Amoris Laetitia… Does Francis have affinity with the Jovinian heresy?

Posted on August 7, 2016 by EN - Denzinger Bergoglio in Uncategorized and tagged Benedict XV, Benedict XVI, Council of Trent, John Paul II, Paul VI, Religious Life, Sacred Scripture, Saint Augustine, Saint Cyprian of Carthage, St. Jerome, Vatican Council II.

In a previous study, we analyzed a reference that Francis presented in number 159 of Amoris Laetitia. Taken from a catechesis of Pope John Paul II, July 14, 1982, this reference was truncated in its essential theological dimension. Consequently, having silenced what Pope John Paul II had affirmed in recalling that virginity and celibacy are based on an option for the sake of the “kingdom of Heaven” (Mt 19:12), Francis prompts a one-sided interpretation.Continue Reading

Is the promotion of Catholic culture fanaticism, or religious fervor?

Posted on August 2, 2016 by EN - Denzinger Bergoglio in Uncategorized and tagged Benedict XVI, Catechism of the Catholic Church, desataque5, Evangelization, John Paul II, Pastoral, Pius X, Sacred Scripture, Vatican Council II.

One of Cicero’s famous sayings defines history as a thing ‘which bears witness to the passing of the ages, sheds light upon reality, gives life to recollection and guidance to human existence, and brings tidings of ancient days’ (De Oratore II, 9, 36). And it is precisely the witness of history that shows us how the ancient peoples lived, with their cultures given to idolatry, slavery and even human sacrifice. Continue Reading

Keep the doctrinal unity… but practically deny it in interpretations and consequences

Posted on July 27, 2016 by EN - Denzinger Bergoglio in Uncategorized and tagged Benedict XVI, Catechism of the Catholic Church, Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Dogma, Ecclesiology, Gregory XVI, John Paul II, Leo XIII, Sacred Scripture, Vatican Council II.

In the first paragraphs of Amoris Laetitia we encounter an affirmation that sets the entire gist of what Francis wishes to convey in this document: it is time to develop ‘various ways of interpreting some aspects of that teaching’ to ‘seek solutions better suited to its culture’ in family ministry.Continue Reading

The discouraging conclusion of Amoris laetitia: No family drops down from heaven, so don’t demand perfection of interpersonal relationships

Posted on July 25, 2016 by EN - Denzinger Bergoglio in Uncategorized and tagged Benedict XVI, Catechism of Trent, Family, John Paul II, Leo XIII, Moral, Pius XII, Sacred Scripture, Saint Augustine, Vatican Council II.

All of us remember the experiences of so many of our national soldiers who went through arduous, exhausting and seemingly interminable combats. How many of them saw numerous companions fall, and they themselves were uncertain of their own survival…but the desire to defeat the enemy, to save their country, and to fight on like heroes encouraged them to continue without desisting, and even to give their lives if necessary. How many nations have the glory of numbering among their sons men of this valor; men who are more concerned with fulfilling their duty than enjoying a life of betrayal and egoism.Continue Reading

Doctrinal and moral principles: contrary to the ‘fragrance’ and ‘freshness’ of the Gospel message?

Posted on July 23, 2016 by EN - Denzinger Bergoglio in Uncategorized and tagged Benedict XVI, Moral, Paul VI, Pius X, Sacred Scripture, Saint Augustine, Saint John Chrysostom, Sin, Thomas Aquinas.

Negative precepts play an important role in moral formation. They remind us that we are limited, dependent and sinful beings, made to lovingly obey an absolute Being who created us and governs us according to his most wise designs. Continue Reading

The sacred union between Christ and the Church is realized in a partial and analogous way by adultery??!!

Posted on July 16, 2016 by EN - Denzinger Bergoglio in Uncategorized and tagged Benedict XVI, Catechism of the Catholic Church, Council of Trent, Family, John Paul II, Leo XIII, Moral, Sacred Scripture, Saint Augustine.

In reading Saint Augustine’s The City of God, we get the sensation that he was writing for our days; not what he wrote on the city of God itself, but rather, the city of the evil one as he describes it.Continue Reading

The Church’s rules on matrimony are ‘overly rigid’? Or are they decreed by Christ in His mercy?

Posted on July 12, 2016 by EN - Denzinger Bergoglio in Uncategorized and tagged Benedict XVI, Catechism of the Catholic Church, Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Family, John Paul II, Moral, Sacred Scripture, Vatican Council II.

“God created man in his image; in the divine image he created him; male and female he created them. God blessed them, saying: ‘Be fertile and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it’. […] That is why a man leaves his father and mother and clings to his wife, and the two of them become one flesh” (Gn 1:27–28; 2:24). Continue Reading

The true gravity of Judas’ sin – and Francis’ interpretation of it

Posted on July 11, 2016 by EN - Denzinger Bergoglio in Uncategorized and tagged Benedict XVI, Catechism of the Catholic Church, Exegesis, John Paul II, Leo XIII, Sacred Scripture, Saint Augustine, Saint Irenaeus of Lyon, Saint John Chrysostom, Saint Thomas Aquinas.

Francis once again shows his preferences, calling Jesus’ traitor a “poor, penitent man”.

He who perpetrated the most heinous crime of all history is now the object of the Supreme Pontiff’s compassion… Would the saying “Tell me who your friends are, and I will tell you who you are” fittingly apply to this case?Continue Reading

Francis wants to make us to believe that Catholics and the Orthodox are united by the same Tradition and mission. Will he manage?

Posted on July 8, 2016 by EN - Denzinger Bergoglio in Uncategorized and tagged Benedict XVI, Catechism of the Catholic Church, Code of Canon Law, Ecumenism, John Paul II, Orthodox Church, Pius XI, Sacred Scripture, Saint Augustine, Saint Thomas Aquinas, Vatican Council II.

On February 12, all eyes turned toward Cuba on the occasion of Francis’ encounter with Kirill, the Greco-Schismatic Patriarch of Moscow, following a centuries-long rupture of relations. Unfortunately, to the perplexity – or indignation – of Catholics, this encounter did not signify any progress toward the conversion of those belonging to the auto-denominated ‘Orthodox’ church…but rather the contrary. They were encouraged to announce the Gospel without the necessity of returning to the Church…they were called brothers in the faith…without a rejection of the heresies they profess!Continue Reading

Francis, his much-touted mercy, and the plan to extend it to Judaism and Islam

Posted on July 6, 2016 by EN - Denzinger Bergoglio in Uncategorized and tagged Benedict XVI, Catechism of Trent, Ecumenism, John Paul II, Paul VI, Sacred Scripture, Saint Augustine, Saint John Chrysostom, Saint Thomas Aquinas.

When reading the Holy Scriptures, people with limited vision could conclude that, in the Old Testament, God was strictly justice: He seems to be an almighty God who made Sinai quake (Ex 19:18), who opened the earth to swallow up the rebels (Num 16: 1–35), a God of vengeance (Ps 94:1) who struck Uzzah dead for having touched the Ark of the Covenant to steady it (2Sam 6: 1–9).Continue Reading

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