1) John's comments are heavily grounded in Church Dogma. When a pope wanders from his basis of authrotiy, when he wants to "shake it up," he is argualbly of base. Pastor Aeternus states the authority always present since Jesus gave Peter the authority in Matthew 16:19. Let's see:
https://twitter.com/JohnRossomando/status/1449052558316785669
2) From Chapter 4 Paragraph 6 seems to have been written w Francis in mind: "For the Holy Spirit was promised to the successors of Peter not so that they might, by his revelation, make known some new doctrine but that, by his assistance, they might religiously guard . . .
3) . . . and faithfully expound the revelation or deposit of faith transmitted by the apostles."
Then comes Chapter 4, Paragraph 9: “Therefore, faithfully adhering to the tradition received from the beginning of the Christian faith, to the glory of God our savior, . . .
Then comes Chapter 4, Paragraph 9: “Therefore, faithfully adhering to the tradition received from the beginning of the Christian faith, to the glory of God our savior, . . .
4) “. . . for the exaltation of the Catholic religion and for the salvation of the Christian people, with the approval of the Sacred Council, we teach and define as a divinely revealed dogma that when the Roman Pontiff speaks EX CATHEDRA, . . .
5) “. . . that is, when, in the exercise of his office as shepherd and teacher of all Christians, in virtue of his supreme apostolic authority, he defines a doctrine concerning faith or morals to be held by the whole Church, he possesses, by the divine assistance promised.”
6) Closely read, popes have great authority in a limited band. So, when the Vatican, through Pope Francis’s English Media Attaché of the Holy See Press Office, Father Rosica, in 2018 said: “Pope Francis breaks Catholic traditions whenever he wants because . . .
7) “. . . he is ‘free from disordered attachments.’ Our Church has indeed entered a new phase: with the advent of this first Jesuit pope, it is openly ruled by an individual rather than by the authority of Scripture alone or even its own dictates of tradition plus Scripture.”
8) He positioned Pope Francis’s authority in open rebellion against the very basis of his authority - “the tradition received from the beginning of the Christian faith.” This “new phase” lines up with Hegel’s concept of the spirit moving history forward . . .
9) – with today’s spirit, the zeitgeist, being better than yesterday’s. Hence, Rosica asserts that Francis’s “new phase” anegated the old because it is today? But Hegel’s concept of spirit is not Christian. Alta Vendita realized? lifesitenews.com/wp-content/upl…
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