Conferência em Roma: Como Responder à Mudança de Paradigma do Papa Francisco

Em uma conferência realizada no último dia 29 em Roma, organizada pela Tradição, Família e Propriedade dos Estados Unido e pela Lepanto Foundation, foi dicutido a mudança de paradigma que o Papa Francisco está tentando implementar na Igreja Católica, com base no livro de José Antonio Ureta (imagem abaixo), que avalia os cinco anos de pontificado de Bergoglio.

Um dos palestrantes foi o monsenhor Nicola Bux, que alertou para as características marxistas da mudança de paradigma do Papa Francisco, que tenta tornar a práxis política em verdade, e assim Cristo se torna uma mera opinião e a liturgia se reduz a danças e palmas. Além de eliminar a capacidade de Cristo em julgar o mundo, o mundo é que silencia a Verdade de Cristo.

Para combater essa mudança de paradigma os palestrantes ressaltaram que não se deve ficar calado em defesa de Cristo e da Doutrina milenar da Igreja. Os católicos devem se levantar e defender sua fé, respondendo ao próprio Papa.

O jornalista Edward Petin fez uma análise apurada das palestra da Conferência, vejam parte do texto dele publicado no National Catholic Register.

Pope Francis’ ‘Paradigm Shift’: What it Means and How to Respond to It

“The evolution in the Church's understanding of the Gospel over the centuries is not a question of a paradigm shift, but of the development of doctrine, organic and in continuity with the faith.”

Edward Pentin

To contend with the current crisis in the Church, it is necessary to proclaim the truth and resist any “paradigm shift” that distorts the truths of the faith. 

This was the advice given by Msgr. Nicola Bux, a respected theological consultor to the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, at a Nov. 29 Rome conference on Pope Francis’ pontificate.   

The centerpiece of the conference, hosted by the Tradition, Family, and Property lay movement and the Lepanto Foundation, was José Antonio Ureta’s book Pope Francis’ Paradigm Shift: Continuity or Rupture in the Mission of the Church? — An Assessment of his Five-year Pontificate — a work which Msgr. Bux described as a “valuable tool” for understanding Francis’ first half-decade as pontiff. 

Msgr. Bux, who was a consultor to the Congregation of the Doctrine for the Faith under Benedict XVI, said the key to understanding this pontificate is realizing what this “paradigm shift” means. 

Although not formally defined, it is widely believed to refer to a “pastoral conversion” in which pastoral approaches to concrete situations take precedence over doctrine or legal structures. 

According to Ureta, this “new spirit, this new approach,” as Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin once described it, is “above all an inversion of factors: doctrine and the law must be subordinate to the lived life of contemporary man.” 

But according to Msgr. Bux, such a concept presents a number of dangers. He referred to a recent reflection by Stanislaw Grygiel, a professor of philosophical anthropology and longtime friend of Pope St. John Paul II, who wrote that by submitting divine reason to pastoral praxis, the “Person of Christ becomes just one opinion or hypothesis that was applied yesterday but no longer today.”   

In effect, Grygiel wrote, it is a Marxist principle — that man’s social practice alone is the criterion of the truth — which has entered the Church and become popular with “many Latin American professors.” It is a “metaphysical and anthropological error” hardly recognized by students, Grygiel added, something “they will pay dearly for, and unfortunately we will pay for, as well.” 

Creeping Marxism

“Marxism has crept into the mentality of Western intellectuals and of many men of the Church, so as to induce them in their practice to modify the doctrine of the Church, that is, the Person of Christ,” Grygiel wrote, referring to Karol Wojtyla’s Sign of Contradiction, Spiritual Exercises to Paul VI in 1976. “The confusion that follows constitutes the greatest danger for the Church.” 

“So what must we do?,” asked Msgr. Bux. “Always proclaim the truth because ‘the truth will set you free,’” he said. By contrast, to be “silent when one has to speak is just as vile a lie as to speak when one has to be silent,” he warned.

He also reminded those present that John Paul II “never used words of compromise” when defending the truth of the person. “He was not a Peronist,” Msgr. Bux said. “Therefore the error we are witnessing in the Church allows us to detach man from the truth and chain him to praxis, which decides how man and things should be.”

Furthermore, Msgr. Bux noted, “every praxis that produces truth is reduced to politics,” and proposed that this is, in essence “the paradigm shift of Pope Francis.” Drawing on Ureta’s book, he further pointed out that for Francis, “truth is a relationship” and therefore “relative.” 

“Thus, the prevailing perspective in which he [Francis] moves is politics, whether it be political or ecclesiastical questions, of Venezuela, of Ukraine or China,” Msgr. Bux explained. 

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Mixing “Extreme Situations”

Elaborating on this point, Msgr. Bux said the “radical paradigm shift” now in vogue means to “believe in an urgency” to bring justice to the world in terms of “eliminating poverty, or of fair trade, fraternity,” or mixing it with “extreme situations” such as “migrants, homosexuals, divorcees.” Yet often one does not hear the words “Jesus Christ,” he observed, and the Mass is “reduced to a television show with dance and applause.” 

And all this is happening, he said, “while in the world reference to God is absent” and the world itself “becomes more and more indifferent, an enemy of the Church, of religion, of the faith, of God.” 

He went on to refer to words of Eugenio Scalfari, who said after one of his interviews with the Pope, that Francis was pushing for a “change” in the “concept of religion and divinity” that would result in a “cultural change” that would be difficult to modify. “If that were to happen,” Msgr. Bux warned, “the consequences would be catastrophic.”