Weeks after taking up his post as new president of the former John Paul II Institute for Marriage and Family, Monsignor Philippe Bordeyne made a remarkable statement in a revealing interview with La Croix International, the English-language daily edited by La Croix, unofficial daily of the French episcopate, saying, “We theologians cannot continue to assert certainties about the family when we see the transformations it is undergoing today….”
Bordeyne’s declaration shows that as a hand-picked new president of what is now the John Paul II Pontifical Theological Institute for Marriage and Family Sciences,” Bordeyne is fully on board with the revolution that is taking place there. It started with the sudden dismissal of the Institute’s head, Monsignor Livio Melina, a faithful successor of its founder, Cardinal Carlo Caffarra, in 2019. At the same time, all of the Institute’s professors were suspended – not all returned – and under its new Chancellor, Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia of homoerotic fresco fame, the door was opened to criticism of Humanae vitae that condemns contraception and to the glorification of Amoris Laetitia, in which Pope Francis discreetly welcomed certain divorced and civilly remarried couples to receive the sacraments, including Holy Communion, without intending to change their way of life….
Now that he has taken up his new position at the head of an Institute whose original aim was to uphold the Church’s traditional teachings on marriage and the family, Bordeyne appears not to have been touched by grace … At 61, he can be expected to hold onto his particular ideology, which is founded on the idea that we are in an “era of change,” as he told Loup Besmond de Senneville in the interview, especially with the “pandemic,” in which “the family” is one of the “new frontiers” where theologians must go.
“We are in a moment that is a bit similar to what John F. Kennedy experienced in 1960, when he won the Democratic nomination. At that time, he saw no choice but to take on board a world that had changed at great speed. Similarly, I believe that we are in a similar era of change today. And it is because our times are changing so rapidly that the Church must be more humble before the mystery of the family,” he said….
The above comes from a Sept. 23 opinion piece in LifeSiteNews.
Sounds like, through weaponized ambiguity, that this guy actually believes that culture informs the faith for the church when we know that the faith informs. We also know that Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life and He remains the same yesterday, today and tomorrow. Sorry to say it but this guy sounds like a nut. I feel sorry for him. I hope he doesn’t harm too many people. St. Joseph terror of demons, pray for us!
He sounds like the Sadducees who were always at odds with the Lord Jesus, and ended up helping to crucify him. They were secularists who did not really believe in anything but their own power.
My! how history repeats itself.
But the Monsignor is not a secularist…
The Sadducees were not secularists.
You’re thinking of the Pharisees. The Sadducees were aristocratic Deists who did not believe in a Messiah, an afterlife and resurrection, angels, demons and so forth, whereas the Pharisees did believe in them That is why some of the Pharisees became Christians — Joseph of Arimathea and St. Paul were two.
I said that about this Monsignor because he does not seem to believe in supernatural grace according to many articles.
No the Sadducees were Jews who believed in the Scriptures as opposed to the Pharisees who had a lot of other laws, too.
https://www.catholicculture.org/culture/library/dictionary/index.cfm?id=36224
Cd, I cannot explain it very well, because my space is seriously limited. I see no contradiction in that link to what I said. The Sadducees were Jews, but only accepted the first five books of the Torah and not the rest of the Old testament, including the Deuterocanonical books that Jesus Christ accepted. Deists more or less believe the same — that God made everything but had nothing else to do with it. The Sadducees ran the sacrifices, cheated the pious, and similar things are done in the Church at times.
Nancy Pelosi et al. could not be more pleased to know that the Vatican is headed toward “new frontiers” with regards to the family. In time, with this “era of change,” former prohibitions will be swept away as the Catholic Church follows the meanderings of modern culture. Or am I unnecessarily alarmed?
Yes Dan, be alarmed, be very alarmed. You already know all the reasons, else you wouldn’t have asked the question. The answer is prayer and active Resistance to what is happening. This link will help explain it all:
https://www.cmresistance.com/
Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with Thee
Blessed art Thou among women and blessed is the fruit of Thy womb, Jesus.
Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death. Amen.
The more I look at this is looks like a Call to Action type of group.
No because Call th Action is very far left.
You can fall off the barque on either side.
“We theologians cannot continue to assert certainties about the family when we see the transformations it is undergoing today.” Statements like that give theologians a bad name. One doesn’t need to be a theologian to know and assert some truths. Not everything is gray and fluid. Not only has God created us, He has revealed many truths to us quite clearly. For one example, see Genesis 2:1. “God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.” That truth will not change, regardless of what the world says or does. As our Lord Jesus Himself said, “Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will never pass away.”
Honestly Monsignor, what are you proposing about the family?
Like marriage, it is already defined; revealed in Sacred Scripture, in natural law and in human history.
Deacon Craig, isn’t Pope Francis and the “God of surprises” the real force behind Mon. Bordeyn? Should not your question be redirected?
Dan, the question is fair enough. In answer, I don’t know. Pope Francis has described so-called same-sex “marriage” as “diabolical” and “from the father of lies.” ““What they are proposing is not marriage, it is an association, but it is not marriage! It is necessary to say things very clearly and we must say this!” The Holy Father condemned the “new forms, totally destructive” of marriage. He has reiterated Church teaching that to intentionally deprive a child of a father or mother is a form of child abuse. Also, earlier this year, the Vatican stated that gay “couples” cannot be blessed by the Church. See the link below, if you’re interested in more. And, while God sometimes surprises us, nothing surprises Him. (He isn’t going to change His nature, His Word or His perfect plan for humanity,)
https://www.crisismagazine.com/2015/pope-francis-prepares-shock-liberals-sex-marriage
And, thank you for civilly asking a question. (Sometimes these controversial issues result in name-calling, with more heat than light.)
Deacon Anderson, my problem with Pope Francis, if he was even lawfully elected, is that he says one thing then puts into power the very people who teach the opposite, such as the man in the article above. His actions do not fit his words. Why unleash Mc Carrick after Pope Benedict XVI had bound him?
Those are good points. Pope Francis has said some confusing things and subsequently not clarified them (even when asked by brother bishops/Cardinals). And, some appointments and actions by some under “his watch” have been questionable and non-Christian, respectively. And, I haven’t heard anyone try to defend why Mr. McCarrick, the serial predator, was brought out of “retirement” to negotiate a secret deal with the Communist Chinese dictators.
Dan, Pope Francis has stood up for the traditional family. He wrote an encyclical about it? Have you read it? Unfortunately, people came unglued over a footnote and the document did not get the serious attention that it deserved.
When Pope Francis has talked about the God of Surprises he was talking about Peter’s vision that permitted Gentiles into the Church, Jesus’ Resurrection from the dead, the Annunciation was a big surprise too. How about the birth of John the Baptist from an elderly couple? There are a lot more examples.
Does anybody know of a Catholic forum on the writings of Popes? Like one that is not looking for faults but for advancing in faith and hope and charity?
The sanctity of Catholic Marriage, Child-Bearing, and and Family Life is changeless. Today’s secular society is totally corrupt, ripped to pieces by Satan and his evil minions. What the Church needs, is faithful clergy leadership to act as Christ’s “Guiding Star,” to lead married couples and their children safely through the evils of today’s world– and to evangelize and convert today’s corrupt, Satanic society to Christ.
Meaning: Surrender the whims and will of the world. Meld Church teaching to the world, salvation of souls are no longer necessary, everyone gets to heaven no matter how they lived their lives….
I cannot see the original interview (because I do not want to pay.) I do not think one sentence can tell us what he really said. Can CCD get a link to it?
I can’t wait for the new church in the New World Order: I think Francis will love it:
New World Order Religious Headquarters Looks To Open Up 2022
https://welovetrump.com/2021/09/27/new-world-order-religious-headquarters-looks-to-open-up-2022/
If someone puts s*** in your stew, it doesn’t mean you the original recipe was bad.
The Monsignor is ill-informed! JFK is not a good example for his point as JFK was not a good Catholic family man!
JFK’s “New Frontier” was the name of a domestic reform program to help the poor, improve the economy, and advance the Space Program. He also started the Peace Corps. LBJ’s “Great Society” took the “New Frontier” program further. Today, we still have many of these programs. Actually, government domestic social benefit programs, like federal aid for housing, education, and Medicare for the elderly, etc.– as well as the Space Program– are a very poor analogy to assisting with any modern theological and practical issues related to Catholic Marriage and Family! Ridiculous! What are they going to do– hand out Stimulus Checks from the Catholic Church to assist Catholic married couples and children with economic suffering, due to COVID-19?? Set up free soup kitchens and free medical clinics??
JFK was wrong to separate his faith into personal and public. Either you hold your faith first or you don’t, and thanks to his warped thinking, we have self professed Catholics claiming they are personally opposed to abortion but…
This monsignor’s notion of the “mystery of the family” is a toe dip into acceptance of any slap dash group calling itself a family. Marriage and family have been defined for centuries, redefining them will never change their meaning in God’s eyes, as He is The One who created them both.
Lavender Mafia. Ho-hum.