Wednesday, February 06, 2019

Summing Up Pp. Francis

Good ol' Pope Francis stepped into it again.

...Freedom is a right of every person: each individual enjoys the freedom of belief, thought, expression and action. The pluralism and the diversity of religions, colour, sex, race and language are willed by God in His wisdom, through which He created human beings. This divine wisdom is the source from which the right to freedom of belief and the freedom to be different derives. Therefore, the fact that people are forced to adhere to a certain religion or culture must be rejected, as too the imposition of a cultural way of life that others do not accept....

Nope.  Plenty more on that "nope" at this link.  Read the WHOLE thing, as Francis the Fumbler makes another error....

That said, a Catholic University prof inadvertently summed up Pp. Francis for us!

 puzzling and potentially problematic

Alliteration!  Brevity!!  Accuracy!!  And that professor cleverly used the phrase to define the heresy ol' Francis the Jesuit proclaimed, rather than simply stating that it is Francis who is the problem...but we all know what he meant, wink wink wink.

Meantime, Fr. John Zuhlsdorf sprays a couple of pounds of Foo-Foo Dust while defending Francis' outright heresy. 

 ...When we speak of God’s will we make distinctions.  God has an “active or positive will” and a  “permissive will”.    God’s “active will” concerns that which is good, true and beautiful.  On the other hand, God has a “permissive will” by which He allows that things will take place that are not in accord with the order He established....

Let me help you here:  God ALLOWS bad stuff, including Mohammedanism.  He does NOT "WILL" it.  Got it, Fr. Z?    Here's a Dominican, who actually understands Aquinas:

....“the problem with Fr Z’s interpretation is the reference to religions comes in a list of other things that God does will (and doesn’t simply permit), such as sexes, colors and races.

“Even the diversity of languages, though originally a punishment was willed and caused by God,” the theologian noted. “But the diversity of religions is due to sin and so is not willed and caused by God. We can say that it ‘comes under His Providence,’ but then so does everything, even the worst crimes.”...
 Oh, well.  More prayer!!

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