This, too, is Bergoglian Magisterium!
Last Sunday, JMB gave a homily to thousands of catechists who came to Rome from around the world to celebrate their Jubilee - a homily in which he said some strange, disconcerting and inappropriate words, as follows:
It is by loving that the God-who-is-Love is proclaimed to the world: not by the power of convincing, never by imposing the truth [Really????], no less by growing fixated on some religious or moral obligation.
God is proclaimed through the encounter between persons, with care for their history and their journey [True, but that is not catechism at all, in the sense that these catechists must catechize: they have to do catechize literally - teach the essentials of the faith in a systematic way, that is their job - while of course, being careful to practice what they teach!]
This is a valuable teaching: as servants of the word of Jesus we have been called not to parade our appearances and not to seek for glory [It's the first time I have read any such comment on catechists, who certainly are not in their work 'to parade their appearance or to seek glory', because in the first place, the circumstances of catechizing others seriously exclude such illusions!]; nor can we be sad or full of complaints. We are not prophets of gloom who take delight in unearthing dangers or deviations; we are not people who become ensconced in our own surroundings, handing out bitter judgments on our society, on the Church, on everything and everyone, polluting the world with our negativity. [Hmmm, has he listened to his own homilies at Casa Santa Marta, and even this particular paragraph of his homily? As Socrates wisely advised, 'Know thyself!"]
[Modificato da TERESA BENEDETTA 29/09/2016 04:28]