Look out for the blather against the beatification of Paul VI from those who imagine that a Pope can change doctrine at will, so that the answer to the questions addressed by Humane Vitae might ever conceivably have been, or be, other than they were and are.
But who cares what they say, anyway? They defined themselves by their refusal to reproduce, so that they are now being outbred, indeed they have already been outbred, by those who did not so define.
As Pope Francis puts it, Humanae Vitae was "prophetic".
God gives in abundance, teaches the Bible. Reason coheres with the revelation apprehended by Christian Faith, itself mediated by Word and Sacrament, such that the figures fully bear out the existence of that abundance.
The call to human participation, itself by God's grace thus mediated, is the call to co-operation in the equitable distribution of that abundance.
Political institutions are among those which exist so to participate and so to co-operate. Hence the Holy Father's call, echoing all of his predecessors, for State redistribution of wealth.
This Pope's capacity to call out the Cafeteria Catholics is right up there with Paul VI's. And in the latter case, I do not mean only those who dissented from Humanae Vitae.
You are right to say that, sadly, Francis disturbing views on the UN are very much of a piece with the previous Pope's statements.
ReplyDeleteIn 2009, Benedict wrote the encyclical 'Charity In Truth' which said;
"There is urgent need of a true world political authority.... Obviously it would have to have the authority to ensure compliance with its decisions from all parties" (that is, nations).
This horrifying totalitarian stuff could have come straight from the mouths of the Rockefellers, a sinister multinational corporation or some ex-Communist European Commissioner.
You'd expect it from them.
But why is the Pope, of all people, embracing the destruction of national independence and liberty, and the move to One World Government?
AS he himself might say, "Bless."
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