Francis apologist Mark Shea in his October 10, 2020 post "Msgr. Eric Barr on
the Rad Trad Heresy" endorsed Francis's heretical teaching on "mercy."
[https://www.patheos.com/blogs/markshea/2019/10/msgr-eric-barr-on-the-rad-trad-heresy.html]
Msgr. Barr in his piece "Francis: The Pope We Need" actually said something true:
"Papal Emphasis on Mercy is The Root of Criticism of Pope."
[https://www.patheos.com/blogs/ericbarr/2019/11/francis-pope-we-need/]
Indeed, Francis's teaching on "mercy" is one of his more apparent explicit heresies
which has seemingly led to the Francis sex abuse cover-ups. But, before
we get to that teaching we need to understand why Shea and Barr
might think:
"Francis: The Pope We Need."
The following comes from a website which discloses little known information about Barr and the Campobello sex abuse scandal:
-"The teacher said the diocese's team already knew many of
the details about the relationship between Girl One and Campobello. The
teacher asked if they knew about the second victim at Aurora Central, to
which they replied, "that's been dealt with", she said." -
the Daily Herald, June 23, 2004 (regarding a meeting at the St. Peter
rectory in October 2002 with Rockford Misconduct Officer Msgr. David
Kagan, Vicar for Clergy and Religious Msgr. Eric Barr,
Diocesan attorney Ellen Lynch and a St. Peter school teacher with whom
one of the victims confided. When Campobello was arrested in December
2002, he was working as a parochial minister in Belvidere, Illinois)...
... "Some may conclude that we are hiding things. But we are not.
We are protecting the right of the Church to have independence from the
state as guaranteed by the First Amendment to the Constitution." - Rockford Diocese Vicar for Clergy Msgr. Eric Barr, 2003
"I don't think that the 1st Amendment was written to shelter alleged child molesters." -John Kass, Chicago Tribune column, January 15, 2004.
"Merely because Canon 489 is controlling the internal
operation of the affairs of the church does not mean that it permits
evidence pertaining to sexual molestation of children by priests to be
secreted and shielded from discovery that is otherwise proper." - 2nd District Appellate Court of Illinois in a ruling on the Campobello case, May 2004.
(Interesting Website Regarding the Diocese, the Campobello Scandal and
his parish--St. Peter’s in Geneva The following is taken from: http://www.companionsinhope.com/Geneva/good,bad,ugly.htm)
[http://boonecountycatholics.blogspot.com/2012/02/interesting-website-regarding-diocese.html?m=1]
As Barr appears, according to the Chicago Tribune, to agree with Francis
on covering up sex abuse, it seems that Shea agrees with Francis on
homosexual civil unions. Shea said:
"Of course it won't. We're not the Anglican Church. I do think the Church, having fought a long rear guard retreat against civil unions, will probably throw in the towel on that."
[http://m.ncregister.com/blog/mark-shea/a-reader-with-jitters-about-pope-francis-writes]
On September 1, 2017, Crux reported that Francis supported Shea's call
for a "retreat" on "legalization of evil" homosexual civil unions
saying:
"Let's call unions between the same sex 'civil unions.'"
(Crux, "'I consulted a psychoanalyst,' Pope Francis reveals in new book," September 1, 2017)
The gay/lesbian dissenting New Ways Ministry said:
"Pope Francis has never, as pontiff, stated his endorsement of civil
unions so flatly. (He did support civil unions as a compromise to his
opposition towards marriage equality... As pontiff, he did make a
ambiguous statement about civil unions...)."
(New Way Ministry Bondings 2.0 Blog, "Pope Francis Allows for Civil Unions for Lesbian and Gay Couples," September 2, 2017)
The gay movement New Way Ministry endorsed Francis's apparent endorsement of the civil unions of cohabiting homosexual couples.
On June 3, 2003 the then Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, head of the
Congregation for the Faith, said such an endorsement was against
Catholic teaching:
"Those who would move from tolerance to the legitimatization of specific
rights for cohabiting homosexual persons need to be reminded that the
approval or legalization of evil is something far different from the toleration of evil... The
Church teaches that respect for homosexual persons cannot lead in any
way to approval of homosexual behavior or to legal recognition of
homosexual unions."
(Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, "Considerations Regarding
Proposals to give Legal Recognition to Unions between Homosexual
Persons," June 3, 2003)
Homosexualist Shea apparently disagrees with the then Cardinal Joseph
Ratzinger teaching that gay civil unions are "legalization of evil" it
appears because of his belief in Francis "mercy."
Do Shea and Barr because of their conviction in Francis "mercy" "think that the 1st Amendment was written to shelter alleged child molesters" according to John Kass in his Chicago Tribune column's perspective on the Barr 1st Amendment statement?
Both appears to think that their support of such "thinking" is rooted in the Francis teachings on "mercy." Remember Barr said:
"Papal Emphasis on Mercy is The Root of Criticism of Pope."
Is the Shea/Barr support of Francis "mercy" really connected to the sex abuse scandal and "legalization of evil"?
In 2017, the Associated Press revealed that Francis reversed the decision of Pope Benedict XVI to kick pedophiles out of the priesthood.
Francis is now reinstating sex abusers back into priesthood. The AP wrote that Francis said:
"[H]e believed sex abusers suffer from a 'disease' - a medical term used
by defense la wyers to seek mitigating factors in canonical
sentences."[https://cruxnow.com/global-church/2017/02/25/pope-quietly-trims-sanctions-sex-abusers-seeking-mercy/]
Abuse victim Marie Collins, a founding member of Francis’ sex-abuse
advisory commission, apparently responding to the Pope's claim that sex
abusing priests are "diseased" psychologically and not responsible for
their crimes or sins, said:
"All who abuse have made a conscious decision to do so. Even those who
are paedophiles, experts will tell you, are still responsible for their
actions. They can resist their inclinations...
"While mercy is important, justice for all parties is equally important.
If there is seen to be any weakness about proper penalties, then it
might well send the wrong message to those who would abuse."[http://metro.co.uk/2017/02/26/pope-francis-reversed-decisions-to-kick-paedophiles-out-of-the-priesthood-6473481/#ixzz4ZpmwUPVe]
Francis Notes:
- Doctor
of the Church St. Francis de Sales totally confirmed beyond any doubt
the possibility of a heretical pope and what must be done by the Church
in such a situation:
"[T]he Pope... WHEN he is EXPLICITLY a heretic, he falls ipso facto from his dignity and out of the Church, and the Church MUST either deprive him, or, as some say, declare him deprived, of his Apostolic See."
(The Catholic Controversy, by St. Francis de Sales, Pages 305-306)
Saint Robert Bellarmine, also, said "the Pope heretic is not deposed ipso facto, but must be declared deposed by the Church."
[https://archive.org/stream/SilveiraImplicationsOfNewMissaeAndHereticPopes/Silveira%20Implications%20of%20New%20Missae%20and%20Heretic%20Popes_djvu.txt]
- "If Francis is a Heretic, What should Canonically happen to him?": http://www.thecatholicmonitor.com/2020/12/if-francis-is-heretic-what-should.html
- "Could Francis be a Antipope even though the Majority of Cardinals claim he is Pope?": http://www.thecatholicmonitor.com/2019/03/could-francis-be-antipope-even-though.html
- LifeSiteNews, "Confusion explodes as Pope Francis throws magisterial
weight behind communion for adulterers," December 4, 2017:
The AAS guidelines explicitly allows "sexually active adulterous couples
facing 'complex circumstances' to 'access the sacraments of
Reconciliation and the Eucharist.'"
- On February 2018, in Rorate Caeli, Catholic theologian Dr. John Lamont:
"The AAS statement... establishes that Pope Francis in
Francis Notes:
- Doctor
of the Church St. Francis de Sales totally confirmed beyond any doubt
the possibility of a heretical pope and what must be done by the Church
in such a situation:
"[T]he Pope... WHEN he is EXPLICITLY a heretic, he falls ipso facto from his dignity and out of the Church, and the Church MUST either deprive him, or, as some say, declare him deprived, of his Apostolic See."
(The Catholic Controversy, by St. Francis de Sales, Pages 305-306)
Saint Robert Bellarmine, also, said "the Pope heretic is not deposed ipso facto, but must be declared deposed by the Church."
[https://archive.org/stream/SilveiraImplicationsOfNewMissaeAndHereticPopes/Silveira%20Implications%20of%20New%20Missae%20and%20Heretic%20Popes_djvu.txt]
- "If Francis is a Heretic, What should Canonically happen to him?": http://www.thecatholicmonitor.com/2020/12/if-francis-is-heretic-what-should.html
- "Could Francis be a Antipope even though the Majority of Cardinals claim he is Pope?": http://www.thecatholicmonitor.com/2019/03/could-francis-be-antipope-even-though.html
- LifeSiteNews, "Confusion explodes as Pope Francis throws magisterial
weight behind communion for adulterers," December 4, 2017:
The AAS guidelines explicitly allows "sexually active adulterous couples
facing 'complex circumstances' to 'access the sacraments of
Reconciliation and the Eucharist.'"
- On February 2018, in Rorate Caeli, Catholic theologian Dr. John Lamont:
"The AAS statement... establishes that Pope Francis in Amoris Laetitia
has affirmed propositions that are heretical in the strict sense."
- On December 2, 2017, Bishop Rene Gracida:
"Francis' heterodoxy is now official. He has published his letter to the
Argentina bishops in Acta Apostlica Series making those letters
magisterial documents."
Pray an Our Father now for the restoration of the Church by the bishops by the grace of God.
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