![]() For him, Pope Francis is not just a lousy pope, but a dupe of Satan and the tool of Hell.Īnd not even Pope Francis’s now infamous signing of the Abu Dhabi declaration with its affirmation that God, in his wisdom, has willed the plurality of religions, rises to the level of a magisterial affirmation of a kind of religious relativism. But this just makes him a pope with deficits of judgment I wish he did not have, not an anti-pope from the pits of Hell. Rather, it is because I view the role of the Petrine ministry as one of unifying by clarifying, whereas Pope Francis sows division while muddying the waters. But not because I think he teaches formal heresy, because he has not. It is true that Pope Francis does seem to “make a mess” and it is just such ambiguities that trouble me about this papacy. Nor does the cautious opening for some divorced and remarried Catholics to receive communion in an ambiguous footnote in Amoris Laetitia rise to the level of formal heresy. Off-the-cuff statements in airplane conversations with reporters or incautious remarks in an interview with an octogenarian atheist who does not take notes do not an anti-pope make. Pope Francis is not an anti-pope and he has not taught anything heretical in a magisterial way. ![]() Altman has formally excommunicated himself.īut of course, that is not for me to judge and it will be interesting to see what moves his bishop now makes in that regard. What they have said and written is actually schismatic, and may even indicate that Fr. And they have done more than jump the shark. James Altman and his fellow radical traditionalists have jumped the shark it should carry some weight. Therefore, when someone like me says that Fr. In other words, I have “issues” with Pope Francis and I could not in any conceivable way be considered a strong supporter of this papacy along the lines of folks like Massimo Faggioli, Austin Ivereigh, and Mike Lewis. Grammick of New Ways Ministry and continually promoting the work of Fr. I have been critical of his rolling back of a more liberal use of the old rite of the Mass and of his disdain for what he dismissively calls the “backwardists” in the Church, which strikes me as both uncharitable and in contradiction to his own frequent calls for an open dialogue in the Church where “everyone is welcome.” Finally, I have also noted that he has sent mixed messages with regard to the whole LGBTQ thing, wherein he says many orthodox and proper things, all the while sending approving letters to folks like Sr. In particular, I have been critical of his episcopal appointments, his seeming lean toward a very latitudinarian moral theology, and of the vague and theologically shallow mess that is the “synodal way”. If you follow my column in this journal you know that I have not been shy about criticizing certain aspects of the Francis papacy. Now, with the death of Pope Benedict, Coffin asserts that he now believes the See of Peter is indeed vacant. ![]() He believed that the resignation of Benedict XVI was not valid and that the late pontiff was still the Pope and Francis was not. Altman was applauded and cheered as a hero by those in attendance even if, to be fair, it cannot be accurately ascertained exactly who was applauding and who was not.Īlso, last year we saw the popular Catholic podcaster Patrick Coffin come out of the closet as a “ Benevacantist”. It is noteworthy that in attendance at the conference was a veritable “who’s who” assemblage of the leading lights of the radical traditionalist movement. This should come as no surprise since he said similar things at a conference for the so-called “cancelled priests” held in June of this year in Chicago. James Altman has formally declared, in a video posted to YouTube, that Pope Francis is not really the pope and is in fact an anti-pope. By now it is common knowledge among Catholics who follow social media that the firebrand and rogue traditionalist priest Fr.
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