In Rorate Coeli read in detail, if you can stomach it, how Pope Francis has, one by one, eviscerated the heroic efforts of John Paul II to save the Holy Catholic Church from innovation, moral relativism, socialism and a host of other evils, and is back on the road to destruction.
Rather than reiterating the list of Francis’s ruinous actions, which Rorate Coeli has already done admirably and comprehensively, if depressingly as well, we’ll simply quote from the excellent precis near the close of the essay.
. . . Francis and his allies, on the outs for decades, have returned to destroy [the actions of John Paul II] — using not persuasion but the exercise of raw institutional power. For now at least, ‘the hermeneutic of continuity has proved to be incapable of countering ecclesiastic Jacobinism, which has no interpretative line of theological documents, but a project to gain power through men and facts.’* The backroom political maneuvers of the Peronist Pope have succeeded in devastating John Paul II’s legacy within the Church.
This writer must remind himself constantly that our Lord will not allow the destruction of His church. At the same time though, he is also reminded, in an entirely different context, of the exasperated plea made by Henry II, weary of his archbishop thwarting his illegal and evil designs: “Will no man rid me of this turbulent priest?” Such an extreme measure of course is not only morally horrendous, it is unnecessary; the heretical priest in the Apostolic Palace is old and ailing, and eventually will go to his reward, whatever that is. A greater concern is, who will be his successor?
Pray for the Holy Catholic Church.
*Roberto de Mattei,
Corrispondenza Romana, Rorate Coeli.
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Thanks to WT and GR for catching an unfortunate typo.
THE TAOS TATLER. 