1. The ordinary sequence for giving correction.
The ordinary sequence for giving fraternal correction should be; the Pope corrects cardinals and bishops, bishops correct their parish priests, parish priests corrects husbands, husbands corrects wife, parents correct children and older children corrects younger children.
But going deeper into the proper way of correcting as found in Scriptures, those who know more should correct those who know less. Or those who have more Faith should correct those who have less Faith. But in this it is difficult to find out who has more Faith and who has less. So we can simply say; those who know more dogma and morals should correct those who know less.
Superiors must correct inferior. All of the above seeks in a special way the recovery of an erring brother or the progress of a brother seeking perfection……both by means of a simple warning. This obligation is on those who has Charity.
2. ‘Fraternal correction’ as an act of Justice.
‘Fraternal correction’ is primarily an act of Charity as described above. As an act of Charity it is directed towards a person or several persons.
There is a ‘fraternal correction’ that is an act of Justice. It is identical to the act of Charity but directed towards the common good. And this can only be done by a Bishop. It is ‘fraternal correction’ accompanied by a punishment. It is, in effect, an act of Charity, because of the correction, but, also, an act of Justice because of the punishment for an erring brother.
If a person does not give ‘fraternal correction’ when he is in a position to do so, he is guilty of a sin against Charity. When a person due to ignorance punishes when there is nothing to punish, he is guilty of a sin against Charity and a sin against Justice.
3. Pope Francis is guilty of both.
His lack of Charity is seen in his refusal to give ‘fraternal correction’ to adulterers, homos, lesbians, unbelievers, Protestants, pagans, atheists, etc.
His lack of Justice coupled with his lack of Charity is shown in the way he treats good cardinals, bishops and priests; like Cardinal Burke, Cardinal Pell, Cardinal Muller, Bishop Livieres, the Franciscans of the Immaculate and priests who celebrate the Latin Mass, etc.
The whole Vatican Bureaucracy seems to be in this state since the time of St. Joan of Arc. The way Joan was treated is the way the Vatican had been treating many good priests. Without Charity and without Justice. The case of Padre Pio comes to mind.
4. Charity and Justice.
The moral virtue of Justice is an off shoot of the theological virtue of Charity. Justice must be built on Charity. ‘Fraternal correction’ of bishops on priests must first be founded on Charity and, afterwards, on Justice. The ‘fraternal correction’ of parents on children must, first, be founded on Charity and afterwards in Justice. But ‘fraternal correction of parish priests on parents must only be based on Charity and not on Justice.
Never should any correction be based on lack of Charity and on Injustice. That would not be correction, that would not be fraternal. And that would not be Catholic. That is how Bishop Cauchion treated St. Joan of Arc. And sadly, that is how Pope Francis is treating many good cardinals, bishops and priests. Compare this to the way he treats the bad cardinals, raised as heads of Congregations and member of the Synod. A priest whose only expertise is on ‘kissing’ he raised in dignity and made the writer of his ‘Amoris laetitia.’ And how about another appointee who is expertise is erotic Buddhism. And a bank head who is rumoured and has a case against him for perversity.
When you see photos of Pope Francis entertaining transvestites, proponent of abortions, Jews, Protestants…..entertaining them in lavish parties in the Vatican and then see Bishop Livieres waiting at the doors unattended just because his seminary is filled with seminarians and uncanonically dismissed from his diocese through stealth…..what is going on?
The Pope and his Papal oath.
One only has to go through the Papal oath all Popes read aloud immediately after their election.
“I vow to change nothing of the received Tradition, and nothing thereof I have found before me guarded by my God pleasing predecessors, to encroach upon, to alter, or to permit any innovation therein; to the contrary; with glowing affection as her truly faithful student and utmost effort; to cleanse all that is in contradiction to the canonical order that may surface; to guard the Holy Canons and Decrees of our Popes as if they were the Divine Ordinances of Heaven, because I am conscious of Thee, Whose pace I take through the grace of God, whose Vicarship I possess with They support, being subject to the severest accounting before Thy Divine Tribunal over all that I shall confess; I swear to God Almighty and the Saviour Jesus Christ that I will keep whatever has been revealed through Christ and His Successors and whatever the first council and my predecessors have defined and declared……….”
Ok, let’s stop there and ask; until what line had Pope Francis fulfilled? He has gone against everything he had vowed. And who will give him ‘fraternal correction?’ Any one who has read the above Papal vow….and has love for God and love for his neighbour Pope Francis.
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