Pope Francis again signals his distaste for traditional communities

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Pope Francis: You Can Recognize False Christians by Their ‘Inflexibility’


Pope Francis talks to nine newly-ordained priests as they pose for a group photo, asking them them to take off their face mask, at the end of an ordination mass on April 25, 2021

 at St. Peter's Basilica in The Vatican, during which Pope Francis ordained nine new priests.

Breitbart |  Jun 20210

ROME — Pope Francis warned Wednesday against Christians who are overly attached to tradition and “disturb communities” through their inflexibility.

There is no shortage of preachers today who, especially through the new means of communication, “disturb communities,” the pope said during his weekly General Audience. “They present themselves not primarily to announce the Gospel of God who loves man in Jesus, Crucified and Risen, but to insist, as true ‘keepers of the truth’ — so they call themselves — on the best way to be Christians.”

This sort of people “strongly affirm that the true Christianity is the one they adhere to, often identified with certain forms of the past, and that the solution to the crises of today is to go back so as not to lose the genuineness of the faith,” Francis said.

As he has done on numerous occasions, the pope warned against conservative Christians who cling to past traditions and do not accept the freedom the gospel offers.

Today “there is a temptation to close oneself up in some of the certainties acquired in past traditions,” the pontiff said. “But how can we recognise these people? For example, one of the traces of this way of proceeding is inflexibility.” 

[NB: It seems that this is again a clear message from Conciliar Rome that unless Vatican II is accepted with all it's "reforms," there is NO 'recognition' of traditional communities. This was the case for the Ecclesia Dei communities. This is what Archbishop Lefebvre saw in his dealings with Rome. And Pope Francis continues, though speaking more plainly, what his Conciliar predecessors laid down as the foundation for a 'recognition.' What an interesting place this puts the SSPX since they HAVE already accepted Vatican II and it's reforms in the 2012 Doctrinal Declaration, since they have already placed themselves in the position of 'requesting permission' to perform marriages, ordinations, etc. - The Catacombs]

“Faced with the preaching of the Gospel that makes us free, that makes us joyful, these people are rigid,” he said. “Always the rigidity: you must do this, you must do that… Inflexibility is typical of these people.”

The Apostle Paul indicated the way forward is “the liberating and ever-new path of Jesus, Crucified and Risen,” Francis said.

It is “the path of proclamation, which is achieved through humility and fraternity — the new preachers do not know what humility is, what fraternity is,” he asserted.

“It is the path of meek and obedient trust — the new preachers know neither meekness nor obedience,” he concluded. “And this meek and obedient way leads forward in the certainty that the Holy Spirit works in the Church in every age.”

[Emphasis mine.]