In season and out of season. Inside and outside. Amateur Brain Surgeon is prepared for incandescent bursts of Synod surprises:
“They
did not understand that God is the God of surprises, that God is
always new: he never contradicts himself, never says that what he had
said was wrong, ever, but he always surprises us. And they did not
understand, and closed themselves in this system created with the
best of intentions.”
A
God of Surprises: Pope’s confusing ‘progressive’ vs
‘traditionalist’ calculus
What
an unbelievable two weeks! The activity, excitement and gravity of
the Synod on the Family in the Vatican are difficult to absorb and
will go down in the annals of history as a monumental time, akin to
those of times of crisis in the Church and with heroic men and women
of yesteryear such as St. Catherine of Sienna and St. Athanasius
reappearing today with different manifestations but the same spirit.
The
Synod saw an historic public calling out of the pope himself by one
of the Church’s highest-ranking Cardinals. Convicted that the
pope’s silence in light of the confusion generated by the controversial mid-term report was harming the faith, Cardinal Raymond Burke said a public defense
of the Church’s teaching by the pope was “long overdue.”
Burke told Catholic World Report ,
“The faithful and their good shepherds are looking to the Vicar of
Christ for the confirmation of the Catholic faith and practice
regarding marriage.”
Days
later the Cardinal repeated the sentiment to Buzzed noting that the pope’s “lack of clarity about the matter has
certainly done a lot of harm.”
In
his closing address to the Synod Fathers gathered in the Vatican Saturday, Pope Francis offered a perplexing
vision. In comments widely interpreted as referring to Cardinal
Raymond Burke and other Cardinals at the Synod who fought to maintain
the teaching of the Church on homosexuality and Holy Communion, Pope
Francis spoke of the temptation of “traditionalists” with their
“hostile inflexibility,” and their failure to allow themselves to
be “surprised by God.
https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/a-god-of-surprises-popes-confusing-progressive-vs-traditionalist-calculus
https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/a-god-of-surprises-popes-confusing-progressive-vs-traditionalist-calculus
As these excerpts from the reports of the Pope's prose, poetry, and praxis illustrate, one must prepare himself for bursts of incandescent surprises:
