BREAKING: Pope Francis opens door to abolish priestly celibacy according to leaked Amazon Synod doc

JMJ

Definitely saw this one coming ... I mean it's like a martial artist who telegraphs his next move.

Source: LifeSite News

ROME, January 31, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – Catholic historian Roberto de Mattei is claiming, based on documents he has received from “several bishops,” that Pope Francis’ post-synodal exhortation on the Amazon Synod will open the door to abolishing priestly celibacy in the Latin church.

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Considering that legitimate diversity does not harm the communion and unity of the Church, but rather expresses and serves it (cf. LG13; OE 6), witness the plurality of existing rites and disciplines, we propose that criteria and dispositions be established by the competent authority, within the framework of Lumen Gentium 26, to ordain as priests suitable and respected men of the community with a legitimately constituted and stable family, who have had a fruitful permanent diaconate and receive an adequate formation for the priesthood, in order to sustain the life of the Christian community through the preaching of the Word and the celebration of the Sacraments in the most remote areas of the Amazon region.

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Fifty years ago, at the symposium of European bishops held in Chur in July 1969, Cardinal Leo-Joseph Suenens, during his concluding conference, read an appeal by Hans Küng to suppress priestly celibacy. This request was consistent with the role which progressive theology assigned to sexuality: an instinct that man should not repress through asceticism, but “liberate,” by finding in sex a form of “realization” of the human person. Since then, this demand has expanded and accompanied the process of the Church’s secularization and self-demolition.

So there you have it, Vatican II is the gift that keeps on taking. It just took ~50 years to get to this point.

I'm beginning to wonder if this is the abomination of desolation or if it was the Pachamamma in the Vatican.

Either way, we have reached dire times.

Keep praying for the Pope because if he goes through with it his immortal soul is in grave danger. At best he'll be in purgatory a long, long, long time.

P^3

PS: I'm still really busy so I will be posting only periodically.

PPS: Oh ... and still no word from Gullible. ... More on that topic when time allows😀

PPPS: Other References:

FSSPX News: Cardinal Sarah to the Pope: Veto Weakening Priestly Celibacy

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