Vatican Advisor: Pope ‘Breaks Catholic Traditions Whenever He Wants’

Another article on Rosica admitting that Francis rules the Church as a dictator. It's enlightening to know that in the view of Francis's toadies, being a Catholic is a 'disordered attachment'. That explains a great deal.

As I just saw on Facebook,

Stolen from a FB friend:

With friends like these . . . The below is decidedly not a Catholic understanding of the Papacy. It is as if Fr. Rosica read some Chick Tracts and decided to use those to explain his view of the Holy Father. It is nice to see Fr. Rosica does not hide his modernism however. He's up front about it. This isn't helpful to the Church nor is helpful to Pope Francis in the exercise of his ministry.

To bad for Zenit that people know how to copy and paste! It does no good to replace the admission of heresy with an ellipsis after the story has gone live on the net! Especially when Rosica is so proud of it that he leaves the quote intact on his website!

From the Catholic Herald

Fr Thomas Rosica said the Church is now 'ruled by an individual rather than by... its own dictates of tradition plus Scripture'

Under Pope Francis, the Church is now “openly ruled by an individual rather than by the authority of Scripture alone or even its own dictates of tradition plus Scripture,” a Vatican advisor has said.

In an admiring portrait of the Pope, Fr Thomas Rosica wrote that Francis “breaks Catholic traditions whenever he wants” because he is “free from disordered attachments”.

Fr Rosica, a Canadian priest and media advisor to the Vatican, was writing on the website of Salt & Light Catholic Media Foundation, of which he is CEO.

The article, written two weeks ago, was republished by the news agency Zenit. After Fr Rosica’s statements came to attention on social media, Zenit removed the controversial statement and replaced it with “[…]”.

Fr Rosica said that, as a Jesuit, Pope Francis is guided by the principle of “discernment” which at times results in “freeing him from the confinement of doing something in a certain way because it was ever thus”.

The article, which was published on the Feast of St Ignatius of Loyola, the founder of the Jesuits, said that Pope Francis has brought “Jesuit intellectualism” to the papacy.

Fr Rosica’s words came days before the Vatican announced Pope Francis had changed the Catechism to state the death penalty is now “inadmissible”.

The alteration caused much debate as to what the term meant, and whether it contradicted traditional Church teaching, which holds that the death penalty is not intrinsically evil.