Incredible things keep happening today in the world; incredible things are being said and written, but should we just let everything go, as if all this was normal?
I read on page 12 of Sunday Examiner 28 March 2021: “Many of us still remember how depressed we all were during the last days of the Pontificate of Pope Benedict XVI. Both he and his predecessor Pope St. John Paul II had fettered the Church, clamping down harshly on freedom of expression and sabotaging several Vatican Council initiatives.”
How incredible, how outrageous! Do they expect the Hong Kong readers to swallow such arrogant and insulting nonsense?
Being very busy, I left to others to make some strong protest on the following issues of the paper. But nothing appeared! Maybe nobody today, except our Philippino sisters, read the S.E. anymore?!
But there used to be many foreign readers who used to trust S.E., which could (for a long time) trust UCAN.
So I feel my duty of conscience to sound the alarm and call the people responsible for explaining and apologizing.
The full-page article is signed by a certain priest in Mumbai, but the article appeared on UCAN, with the declaration that “the views expressed in this article do not necessarily reflect the official editorial position of UCAN.”
Lie, Lie, Lie!
A cursory glance at the articles, chosen by our Sunday Examiner’s Deputy Editor in Chief to feed its readers, makes me suspect that our weekly paper is going to be a subsidiary of UCAN (today’s UCAN) and of La Croix International.
Behind all this is our new star Fr. Michael Kelly SJ, executive director of UCA News and editor of the English edition of the (once) prestigious “La Civiltà Cattolica,” so a friend of the friend of Pope Francis, Fr. Spadaro.
UCAN’s disclaimer is a lie. The article is perfectly faithful to the spirit of today’s UCAN and La Croix International. The author of the article is only a candid messenger, blatantly shouting some common places.
He is proud to oppose orthopraxis (compassion) to orthodoxy (faith) [Pope Benedict says that “love” without foundation on “truth” is an empty shell you can fill with anything!].
He seems to be putting all the blames on the “celibacy” of the clergy [But even Pope Francis abstained from doing that].
And the “Sinodality,” a word we don’t find in the Holy Scripture, neither in the Tradition, but thanks to Fr. Myron J. Pereira, SJ, we know it to mean what we see being practiced nowadays in Germany [but this is not in continuity with the Vatican II (which should belong already to the past?)].
Dear brothers and sisters living in Hong Kong, it is time we declare to which Church we want to belong!
Original text: http://www.examiner.org.hk/2021/03/26/whats-coming-next-from-a-man-from-a-far-country/features/