Pope denounces ‘restorationist’ orders, takes shot at Medjugorje

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**Pope Francis has said that “the devil is in action” on cases of clerical sexual abuse, that the image of the Virgin as a “superstar” is not Catholic, and that despite the decline of religious vocations in the West, he worries when he hears that new, “restorationist” congregations have many.
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ROME- Pope Francis said that clerical sexual abuse is the work of the devil, there’s corruption in the Vatican, warned against new religious orders with a “restorationist” mentality, and even appeared to take a gentle shot at reputed Marian apparitions such as Medjugorje, saying the real Madonna is not “the head of a post office that every day sends a different letter.”

These are only a handful of the points Pope Francis touched on during a meeting with 140 Superiors General of male religious orders and congregations last November, in an informal, behind-closed doors exchange.

The transcript of the encounter was published on Friday by the Jesuit-run magazine La Civiltà Cattolica, which is celebrating its issue number 4,000.

Regarding sexual abuse by clergy and religious men and women, Pope Francis said that two every four sexual abusers have been abused, which is “devastating” because abuse it sows abuse into the future.

cruxnow.com/vatican/2017/02/09/pope-denounces-restorationist-orders-takes-shot-medjugorje/

 

[RPRPsych]

Good for him on Medjugorje. They need to shut that down definitively.

 

[James248]

Good for him on Medjugorje. They need to shut that down definitively.

I agree.

 

[Vouthon]

Good for him on Medjugorje. They need to shut that down definitively.

Amen!

I’ve been praying endlessly that the arrant nonsense being peddled by the Medjugorje bandwagon would be brought to a decisive end.

Perhaps his Holiness Pope Francis will at long last be the pontiff to do so.

 

[pianistclare]

Finally some good news.

 

[Kliska]

Are there a lot of restorationist congregations in the Catholic Church? What exactly do they “look like?”

 

[dans0622]

Finally some good news.

The good news is…what, exactly?

Dan

 

[Vouthon]

The good news is…what, exactly?

Dan

For me, on a personal level, the much-needed criticism of Medjugorje.

 

[pianistclare]

The good news is…what, exactly?

Dan

That this article is not another doom and gloom article that seem to make up the majority of news reports around here .

 

[pianistclare]

For me, on a personal level, the much-needed criticism of Medjugorje.

This too, sadly.
I’ve only ever met once priest who looked upon it favorably.

 

[dans0622]

For me, on a personal level, the much-needed criticism of Medjugorje.

Maybe…except he didn’t say the word “Medjugorje” and there are many Catholics (who are better Catholics than I) who would be distressed if the came an official, papal condemnation of that apparition.

Seems to me that the longer he sits on the report (which I think has been completed), the less likely it is that anything official will result from it.

Dan

 

[twf]

Can someone provide examples of these problematic “restorationist” congregations the Pope is worried about?

 

[dans0622]

This too, sadly.
I’ve only ever met once priest who looked upon it favorably.

Personally, I’ve never been involved with it but, for better or worse, there is (are) a lot more than one priest with a favorable opinion…

Dan

 

[Seamus_L]

If these orders have been approved by the Vatican, why criticize them ?

 

[M-Dent]

Can someone provide examples of these problematic “restorationist” congregations the Pope is worried about?

Frankly, I found that part of the article more orientated toward gossip than promoting anything authentic that may aid a Catholic.

 

[JPUSC]

Frankly, I found that part of the article more orientated toward gossip than promoting anything authentic that may aid a Catholic.

Tell that to the one who brought the subject up.

 

[dans0622]

Can someone provide examples of these problematic “restorationist” congregations the Pope is worried about?

I don’t really know but the only one I can think of that is world-wide, and so on the Vatican’s radar, grew very fast but then had a scandal involving the founder is the Legionaries… Were/are they “restorationist”? I don’t know what that word means, exactly.

Dan

 

[Nelka]

What is restorationist?

 

[Havard]

Are there a lot of restorationist congregations in the Catholic Church? What exactly do they “look like?”

I’ve heard the term applied to groups like the Neocatechumenal Way, or to traditional Catholics to the extent that they want to restore some earlier traditions.

 

[M-Dent]

Tell that to the one who brought the subject up.

In this case it would be the author of the article on Crux. When comments are taken out of context and framed in a sloppy manner to different groups of people whom they were not originally intended, IMO that’s text book gossip.