The Holy See Press office head, Father Federico Lombardi, S.J. put out a message today repeating what Francis said at his audience in Rome;
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There will be no pardon from Vox Cantoris for the scandal which comes daily to those "disturbed by news" from Rome and the Synod, at least not from me.
When I go to Confession, three things are necessary. seeking forgiveness, penance and a firm purpose of amendment.
Sorry Pope Francis, sorry Father Lombardi, I only see one of those.
There will be no pardon from Vox Cantoris for the scandal which comes daily to those "disturbed by news" from Rome and the Synod, at least not from me.
No pardon until:
- The Pope states that there is to be no discussion about, because there will be no change, that people who are in adulterous relationships -- remarried civilly without a properly obtained decree of nullity that the first marriage did not validly exist, will not be permitted to receive Holy Communion as this would be the sin of sacrilege and and a defaming of the Body of the Lord.
- The Pope remove from the table any discussion on the blessing of same-sex relationships or any discussion on watering-down Catholic teaching on the sin of sodomy and lesbianism and that the Catechism of the Catholic Church as a magisterial document is correct in it use of "intrinsically disordered" for the acting out of same-sex desires and "objectively disordered" with regards to the desire and inclination to describe the desire to have sexual relations with the same sex.
- The Pope send packing back to retirement in Belgium the pervert-protecting Cardinal Danneels.
- The Pope renounce the heretical statements of Cardinal Kasper who he has previously praised and by doing so, opened this whole scandalous synod both last year and this.
- The Pope ensure that all discussions and comments by bishops are made public to their flock and the comments of any other bishop and that voting take place in a full and open manner.
- The Pope ensure that any heretical passages are stricken from the Instumentum Laboris that undermine Church teaching including "conscience" provisions that could allow for a complete unravelling of Humanae Vitae.
- The Pope censure the Abbot Schröder directly for his disgraceful comments yesterday on the blessing of sodomitical relationships and the devolution of Church governance and thus, doctrine and discipline.
- The Pope remove from the table any discussion of possibility of such devolution.
- The Pope order removed from the Vatican website the statements from last year's mid-term relatio on what homosexuality.
- The Pope invite Cardinal Raymond Burke to the Synod.
Then I might consider it.