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Your point about Lawler resonates a lot. The sin of schism should be more worrisome than the label schismatic.
On Pagliarani, you make a great observation, Frank. His Argentine tie to Bergoglio defintely raises concerns; the connection was lost on me before, but it is a strange coincidence. I hope it portends something worse for Bergoglio than for the SSPX.
But about Bergoglio and VII, are you denying that the Council has anything to do at all with Bergoglio? Doesn’t the Council have at least something to do with Bergoglio’s thinking?
I don’t think he cares about what any council says. Leftism is a religion from outside the Church. FrancisCatholics follow THAT, often using VII as an excuse.
It seems to me you and Pagliarani might both be right, but in different ways, or in different degrees. In any case, as long as Pagliarani is calling Bergoglio “Holy Father,” I can’t take his remarks on Church affairs too seriously. The FiP Error is a deal-breaker for me, practically destroying all my confidence in a person’s credibility to speak on Church affairs.
I am very cautious of the principle of suspicion by association. That Pagliarani might have some Argentinian connection (I have no idea of what it is or might be) seems to be a very faint aspersion. One can’t have suspicions of John the Apostle just because of his connection, or even association, with Judas, for example.
With regard to the Bergoglio phenomenon, I have no authority to make any definitive pronouncements on the matter; but I have a moral obligation to have an opinion that I will have to own up to on Judgement Day. Indeed, within weeks of Bergoglio’s “appointment” I had already dubbed him “T’Googlio Monster” after the sock puppets on “Sesame Street”. That’s my layman’s view. But I can appreciate that prestigious Churchmen must be more guarded in their public utterances because anarchy is a great evil and in no way a “new, improved order”. The matter must be dealt with, in God’s timing, by appropriate authorities in orderly fashion. Until that happens we can do nothing but live the Faith (which necessarily includes prodding appropriate authorities to do what they are instituted for).
“That Pagliarani might have some Argentinian connection (I have no idea of what it is or might be) seems to be a very faint aspersion.”
I think it depends on how far Frank wants to go with the association. As I saw it, he was only pointing to the questions the association raises, not drawing negative conclusions about the association (which, of course, no one can do right now).
On the other hand, having looked into it more, the association doesn’t seem as worrisome as it first sounded to me. From what I found, Pagliarani’s time in Argentina was mostly post-Bergoglio.