the good of souls. It has been pointed out correctly that letters like Weinandy’s also fall under the duties specified in canon 212 of the 1983 Code of Canon Law:
§3. According to the knowledge, competence, and prestige which they possess, they have the right and even at times the duty to manifest to the sacred pastors their opinion on matters which pertain to the good of the Church and to make their opinion known to the rest of the Christian faithful, without prejudice to the integrity of faith and morals, with reverence toward their pastors, and attentive to common advantage and the dignity of persons. (Emphasis added)
Here we see the Church stating that sometimes the faithful have a duty to make known publicly (“to the rest of the Christian faithful”) their opinions on matters pertaining “to the good of the Church.” When the integrity of Church’s moral and sacramental teachings is threatened, this duty ought to be engaged. For his part, Fr. Weinandy has fulfilled this mandate and has respected the directives of DV and CIC can. 212 “to a T.”
With respect to scandal, in the current crisis what actually scandalizes souls — in the strict sense of providing the occasion for sin — is the sense of many faithful Catholics that the Holy Father is promoting a pastoral policy that no longer requires all divorced and remarried Catholics living in more uxorio to repent of adultery and commit to live in strict continence in order to receive the sacraments of Reconciliation and Communion. If this sense is mistaken, it is easily redressed: the Holy Father can simply answer the dubia! The real scandal here is the occasioning of thoughts and desires to commit the objectively grave sins of active divorce and adultery and material sacrilege.
What scandalizes souls is not the reasoned and charitable criticism of the Pope (see Gal 2:11) but the silence of bishops and theologians who do not respectfully, charitably, and publicly express grave concerns about this confusion and who do not reaffirm the Church’s perennial doctrine and practice regarding marriage and reception of the Eucharist. At the very least, the publication of Fr. Weinandy’s letter mitigates these and other scandals. I have treated at length the conditions for a morally licit public correction of a pope in another article, but the bottom line is that subordinates have a duty to fraternally correct their superiors (even the Pope) out of charity and in public when the faith is publicly endangered (see Aquinas, Summa Theologiae II-II, q. 33, a. 4 where he treats of St. Paul publicly correcting St. Peter as recounted in Gal 2:11). In his exhortation to the Holy Father, Fr. Weinandy has met all of the criteria established by the Church’s tradition and by her moral and canonical directives.
A final thought: The “irony meter” broke when Fr. Weinandy was asked to resign as a doctrine consultant for the USCCB because he expressed criticisms and grave concerns in a respectfully-written letter in which he points out, among other things, that the Holy Father has contributed to an atmosphere where the faithful fear being punished for expressing criticisms and grave concerns. May courageous bishops support Fr. Weinandy out of true Christian charity for the Holy Father and for the faithful; may they reaffirm Christ’s moral teachings and implore the Holy Father to boldly and unambiguously strengthen the brethren in the fullness of the faith of Christ.
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Fr. Weinandy is not the one (or many) scandalizing the faithful.
I would suggest that the main tactic of the modern dissenter, just as that of a recent president, is audacity.
It is extremely troubling when people who are ostensibly intelligent, such as Fathers Martin and Strynkowski, criticize or attack others using such specious logic. It really makes you wonder if they’re sincere, acting as sycophants or acting on behalf of some other cause. That Father Martin is spreading lies and confusion is manifest but out of a sense of…ahem….pride you would think he would keep quiet on these matters so as not to look foolish. After all, per his own words he’s not a theologian nor, I assume,a canon lawyer. However, if he wants to talk to a canon lawyer in his diocese he could contact Father Gerald Murray, who I am sure would be happy to swat him down.
“It really makes you wonder if they’re sincere, acting as sycophants or acting on behalf of some other cause.” No, yes, and yes. Two out of three. Not bad, Brian.
Fr. Martin Talks Heresy and gets away with it.
Msgr. Strynkowski is another supporter of the Pope and U.S.C.B..
Like this young Franciscan they sees nothing wrong with Vatican ll.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mRtJrgIy-0&feature=youtu.be
This is from the blog Breaking in the Habit
Ah, I see nuchurch has rolled out the next gen of well presented, smooth talking Vat II apologists. Good luck, it won’t work, the Church is in auto demo mode except the few pockets where tradition thrives.
The young brother is convincing, sign me up for this happy clappy church
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7m7f6IFXsLU
There was a time when I encouraged my boys to enter the priesthood. I’m glad now that they didn’t listen to me.
How many good and faithful young men, wanting to serve Christ in His priesthood, has the Church lost?
Countless!
How many are watching and waiting for leadership to emerge in the Church?
And how many are in seminaries, without good formation, good role models? Countless!
And with this pontificate and his bishops destroying all that is good in our Church; I would love to have a moment with Bishop Schneider or Cardinal Burke regarding vocations and the lack of.
I actually remember, on another site I believe, that someone confronted him about his questionable post (not sure what it was about) and he answered back in some “we’ll agree to disagree” way. At that time it wasn’t a good impression on me.
A few loyal Catholics can and will defeat the heretics. Truth in the hands of a few good men is invincible. It must gall the Fr. Martins of the world.
Fr. Martin, “lying” wonder is under Francis’ umbrella.
And in other news….Pope Francis has banned the sale of cigarettes and tobacco at the Vatican because….
(WAIT FOR IT!!!!!):
“The Holy See cannot contribute to an activity that clearly damages the health of people.”.
Assuming the Holy Father still considers our spiritual health to be his primary concern, we can presumably then also expect to see Amoris Laetitia get fully retracted at the same time. This is clearly good news. I feel better already.
Yes, but you will notice that smoking “weed” evidently prevails given the “fruits” of recent YEAR’S!
“o” i get it, banned tobacco https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/83b06039a522c9b5a8663a5d48efe74f69a1cc47175779e40b6571c09d80eaba.jpg cuz it’s bad for your health but sex orgies and hard core drugs are ok
I notice we don’t hear much about this sodomic bash any longer. I did read, though, something about the continuing (and evidently now strengthened) homosexual plague at the Vatican here:
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/vatican-expert-lays-out-the-current-crisis-in-the-church
Sodomitic orgy in Vatican recently surely used a lot of smoking weed.
Hey, I am smoking a cigar! And drinking a beer!
One has to wonder if Michelle Obama has a new curial position in Rome?
Don’t give them any ideas!
Love it, Father. I hope it is a big stogie and hope you are having a shot with that beer.
Seriously though it is heartbreaking for me to read of the attacks on Father W. The schism is here. It’s as if most in the Church have lost their way in a very fundamental way. They do not believe as I believe as they, in enshrining Amoris Laetitia, approve of situational ethics. Everything will be permitted. It is horrifying.
Dunno. But I suspect she also smokes cigars and drinks beer (albeit cheap beer since she’s a champion of the poor).
Hey, watch it, I drink beer – the very good sort! ;-))
LOL!!! 🙂
Hahaha. Tobacco? What about mitigating the smoke of satan which has already entered the church?
And evidently costing the Vatican $10M per annum for a product that somebody is going to get at the grocery store one block down from the Vatican. Brilliant move, Pope Francis.
In other news, CRS continues to fund abortions and abortifacients despite the terrible effects on women and…you know…babies torn to pieces. Keep up the good work CRS!
Does he consider sodomy to be healthful? Is it damaging to one’s health? Surely, they will speak up about this disgusting and unhealthy habit.
Hmmmm, whatever happened with that issue/investigation of the recent “party” in the residences of a certain Vatican Cardinal. You remember, the residence where the Cardinal did not live but allowed a certain Monsignor to live. Yes, the party with all the naked men and cocaine. Where the Monsignor had to be removed to a detox facility. That party.
And were there any local boys under a certain age there at the time?
Hmmmm…that was suspected but never confirmed. In fact, the party was not mentioned, ever, by the Vatican press office.
That’s not very ‘healthy’, is it?
When people stop believing in heaven and hell they become obsessed with their health. When I lived atheist NYC almost every conversation was about exercise and health.
It’s a terrible time being a Catholic today. We have a pope who doesn’t really believe the Catholic Faith and is embarrassed by some of the Church’s teachings. We have bishops who are mute, except when it comes to asylum seekers and gays. And we have a liturgy which is infantile, Protestant, effeminate and embarrassing. Oh, and Western society is quickly shedding any Christian roots, with laws permitting so-called same sex marriage, IVF, gay adoption, and the like. To hold Christian beliefs is a matter for the home only, and not permitted in the workplace; soon, holding these beliefs at home will be criminalised as so-called hate crimes.
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Oh no. There are truly millions in the United Stated who know exactly what the Catholic Church is, and Whose Bride she is, and despise her for exactly this reason.
Yes. But the essential point is that very, very, many people are
unaware of the reasoning of the Church and could be persuaded
through evangelisation . BUT with so many false Shephards in the
Church for so long, the treasure of Catholic life is not promoted.
Fair point but nevertheless Venerable +Sheen’s figure is off by a factor of at least 100,000. 100,000 x 100 equates to 10 million who hate the Truth. Surely it is a lot more even than that.
I know, the brain-washing via “social engineering” over the
years since the time of Venerable Sheen coupled with the depth of
the Church implosion make your figure more likely today.
The hate people have is real.
I have met many with such a mindset whilst involved in lay apostolate
work over the years.
Yes. But the essential point is that very, very, many people are
unaware of the reasoning of the Church and could be persuaded
through evangelisation.
But because of the significant infiltration of false vocations (and myriad other enemies) the
beauty and treasure the Church holds does not reach out enough.
The good bishop also said, “…and in 50 or 100 years there will be only the Church and paganism. We will be left to fight the battle alone. And we will.” This was in 1930 in response to the “normalization” of contraception…but I wonder if he would ever imagine how small the army would be to “fight the battle alone”.
It doesn’t matter how small an army we are. Regardless of our size we will win or lose depending on our faithfulness to Christ and His True Bride. He will not abandon to the enemy those who are faithful and persevere to the end. Trust in God!
“I’m not superstitious, I’m average-stitious” Steve Carell as Michael Scott
If we believe that the Catholic Church is the one Church, does it not follow that we would seek to include the Lutherans and other Protestants? It seems that this is what Francis is seeking to do.
It seems like Francis wants to welcome them with their heresies in tow. It is only possible to enter the one Church of Christ by embracing everything which He commanded the apostles and His Church to teach in His name. They are free to profess the full Catholic faith if they want to – they are “free” to keep their false beliefs and remain outside the Catholic Church if they want to. Francis needs to get some integrity and stop lying to his interlocutors about what the Church IS.
Liars gotta lie.
No organization of any worth allows in members who openly dissent from the core values to which the organization subscribes. How can any trying to reach out to non-Catholics have any meaning if we overlook the fact that they openly refuse to believe what the Catholic Church teaches? Either the bread and wine physically become the Body and Blood of Christ under their respective accidents, or they do not. Either the Mass is the unbloody re-presentation of the Sacrifice of Calvary, or it isn’t. Either the Church is infallible and correct in matters of faith and morals, or it isn’t.
We don’t need any more “converts” who operate like many in the neo-Catholic apologetics industry (e.g., Mark Shea) who bring their Protestant biases into the Church. Our clergy understood this for centuries, when prospective converts would be catechized by parish priests who would initiate them into the Church when they displayed they were ready. Since the ’60s and the advent of RCIA, it’s been a disaster.
To your question, no. King Francis is a Lutheran. Talk to him about the one true Church.
Any Lutheran can join the one true Church very simply by abjuring Luther’s multiple heretical doctrines. But, sadly, that does not appear to be what Francis wants. Instead, he seems to want to pretend Luther’s doctrines aren’t really heresy at all.
PADRE PIO SAID THAT MARTIN LUTHER IS IN HELL AND CHRISTIANS WHO FOLLOW HIM WILL MEET THE SAME END. – Fr.Stefano Manelli F.I, founder of the Franciscans of the Immaculate
When the printing press was invented in the 14th century and translated ancient texts of the Hebrew and Greek scriptures into English and German were given in mass to the people, there was a great uprising protesting against the papacy and Rome’s empire. Why? Because until then owning a Bible was illegal to keep this information from being discovered. These newly enlightened ones all identified the seat of the papacy as being the power behind antichrist. That means all popes are vessels of satan and all her saints are really idolized demons. That is what the Protestant Reformation discovered and when these catholic priests realized they could not change a corrupt hellish church/state, they split from her to bring Christianity and light into a dark world. In 1540, the pope established the Society of Jesus–the jesuits to secretly undo what the reformation had revealed. They have had almost 500 years to complete that mission. So when you read of antichrist Francis trying to unite all religions under one god, that god is his buddy, the black pope sosa and jesuit general who all jesuits call jesus or god, including Francis. Read your Bible so that you will know the truth. Your chruch wants you to believe you are too stupid to understand the WORD of your Creator so that you will not discover how they are lying to you. Those who are connected to Babylon will be losers when the great day of justice happens. Only Lucifer wants you to believe that Rome is the one true church. The Bible explicitly claims that we are only to call our Creator in heaven, Father. It also says that we no longer need church buildings, priests or kings because Yeshua our Messiah is our priest and king and our body is His temple. We are each called to study on our own and come to our own understanding of salvation because the world is full of false teachers (jesuits).
Read Romans 1 as it states that ALL sinners eventually become sodomites. That means that all sodomites are liars, thieves, adulterers, covetous and probably murderers. The murderer with the most kills on this planet is the Vatican as it is responsible for all wars. The Vatican is ripe for the lake of fire.
“As the former chief of doctrine for the Church in the United States, Weinandy is a man sensitive to the potential for pastoral disaster caused by the rejection of sound doctrine. So much for Fr. Martin’s preposterous condemnation of Fr. Weinandy’s “dissent” and “superstition.””
MARY
HATE
“Render your gender
Give it to me.”
Even in Rome
They’ve sympathy.
Even in Rome
Forked-tongue they speak
Where flesh is strong
And spirit’s weak.
Where flesh is strong
And smothers the soul
Disorientation
Becomes the great goal.
Disorientation
As to his or her bearings
New mass of confusion
Sends up the red herrings.
New mass of confusion
Lets sin have a voice
Where divorced and remarried
Build Tower of choice.
Where feminist-fairies
Of jealousy
Hate anything female
Her fertility.
Hate anything female
The enmity
God placed between Satan
And the Virgin Marie.
God placed between Satan…
Pious priests stand strong –
Though reviled and rejected
To HIM you belong!!
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Fr Thomas Weinandy – a humble, holy, faithful and authentic religious.
Fr James Martin – a smug, arrogant, homo-heretic.
When this pontificate ultimately fails and falls, Fr Weinandy will still be standing strong and faithful. Fr Martin will be standing in the rubble of a Jesuit Order in relentless decline. This is the ultimate result of an Order that has abandoned its original charism for the ruinous road of apostasy.
Such is the curse of intellectual pride.
But the wind’s of change in time WILL blow…. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/e0ce09012c95b35647880a36b8385ac2c83c8dc6ca13819acb7f2624df686907.jpg
The Jesuits will disappear
St. Paul tells us not to call each other names. It is a sin against charity, even though Fr. Martin appears to possess the implied attributes.
#SuppresstheJesuits
Fr. Fr. Weinandy is a hero of the Pope Francis ‘Resistance Movement’. When it appears that many in the hierarchy have sold out to secularism and are bound and determined to abrogate Catholic morality, not to mention the Faith itself, here we have a holy priest standing up for Christ and his teaching while Pope Francis and his henchmen try to destroy it.
Is Amoris laetitia ambiguous? Not at al, that is false, it’s very clear, as Francia and his people have madre abundantly clear. Al the buzz of ambiguity is just because it comes from the pope or the one occying his sacred Chair. Kasper, the synids, etc., make it clear: it IS a documentos and a process from a communist revolutionary, like many other things he does. Is it his worst deed? Not at all, he has betrayed China’s, Ukraine’s, Venezurla’s, Cuba’s, Colombia’s churches, he has been leading the communist movement around the world, he has salud that Christ did not do miracles BECAUSE HE WAS NOT A MAGICIAN
Without declaration of support from the Bishops the letter will likely be ineffectual for the wavering. Though published it will certainly reinforce the belief of the many who oppose the undeclared doctrine The best outcome would have been Pres of the USCCB Cardinal Di Nardo to have engaged the Bishops in discussion of the allegations in the letter, a rebuke of the Pontiff,–even if that rebuke convinced Di Nardo it was incumbent to seek Weinandy’s resignation. Cardinal Di Nardo cannot deny the immensity of the facts on the ground, and danger to the salvation of souls. It’s blindness Cardinal Caffarra said injures the Church [Card G Muller now agrees with Buttiglione]. Let’s hope the blindness gives way to vision and courage.
A Catholic has the scriptures, the Catechism, the writings of the Saints, etc. to know the truth. It is incumbent upon all is us to make the effort to know the truth. Father Thomas Weinandy’s just simply states the truth. An ominous quote from St. Jean-Marie Vianney:
“We shall find out at the day of judgment that the greater number of Christians who are lost were damned because they did not know their own religion.”
Those who have been silent regarding the doctrinal concerns raised by the Dubia and the filial correction will likewise not defend Fr. Weinandy. They are frozen in fear and forget the truth that “Silence gives consent.”
The real “scandal is Pope Francis, something the corrupt USCCB will not admit.
The “silence” of the USCCB is deafening !