“The Need to Close One’s Ears to the Rehashed Messages of the Pope”

There is nothing quite like having that “visible head” as “a sign of unity” .... The author of this piece describes himself as “Shaking with rage over [Pope Francis’s] latest statements, convinced that the one not so surprising surprise of the Holy Spirit in our day is the need to shut our ears tightly to the nonsense coming out of Rome today,...”

Today we were treated to yet another of Pope Francis’ unending warnings against closure to the divine surprises of the Holy Spirit. These warnings are themselves no surprise whatsoever. They are nothing other than a tiresome rehash of arguments that have repeatedly been offered by the idolaters of change since the time of the Abbé de Lamennais (1782-1854). In particular, they are a rehash of arguments popularized in Latin America after the Second World War by a number of men with close ties to the school of Personalism represented by people like Emmanuel Mounier (1905-1950).

Mounier and Company were propagandists for the need for Catholics to abandon their ties to fixed doctrines and practices and open themselves up instead to the “living” and “vibrant” influences of the powerful cultural forces and movements demonstrating such astonishing vigor in the secular and generally non-Christian world; i.e., to abandon the effort to transform all things in Christ and seek to transform Christianity by reference to all things fallen instead…

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