A “Sworn Enemy” of Tradition
March 13, 2013
AT the website Rorate Caeli, Marcelo González, an Argentinian journalist at Panorama Católico Internacional, gives his view of Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, who has been elected pope:
Of all the unthinkable candidates, Jorge Mario Bergoglio is perhaps the worst. Not because he openly professes doctrines against the faith and morals, but because, judging from his work as Archbishop of Buenos Aires, faith and moral seem to have been irrelevant to him.
A sworn enemy of the Traditional Mass, he has only allowed imitations of it in the hands of declared enemies of the ancient liturgy. He has persecuted every single priest who made an effort to wear a cassock, preach with firmness, or that was simply interested in Summorum Pontificum.
Famous for his inconsistency (at times, for the unintelligibility of his addresses and homilies), accustomed to the use of coarse, demagogical, and ambiguous expressions, it cannot be said that his magisterium is heterodox, but rather non-existent for how confusing it is.
His entourage in the Buenos Aires Curia, with the exception of a few clerics, has not been characterized by the virtue of their actions. Several are under grave suspicion of moral misbehavior.
He has not missed any occasion for holding acts in which he lent his Cathedral to Protestants, Muslims, Jews, and even to partisan groups in the name of an impossible and unnecessary interreligious dialogue. He is famous for his meetings with protestants in the Luna Park arena where, together with preacher of the Pontifical House, Raniero Cantalamessa, he was “blessed” by Protestant ministers, in a common act of worship in which he, in practice, accepted the validity of the “powers” of the TV-pastors.
This election is incomprehensible: he is not a polyglot, he has no Curial experience, he does not shine for his sanctity, he is loose in doctrine and liturgy, he has not fought against abortion and only very weakly against homosexual “marriage” [approved with practically no opposition from the episcopate], he has no manners to honor the Pontifical Throne. He has never fought for anything else than to remain in positions of power.
It really cannot be what Benedict wanted for the Church. And he does not seem to have any of the conditions required to continue his work.
May God help His Church. One can never dismiss, as humanly hard as it may seem, the possibility of a conversion… and, nonetheless, the future terrifies us.
— Comments —-
Fitzgerald writes:
He doesn’t sound like someone who is soft on same sex marriage.
Fitzgerald adds:
Mark Shea posted this on Facebook:
This will cause the normal exploding heads at the Reporter and MSNBC. No “Progress” for you!
In the Aparecida Document, a joint statement of the bishops of Latin America, Cardinal Bergoglio commented on the worthiness of individuals to receive the Eucharist. The text states in paragraph 436 that, “We should commit ourselves to ‘eucharistic coherence’, that is, we should be conscious that people cannot receive Holy Communion and at the same time act or speak against the commandments, in particular when abortion, euthanasia, and other serious crimes against life and family are facilitated. This responsibility applies particularly to legislators, governors, and health professionals.”[52][53][54]
Of course, for Catholics who know their faith, all this was fore-ordained and obvious. It turns out the Pope is Catholic. But for the mainstream media, the deathless superstition is that the faith is the personal property of the Pope which he could, if he would just get off the dime and do it, completely rewrite to reflect the deepest beliefs of the NY Times editorial board, All Things Considered, and HuffPo. So we constantly hear the hope that the “next Pope” or the Third Vatican Council will “reform” the Catholic faith so that it’s not so, you know, Catholic. It’s a superstition that shows no sign of abating and a mindset that shows not the slightest hint of an ability to learn from history or deal with reality.
Michael S. writes:
I really wish Benedict XVI had stuck it out to the end.
Fred Owens writes:
A Jesuit who names himself Francis — right off, this is a big deal.
It so happens that my grade school nuns were Franciscans and my high school teachers were Jesuits, so when my son was born in 1977 I named him Eugene Francis Ignatius Owens — ta da! It worked!
