The Catholic News Agency headline on December 7, 2013 reported Francis's supposed ironic focus:
"Pope: Neglect of human dignity causes 'practical atheism'"
Pope John Paul II in a General Audience on April 1999 said:
"The contemporary era has devastating forms of 'theoretical' and
'practical' atheism. Secularism... with its indifference to ultimate
questions and... the transcendent." (Vatican.va>hf_jp_ii_ 14041999)
Francis's primary focus on only earthly human dignity, it appears, could be a form of practical atheism or secularism.
Francis rarely focuses on "ultimate questions and... the transcendent"
such as heaven and hell as well as the Last Judgement, but almost always
on non-ultimate/transcendent issues that tend to bring leftist
pro-abortion politicians into power such as radical environmental
issues, leftist economic policies and unlimited immigration.
This form of practical atheism has brought about the Francis's seamless
garment teachings which we will see appears to be a form of Kantian
practical atheism.
The abortion holocaust in Ireland can, to some extent, be
blamed on the Irish bishops following Francis's seamless garment
"pro-life" teachings that equates killing innocent human life with
pro-abortion politician issues such as the death penalty, leftist
economic policies and radical ecology policies.
Even after the abortion referendum was overwhelming lost, to some
extent, due to the seamless garment focus as well as inaction by Francis
and the Irish bishops, Dublin Bishop Diarmuil Martin had the gall to
call for more seamless garment Kantian practical atheism. Martin said:
"Pro-life means being alongside... economic deprivation, homelessness
and marginalization." (Crux, "After abortion loss, Irish prelates look
to pope's vision of 'pro-life," May 27, 2017)
The seamless garment teachings of Francis and the Irish bishops, to some
extent, can be blamed for the coming death of thousands even millions
of babies
This teachings come about because of their apparent conscious or unconscious
Kantian practical atheism which is this world materialistic and tends to
exclude the eternal.
The practical atheist Immanuel Kant while not explicitly denying the existence of God said:
"God is not a being outside me but merely a thought within me." (Fr. Stanley Jaki, Angels, Apes and Men, page 10)
Below is a summary of the type of Kantian practical atheism which
appears to be part of the thinking of Francis and the Irish bishops.
In this part of the academic article "Categorical imperatives impair Christianity in culture" by scholar Douglas A. Ollivant it is explained that Kantian practical atheism infiltrated Catholicism and gives a background, to some extent, to why the protection of the unborn ended in Ireland.(July 20, 2010, Religion and Liberty, Volume 13, Number 4):
What he means is that Christian thinkers no longer speak about culture and politics in terms of the more enduring principles of moral virtue, law, and the common good but now focus on social justice, understood as solely the immediate, material rights and dignity of the human person.
Moreover, they have drastically reduced the role of prudence in politics accepted under the historical Christian anthropological understanding, which has recognized a variety of political regimes depending on the circumstances. This historical understanding also acknowledged the harsh realities of the political realm in a fallen (albeit redeemed) world, and the difficulties and agonies involved in fashioning a just or moral response to contingent events.
Instead of prudential judgments, Kraynak maintains that we now hear only moralistic pronouncements about peace and justice that severely limit the range of (legitimately recognized) political options.
The rights and dignity of each person replaces moral and theological virtues: rational and spiritual perfection. Further, an emphasis on personal autonomy or personal identity diminishes long-established Christian teachings about the dependence of the creature on the Creator, original sin, grace, and a natural law through which human beings may share or “participate” in eternal law.
This universalist language is incompatible with the more prudential approaches to public life articulated by Augustine and Aquinas, which was driven by their much richer understandings of the human person and his or her relation to the physical world and the divine..."
Led by the personal opposition of Pope John Paul II, the Catholic Church has grown ever more dubious of the appropriateness – and therefore the justice – of capital punishment. Many prominent Catholics in America – some out of deep conviction, others in reaction to the dissolving Democratic party monopoly on Catholic political allegiance – have sought to link opposition to the death penalty with opposition to abortion, having the effect (whether intended or not) of neutralizing any partisan distinctions on “life issues.”
When the pope speaks of the protection of society as grounds for using the death penalty, he may have more in mind than mere physical defense against the individual criminal. To vindicate the order of justice and to sustain the moral health of society and the security of innocent persons against potential criminals it may be appropriate to punish certain crimes by death. [4]
To quote at length from Kraynak:
Proclaiming a right to life easily turns into the claim that biological existence is sacred or that mere life has absolute value, regardless of whether it is the life of an innocent unborn child, or the life of a heinous criminal. And the claim that life is a “right” diminishes the claim that life is a “gift” from God: How can a gift be a right? Proclaiming a right to life eventually leads to the mistaken idea of a “seamless garment of life” that is indistinguishable from complete pacifism or a total ban on taking life, including animal life, even for just and necessary causes. It also makes one forget that the good life, not to mention the afterlife, is a greater good than merely being alive in the present world – an unintended but significant depreciation of Christian otherworldliness. [5]
- 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."
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- "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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