ONCE AGAIN, Pretend-Pope Francis rakes Catholics over the coals. Yesterday, he said those who won’t accept his revolutionary novelties and theology of surprises lead lives that are “patched, mended, meaningless.” He threw in more insults:

“Christians who obstinately maintain ‘it’s always been done this way,’ this is the path, this is the street—they sin: the sin of divination. It’s as if they went about by guessing: ‘What has been said and what doesn’t change is what’s important; what I hear—from myself and my closed heart—more than the Word of the Lord.’ Obstinacy is also the sin of idolatry: the Christian who is obstinate sins! The sin of idolatry. ‘And what is the way, Father?’ Open the heart to the Holy Spirit, discern what is the will of God.”

Fortunately we have true popes to correct him. In 1902, to cite one small example provided at the link above, Pope Leo XIII said:

“It is impossible to approve in Catholic publications a style inspired by unsound novelty which seems to deride the piety of the faithful and dwells on the introduction of a new order of Christian life, on new directions of the Church, on new aspirations of the modern soul, on a new social vocation of the clergy, on a new Christian civilization, and many other things of the same kind” (quoted in Pius X, Encyclical Pascendi, n. 55).

And then there is Pope Pius VI:

“Any novelty at all assails the Universal Church” (Bull Auctorem Fidei).

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