"Leo XIV... appears to have adopted 'humanitarianism' as his default position." - Daniel Mahoney " Pope Leo XIV signaled Thursday that he supports the Vatican’s existing position allowing informal blessings for same-sex couples." - Advocate Political philosopher Pierre Manent in his scholarship presents how the humanitarianism of Francis and Leo sever us from the common good of families and societies which should ultimately be directed to loving God above all things and working for the salvation of ourselves and others. Manet's books have argued that Francis's focus on universal border-less rights threatens to replace authentic Christian faith with a abstract secular humanitarianism. He contents that Francis's interpretation of the Good Samaritan in Fratelli Tutt is a quasi-humanitarian secular parable, whereas the Samaritan fundamentally represents Jesus Christ healing a mortally wounded humanity. Sadly, he thinks abstract "human dignity...
Abp Lefebvre on Mexican Massacre because of the Cristeros' "Rash Obedience" to "Pope Pius XI...influence[d]...[by] Progressives": "[S]alvation of souls—over blind submission"
Mexico, 1931: The Vatican and the “just war” Is it right for a Christian to take up arms against a government that persecutes the Church? Two years before the end of the Cristera War in Mexico, Cardinals Pacelli, Gasparri, and Boggiani discussed the subject at the Secretary of State [...] Thus we can count the laying down of arms against their will, in the spirit of obedience toward the bishops and the Holy See, as one of the numerous heroic acts committed in nearly three years of war. It was a sacrifice that was followed by hundreds of Cristeros (mostly leaders) being assassinated in many episodes of score-settling after the arreglos, in the face of indifference on the part of the government, which in June 1929 was required to guarantee safe conduct to all militants who had laid down their arms. It is not surprising, therefore, that large sections of the Mexican Catholic Church felt somehow betrayed by the hierarchy, guilty of what appeared to be in effect a surrender to a state which...