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see www.catholicherald.co.uk/news/2012/04/05/dissent-will-not-renew-the-church-pope-says-at-chrism-mass/
Without speaking specifically of calls for women’s ordination and of the rebellion of some priests in Austria, the Pope said that perhaps such campaigns come from concern for the Church, but asked if disobedience is really the way to reform the Church. To seek to be more united with Christ entails a renunciation of oneself and of “the much-vaunted self-fulfillment.” “True renewal must be based on lives that are radically conformed to Christ and Christ’s will.” The era following Vatican II showed what true renewal looks like, the Pope also said, with movements and ways of life “filled with the joy of faith, the radicalism of obedience, the dynamism of hope and the power of love.”
Without speaking specifically of calls for women’s ordination and of the rebellion of some priests in Austria, the Pope said that perhaps such campaigns come from concern for the Church, but asked if disobedience is really the way to reform the Church. To seek to be more united with Christ entails a renunciation of oneself and of “the much-vaunted self-fulfillment.” “True renewal must be based on lives that are radically conformed to Christ and Christ’s will.” The era following Vatican II showed what true renewal looks like, the Pope also said, with movements and ways of life “filled with the joy of faith, the radicalism of obedience, the dynamism of hope and the power of love.”