Therese, a commenter at the Catholic Monitor, said:
"[C]onservatives have... a slow-moving liberalism that by one accommodation after another will end in humanism."
"I was listening to a radio interview from the 90's in which the featured guest pointed out that when you lose your faith typically you are unaware of the fact... I am praying especially for the grace not to fall into this trap."
A few years ago, if anyone other than Pope Francis had explicitly taught what Francis now teaches about allowing Communion for adulterers and that the death penalty is "immoral," most of the conservative Catholics would have said it was heretical.
What early Church expert Rod Bennett said of the Semi-Arians is now true, apparently, of most conservatives attacking the Open Letter:
"[Pope] Liberius signed the Semi-Arian Creed of Sirmium... designed to bear both an orthodox and heretical interpretation."
("Bad Shepherds," Page 27)
Liberius was tortured into signing that document.
It appears that most anti-Open Letter Catholic conservatives are freely accepting "orthodox and heretical interpretation[s]" of infallible Church teachings because their loyalty to Francis is greater than their loyalty to the true faith and to Jesus Christ the author of the true faith.
Conservative Catholics have to answer this question:
Are you more loyal to Francis than to the infallible Catholic faith and Jesus Christ the author of that true faith?
As Therese said "when you lose your faith typically you are unaware of the fact."
Pray an Our Father now for the restoration of the Church and that anti-Open Letter Catholics don't lose their Faith.
"[C]onservatives have... a slow-moving liberalism that by one accommodation after another will end in humanism."
"I was listening to a radio interview from the 90's in which the featured guest pointed out that when you lose your faith typically you are unaware of the fact... I am praying especially for the grace not to fall into this trap."
A few years ago, if anyone other than Pope Francis had explicitly taught what Francis now teaches about allowing Communion for adulterers and that the death penalty is "immoral," most of the conservative Catholics would have said it was heretical.
What early Church expert Rod Bennett said of the Semi-Arians is now true, apparently, of most conservatives attacking the Open Letter:
"[Pope] Liberius signed the Semi-Arian Creed of Sirmium... designed to bear both an orthodox and heretical interpretation."
("Bad Shepherds," Page 27)
Liberius was tortured into signing that document.
It appears that most anti-Open Letter Catholic conservatives are freely accepting "orthodox and heretical interpretation[s]" of infallible Church teachings because their loyalty to Francis is greater than their loyalty to the true faith and to Jesus Christ the author of the true faith.
Conservative Catholics have to answer this question:
Are you more loyal to Francis than to the infallible Catholic faith and Jesus Christ the author of that true faith?
As Therese said "when you lose your faith typically you are unaware of the fact."
Pray an Our Father now for the restoration of the Church and that anti-Open Letter Catholics don't lose their Faith.
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Why?
Because, with NO EXCUSES, one MUST believe that The Church IS infallible, and in support of that, that the Pope (the 'generator of the Teaching') is also, infallible as stated in "PastorAEternus"