De Omnibus Dubitandum Est.

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  The Pope gives blasphemous "artist" Andres Serrano the thumbs up at an audience in the Vatican last week. From very early on it seemed to me that the main theme of this Pontificate was confusion. There seemed to be a disparity between the words and actions of the Holy Father you could drive a truck through. Initially this provided a kind of loophole where you could assume the best even if he seemed to be doing the worst. But that didn't last very long. It soon became clear that his actions where either so ignorant of the role and function of the office as to be a complete embarrassment, or that he was deliberately acting in a way that is contrary to the deposit of faith. The contrast with his predecessors is incredibly stark. As someone who grew up with JP II and really found his Catholic faith under Benedict XVI, this stark contrast was devastating and incredibly difficult to reconcile. And for good reason. The Pope is the focal point of unity in the Christian Church....

  This Sunday, the Pope of Confusion led with a false dichotomy typical of his "teaching style": Pope Francis at Mass this morning: “Keeping the Truth does not mean defending ideas, becoming guardians of a system of doctrines and dogmas. It means remaining bound to Christ and being devoted to His Gospel. Truth is Christ Himself.” pic.twitter.com/0Y1R75hy4N — Catholic Sat (@CatholicSat) May 16, 2021 This really struck me because the Pope constantly seems to be trying to justify his lack of clarity even as the maelstrom of the confusion he has caused swirls around him. He regularly owns the chaos, trying to sell it as some kind of definite strategy and he seems to be constantly trying to explain why, contrary to all the evidence, this is actually a great idea. It's not. Clearly. By way of complete contrast, here's a quote from St John Henry Cardinal Newman (Apologia 1865, Chapter 2): "From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religio...

In the Holy Smoke podcast last week, seasoned UK journalist Damian Thompson analysed the Vatican's attempt to silence the USCCB criticism of newly elected President Joe Biden, which I first wrote about here . This is well worth a listen: I think the first thing to say is that it is obvious that this situation has only arisen because the USCCB did not point out these problems with Biden prior to the election. To me this lack of action sums up the lack of potency in the Church at the moment which means we are paying lip service only to the Gospel: it says to Catholics all over the world that doctrine doesn't matter - that you don't need to follow Catholic teaching - that no rules apply - that the Church could be "wrong" on these fundamental issues of life - that secular society has a point about killing unborn children being a good thing. This is antithetical to Catholic teaching, and, because it is so obviously antithetical, it requires regular, firm & loud ...

In a move that should surprise no one, Pope Francis has once again appeared to contradict two millennia of clear and consistent scriptural and Catholic teaching. So begins the article written by Professor Edward Feser on First Things today. He continues... There has always been disagreement among Catholics about whether capital punishment is, in practice, the morally best way to uphold justice and social order. However, the Church has always taught, clearly and consistently, that the death penalty is in principle consistent with both natural law and the Gospel. This is taught throughout scripture—from Genesis 9 to Romans 13 and many points in between—and the Church maintains that scripture cannot teach moral error. It was taught by the Fathers of the Church, including those Fathers who opposed the application of capital punishment in practice. It was taught by the Doctors of the Church, including St. Thomas Aquinas, the Church’s greatest theologian; St. Alphonsus Ligouri, her...

"maintain the traditions even as I have delivered them to you."  1 Cor 11:2 So yesterday Pope denounced the "rigid" attached to doctrine as "Pharisees...weak to the point of rottenness." To Western ears, it sounded as if he was criticising faithful Catholics who stick to Church teaching; he even used the word "doctrine" ( dottrina in the original Italian)which means "teaching". But that would be absurd. For the Pope, our Holy Father to criticise faithful Catholics for following Church teaching???!!!! I had to stop, turn myself around and have a careful think about what he said. Excerpt: "Pope Francis recalled how “Pius XII freed us from the very heavy cross that was the Eucharistic fast”: “But some of you might remember. You couldn’t even drink a drop of water. Not even that! And to brush your teeth, it had to be done in such a way that you didn’t swallow the water. But I myself as a young boy went to confession for ...

Sometimes I think I am too easily swayed by other's opinions. I suppose on the internet, people read your thoughts and like to say you are either "x" or "y". People like to pigeon hole people, to put them safely in the right box so they can predict what they'll do next, so they feel safe about what that person thinks on any given issue. I'm sure most of you have pigeon holed me a while back, unless you know me in person. If you do know me, you'll know I am a bit of a contradiction in terms. At least I have often been told that, and still am regularly. Part of this character trait is that my mind is fairly malleable in regard to knowledge. I tend to hold on to good ideas, tried and tested theories, yet always be prepared to test them, in case new information proves superior. I see this as a humble attitude. To use a fighting analogy, experience has taught me that, despite my being big, strong, and well trained, there are lots of people out ther...

From Rome Reports: Fr. Lombardi makes it explicit that no Cardinal supports changing Church doctrine, their concern is with how best to communicate Church teachings to the world: