Has Pope Francis really said anything contrary to tradition?

[graciew]

[AndyP2010;

Francis is calling on us to go out and give our witness and that means that sometimes we are going to have to follow poor souls down some rabbit holes.
Trust the Holy Spirit.QUOTE]

This is really beautiful
God found me down a rabbit hole thanks to people like you.
And the Pope at that time and teachers had taught me well.
Who knows…unless we pray unceasingly that God allows us to see each other through His eyes,we may very well be living In rabbit hole unknowingly
Thanks for this loving comment,Andy.Yes,we are not to stop helping each other out of rabbit holes.

 

[Daniel_Lysinger]

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[AndyP2010]

Thanks, graciew, but I am just some Bozo with an internet connection.

 

[YoungTradCath]

Something I’ve noticed is that this has not only happened in the media, but is being perpetrated right in Catholic publications of various kinds, most especially parish bulletins. The wrenching and distorting of the Pope’s words, that is.

I think we should all give this a name, a proper noun name, which I propose should be: the Filtering of the Papacy. We should call it out when we see it.

Please, do not Filter the Papacy.

 

[AndyP2010]

Not only that but today I saw an article where Card. Dolan is presented as a critic of the Popes. His report was based on the work of another Catholic who took what the Cardinal said out of context from an interview in which Dolan mostly gushed about the Pope.

William Oddie

Is Timothy, Cardinal Dolan, Archbishop of New York, really becoming impatient over the way Pope Francis is running the Church? “We wanted someone with good managerial skills and leadership skills, and so far that hasn’t been … obvious,” the Cardinal said in an interview recently.

Today’s article
Sandro Magester:

ROME, August 8, 2013 – Francis is in no hurry to reform the curia, and some of his big electors are starting to get impatient. “We wanted someone with good managerial skills and leadership skills, and so far that hasn’t been as obvious,” the cardinal of New York, Timothy Dolan, complained in an interview a few days ago.

Sandro Magister

The quote taken out of context is in bold
Original Interview of Dolan:

You were one of the cardinals who elected Francis, and presumably you had some idea of what kind of pope he would be. To what extent has it turned out the way you expected?

In some ways, it’s been exactly what I expected. One of the things we looked for was a very savvy pastor, a good man on the ground. To use the expression of [Cardinal] George Pell [of Australia], we wanted somebody with “dirty boots,” because he’s used to going through the sheep fields. We got that, and we got it in spades.

The simplicity, sincerity, humility, that ability to speak from the heart which the world is seeing now, are all things we’d heard about him. One of the cardinals said we needed somebody with the mind of Benedict and the heart of John Paul, and I think we got it. He’s been called the world’s parish priest, and I think that’s right on target.

If there’s a surprise, it’s that he’s even better at it than we had anticipated. We thought he was pretty good, and the reports we got about him in Buenos Aires were excellent, but he’s doing it all on steroids.

What would your biggest surprise be?

We also wanted someone with good managerial skills and leadership skills, and so far that hasn’t been as obvious. It’s a little bit of a surprise that he hasn’t played his hand on that front yet. However, I think that’s part of his strategy. He knows that the things we talked about a moment ago are more important because, in many ways, impression is reality. Having created this extraordinarily appealing impression – which, by the way, is very genuine – that he’s a man of simplicity, holiness and simplicity will make it easier to do other things down the line. I think that was his first goal, and he’s done it.

I would expect that after the summer lull, we’ll see some more signs of management changes. In the meantime, I think calling the eight cardinals together was brilliant. As you know, that came up in the meetings before the conclave. Many of the cardinals said the new pope would have to look at some sort of “council of wise men,” some more precise way to exercise collegiality beyond the Synod of Bishops. (By the way, the congregations said the synod needs to be reformed, too.) The idea was an ongoing exercise of collegiality that would assist the pope permanently. His “G8” with the cardinals was a good move in that direction.

Original interview NCR

William Oddie and Sandro Magister should be ashamed clearly creating controversy where none exist.