When practice is separated from doctrine and development is confused with alteration we are left with a church that bears no resemblance to what Jesus founded on Peter, namely a Church that disciplines her members in accord with the Apostolic Tradition handed on by Jesus to His Apostles and through them to their successors providing a visible witness to the truth revealed by Jesus who is the truth personified that exposes evil in all its forms and disguises. This synodal, unmoored church is blown by the selfish winds of fallen nature and will eventually crash and burn.
“Growth that inverts meaning is not development but deformation”
Well put Katherine! In the human body, this would be a cancerous growth.. of a malignant, not a benign nature. In the mystical body of Christ: Protestantism?
I am reading ‘The Stripping of the Altars: Traditional Religion in England, 1400-1580’ by Eamon Duffy presently.. it feels like faithful Catholics in the West are encountering some of what their English and Welsh brothers and sisters in Christ experienced during the 16th/17th centuries.
… For the sake of His sorrowful passion, have mercy on us and on the whole world.
It seems many want to turn the seed planted in man to grow a fruit and call it development. Many of these aren't developments but perversions. I pray for him he is my Archbishop as I do Pope Leo and all the bishops. Our Lady of Good Help pray for us!
When practice is separated from doctrine and development is confused with alteration we are left with a church that bears no resemblance to what Jesus founded on Peter, namely a Church that disciplines her members in accord with the Apostolic Tradition handed on by Jesus to His Apostles and through them to their successors providing a visible witness to the truth revealed by Jesus who is the truth personified that exposes evil in all its forms and disguises. This synodal, unmoored church is blown by the selfish winds of fallen nature and will eventually crash and burn.
“Growth that inverts meaning is not development but deformation”
Well put Katherine! In the human body, this would be a cancerous growth.. of a malignant, not a benign nature. In the mystical body of Christ: Protestantism?
I am reading ‘The Stripping of the Altars: Traditional Religion in England, 1400-1580’ by Eamon Duffy presently.. it feels like faithful Catholics in the West are encountering some of what their English and Welsh brothers and sisters in Christ experienced during the 16th/17th centuries.
… For the sake of His sorrowful passion, have mercy on us and on the whole world.
Just realised.. sorry Mark I attributed this article to Katherine!
The proof is in the pudding! Thanks Mark for a thoughtful reflection.
It seems many want to turn the seed planted in man to grow a fruit and call it development. Many of these aren't developments but perversions. I pray for him he is my Archbishop as I do Pope Leo and all the bishops. Our Lady of Good Help pray for us!