Remember:
Iconoclasm, the destruction of the images of our holy faith, is a defined and
condemned heresy!
“The cause of the
gift of wisdom is found in the will, and it is charity.”
St. Thomas Aquinas
“(Dogma must be understood) by the very sense by
which it is defined... and... must be held to be by itself a sufficient
demonstration, very sure and adapted to all the faithful.”
Blessed Pope Pius IX, Inter Gravissimas
We must remember the grand things
of Thabor, and the adorations paid Him by Moses and
Elias, and the bright cloud, and the voice of the eternal Father. The more we see Him humbled, the more must we
proclaim His glory and divinity; we must join our acclamations with those of
the angles and the four-and-twenty elders, whom St. John, one of the witnesses
of the Transfiguration, heard crying out with a loud voice: ‘The Lamb that was
slain, is worthy to receive power and divinity, and wisdom, and strength, and honour, and glory, and benediction!’
Dom Gueranger,
The Liturgical Year, Second Sunday of Lent
“This is my
beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased: hear ye Him.”
“Fight,
children of light, you little number who see clearly, for behold the time of
times, the end of ends is at hand.”
Blessed Virgin Mary, LaSalette
PROPER OF THE SAINTS FOR THE WEEK OF FEBRUARY 28th:
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Confessions 8:00 AM; Rosary of Reparation 8:30 AM; For Mission members
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Ferial Day
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Mass 8:30 AM; Rosary
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Ferial Day
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Rosary of Reparation before Mass
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Ferial Day
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Mass 8:30 AM;
Rosary of Reparation before Mass
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St. Casimir,
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St. Lucius I, PM
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Rosary of Reparation before Mass
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Ferial Day
Five Sacred Wounds of our Lord Jesus Christ
FIRST FRIDAY
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Morning: Mass
8:30 AM, Rosary of Reparation before Mass; Benediction & Holy Hour after
Mass
Evening: Stations
of the Cross 5:00 PM; Rosary & Confession before Mass; Mass 6:00 PM
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Ss. Perpetua
& Felicitas, Mm
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Confessions 8:30 AM; Holy Hour of Reparation & Benediction with Rosary
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Confessions 8:00 AM; Rosary of Reparation 8:30 AM; For Mission members
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God is patient; He waits a long time: but when His
anger bursts upon a guilty people like the Jews, the chastisement is without mercy,
and serves as an example to future generations.
O sinners! You who, so far, have turned a deaf ear to the admonitions of
the Church, and have refused to be converted to the Lord your God, tremble at
these words of Jesus: I go. If this
Lent is to be spent like so many others, and to leave you in your present
state, are you not afraid of that terrible threat: You shall die in your sin? By remaining in your sins, you number
yourselves with those who cried out against Jesus “Crucify Him, crucify
Him!” Oh! If He chastised a whole people
– a people that He had loaded with favours, and
protected and saved innumerable times – think you, He will spare You? He must triumph;
if it be not by mercy, it will be by justice.
Dom Gueranger, The Liturgical Year, Second week of Lent
Israel is deaf and
blind. The fiercest passions are raging in his heart; nor will he rest, till the
Synagogue shall have imbrued its hands in the blood of Jesus. But then the measure of iniquity will be filled
up, and God’s anger will burst upon Israel in one of the most terrible
chastisements that the world has ever witnessed. It makes one tremble to read the horrors of
the siege of Jerusalem, and the massacre of that people that had clamored for
the death of Jesus. Our Lord assures us
that nothing more terrible had ever been from the beginning of the world, or
ever would be. God is patient; He waits
a long time: but when His anger bursts upon a guilty people like the Jews, the
chastisement is without mercy, and serves as an example to future
generations.
Dom Gueranger, The Liturgical Year,
Reflection, Second Week of Lent
The doctors of the law were sitting on the Chair of Moses; therefore, Jesus bids
the people abide by their teachings. But
this chair – which, in spite of the unworthiness of them that sit on it, is the
chair of truth – is not to remain long in Israel. Caiphas, because he
is a high priest for the year, will prophesy; but his crimes have rendered him
unworthy of his office; and the chair, on which he sits, is to be taken away
and set in the midst of the Gentiles.
Jerusalem, which is preparing to deny her Saviour,
is to be deprived of her honours; and Rome, the very
centre of the pagan world, is to possess within her walls that chair which was
the glory of Jerusalem, and from which were proclaimed the prophecies so
visibly fulfilled in Jesus. Henceforth,
this chair is never to be moved, though all the fury of the gates of hell will
seek to prevail against it; it is to be the unfailing source, at which all
nations are to receive the teaching of revealed truth…. What is the cause of
Israel’s loss? His pride… he scorned to
recognize any one for the Messias, who was not great
in the world’s glory… he sought to imbrue his hands in the Blood of the
God-Man, and this because He reproached him for the hardness of his heart. These proud Jews, even when they saw that the
day of God’s judgment was close upon them, kept up their stubborn haughtiness. They despised the rest of the world as unclean
and sinners….
Dom Gueranger, The Liturgical Year, Second week of Lent
“To trust to an unfaithful man in the time of
trouble, is like a rotten tooth, and weary foot.”
Proverbs 25:19
“This Gospel (of St. John) refutes all heresies.”
St. Thomas, Prologue, Commentary on the Gospel of St.
John
“It is not fitting to be a delicate member of a Head
Crowned with thorns and crucified, nor the unmortified
bride of a suffering Spouse.”
St. Mary Magdalen dei Pazzi
The
use of the “received and approved rites customarily used in the solemn
administration of the sacraments” for the worship of God is a DOGMA of Catholic
faith defined at the Council of Trent!
Since, then,
no one is allowed to be remiss in the service due to God … we are bound
absolutely to worship God in that way which He has shown to be His will …. ”
Pope Leo XIII,
Immortale dei, On the Christian Constitution of States
Faithfully do
what God expects of you each moment, and leave the rest up to Him.
I assure you
that living in this manner will bring you great peace.
St. Jane Francis de Chantal
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Ss. Peter &
Paul Chapel is open to its members at any time of the day or night for visits
to our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament.
Every Mass for
Sunday and other Holy Days of Obligation are offered for the welfare of the
members of Ss. Peter & Paul Roman Catholic Mission.
During the Fridays
of Lent there will be a Stations of the Cross 5:00 PM, Rosary of Reparation
before 6:00 PM Mass. Confession is offered during the Rosary.
Ss. Peter &
Paul Roman Catholic Mission is constituted as a religious society. It is
canonically a pious union of Catholics but functions in the manner of a
confraternity. Like other confraternities, its constitution and governing
structure are intended to be fixed, dedicated toward a specific spiritual end,
for which members join together in common union to seek their own spiritual
perfection working toward a common end. Membership in the Mission is open
to any Catholic who subscribes to its corporate purpose and takes upon himself
the obligation to offer a daily Rosary of reparation to the Sorrowful and
Immaculate Heart of Mary, a weekly day of fast, preferably on Tuesday, and a
Holy Hour before the Blessed Sacrament at least once each month as a minimum
for the intentions of the Mission. The Mass intention offered each Sunday
and Holy Day are for members of the Mission. Membership forms are located in the
vestibule.
Who Owns Parish Property? Should we buy
or rent?
And just why do Indultists
pay $6,889.00/week rental fees for the use of “stolen property” to obtain
services that are in fact the bishop’s duty to provide???
Bishop
Ronald Gainer in Harrisburg is tied up in bankruptcy court and apparently does
not know why. In an effort to exclude individual parish properties from
creditors, his lawyers argue that the bishop is only a trustee for the
individual parishes acting in their best interests and not the owner, and
therefore parish assets should not be included as part of the diocese’s. If
that is true, then Bishop Gainer’s predecessors were certainly guilty of theft
when they closed 33 parishes in the diocese, sold off their assets, and
pocketed their bank accounts into the general diocesan fund against the
expressed wills of the parishioners which includes the parish of St. Lawrence
in Harrisburg. Normally, bankruptcy court requires the business to submit a
restructured business plan that demonstrates an understanding as to why the
business failed, that will correct previous financial mismanagement, keep the
business solvent, satisfy its creditors, and still permit it to accomplish the
ends for which it is constituted. Does anyone think that Bishop Gainer will
publically admit that it is the failure of his predecessors to remove
homosexual priests from the clergy and prohibit homosexuals from entering
Catholic seminaries that is responsible for the crisis of pederasty that has
cost faithful Catholics millions of dollars in damages and injured countless souls?
Poor Bishop Gainer does not even know what the Mission of the Church is. If Indultists
ever do the math, they might learn that they can buy their Church from the
bankruptcy court for far less than they are renting from the diocese, but that
is a dirty little secret that we are expected to be quiet about.
For the last three
years Ss. Peter & Paul Mission has had the complete immemorial Roman rite
of Holy Week in the manner that public worship was done in monasteries and
cathedral churches before the Freemason, Archbishop Annibale
Bugnini, and the Pian
Commission began their liturgical deconstruction with the Missal of 1956. The
traditional Holy Week has been rarely experienced by even traditional
Catholics. We are most grateful to God for this gift and now express our public
thanks Him and to all those who, by their dedication to true worship of God,
made it possible. Participants travelled from Indiana, Virginia, Maryland, New
Jersey, central and north-eastern Pennsylvania to be part of this experience
and their dedication was a great example of sacrifice to all. The joy of Easter
is proportional to the work put into Lent and particularly Holy Week, and our
joy is full.
Pick-pockets work
in pairs: one to pick the pocket, the other to provide the diversion. The diversion may be real but is typically
artificial. March 11 witnessed the
picking of the pockets of every American taxpayer of $40,000.00 (now it
is $60,000 with newer allocations, based upon 100 million income tax-payers)
plus the devaluing of their savings through inflation when the Federal Reserve
bailed out the big bankers with $5 trillion to support the Repurchase Agreement
(Repo) Markets. This news got scant
little coverage or none at all in the main-stream media (MSM) outlets. Whether or not the diversion is real or
artificial remains to be seen but what is certain at this point is the response
is artificial posturing and disproportionate to the threat.
There have been
inquiries from time to time as to why the Bishop(s) of Harrisburg will not,
either by himself or by his representative, enter into a public debate on the
merits of the doctrinal, liturgical, moral and canonical claims of Ss. Peter
& Paul Roman Catholic Mission to the end that those who are in error may be
restored to Catholic Truth and Worship.
The reason is simple: He does not want to be publically exposed as an
ignorant hypocrite. The modernist Novus Ordo Church
of the New Advent denies the immutability of Catholic dogma. In fact, the only dogma they recognize is
that there is no dogma. Since the
definition of a heretic is the denial of dogma they cannot enter into a debate
without looking foolish and exposing their vulgar hypocrisy. The challenge
remains open but it will not be accepted because Truth with purity of Worship
is not their end.
Philadelphia has a
new bishop. Archbishop Charles Chaput, another worthless conservative who conserved
nothing, will be moving along. It is not
expected that he will really retire but rather enter the ranks of the faithless
conservative opposition of Judas Goats.
He might even learn to offer the Indult Mass to establish his
credentials. He seems very animated in
his praise for the incoming new bishop.
As for the new bishop, Nelson J. Perez, we can say that we already have
something in common. Bishop Perez
forbade kneeling in the Novus Ordo rite from the Pater Noster
to the end of communion service within the diocese of Cleveland. The reasons given are the standard tripe:
early practice of the Church, done in the East, etc. etc., but none of this can
overturn immemorial custom established in the Latin Church and the ugly, ugly
fact that it is the established tradition of Protestant communion services
because they deny the True Presence of the Catholic Sacrament. Bishop Perez quotes St. Ambrose, “When in
Rome, do as the Romans,” but he has not the understanding of St. Ambrose
regarding liturgical tradition. On this
point we can agree, we would, like Bishop Perez, never kneel at a Novus Ordite communion service.
This letter sent by
Archbishop of Zaragoza, Spain, Vicente Jiménez
Zamora, to Fr. Philippe Brunet Superior of the FSSPX in Spain Casa San Jose
28607 EL ÁLAMO (Madrid). Fr. Brunet submitted a formal request to Archbishop Zamora to renew
the Indult for his community to offer the Extra-ordinary form of the Roman
rite, i.e., the 1962 Bugnini transitional Novus Ordo Missal.
This letter is the denial of that request.
This letter is
important because it proves two things that Ss. Peter & Paul Roman Catholic
Mission has said for many years.
Firstly, it proves that the SSPX has already been regularized by Rome.
That it has, contrary to Archbishop Lefebvre's direction, established a practical
solution with Rome before a doctrinal solution.
This has not been revealed by the inner circle of SSPX leadership to the
rank and file priests or the faithful who attend their chapels and finance
their operations, but it has been evident from necessary canonical deductions
drawn for a long time from actions of their leadership.
Secondly, it
demonstrates that the 1962 Missal, aka, the Extra-ordinary form, an Indult and
grant of legal privilege, can be denied by any authority for any reason whatsoever.
Anyone who has accepted this grant, by so doing, has accepted in principle that
it is a privilege, and therefore has conceded that he possess no legal or moral
recourse to its denial.
Those who are
intent upon defending the Catholic faith and passing it their children cannot
do so by supporting the Indult community or any of its institutional
structures.
English Translation:
Zaragoza, December 18, 2019 The
Archbishop of Zaragoza Fr. Philippe Brunet Superior of the FSSPX in Spain Casa
San Jose 28607 EL ÁLAMO (Madrid)
Dear Fr. Philippe:
I received your kind letter of 13
December 2019, in which you ask me to renew the Indult to celebrate Holy Mass
in the Extraordinary Form, which my predecessor, Bishop Manuel Ureña, granted
aloud, through the priest D. Waldir Consuega, former pastor of Calaceite.
In reply to this letter, I communicate the following:
1. I had no knowledge of the subject until now.
2. I am not renewing the permit
because I know that in Calaceite there are not enough people to celebrate Holy
Mass in the Extraordinary Form. The participants belong to other parishes
which are not in the Diocese of Zaragoza. Moreover, it is not practical
for the full communion of the parish community of Calaceite.
3. With the same date, I am sending a copy of this letter to the present parish
priest, Rev. Mr. Arturo Hollman Ladino Gutiérrez, in order not to authorize
Father José M Jiménez, in charge of the Region of Catalonia and Aragon, to
celebrate in any of the parishes, which he has entrusted to his pastoral care.
With my affection and blessing,
+ Vicente Jiménez Zamora
Archbishop of Zaragoza
Fr.
Waters received a reply from Archbishop Charles Chaput of Philadelphia
to his letter of April 24. Unfortunately
for Chaput, his reply had nothing to do with the letter that was sent to
him. Therefore, Fr. Waters has sent a reply to
Chaput's reply
once again trying to make clear to him what is
evident to everyone else. Archbishop
Chaput has proven himself to be a remarkable hypocrite. He appeals to Dogma when it is convenient,
such as his public exchange with Cardinal Blase Cupich and his earlier rift
with Cardinal Kevin Farrell, and he throws Dogma out the window when it is not.
No surprise that his name is not appended to the recent public defense of the
faith by Cardinal Raymond Burke, et al.
Fr. Samuel Waters has sent another letter to
Archbishop Charles Chaput of Philadelphia.
The letter applies a point made by Bishop-emeritus of Rome,
Benedict/Ratzinger, in his letter to the bishops of the world regarding his
take on understanding and addressing the problems of sexual abuse among the
clergy to Chaput's unjust treatment of Fr. Waters and its moral
implications. Fr. Waters letter to Chaput, April 24, 2019.
We are currently
witnessing the Pope Francis Vatican cover-up of the great sex abuse scandal
within the Catholic Church. The problem
in the great majority of cases (90%+) is caused by
homosexual clerics sexually abusing adolescent boys. Anyone who denies this evident fact is by
definition part of the Homosexual Lobby that works to obscure this in the minds
of the public with the help of the secular press. The CEO of the HomoLobby who is committed to
protecting their perverse interests is none other than Pope Francis himself.
NOTE:
Anyone who claims
that the sex abuse scandal in the Catholic Church is caused by
"clericalism" is by definition a member of the Homosexual Lobby.
Anyone who is a member of the Homosexual Lobby is a homosexual and pederast in
potency or act until proven otherwise. Even if a member of the Homosexual Lobby
is not a homosexual in act, he possesses an entirely disordered moral sense
that is wholly incompatible with the Catholic faith. He is an enemy of God, an
enemy of His Church, and an enemy against the salvation of souls and must be
treated as such. We are bound to love our enemies and pray for them, but we are
not supposed to pretend they are not our enemies.
The Diocese of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania released the names of over 70
members of its clergy who have been accused of sexual abuse in cases spanning
back to the 1940s. This list is only those who were caught. The Homosexual
Network will always cut its losses to protect itself. Nothing will be corrected
until the root of the problem is identified and thoroughly removed. Every apology issued by the Church in the
public forum for the crimes of homosexual molestation of adolescent boys (which
constitute more than 90% of all cases of sexual abuse) must include a
declaration that the Church remove every homosexual
from its ranks.
On the first day of
their General Chapter meeting, the 41 handpicked electors by Bishop Bernard
Fellay elected his successor to head the SSPX.
There are several reports that this election represents a repudiation of
Fellay's policies. That is not likely. It is more likely to be a calculated
retrenchment before a continuation of the course established since the GREC
meetings began in 1997. The Vatican
Insider announced the expected outcome before the actual elections took
place. How could they have known? The answer may be that they were able to
predict what they had orchestrated. The
new superior general and his two assistants have direct ties to Argentina. Maybe Bishop Fellay will assume the title of
"Superior-General Emeritus."
One thing is for sure, he will not be sent to take up residence in the Philippines.
(Note: This announcement was made before the addition of two additional
advisors to the Superior General were created, which happen to be the last two
Superior Generals, Bishop Fellay and Fr. Schmidberger.)
In November 2001 the
arguments taken from Reply to a
Conservative Canon Lawyer were formally presented to Bishop Nicholas
Dattilo by a priest of this diocese requesting an official judgment. Dattilo
never responded beyond summarily forcing the priest into an unceremonious retirement, and eventually publishing the unsubstantiated
charges of "heresy" and "schism" against the Mission in the
diocesan newspaper.
Since that time, an OPEN CHALLANGE has been
repeatedly placed before each of the last four bishops in Harrisburg to enter
into an open written discussion regarding the liturgical, doctrinal, moral and
canonical claims of Ss. Peter & Paul Roman Catholic Mission for the purpose
of bringing those in error back to the Catholic faith and obedience to her
immemorial traditions. Think of the Catholic saints who have labored among
heretics and schismatics to bring those in error back to the Catholic faith and
the possibility of salvation such as, St. Augustine among the Donatists and
Pelagians, St. Dominic among the Albigensians, St. Peter of Verona among the Cathars,
St. Peter Canisius among the Lutherans, St. Francis de Sales among the
Calvinists, St. Andrew Bobola among the Orthodox, St. John Fisher among the
Anglicans, and on and on and on. These saints offered their very lives for the
restoration of heretics and schismatics to the Catholic Church. The local bishops of Harrisburg have done
nothing. Could it be that they are not sure who in fact in an open debate would
be demonstrated to be the heretics and schismatics?
Eighteen years is not long in the
history of the Church but it is long time in the life of every faithful
Catholic. These bishops have been grossly negligent in the duties but their
silence itself is really reply enough. These cowards
have not taken up our challenge because they have no answers against those who
defend Dogma and the rights of immemorial ecclesiastical traditions which are
the images of our faith that make it known and communicable to others. They
think being silent is better than looking stupid.
We were recently told
by a friend of our Mission that conservative Catholics who have objected to the
Mission refused to discuss or so much as to even read the OPEN LETTERS. They
are afraid. The Mission scares them and they prefer willful ignorance than to
burden their consciences with open and clear obligations. If we are correct in
what we profess everyone from the bishop to the lowest Catholic will have, in
some degree or another, to answer for their sloth. Willful ignorance does not
excuse sin, it aggravates it.
Two
Catholics have attended Mass at our Mission leaving the Fraternity of St. Peter
Indult Community that offers the Extra-ordinary Form of the Novus Ordo. The
first said that in the indult sermon they were told that obedience must be
given to Pope Francis by every Catholic without any qualification whatsoever
including the moral corruption of Amoris
Laetitia. The second said that they were refused absolution in the
confessional because they told the priest that in conscience they could not
attend a Novus Ordo memorial meal if unable to find a traditional Mass. The
Indult community, like the clergy in Germany, sell the
sacraments. The only difference is the currency of exchange. They are no better
than a guard dog that can be appeased with a couple of hard-boiled eggs.
Bishop Richard Williamson performed the Episcopal consecration of
Bishop Gerardo Zendejas at St. Athanasius Chapel in Vienna, Virginia on May 11,
2017. Please remember his welfare in
your petitions to our Lord that he will faithfully defend the Dogmas of our
Catholic Faith and the immemorial ecclesiastical traditions that make that
Faith known and communicable to others.
The SCHISM is HERE!
Only the brain dead have an excuse!
COMMENT: This book
provides an interpretation of Chapter 8 of Amoria
Laetitia (AL). It is addressed to
bishops with a “merciful heart” and offers an interpretation that is consistent
with the interpretation approved in the private letter sent by Pope Francis to
the bishops of Argentina as well as with the interpretation of Cardinal Schornborn
who Pope Francis has publically identified as its ‘official interpretor.’ These bishops say that the proper
understanding and application is that any Catholic living in public adultery
based upon their own private judgment in the internal forum can declare themselves worthy to receive Holy Communion and absolution
in the sacrament of Penance and therefore cannot be denied these
sacraments. It is given semi-official
approval by its publication in L’Osservatore Romano.
Now in the Novus Ordo which may be nothing
more than a memorial meal as initially defined by Pope Paul VI, perhaps giving
the Novus Ordo communion wafer to a person in objective mortal sin is not a
real problem. But what is certainly a
grave sin it that these persons expect to be absolved by a confessor in the
sacrament of Penance without confessing or repentance of mortal sin. Pope Francis and his CDF puppet, Cardinal
Muller, will not be answering the Dubia in any official capacity. This does not represent a change in the
Church’s teaching. It represents the
active effort of a Francis and his minions to destroy the Catholic doctrine and
morality. As we announced during the synod,
the schism has long been present. It is
more evident each passing day and every Catholic will have to pick sides. God cannot let an open attack upon the
sacrament of marriage go unpunished.
Their hypocrisy is oozing from every pore. Imagine if a Catholic with “humility,
discretion and love for the Church and her teaching, in a sincere search for
God’s will and a desire to make a more perfect response to it” arrives at
traditional Catholicism, what kind of response can be expect from the local
bishop and Rome? If you want to know
read our OPEN LETTERS!
10. If, as a result of the process of
discernment, undertaken with “humility, discretion and love for the Church and
her teaching, in a sincere search for God’s will and a desire to make a more perfect
response to it” (AL 300). a
separated or divorced person who is living in a new relationship manages, with
an informed and enlightened conscience, to acknowledge and believe that he or
she are at peace with God, he or she cannot be precluded from participating in
the sacraments of Reconciliation and the Eucharist (see AL, notes 336 and 351).
Bishops Charles J Scicluna and Mario Grech, Guide for the
Interpretation of Chapter 8 of Amoris Laetitia: An Invitatiion to the Bishops
of Merciful Hearts. This book received
semi-official approbation by being favorably reviewed in L’Osservatore Romano,
Italian edition, January 2017.
Pope says
Schonborn interpretation on Communion for remarried is the final word
April 16, 2016 LifeSiteNews – On the flight returning from
Greece, Pope Francis was asked if the Apostolic Exhortation (Amoris Laetitia)
contained a "change
in discipline that governs access to the sacraments" for Catholics who are
divorced and remarried. The Pope replied, “I can say yes, period.” Adding,
however, that this would be "too small" of an answer, the Pope then
urged reading the presentation of Cardinal Schönborn, calling Schönborn a
“great theologian who knows the doctrine of the Church.”
"In that presentation your question will have
the answer," the pope concluded.
Schonborn’s presentation
boiled down Pope Francis’ more than 60,000 words in the exhortation to 3000,
but in that short space made sure to include the “smoking footnote” being seen as
the opening of the door to Holy Communion to Catholics living in second unions
where annulment from the first union was not possible. The position
contradicts Pope St. John Paul II’s Familiaris
Consortio as well as the Catechism of the Catholic Church.( as well as
divine positive law and the constant immemorial universal tradition of the
Catholic Church in all her rites without exception whatsoever) [……]
The following “announcement” has been posted on the Mission web page
since the election of Pope Francis.
There is no reason to take it down or amend it in any way, especially in
light of the recent attacks on the Sacrament of Matrimony that have been
supported by Pope Francis. We pray for
the Pope so that we may not share in the punishment that will certainly follow
upon this sin and objective scandal.
“Pope Francis has
almost daily since his election last month shown a studied contempt for the
Ecclesiastical Traditions of our Church. It is good that the wolf looks and
acts like a wolf. The Traditional Catholics, grounded in true Hope, ‘know that to them that
love God, all things work together unto good, to such as, according to his
purpose, are called to be saints.’ (Rom. 8: 28) Therefore, no matter how
stupid, blind, incompetent, or willfully malicious the helmsman may be, God is
still in charge of His Church and His providential care will be accomplished
willy-nilly. The coming chastisement
will separate the hirelings from the shepherds.”
Pope Francis and
SSPX superior Bishop Fellay met Friday evening in Rome. Greg Burke, Vatican Press Office
vice-director, announced on Monday that a meeting took place in the Casa Santa
Marta on Friday, April 1, between Pope Francis and the Superior General of the
Society of St. Pius X. We
have learned that it was a very positive meeting. Apparently, Pope Francis was impressed by
+Fellay's incompetency displayed during his interview on Conflict Zone!
The question that must be asked of +Fellay is: “When and where did he make the 1989 Profession of Faith
and the Oath of Fidelity to the ‘authentic magisterium’ of the conciliar
popes?”
It awaits to be seen if he is able to bring the
rank and file to agree with his accommodation of error.
Amoris
Laetitia, “On Love in the Family,” an act
of the 'authentic magisterium' of Pope Francis, an apostolic exhortation that
presents his findings and conclusions from the two synods, which threw open to
discussions settled moral and doctrinal questions of Catholic revealed truth,
was released April 8. Pope Francis gave
the honor of presenting the document to Cardinal Christoph Schönborn, O.P. of
Vienna, Austria, who is a recognized apologist for the homosexual heresy, and
Cardinal Lorenzo Baldisseri, secretariat of the synod of bishops. Baldisseri
was the man who ordered the interception of the book, Remaining in the Truth of Christ, which had been mailed to participants
in the Extraordinary Synod last October. The book is a collection of essays by
five Cardinals and four other scholars in defense of Catholic truth regarding
the sacraments that was written in response to heretical opinions in Cardinal
Walter Kasper’s book, The Gospel of the Family.
Amoris
Laetitia, as expected, overturns the
Catholic doctrinal and moral teaching on the sacrament of Marriage and by
directly endorsing situation ethics which is morally repugnant to all faithful
Catholics. As said before, this will
eliminate conservative Catholicism. The
problem facing Catholics who have been faithful to the doctrinal and
ecclesiastical traditions of the Catholic Church is to make conservative
Catholics, who are just now rejecting the novelties and corruptions of Francis,
understand that the answer to the problem is not a return to the novelties and
corruptions of Benedict and John Paul II.
Neither of these two conciliar popes could or would offer any principled
objection to Pope Francis who is just travelling a little further down the same
road!
A
Letter was sent to Bishop Ronald Gainer in response to his
comments to the York Daily Record after the Palm Sunday story covering the
liturgical worship at Ss. Peter & Paul Chapel. A copy of the letter is available in the
vestibule.
It has come to our
attention that Virgil Bradley (Gabriel) Tetherow is reforming the suppressed
order of Servants of St. Francis and using favorable comments made from our
Mission that have long ago been retracted and apologized for. Therefore we are republishing our assessment
of the character of Tetherow for a public warning. TETHEROW
Posted Letter to
Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Müller
at the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith
was sent on December 15, 2015 on the occasion
of Pope Francis' declaration, in an act of his “authentic magisterium,”
condemning “Catholic fundamentalism” as a “disease” of ‘Godless idolatry’
afflicting “many Catholics” for believing in “Absolute Truth.”
The Synod on the Family
was a sham from beginning to end and will undoubtedly go down as the greatest
corruption of Catholic doctrine and morals in the history of the Church. It was in fact a very crude attempt by Pope
Francis to give the appearance of popular collegial support for the corruption
he has militantly imposed upon the Catholic faithful. For nearly two years since Pope Francis’
public praise of Cardinal Kasper’s theological novelties, Pope Francis has lead
an opened discussion on settled moral and doctrinal questions that he does not
possess the authority or power to change.
This has done incalculable damage to Catholic Truth. Those who give only tacit support to this
corruption will pay the worst of all penalties.
Every heretic
always attacks the doctrine of Marriage because Matrimony is the metaphor that
God employs to describe His unbreakable union with His Church as a whole and
with each individual faithful Catholic as well.
Since heretics have broken union with God they cannot abide the
integrity of the metaphor.
To conservative Catholics who have enough Catholic
sense to repent of Francis but not enough Catholic sense to stop yearning for
the “good old days” of Benedict/Ratzinger.
COMMENT:
As Pope Pius XII explained in Humani
Generis, it is impossible to affirm the Catholic dogma that the “Lord Jesus
Christ... is consubstantial with the Father” or the Catholic dogma of
Transubstantiation, if the concept of “substance” is rejected in the same sense used by
scholastic theologians found in the perennial realist philosophical tradition
and fixed by its usage in Catholic dogma.
Benedict/Ratzinger
denies the meaning of “substance”
and then, he necessarily denies the dogma of the True Presence.
Benedict/Ratzinger’s entire “hermeneutic of reform” vs. the “hermeneutic of
rupture” is predicated upon accepting his Neo-Modernist philosophy which, in
the end, denies the term substance
and replaces it with the accident of relationship.
There is no
philosophical difference between Benedict/Ratzinger and his chosen replacement
Francis who marks, as Benedict/Ratzinger predicted in December before his
abdication, the “beginning of the new Church and the end of the old.” The only
difference between the two, apart from superficial style, is that Francis is
wholly formed by the Novus Ordo Church and suffers no misgivings of conscience
about the direction he is dragging the Church because he knows no other way.
Those conservative Catholic who are nostalgic for a return of
Benedict/Ratzinger or John Paul II in the face of Francis’ infidelities are
even more superficial than Francis!
Some even say that the doctrine of transubstantiation,
based on an antiquated philosophic notion of substance, should be so modified
that the real presence of Christ in the Holy Eucharist be reduced to a kind of
symbolism, whereby the consecrated species would be merely efficacious signs of
the spiritual presence of Christ and of His intimate union with the faithful
members of His Mystical Body.
Pope Pius XII, Humani Generis
“…the medieval concept
of substance has long since become inaccessible to us.
In so far as we use the concept of substance at all today we understand thereby
the ultimate particles of matter, and the chemically complex mixture that is
bread certainly does not fall into that category.”
Joseph Ratzinger, Faith and the Future, p. 14
“Eucharistic
devotion such as is noted in the silent visit by the devout in church must not
be thought of as a conversation with God. This would assume that God was
present there locally and in a confined way. To justify such an assertion shows
a lack of understanding of the Christological mysteries of the very concept of
God. This is repugnant to the serious thinking of the man who knows about the
omnipresence of God. To go
to church on the ground that one can visit God who is present there is a
senseless act which modern man rightfully rejects.”
Joseph Ratzinger, Die Sacramentale Begrundung Christliche
Existenz
Planned
Parenthood’s Director of Medical Services, Deborah Nucatola, M.D., has been
captured on video discussing the PP practice of selling baby body parts for
profit procured by partial birth abortions, both practices of which are
violations of U.S. positive law. The
U.S. Supreme Court overturned any reference to Natural Law in Casey vs. Planned
Parenthood as a basis for determining the morality of U.S. law, so U.S. law is
no longer limited to the imagination but is grounded upon pure arbitrary
fantasy. Anyone who thinks ‘homosexual
marriage’ and infant ritual murder are protected “rights” under the U.S.
constitution cannot have too much a problem with infant cannibalism. We should
not be too surprised because it was historically the practice to eat body parts
of victims of ritual murder. The video
should be widely distributed to as many as possible before the national
morality becomes entirely jaded and justifies this disgusting practice.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjxwVuozMnU
Msgr. William Lynn,
the former director for clergy for the Archdiocese of Philadelphia has been
sent back to jail. Lynn was freed last year after an appeals court overturned
his conviction on child endangerment charges relating to Philadelphia
Archdiocese’s sex-abuse scandal. On April 25, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court
overturned that reversal and reinstated the original conviction — saying that
the child endangerment statute applied to Lynn even though he did not directly
supervise the welfare of the child victims in the scandal. The Supreme Court
said that Lynn:
• ”Mollified
victims of sexual abuse by falsely telling them their allegations were being
seriously investigated and that the particular priest would never again be
assigned around children, despite knowing that the priests under his
supervision would merely be reassigned to another parish with no ministry
restrictions on contact with children.”
•
“Informed parishioners that the priests he transferred were moved for health
reasons, leaving the welfare of children in jeopardy.”
• “Routinely disregarded treatment recommendations for
priests.”
•
“Failed to inform the relocated priest’s new supervisor about abuse
allegations.”
•
“Took no action to ensure that the abusive priest was kept away from children
at his new assignment.”
•
“Suppressed complaints and concerns by the colleagues of the priests; all with
the knowledge that sexually abusive priests rarely had only one victim and that
all of these actions would endanger the welfare of the diocese’s children.”
•
“Finally, and even more egregiously, when (Lynn) was contacted by law
enforcement, he misrepresented facts to thwart their investigation of these
priests, and their crimes.”
The OPEN LETTERS
of FR. SAMUEL WATERS now include the Letter to Archbishop Gerhard Ludwig Müller, Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine
of the Faith (CDF), which has the Arguments addressing the moral, doctrinal,
and canonical deficiencies of Archbishop Charles Chaput's “Decree of
Excommunication” as well as his calumny, offered without evidence, that Ss.
Peter & Paul Roman Catholic Mission is a “schismatic organization.” Also posted for viewing is the LETTER of
reply from the CDF written by Archbishop J. Augustine Di Noia, O.P. and Fr.
Waters' reply to Archbishop Di Noia.
This is the same Di Noia who argued the Vatican's alleged 'doctrinal'
dispute with the SSPX. The Letters speak
for themselves and really require no additional comment. They are themselves a clear revelation of the
character of each author.
Open
Letters between Fr. Waters and the Archdiocese of Philadelphia and the CDF
Fr.
Luigi Villa, Th.D. authored the book, Paul VI - Beatified?, which derailed the
process of Paul V's beatification until it was resuscitated by Pope
Francis. It is a book every Catholic
should be familiar with to understand what kind of man gave us the Novus Ordo
Church that has just declared him “blessed.”
Priests who see insults offered to God and remain
silent are called by Isaias “mute dogs.” But to these mute dogs shall be
imputed all the sins that they could have – but have not prevented.... Hence, St. Leo adds: “The priest who does not
withdraw another from error proves that he is himself involved in it.”
St. Alphonsus De Liguori
Not to oppose error is to approve it; and not to
defend truth is to suppress it.
Pope St. Felix III
Fast-Track Catholic Divorce
COMMENT: Pope
Francis the Humble and Merciful has instituted Fast-Track Catholic Divorce to
begin on December 8 for the “Year of Mercy”.
The divorced and remarried, who are in a state
of objective adultery, are now identified as the Church’s “poor” to whom the
bishops must exercise a ‘preferential option’.
A new ground for “nullity” has been invented being the lack of “faith”
which all of Pope Francis’ predecessors were too blind to see, or just too
unmerciful to forgive. So now, those who
do not have the “faith” are to be granted a Catholic divorce so they can
regularize their new “marriages” which were received without faith and then be
admitted to the Church and receive communion which they do not believe in? It will be Msgr. Pio Vito Pinto at the Roman
Rota who will be implementing the Catholic divorce for Pope Francis through the
local ordinaries. He is calling for a
“metànoia” of the Catholic bishops to the new divorce regulations so that they
will be seen as the will of God and the operation of the Holy Ghost “who speaks
through Francis.” This sounds very much
like the sin against the Holy Ghost which Jesus Christ warned against. The coming schism will clearly distinguish
Catholic faithful from Novus Ordites.
So,
with this fundamental law, Francis makes a real beginning to his reform: by
putting the poor at the center, that is, the divorced and remarried, considered
set apart and distant, and asking bishops for a true and proper metànoia. That
is to say, a “conversion”, a change of mentality which convinces and sustains
them in following the invitation of Christ, present in their brother, the
Bishop of Rome, to pass from the restricted number of a few thousand annulments
to that immeasurable [number]of unfortunates who might have a declaration of
nullity — because of evident of absence of faith as a bridge to knowledge and
thus to the free will [necessary]to give sacramental consent — but are
left on the outside by the current system. [.…]
But how
will the bishops or eparchs, most of all in large dioceses, be able to
guarantee, at least in part and as a sign, their role as shepherds and judges?
What is important is that the spirit of collegiality and communion among
bishops under obedience to the Pontiff, begins to
permeate the hearts and minds of the shepherds. The faithful are waiting with
eagerness and love for such a metànoia and will nonetheless be patient in the
Lord when faced with the good faith of their shepherds. The Jubilee Year of Mercy
expects this sign of humble obedience (on the part of the Churches’ shepherds)
to the Spirit who speaks to them through Francis.
Msgr.
Pio Vito Pinto, the Dean of the Tribunal of the Roman Rota
Bishop Gainer’s Comment – Apparently he did not read
the fine print. The new regulations in
fact do “alter the… grounds on which annulments are granted,” that is,
“evidence of absence of faith.”
The reforms announced by our Holy Father will
simplify and in some cases quicken the process for obtaining an annulment
though the Diocese of Harrisburg. This will aid us in our mission of
compassionate healing to those in failed marriages and in our concern for the
salvation of souls. We see these changes as procedural in nature. They do not
alter the teaching of the Catholic Church on the permanency of marriage or the
grounds on which annulments are granted. The Diocese of Harrisburg, through our
Tribunal, remains committed to walking with those on a path of peace and
reconciliation with our merciful Lord.
Bishop Ronald
Gainer, Bishop of Harrisburg
COMMENT: Laudato Si’
represents a change in appearance in neo-modernism's liberation theology. Liberation Theology's purpose was to enroll
Catholic doctrine and morality in the service of Marxist Ideology. Laudato
Si’s purpose is to enroll Catholic doctrine and morality in the service of
the Gaia cult of earth worship. Wisdom
is the perfect knowledge about the most important things in there right order
of reference. Laudato Si’ is an overthrow of Wisdom. Even when the document speaks of some
Catholic truth, it is never in the proper order of reference.
Once
again, the Novus Order Regime in Rome endorses the United Nations call for One
World Government ruling a “noble
and generous society” based upon a “genuine and profound humanism” and thus,
repudiates the gospel message of the true “social teaching of the Church” to
promote and defend the social Kingship of Jesus Christ!
As Benedict XVI has affirmed in continuity
with the social teaching of the Church: “To manage the global economy; to
revive economies hit by the crisis; to avoid any deterioration of the present
crisis and the greater imbalances that would result; to bring about integral
and timely disarmament, food security and peace; to guarantee the protection of
the environment and to regulate migration: for all this, there is urgent need
of a true world political authority, as my predecessor Blessed John XXIII
indicated some years ago.” […….] Here,
continuity is essential, because policies related to climate change and
environmental protection cannot be altered with every change of government.
Results take time and demand immediate outlays which may not produce tangible
effects within any one government’s term. That is why, in the absence of
pressure from the public and from civic institutions, political authorities
will always be reluctant to intervene, all the more when urgent needs must be
met. To take up these responsibilities and the costs they entail, politicians
will inevitably clash with the mindset of short-term gain and results which
dominates present-day economics and politics. But if they are courageous, they
will attest to their God-given dignity and leave behind a testimony of selfless
responsibility. A healthy politics is sorely needed, capable of reforming and
coordinating institutions, promoting best practices and overcoming undue
pressure and bureaucratic inertia. It should be added, though, that even the best mechanisms can break
down when there are no worthy goals and values, or a genuine and profound
humanism to serve as the basis of a noble and generous society.
Pope Francis, Laudato Si’, On
earth worship, global warming, etc.
The ‘1989 Profession of Faith’ - Which
demands in a Catholic creed the unconditional “submission of the will and the intellect,”
or as Lumen Gentium says, submission
of the “soul,” to the purely human and arbitrary authority of the Pope, is
enforced upon only Faithful Catholics and no one else!
COMMENT: The one “non-negotiable point” in the Vatican’s dealing
with the SSPX is the “1989 Profession of Faith” which demands from Catholics
the unconditional submission of the “will and the intellect,” or as Lumen Gentium describes it,
unconditional submission of the “soul,” to whatever the “authentic (ordinary)
magisterium” opines. This exercise of
the “authentic (ordinary) magisterium” is the pope teaching by his grace of
state to which submission must always and necessarily be conditional and not to
his teaching by virtue of the attribute of infallibility which Jesus Christ has
endowed His Church. The “1989 Profession
of Faith” demands that the Faithful give to a man what can and must only be
given to God.
And just for the record, Pope Pius XII in Humani Generis taught nothing of the kind nor was Human Generis cited as an authoritative
reference in Lumen Gentium for this
novel teaching! Every example cited by
Pope Pius XII in Humani Generis
demanding submissive obedience by the Faithful to the Holy Father regards his
teaching by the ‘authentic ordinary and universal Magisterium’ which is always
infallible.
Jean-Marie Dumont: What is, therefore,
the non-negotiable point?
Archbishop Guido Pozzo: That which is
essential, that to which we cannot renounce, is adherence to the Professio
fidei and to the principle according to which it is only to the magisterium of
the Church that was entrusted by the Lord the faculty of authentic
interpreting, that is, with the authority of Christ, the written and
transmitted word of God. It is the Catholic doctrine, recalled by Vatican II (Dei Verbum, 10), but already expressly
taught by Pius XII in the encyclical Humani
Generis. This means that the Magisterium, while it is not of course above
Scripture and Tradition, is nevertheless the authentic instance that judges the
interpretations on Scripture and Tradition, from whichever part they may come.
“Consequently, if
there are no different degrees of authority and adherence of the faithful to
her teachings - as the Vatican II dogmatic constitution Lumen Gentium (25) declares - no one can place himself above the
Magisterium. I earnestly think and hope that, in this doctrinal framework that
I have just explained, we will be able to find the point of convergence and
common agreement, because this specific issue is a doctrinal point belonging to
the Catholic faith, and not to a legitimate theological discussion or to
pastoral criteria.
Archbishop Guido
Pozzo, secretary of the Pontifical Commission of Ecclesia Dei and a member of
the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, in an interview with the French
magazine Famille Chrétienne, October 20, 2014, responding to a question
regarding the Vatican negotiations with the SSPX.
The
“New Evangelization” and the “New Ecclesial Realities”
The “new
evangelization” identifies “new ecclesial realities” as the “work of the Holy
Spirit” and thus, regards them as the means by which God will bring about a
rebirth of Christian faith since the collapse following Vatican II. These “ecclesial realities” include such
entities as the Neocatechumenal Way, Communion and Liberation, the Focolare
Movement, and the Charismatic Renewal.
They all embody the novel teachings of Vatican II, which the hierarchy
denies as having any causal relationship with the collapse of faith that the
“new ecclesial realities” are expected to restore. These “ecclesial realities” have developed
more in Europe and Latin America than in the United States. The obvious reason for this is that the U. S.
is already a religious pluralistic society that has similar entities as these
“ecclesial realities” in every city. The
Masonic brotherhood religion for world peace has a lot in common with
Focolare. The Neocatechumenal Way is
comparable to a Baptist Evangelical church with a Lutheran theological
conception of the Holy Eucharist. The
common thread among all these “ecclesiastical realities” is that they seek an
encounter with Jesus Christ without the burden of dogma or the moral
imperatives and duties that dogma imposes.
Cardinal Ratzinger nevertheless, at the World Congress of Ecclesial
Movements, May 27, 1998, compared these “ecclesial realities” to St. Anthony of
the Desert and the early monastic movement, to St. Francis and St. Dominic, St.
Ignatius and the Jesuits, St. Teresa of Avila and St. Catherine of Siena. John Paul II addressed them on the vigil of
Pentecost in 1998 and said:
“With the Second Vatican Council, the Comforter recently
gave the Church, which according to the Fathers is the place 'where the Spirit
flourishes' (Catechism of the Catholic Church, n. 749), a renewed Pentecost,
instilling a new and unforeseen dynamism. Whenever the Spirit intervenes, he
leaves people astonished. He brings about events of amazing newness; he
radically changes persons and history. This was the unforgettable experience of
the Second Vatican Ecumenical Council during which, under the guidance of the
same Spirit, the Church rediscovered the charismatic dimension as one of her
constitutive elements: 'It is not only through the sacraments and the
ministrations of the Church that the Holy Spirit makes holy the people, leads
them and enriches them with his virtues. Allotting his gifts according as he
wills (cf. 1 Cor 12:11), he also distributes special graces among the faithful
of every rank.... He makes them fit and ready to undertake various tasks and
offices for the renewal and building up of the Church' (Lumen gentium,
n.12). […….] Today the Church rejoices at the renewed confirmation of the
prophet Joel's words which we have just heard: 'I will pour out my Spirit upon
all flesh' (Acts 2:17). You, present here, are the tangible proof of this
'outpouring' of the Spirit. Each movement is different from the others, but
they are all united in the same communion and for the same mission. Some
charisms given by the Spirit burst in like an impetuous wind, which seizes
people and carries them to new ways of missionary commitment to the radical
service of the Gospel, by ceaselessly proclaiming the truths of faith,
accepting the living stream of tradition as a gift and instilling in each
person an ardent desire for holiness.[….] In our world, often dominated by a
secularized culture which encourages and promotes models of life without God,
the faith of many is sorely tested, and is frequently stifled and dies. Thus we
see an urgent need for powerful proclamation and solid, in-depth Christian
formation. There is so much need today for mature Christian personalities,
conscious of their baptismal identity, of their vocation and mission in the
Church and in the world! There is great need for living Christian communities!
And here are the movements and the new ecclesial communities: they are the
response, given by the Holy Spirit, to this critical challenge at the end of
the millennium. You are this providential response.”
John Paul II, speech addressing “ecclesial movements and
new communities.” May 30, 1998, Vigil of
Pentecost
Now, Pope Francis, who has recently
taken credit for introducing the Charismatic Renewal into Argentina, again
addressed these “new ecclesial realities” on the vigil of Pentecost and he looks
to them as the hope for the “new evangelization.” Pope Francis, who has knelt before Protestant
evangelical charismatics to receive their “blessing,” cannot possible have any
clue whatsoever regarding the discernment of spirits.
At the funeral for Fr. Luigi Giussani, the founder of the “ecclesial
reality,” Communion and Liberation, Cardinal Joesph Ratzinger said, “Fr. Giussani
always kept the eyes of his life and of his heart fixed on Christ. In this way, he understood that Christianity
is not an intellectual system, a packet of dogmas, a moralism, Christianity is
rather an encounter, a love story; it is an event.” It was Jesus Christ who said, “If you
love Me, keep My commandments.” (John 14:15) This is the necessary condition of
“love.” And only when that necessary
condition is fulfilled will Jesus, “ask the Father, and He shall give you
another Paraclete, and He may abide with you forever, the Spirit of
truth.” St. Francis and Peter Waldo
embraced the radical poverty of Jesus Christ but they were of entirely
different spirits. Only St. Francis
possessed the “Spirit of truth.” He was
a saint, Waldo, a heretic. There is no
encounter with Jesus Christ without believing His revealed truth, that is, all
dogmas that are formal objects of Divine and Catholic faith, and keeping His
commandments. Whoever sets opposition
between Jesus Christ and the truth He revealed and the commandments He gave
does not know Jesus Christ and does not possess the Holy Ghost, the “Spirit of
Christ.” “Now if any man
have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of His.”(Rom. 8: 9) None of the saints identified by Cardinal
Ratzinger ever held any of our articles of faith or our ecclesiastical
traditions in contempt as these “new ecclesial realities” clearly have
done. And every one of these saints gave
evidence of personal holiness and performed remarkable miracles as a testimony
to the truth of their mission. The
winter of Vatican II will be getting colder and darker.
The Neocatechumenal Way = Evangelical Lutheranism
with a Mariachi Twist
The Neocatechumenal Way
- A Fearful
Danger to the Faith -
FATHER ENRICO ZOFFOLI
April 1995, Christian Order
“I
charge thee,( ... ): preach the word, persevere in season and out
of season, reprove, rebuke, exhort with all long-suffering and doctrine.
“For
the day will come when they will no longer endure sound doctrine, but, after their
own lusts, men shall surround themselves with teachers, having
itching ears. And they shall refuse to listen to
the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.
“But
watch thou attentively, know how to endure afflictions, do thy works as an evangelist,
carry out thy ministry” [2 Tim 4, 1-5]
DOCTRINAL
ERRORS
We
have been able to identify these in the above-mentioned typewritten texts
reserved for the Catechists and kept secret not only from the public but also
from the faithful committed to the Way.
They
concern ideas which cannot be shared by many Neocatechumenals and seem above all
to be ignored especially by those who, devoid of theology, are not in a
position to judge their orthodoxy with the necessary competence.
The
accusation of heresy is aimed at the doctrinal
positions, not the persons, whom we still regard as
worthy of respect and who can be inspired by the best intentions.
* * * *
1.
SIN: man cannot
avoid committing it, in the same way as he can neither accomplish good nor
acquire merits for himself;
- conversion is
possible only as recognition, by everyone, of their own moral poverty, not as a
determined wish to correct one's faults which sanctity tends to realize;
- sin cannot offend God, and man does not incur the duty to
expiate it by satisfying the requirements of His justice.
2.
REDEMPTION: Jesus
has not brought this about by liberating man from his faults and reconciling
him with God;
- the passion and death of
Christ has not been a true sacrifice offered to the Father in
order to remedy sin and to redeem man;
- Jesus saved the world by virtue of His Resurrection: in
order to enjoy the fruits of His work it is enough to confess to be sinners and
to believe in the power of the risen Christ.
3.
THE CHURCH was
not founded by Christ as his only Sheepfold: it is
also possible to save oneself by following other religions;
- the Church is not a juridical
and hierarchical society, but a spiritual, charismatic one;
- in it there is not found a priesthood derived from the
sacrament of the Order - as it is sufficient to have the Baptism which,
incorporating all the believers in Christ, makes them participants of His
priestly dignity.
4. THE MASS is not a
“sacrifice”: the Church, at the altar, does not offer to God any Victim;
-
in place of the altar, there is nothing but the table, which
in the Eucharist allows a festive party to be celebrated among
brothers united by the same faith in the Resurrection;
- the consecrated bread and wine are only the symbol of the
presence of the risen Christ which unites the fellow-guests by communicating
their own spirit, thus making them participants in his triumph over death;
- the Mass, thus conceived, is not celebrated by the priest, but
by the Assembly, from which “springs the Eucharist.”
5. EUCHARISTIC WORSHIP does
not have any meaning, it negates the true,
real and substantial presence of Christ under the
sacramental species. Acts of faith such as genuflections before the Tabernacle,
frequent Communions, hours of adoration, benedictions, processions, congresses,
etc. are not therefore justified.
6.
CONFESSION is
reduced to the sacrament of Baptism: their distinction does not go back to the
primitive Church:
-
the Church ”gestates and leads to the
conversion.” “The important thing is not the absolution” of
the priest, because the value of the confession is essentially its community
and ecclesial nature;
- in the ”passages” and
in the, ”scrutinies” the acknowledgement of one's
transgressions, including the serious ones, is public, as can still be the case
during the ”redditio.”
7. THE CHRISTIAN LIFE, as
a voluntary effort of self-discipline, and therefore an exercise and progress
in virtue, is an illusion;
-
everyone remains intrinsically a sinner, incapable of
obtaining true justice as a perfection of the love of God and
of one's fellow creatures;
- on the other hand, Jesus has not been presented to anyone as a ”model” to
be imitated;
- He has commanded that we should actually hate our parents,
brothers, relatives etc, not just, if necessary, to be prepared to prefer
Him to them;
- in order to follow Christ, we need to sell our own goods; but, once this
renunciation has been accomplished, it is permissible to acquire others and to
enjoy all the pleasures of life. “Poverty” as understood by St. Francis, is
inspired by the ”natural
religion,” and was also practiced by the pagans: it is not
a Christian virtue;
- Jesus, having suffered for us, has made our sufferings superfluous,
therefore the austerities of the ascetics, the slow martyrdom of the Saints and
the religious life itself, involving the effective practice of
the evangelical counsels, are not justifiable;
- eternal salvation is offered freely to all by the mercy of God, who
forgives everything. Hell should not exist, nor should one
speak of Purgatory, of prayers and of indulgences for the
dead.
8. THE HISTORY of
the true Church founded by Christ comes to an end with the Pax
Constantinia and does not resume its course until the 20th century
with the Second Vatican Council, having remained frozen for about 1,600 years
... ;
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in this long interval, the exercise of the triple power of the hierarchical
Church (teaching, sanctification, guidance) would have been
improper, illegitimate ... ; and in particular the Council of Trent would be
responsible for the paralysis of the Church, determined to fix formulae of
faith, liturgical rites, disciplinary, rules ... ;
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the interpretation of the Word of God is not reserved for the
Hierarchy, it is possible for all believers: ”the
Bible is explained by itself.” This freedom of examination in the
exegesis excludes the ecclesiastical Teaching, the tradition of the Elders and
the doctrine of the theologies
“The media gave a distorted picture of the Second Vatican
Council. Now the real spirit of Vatican II needs to be examined.”
Benedict XVI, from his final
address to the priests in the diocese of Rome 2-14-2013
Comment:
This "impromptu" address given to
the priests of the diocese of Rome should be read by every Catholic who is
faithful to the traditions of the Roman Catholic Church. It is entitled “The Second Vatican Council, as I saw it.” In it Pope Benedict parrots every modernist
nostrum that we have been choking on for the last fifty years, all of which
have been thoroughly refuted time and again and many of which could be refuted
by Ratzinger’s own writings.
Just one example. Pope
Benedict said in this address that the “Liturgical movement had grown in
Western Central Europe as the rediscovery of the richness and depth of the
liturgy which hitherto was almost locked with the priest’s Roman Missal while the
people prayed with their prayer books…. So the task was to translate the high
content, the language of the classical liturgy, into more moving words, that
were closer to the heart of the people……. Now (after VC II) the beauty, the
depth, the Missal’s wealth of human and spiritual history was rediscovered as
well as the need (for) more than one representative of the people… to
respond……. A real dialogue between priest and people so that the liturgy of the
altar and the liturgy of the people really were one single liturgy, one active participation….. So that the
liturgy was rediscovered, renewed.”
Compare this with the following:
“What happened after the Council was
altogether different: instead of a liturgy, the fruit of continuous
development, a fabricated liturgy was put in its place. A living growing
process was abandoned and the fabrication started. There was no further wish to
continue the organic evolution and maturation of the living being throughout
the centuries and they were replaced -- as if in a technical production -- by a
fabrication, a banal product of the moment. Gamber, with the vigilance of a
true visionary and with the fearlessness of a true witness, opposed this
falsification and tirelessly taught us the living fullness of a true liturgy,
thanks to his incredibly rich knowledge of the sources. As a man who knew and
who loved history, he showed us the multiple forms of the evolution and of the
path of the liturgy; as a man who saw history from the inside, he saw in this
development and in the fruit of this development the intangible reflection of
the eternal liturgy, which is not the object of our action, but which may
marvelously continue to blossom and to ripen, if we join its mystery
intimately.”
Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, from his introduction
in the French edition of Monsignor Klaus Gamber’s book, The
Reform of the Roman Rite
This is just one example. The entire missive, about ten type-written
pages, is nothing but the modernist version of the history of Vatican II where subjective
sentiments dominate objective reality.
Soon its lies and distortions will die and be buried with its last
protagonist. “By their fruits, who shall
know them” (Matt. 7:16). It is
instructive to see how the vice of pride can be so blinding to facts. The Church over the last fifty years has gone
through the greatest decline in her entire history with no evidence of any
meaningful reversal. Now, the “media” is
responsible for the “distorted picture” of VC II? And now, fifty years later, “the real spirit”
can at last “be examined.” And for this
tripe, he gets an ovation by the blighted clergy of Rome for his pretend
“humility.” We can take consolation in
the return of Benedict to Ratzinger, that, no matter how bad the next pope may
be, we will be dealing with someone who has no personal stake for his legacy in
salvaging the disaster that is Vatican II.
Fr. Luigi Villa, Th.D. the author of Vatican II,
About Face!, which details the heresies of Vatican II,
died November 18 at the age of 95. In his book Fr. Villa explains in detail the
following “eight heresies that have been ordained and promoted by this
Council”:
1. The Cult of Man
2. A New Religion
3. “New Prophets” of Joy
4. Idolatry of the World
5. “Modernism”
6. “Religious Freedom”
7. Ecumenism
8. Universal Salvation
Pope
Benedict XVI demands “acknowledgment” of the ‘authentic magisterium’ as the one
“indispensible condition”???
...[T]he entire phrase 'the Holy Father does not intend to leave aside
an indispensable condition' [in the Secretariat of State's draft] was cancelled
by Benedict XVI and replaced with, [in his own handwriting], 'For a future
recognition of the Fraternity of Saint Pius X, the full acknowledgment of the
Second Vatican Council and of the Magisterium of Popes John XXIII, Paul VI,
John Paul I, John Paul II, and of the same Benedict XVI is an indispensable
condition.
Bishop Bernard Tissier de Mallerais
COMMENT: The word “Magisterium” is capitalized in the
original. It should not be because it
only refers to the “authentic magisterium” which is a term that refers to the
person who holds the papal office and not to any particular teaching. The Magisterium of the Church is derived from
the attribute of Infallibility that Jesus Christ endowed His Church so that He
could say, “He who heareth you, heareth Me” (Luke 10, 16). This power belongs to the Church by its
nature and only accidently to the person who occupies the papal office. The Magisterium of the Church was not
employed by Vatican II or the councilar popes for any of the novelties of the
last fifty years. This demand of Pope Benedict is asking only that Traditional
Catholics “acknowledge” that Vatican II and the post-conciliar popes personally
taught something. It does not distinguish
between the truth or the error of what was
taught. If Pope Benedict wants to teach
infallibly and bind the “mind and will” of the Catholic faithful to a teaching
as a formal object of Divine and Catholic Faith, he can only do so by engaging
the Magistrium of the Church.
An edited letter sent from the Mission in reply to Dr. E. Michael Jones
article, Traditionalism at the End of Its Tether, was published in Culture Wars
Magazine. The unedited letter has been posted on the Open Letters page to
better clarify the Mission’s position in defense of Catholic tradition. The
letter is entitled, Why the SSPX Cannot Effectively Defend Catholic
Tradition.
In all thy works remember
thy last end, and thou shalt never sin.
Ecclesiasticus 7:40
