Pope Francis Is No John Paul II ...
Cardinal Sarah Publicly Refuted by Pope Francis...
Fr. George Rutler in his 2017 Crisis article said Fr. Antonio Spadaro,
and by implication Francis since both he and Spadaro are liberal
Jesuits, "grew up in a theological atmosphere of... Transcendental
Thomism [which] was Karl Rahner's attempt to wed Thomistic realism with
Kantian idealism. Father Stanley Kaki, theologian and physicist, called
this stillborn hybrid 'Aquikantianism.'"
(Crisis, "The Mathematical Innovations of Father Spadaro," February 22, 2017)
Both the liberal Jesuits: Spadaro and Francis it appears are total relativists, as are most Jesuits and all liberal theologians.
Rahner's "Foundation of Theological Study: A Sourcebook" says:
"The German Jesuit Karl Rahner (1904-1984) remains one of most influential theologians of the twentieth century."
(Foundation of Theological Study: A Sourcebook, https://booksgoogle.com>books)
Rahner was a disciple of Kant as Rutler said. Jaki, also, makes this clear in his books on Aquikantists.
Kant taught that one could only know the phenomena of the mind or ideas and not know reality. Jaki wrote:
"Kant, who begins with ideas and, as all the history of modern philosophy shows, never gets to reality."
(Chesterton: A Seer of Science, page 19)
Kant and those who follow him thought God was only a thought. Jaki quotes Kant and explains the citation:
"'God is not a being outside me but merely a thought within me.'"
"That man was his own God, if he needed one, was evidently Kant's conclusion."
(Angels, Apes and Men, page 10)
Rahner's Kantian philosophy lead him to deny the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist. Fr. Regis Scanlon, OFM, Cap., wrote:
"In 1966 the late Fr. Karl Rahner stated that 'one can no longer
maintain today that bread is a substance, as St. Thomas and the Fathers
of the Council (of Trent) obviously thought it was'.[12] [Theological
Investigations, page 307] For Rahner the 'substance' of a thing did not
include its < material and physical> reality, but the 'meaning and
purpose' of the thing. [13] [Karl Rahner, S.J.., p.307; Engelbert
Gutwenger, "Transubstantiation,"
page 1754, pp. 34-35] So, according to Karl Rahner, transubstantiation
meant that, after the consecration of the Mass, the physical bread
remained physical bread but it now had a new 'meaning' of spiritual food
because it was now a "symbol" of Jesus Christ.[14] [Engelbert
Gutwenger, pp. 1754-1755]"
"Fr.
Edward Schillebeeckx agreed with Fr. Karl Rahner that the physical
bread and wine were only a 'sign' of Christ.[15] In fact, for
Schillebeeckx, the 'real presence' of Christ in the Eucharist was not
the consecrated bread and wine, but the < 'assembled
community'>.[16]"
(Modern Misconceptions About The Eucharist, PDF, St. Patrick's Basilica
> 2016/10, https://Basilica.ca, Provided courtesy of: Eternal Word
Television Network)
Jaki thought the "archetype" figure of this type of philosophy which Rahner professed was "Lucifer":
"Kant who once wrote of himself: 'I am an Archangel!' and went on to
state repeatedly: 'I am God.' The archetype for this self-enrichment was
none other than Lucifer. If one looks for the source of the pride, the
self-sufficiency... one merely has to look in the direction of the camp
that still breeds Aquikantists... Aquikantists were overjoyed when the
invocation of Saint Michael was dropped as a first step towards the new
liturgy."
(Newman's Challenge, pages 76-77)
Remember Aquikantists, specifically Rahner, have totally influenced all
liberal theologians and many, maybe most, conservative ones.
Rahner's influence even reached to the papacy of Pope John Paul II who
believed in the Eucharist and objective morality unlike Francis who
apparently may not believe in the Eucharist or objective morality.
John Paul because of philosophical inadequacies had a relativist
inter-religious dialogue blindspot such as in the Assisi scandalous
episode unlike Pope Benedict XVI. Scholar Fr. John Coleman S. J. wrote:
"John Hick's pluralist model is based on a Kantian epistemology that
undermines, at the outset, any notion of a normative revelation of God
in history... In Danielou's theology, the grace of Christ may
mysteriously touch individuals outside Christianity but the other
religions, their scriptures and rituals, remain purely human customs...
Rahner did not make such a strict distinction... John Paul was closer to
Rahner... Whereas Ratzinger had warned of the dangers of relativism in
inter-religious dialogue." (Inter-Religious Dialogue: Urgent Challenge
and Theological Land-Mine, PFD Australian Catholic University>au)
Rahner's influence has effected Francis as well as his inner circle,
Catholic colleges, schools and children as well as youth catechism
teaching books and their teachers who prepare them for the Sacraments.
Since all liberal Catholics and many conservative ones, knowingly or
unknowingly, have been deeply influenced by Rahner's Kantian "theology,"
is it possible that the crisis in the Church, in large extent, is due
to their unconscious and in some cases conscious disbelief in objective
reality as well as objective "normative" revelation which leads to
disbelief in the Eucharist and God.
Does this explain Francis's panicked reaction against when Cardinal Robert
Sarah gave a mild call for reverence at the Mass and the Holy Eucharist and his
desire to explain away and in many cases openly reject God's Ten
Commandments?
It appears that Francis isn't just a moral relativist, but apparently may not believe in the Eucharist.
Why do some traditionalists, recently, want to pretend that the Amoris
laetitia total relativist Francis is exactly the same as Benedict and
John Paul who both believed in the Eucharist and objective morality
despite both having major philosophical inadequacies?
Is Francis a total relativist?
In my opinion, the evidence points to Francis being an apparent total relativist. Please read the following posts:
http://catholicmonitor.blogspot.com/2019/11/evidence-francis-is-modernist-who.html?m=1
http://catholicmonitor.blogspot.com/2018/11/is-pope-francis-nihilist-who-doesnt.html
Pray an Our Father now for reparation for the sins committed because of Francis's Amoris Laetitia.