De Omnibus Dubitandum Est.

  This Sunday, the Pope of Confusion led with a false dichotomy typical of his "teaching style": Pope Francis at Mass this morning: “Keeping the Truth does not mean defending ideas, becoming guardians of a system of doctrines and dogmas. It means remaining bound to Christ and being devoted to His Gospel. Truth is Christ Himself.” pic.twitter.com/0Y1R75hy4N — Catholic Sat (@CatholicSat) May 16, 2021 This really struck me because the Pope constantly seems to be trying to justify his lack of clarity even as the maelstrom of the confusion he has caused swirls around him. He regularly owns the chaos, trying to sell it as some kind of definite strategy and he seems to be constantly trying to explain why, contrary to all the evidence, this is actually a great idea. It's not. Clearly. By way of complete contrast, here's a quote from St John Henry Cardinal Newman (Apologia 1865, Chapter 2): "From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religio...

Last week, Pope Francis made this much reported  remark : “Do I love God or dogmatic formulations?” We might be tempted to think that the false opposition and sentimentality implicit in the question is characteristic of modern Jesuits. And no doubt it is, of some of them. However, as the Catholic Scholar ‎Peter Kwasniewski‎ shows in his  latest article at LifeSite , Francis's statement sharply contrasts with the views of five major modern Jesuit theologians: Fr. Pierre Rousselot, S.J. (1878–1915); Fr. Emile Mersch, S.J. (1890–1940); Fr. Henri de Lubac, S.J. (1896–1991); Fr. Piet Fransen, S.J. (1913–1983); Fr. Avery Dulles, S.J. (1918–2008). So does this mean that Francis is an outlier even among his own order? This article contains quotations from all five in which they show why (in the words of one):  "Take away dogma and you take God away; to touch dogma is to touch God. To sin against dogma is to sin against God." Pope Francis continues to ...