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rug

(82,333 posts)
Mon Nov 3, 2014, 10:52 AM Nov 2014

Is the Pope Catholic? Critics Rally Around Benedict As Talk of Schism Looms

Conservative Catholics, angry at Pope Francis’s more moderate tone, are bucking the Church’s hierarchy.

11.02.14
Written by
Candida Moss
Joel Baden

Almost from the beginning, there have been rumblings of discontent about Pope Francis. While the world’s media fell in love with him, there were more conservative bishops who felt that Francis’s popular appeal came at the expense of carefully worked-out Church rituals and teachings. They saw Francis as chipping away at established Church teachings on sexuality, kowtowing to the liberal media, and acting aggressively towards conservative church leaders.

Criticism of Francis has come to a head with the publication of the final report of the Synod on the Family. Despite changing absolutely nothing doctrinally, the Synod’s recommendations for a more understanding attitude to those in unconventional family arrangements have ignited a firestorm of controversy among conservative commentators. The possibility that Catholics who had divorced and remarried without receiving an annulment might be readmitted into full communion with the Church has made many apoplectic.

Writing on his diocesan website, Bishop Thomas Tobin accused Francis of being fond of “making a mess” and stated that the Synod voting concept “struck (him) as being rather Protestant.” A funny argument, since Catholic bishops have been voting on key issues since the Council of Nicaea in 325, but that’s beside the point. Tobin seems to be suggesting that with Francis at the helm, the Catholic Church is no longer acting like the Catholic Church.

For over a year conservative Catholics have had their chastity belts in a twist over Francis and apparently, the chafing has finally grown too much to bear.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/11/02/is-the-pope-catholic-critics-rally-around-benedict-as-talk-of-schism-looms.html

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Is the Pope Catholic? Critics Rally Around Benedict As Talk of Schism Looms (Original Post) rug Nov 2014 OP
Any conservative Catholic who joins the schism meow2u3 Nov 2014 #1
SSPX will welcome them with open arms. rug Nov 2014 #2
Aw, the poor dears are whining because they are no longer getting their way Fortinbras Armstrong Nov 2014 #3

meow2u3

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1. Any conservative Catholic who joins the schism
Mon Nov 3, 2014, 03:16 PM
Nov 2014

(if there is one) should be automatically excommunicated. God doesn't take kindly to schism and it wouldn't be the first time rebels have been kicked out of the church.

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