Vatican Abp organizing Global Education Pact touts pope s new humanism where God withdraws | News | LifeSite
Archbishop Zani explained this vision with reference to Michelangelo s depiction of Creation in the Sistine Chapel, where Pope Francis will preside over an interreligious event to launch the Global Education Pact on May 13. The finger of God encounters the finger of man but they do not touch[.] … [W]e see God who gives man strength, liberty and life but leaves him free. It is an encounter of freedom where there is a presence of God that does not crush man but frees him, he said.
Archbishop Zani s vision is in marked contrast to the traditional Catholic understanding of God s omnipotence, which is the cause of and not an obstacle to human freedom. The idea that God s actions exclude those of his creatures is characteristic of the eighteenth-century heresy of deism, which professes a finite watchmaker God who is not the author of reality but a powerful agent within the same reality as his creatures.
Abp. Zani, call your lodge.