#12 OF 12 - THIS UNHAPPY BOOK REPORT ON "THE POLITICAL POPE"

# 12 OF 12 - THIS UNHAPPY BOOK REPORT ON "THE POLITICAL POPE"

IN PURSUIT OF THE TRUTH - HTTP://WWW.CINOPSBEGONEBLOGSPOT.COM - FRI. SEP. 14/18

George Neumayer, "The Political Pope"

Chapter 4 - The Liberal Jesuit from Latin America - 64-68

      "Even the liberal author Gary Wills, famous for his aggressive criticism of the Catholic Church's conservatism, has had to acknowledge that the Jesuit order's liberal experimentation after Vatican II backfired, causing it to spiral into a heterodoxy and decadence.

    "Entering the Jesuits used to take one into a stable world; but that is far from the experience of recent times," Will wrote in the New York Review of Books: "A thirty -five-year-old still studying theology says: "My novice master left to marry, et cetera. One cannot help to get the sense that we of this generation of Jesuits may be the last of the Shakes."...

    Flattering the liberalism of the Jesuit editors of Las Civilta Catholica, Pope Francis scolded "small-minded" traditionalists for their "pastoral" incompetence, a laughable claim in light of his own order's disintegration.... To take one measure of the Jesuit universities in the U.S. Congress vote for gay marriage and abortion rights... Limiting their study to American Jesuits, they noted that the number of who quit the priesthood and abandoned the order after Vatican II outnumbered the ones who stayed....

    Shortly, after Francis's papal election, Vatican correspondent John Allen, who is sympathetic to the pope's liberalism, traveled to Buenos Aires and reported that "vocations to the priesthood have been falling in Buenos Aires on {Bergoglio's} watch, despite the fact they're up in some other diocese. Last year the archdiocese ordained just 12 new priests, as opposed to 40-50 per year when Bergoglio took charge...

Jesuitical Situation Ethics:

    The German philosopher Robert Spaemann sees in this pontificate a return to situation ethics that Pope John Paul II rejected, " an influential movement ... which can be found as early as the 17th century among the Jesuits." The popularity of Jesuitical situation ethics diminished under Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI, as they battled the "culture of death" and the "dictatorship of relativism."  But under the pontificate of Francis, it has been revived, even though the magisterium of the Church has repeatedly condemned it.... Pope Pius XII condemned situation ethics by name, saying that no "situation" justifies the suspension of moral norms rooted in the natural moral law....

    He (Pope Francis) has never questioned the damaging liberal fashions within the Jesuit order, reserving his scorn instead for "bankrupt" Thomists and other traditionalists whom he deemed insufficiently progressive for failing to "understand how human beings understand themselves today...

    With its free-floating concepts of mercy and sin, Pope Francis's 2016 papal exhortation Amoris Laetitia reads like something Carl Rogers could have written. More than a few commentators have noted the Jesuitical casuistry of the document, with its slippery appeals to non-judgmentalism and its tribute to the primacy of conscience. "Situation ethics is back," says Thomas Pauken, author of THE THIRTY YEARS WAR, in an interview for this book. "Francis was infected by the virus of 1960s liberalism." 

    Amoris Laetitia is "typical of a Jesuit," said Archbishop Bruno Forte, who helped Pope Francis draft it. Forte recounted how Francis told him that they needed to use ambiguity to loosen up the Church's prohibition on Communion for adulterers. ...

    Were a conservative pope to operate in this Machiavellian manner, the liberal media would object. But it approves of Pope Francis's Jesuitical methods. The leftist filmmaker Michael Moore has praised him for his devious patience "he bided his time") and his "long game." 

    "Francis would like to liberalize church doctrine on marriage, the family, homosexuality, but knows he lacks the support and institutional power to do it. So he's decided on a course of stealth reform that involves sowing seeds of future doctrinal change by undermining the enforcement of doctrine today," writes Damon Linker of the Week. 

      "The hope would be that a generation or two from now the gap between official  doctrine and the behavior that's informally accepted in Catholic parishes across the world would grow so fast that a global grassroots movement in favor of liberalizing change would rise up at long last to sweep aside the old, musty, already-ignored rules." George H. Kubeck