The Catholic crisis

To the news/MSM, it is about "pedophilia", but actually the problem is a loss of holiness in the church. Which is why although a lot of people with "no religion" are ex catholics, so are a lot of ex catholics joining evangelical or orthodox churches.

It is about the loss of the idea of holiness because anyone who loved God (heck, any honest ethical atheist) wouldn't harm children (uh, millstone anyone?) or seduce vulnerable young teens while pretending you are helping them with their conflicts about gay inclinations (which is the official psychiatric line on why this is okay).

Benedict XVI gave this letter to the Pope for his meeting with the bishops to discuss the problem, but it was ignored, so it was stealthily released to a minor journal and got published and publicized via the Catholic wing of the Catholic blogosphere.

Essentially he said the church is losing the idea of holiness and noted that when the church opened itself to the world, it was at at time when the world was destroying the ancient sexual morality and destroying the strict idea of right and wrong.

this has pretty well been ignored by the Vatican, (as was the earlier letter by Cardinal Vigano about bishop pederasty).

so the latest protest is a letter by a bunch of theologians, mostly lay folk or retired clergy who in essence say the Pope is saying a lot of things that would be considered heretical, and he needs to correct what was said or else resign.

The 20-page document is a follow-up to the 2017 Filial Correction of Pope Francis that was signed originally by 62 scholars and which stated that the Pope has “effectively upheld 7 heretical positions about marriage, the moral life, and the reception of the sacraments, and has caused these heretical opinions to spread in the Catholic Church,” especially in light of his 2016 exhortation Amoris Laetitia.
The authors of the open letter state in a summary of their letter (read below) that it has now become clear that Pope Francis is aware of his own positions contrary to the faith and that the time has come to go a "stage further" by claiming that Pope Francis is "guilty of the crime of heresy.”
"We limit ourselves to accusing him of heresy on occasions where he has publicly denied truths of the faith, and then consistently acted in a way that demonstrates that he disbelieves these truths that he has publicly denied," the authors state. 

they also name names of those clerics who are around Pope Francis who promote heresy or have been silent about abuses of the faith in their diocese (and some, who should have known about sexual abuse but kept quiet about it).

Pretty strong words, and they released it on the feast of Catherine of Siena,

This was sort of a "hint hint" to Catholics who know history, since she was famous or writing a lot of letters to the Pope in her day, telling him to go back to Rome. Catherine was essentially a laywoman, known by all as a mystic and charity worker, so when someone asks: who can correct a pope? the answer is: a saint.

Crisis magazine goes into details.

and publisher Father Fessio discusses it here:

Explaining the the Pope may not be pushing heresy but just pushing the margin and saying ambiguous things then looking the other way when others, including bishops, go all out and push the heretical interpretation.




my take? Francis says a lot of nice things, but confusion is a sign of he diabolic, especially when it is being done by someone who is supposed to clarify dogma. 

Is Francis so stupid he doesn't know this, or is he just a manipulative narcissist?

Don't ask me, I'm just a doctor. 

but when Francis repeatedly ignores those who ask him to clarify things, I wonder...