Saturday, October 15, 2022

Who Will Be Athanasius?

A few years ago, a fellow named Arius proposed a heresy which directly contradicted Christ's own words.  He was opposed by a fellow named Athanasius--who was a pretty lonely guy due to his resistance.

Update from Robert Royal:

...Cardinal Mario Grech – secretary general of the Synod of Bishops – recently explained to the Church’s Leadership Roundtable that when it comes to controversies such as divorced and remarried Catholics being given Communion or same-sex couples receiving a blessing:

    "What has the Church to fear if these two groups within the faithful are given the opportunity to express their intimate sense of spiritual realities which they experience? Might this be an opportunity for the Church, to listen to the Holy Spirit, speaking through them also."

He has also said that, whether Latin Mass goers or LGBTQ+,  “everybody should be listened to” and “nobody is excluded.”...

Yah, well, Eminence, it appears that you've forgotten about this "Christ" guy who taught--definitively--that such foolishness is wrong.  Wrong, wrong, wrong.  Sinful, sinful, sinful.

...The Cardinal has, further, put himself in a perilous position. It’s only prudent to be very cautious about even suggesting that the Holy Spirit may be “speaking” – especially when He suddenly seems to have reversed course. That maybe He didn’t mean what He actually said way back at the beginning about “male and female He created them.” (Earlier this year, Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich, appointed by Pope Francis to be the Relator General for the Synod on Synodality, has said about the Church’s teaching on homosexuality, “I think it’s about time we did a fundamental revision of the doctrine here.”)

It bears repeating that if the whole Jewish-Christian tradition was mistaken about one of the earliest Biblical statements of what we human beings are – prominent figures such as Fr. James Martin S.J. have raised that possibility – almost everything is then up for grabs, including whether God has spoken in Scripture and Tradition. Sadly, as a result, it’s even led many these days, who find their identities in sexuality, to wonder whether He even exists....

There are plenty of other US churchmen who agree with Grech, Hollerich, and Martin, but they're keeping their cards close to the vest--for the time being.

It occurs to one that Francis' attempt to nuke the Old Rite and its priests and people who preach, teach, and live by Scripture and Tradition is part and parcel of the obvious attempt to "revise" Catholic teaching so that it no longer Catholic.

As to our question:  will today's Athanasius be Cdl. Mueller?  Bp. Schneider?  Abp. Vigano?  Cdl. Burke?  (It's at least gratifying to know that there are a few candidates, ain'a?)

And who will rise in solidarity with today's Athanasius?  Not those whose faith was planted on rocks or shallow soil, and not those who value the opinion of the world......

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