Stop shooting the messenger!

[Emeraldlady]

Emeraldlady:

They are all of the mentality that Pope Francis is in error in many of his teachings and that people are entitled to reject his authority to teach it. That undermines the obligation to listen to any papal teachings. Humanae vitae for example. Better a millstone be tied around their necks than they encourage anyone to do that.

I’m sorry, but this is not a fair statement.

Humanae vitae was CONSISTENT with 1900 years of Catholic teaching regarding birth control. The Catholics who dissented & still dissent to Humanae Vitae were/are ignoring Catholic Sacred Tradition & theology in order to accept a new form of birth control.

You are forgetting about the defense of natural family planning that had to happen after HV was promulgated, because the traditionalists claimed “Pope St. Paul VI made a “drastic change” in Catholic tradition by making the purpose of marriage happiness of the couple rather than procreation.” and that " Pope St. Paul VI’s reasons given in [the 1968 encyclical] Humanae Vitae for limiting and spacing children are wrong and come from “Protestant” reasoning: against Catholic tradition." and that “Natural Family Planning (NFP) is no different from artificial contraception and is, therefore, evil. It is a corruption of traditional teaching, not a development of it.”

The issue that some people have with Pope Francis is that he has been vague in certain areas, and when asked for clarification, he has either not responded or responded indirectly.

When the vast majority of theologians and Catholic scholars have accepted and welcomed this Magisteriums perspective on the immutable truths of faith, as the way forward for Catholic faith, those with the issues should be seeking clarification for their own benefit. Not doing so publicly trying to derail ordinary lay peoples trust in the Magisterium. You know that dubia’s have been quite common but before this one, no ordinary person had ever heard the term. They are meant to be dealt with in the realm of those qualified in high theological matters. Not made into an attack on the Pope by ordinary people.

 

[angel12]

Really the only thing any of us can do with any success at all is try to be a better Catholic than we were yesterday. Mr. Coffin was once very helpful to me in that regard. Now he isn’t.

That sums it up very well.

 

[1cthlctrth]

I’m not familiar with some of those 4 that are listed. But, I’ll bet you’ll find that most angry critics of Lifesite News are pro-abortion and often leftist on most issues.