{"id":743,"date":"2022-10-15T04:20:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-15T04:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=743"},"modified":"2025-09-29T02:30:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T02:30:08","slug":"pope-francis-warns-against-worldly-progressivism-and-backward-looking-traditionalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=743","title":{"rendered":"Pope Francis warns against worldly \u2018progressivism\u2019 and backward-looking \u2018traditionalism\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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From America, the Jesuit publication. Worth hitting the link – excerpts below it.<\/p>\n

Pope Francis marks 60th anniversary of Vatican II by warning against worldly \u2018progressivism\u2019 and backward-looking \u2018traditionalism\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n

The council reminded the church of what is \u201cessential,\u201d the pope said: \u201ca church madly in love with its Lord and with all the men and women whom he loves,\u201d one that \u201cis rich in Jesus and poor in assets,\u201d a church that \u201cis free and freeing.\u201d<\/p>\n

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In his homily, the pope said the council was the church\u2019s response to that question and marked a renewed effort to feed God\u2019s sheep, not just those who are Catholic, but all people.<\/p>\n

The debates that followed the council and continue today are a distraction from the church\u2019s mission, Pope Francis said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are always tempted to start from ourselves rather than from God, to put our own agendas before the Gospel, to let ourselves be caught up in the winds of worldliness in order to chase after the fashions of the moment or to turn our back the time that providence has granted us,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Catholics must be careful, he said, because \u201cboth the \u2018progressivism\u2019 that lines up behind the world and the \u2018traditionalism\u2019 that longs for a bygone world are not evidence of love, but of infidelity,\u201d forms of \u201cselfishness that puts our own tastes and plans above the love that pleases God, the simple, humble and faithful love that Jesus asked of Peter.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cA church in love with Jesus has no time for quarrels, gossip and disputes,\u201d the pope said. \u201cMay God free us from being critical and intolerant, harsh and angry. This is not a matter of style but of love.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Among the more than 400 priests concelebrating the Mass, the Vatican liturgical office said there were five who were present at Vatican II.<\/p>\n

According to the websites GCatholic.org and catholic-hierarchy.org, there are six bishops alive in the world today who participated in at least one session of the Second Vatican Council. Among them is Nigerian Cardinal Francis Arinze, an 89-year-old former Vatican official who was ordained a bishop in 1965 and attended the council\u2019s last session; he was one of the concelebrants at the anniversary Mass.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From America, the Jesuit publication. Worth hitting the link – excerpts below it. Pope Francis marks 60th anniversary of Vatican II by warning against worldly \u2018progressivism\u2019 and backward-looking \u2018traditionalism\u2019 The council reminded the church of what is \u201cessential,\u201d the pope said: \u201ca church madly in love with its Lord and with all the men and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=743"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7329,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743\/revisions\/7329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}