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PopeWatch: Celebrating the Worst

 

 

Pope Francis is a big fan of the late Father Bernard Haring.  Jeff Mirus of Catholic Culture explains what that tells us:

The era to which Pope Francis referred when he acclaimed the work of Bernard Häring, was the period which morphed quickly into and encompassed the 1960s and 1970s. Fr. Häring, as I learned very quickly (and quite on my own) as soon as I went off to college in 1966, was one of the ringleaders of the so-called “new morality” (which was adopted with far more enthusiasm than the new math, and at about the same time). He was hardly breathing new life into moral theology. Instead, he was stripping it of its relationship to Divine Revelation—the very thing which makes authentic Christian theology possible in the first place. Bernard Häring and thousands like him, from Hans Küng to Charles Curran, sought not God but professional relevance in a faithless world. Refusing to be constrained by what Our Lord had revealed and His Church had defined, they claimed instead that the Holy Spirit enabled the fairly cohesive fraternity of academic “experts” alone to discern the real truth.

It goes without saying that the Holy Spirit was widely applauded for teaching what the secular world had already discovered! Häring himself was among the most vocal dissenters from infallible Catholic teaching such as the deep truths authoritatively set forth during his own professional life in Humanae Vitae by Pope Paul VI and in Veritatis Splendor by Pope John Paul II. His utter ruin as a Catholic thinker is so obvious that, however one interprets his motives (and I grant that only God can know them perfectly), we are forced to conclude that anyone who would praise him as one of the first to give Catholic moral theology new life in the twentieth century must be ignorant, confused, or subversive.

 

 

Go here to read the rest.  Pope Francis holds up heterodox theologians of the Vatican II era as exemplars.  He celebrates the worst of the clergy while persecuting the best.  Pope Francis may not be an anti-Pope, but he certainly is the reverse image of what faithful Catholics have a right to expect from a Pope.

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Father of Seven
Father of Seven
Thursday, March 9, AD 2017 5:57am

By his fruit you will know him.

Tom McKenna
Tom McKenna
Thursday, March 9, AD 2017 8:35am

To the last sentence quoted above I would comment, “embrace the power of ‘and'”

Michael Dowd
Michael Dowd
Friday, March 10, AD 2017 3:55am

Yes, more evidence that the papacy of Pope Francis is the work of the devil.

TomD
TomD
Friday, March 10, AD 2017 7:30am

Don, there’s a typo in a posted URL in the article

Anzlyne
Anzlyne
Friday, March 10, AD 2017 4:13pm

The stubborn pride of 1960’s modernism- grandchild of that modernism condemned by the pope 50 years before, now brought forth again by Francis. The bishops should react to this with a decisive teaching.
I know this is a long article, but I do recommend reading it.
https://www.catholicculture.org/culture/library/view.cfm?recnum=3142

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