Fast Cheap Annulments: All This FrancisMercy Sure Feels Like Hell

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Annulments: Vatican Rank and File Monsignor delivers the FrancisMercy news to the suffering peoples

Streamline annulments: Vatican monsignor delivers the gentle FrancisMercy news to the suffering peoples

The AP tells the world’s version of the new streamlined FrancisChurch annulments – one-stop family destruction, death of the Faith, and generations of Hell in just 45 quick days!  (Catch this frightening photo of the Vatican announcement.)

The modern ‘catholic’ annulment charade was already a terrible scandal, but there are very few people in the world who do not understand that ‘catholic’ annulments are also a fraud.  That’s why they all call them ‘catholic divorces.’  Because they are, and people know the emasculated Church is just lying about them.

These sacred unions the AmChurch keeps declaring ‘null’ were not null.  They were marriages.  To the Children they produced, they were parents.  You’re not too immature when you’re thirty-five.  You weren’t such a complete idiot that you didn’t know what you were doing.

In the FrancisGospel broken marriages are just mercy for women and children, so why not increase the mercy by making annulments simple formalities.  But these cheap annulments don’t actually declare anything true.  Once again they’re just using Christ’s Church to look the other way at sin and call it ‘mercy.’  That’s FrancisMercy, not God’s.  FrancisMercy hurts, a lot.

Pope Francis radically reformed the process for annulling marriages Tuesday, overhauling 300 years of church practice by creating a new fast-track annulment and doing away with an automatic appeal that often slowed the process down.

Three hundred years?  Try thousands.  It’s only in the past 50 years that they started handing out mass-produced fraudulent annulments.  Do you think God thinks that all these Church-wrecked marriages were never valid?  A good friend of mine got an annulment after fifteen years and five kids.  His wife was a notorious cheat, but they were a family once – a sad one.  Now they’re three or four sadder ones.  Thank you newChurch!  Problem solved.

Oh, but it’s complicated, and what about the abuse, the conflict, and neglect?  Marriage IS abuse, conflict, and neglect. That’s the point.

The move, which came a week after he said he was letting all rank-and-file priests grant absolution to women who have had abortions, was further evidence of his desire to make the church more responsive to the needs of ordinary faithful.

What was it responding to before, the Dalai Lama?

The new law on annulments goes into effect Dec. 8, the start of Francis’s Holy Year of Mercy, a yearlong jubilee during which the pope hopes to emphasize the merciful side of the church. It will speed up and simplify the annulment process by placing the onus squarely on bishops around the world to determine when a fundamental flaw has made a marriage invalid.

A Catholic needs a church annulment to remarry in the church, and a divorced Catholic who remarries civilly without one is considered an adulterer living in sin and is forbidden from receiving Communion.

The Communion issue is at the center of debate at the upcoming synod of bishops, a three-week meeting that gets underway in October. Progressive bishops favor a process by which these Catholics could eventually have access to the sacrament if they repent; conservatives say there can be no such wiggle room and that church teaching is clear that a marriage is indissoluble.

Catholics have long complained that it can take years to get an annulment, if they can get one at all. Costs can reach into the hundreds or thousands of dollars for legal and tribunal fees, though some dioceses have waived their fees.

“With this fundamental law, Francis has now launched the true start of his reform,” said Monsignor Pio Vito Pinto, the head of the Roman Rota, the church’s marriage court. “He is putting the poor at the center — that is the divorced, remarried who have been held at arms’ length — and asking for bishops to have a true change of heart.”

Reasons for granting annulments vary, including that the couple never intended the marriage to last or that one spouse didn’t want children.

The new law also says that “lack of faith” can also be grounds for an annulment, conforming to the belief of Francis and Pope Benedict XVI before him that a sacramental marriage celebrated without the faith isn’t really a marriage at all.

Francis’ biggest reform involves the new fast-track procedure, which will be handled by the local bishop and can be used when both spouses request an annulment or don’t oppose it.

This is going to shred the procedure so that it’s now completely at the discretion of each bishop with a ‘wink wink’ from Rome.  Most bishops are weasels and the rest will be pressured to conform.  Goodbye marriage.  Thank you new Pope of the family.  He hasn’t even gotten to the October Synod yet.

Paul VI ruined the Church by suppressing the Ancient Mass and bending every Church law beyond recognition.  Now Francis has arrived to wreck what’s left and bulldozer the rubble.  Hey, it’s all for the people!

 

 

 

 

Washington Post Defends Underdog FrancisChurch From Unknown Catholic Attacks

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FrancisChurch defender vulnerable and at-risk from conservative attack

Vulnerable FrancisChurch defender at risk from ‘conservative’ attack

The Washington Post is seeing things.

VATICAN CITY — On a sunny morning earlier this year, a camera crew entered a well-appointed apartment just outside the 9th-century gates of Vatican City. Pristinely dressed in the black robes and scarlet sash of the princes of the Roman Catholic Church, Wisconsin-born Cardinal Raymond Burke sat in his elaborately upholstered armchair and appeared to issue a warning to Pope Francis.

A staunch conservative and Vatican bureaucrat, Burke had been demoted by the pope a few months earlier, but it did not take the fight out of him. Francis had been backing a more inclusive era, giving space to progressive voices on divorced Catholics as well as gays and lesbians. In front of the camera, Burke said he would “resist” liberal changes — and seemed to caution Francis about the limits of his authority. “One must be very attentive regarding the power of the pope,” Burke told the French news crew.

To call Cardinal Burke, or any other faithful Catholic ‘conservative’ is simply a slur.  We aren’t in love with old things. We just don’t run with the popular pack, afraid, or over the cliff with the herd of swine.  We stand on the eternal Rock of Truth.

Papal power, Burke warned, “is not absolute.” He added, “The pope does not have the power to change teaching [or] doctrine.”

Burke’s words belied a growing sense of alarm among strict conservatives, exposing what is fast emerging as a culture war over Francis’s papacy and the powerful hierarchy that governs the Roman Catholic Church.

This is last year’s revolt.  The post is replaying the 2014 Synod, trying to gin up a sense of repeated resistance before this year’s attack.  But where has Cardinal Burke been the past several months?  What has happened to that faithful front?  They’ll be watching for Edward Pentin this time, and Michael Voris has placed himself under restriction.

They’ve also knotted up all the rules so that working groups have absolutely no means of open communication either with the outside or with each other.  Did you think they were going to repent their thuggish tactics and become Christian gentlemen this year?  Synod 2015 is designed so that no Synod father will obstruct the ‘holy spirit’ and his frightening surprises.

This month, Francis makes his first trip to the United States at a time when his progressive allies are hailing him as a revolutionary, a man who only last week broadened the power of priests to forgive women who commit what Catholic teachings call the “mortal sin” of abortion during his newly declared “year of mercy” starting in December. On Sunday, he called for “every” Catholic parish in Europe to offer shelter to one refugee family from the thousands of asylum seekers risking all to escape war-torn Syria and other pockets of conflict and poverty.

Yet as he upends church convention, Francis also is grappling with a conservative backlash to the liberal momentum building inside the church. In more than a dozen interviews, including with seven senior church officials, insiders say the change has left the hierarchy more polarized over the direction of the church than at any point since the great papal reformers of the 1960s.

Read ‘destroyers.’

The conservative rebellion is taking on many guises — in public comments, yes, but also in the rising popularity of conservative Catholic Web sites promoting Francis dissenters; books and promotional materials backed by conservative clerics seeking to counter the liberal trend; and leaks to the news media, aimed at Vatican reformers.

Is a ‘FrancisDissenter’ an actual dissenter?

What websites do they reference here?  The mainline faithful Catholic press retains a very thin slice of its old glory.  They are for the most part FrancisApologists and cheerleaders.  They have even become pitiful sycophantic environmentalists.  It would be better just to link to a cover page that reads: “Nothing to see here, just some fearful chiselers trying to hold onto their jobs in the era of ObamaChurch.”

No.  The rising popularity is in what used to be called ‘traditionalist’ Catholic media.  In FrancisChurch the faithful flock has been hewn right down the middle.  One side has gone ‘Voris,’ and left intellectual honesty behind to chase money and visibility.  The rest have been tarred as freaks who love long red dresses.

But those freaks are just Catholics.  LifeSiteNews, 1Peter5, The Remnant, our site PewSitter, and a host of learned and passionate writers from the Catholic and secular worlds remain to fight.  The non-specific Post may be referring to these.

In his recent comments, Burke was also merely stating fact. Despite the vast powers of the pope, church doctrine serves as a kind of constitution. And for liberal reformers, the bruising theological pushback by conservatives is complicating efforts to translate the pope’s transformative style into tangible changes.

Good!

“At least we aren’t poisoning each other’s chalices anymore,” said the Rev. Timothy Radcliffe, a liberal British priest and Francis ally appointed to an influential Vatican post in May. Radcliffe said he welcomed open debate, even critical dissent within the church. But he professed himself as being “afraid” of “some of what we’re seeing”

A poisoned chalice is one taken unworthily, ‘Father.’  If you’re so afraid of these dangerous Catholics perhaps you should register a micro-aggression complaint and enforce some kind of ‘safe space.’  After all, there’s nothing organic about the church to which you belong.  It’s already dead and dying, but the true Faith only grows.  It must be forcibly smothered and suppressed by men like you and their secular masters so that the ‘awful horror’ can go on ‘standing in the place where it should not be.’

 

 

 

 

More Pap From the People’s Pope

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poor guy

Jesus’s Favorite Kind of Guy?

Does Pope Francis make a fetish out of some academic, ideological notion of ‘the people?’

The capacity to recognize ourselves as sinners opens us to the astonishment at the encounter with Jesus: that was the message of Pope Francis Thursday morning during Mass for the feast of Saint Gregory the Great, Pope and Doctor of the Church.

Pope Francis’ homily focused on the day’s Gospel reading which tells the story of the miraculous catch of fish. After working throughout the night without catching anything, Peter, trusting in Jesus, cast his nets into the sea. The Holy Father used this story to speak about faith as an encounter with the Lord. First of all, he said, it pleases me to consider the fact that Jesus spent the greater part of His time in the street, with the people; then, later in evening, He went away by Himself to pray – but He encountered the people, He sought the people.”

I have never gotten this message from the Gospel myself.  From what I’ve read, Jesus was just as likely to be at a beautiful wedding, with the doctors in the Temple, or at the home of an important person as among the sick and lame in the street.  How did he ‘recline at table’ if he was huddling in the road all the time?

Sinners are everywhere and Jesus is a King.  He wasn’t a stranger to power and responsibility.  He could relate to it.  He was of course a leader Himself.  I don’t believe Pope Francis or his contemporaries in the hierarchy when they try to paste this ‘preferential option for the poor’ onto Christ.

Wealth is a great temptation, but Jesus didn’t avoid the wealthy, and if they were hardened and proud, he didn’t reject them either.  He scolded the Pharisees because it was for their own good, not because he loved them less.

Christ prefers the repentant faithful.  That’s who he prefers.  He’s not a Communist.