Catholic and Enjoying It!
When the Pope says things that upset the Left, we hear that the faith is the only thing that saves us from the degrading slavery of being a child of our age. When he says things that upset the Right like “legitimate redistribution of economic benefits by the state” or “encyclical on the environment“, we hear “the pope isn’t infallible you know” and he might be a Marxist heretic and it is our duty to resist him to his face because we are all totally St. Paul to his erring St. Peter and know better. Like so:
“The American bishops are equally leftist. As a lifelong practising catholic, I am out.”
“I feel like sending my Catholic Membership card back! So frustrating!!!”
“Antipope”
“He’s a material heretic, not just for this, but for a lot of other stuff he’s said; modernist to the core if you ask me, and apparently Bishop Fellay said the same thing. But the ‘traditionilsts’ are the problem? Please.”
“Just another major disappointment for me in my Catholic church.”
“I am Catholic but, am very disappointed by the Current Holy Father — am beginning to think he is an idiot. Stay the hell out of Politics and Fraud Science…..”
“I am a Catholic Convert . I have no respect for this leftist pope & no longer consider myself a Catholic.”
“It is time for an American Catholic Church separate and independent from the Vatican, which is a foreign power.”
“Leftist ideology working without the facts, as most progressives do. I’m done with this PolitiPope!”
Just a little reminder:
Among the principal duties of bishops the preaching of the Gospel occupies an eminent place. For bishops are preachers of the faith, who lead new disciples to Christ, and they are authentic teachers, that is, teachers endowed with the authority of Christ, who preach to the people committed to them the faith they must believe and put into practice, and by the light of the Holy Spirit illustrate that faith. They bring forth from the treasury of Revelation new things and old, making it bear fruit and vigilantly warding off any errors that threaten their flock. Bishops, teaching in communion with the Roman Pontiff, are to be respected by all as witnesses to divine and Catholic truth. In matters of faith and morals, the bishops speak in the name of Christ and the faithful are to accept their teaching and adhere to it with a religious assent. This religious submission of mind and will must be shown in a special way to the authentic magisterium of the Roman Pontiff, even when he is not speaking ex cathedra; that is, it must be shown in such a way that his supreme magisterium is acknowledged with reverence, the judgments made by him are sincerely adhered to, according to his manifest mind and will. His mind and will in the matter may be known either from the character of the documents, from his frequent repetition of the same doctrine, or from his manner of speaking.” (Lumen Gentium, no. 25)
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