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Sunday, November 09, 2014

Charismatic? Or emotional and illogical?

I didn't have the link about the Pope trying to change Catholicism into the AoG or a pentecostal church, but First Things discusses it here.

For Francis, the Spirit dispenses sanctifying gifts that enable the members of the Church to contribute to her life in distinctive ways. In short, the path to unity is the path of spirituality and the cultivation of habits of behavior that allow for the sensus fidei to grow. This is the heart of his decentralizing vision both in terms of mission and ecclesial renewal.
The Holy Father drew on this idea in his closing remarks to the synod, where he suggested that the church could not err when she allows the variety of charisms to flourish in her midst as the path to the sensus fidei. Pope Francis does not merely acknowledge the messiness of this spiritual path—he seems to revel in it.

later they add

 One of the reasons why he supports the Catholic Charismatic renewal is that it embodies in certain ways his own vision of an ecumenism from below through the shared spiritual life of Christians. He explicitly connected this spiritual ecumenism to persecution and martyrdom of Christians when addressing the CFCC. From the perspective of the persecutor, all Christians are already one in their common declaration of Christ as Lord.
Integral to Francis’s concept of mission is an understanding of what he has called a “throw-away culture”—that is, the prevailing cultural mentality that the Church must address. Euthanasia, abortion, involuntary poverty, human trafficking, and abuse of the elderly are all part of this insidious mentality that privileges profits over the dignity of the human person. In his Evangelii Gaudium, Francis stated, “In the prevailing culture, priority is given to the outward, the immediate, the visible, the quick, the superficial and the provisional.” Indeed, his statements about the poor and a new idolatry of money attempt to identify this cultural mentality and how it functions.
Francis sees the most effective way of addressing this “throw-away culture” through lives that embody the teaching of the church. He wants models of the Christian life on display for the world to see. This is what holds together his understanding of mission, his focus on spirituality, and the role of the family.

so why is he underming bishops who try to insist on strengthening the family? The US family is essentially destroyed by the culture of promiscuity, easy divorce, and radical feminism (early feminists like Betty Frieden, who supported marriage, are now passe, replaced by marxist eunuchs).

and as I noted in my last post, it ignores the catholic way of seeing the material world as a sacramental revelation of God (see Greeley)

For later reading

Dissing Burke

 was he exiled or will he nowHead an anti Islamic cabal?

More propaganda at the AP

I should note that Father L's blog points out that the Pope tends to want to change the church to a pentecostal type church. This is nice, but the stress on psychological approach to a personal relationship to Jesus ignores the "sacramental catholicism" that sees God's love in personal relationships and nature and things around us (see Andrew Greeley's works for this idea).

And it also ignores that sociopaths will quickly use this to marginalize traditional morality and push Catholicism to become a pietist faith, which no longer has any relevance to the world.