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Chilean Catholic author José Antonio Ureta has written an extensive critique of the philosophical and theological underpinnings of Pope Francis’ thought, arguing that the Pope appears to draw on a variety of modernist ideologies that fail to cohere with Catholic teaching and tradition.
Reflecting primarily on comments the Pope made to Jesuits in Lisbon last month in which the he criticized faithful American Catholics for being ideological, reactionary and “backwardist,” Ureta says Francis’ comments revealed an immanentistic, relativistic, and populist understanding of culture and faith, combined with a modernist view of the evolutionary development of dogmas and morals.
Pope St. Pius X condemned modernism in all its forms in his 1907 encyclical Pascendi Dominici Gregis.
Such a view of history and the world, Ureta adds, also derives from the late 20th century Jesuit thinker Pierre Teilhard de Chardin whose work Pope St. John XXIII effectively condemned in 1962 but who Francis said was “often misunderstood” during his recent trip to Mongolia.
The Chilean author, a member of the Brazil-based Tradition, Family and Property movement, explains that the Pope’s considers Catholic doctrine and morals as an abstract set of principles opposed to reality and the concrete historical and cultural values of people found in a “Theology of the People.”
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Reflecting primarily on comments the Pope made to Jesuits in Lisbon last month in which the he criticized faithful American Catholics for being ideological, reactionary and “backwardist,” Ureta says Francis’ comments revealed an immanentistic, relativistic, and populist understanding of culture and faith, combined with a modernist view of the evolutionary development of dogmas and morals.
Pope St. Pius X condemned modernism in all its forms in his 1907 encyclical Pascendi Dominici Gregis.
Such a view of history and the world, Ureta adds, also derives from the late 20th century Jesuit thinker Pierre Teilhard de Chardin whose work Pope St. John XXIII effectively condemned in 1962 but who Francis said was “often misunderstood” during his recent trip to Mongolia.
The Chilean author, a member of the Brazil-based Tradition, Family and Property movement, explains that the Pope’s considers Catholic doctrine and morals as an abstract set of principles opposed to reality and the concrete historical and cultural values of people found in a “Theology of the People.”
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Questioning Pope Francis’ Evolving Doctrine and Morals Is Neither Ideology nor Backwardness, but Standing Firm in the Faith
Chilean Catholic author José Antonio Ureta has written an extensive critique of the philosophical and theological underpinnings of Pope Francis’ thought, arguing that the Pope appea
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