Is the Pope Catholic?
3rd June 2017
ZMan is not afraid to ask the hard questions.
The criticism of the Pope on economic grounds says more about the bottomless ignorance of modern conservatism than it does the Pope or the Church. For the Church, any church for that matter, economics are downstream from theology. In fact, economic positions should only matter in so far as how they advance the particular theological points of the faith. Catholicism long attachment to the sovereign authority of the people, naturally leads it to embrace national economics over global economics.
That bit is sure to get some spergy responses from Catholics and Christians, but we’ll deal with that in the comments. The point to take away is that it is perfectly plausible for the Pope to be within Catholic doctrine and oppose the current fads in global economics and not be a communist. The fact that secular defenders of globalism are more hive minded than the clerical critics, suggests globalism has become more of an all-consuming religion than Catholicism. It is international fascism.
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It’s not just a question about the Pope being Catholic, or at least prioritizing Catholic theology over his personal theology. The question is whether the Catholic Church is still Catholic. It used to be that the Church was at the forefront of social issues like abortion and homosexual marriage. Today, it is rare to hear anything from the Church on social issues. Instead, in the US at least, the Church is more concerned with maintaining their refugee rackets and defending Gaia from your lawnmower.
June 4th, 2017 at 08:35
The dilemma of Catholics is this: The dogma of infallibility ultimately leads to the conclusion that there IS no “Catholic theology” apart from the Pope’s “personal theology”.
So either they submit to their church’s teachings, find another church, or start their own “branch” like LeFebvre did.
The conundrums of the faithful… you’d think that after 2,000 years they’d have these things ironed out…