Protestér mot all falsk lære! – sier katolsk biskop i England til studenter
Nylig pensjonert katolsk biskop i Lancaster, Patrick O’Donoghue, som nå er flytta hjem til sitt barndoms Irland, har visst alltid vært kjent for å være frittalende, og er sannsynligvis blitt enda dristigere som pensjonist. I alle fall uttaler han seg svært tydelig mot all form for radikal/ liberal utglidning i Kirken. (Fra det irske katolske tidsskriftet Alive! – s 3 i juni-nummeret 2009. Les mer om biskop O’Donoghue her.)
Cork-born Bishop Patrick O’Donoghue urged Catholic students at Oxford University to have “an enquiring fidelity” to the teaching of the Church and to abandon “the fictions foisted on us by some clergy, religious and laity who are disobedient and arrogant in their will-to-power.”
It was, for him, he said, a “great joy” being part of a Church “that has left behind the ghetto and the siege mentality,” in order to “proclaim to the world the liberating power of Christ’s Gospel.”
But he was distressed by “the pathetic situation of catechetics in this country, and the extent of ignorance and apostasy among generations of Catholics since the Vatican Council.”
The UK’s most outspoken bishop, he regretted “the diminishment of the Catholic understanding of sin, man’s need for redemption, the sacrificial nature of the Mass.”
This had led to “the virtual abandonment of Confession, the marginalisation of devotion to Mary, the intercession of the saints, and adoration of the Blessed sacrament.”
The bishop is the author of the 2-part plan for renewal called Fit for Mission? Schools and Fit for Mission? Church which has created a stir not just in Britain but around the English-speaking world.
He believed that full renewal will only happen when Catholics, particularly leaders in “schools, seminaries, parishes, and dioceses,” stop obstructing the authentic implementation of the Council and “positively engage with it.” …
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