{"id":92558,"date":"2015-06-02T00:09:52","date_gmt":"2015-06-02T07:09:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/?p=92558"},"modified":"2015-05-08T13:26:26","modified_gmt":"2015-05-08T20:26:26","slug":"the-heads-i-win-tails-you-lose-strategy-of-conservative-dissent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2015\/06\/the-heads-i-win-tails-you-lose-strategy-of-conservative-dissent.html","title":{"rendered":"The “Heads I Win, Tails You Lose” Strategy of Conservative Dissent"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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 \u201clegitimate redistribution of economic benefits by the state\u201d<\/a> or \u201cencyclical on the environment<\/a>\u201c, we hear \u201cthe pope isn\u2019t infallible you know\u201d 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. \u00a0Like so:<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe American bishops are equally leftist. As a lifelong practising catholic, I am out.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel like sending my Catholic Membership card back! So frustrating!!!\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAntipope\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s a material heretic, not just for this, but for a lot of other stuff he\u2019s said; modernist to the core if you ask me, and apparently Bishop Fellay said the same thing. But the \u2018traditionilsts\u2019 are the problem? Please.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cJust another major disappointment for me in my Catholic church.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI am Catholic but, am very disappointed by the Current Holy Father \u2014 am beginning to think he is an idiot. Stay the hell out of Politics and Fraud Science\u2026..\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI am a Catholic Convert . I have no respect for this leftist pope & no longer consider myself a Catholic.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is time for an American Catholic Church separate and independent from the Vatican, which is a foreign power.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cLeftist ideology working without the facts, as most progressives do. I\u2019m done with this PolitiPope!\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Just a little reminder:<\/p>\n

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.<\/em> 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.\u201d (<\/span>Lumen Gentium<\/em><\/a>, no. 25)<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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