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THURSDAY, APRIL 7, 2016
Only in truth does charity shine forth, only in truth can charity be authentically lived - Benedict XVI - - Welcoming gay people - Synod 2014 & 2015 - Where was the truth??? Where was the dialogue??? There was no love!!!
This entire posting has been previously sent out as a US group mailing prior to posting it here on the Thalamus Center. PhotoPrayer of St. Francis of Assisi
In the first social encyclical letter of Pope Benedict XVI, CARITAS IN VERITATE, he focuses not on the harmful structural aspects of globalization of the social economy, but addresses that the cure for this devastation of human life and to the environment is to be found - “In the present social and cultural context, where there is a widespread tendency to relativize truth, practising charity in truth helps people to understand that adhering to the values of Christianity is not merely useful but essential for building a good society and for true integral human development.”
What he details as to how Truth contains the light of reason and faith and that “Truth frees charity from the constraints of an emotionalism that deprives it of relational and social content, and of a fideism that deprives it of human and universal breathing-space” and how “Truth, by enabling men and women to let go of their subjective opinions and impressions, allows them to move beyond cultural and historical limitations and to come together in the assessment of the value and substance of things” - his descriptions - parallels both the successful completion and lack-thereof of a crucial psychological developmental period of a child’s emotional maturation that take place between 5-9 years of age. The successful completion of this developmental period of a child’s life is essential for maturational developments in adolescence that leads to adult maturity, which Benedict XVI refers to as the Truth in Charity. The fixation at this period - he describes as a person - who is given to emotionalism, sentimentally, fideism, filled with arbitrary ways and refuses to dialogue with others. This description describes the fierce emotional negative reaction of the majority of the members of the curia and hierarchy to the Synod session of 2014 midterm report - “welcoming gay people,” valuing gay loving committed relationships. It was followed by their equally fierce refusal to even dialogue or to consider the decades of the scientific data regarding gay sexual orientation.
Not only did they ignore Benedict XVI’s encyclical letter CARITAS IN VERITATE, but also John Paul II’s FIDES ET RATIO and his address given in 1979 regarding Galileo and of literal interpretation of the sacred books. John Paul II also - stressed the importance of not separating reason and faith because it diminishes “the capacity of men and women to know themselves, the world and God in an appropriate way.” And again in 1988 John Paul II stressed the importance of ongoing dialogue and common searching should grow in depth and scope warning that “In the process we must overcome every regressive tendency to a unilateral reductionism, to fear, and to self-imposed isolation.” This is exactly what they did for the past 30 years, in their intense reaction against any consideration or open discussion concerning gay people. They continued the same throughout the Synod session of 2015, which included same covert though ruthless tactics forcefully preventing any further open discussion on the topic of being supportive of gay people. They publicly demonstrated both their collective immaturity and their violent tactics, as documented in the Vatileaks of 2012, by blatantly attacking Pope Francis by way of character assassination accusing him of attempting to fix the outcome the Synod in favor of gay people and leaking the rumors the he had a brain tumor. I have experienced and continue to experience the same ruthless tactics - like so many others before me, including without any grounds attempting to remove name from the priesthood. What happened at the session of the Synod 2015, was brutally obsessive in preventing the open dialogue about the lives of gay people from taking place was without Truth and therefore it was without of God's Love.
To be continued:
By Fr. Marty Kurylowicz
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Without Truth there is no Love - Benedict XVI - Welcoming gay people - Synod 2014 & 2015???
BENEDICT XVI - 2009
3. Through this close link with truth, charity can be recognized as an authentic expression of humanity and as an element of fundamental importance in human relations, including those of a public nature. Only in truth does charity shine forth, only in truth can charity be authentically lived. Truth is the light that gives meaning and value to charity. That light is both the light of reason and the light of faith, through which the intellect attains to the natural and supernatural truth of charity: it grasps its meaning as gift, acceptance, and communion. Without truth, charity degenerates into sentimentality. Love becomes an empty shell, to be filled in an arbitrary way. In a culture without truth, this is the fatal risk facing love. It falls prey to contingent subjective emotions and opinions, the word “love” is abused and distorted, to the point where it comes to mean the opposite. Truth frees charity from the constraints of an emotionalism that deprives it of relational and social content, and of a fideism that deprives it of human and universal breathing-space. In the truth, charity reflects the personal yet public dimension of faith in the God of the Bible, who is both Agápe and Lógos: Charity and Truth, Love and Word.
4. Because it is filled with truth, charity can be understood in the abundance of its values, it can be shared and communicated. Truth, in fact, is lógos which creates diá-logos, and hence communication and communion. Truth, by enabling men and women to let go of their subjective opinions and impressions, allows them to move beyond cultural and historical limitations and to come together in the assessment of the value and substance of things. Truth opens and unites our minds in the lógos of love: this is the Christian proclamation and testimony of charity. In the present social and cultural context, where there is a widespread tendency to relativize truth, practising charity in truth helps people to understand that adhering to the values of Christianity is not merely useful but essential for building a good society and for true integral human development. A Christianity of charity without truth would be more or less interchangeable with a pool of good sentiments, helpful for social cohesion, but of little relevance. In other words, there would no longer be any real place for God in the world. Without truth, charity is confined to a narrow field devoid of relations. It is excluded from the plans and processes of promoting human development of universal range, in dialogue between knowledge and praxis…
Reason always stands in need of being purified by faith: this also holds true for political reason, which must not consider itself omnipotent. For its part, religion always needs to be purified by reason in order to show its authentically human face. Any breach in this dialogue comes only at an enormous price to human development…
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FIDES ET RATIO
JOHN PAUL II
JOHN PAUL II
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN
FAITH AND REASON
14 September 1998
Faith and reason are like two wings on which the human spirit rises to the contemplation of truth; and God has placed in the human heart a desire to know the truth—in a word, to know himself—so that, by knowing and loving God, men and women may also come to the fullness of truth about themselves (cf. Ex 33:18; Ps 27:8-9; 63:2-3; Jn 14:8; 1 Jn 3:2).
…Philosophy and the sciences function within the order of natural reason; while faith, enlightened and guided by the Spirit, recognizes in the message of salvation the “fullness of grace and truth” (cf. Jn 1:14) which God has willed to reveal in history and definitively through his Son, Jesus Christ (cf. 1 Jn 5:9; Jn 5:31-32)…
…Therefore, reason and faith cannot be separated without diminishing the capacity of men and women to know themselves, the world and God in an appropriate way…
…On a number of occasions, the Second Vatican Council stressed the positive value of scientific research for a deeper knowledge of the mystery of the human being…
…“[Galileo] declared explicitly that the two truths, of faith and of science, can never contradict each other, 'Sacred Scripture and the natural world proceeding equally from the divine Word, the first as dictated by the Holy Spirit, the second as a very faithful executor of the commands of God', as he wrote in his letter to Father Benedetto Castelli on 21 December 1613. The Second Vatican Council says the same thing, even adopting similar language in its teaching: 'Methodical research, in all realms of knowledge, if it respects... moral norms, will never be genuinely opposed to faith: the reality of the world and of faith have their origin in the same God' ( Gaudium et Spes, 36). Galileo sensed in his scientific research the presence of the Creator who, stirring in the depths of his spirit, stimulated him, anticipating and assisting his intuitions”: John Paul II, Address to the Pontifical Academy of Sciences (10 November 1979): Insegnamenti, II, 2 (1979), 1111-1112.
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Letter to Father George V. Coyne, Director of the Vatican Observatory (June 1, 1988) | John Paul II
…By encouraging openness between the Church and the scientific communities, we are not envisioning a disciplinary unity between theology and science like that which exists within a given scientific field or within theology proper. As dialogue and common searching continue, there will be grow towards mutual understanding and a gradual uncovering of common concerns which will provide the basis for further research and discussion. Exactly what form that will take must be left to the future. What is important, as we have already stressed, is that the dialogue should continue and grow in depth and scope. In the process we must overcome every regressive tendency to a unilateral reductionism, to fear, and to self-imposed isolation. What is critically important is that each discipline should continue to enrich, nourish and challenge the other to be more fully what it can be and to contribute to our vision of who we are and who we are becoming…
Science can purify religion from error and superstition; religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes. Each can draw the other into a wider world, a world in which both can flourish.
For the truth of the matter is that the Church and the scientific community will inevitably interact; their options do not include isolation.
Without Truth
sentimentality -
Sentimentality originally indicated the reliance on feelings as a guide to truth, but current usage defines it as an appeal to shallow, uncomplicated emotions at the expense of reason
S. R. Serafin/A. Bendixen, The Continuum Encyclopedia of American Literature (2005) p. 1014
Pope Francis has a long to-do list, and it starts with the Curia
By David Gibson And Alessandro Speciale| Religion News Service March 14, 2013
VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis comes into office riding a wave of good will but facing a host of challenges both inside and outside the Catholic Church. Whether he can tackle them, however, may depend on his ability to tame the Roman Curia, the dysfunctional papal bureaucracy that was uppermost in the minds of the cardinals when they elected him on Wednesday (March 13)…
In an interview last year, Bergoglio also railed against the preening and clericalism of many in the hierarchy — peacocks, he called them, displaying a “self-absorbed vanity” that is “the worst sin that could be committed in the church.”
7 top issues Pope Francis has staked out for his papacy
David Gibson - September 21, 2015 3. Overhauling the hierarchy
In an institution that defines itself as hierarchical, change has to start at the top. Almost from the moment he was elected, Francis has not only sought to model a humbler sort of pastor, but he has repeatedly blasted hierarchical “careerism” as “a form of cancer” and derided bishops who strut about in church finery as “peacocks.” He has called on bishops to be pastors who are close to the flock — who have “the smell of the sheep” — and not to be “airport bishops” who buzz around the world padding their resumes and developing the “psychology of princes.”
Pope Francis’ plan for reform: Convert the church
March 10, 2014
Hierarchical “careerism” is “a form of cancer,” Francis has said, comparing bishops who strut about in church finery to “peacocks.” Instead, he wants pastors who act as shepherds and who “smell of the sheep.” He does not want “airport bishops” who buzz around the world padding their resumes and preaching a doctrinaire gospel while living the good life. “Little monsters,” he calls such clerics.
PRESENTATION OF THE CHRISTMAS GREETINGS TO THE ROMAN CURIA
ADDRESS OF HIS HOLINESS POPE FRANCIS
Misericordia - Monday, 21 December 2015 -
emotionalism
Synod 2014 - welcoming gay people
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4, 2015
Excerpts from:
Part 2 - “Cold-blooded Murderers” - Ghosts in the - Synod of Bishops on Family - October 2014 - Repress Unacknowledged Need for Empathy
The Vatican’s midterm report from the Synod of Bishops on Family on October 14, 2014, was an extraordinary and unprecedented expression of human empathy and validation that there are gay children growing up.
This was a uniquely courageous stance to come out of the Vatican. As much human empathy that it brings to the lives of gay children - its healing presence shines back onto those who, few that they may be, risked their lives to welcome these children. The glow is forever penetrating - changing lives for the better around the world, most especially in reforming the Vatican.
Welcoming homosexual persons - October 13, 2014
Homosexuals have gifts and qualities to offer to the Christian community...
...homosexual unions it has to be noted that there are cases in which mutual aid to the point of sacrifice constitutes a precious support in the life of the partners. Furthermore, the Church pays special attention to the children who live with couples of the same sex, emphasizing that the needs and rights of the little ones must always be given priority...
…whoever causes one of these
little ones
who believe in Me to stumble,
it would be better for him
to have a heavy millstone hung around his neck,
and to be drowned in the
depth of the sea.
Matthew 18:6
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