It just takes a leap of faith and a humble heart to open the door and go in.
I read that years ago Pope John XXIII insulted the Church, calling it a only a museum if it would not yield to that ‘aggiornamento.’ That was a very dark thing to say. It betrayed a contempt for the Faith and her past, a past which includes Christ, His Mother, His Apostles, His saints – all glorious human beings living yet today.
I wish Francis would make up some new schemes, and stop rebuilding the tired, ugly concentration camp that was the 1970’s Church.
A church that lives according to the Gospel must always have its doors open and be a welcoming community, not “an exclusive, closed sect,” Pope Francis said.
“Churches, parishes, institutions with closed doors must not call themselves a church; they must call themselves museums,” he said to applause during his general audience in St. Peter’s Square Sept. 9.
As part of a series of talks about the family, the pope focused on the close bond that should exist between the family and the Christian community.
The son of God chose to be born and immersed in the everyday life and routine of a simple family in a poor village, the pope said.
In fact, the family is where the “irreplaceable, indelible” start of one’s life story begins, which is “why the family is so important”.
When Jesus began his public ministry, he formed around him a community with a shared vocation, “that is, a con-vocation of people. This is the meaning of the word, ‘church,'” the pope said.
The group Jesus gathers around him has the features of “a hospitable family, not an exclusive, closed sect”, he said.
This truly is babble. The only thread running through it is its socialism. To preach against walls is to destroy. Jesus was all about ‘the romanticized, mythical people’ see, specifically ‘the poor,’ and not all those other ‘structures.’ Structures close in, make walls. Bad, bad.
That’s radicalism. That’s Liberation Theology. It’s simply an effort to disarm, to corral you into the structures they have waiting for you once they’ve wrecked those that belonged to you. Out of the Holy House of your Faith and Church then into their barns, it’s a stark picture of this pontificate. Most people can’t seem to face it.
What about the Temple, or the Tent of the Presence? These structures had ‘closed doors.’ What about the faithful Catholic worthily receiving Communion?
An institution without doors or walls is not an institution at all. It’s rubble. God has no real house at all in FrancisChurch.
An ‘exclusive, closed sect.’ Why must he smear the Church? Heaven is exclusive. Not everyone gets in, your Holiness. Boundaries define things. They make things holy, or ‘set apart.’ They discriminate between good and evil – or is that mean or something?
