Cardinal O'Malley has made a very spring-like decision

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The cardinal and archbishop of Boston, Sean O'Malley, has decided that the parishes of his archdiocese are not for the agents of internal secularization of the Church to propagandize their heterodoxies . Aware that the leader of the “Pfarrer-Initiative” was planning to pass through Boston, he gave a clear order: “ Father Helmut Schüller defends positions contrary to the teachings of the Catholic Church and, therefore, cannot speak in no parish in the diocese .” As expected, all the progressive-ecclesiastical trash in the US has cried foul . They say that the cardinal should “ encourage the future of our ecclesial mission to be thoroughly debated in all places and communities .”


And they add that " this attempt to veto the debate causes enormous damage to the body of Christ, the People of God, who, thanks to baptism, are enabled to participate in the building of the Church ." In reality, what they propose is that the Church must make way for freedom of opinion within itself. And it is certainly necessary. Job Function Email List  Even before the Second Vatican Council, Pope Pius XII said this (my bold): We would still like to add a word referring to public opinion within the Church itself ( naturally, in matters left to free discussion ). Only those who do not know the Church or those who know it poorly will be surprised by this. Because the Church, after all, is a living body and something would be missing from its life if public opinion were missing; a fault whose censure would fall on the pastors and the faithful. The question is not whether or not there is public opinion within the Church.



The point is that there are matters that cannot be discussed because they belong to the deposit of faith . And whoever doesn't understand that, he has a problem. Free examination is not part of the Catholic faith. It is pure and simple Protestantism. The Catholic Church is not like the Anglican communion or liberal Lutheranism, which change doctrine as the wind blows . The sad thing is that we have reached the point where a cardinal has to explain why a heterodox person cannot speak in a Catholic parish . The strange thing is that someone thinks that the opposite would be normal. Furthermore, it is not the first time this has happened. In October of last year, Cardinal Sistach banned a conference by theologian Juan José Tamayo in a parish in Barcelona. Years ago, Cardinal Carles did the same with a talk by Hans Küng.