Back in those euphoric early days (for Bergoglians) celebrating the pluperfect pope, the best pope there ever was or could ever be, I remarked that
for these enthusiasts, Bergoglio was not just someone who should be 'santo subito' (soon a saint) but 'santo gia' (already a saint)... Today, Marco
Tosatti has this report that indicates how the 'santo gia' mindset does animate some self-deluders....
Bergoglio 'santo subito"? But he already is, for some!
Votive candles with his image and a prayer
for his 'intercession' are on sale online and in shops
Translated from
June 10, 2018
I don't know if Argentines are superstitious. Regardless, if I were the reigning pontiff, reading this article (assuming he does, or someone who reads it tells him about it), I would knock on wood, on iron, and make gestures to ward off evil.
We have now learned that votive candles are in production and on sale with an image of this pope giving a blessing [it's actually from his first appearance as pope] and an accompanying invocation in six languages to be recited in order to obtain his intercession!
Well, fine, but he is still alive (and thriving).
And there's a little problem, related to what the Church teaches and what she has codified in canon law. Even if we know that Codes and Rules and Doctrines are as dust to be shaken off the shoes of the powers-that-be in 'the Church' today, until the [merciful] 'revolution' abolishes them, they remain in force. Just like traffic laws that do not become obsolete just because too many people ignore the red light. But read what canon law says on the subject:
TITLE IV.
THE VENERATION OF THE SAINTS, SACRED IMAGES, AND RELICS
Can. 1186 To foster the sanctification of the people of God, the Church commends to the special and filial reverence of the Christian faithful the Blessed Mary ever Virgin, Mother of God, whom Christ established as the mother of all people, and promotes the true and authentic veneration of the other saints whose example instructs the Christian faithful and whose intercession sustains them.
Can. 1187 It is permitted to reverence through public veneration only those servants of God whom the authority of the Church has recorded in the list of the saints or the blessed.
Can. 1188 The practice of displaying sacred images in churches for the reverence of the faithful is to remain in effect. Nevertheless, they are to be exhibited in moderate number and in suitable order so that the Christian people are not confused nor occasion given for inappropriate devotion.
It seems to me that enthusiasm often plays ugly tricks. Not just Bergoglio as 'santo subito', but 'santo gia', now, while alive. Not even Father Spadaro would have dared to hope for this...
Question: Will the Vatican do anything to stop this wholly inappropriate 'enthusiasm'? The candles are on sale online
https://www.muto1920.it/it/home/72-ceri-votivi-papa-francesco-5-pz-1988-cereria-muto-1920-8051564101995.html
[Modificato da TERESA BENEDETTA 11/06/2018 01:53]