Looks like Bergi caught plenty of backlash on his "There's No Hell"
comment to old Scalfari. Here's a long article at Onepeterfive that
details it all:
An excerpt:
If true, this is a significant moment for the papacy of Francis. If a cardinal was, in fact, able to force the so-called “Dictator Pope” to back down, it indicates that the balance of power in Rome is shifting, and Francis, who is often seen as autocratic and difficult to rein in, may now find himself in a much more precarious position than we’ve previously seen.
And an article from Lifesitenews about an upcoming conference in Rome that's sure to be, shall we say, interesting.
The basic take on all this is that once
the St. Gallen Mafia ousted Ratzinger and set up their preferred
stooge, their preferred stooge turned out to be such a disaster that
he's set back the Modernist/Progressive program massively, and perhaps
killed it.
Once an opposition party is in control of a government,
after years of "back bench" guerrilla war, they usually make themselves
so obnoxious that their ideas end up repudiated once they're in power.
It's a reality the Democrats experienced when they took over Congress in
2006 and the the presidency in 2008, and the Republicans in the last
couple of years (they showed themselves unable to govern; if it weren't
for Trump, they'd be doing nothing at all).
So it has been with the Modernists/Progs: once they had complete control of the Church, they immediately ran it into the ground. Confusion reigns, homosexuality is rampant, and the Progs look incompetent. Most average, everyday Catholics are sick of this mess, to the extent they know of it at all, and Trad Catholics go their own way. Meanwhile, there's no question now that Modernist/Progressives want to Church to go the "Full Anglican" route, with women priests, bishops, and the whole litany of progressive causes.
On the other hand:
So it has been with the Modernists/Progs: once they had complete control of the Church, they immediately ran it into the ground. Confusion reigns, homosexuality is rampant, and the Progs look incompetent. Most average, everyday Catholics are sick of this mess, to the extent they know of it at all, and Trad Catholics go their own way. Meanwhile, there's no question now that Modernist/Progressives want to Church to go the "Full Anglican" route, with women priests, bishops, and the whole litany of progressive causes.
On the other hand:
As the Trad movement grows, it is obviously the successor
"government" to the Progs. The Trads aren't large in numbers but
they're like an elite military service, ready and able to take control,
not least because they know what they want and what the Church ought to
be like. They have a coherent program. The Progs have had that too, in
the past, but they couldn't talk too openly about it because a majority
of the Church was opposed to it. EVERYONE knows what Traditional Catholics want.
And it is also true that having been in
control now, more or less, since Paul 6 was elected, we've all seen how
bad the Progs are. Want more of the same? Elect another Prog pope, but
then, the Church can't stand much more of this, either. Like a ship on a sandbar on grounded upon rocks, if it doesn't get off soon, it'll break apart.
Time has just run out
for the Modernists/Progressives.
I note that Cardinal Sarah has been quietly surviving in the Vatican now under Bergoglio for some time, and he's clearly angling to be elected the next pope. We'll see. How things will actually develop depends on so much: will Bergoglio somehow NOT be deposed? And if he is, how ugly will it be? Will a "serious conservative" like Sarah be elected pope, and then ally with the Trads against the sure-to-be-had Prog counter-attack, or will Cardinal Tagle be elected pope, and try to do a JP2 balancing act for a decade? There's probably no chance a full Progressive can be elected pope now, not after Bergi. Schism hovers over the whole mess, with the Germans ready to go into Schism if a Trad or Conservative is elected pope, and large parts of the non-Prog Church ready to go into Schism if another Bergoglio is elected.
We'll just have to see. But it won't be long now, and ironically, the long discarded, unmentioned doctrine and dogma of Hell might well be the catalyst to bring it all tumbling down.
I note that Cardinal Sarah has been quietly surviving in the Vatican now under Bergoglio for some time, and he's clearly angling to be elected the next pope. We'll see. How things will actually develop depends on so much: will Bergoglio somehow NOT be deposed? And if he is, how ugly will it be? Will a "serious conservative" like Sarah be elected pope, and then ally with the Trads against the sure-to-be-had Prog counter-attack, or will Cardinal Tagle be elected pope, and try to do a JP2 balancing act for a decade? There's probably no chance a full Progressive can be elected pope now, not after Bergi. Schism hovers over the whole mess, with the Germans ready to go into Schism if a Trad or Conservative is elected pope, and large parts of the non-Prog Church ready to go into Schism if another Bergoglio is elected.
We'll just have to see. But it won't be long now, and ironically, the long discarded, unmentioned doctrine and dogma of Hell might well be the catalyst to bring it all tumbling down.
Some examples of where the Progs are trying to take the Church:
This article from a couple of years ago is very succinct in explaining
the move toward women priests
And Francis is already pro-contraception, and there's been a lot of discussion on whether he'll try to overturn Humanae Vitae:
Of
course, movement in these areas would necessitate civil war within the
Church, on a much larger scale than what happened within the Anglican
Church.
Fun times.
An Préachán
