Dates are important as are symbols. When Pope Francis issued his motu proprio watering-down the annulment process, that he signed it on the Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, issued it on her Nativity day and brought it into force on the feast of her Immaculate Conception. I heard speculation here in Toronto and then articulated by a contact in Rome that the Pope had chosen March 19, the Feast of St. Joseph, Patron of the Universal Church, as the date for the release of the apostolic exhortation on the family. Dates are indeed important and I wrote on the potential of that date last week. The rumour has been also been stated now by Edward Pentin.
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Did your read that?
A recognized moral theologian has said he was "deeply disturbed" and that the document would undermine that "natural moral law."
Pentin is not an alarmist; his credentials are solid. So, we wait and in the meantime we pray and ensure that we do not let up one iota on our protest, denouncement and resistance to what we expect is coming. If we are wrong and it is does not happen, then we will know that we were right and did our job because every indication is that the worst will happen.
And then, all hell will break loose, quite literally I should think.
St. Joseph, intercede for the Church!
Did your read that?
A recognized moral theologian has said he was "deeply disturbed" and that the document would undermine that "natural moral law."
Pentin is not an alarmist; his credentials are solid. So, we wait and in the meantime we pray and ensure that we do not let up one iota on our protest, denouncement and resistance to what we expect is coming. If we are wrong and it is does not happen, then we will know that we were right and did our job because every indication is that the worst will happen.
And then, all hell will break loose, quite literally I should think.
St. Joseph, intercede for the Church!