The Angelus Press Conference: The Family (available via live streaming, just follow the link) got underway this morning with Fr. Jürgen Wegner, Superior of the United States District of the Society of St. Pius X, offering a beautiful presentation on the nature of marriage.
Within just moments of beginning, Fr. Wegner made it clear that this conference will not be taking the so-called “inductive” approach favored by the modernist revolutionaries who are plotting and scheming at this very moment at the Synod of Bishops in Rome.
Archbishop Paul-André Durocher, the same who recently proposed the possibility of female deacons at the Synod, spoke with National Catholic Reporter about this inverted manner of theological reflection during last year’s Extraordinary Synod:
Unlike in the past, when bishops or theologians would deduce theology from general, sometimes idealized notions of God or humanity, the prelates at the Synod of Bishops on the family are using inductive reasoning to instead examine theology in the reality of families today, Canadian Archbishop Paul-André Durocher said.
“What’s happening within the synod is we’re seeing a more inductive way of reflecting, starting from the true situation of people and trying to figure out what’s going on here,” said Durocher, who leads the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops.
The prelates, the archbishop said, are “finding that the lived experience of people is also a theological source — what we call a theological source, a place of theological reflection.”
Note the upside down understanding of the Church’s mission wherein it is imagined that those who possess the sacred teaching office are called, not so much to teach, but to ponder the wisdom of the very people they are called to lead unto salvation.
As Pope St. Pius X forewarned us more than a century ago, this inversion of reality is a fruit of modernism; that “synthesis of all heresies” wherein it is imagined that doctrine evolves, saying:
Note here the appearance already of that most pernicious doctrine which would make of the laity a factor of progress in the Church.
Fr. Wegner, in the manner of a true son of the Church, therefore, rejects this contrived “inductive” approach in favor of establishing the focus of reflection for this conference on the family the glory of God and mankind’s call to communion with Him; or what revolutionaries, like Archbishop Durocher, consider the sometimes idealized notions of God or humanity.
With the faux humility so much in fashion in the Rome of today, Archbishop Durocher went on to say of the Synod bishops:
And we’re only, in a sense, starting to learn how to do this as church leaders, and this is going to take time for us, to learn to do this and together to come — as we reflect on this — to find what is the way that God is showing.
From where did Archbishop Durocher ever get the idea that the “true situation” of sinful men is a veritable school where churchmen learn the will of God?
From His Humbleness himself, of course!
Pope Francis, speaking at the prayer vigil prior to the opening of the Extraordinary Synod last October, said:
We ask the Holy Spirit for … the gift of listening for the Synod fathers: to listen in the manner of God, so that they may hear, with Him, the cry of the people; to listen to the people, until they breathe the will to which God calls us.
This manner of thinking encapsulates with pinpoint precision, in just a handful of words, why the Church now finds herself mired in so terrible a crisis; the focus of reflection on the part of her leaders – not just since the advent of the current pontificate, but from the time of the Second Vatican Council on forward – is no longer Jesus Christ, but man.
As I type, Fr. Gerard Beck, SSPX, Rector of St. Mary’s Academy and College, has just begun his conference on the topic of human nature and family life. As if right on cue, he offered the following diagnosis:
We live in an upside down world … where the basic concepts relative to the family have been falsified.
In attendance here are some three hundred faithful, jam packed in this place eager for the only thing that can possibly turn things aright; authentic Catholic truth dispensed by true fathers who draw their wisdom from a focus squarely oriented on Jesus Christ and His Bride, the Church.
I have every confidence that they will receive it in droves.
Sometimes it seems that every single page of the vast resource that is the Catholic Encyclopedia anticipated the present crisis in minute detail.
The following is from the Encyclopedia’s article on “Sociology”:
“The method employed in sociology is primarily inductive….
In the Christian view of life, however, the social sciences are guided by a sanctioned metaphysics and philosophy. This philosophy is derived not from induction but from Revelation. This view of life accepts at the outset as Divinely warranted the moral and social precepts taught or re-enforced by Christ. Thus, it looks out upon the real largely from the standpoint of the ideal and judges the former by the latter. It does not, of course, for a moment forget that the systematic observation of life and knowledge of its processes are essential to the understanding and application of the Divine precepts and to the establishment of the sanctioned spiritual ideals which it professes. But Christian social philosophy did not, for example, derive its doctrine of human brotherhood by induction; it received it directly from the lips of Christ.”
I think Rosica is a big girl. He keeps bring up the homosexual thing. I can smell schism. The smell is getting stronger each day.
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Hi Eric.
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It must be noted that we hear explosive allusions to a possible “schism” taking place popping out all over. Let it not be said that a schism might forthwith take place affecting Holy Mother Church. No. Any schism that might occur will take place affecting the Modernist Sect only—.
When does Durocher get kicked out of this Game?
Oh, Sorry! That was Leo Durocher, Manager of the NY Giants, Brooklyn Dodgers, Houston Astros & Chicago Cubs. Major League Baseball at least had Standards, similar to Excommunication.
And Leo Durocher in his later years, ACTUALLY Returned to his Catholic Faith, he of French Canadian Heritage.
Archbishop Paul Durocher? One wonders if actually has The Faith.
AH,hahahahaha–
dear aroamingcatholicny, you prove once again the undeniable fact that lots & lots trads have healthy sense of humor.
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From one new york city die-hard baseball lover to you, thanks for the giggle !!
This recourse to the ‘inductive’ method in theology is a further underhanded attack against the theology/philosophy of St. Thomas, and hence, the 19th century Syllabus of Errors. The Magisterium of the Church, Tradition, and the Bible were always used as authority to deduce truth. A prime example would be Medieval philosophers referring back to Aristotle simply as ‘the Philosopher’.
With the advent of natural philosophers (i.e physicists) such as Kepler, Galileo, Bacon, and Newton, it was clear that the inductive method was the proper method in physics and other natural sciences. But, as is wont to happen with fallen mankind, the inductive method was extended beyond its natural fields into that of the supernatural field, namely Theology.
The naturalistic approach would subsume the science of Faith and Morals. Applying the naturalistic and inductive method, one must conclude that ‘man’ himself is evolving. That man must not even accept any “authority” even in the field of faith and morals….that there is no Natural Law…etc…etc… One can see so, so many heresies now dovetailing. No wonder Pius X called modernism the ‘cesspool of heresies.’
And no wonder the Wisdom of Tradition had parishioners repeat at the end of each Holy Sacrifice of the Mass the first chapter and verses of the Gospel of St. John: “….and the Light shineth in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it…..(Christ, the Word of God, is) the true Light, which enlighteneth every man that cometh into this world”.
This may be why the Mass of Paul VI had these verses of St. John removed from the ordinary mass. The post-conciliar Church appears to be rejecting this Light.
By applying the ‘inductive’ method, this current Synod of the Family, and Pope Francis in specific, is attempting further to reject the Light.
ego sum ostium per me si quis introierit salvabitur et ingredietur et egredietur et pascua inveniet fur non venit nisi ut furetur et mactet et perdat ego veni ut vitam habeant et abundantius habeant ego sum pastor bonus bonus pastor animam suam dat pro ovibus mercennarius et qui non est pastor cuius non sunt oves propriae videt lupum venientem et dimittit oves et fugit et lupus rapit et dispergit oves mercennarius autem fugit quia mercennarius est et non pertinet ad eum de ovibus
20:2 Ego sum Dominus Deus tuus, qui eduxi te de terra Ægypti, de domo servitutis.
20:3 Non habebis deos alienos coram me.
20:4 Non facies tibi sculptile, neque omnem similitudinem quæ est in cælo desuper, et quæ in terra deorsum, nec eorum quæ sunt in aquis sub terra.
20:5 Non adorabis ea, neque coles: ego sum Dominus Deus tuus fortis, zelotes, visitans iniquitatem patrum in filios, in tertiam et quartam generationem eorum qui oderunt me:
20:6 et faciens misericordiam in millia his qui diligunt me, et custodiunt præcepta mea.
20:7 Non assumes nomen Domini Dei tui in vanum: nec enim habebit insontem Dominus eum qui assumpserit nomen Domini Dei sui frustra.
20:8 Memento ut diem sabbati sanctifices.
20:9 Sex diebus operaberis, et facies omnia opera tua.
20:10 Septimo autem die sabbatum Domini Dei tui est: non facies omne opus in eo, tu, et filius tuus et filia tua, servus tuus et ancilla tua, jumentum tuum, et advena qui est intra portas tuas.
20:11 Sex enim diebus fecit Dominus cælum et terram, et mare, et omnia quæ in eis sunt, et requievit in die septimo: idcirco benedixit Dominus diei sabbati, et sanctificavit eum.
20:12 Honora patrem tuum et matrem tuam, ut sis longævus super terram, quam Dominus Deus tuus dabit tibi.
20:13 Non occides.
20:14 Non mœchaberis.
20:15 Non furtum facies.
20:16 Non loqueris contra proximum tuum falsum testimonium.
20:17 Non concupisces domum proximi tui, nec desiderabis uxorem ejus, non servum, non ancillam, non bovem, non asinum, nec omnia quæ illius sunt.
Exodus 20:2-17
“I am the Lord your God, who rescued you from the land of Egypt, the place of your slavery.
“You must not have any other god but me.
“You must not make for yourself an idol of any kind or an image of anything in the heavens or on the earth or in the sea. You must not bow down to them or worship them, for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God who will not tolerate your affection for any other gods. I lay the sins of the parents upon their children; the entire family is affected—even children in the third and fourth generations of those who reject me. But I lavish unfailing love for a thousand generations on those who love me and obey my commands.
“You must not misuse the name of the Lord your God. The Lord will not let you go unpunished if you misuse his name.
“Remember to observe the Sabbath day by keeping it holy. You have six days each week for your ordinary work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath day of rest dedicated to the Lord your God. On that day no one in your household may do any work. This includes you, your sons and daughters, your male and female servants, your livestock, and any foreigners living among you. For in six days the Lord made the heavens, the earth, the sea, and everything in them; but on the seventh day he rested. That is why the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and set it apart as holy.
“Honour your father and mother. Then you will live a long, full life in the land the Lord your God is giving you.
“You must not murder.
“You must not commit adultery.
“You must not steal.
“You must not testify falsely against your neighbour.
“You must not covet your neighbour’s house. You must not covet your neighbor’s wife, male or female servant, ox or donkey, or anything else that belongs to your neighbour.”
Exodus 21:2-17
…crepi il lupo!
The reason I put up the above was that I noticed the Latin word for “hireling” was the same source word we use for the word “mercenary” that is; one who fights for money. And who are the mercenaries today receiving money from the state? Let’s see… the American bishops at the USCCB, the German Bishops conference…and others. If the “Catholic” clergy is being funded by the state, then they are in fact agents of the state or “hirelings.” Those receiving money from the state are promoting the state’s gospel for hire and so are false shepherds…one more reason I do not trust them, and one more reason I am effectively out of Vatican II church.
Michael F Poulin
The hirelings’ institution is making great strides in swallowing up the last vestiges of Apostolic inheritance in the SSPX with the N.O. ‘Rite’. When that mouthful is complete the only Catholic priests left will be sedevacantists; and some eastern rite men – unfortunately the Eastern men, like the SSPX, lack Catholicity because they will still be offering uholy masses in communion with heresiarchs/hirelings of the father of lies.
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Christ is on His way to the Cross, and most folks are the eagerly negotiating with the traitors in the Temple about how to keep an apostate temple ruling the hearts and minds of those who are willing to look the other way.
Dear ox – what a great find you made! I love New Advent and have the CD- like Church Fathers a lot too. No excuse not to educate ourselves on our Catholic family history.
Inductive reasoning has use in scientific fields of enquiry. It does not have a relevant application in matters of Faith or morals or anything to do with human acts. Humans often act against our objective interests, even our nature.