{"id":111737,"date":"2019-05-02T00:00:29","date_gmt":"2019-05-02T07:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/?p=111737"},"modified":"2019-05-02T08:48:04","modified_gmt":"2019-05-02T15:48:04","slug":"jimmy-akin-on-the-absurd-charge-of-heresy-against-francis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2019\/05\/jimmy-akin-on-the-absurd-charge-of-heresy-against-francis.html","title":{"rendered":"Jimmy Akin on the absurd charge of heresy against Francis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

<\/iframe><\/p>\nGo to the 50 minute mark or so. Well done, Jimmy.<\/p>\nThis absurd letter is the latest coup attempt by Reactionary crazies. <\/p>\nHow crazy, you ask?<\/p>\nHere\u2019s a guy on Twitter who is keeping tabs on some of the loonier stuff being aired by those hoping for the overthrow of Francis:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n\u201cIt would be good for a secular Italian nationalist and a Protestant empire to force the Pope out at gunpoint and replace him with someone more racist, because I\u2019m a catholic\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SbjEIqyzDJ\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/SbjEIqyzDJ<\/a><\/p>\n\u2014 MechaBonaldMkV\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd (@IgnatiusUnderh2) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IgnatiusUnderh2\/status\/1123382022997774339?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">May 1, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\nLest that sound exaggerated, it\u2019s important to grasp that things like this coup are not emerging out of a vacuum, but really tightly wound up with stuff like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncronline.org\/news\/opinion\/bannons-emerging-anti-francis-movement-threatens-church-unity\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Steve Bannon\u2019s push to silence Catholic witness and promote far right ethnonationalism<\/a>.<\/p>\nNote that this letter, like Vigano\u2019s assault on Francis last summer, was carefully coordinated with such dubious lie factories as Liesite News and such sketchy Francis-haters as 1 Peter 5. The usual suspects have leapt upon this letter and are, yet again, ginning up panic over it. The people who used to yell, \u201cThe Church is not a democracy\u201d at their culture war enemies are now yelling, \u201cWho will save us from this satanic tyrant?\u201d<\/p>\nThe elevation of a few Reactionaries to the judge, jury, and executioners of the Pope is assisted by the National Catholic Register, who hit the high notes of hubris with this amazing ultimatum over on Facebook: \u201cThe Dominican priest is one of 19 academics and clergy calling on the world\u2019s bishops to admonish the Pope and publicly reject heresy or face losing the papacy.\u201d<\/p>\nAnd over what? Nothing. He used a ferula so he\u2019s a satanist. Somebody give him a stole and he used it, so he\u2019s gay or something. Give me a break. They want schism over nothing but their own lust for power.<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/henrykarlson\/2019\/05\/being-a-prominent-scholar-or-theologian-does-not-give-you-authority-to-denounce-the-pope\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">Henry Karlson has their number<\/a>.<\/p>\nThis is the latest manifestation of the toxic Celebrity Culture approach to the faith that has infected postmodern conservative Catholic culture. Instead of listening to the Church, you go out and find some folk heroes that tell you what your itching ears want to hear and then threaten the Pope to knuckle under to them or \u201cface losing the papacy\u201d. It\u2019s a power play and it is ridiculous.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Go to the 50 minute mark or so. Well done, Jimmy. This absurd letter is the latest coup attempt by Reactionary crazies. How crazy, you ask? Here\u2019s a guy on Twitter who is keeping tabs on some of the loonier stuff being aired by those hoping for the overthrow of Francis: \u201cIt would be good […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[765],"class_list":["post-111737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-francis-rage-virus"],"yoast_head":"\n<title>Jimmy Akin on the absurd charge of heresy against Francis<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Go to the 50 minute mark or so. Well done, Jimmy. This absurd letter is the latest coup attempt by Reactionary crazies. How crazy, you ask? 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