Invincible ignorance is a punishment for sin.
St. Thomas Aquinas (De Infid. q.
x., art. 1.)
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Priests, my Son’s ministers, priests, by their evil life, by their
irreverences and their impiety in celebrating the holy mysteries, love of
money, love of honor and pleasures, priests have become sewers of impurity.
Yes, priests call forth vengeance, and vengeance is suspended over their heads.
Woe to priests, and to persons consecrated to God, who
by their infidelities and their evil life are crucifying my son anew! The sins
of persons consecrated to God cry to heaven and call for vengeance, and now
here is vengeance at their very doors, for no longer is anyone found to beg
mercy and pardon for the people; there are no more generous souls, there is now
no one worthy of offering the spotless Victim to the Eternal on the worlds
behalf………Rome will lose the Faith and become the seat of the Antichrist.
Our Lady of La Salette to Melanie Calvat and
Maximin Giraud
Believe me, that a
little attention to acquire humility, and an act of this virtue, are worth more
before God’s infinite wisdom than all the learning of the world . . . Humility
drew the Son of God from Heaven to the womb of a Virgin, and by the same
humility we can draw Him into our souls. The more the flower of humility
blossoms in a soul, the greater is the good odor it imparts to her who
possesses it, to those who behold her, and to those who are about her.
St. Teresa of Avila
It was the French Catholic Heirarchy
that murdered St. Joan
In this crisis King Charles of
France shows himself as a very mean, shabby, and contemptible figure. He never raised a finger to try to save St.
Joan. He could have ransomed her, giving
if need be a promise that he would never use her in the field again and, by the
code of chivalry, such an offer of ransom would have had to be accepted. When Joan was placed in the power of the
Bishop of Beauvais- which was French- the Archbishop of Rheims, his
ecclesiastical superior, should have been ordered by the King to compel him to
lodge her in the ecclesiastical prison in Beauvais, where, as the question of
her orthodoxy was in dispute, she could be examined by theologians of both
political parties. Such an order by the
Archbishop would have been backed by the authority of Rome. But there is no record that Charles made any
move to save the girl who saved his kingdom.
He gave an example of callous ingratitude hard to match anywhere in
history… When all the arguments as to responsibility have been heard, there
remains one certain fact: French priests and lawyers tried and condemned St.
Joan, and every witness against her was French.
None of them need have taken part in the trial. They could have left the dirty work to an
English ecclesiastical court. As it was,
five bishops, thirty-two doctors of theology, sixteen bachelors of theology,
nine doctors of civil and canon law, seven doctors of medicine, and more than
eighty other priests and lawyers were included in her trial. Except five, every one of them was
French.
John Beevers, St. Joan of
Arc
“Mercy without justice is the mother of
dissolution; justice without mercy is cruelty.”
St. Thomas, commentary on the
Gospel of St. Matthew
Ecumenism of St. Paul
I wonder that you are
so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ, unto another
gospel. Which is not another, only there are some that trouble you, and would
pervert the gospel of Christ. But though we, or an angel
from heaven, preach a gospel to you besides that which we have preached to you,
let him be anathema. As we said before, so now I say again: If any one preach to you a gospel, besides that which you have
received, let him be anathema. St.
Paul, Apostle, Galatians 1, 6-9
It is by as great a
fraud...that these enemies of divine revelation, who bestow the highest praises
on human progress, wish, with a truly reckless and sacrilegious audacity, to
bring it [the progressist error] into the Catholic religion, as if religion was
not the work of God, but that of men, or was some philosophic discovery that
human methods could perfect.
Blessed Pope Pius IX, Qui
pluribus
INSTRUCTION ON GOOD WORKS
What are good works?
All actions of men which are done
according to the will of God, from love of Him, and by the help of grace.
Which are the principal good
works?
Prayer, fasting,
and almsgiving. Prayer including all acts
belonging to the service of God; fasting, all mortifications of the body;
almsgiving, all works of mercy.
How many are the works of
mercy?
Two: corporal and spiritual.
Which are the spiritual works
of mercy?
Those which have for their object
the salvation of our neighbor; as, 1, to admonish the sinner; 2, to instruct
the ignorant; 3, to counsel the doubtful; 4, to comfort the afflicted; 5, to
bear wrongs patiently; 6, to forgive injuries and offences; 7, to pray for the
living and the dead.
Which are the corporal works of
mercy?
1, To feed the hungry; 2, to give
drink to the thirsty; 3, to clothe the naked; 4, to visit the prisoners; 5, to
shelter the houseless; 6, to visit the sick; 7, to bury the dead (Matt. 25,
42-43).
What is necessary to render
works meritorious?
1, They
must be good in themselves; 2, they must be done by the grace of God; 3, in the
state of grace; 4, by free will; 5, with the good intention of pleasing God.
Can we be saved without good
works?
No; for Christ says expressly, “Every
tree that bringeth not good fruit shall be cut down and shall be cast into the
fire.” And that servant in the Gospel (Matt. 25, 25) who neither wasted his
talent nor yet traded with it, but dug into the earth and hid his lord’s money,
was therefore cast into the outer darkness.
If I feel aggrieved by some sharp word that has been said to me, or by
some discourtesy shown me, from whence does this feeling of pain proceed? From my pride alone. Oh, if I were truly humble, what calm,
what peace and happiness would my soul not enjoy! And this promise of Jesus
Christ is infallible: “Learn of Me, because I am meek
and humble of heart, and you shall find rest to your souls” (Matt. 11,
29).
Fr. Cajetan Mary da Bergamo, Humility of Heart
Be prepared, therefore,
to meet with difficulties. Remember the words of the Wise Man: “Son, when thou
comest to the service of God, stand in justice and in fear, and prepare thy
soul for temptation” (Ecclus. 2:1). Do not think you are called to enjoyment
alone. You must struggle and combat; for, notwithstanding the abundant succor
which is offered to us, we must expect hard labor and difficulties in the
beginning of our conversion. That you may not be discouraged, bear in mind that
the prize for which you are striving is worth more than all you can ever give
to purchase it. Remember that you have powerful defenders ever near you.
Against the assaults of corrupt nature you have God’s grace. Against the snares
of the devil you have the almighty power of God. Against the allurements of
evil habits you have the force of good habits confirmed by grace. Against a
multitude of evil spirits you have numberless angels of light. Against the bad
example and persecutions of the world you have the good example and
strengthening exhortations of the saints. Against the sinful pleasures and vain
joys of the world you have the pure joys and ineffable consolations of the Holy
Ghost.
Ven. Louis of Granade, The Sinner’s Guide
Tradition
means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the
democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.
G.K. Chesterton
St. James, Patron of Spain, forget not the grand nation which owes to
thee both its heavenly nobility and its earthly prosperity; preserve it from
ever diminishing those truths which made it, in its bright days, the salt of
the earth; keep it in mind of the terrible warning that “if the salt lose its
savior, it is food for nothing any more but to be cast out and to be trodden on
by men.
Dom Gueranger, Liturgical Year,
Feast of St. James
What is new in this teaching (on Religious Liberty) in relation to the
doctrine of Leo XIII and even of Pius XII…is the determination of the basis
peculiar to this liberty, which is sought not in the objective truth of moral
or religious good, but in the ontological quality of the human person…..It
cannot be denied that a text like this [the conciliar declaration on Religious
Liberty] says materially something different from the Syllabus of 1864, and
even almost the opposite of propositions 15, and 77 to 79 of that
document.
Fr. Yves Congar, O. P., On the Vatican II teaching on Religious Liberty
THE
FRUITS OF LIFE
SEVENTH WEEK AFTER PENTECOST
Presence
of God - Help
me, O Lord, not to be satisfied with words, but to bring forth fruits of
sanctity.
Meditation:
1. Both the Epistle (Rom.
6, 19-23) and the Gospel (Mt. 7, 15-21) for today speak of the
true fruits of the Christian life and invite us to ask ourselves what fruit we
have produced so far. “When you were the servants of sin,” says St. Paul, you
brought forth the fruits of death, “but now, being made free from sin and
become servants of God, you have your fruit unto sanctification.” Our
sanctification should be the fruit of our Christian life, and we must examine
ourselves on this point. What progress are we making in virtue? Are we faithful
to our good resolutions?
Every Christian may consider himself a
tree in the Lord’s vineyard; the divine gardener, Jesus Himself, has planted it
in good, fertile, productive ground in the garden of the Church, where it is
watered by the living water of grace. He has given it the most
tender care, cut off its useless branches by means of trials, cured its
diseases by His Passion and death, and watered its roots with His precious
Blood. He has taken such good care of it that He can say: “What is there that I
ought to do more to My vineyard, that I have not done
to it?” (Is 5, 4). After all this solicitude, one day Jesus comes to see
what kind of fruit this tree is bearing, and by its fruit He judges it, for “a
good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can an evil tree bring forth
good fruit.” Before the Redemption, mankind was like a wild tree which could
bring forth only fruits of death; but with the Redemption, we have been grafted
into Christ, and Christ, who nourishes us with His own Blood, has every right
to find in us fruits of sanctity, of eternal life. This is why words and sighs
and even faith are not enough, for “faith . . . if it have
not works, is dead in itself” (Jas.
2, 17). Works as well as the fulfillment of God’s will are necessary,
because “not everyone that says to Me `Lord, Lord!’
shall enter into the kingdom of heaven, but he that doth the will of My Father
who is in heaven.”
2.
In the Gospel of the day, Jesus directs our attention to the “false prophets”
who appear “in the clothing of sheep, but inwardly are ravening wolves.” There
are many who claim to be teachers in spiritual or moral matters, but they are
false teachers because their works do not correspond to their words. It is
easy, in fact, to speak well, but it is not easy to live well. Sometimes false
doctrines are offered to us, even though they may not seem false at first
because they have the appearance of truth. Thus any doctrine which, in the name
of an evangelical principle, offends other doctrines is false: for example,
that which in the name of compassion for individuals does harm to the common
good, or that which in the name of charity sanctions injustice or leads to a
neglect of obedience to lawful superiors. Equally false is any doctrine which
tends to make us lax, disturbs peace and harmony, or under the pretext of a
greater good, brings about dissension between superiors and subjects, or does
not submit to the voice of authority. Jesus would like us to be as “simple as
doves,” averse to criticism and severe judgments of our neighbor; but He also
wants us to be as “wise as serpents” (Mt 10, 16), so as not to let
ourselves be deceived by false appearances of good which hide dangerous snares.
Furthermore, it is not given to all to be
teachers, nor is it expected of all; but of everyone‑ learned and
ignorant, teachers and pupils‑ Our Lord asks the practice of the
Christian life in the concrete. What good would it do us to possess profound,
lofty doctrine if, at the same time, we should not live according to this
doctrine? Before we begin to instruct others, we must try to instruct
ourselves, pledging ourselves to follow all the teachings of the Gospel in
imitation of Jesus, “who began to do and to teach” (Acts 1,1). The genuine fruit which proves the worth of our
doctrine and of our life is always that indicated by Jesus: the fulfillment of
His will. This fulfillment means total adherence to the laws of God and of the
Church, loyal obedience to our lawful superiors, fidelity to duty‑ and
all these in every kind of circumstance, even at the sacrifice of our own ideas
and will.
COLLOQUY:
“O eternal God, when man was only a tree of
death, You made him a tree of life by grafting
Yourself onto him! Nevertheless, many people bring forth only fruits of death,
due to their sins and to their refusal to be grafted onto You, O eternal life.
Many remain in the death of their sins and do not come to the fountain from
which Christ’s Blood flows to water their tree . . . and thus it is seen that You created us without our help but You will not save us
without it.
“What great dignity, O God, does the soul
receive which has been grafted onto You and what
excellent fruits it produces! How does this tree bear these fruits, if, by
itself, it is sterile and dead? It bears them in You, O Christ, for if You had not been grafted onto it, it could produce no fruit
by its own power, for it is nothing.
“O eternal truth, inestimable love! You
brought forth for us, O Christ, fruits of fire, love, light, and prompt
obedience, by which You ran like a Lover to the
ignominious death of the Cross; You gave us these fruits by grafting Your
divinity onto our humanity. Thus, a soul who has been grafted onto You cares for nothing but Your honor and the salvation of
souls: it becomes faithful, prudent, and patient. Be ashamed, my soul, that you
deprive yourself of so much good on account of your faults! The good I do is of
no use to You, O God, and the evil of which I am guilty cannot harm You, but You are pleased when Your creature brings forth
fruits of life because she will reap infinite good from them and attain the end
for which You created her.
“O God, Your high, eternal will desires
only our sanctification; therefore, a soul who desires to sanctify itself, strips itself of its own will and clothes itself
with Yours. O my sweet Love, I think this is the true sign of those who have
been grafted onto You; they fulfill Your will
according to Your pleasure and not according to their own, so that they become
clothed in Your will” (cf. St. Catherine of Siena).
Novena
Prayer to Saint Anne
Feast of St. Anne, Mother of the Blessed Virgin Mary, July 26th
O GLORIOUS St. Anne, filled with compassion for those who invoke thee
and with love for those who suffer, heavily laden with the weight of my
troubles, I cast myself at thy feet and humbly beg of thee to take under thy
special protection the present affair which I commend to thee.
[State your petition]
Be pleased to commend it to thy daughter, the Blessed Virgin Mary, and
lay it before the throne of Jesus, so that He may bring it to a happy outcome.
Cease not to intercede for me until my request is granted. Above all, obtain
for me the grace of one day beholding my God face to face, and, with thee and
Mary and all the Saints, of praising and blessing Him for all eternity. Amen.
Good St. Anne, mother of her who is our
life, our sweetness and our hope, pray to her for us and obtain our request. [Three times.] Good St. Anne, pray for us Jesus, Mary, Anne.
St.
Ann Anne, Patroness of Christian Mothers
“To St. Anne, God has given the power to aid in every necessity,
because Jesus, her Divine Grandchild according to the flesh, will refuse her no
petition, and Mary, her glorious daughter, supports her every request. Those
who venerate good St. Anne shall want for nothing, either in this life or the
next. Believe me, if you love and
venerate this Saint, you will experience how highly God esteems her. He grants
all she asks! It would be impossible to enumerate the many graces she obtains
daily for her servants.”
Abbot John Trithemius
“Anne is the glorious tree from which bloomed a twig under Divine
influence. She is the sublime heaven from whose heights the Star of the
Sea neared its rising. She is the blessed barren woman, happy mother among
mothers, from whose pure womb came forth the shining temple of God, the
sanctuary of the Holy Ghost, the Mother of God.”
St. Jerome
“Blessed, thrice blessed art thou, O Saint Anne, who didst receive from
God and brought forth the blessed child from whom proceeded
Christ, the Flower of life! We congratulate thee, O
blessed Anne, on the dignity of being the mother of Mary, for thou hast brought
forth our common hope, the germ of Promise! All pious lips bless thee in thy
daughter, all languages glorify thy child! Worthy art thou above all praise,
worthy of the praise of all who are redeemed, for thou hast given life to her
who brought forth our Savior, Jesus Christ.”
St. John Damascene
“From her very childhood, she possessed the fullness of every virtue.
She was continually engaged in devout meditation. Her unceasing prayer was that
the Redeemer might come soon.”
St. Mary of Agreda
“In desperate cases of need, I always invoke the holy mother Anne.”
Blessed Anna Catherine Emmerich
“We do not doubt that the more love we show to the mother of Mary, the
more we merit the intercession and aid of the holy Virgin who brought forth the
only-begotten Son of God, Our Lord Jesus Christ.”
Pope Gregory XV
“We know and are convinced that
our good mother St. Anne helps in all needs, dangers and tribulations, for Our
Lord wishes to show us that He will do also in Heaven what she asks of Him for
us.”
St. Teresa of Avila
Death
of a Catholic Recusant
“In the year of our Lord 1589, Nicholas Tychborne, gentleman of rank,
died in the gaol of Winchester. This gentleman, after having suffered
multiplied and grievous injuries, together with the spoliation of all his
goods, was at length captured by the fraud of his enemies, brought to
Winchester and cast into prison. Where, having been detained therein for the
profession of the Catholic religion during the space of nine years, he fell
ill, seized with a grievous malady, and he sent for a priest who might
administer the rites of the Church to him, now approaching the end of his
existence.
“The priest did the duties of his office, after which the only wish of
the sick man was, that, as he must pay the debt of nature, he might be permitted
to survive until the festival of St. James (July 25), for he ardently desired
to depart this life on the feast of that saint, under whose guardianship and
protection he had lived seventy years. Nor was the wish in vain; for beyond all
hope and expectation of both the physicians and his friends, he was preserved
for the space of fifteen days—that is, until the feast of St. James, in which,
towards night, in the presence of many of his Catholic fellow prisoners, he
began more ardently to implore the saint’s assistance. He then commended
himself to God, to the Virgin Mother of God, and to all the other princes of
heaven, addressing them in the most moving language; and having crossed his
hands, with his eyes devoutly lifted up to heaven, he laid in that posture
about two hours, sometimes breaking forth into the praises of his Maker, but
for the most part quietly meditating within himself, till at length, without
any agony or symptom of pain, he most sweetly expired.
“After his death no small contention arose between Cooper, the
superintendent of Winchester (i.e., the Protestant bishop) and the Catholics
and his other friends, for he would not grant them a place of interment in any
church or cemetery; declaring that his conscience would not permit him to allow
a Papist to be buried in any of his churches or cemeteries. To this the
Catholics answered that the churches had been built, not by them [the
Protestants] but by men of their [Catholic] religion, and by these the cemeteries
were consecrated, and that therefore it was very unjust to deny them the right
of sepulture in those places which Catholics had formerly erected at their own
expense for this very purpose. But this argument, though
indeed most powerful, availed nothing with him. They therefore, knowing
his power and authority, which was very great in the city, and struck, at the
same time, with the novelty of the affair, continued for a long time in painful
suspense, uncertain how to proceed.
“At length an old man came forth and said the following: ‘The affair
is, indeed, one of the very greatest difficulty, but if you follow my advice,
we shall do what seems easier than was first intended to be done, and of which
the Protestants have not the slightest suspicion. You know that upon a hill,
about a mile distant from this city, is a place on which there was formerly a
chapel dedicated to St. James, the vestiges of which still remain, and from
which the hill itself has borrowed its name. I remember as a boy seeing several
persons there buried; even there let us take this good man, especially as in
the very agony of his death we beheld him particularly recommending himself to
that saint as to his holy patron, to whom also, during his whole life, he was
singularly devout, and actually died on his festival day, all of which seems to
demand this for him as of right, and necessity itself compels.’
“The advice of the old man was adopted and put into execution, and the
bones of the good gentleman now rest on the summit of that high and most
beautiful hill, in the very place where formerly existed a celebrated chapel
dedicated to St. James, but which, not many years ago, the heretics, as is
their custom, pulled down and completely demolished.”
I need only add that from that date, 1589, to the present, the
Catholics have always retained possession of the ancient cemetery of St. James.
It is the Catholic cemetery of Winchester, and in its holy ground repose the
bodies of many confessors for the Faith in that neighbourhood.
Mr. F. J. Baigent, recounted by Cardinal Francis Aidan Gasquet, The Last Abbot of Glastonbury, and Other Essays (1908)
“Into whatever city or town you shall enter,” said Jesus to His
disciples, “inquire who in it is worthy, and there abide.” Now St. Luke relates that as they went, our
Lord Himself “entered into a certain town, and a certain woman named Martha
received Him into her house.” How could
we give a greater praise to Magdalen’s sister than by bringing together these
two texts of the holy Gospel?
Dom Gueranger, The Liturgical Year, St. Martha
Truth
- the substance and ground of Prudence
Classical Christian ethics, on the contrary, maintains that man can be
prudent and good only simultaneously; that prudence is part and parcel of the
definition of goodness; that there is no sort of justice and fortitude which
runs counter to the virtue of prudence; and that the unjust man has been
imprudent before and is imprudent at the moment he is unjust. Omnis virtus moralis debet esse prudens—
All virtue is necessarily prudent.[.....] Thus
prudence is cause, root, mother, measure, precept, guide, and prototype of all
ethical virtues; it acts in all of them, perfecting them to their true nature;
all participate in it, and by virtue of this participation they are virtues.
[.....] We incline all too quickly to misunderstand Thomas Aquinas’s words
about “reason perfected in the cognition of truth.” “Reason” means to him nothing other than “regard
for and openness to reality,” and “acceptance of reality.” And “truth” is to
him nothing other than the unveiling and revelation of reality, of both natural
and supernatural reality. Reason “perfected in the cognition of truth” is
therefore the receptivity of the human spirit, to which the revelation of
reality, both natural and supernatural reality, has given substance. Certainly prudence is the standard of
volition and action; but the standard of prudence, on the other hand, is the ipsa res, the “thing itself,” the
objective reality of being. And therefore the preeminence of prudence signifies
first of all the direction of volition and action toward truth; but finally it
signifies the directing of volition and action toward objective reality. The
good is prudent beforehand; but that is prudent which is in keeping with reality.
Josef Pieper, The Four Cardinal Virtues
BANISH FROM YOUR MIND whatever tends to depress and disconcert you,
striving always with great mildness to acquire or preserve serenity of soul.
For Christ Himself has said: “Blessed are the
peacemakers. . . . Learn of me for I am meek and humble of heart.” Never doubt
that God will crown your labor and make your soul a dwelling of delight; all He
asks of you is a sincere attempt to disperse the clouds and storms whenever you
are molested by disturbances of the senses and passions, that the sun of peace
may shine on all your actions.
As a house cannot be built in a day, neither can the mansion of inner
peace be built within our souls in a fleeting instant. Rather, our success is a
gradual attainment; it is the culmination of the primary work of the divine
architect in predisposing our souls for the edifice to be built therein, and
the firm establishment of humility which must be the foundation of that
edifice.
Rev. Lorenzo Scupoli, The Spiritual Combat
It is the invariable opinion of theologians that there is no more
efficacious means than Mass for obtaining a good and holy death. Christ our Lord is said to have revealed to
St. Mechtilde that he who in life is in the habit of devoutly hearing holy Mass
shall in death be consoled by the presence of the angels and saints, his
advocates, who shall bravely defend him from all the snares of infernal
spirits. Oh, how beautiful the death
which is destined to succeed your life if you shall have striven to hear with devotion
as many Masses as you could!
St. Leonard of Port Maurice
Hermeneutics of Continuity/Discontinuity
On the “Ordinary Form” of the Novus Ordo
What happened after the
Council was altogether different: instead of a liturgy 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,
introduction in the French edition of Monsignor Klaus Gamber’s book, The Reform of the Roman Rite
The “Abomination of desolation,
which was spoken of by the prophet Daniel, in the holy place” refers to heresy
or negligence in the papal office.
In assessing Our duty
and the situation now prevailing, We have been weighed upon by the thought that
a matter of this kind [i.e. error in respect of the Faith] is so grave and so
dangerous that the Roman Pontiff, who is the representative upon earth of God
and our God and Lord Jesus Christ, who holds the fullness of power over peoples
and kingdoms, who may judge all and be judged by none in this world, may
nonetheless be contradicted if he be found to have deviated from the Faith.
Remembering also that, where danger is greater, it must more fully and more
diligently be counteracted, We have been concerned lest false prophets or
others, even if they have only secular jurisdiction, should wretchedly ensnare
the souls of the simple, and drag with them into perdition, destruction and
damnation countless peoples committed to their care and rule, either in
spiritual or in temporal matters; and We have been concerned also lest it
may befall Us to see the abomination of desolation, which was spoken of by the
prophet Daniel, in the holy place. In view of this, Our desire has been to
fulfill our Pastoral duty, insofar as, with the help of God, We are able, so as
to arrest the foxes who are occupying themselves in the destruction of the
vineyard of the Lord and to keep the wolves from the sheepfolds, lest We seem
to be dumb watchdogs that cannot bark and lest We perish with the wicked
husbandman and be compared with the hireling. Pope Paul IV, Cum Ex
Apostolatus Officio
Dogma
IS the Magisterium explaining “clearly what is contained in the Deposit of
Faith”!
God has given to his Church a living Teaching
Authority [i.e. Magisterium] to elucidate and explain clearly what is contained
in the Deposit of Faith only obscurely and implicitly... If the Church does
exercise this function of teaching, either in the ordinary (and universal) or
the extraordinary way, it is clear how false is a procedure which would attempt
to explain what is clear by means of what is obscure. Indeed the very opposite
procedure must be used. Pope Pius XII, Humani Generis
“Gospel
of Mercy”= Repentance Not Required
Press Reporter Question: What about the presence or
non-presence of homosexual couples in Philadelphia
Msgr. Paglia Answer: Everyone is welcome, nobody is
excluded. We are following Instrumentum Laboris on the Synod to the letter.
Everyone can come, nobody is excluded. And if anyone feels excluded, I’ll leave
the 99 little sheep and go and get him. [....] The intimate connection [between
the meeting in the Philadelphia and the Synod in Rome] is evidently not only
temporal. The hope is that the meeting in Philadelphia and the Synod in October
may truly build an ecclesial and social season, characterized by a renewed
focus on the family. We want to work towards this. We want the Gospel of mercy
proclaimed in the great cities of the world, most of all in the poorest and
most marginalized quarters.
Monsignor Vincenzo
Paglia, President of the Pontifical Council for the Family, 8th World Meeting
of Families, planned for September 22 to 27, Philadelphia
One would think that Catholics, after nearly 2,000 years of practicing
their faith, would know a thing or two about it. Unfortunately, a thing or two
may be about it. Last year, the Pew
Forum on Religion and Public Life surveyed a wide cross section of Americans on
their general knowledge of religion. Responses were received from Catholics,
Protestants, Jews, Mormons and even atheists and
agnostics. Out of 32 questions,
Catholics (white and Hispanic combined) got an average of only 14.7 right. To
add insult to injury, even the atheists outscored Catholics by six points.
Only a third of Catholics could name the four Gospels. Only 55% knew that the Catholic Church believes in the
real presence of Jesus in the Eucharist. (How many individual Catholics
actually believe that is another matter.)
The Pew survey showed what virtually every other survey has shown: Most
adult Catholics are clueless about the faith they profess.
F. Douglas Kneibert, National
Catholic Register, Why Catholic?
The
Invariable Notes of a True Catholic
What then will the Catholic
Christian do, if a small part of the Church has cut itself off from the
communion of the universal Faith? The answer is sure. He will prefer the
healthiness of the whole body to the morbid and corrupt limb. But what if some novel
contagions try to infect the whole Church, and not merely a tiny part of it?
Then he will take care to cleave to antiquity, which cannot now be led astray
by any deceit of novelty. What if in antiquity itself two or three men, or it
may be a city, or even a whole province be detected in error? Then he will take
the greatest care to prefer the decrees of the ancient General Councils, if
there are such, to the irresponsible ignorance of a few men. But what if some
error arises regarding which nothing of this sort is to be found? Then he must
do his best to compare the opinions of the Fathers and inquire their meaning,
provided always that, though they belonged to diverse times and places, they
yet continued in the faith and communion of the one Catholic Church; and let
them be teachers approved and outstanding. And whatever he shall find to have
been held, approved and taught, not by one or two only but by all equally and
with one consent, openly, frequently, and persistently, let him take this as to
be held by him without the slightest hesitation.
St. Vincent Lerins, Commonitory, Chapter Three
This being the case, he is the true
and genuine Catholic who loves the truth of God, who loves the Church, who
loves the Body of Christ, who esteems divine religion and the Catholic Faith
above every thing, above the authority, above the regard, above the genius,
above the eloquence, above the philosophy, of every man whatsoever; who sets
light by all of these, and continuing steadfast and established in the faith,
resolves that he will believe that, and that only, which he is sure the
Catholic Church has held universally and from ancient time; but that whatsoever
new and unheard-of doctrine he shall find to have been furtively introduced by
some one or another, besides that of all, or contrary to that of all the
saints, this, he will understand, does not pertain to religion, but is
permitted as a trial, being instructed especially by the words of the blessed
Apostle Paul, who writes thus in his first Epistle to the Corinthians, “ There
must needs be heresies, that they who are approved may be made manifest among
you: “as though he should say, This is the reason why the authors of Heresies
are not forthwith rooted up by God, namely, that they who are approved may be
made manifest that is, that it may be apparent of each individual, how
tenacious and faithful and steadfast he is in his love of the Catholic faith.
And in truth, as each novelty springs
up incontinently is discerned the difference between the weight of the wheat
and the lightness of the chaff. Then that which had no weight to keep it on the
floor is without difficulty blown away. For some at once fly off entirely;
others having been only shaken out, afraid of perishing, wounded, half alive,
half dead, are ashamed to return. They have, in fact swallowed a quantity of
poison -- not enough to kill, yet more than can be got rid of; it neither
causes death, nor suffers to live. O wretched condition! With what surging
tempestuous cares are they tossed about ! One while,
the error being set in motion, they are hurried whithersoever the wind drives
them; another, returning upon themselves like refluent waves, they are dashed
back: one while, with rash presumption, they give their approval to what seems
uncertain; another, with irrational fear, they are frightened out of their wits
at what is certain, in doubt whither to go, whither to return, what to seek,
what to shun, what to keep, what to throw away.
This affliction, indeed, of a
hesitating and miserably vacillating mind is, if they are wise, a medicine
intended for them by God’s compassion. For therefore it is that outside the
most secure harbour of the Catholic Faith, they are tossed about, beaten, and
almost killed, by divers tempestuous cogitations, in order that they may take
in the sails of self-conceit, which, they had with ill advice unfurled to the
blasts of novelty, and may betake themselves again to, and remain stationary
within, the most secure harbour of their placid and good mother, and may begin
by vomiting up those bitter and turbid floods of error which they had
swallowed, that thenceforward they may be able to drink the streams of fresh
and living water. Let them unlearn well what they had learnt not well, and let
them receive so much of the entire doctrine of the Church as they can
understand: what they cannot understand let them believe.
St. Vincent Lerins, Commonitory, Chapter Twenty
Hermeneutics of Continuity/Discontinuity
In reality, the body and blood of Christ do not mean the material
components of the human person of Jesus during his lifetime or in his
transfigured corporality. Here, body and blood mean the presence of Christ in
the signs of the medium of bread and wine.
Archbishop Gerhard Muller, Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith,
On the Eucharist, from a book on the Mass in 2002
Council
of Trent: Decree Concerning the Most Holy Sacrament of the Eucharist
CANON I.-If any one denieth, that, in the sacrament of the most holy
Eucharist, are contained truly, really, and substantially, the body and blood
together with the soul and divinity of our Lord Jesus Christ, and consequently
the whole Christ; but saith that He is only therein as in a sign, or in figure,
or virtue; let him be anathema.
CANON lI.-If any one saith, that, in the sacred and holy sacrament of
the Eucharist, the substance of the bread and wine remains conjointly with the
body and blood of our Lord Jesus Christ, and denieth that wonderful and singular
conversion of the whole substance of the bread into the Body, and of the whole
substance of the wine into the Blood-the species Only of the bread and wine
remaining-which conversion indeed the Catholic Church most aptly calls
Transubstantiation; let him be anathema.
CANON III.-If any one denieth, that, in the venerable sacrament of the
Eucharist, the whole Christ is contained under each species,
and under every part of each species, when separated;
let him be anathema.
CANON IV.-If any one saith, that, after the consecration is completed,
the body and blood of our Lord Jesus Christ are not in the admirable sacrament
of the Eucharist, but (are there) only during the use, whilst it is being
taken, and not either before or after; and that, in the hosts, or consecrated
particles, which are reserved or which remain after communion, the true Body of
the Lord remaineth not; let him be anathema.
The
Transfiguration: Tropological Meaning from the Church Fathers
Christ wished, in the first place,
to give a type of the transfiguration of a soul dark with sins into that light
of grace by which we are made like unto Christ. For our transfiguration
standeth in likeness, or configuration unto Christ; that we should be conformed
unto Christ in all humility, charity and obedience; that we should be living
images of the life and holiness of Christ; that we should think, speak, and act
with such piety, gravity, and zeal as Christ did; that whosoever sees us should
think that he beholds Christ in us. Again Christ here gives a representation of
the transfiguration by which a soul passes from a lower degree of holiness to a
higher degree. For Christ who was already holy was transfigured. This
transfiguration is more infrequent and more difficult than the former. For
Saints often flatter themselves on account of their sanctity, and as it were
rest in it, and do not aspire to higher sanctity, as sinners and penitents
aspire to righteousness. It is less frequently, says a Father,
that any one is transfigured from less to greater sanctity, than from
sin to holiness. It can only take place in the mountain, and by going aside
with Christ, that is to say, by frequent and fervent prayer and meditation. For
in them the mind is illuminated by God, and draws as through a pipe celestial
light, by means of which it conceives fresh ardor to reform its ways, yea to be
transformed into Christ, that with St. Paul it may say, “The world is crucified
unto me. I live, yet not I, but Christ liveth in me.” And with St. Francis, it
would imprint the five wounds of Christ, if not in its body, yet in the inmost
recesses of its soul.
Prayer, then,
is the transfiguration of the soul.
§
Because in it the soul receives light from God,
that she may know Him and herself and all things more clearly.
§
By it the soul seeks and obtains grace to blot
out the stains and vices by which she is deformed. In it she receives
consolation for desolation; out of weakness she is made strong; from slothful
she becomes fervent; for perplexity, she hath understanding ; for sadness,
gladness; and for cowardice, courage.
§
She is raised above herself, and is lifted up to
God in heaven, where she learns and sees that all the things of earth are
fragile and worthless, so that from her lofty height she looks down upon them
as fit only for children, She perceives that the true riches, honours, and
pleasures are nowhere but in heaven.
§
In prayer she unites herself to God. For, “he
that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.” (1. Cor. vi.
17.) Hence St. Francis, when he prayed, was lifted up on high, and could speak,
think of and love nothing else save God. “My God and all,” he was wont to say, “Grant
me, O Lord, to die for love of Thy love, Thou who didst deign to die for love
of my love!” This is what St. Paul says, “But we all, with open face beholding
as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory
to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.” (2. Cor. iii. 18.)
Rev. Cornelius de Lapide, The Great Commentary
PROBLEM:
Rev. Cornelius a Lapide, in his Great Commentary on the Scripture, referencing
fathers and doctors of the Church, says that the gift of “never-failing faith”
was given to St. Peter alone as a personal grace and is not possessed by his
successors in the papal office!
In addition, I believe this question has become profoundly complicated
due to the current, widespread rejection of Thomistic cosmology and metaphysics
– this denigration of Thomism engulfing even the Papacy. This denial of
scholastic cosmology and metaphysics is due almost entirely to the effect of
reductive analytical physical science upon Catholic thinking. And because of the
almost universal ambience of this reductive materialism, there are all sorts of
people of good will out there – persons who truly wish to follow Christ and his
Church – who are desperately and foolishly trying to understand such concepts
as Transubstantiation and Original Sin in a manner which will accord with what
they believe is the irrefutable worldview of modern science. It is this
scientific world-view which has supposedly necessitated doing an end-run around
the Thomistic view of being and substance. And it is this loss of the
understanding of being and substance which erodes the foundations of virtually
all the articles of our Catholic Faith.
I have explored this problem in depth in my book The War Against
Being and the Return to God. Suffice to say here that these people are
certainly immersed in very serious philosophical error, and that these errors
severely affect their proper understanding of defined doctrine. What is hard to
determine is whether they can truly be considered as individuals who have “lost
the faith.” It is certainly my contention that recent Popes have fallen into
these errors. However (and this is a huge “however”) it is even more my certain
belief that, in keeping with the doctrine laid down by Vatican I concerning the
never-failing faith of Peter and all his successors, none of them can be
considered to have “lost the faith.”
James Larson, The War Against the Papacy
Temperance
Wherever forces of self-preservation,
self-assertion, self-fulfillment, destroy the structure of man’s inner being,
the discipline of temperance and the license of intemperance enter into play.
The natural urge toward sensual enjoyment, manifested in delight in food
and drink and sexual pleasure, is the echo and mirror of man’s strongest
natural forces of self-preservation. The basic forms of enjoyment correspond to
these most primordial forces of being, which tend to preserve the individual
man, as well as the whole race, in the existence for which he was created
(Wisdom 1:14). But for the very reason that these forces are closely allied to
the deepest human urge toward being, they exceed all other powers of mankind in
their destructive violence once they degenerate into selfishness.
Therefore, we find here the actual province of temperantia: temperateness
and chastity, intemperateness and unchastity, are the primordial forms of the
discipline of temperance and the license of intemperance.
But we have not, as yet, fully explored the range of the concept of temperantia
— in “humility,” the instinctive urge to self-assertion can also
be made serviceable to genuine self-preservation, but it can
likewise pervert and miss this purpose in “pride” — And if the natural desire
of man to avenge an injustice which he has suffered and to restore his rights
explodes in uncontrollable fury, it destroys that which can be preserved only
by “gentleness” and “mildness.” Without rational self-restraint even the
natural hunger for sense perception or for knowledge can degenerate into a
destructive and pathological compulsive greed; this degradation Aquinas calls curiositas,
the disciplined mode studiositas.
To sum up: chastity, continence, humility,
gentleness, mildness, studiositas, are
modes of realization of the discipline of temperance; unchastity, incontinence,
pride, uninhibited wrath, curiositas, are forms of
intemperance.
Why is it that one reacts with involuntary irritation to these terms
which express the essence of temperance and intemperance, discipline and
dissoluteness? Since it can hardly be caused by resistance to the good, this
irritation must stem from the thick tangle of misinterpretations which covers
and smothers each one of these concepts. This mesh of misinterpretations has
its roots in a distortion and falsification of man’s ideal image which we can
properly term demonic, all the more so since Christians and non-Christians
alike regard them as characteristics of the Christian image of man. Worse, the
root cause is not just a misconceived image of the good man, but a misconceived
view of created reality. Temperantia is intimately related to the
ordered structure of the being of man, in which all gradations of creation
unite; as the history of heresy shows, it is quite particularly in the sphere
of temperantia that the attitude toward creation and “the world” is
most incisively decided.
The attempt to reconstitute the genuine and original meaning of temperantia
and its various modes of realization must embrace a variety of tasks. It
will have to go beyond the strict limits of the subject, in order to anchor the
true image of this virtue in the fundamentals of Christian teaching concerning
man and reality.
Josef Pieper, The Four Cardinal Virtues
From the attribute of God’s GOODNESS
follows His Mercy/Justice
In the true Religion, justice and mercy not only cannot, but do not
exist without one another. This is why all this vague and amorphous talk of “accompaniment, reconciliation and
integration” emanating from the recent Synod’s progressivist party is so very diabolical. It is not directed to setting people right with God. It is therefore neither just nor merciful. The
mercy lauded in Holy Scripture is either a divine attribute or a human virtue. As a
divine attribute it is perfectly in conformity with God’s justice. In fact, in
God, justice and mercy are attributes that can only be logically distinguished; they have no real distinction
in the divine essence Itself which is perfectly simple and not composed of
parts. As a virtue of men, mercy is not a mere sentiment or emotion. The pure, unchecked emotion of mercy can
lead us to be unjust, in the same way
that any unchecked emotion can. Here,
“conformity to reason” — a touchstone of perennial wisdom on the virtues — is of utmost importance. God Himself shows us mercy by giving us His grace.
That grace, in turn, makes us “just,” or right with Himself.
In Christ, “Mercy and truth have met
each other: justice and peace have
kissed” (Ps. 84:11). And
Our Lord enjoins us to imitate Himself by offering sublime divine promises: “He that followeth justice and mercy, shall
find life, justice, and glory” (Prov. 21:21); and “Blessed are the merciful:
for they shall obtain mercy” (Matt. 5:7).
Br. Andre, MICM
Love is also
capable of decline. Purely human love
can grow less and less until it perishes altogether. When a man begins to think less and less of
his wife, to be less thoughtful of her welfare, to do fewer things to make her
happy, then his love for her is failing.
When he does something evil to her then his love ceases. Charity -man’s love for God- can also fail,
though not in precisely the same way.
Charity will not fail simply because a man thinks less often of
God. It will not even fail through
venial sin. Venial sin is concerned only
with the means that lead to the goal. It
does not destroy man’s basic tendency to God in charity. But mortal sin destroys charity
completely. Charity is the love of God
above all things. But in mortal sin man
prefers some created thing to God. Hence
mortal sin drives charity out of the soul of man. In a certain sense venial sin can led to the
loss of charity. Since all sin is not in
accord with the will of God, the venial sinner is gradually disposing his will
to give up God. Because he has not
followed the will of God in all things, when some crisis arises in his life he
may give up God for some temporary created good.
Fr. Walter
Farrell, O. P., S.T.M., My Way of Life, Pocket Edition of St. Thomas
No
sense in mincing words!
My only source for Luther was Luther himself. [….] Luther was so vile
that he could not possibly be an instrument of God. [….] this so-called
reformer made no discovery at all in the theological realm. [....] He was not
only a liar, but an ignorant liar.
Heinrich Seuse Denifle,
O. P., (1844-1905), the great scholar and historian, who was beloved by Leo XIII and St. Pius X, wrote important studies on
the history of medieval universities, history of the University of Paris,
medieval mysticism, history of the Hundred Years War, many works on philosophy
and theology always searching for primary documentation throughout the archives
in Europe. He was a conductor of the
Cardinalitial Commission of Studies, a member of the Imperial Academy of
Sciences (Vienna), and of those of Paris, Prague, Berlin, Göttingen, honorary
doctor of the Universities of Münster and Innsbruck, member of the Légion d’honneur,
of the Order of the Iron Crown, etc. He was on his way to Cambridge, where he
was to be made Honorary Doctor of that university, when he was struck down by
the hand of death.
Why Can’t the
Hierarchy Speak Plainly About What Every Faithful Catholic Knows?
Question: Some say that allowing priests to get married
would keep them far away from sexual abuse.
Answer: Yes, the United States
Conference of Catholic Bishops has discussed this matter at length. With
the disconcerting data we have, it would not be obvious that having married
priests would prevent sexual abuse.. Nearly all
of the cases of sexual abuse that have been investigated as having been
committed by those in consecrated life were not committed on prepubescent
children but on adolescents. All of these were male. This means three things: that the
problem is not pedophilia but ebophilia; this is the direct result of
pederasty; therefore if we are dealing with pederasty I do not see how having a
wife would have had an effect. The problem is not celibacy. The problem
is that liberal spirit that reigned in the ‘80s among the clergy, and threw
wide open the doors of the seminaries to more or less explicit homosexuals. The
results were seen in the successive decade: scandals dealing with abuse
and pedophilia (sic). All of this has a basis in homoeroticism. It
is a datum of fact, not a prejudice.
Question: Scalfari, a fierce atheist, seems to be obsessed with the
person of Francis. To be more precise: he seems unable to stop
talking about him, writing to him.
Answer: Another such one is Corrado Augias. I look at these
people with curiosity, with a smile on my face, but I am not surprised by this
phenomenon. Having arrived at the threshold of the ultimate mystery that
is death, they either act like Augias, a disciple of the Marxists right up to
his old age, who are looking for theologians who deal with “adult issues”, who
will give them peace, telling them that either there is nothing or everyone is
saved. And then there is Scalfari:
thank goodness that he has a Pope who has abolished the very notion of
sin. Think about the contradiction: they wax enthusiastically about
“mercy”, forgetting that mercy supposes, in fact, sin. If there is no
sin, what need is there for mercy? They have this anxiety for reassurance
that does not make me angry but elicits my compassion. I do not wish
to seem edifying, but it should at least be said: they are to be prayed
for.
Vittorio Messori, Italian journalist and
author of the Ratzinger Report, interview
from Libero Quotidiano, July 15, 2014
The
Duty of the Church is to Uphold and Defend the “Supernaturally Good” toward the
“Final Aim”!
Whatever a Christian does, even in worldly affairs, he is not at
liberty to disregard what is supernaturally good, but he must order everything
towards the highest good as his final aim, in accordance with the precepts of
Christian wisdom. All his actions, however, as far as they are morally good or
bad, that is to say, as far as they are in accord with or transgress the
natural and divine law, are subject to the judgment and jurisdiction of the
Church. Pope St. Pius X, Singulari Quadam
The
Church must end any requirement of a state issued “marriage license” for
receiving the sacrament of matrimony.
It was
the Catholic Justice Anthony Kennedy who declared “unconstitutional” state laws
against Sodomy, overturned DOMA, confirmed homosexual “marriage” as a constitutional
right, and overturned every state law intended to protect the child from
abortion. Excommunication?
What Marriage Is and Isn’t,
and What to Expect from a Redefinition
Dennis
Bonnette 6-28-13
Even the new definition of marriage will quickly be
deemed discriminatory against other sexual perversions
Today people are
fighting about “marriage equality,” but few people understand the original
definition of marriage and why it must be so.
The common definition of traditional
marriage given today, even by Justice Anthony Kennedy in his June 26, 2013,
Supreme Court decision invalidating DOMA, is that marriage is “a union of a man
and a woman.” This definition merely expresses the material content of a
marriage, that is, which persons can enter into it. It fails to express the
formal content, which entails the purpose of the contract, and thereby, fails
to distinguish true marriage from its false imitators. Every contract
expresses, not only who enters into its terms, but also the purpose of the
contract. For example, two people agree to the sale of a house. The contract
does not merely name the two people involved, but its terms must also define
the nature of the sale. Since marriage is a contract between two persons, it
also has a purpose, which has always been either expressed or assumed by those
entering into it.
The Rev. Heribert Jone in his Moral
Theology (Newman: Westminster, 1945, p. 483.) offers the definition of
marriage that has been recognized for thousands of years: “The marriage
contract is a contract by which two competent persons of the opposite sex give
to each other the exclusive and irrevocable right over their bodies (ius in
corpus) for the procreation and education of children.” That is, the couple
gives to each other the right to those acts which are suitable to the
procreation of children. From this, flows the responsibility and right of that
couple to provide for the care and education of children conceived by their
marital union. That is also why adultery has always been considered such a
moral outrage to those who are married: it is a sex act that directly attacks
the natural purpose of marriage itself.
A New Definition
The new definition being sold today
in the media, and even the Supreme Court, is a twisted and shortened version,
based on a simple substitution of the traditional purpose of the marital union
with the mere material naming of those who enter into that union, thereby
losing sight of the essential purpose of the marital contract – and allowing
people to redefine it as something like a union of mutual love and commitment
between any two people, even of the same sex.
This new definition ignores the vital
national interest of true marriage as the only natural way for society to
replace its members, or else, to die out. Only males and females can naturally
reproduce, and every human being is the natural product of just such a sexual
union.
That is the reason why society has
always honored true marriage with special protection in law – not because
people have an inalienable right to marry (which they do), not because it
serves some selfish interest of the people involved, not because it is a
religious sacrament, but primarily because true marriage, by its very nature,
alone serves the vital national interest of replacing the population that dies
off.
Matrimony is taken from the Latin, “mater,”
meaning “mother,” and “monium,” meaning “a state or condition,” thus defining
the purpose of marriage as man taking a wife to have children. In ancient Rome,
this was understood as the purpose of marriage, the production of new citizens
for the Roman state.
Marriage and the Constitution
Traditional marriage already has a
legitimate foundation in the U.S. Constitution, where the Preamble refers to
securing “the blessings of liberty to ourselves and
our posterity.”
In so saying, the Preamble
establishes the “legislative intent” that judges look to in determining the
meaning of a law. “Equal protection” clauses are cited in both state and
federal claims that homosexuals have the same right to marry as heterosexuals.
But equality claims are illicit unless litigants are similarly situated before
the law. Since heterosexual marriage as a general institution can, at least
potentially, further the purposes of the Constitution by securing “blessings…to…our
posterity” insofar as traditional marriage is the only institution that is naturally
able to produce society’s posterity – and since homosexual unions cannot
produce any “posterity” by themselves, the potential litigants are not
similarly situated. Thus the Preamble’s wording establishes a distinct and
special basis for traditional marriage, but not for homosexual unions. And this
role of traditional marriage in assuring society’s posterity is consistent with
the classical meaning of marriage, even as understood by the pagan Romans.
Moreover, since we are all
responsible for the results of our actions, husbands and wives, share the
responsibility, and hence the right, to raise and educate their children to
adulthood – the time when they, too, become self-sustaining members of society.
No other “arrangement” naturally confers this obligation because no other human
union is naturally designed for those acts that beget children. True marriage
obliges society to respect and defend the natural process of begetting and
raising children.
Although some couples may be sterile,
their marriages are still valid because marriage is an agreement to enjoy those
sexual acts which may result in children, not a guarantee that children will
result. As long as husband and wife can perform the act which normally can
result in children, the contract is fulfilled. What is clear is that only
heterosexual couples can engage in such acts.
The Future of Marriage
Even the so-called “new” definition
of marriage will quickly be seen as discriminatory, since it forbids three men
marrying each other, people marrying animals, adults marrying children, fathers
marrying daughters, and so forth. If this sounds absurd, consider that
bestiality was legal in Germany from 1969 until only recently, when it was
banned – but even then only because it was considered “inhumane” to the
animals! And bestiality is today legal in at least eight countries. In 2011 the
United States Senate approved a bill legalizing bestiality in the Armed Forces.
The North American Man/Boy Love Association (NAMBLA) has for years been arguing
for legalizing sex between men and boys.
This is the can of worms regarding
the redefinition of marriage that American society is being seduced into
opening today, and which now has been at least partially decided by the United
States Supreme Court. For the reasons stated above, it is vital to the nation
that we retain the traditional, and only rational, legal definition of marriage
-- as a union solely between one adult male and one adult female, giving to
each other the exclusive and irrevocable right over their bodies to engage in
sexual acts suited for the procreation and education of children.
Problem:
If he “hates dogma,” then he cannot possibly “care for the poor”!
Gotta love new Pope (Francis). He cares about poor, hates dogma. Jane
Fonda
Remember
the Catholic Faithful Who Suffer Persecution Justice for Sake
I’ll start my speech by the Word of Christ, as His Word is the source
of strength and salvation of us, the poor of this lost world: “There is no need
to be afraid, little flock” (Luke 12:32).
Our present pain is associated with our Christianity and with the
mystery of our Passover (i.e., Easter). Our suffering, if joined to the
suffering of our Savior Jesus, “Man of Sorrows”, will turn out to be a blessing
and salvation to us and to others.
And the current challenges are faced with more faith, hope,
and prayer and solidarity and wisdom. Be brave in front of what you are facing,
do not be afraid: you have deep roots in Iraq, do not give up for frustration
and despair, confident that, “all who draw the sword will die by the sword”
(Matthew 26:52) and evil does not last! You are the small mustard seed, the
Lord will not let you fall. He is with you today, tomorrow, and after tomorrow,
and forever.
We are your shepherds and, with our full responsibility towards you, we
will stay with you to the end, [we] will not leave you, whatever the
sacrifices. I repeat: do not be afraid; stay strong as you are with your faith
and your hope and love. We thank God for your safety, as, no matter what, your
life has no price.
God’s blessing be upon you.
Patriarch Louis Raphael I Sako, Chaldean Catholic Church - Patriarch of
Babylon of the Chaldeans, Baghdad, July 20, 2014
Who’s
rules?
“The British have violated the rules. It is not the EU
philosophy that the crowd can decide its fate.”
Martin Schulz, President of
the European Union Parliament, on Brexit vote
As
if homosexual “marriage” was not a “bursting of a dam.” Anyway, didn’t the homophilic pope already
apologize? Anyway, why just
homosexuals? How about all those other
paraphilics out there still labeled with their DSM-IV codes?
Cardinal Marx:
Homosexuals deserve an apology from the Church
LifeSiteNews | AUGSBURG, Germany | July 19, 2017– Cardinal Reinhard
Marx 
is more concerned
about the Catholic Church apologizing for its inaction against previous German
law prohibiting homosexuality than the country’s recent legalization of gay “marriage.”
The Munich cardinal, who is head
of the German bishops’ conference and a member of Pope Francis’ Council of
Cardinals, was decisive in saying he firmly upholds the Church’s teaching on
marriage in a recent interview with Augsberger Algemeine.
But he criticized the Church for
not being at the forefront on homosexual rights in Germany and said the Church
must express regret for not acting to oppose the former law against
homosexuality.
It must be recalled, Cardinal Marx
said, “that the Church has not exactly been a trailblazer as far as the rights
of homosexuals are concerned.”
“We must express our regret that
we did nothing to oppose homosexuals from being prosecuted,” he continued.
“The (German) law (against
homosexuality) was not rescinded until 1994,” he said, “and we, as a Church,
did not concern ourselves with it.”
The German parliament voted 393 to
226 on June 30 to legalize gay “marriage.”
The new law was not a defeat for
the Church, Cardinal Marx said, because marriage and family were issues that
extend beyond the Church.
“The Christian position is one thing.
It’s another thing to ask if I can make all the Christian moral concepts
(state) laws,” he said, according to LaCroix International. “Whoever fails to
understand that the one does not automatically lead to the other has not
understood the essence of modern society.”
He also dismissed concerns that legalized gay “marriage”
would lead to incest and threesome marriages in Germany.
“The new law is concerned with allowing same-sex partners
– and not close relations or three or more people – to marry,” he said. “One
shouldn’t immediately conjure up the bursting of a dam.” [.....]
Pope says
Church should ask forgiveness from gays for past treatment
Philip Pullella | Reuters | 6-26-16
ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE (Reuters) –
Pope Francis said on
Sunday that Christians and the Roman Catholic Church should seek forgiveness from
homosexuals for the way they had treated them.
Speaking to reporters aboard the plane taking him back to
Rome from Armenia, he also said the Church should ask forgiveness for the way
it has treated women, for turning a blind eye to child labour and for “blessing
so many weapons” in the past.
In the hour-long freewheeling
conversation that has become a trademark of his international travels, Francis
was asked if he agreed with recent comments by a German Roman Catholic cardinal
that the Church should apologise to gays.
Francis looked sad when the reporter asked if an apology
was made more urgent by the killing of 49 people at a gay club in Orlando,
Florida this month.
He recalled Church teachings that homosexuals “should not
be discriminated against. They should be respected, accompanied pastorally.”
He added: “I think that the Church not only should
apologise … to a gay person whom it offended but it must also apologise to the
poor as well, to the women who have been exploited, to children who have been
exploited by (being forced to) work. It must apologise for having blessed so
many weapons.”
The Church teaches that homosexual
tendencies are not sinful but homosexual acts are, and that homosexuals should
try to be chaste.
Francis repeated a slightly
modified version of the now-famous “Who am I to judge?” comment he made about
gays on the first foreign trip after his election in 2013.
“The questions
is: if a person who has that condition, who has good will, and who looks
for God, who are we to judge?”
FORGIVENESS, NOT JUST APOLOGY
Vatican spokesman Father Federico
Lombardi said that the pope, by saying “has that condition”, did not imply a
medical condition but “a person in that situation”. In Italian, the word “condition”
can also mean “situation”.
“We Christians have to apologise
for so many things, not just for this (treatment of gays), but we must ask for
forgiveness, not just apologise! Forgiveness! Lord, it is a word we forget so
often!” he said.
Francis has been hailed by many in
the gay community for being the most merciful pope towards them in recent
history and conservative Catholics have criticised him for making comments they
say are ambiguous about sexual morality.
He told reporters on the plane “there
are traditions in some countries, some cultures, that have a different
mentality about this question (homosexuals)” and there are “some (gay)
demonstrations that are too offensive for some”.
But he suggested that those were
not grounds for discrimination or marginalisation of gays.
The pope did not elaborate on what
he meant by seeking forgiveness for the Church “having blessed so many weapons”,
but it appeared to be a reference to some Churchmen who actively backed wars in
the past.
In other parts of the
conversation, Francis said he hoped the European Union would be able to give
itself another form after the United Kingdom’s decision to leave.
“There is something that is not
working in that bulky union, but let’s not throw the baby out with the bath
water, let’s try to jump-start things, to re-create,” he said. He also denied
reports that former Pope Benedict, who resigned in 2013, was still exercising
influence inside the Vatican.
“There is only one pope,” he said.
He praised Benedict, 89, for “protecting me, having my back, with his prayers”.
Francis said he had heard that when some Church officials had gone to Benedict
to complain that Francis was too liberal, Benedict “sent them packing”.
The Cause of Homosexuality? It has been
revealed in Sacred Scripture.
Because that, when they knew God, they have not glorified him as God,
or given thanks; but became vain in their thoughts, and their foolish heart was
darkened. For professing themselves to be wise, they became fools. And they
changed the glory of the incorruptible God into the likeness of the image of a
corruptible man, and of birds, and of fourfooted beasts, and of creeping
things. Wherefore God gave them up to the desires of their heart, unto
uncleanness, to dishonour their own bodies among themselves. Who changed the
truth of God into a lie; and worshipped and served the creature rather than the
Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.
For this cause God delivered them up to shameful affections. For their
women have changed the natural use into that use which is against nature. And,
in like manner, the men also, leaving the natural use of the women, have burned
in their lusts one towards another, men with men working that which is filthy,
and receiving in themselves the recompense which was due to their error. And as
they liked not to have God in their knowledge, God delivered them up to a
reprobate sense, to do those things which are not convenient; Being filled with
all iniquity, malice, fornication, avarice, wickedness, full of envy, murder,
contention, deceit, malignity, whisperers, Detractors, hateful to God,
contumelious, proud, haughty, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
Foolish, dissolute, without affection,
without fidelity, without mercy.
Who, having known the justice of God, did not understand that they who do such
things, are worthy of death; and not only they that do them, but they also that
consent to them that do them.
St. Paul, Rom. 1: 21-32
“Global
Warming” elevated to the level of certainty of a Novus Ordo Dogma!
Vatican archbishop: All should accept that global warming is a fact
LifeSiteNews | ROME, Italy | July 19, 2017– The head of the Vatican’s
Pontifical Academy of Sciences has again inferred that denial of the
controversial concept of manmade climate change equates to flat earth
mentality.
“From the scientific point of
view, the sentence that the earth is warmed by human activity is as true as the
sentence: The earth is round!” said Archbishop Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo.
The archbishop has been a
consistent and zealous promoter of manmade climate change as a non-negotiable
Church issue, despite the status of care for the environment as a prudential
matter.
Climate change ideology continues
to be contested as a ploy perpetrated with manipulated data by the left to
enact environmental regulations and taxes.
Even so, Archbishop Sorondo
dismissed deniers of climate change in a recent Vatican Radio interview as “a
small, negligible minority.”
The interview conducted in German
contained the headline: “Vatican: ‘Climate change is a fact,’” and centered on
reception of Pope Francis’ eco-encyclical Laudato Si’ two years after
its release.
Archbishop Sorondo went on in the
interview to say that human-affected climate change was considered science. He
added that the pope not only has the right but also the duty to rely on science
in addition to doctrine and philosophy in seeking out truth.
If the pope expresses himself on
such a subject, then this was not arbitrary, he said, as the pope’s words are
not restricted to the area of ”doctrine of faith and morals.”
The pope makes use of the truths
of science or philosophy to not only explain to man
how to get to heaven, said the archbishop, but also what he must do on
earth.
All human activities have to do
with ethics, the Argentinean archbishop said, so they are already within the
jurisdiction of the pope.
Archbishop Sorondo is a close adviser to Pope Francis and
the Chancellor of both the Pontifical Academy of Sciences and the Pontifical
Academy of Social Sciences. He has repeatedly welcomed pro-abortion and
population control advocates to the Vatican for conferences under the pretext
of the climate issue.
Last month, just before President
Donald Trump announced the U.S. would pull out of the controversial Paris
Climate Agreement, the archbishop likened climate ideology skeptics to
flat-earthers as well.
Withdrawal from the Paris accord “would
not only be a disaster but completely unscientific,” he said.
“Saying that we need to rely on
coal and oil is like saying that the earth is not round,” Archbishop Sorondo
stated. “It is an absurdity dictated by the need to make money.”
He has also repeatedly made the
claim that those who don’t subscribe to the manmade climate change theory are
in some way subsidized by the oil industry. He did so again in the Vatican
Radio interview. [.....]
Remember in
your charity the following pray requests:
Please remember
our expectant mothers: Andrea Ebert
and Vanessa LoStracco,
John Manidis, who
has been seriously injured in a motor vehicle accident,
Dominic Villani, for
his spiritual welfare,
Sean McLaughlin,
who has had recent serious medical problem,
Spiritual welfare
of Christina Hoffman,
The spiritual
welfare of our friend, John Henderson,
For the health
and spiritual welfare of Jill Kephart,
the daughter of Gail, and her children,
The Drews ask
your prayers for the welfare of the Philip
Nell Family,
Donna Marbach,
who is recovering from surgery after a recent fall,
Luis Rafael Zelaya, the brother of Claudia Drew, who is seriously ill,
For
the health of Kim Cochran,
the daughter-in-law of Joseph and Brenda Cochran, the wife of their son Joshua,
Louie Verrecchio, Catholic apologist, who has a health problem,
John Minidis, Jr. family, for help in their spiritual trial,
John Vennari, the editor of Catholic Family News, is gravely ill
and requests our prayers for his and his family’s welfare,
John and Joan DeMarco, for their health and spiritual welfare,
Helen Brugger, for the grace of a holy death,
Regina (Manidis) Miller, her spiritual welfare and health,
Melissa Elena Levitt, her health and conversion, and welfare of her
children,
For
the grace of a holy death, Nancy
Marie Claycomb,
The
health and spiritual welfare of Tom
Grow, Amanda Gardner, and Alex Estrada,
Conversion
of Annette Murowski, and her son Jimmy,
Brent
Keith from Indiana has petitioned our prayers for the Keith Family,
The
welfare of the Schmedes Family,
and the Mike and Mariana Donohue
Family,
The
spiritual welfare Robert Holmes
Family,
For
the welfare of Fr. Paul J. Theisz,
who is seriously ill with cancer, is the petition of Fr. Waters,
For
the spiritual and temporal welfare of Irwin
Kwiat,
Fr.
Waters asks our prayers for Elvira
Donahy, who is recovering from a stroke,
Kimberly Ann, the daughter of John and Joann DeMarco, for her
health and spiritual welfare,
Mufide Rende, a traditional Catholic from India has asked our
prayers for her welfare,
Mary and Bill Glatz, the welfare of their family,
Barbara Harmon, who is gravely ill, and
still cares for her ailing parents,
Jason Green, a father of ten children who has been seriously
injured,
For
the health and welfare of Kolinsky and
Sorace families,
Fr.
Waters asks our prayers for the health and spiritual
welfare of Brian Abramowitz,
Janine Mullen, for her health and help for her family,
Thomas Schiltz family, in grateful appreciation for their contribution to
the beauty of our chapel,
Carlo A. De Porto, who is in failing health,
Welfare
of Bishop Richard Williamson,
for strength and courage in the greater battles to come,
John Rhoad, for his health and spiritual welfare,
Angelina Montesano family & Helen
Snyder, for their health and
spiritual welfare,
Kathy Boyle, requests our prayers for her welfare,
Michael J. Brigg & his family, who have helped with the needs of the Mission,
Nancy Deegan, her welfare and conversion to the Catholic Church,
Francis Paul Diaz, who was baptized at Ss. Peter & Paul, asks our
prayers for his spiritual welfare,
The
conversion of David Keithley and the
welfare of the Nathaniel Miller family, are
the petitions of Gene Peters,
The
Drews ask your intercession for the welfare of Brendon McGuire, a young father of three, who has been
diagnosed with cancer,
For
the conversion of Ben & Tina
Boettcher family, Karin Fraessdorf, Eckhard Ebert, and Fahnauer family,
Fr.
Waters requests our prayers for Br. Rene, SSPX who has been ill, and for Fr. Thomas Blute,
Rose Cuono, who is in failing health,
For
the health and welfare of Kathryn
Lederhos, the aunt of David Drew,
Fr.
Peterson asks our prayers for Charles
Valenti, who is dying and his wife, Julia,
For
the welfare of Fr. Paul DaDamio and
Fr. William T. Welsh,
The
Drew’s ask our prayers for the welfare of Joe
& Tracy Sentmanat family, Keith & Robert Drew, Christy Koziol & her
children, Fred Nesbit and Michael Nesbit families, and Gene Peters Family, the John Manidis Family, the
Sal Messinio Family, Michael Proctor
Family,
Ryan
Boyle grandmother, Jane Boyle,
who is failing health,
Mel Gibson and his family, please remember in our prayers,
Rev.
Timothy A. Hopkins, prayers for his mother,
the Mission of St. Philomena in Miami, and the welfare of Fr Jean-Luc Lafitte,
Ebert’s
request our prayers for the Andreas
& Jenna Ortner Family,
Joyce
Paglia has asked prayers for George
Richard Moore Sr. & his children, and her brother, George Panell, her daughter, Lisa Brandenburg, and her
sister, Meridith Stewert,
For
the welfare of Anthony & Joyce
Paglia, who are responsible for the beautiful statuary in our chapel,
Philip
Thees asks our prayers for his family, for McLaughlin
Family, the conversion of Bruce
Heller, & Janet Gardner,
the welfare of Dan Polly Weand,
the conversion of Sophia Herman,
Tony Rosky, and Carl Ropeter, the welfare Nancy Erdeck, the wife of
the late Deacon Erdeck, and
the welfare of Frank D’Agustino who
is ill, the health of Charles
Kanaskie, and the health of his brother, Thomas Thees, John
Calasanctis, Stephen Cagorski, Tony Rosky, John Bogda, and Maryann Reutter.
Pray for the
Repose of the Souls:
Theresa Marlyn Manidis, died a
holy death on July 11 following a MVA,
Thomas Aquinas Francis, a
third-order Dominican, father of 10, grandfather of 66, died July 4,
Joseph McLaughlin,
who died June 13,
Nicholas Bartko,
a 19 year old who drowned June 12,
Joseph Brown, died
on Maundy Thursday, April 13,
Helen Lewis,
died April 5 after receiving the last sacraments,
Joseph John Vennari, editor
of Catholic Family News, died April 4,
George Kirsch,
our good friend and supporter of this
Mission, died February 15,
Fr. Mecurio Fregapane, died Jan 17, was not a traditional priest but always
charitable,
Fr. Casimir Peterson, a priest who often offered the Mass in our chapel and
provided us with sound advice, died December 4,
Fr. Constantine Bellasarius, a faithful and always charitable Eastern Rite Catholic
Melkite priest, who left the Roman rite, died November 27,
Christian Villegas, a motor vehicle accident, his brother, Michael,
requests our prayers,
Mary Butler, the aunt of Fr. Samuel Waters, died October 17,
Joseph DeMarco, the nephew of John DeMarco, died October 3,
John Fergale, died
September 25 after receiving the traditional sacramental rites of the Church
wearing the brown scapular,
John Gabor, the brother of Donna Marbach, died September 9,
Fr. Eugene Dougherty, a faithful priest, fittingly died on the Nativity of
the BVM after receiving the traditional Catholic sacraments,
Phyllis Schlafly, died September 5,
Helen Mackewicz, died August 14,
Mark A. Wonderlin, who died August 2,
Fr. Carl Cebollero, a faithful priest to tradition who was a friend of
Fr. Waters and Fr. DeMaio,
Jessica Cortes, a young mother of ten who died June 12,
Frances Toriello, a life-long Catholic faithful to tradition, died
June3, the feast of the Sacred Heart, and her husband Dan, died in 1985,
John McLaughlin, a friend of the Drew’s, died May 22,
Angela Montesano, who died April 30, and her husband, Salvatore, who died in July 3,
2013,
Charles
Schultz, died April 5, left behind nine children and many grandchildren, all
traditional Catholics,
Esperanza
Lopez de Callejas, the aunt of Claudia Drew, died March 15,
Fr.
Edgardo Suelo, a faithful priest defending our traditions who was working with Fr.
Francois Chazal in the Philippines, died February 19,
Conde
McGinley,
a long time laborer for the traditional faith, died February 12, at 96 years,
The Drew family requests your prayers for Ida
Fernandez and Rita Kelley, parishioners at St. Jude,
Fr. Stephen Somerville, a traditional priest who repented from his work with
the Novus Ordo English translation, died December 12,
Fr. Arturo DeMaio, a priest that helped this Mission with the
sacraments and his invaluable advice, died December 2,
J. Paul Carswell, died October 15, 2015,
Solange Hertz, a great defender of our Catholic faith, died October
3, the First Saturday of the month,
Gabriella Whalin, the mother of Gabriella Schiltz, who died August 25,
Mary Catherine Sick, 14 year old from a large traditional Catholic
family, died August 25,
Fr. Paul Trinchard, a traditional Catholic priest, died August 25,
Stephen J. Melnick, Jr., died on August 21, a long-time faithful traditional
Catholic husband and father, from Philadelphia,
Patricia Estrada, died July 29, her son Alex petitions our prayers for
her soul,
Fr. Nicholas Gruner, a devoted priest & faithful defender of Blessed
Virgin Mary and her Fatima message, died April 29,
Sarah E. Shindle, the grandmother of Richard Shindle, died April 26,
Madeline Vennari, the mother of John Vennari, died December 19,
Salvador Baca Callejas, the uncle of Claudia Drew, died December 13,
Robert Gomez, who died in a motor vehicle accident November 29,
Catherine Dunn, died September 15,
Anthony Fraser, the son of Hamish Fraser, died August 28,
Jeannette Rhoad, the grandmother of Devin Rhoad, who died August 24,
John Thees, the uncle of Philip Thees, died August 9,
Sarah Harkins, 32 year-old mother of four children, died July 28,
Anita Lopez, the aunt of Claudia Drew,
Fr. Kenneth Walker, a young traditional priest of the FSSP who was
murdered in Phoenix June 11,
Fr.
Waters petitions our prayers for Gilberte Violette, the mother of Fr. Violette, who died May
6,
Pete
Hays petitions our prayers for his brothers, Michael, died May 9, and James, died October 20, his sister, Rebecca, died
March17, and his mother, Lorraine
Hayes who died May 4,
Philip Marbach, the father of Paul Marbach who was the coordinator
at St. Jude in Philadelphia, died April 21,
Richard Slaughtery, the elderly sacristan for the SSPX chapel in Kansas
City, died April 13,
Bernedette Marie Evans nee Toriello, the daughter of Daniel Toriello ,
died March 31, a faithful Catholic who suffered many years with MS,
Natalie Cagorski, died march 23,
Anita Lopez de Lacayo, the aunt of Claudia Drew, who died March 21,
Mario Palmaro, Catholic lawyer, bioethicist and professor,
apologist, died March 9, welfare of his widow and children,
Daniel Boyle, the uncle of Ryan Boyle, died March 4,
Jeanne DeRuyscher, who died on January 25,
Arthur Harmon, died January 18,
Fr.
Waters petitions our prayers for the soul of Jeanne DeRuyscher, who died
January 17,
Joseph Proctor, died January 10,
Susan Scott, a devote traditional Catholic who made the vestments
for our Infant of Prague statue, died January 8,
Brother Leonard Mary, M.I.C.M., (Fred
Farrell), an early supporter and
friend of Fr. Leonard Feeney, died November 23,
John Fergale, requests our prayers for his sister Connie, who died
December 19,
Jim Capaldi, died December 15,
Brinton Creager, the son of Elizabeth Carpenter, died December
10,
Christopher Lussos, age 27, the father of one child with an expecting
wife, died November 15,
Jarett Ebeyer, 16 year old who died in his sleep, November 17, at
the request of the Kolinsky’s,
Catherine Nienaber, the mother of nine children, the youngest three
years of age, killed in MVA after Mass, 10-29,
Nancy Aldera, the sister of Frances Toriello, died October 11,
2013 at 105 years of age,
Mary Rita Schiltz, the mother of Thomas Schiltz, who died August 27,
William H. (Teddy) Kennedy, Catholic author of Lucifer’s Lodge, died August 14,
age 49, cause of death unknown,
Alfred Mercier, the father of David Mercier, who died August 12,
The
Robert Kolinsky asks our prayers for his friend, George Curilla, who died August 23,
John Cuono, who had attended Mass at our Mission in the past,
died August 11,
Raymond Peterson, died July 28, and Paul Peterson, died February 19, the brothers of Fr. Casimir
Peterson,
Margaret Brillhart, who died July 20,
Msgr. Joseph J. McDonnell, a priest from the diocese of Des Moines, who died
June 8,
Patrick Henry Omlor, who wrote Questioning
The Validity of the Masses using the New, All English Canon, and for a
series of newsletters which were published as The Robber Church, died May 2,
the feast of St Athanasius,
Bishop Joseph McFadden, died unexpectedly May 2,
Timothy Foley, the brother-in-law of Michelle Marbach Folley, who
died in April,
William Sanders, the uncle of Don Rhoad, who died April 2,
Gene
Peters ask our prayers for the repose of the soul of Mark Polaschek, who died March 22,
Eduardo Gomez Lopez, the uncle of Claudia Drew, February 28,
Cecelia Thees, died February 24,
Elizabeth Marie Gerads, a
nineteen year old, the oldest of twelve children, who died February 6,
Michael Schwartz, the co-author with Fr. Enrique Rueda of “Gays, Aids,
and You,” died February 3,
Stanley W. Moore, passed away in December 16, and Gerard (Jerry) R.
Pitman, who died January 19, who attended this Mission in the past,
Louis Fragale, who died December 25,
Fr. Luigi Villa, Th.D. author of Vatican II About
Face! detailing the heresies of Vatican II, died
November 18 at the age of 95,
Rev. Michael Jarecki, a faithful traditional Catholic priest who died
October 22,and Rev. Hector Bolduc, who died September 10,
Jennie Salaneck, died September 19 at 95 years of age, a devout and
faithful Catholic all her life,
Dorothy Sabo, who died September 26,
Cynthia (Cindy) Montesano Reinhert, the mother of nine children, four who are still at
home, died August 19,
Regina Spahalsky, who died June 24, and for the soul of Francis
Lester, her son,
Julia Atkinson, who died April 30,
Antonio P. Garcia, who died January 6, 2012 and the welfare of his
teenage children, Andriana and Quentin,
Helen Crane, the aunt of David Drew who died February 27,
Fr. Timothy A. Hopkins, of the National Shrine of St. Philomena, in Miami,
November 2,
Frank Smith, who died February 7, and the welfare of his wife,
Delores,
Eduardo Cepeda, who died January 26,
Larry Young, the 47 year old father of twelve who died December
10 and the welfare of his wife Katherine and their family,
Sister Mary Bernadette, M.I.C.M., a founding member of the Slaves of the Immaculate
Heart of Mary, died December 16,
Joeseph Elias, who died on September 28,
William, the brother of Fr. Waters, who died September 7,
Donald Tonelli, died August 1,
Rev. Fr. Gregory Hesse, of Austria, a great defender of Catholic Truth, died
January 25, 2006,
Emma Colasanti, who died May 29,
Mary Dullesse, who died April 12, a Catholic convert
who died wearing our Lady’s scapular,
Ruth Jantsch, the grandmother of Andre Ebert, who died April 7,
Derrick and Denise Palengat, his godparents,
Philip D. Barr, died March 5, and the welfare of his family,
Judith Irene Kenealy, the mother of Joyce Paglia, who died February 23,
and her son, George Richard Moore, who died May 14,
For
Joe Sobran who died September
30,
Fr. Hector Bolduc, a great and faithful priest, died, September 10,
2012,
John
Vennari asks our prayers for Dr.
Raphael Waters who died August 26,
Stanley Bodalsky, the father of Mary Ann Boyle who died June 25,
Mary Isabel Kilfoyle Humphreys, a former York resident and friend of the Drew’s, who
died June 6th,
Rev. John Campion, who offered the traditional Mass for us every first
Friday until forbidden to do so by Bishop Dattilo, died May 1,
Joseph Montagne, who died
May 5,
For
Margaret Vagedes, the aunt of
Charles Zepeda, who died January 6,
Fr. James Francis Wather, died November 7, 2006, author of The Great Sacrilege and Who
Shall Ascend?, a great defender of dogma and liturgical purity,
Fr. Enrique Rueda, who died December 14, 2009, to whom our Mission is indebted,
Fr.
Peterson asks to remember, Leonard
Edward Peterson, his cousin, Wanda,
Angelica Franquelli, and the six priests ordained with him.
Philip
Thees petitions our prayers for Beverly
Romanick, Deacon Michael Erdeck, Henry J. Phillips, Grace Prestano, Connie
DiMaggio, Elizabeth Thorhas, Elizabeth Thees, Theresa Feraker, Hellen Pestrock,
and James & Rose Gomata,
Fr. Didier Bonneterre, the author of The Liturgical Movement, and Fr. John
Peek, both were traditional priests,
Brother Francis, MICM, the superior of the Slaves of the Immaculate Heart
of Mary in Richmond, NH, who died September 5,
Rodolfo Zelaya Montealegre, the father of Claudia Drew, who died May 24,
Rev. Francis Clifford, a devout and humble traditional priest, who died on
March 7,
Benjamin Sorace, the uncle of Sonya Kolinsky.
“It is a sin to believe there is salvation
outside the Catholic Church!”
Blessed Pope Pius IX
Cardinal
Gerhard Müller is out as head of the CDF.
During his tenure, if he accomplished anything, it is known only to God.
It is not the job of the CDF to perform a "balancing act" but to
defend the Catholic Faith and identify its enemies even at the cost of his
life. Cardinal Müller did neither and
appears to be in excellent health.
Cardinal Müller is one of the cardinals who sought to
interpret Amoris Laetitia (The Joy of Love), Pope Francis’ apostolic
exhortation on the family, “according to a hermeneutic
of continuity with the Tradition of the Church.” It added that that had made
him a critic of the direction taken by the Pope. Cardinal Müller has had to perform a
difficult balancing act as prefect, not least over the interpretation of Amoris
Laetitia...
Edward Pentin, National Catholic Register
Pope Francis Appoints
Spanish Jesuit Ladaria to Succeed Cardinal Müller
Archbishop Luis Ladaria
Ferrer, currently Secretary to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith,
takes over as prefect of the important dicastery, replacing Cardinal Gerhard
Müller whose five-year mandate was unusually not renewed.
Edward
Pentin | National Catholic Register | June 30, 2017
The
Vatican has announced that Pope Francis has appointed Spanish Jesuit Luis
Ladaria Ferrer to replace Cardinal Gerhard Müller as prefect of the
Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.
Archbishop Ladaria, 73, who has served
as Secretary, or number two, to the CDF since 2008, will succeed 69-year old
Cardinal Müller whose five year mandate as prefect expires on Sunday.
Unusually for a cardinal prefect of a
dicastery, the Pope has decided not to confirm him in that position for another
five years.
In a statement issued at noon today,
the Vatican said the Holy Father “thanked the Most Eminent Cardinal Gerhard
Ludwig Müller at the end of his five-year mandate as prefect of the
Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, as president of the Pontifical
Commission ‘Ecclesia Dei’, the Pontifical Biblical Commission and the
International Theological Commission.”
The statement added that Archbishop
Ladaria would assume all these positions held by Cardinal Müller. There was no announcement
of a new appointment for the German cardinal.
Although rare for a cardinal prefect
not to have his mandate renewed, Benedict XVI did the same with Cardinal
Crescenzio Sepe, whom he transferred in 2006 from serving as prefect of the
Congregation for the Evangelization of the Peoples to being Archbishop of
Naples.
Majorca
native
Born in Manacor, on the Spanish island
of Majorca, Archbishop Ladaria is known to be a kind, affable and theologically
conservative prelate who has a special interest in patristics,
the branch of theology that deals with the lives, writings,
and doctrines of the early Christian theologians.
On being appointed by Benedict XVI as
Secretary to the CDF in 2008, he gave an interview with the magazine 30Giorni
in which he said “it doesn’t take much effort to find out the relevance of the
Fathers of the Church” whose work we must “read and savor” to be “better
able to approach the freshness of the Gospel message, Jesus.” He
said that is of “permanent value rather than something tied to what is
topical, which by its nature is variable, changing minute by minute.”
He also said he does not like
“extremisms, either progressive, or traditionalist ones” but believes “there is
a via media” which is the “correct path to take, even if each of us has his own
peculiarities, because, thanks be to God, we do not repeat, we are not clones.”
In the same interview, he underlined
the role of the CDF which is first about “promoting and then, if necessary,
protecting” the faith. He added that the Congregation “always moves with
discretion and speaks exclusively through its acts.”
From 2004, Archbishop Ladaria had
served as Secretary-General of the International Theological Commission and led
the Commission's evaluation, beginning in 2006, of the concept of limbo which,
he said, found “more appropriate ways to address the issue of the fate of
children who die without having received baptism, for whom a hope of salvation
cannot be ruled out.”
As Secretary, Benedict XVI appointed
him in 2009 as a member of the Holy See's ill-fated commission that sought to
bring the Society of St. Pius X back into full communion. Now, as president of
'Ecclesia Dei,' he will again be at the center of those efforts.
Last August, Pope Francis named
Archbishop Ladaria president of the Study Commission on the Women’s Diaconate,
which is considering the possibility of allowing women to serve as deacons. He
has said privately he expects the commission to complete its work in two years,
so possibly August next year.
Views
on Amoris Laetitia
The Spanish prelate has publicly said
little, if anything, about the Pope’s apostolic exhortation Amoris Laetitia
(The Joy of Love). How he will deal with the thorny issue of interpreting the
document is therefore unclear, but as a Jesuit and given his personality, he is
expected to take a less disputed position than that of his predecessor, even
though his official stand on admitting remarried divorcees to Holy Communion
has been clearly in conformity with previous papal teaching.
Cardinal Müller always maintained that
the most contentious passages of the document, in particular whether it allows
Holy Communion for remarried divorcees without an annulment and without a firm
purpose of amendment of life, could be read in accordance with the Church’s
teaching and Tradition.
But that position became increasingly
harder for him to maintain when it became clear that the Holy Father supported
interpretations that did allow Holy Communion for such divorced and remarried
couples in certain cases — a position critics have said is not in conformity
with past papal teaching (in a leaked letter, later authenticated by the
Vatican, the Pope told Argentine bishops there were “no other interpretations”
of the document).
In an interview in
February, Cardinal Müller warned bishops to stop interpreting Amoris
Laetitia in ways that contradicted unchangeable Church doctrine. His
comments came after bishops’ conferences such as Germany’s said it allows Holy
Communion for some remarried divorcees living in what the Church has always
taught is an objective state of adultery, while others such as Poland’s
emphatically said it doesn't. Individual bishops around the world have
similarly been at odds over the issue.
Cardinal Müller backed the four
cardinals who sent the Pope five dubia in an effort to seek
clarification of Francis’ position on this and other disputed passages
in Amoris Laetitia, sayint they had every right to ask such
questions. However, he was opposed to the initiative being made public, and
also thought a “fraternal correction” of the Pope was "not possible at
this time" because the document posed “no danger to the faith.”
News of the German cardinal’s
departure also comes at a time when the CDF has been increasingly isolated
during this pontificate on doctrinal matters. In February, it emerged that
despite lodging a large number of corrections of Amoris Laetitia before its
publication last April, none was accepted.
Having a Jesuit in charge may help bring
it in from the cold, but some will feel uneasy about having two members of the
Society of Jesus holding the two most senior positions in the Church.
Asked in 2008 what he thought about
being the first Jesuit to be appointed Secretary to the CDF, he said he didn’t
think it was a problem but that Benedict XVI chose him because he “seemed to
him to be the best person.”
Dubia Cardinals Audience Request to Pope Francis Has Gone Unanswered
For Months
OnePeterFive | Steve Skojec | June 19, 2017 Earlier today, a letter
emerged on Settimo cielo, the blog of Sandro Magister. It is claimed to have
been written by Cardinal Carlo Caffarra, one of the four so-called
Dubia Cardinals, on behalf of all four of those prelates who had requested
clarity from the pope on specific points of confusion arising from the
post-synodal apostolic exhortation Amoris Laetitia.
It appears that the cardinals wrote to the
pope on April 25th, renewing their “absolute dedication and our unconditional
love for the Chair of Peter and for Your august person, in whom we recognize
the Successor of Peter and the Vicar of Jesus”, but also requesting, “moved
solely by the awareness of the grave responsibility arising from the munus of
cardinals: to be advisers of the Successor of Peter in his sovereign ministry”,
that a papal audience be granted so that they might discuss
the dubia which have not yet been answered.
Two months later, this request has also
been completely ignored. [….]
“Vatican II was a pastoral council by its teachings, that is, its
doctrines. In a word, Vatican II was
pastoral by being doctrinal.”
Fr. John O’Malley, Jesuit “historian and
theologian,” author of What Happened at
Vatican II, speaking at Caritas International Conference, “Vatican II,
Remembering the Future: Ecumenical, Interfaith and Secular Perspectives on the
Council's Impact and Promise.” The event was co-hosted by Georgetown, Marymount
University in Arlington, Va., and the Washington National Cathedral.
COMMENT: This is a remarkable admission of the necessary
relationship between Catholic doctrine and Catholic practice. It is a Truth of our Faith that has been
constantly denied by the Modernists since Vatican II because, if this Truth had
been admitted, no one would have accepted the Council’s novel teachings which
were imposed by a corruption of practice.
Ss. Peter & Paul Roman Catholic Mission has affirmed that every
Catholic possesses a right to the immemorial traditions of our Church because
we have a duty imposed by God to profess our faith openly and publicly which
these traditions perfectly signify. And
thus, these immemorial traditions constitute necessary attributes of the Faith
because without them, the Faith cannot be known or communicated to others. And now, those who have foolishly adopted the
novel practices dictatorially imposed after Vatican II are to understand that
they in fact do signify a new doctrine, that “Vatican II was pastoral by being
doctrinal.” The Modernists want the new doctrines to be professed that the new
practices signify. No Catholic is bound
by any novel doctrine, therefore, no Catholic is bound
by any novel practice which signifies these new doctrines. The only reason that
Fr. O’Malley is now admitting this Catholic truth is to impose formally the
novel doctrines which the Novus Ordo practice signifies.
READ CARFULLY: Benedict/Ratzinger does not possess the
power to alter what Christ established!
Completeness or not of Fatima message is beside the point: what matters
is that what is known is unfolding
Roberto de Mattei | Corrispondenza Romana |
May 25, 2016
The centenary year of Fatima was opened on
Pentecost Sunday to news that caused quite a sensation.
The German theologian Ingo Dollinger revealed
to the “OnePeterFive” site that after the publication of the Third Secret of
Fatima, Cardinal Ratzinger had confided to him: “Das ist noch nicht alles!”,
“We didn’t publish everything”. The Vatican Press Office intervened with an
immediate denial in which it stated: “Pope emeritus Benedict XVI declares never
to have spoken with Professor Dollinger about Fatima’, clearly affirming that
the remarks attributed to Professor Dollinger on the matter ‘are pure
inventions, absolutely untrue’, and he confirms decisively that ‘the
publication of the Third Secret of Fatima is complete.”
The denial doesn’t convince those like
Antonio Socci who had always sustained the existence of an undisclosed part of
the secret, which would refer to the abandonment of the faith by a part of the
Church’s hierarchy. Other scholars like Dr. Antonio Augusto Borelli Machado,
think the secret disclosed by the Vatican is complete and tragically eloquent.
On the basis of the information at our disposal, today we cannot affirm with
absolute certainty, either the entirety of the Third Secret text nor its
incompleteness. What appears absolutely certain is that the prophecy of Fatima
is unfulfilled and that its fulfilment concerns an unprecedented crisis in the
Church.
Regarding this, an important hermeneutic
principle needs to be borne in mind. The Lord, through revelations and
prophecies, which add nothing to the deposit of the faith, at times offers us
some “spiritual direction” to guide us through the darkest periods of history.
Yet if it’s true that the Divine words cast light on dark times, the opposite
is also true: historical events, in their dramatic unfolding, help us to
understand the significance of prophecy.
On July 13th 1917,
when Our Lady announced at Fatima that if humanity didn’t convert Russia would
have spread its errors throughout the world, these words appeared
incomprehensible. It was the historical facts that revealed their significance.
After the Bolshevik Revolution of October 1917, it was clear that the expansion
of Communism was the instrument God wanted to use as a punishment to the world
for its sins.
Between 1989 and 1991, the evil empire of the
Soviet Union apparently crumbled, but the disappearance of its political
packaging allowed for the diffusion all over the world of Communism, which has
its ideological nucleus in philosophical evolution and moral relativism. The
“philosophy of praxis” which according to Antonio Gramsci sums up the Marxist
cultural revolution, has become the theological horizon of the new pontificate,
outlined by theologians like the German Cardinal, Walter Kasper and the
Argentinean Archbishop, Victor Manuel Fernàndez, inspirers of the Apostolic
Exhortation Amoris Laetitia.
In this sense it’s not the Fatima Secret we
need to start from in order to understand the reality of a tragedy in the
Church, but from the crisis in the Church[itself]in
order to understand the ultimate meaning of the Fatima Secret. A crisis which
goes back to the 1960s, but with Benedict XVI’s abdication and Pope Francis’
pontificate, has seen a shocking acceleration.
While the Vatican Press Office was making
haste to defuse the Dollinger case, another bomb exploded with an even greater
impact. During the presentation of Prof. Don Roberto Regoli’s book, Oltre la
crisi della Chiesa. Il
pontificato di Benedetto XVI (Lindau, Turin, 2016) held in the auditorium at
the Gregorian Pontifical University, Monsignor Georg Gänswein highlighted Pope Ratzinger’s act of
renunciation with these words:
“From
February 11th 2013, the papal ministry is not the same as before. It is and
remains the foundation of the Catholic Church; and yet it is a foundation that
Benedict has profoundly and lastingly transformed by his exceptional
pontificate”.
According to Archbishop Gänswein, the Pope’s resignation is “epochal”
as it introduced into the Catholic Church the new institution of “Pope
emeritus” transforming the concept of munus petrinum - “the petrine ministry”.
“Before and after his abdication, Benedict intended and intends his task as a participation
in a “petrine ministry” such as this. He left the Papal Throne and yet with his
step on February 11th 2013, he did not entirely abandon this ministry. Rather
he integrated the personal office with a collegial and synodal dimension,
almost a shared ministry (...). From the election of his successor, Pope
Francis—on 13 March 2013—there are not then two Popes, but de facto an enlarged
ministry with an active and a contemplative member. For this reason, Benedict
has not renounced either his name or his white cassock. For this reason, the
correct title with which we must refer to him is still “Holiness.” Furthermore,
he has not retired to an isolated monastery, but [has retired]within
the Vatican, as if he had simply stepped aside to make space for his Successor,
and for a new stage in the history of the Papacy.(...). With this act of
extraordinary boldness he has instead renewed the office (even against
well-meaning and undoubtedly competent advisors) and in a last endeavour has
strengthened it (as I hope). This certainly will only be demonstrated by
history. However, in the history of the Church, 2013 will remain the year that
the renowned Theologian on the Throne of Peter became the first “Pope Emeritus”
in history.”
This discourse is of an explosive nature,
and, by itself, demonstrates how we are not “over” the crisis in the Church but
more than ever in it. The Papacy is not a ministry that can be “enlarged”,
since it is an “office” given personally by Jesus Christ to a sole Vicar and a
sole successor of Peter. What distinguishes the Catholic Church from every
other church or religion is precisely the existence of a unitary and
indissoluble principle in the person of the Supreme Pontiff. Monsignor
Gänswein’s discourse(it is difficult to understand
where he wants to go with it) suggests a two-headed Church and adds confusion
to a situation already far too confusing.
One sentence connects the second and third
part of the Fatima Secret: “In Portugal the dogma of the faith will always be
kept.” Our Lady is talking to three little Portuguese shepherds and assures
them that their country will not lose the faith. But where will the faith be
lost? It has always been thought that Our Lady was referring to the apostasy of
entire nations, but today is seems increasingly clearer that the greatest loss
of faith is occurring among churchmen.
A “bishop dressed in white” and “various
other bishops, priests and religious” are at the centre of the Third Secret, in
a setting of death and ruin, legitimate to imagine as not only material, but
spiritual. Before writing the Third Secret, the revelation that Sister Lucia
had at Tuy on January 3rd 1944 confirms this, and is hence indissolubly linked
to it. After the vision of a terrible cosmic catastrophe, Sister Lucia recounts
that she had heard in her heart “a soft voice that said: ‘in time, one faith,
one baptism, one Church, Holy Catholic, Apostolic. In eternity Heaven!’!”
These words represent a radical negation of
any form of religious relativism which the heavenly voice contradicts with the
exaltation of Holy Mother Church and the Catholic Faith. In history the smoke
of Satan can invade the Church, but whoever defends the integrity of the Faith
against the powers of hell will see, in time and in eternity, the triumph of
the Church and the Immaculate Heart of Mary, definitive seal of the dramatic
but fascinating Fatima prophecy.
The Novus Ordites recognize
that all morality follows doctrine. They
find the revealed truth of Catholic doctrine to be “too abstract and
artificially constructed theological ideal” which creates in “concrete
situations” a moral standard that is a practical impossibility to uphold. This is just a restatement of the errors of
Martin Luther that were categorically condemned as heresy at the Council of
Trent!
The Plan of “Reinterpretation” for Humanæ Vitæ
Roberto de Mattei | Corrispondenza Romana |
June 14, 2017
It
will be Monsignor Gilfredo Marengo, Professor at John Paul II Pontifical
Institute, the coordinator of the commission nominated by Pope Francis to
“re-interpret” the encyclical Humanæ Vitæ by Paul VI, in the light of Amoris
laetitia, on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the former’s
promulgation, which falls next year. The initial
rumors of the existence of this commission, still secret, reported by Vatican
reporter Marco Tosatti, were of a sound source.[……]
Monsignor
Gilfredo Marengo, the prelate Pope Francis has entrusted with the task of
re-reading Humanæ Vitæ, belongs, on the other hand, to the category of prelates
who are convinced they are able to reconcile the irreconcilable. In
September 2015, commenting in Vatican Insider on the work of the Synod on the
Family, he suggested “abandoning a conception of the doctrinal patrimony
of the Church as a closed system, impermeable to questions and provocations of
the here and now, in which the Christian community is called to justify its
faith, through its proclamation and testimony:”
In
a more recent article in the same Newspaper (Vatican Insider, March 23rd 2017)
with the significant title, Humanæ Vitæ and Amoris laetitia, Monsignor Marengo asks if: “the
polemical game – the pill yes – the pill no, like today’s - Communion to the
divorced yes – Communion to the divorced no - is only an appearance of
discomfort and strain, [which is] much more descisive in the fabric of
ecclesial life.” In fact, “every time the Christian community falls into error
and proposes models of life derived from too abstract and artificially
constructed theological ideals, it conceives its pastoral action as the
schematic application of a doctrinal paradigm.” “A certain way of defending and
acknowledging the teaching of Paul VI – he adds – was, probably one of the
factors for which – he cites Pope Francis at this point – we have presented a
too abstract theological ideal on marriage, almost artificially constructed,
far from the concrete situation and the effective possibilities of families as
they really are. This excessive idealization, above all when we have reawakened
trust in grace, has not made marriage more attractive and desirable, but quite
the opposite.” (Francis).
However,
if the antithesis “the pill yes – the pill no – like today’s “Communion to the
divorced yes – Communion to the divorced no” is only a polemical game, the same
principle could be applied to all of the great themes of the Faith and
Morality: “abortion yes – abortion no”, but also “the Resurrection yes – the
Resurrection no” “original sin yes – original sin no” and so on. The very
contraposition between truth and error and good and evil, becomes at this point
“a polemical game”.
It
should be noted that Monsignor Marengo does not propose to read Amoris laetitia
along the lines of the hermeneutic of continuity. He does not deny the
existence of a contradiction between the two documents: he admits that Amoris
laetitia authorizes what Humanæ Vitæ prohibits. But he retains that every
theological and doctrinal antithesis should be relativized and superseded in a
synthesis which is able to reconcile opposites. The true dichotomy is
that between the abstract and the concrete, between truth and life. What
counts, for Monsignor Marengo, is to immerse oneself in pastoral praxis,
without bending to “too abstract and artificially constructed theological
ideals.”
It
will be praxis and not doctrine that indicates the line of action.
Behavior, in short, is born of behavior. And no behavior can be subject to
abstract theological and moral valuations. “Models for life” do not exist,
there is only the flow of life, which accepts everything, justifies everything,
sanctifies everything. The principle of immanence,
struck down by St. Pius X in the encyclical Pascendi (1907), has been
re-proposed in an exemplary manner.
Will
there be any priest or theologian faced with this program of the “reinterpretation”
of Humanæ Vitæ, have the courage to utter the
word “heresy”?
How could he doubt the reality of the devil?
“Christians believe that we are made in the
image and likeness of God, and God is free, but He always chooses to do good
because He is all goodness.
“We have formed symbolic figures such as
the devil to express evil. Social conditioning can also represent this figure,
since there are people who act [in an evil way] because they are in an
environment where it is difficult to act to the contrary.”
Fr.
Arturo Sosa, Superior of the Jesuits, May 28, 2017
Jesus does not condemn them for having denied and abandoned him during
his passion, but instead grants them the spirit of forgiveness. The Spirit is the first gift of
the risen Lord, and is given above all for the forgiveness of sins. Here
we see the beginning of the Church, the glue that holds us together, the cement
that binds the bricks of the house: forgiveness. Because
forgiveness is gift to the highest degree; it is the greatest love of
all. It preserves unity despite everything, prevents collapse, and
consolidates and strengthens. Forgiveness sets our hearts free and
enables us to start afresh. Forgiveness gives hope; without forgiveness,
the Church is not built up.
Pope Francis, excerpt for Pentecost address
COMMENT: The “first gift of the
risen Lord” is Faith in His divine resurrection. Faith is the cause and sign of
Unity in the Church. In Pope Francis’
address on ‘unity in diversity and diversity in unity’, the word “faith” is not
once mentioned. “Without faith it is impossible to please God.” It is Faith
that is “the glue that holds us together, the cement that binds the bricks of
the house.”
Faith is preliminary to and necessary for the forgiveness of any sin.
The virtue of Wisdom is the knowledge of the most important truths in their
proper order. Pope Francis never places
Catholic truths in their proper order of reference which in the end corrupts
truth. Why? Because Faith is an obstacle to the unity with Pope Francis seeks.
Pope Francis, attempting to be insightful and profound,
again butchers Catholic Truth!
Pope Francis says ‘God cannot be God without man’. And we need another
clarification
LifeSiteNews | VATICAN, June 7, 2017 --
Pope Francis again sparked calls for clarification today as he stated before
the crowds in St. Peter’s Square: “God cannot be God without man.”
The pope was
speaking from a written text at his Wednesday general audience.
According to
theologians who spoke with LifeSite, there is a danger the phrase by itself
could be taken in an erroneous way.
In context, the
Pope said:
“Dear brothers and sisters, we
are never alone. We can be far, hostile; we can even say we are ‘without God.’
But Jesus Christ’s Gospel reveals to us that God cannot be without us: He will
never be a God ‘without man’; it is He who cannot be without us, and this is a
great mystery! God cannot be God without man: this is a great mystery!”
John Paul Meenan,
professor of theology at Our Lady Seat of Wisdom, a Catholic college in Eastern
Ontario, told LifeSiteNews that while the second phrase (God cannot be God
without man) is open to misinterpretation, the Pope’s first wording (He will
never be a God ‘without man’) is less problematic since it is in the future
tense, “since God is now in an eternal covenant with man.” Professor Meenan
said it is not true that ‘God cannot be God without man’ in a universal sense.
Meenan was
particularly concerned about the statement because it could be taken to support
a modernist falsehood known as “process theology” which posits “God perfects
himself by creation or grows with creation.”
Another
credentialed Catholic lay theologian known to LifeSiteNews but wishing to
remain anonymous explained, “Because of The Incarnation
of Our Lord Jesus Christ, it is true that God remains eternally joined to
mankind through the human nature of Jesus Christ, Second of the Three Divine
Persons of The Most Blessed Trinity.”
“Nonetheless, God
has absolutely no actual need of mankind, our relationship with God being
entirely dependent on that gratuitous superabundance of the infinite Divine
Love of The Father, Son and Holy Spirit,” the theologian added.
Saint Irenaeus of
Lyons (c.130-c.208), a bishop, martyr, and Father of the Church, wrote in his
famous work Against the Heresies:
“In the beginning
it was not because he had need of man that God fashioned Adam but so as to have
someone on whom to set his blessings. For, not only before Adam but even before
creation, the Word glorified the Father while dwelling in him and was glorified
by the Father.”
Saint Irenaeus
added:
“When people stand
in the light, it is not they who illumine the light and cause it to shine but
who are illumined and made to shine by it. Far from contributing anything at
all to it, they benefit from the light and are lit up by it. This is how it is
in serving God: our service contributes nothing to God for God has no need of
man's service; but to those who serve and follow him God gives life,
incorruptibility and eternal glory.”
On
the evil of Gender Ideology – a twenty fold increase in the suicide rate!
However, there is long-term research on the mental health of adults who
transitioned with Gender Dysphoria. This reveals that despite initial relief of
the dysphoria, one or more
decades after transition, they often present with worse mental health than that
of the general population, including a suicide rate nearly twenty times
greater. This observation raises more questions than it answers, and
should, therefore, give pediatric health professionals great pause — at least
those who value evidence-based medicine and are dedicated to ‘first do no
harm’.
American Academy of Pediatricians, excerpt from public statement that
opposes drug and surgical abuse of children in modern gender reassignment
therapy.
Novus Ordo World Perversion Reaches New Lows
Nun celebrates her Catholic schools’ leadership in allowing transgender
students
LifeSiteNews | JEFFERSON CITY, Missouri,
June 7, 2017– While controversy still swirls over a contentious new program
to admit "transgender" students to Catholic schools, a nun who serves
as the superintendent is touting the process as putting the diocese "in
the lead."
Jefferson City is
“a pioneer among other U.S. dioceses,” the LGBT blog Proud Parenting says,
citing the controversial “Pastoral Process of Accopmaniment and Dialogue.”
The LGBT blog
pulled from a Jefferson City News Tribune report over the weekend that said the
superintendent of schools, Sister Elizabeth Yongs, viewed the diocese as a
forerunner among other U.S. dioceses because of the accompaniment and
dialogue program.
Critics of the
process say it was crafted clandestinely and that neither parents nor priests
in charge of parishes with schools were consulted. They say as well that it
pushes gender ideology, upends Christian morality, scandalizes children in
diocesan schools, and makes the diocese remiss in addressing potentially
abusive situations.
"We probably
are in the lead," Sister Youngs stated to the News Tribune.
The proposed
procedure, referenced by the diocese as a process —
not a policy — and also termed by the media as guidance, encompasses students
who identify as LGBT, along with those who live with same-sex or co-habiting
couples.
The 17-page
document dated May 9, 2017, was presented to priests and educators by diocesan
officials in early May.
“Wherever possible,
enrollment is the goal,” the document states.
According to the
diocese, the program was crafted using the guidance of Pope Francis’ controversial
document Amoris Laetitia. The diocese cited the passage in Amoris
Laetitia that references integrating individuals living in “irregular
situations” into the life of the Church. […..]
“Is your diocese next?” the Courageous Priest
blog asked in a post.
“This diocesan
policy will be the fundamental policy for every diocese with accommodating
bishops,” the blog said. “To anyone who has been permitted to read this
document, it is apparent that the diocese now plans to join the secular world
in questioning the very binary gender system created by God
Himself.”
Phil Lawler, news
director at CatholicCulture.org, commented on the Jefferson City diocese’s
statement about enrollment being the goal.
“A cynic might
rewrite the principle: ‘Whenever possible, collecting tuition is the goal,’”
Lawler said.
“Look,” he wrote
“if a school promotes the faith, it cannot encourage a student to profess that
God made a mistake assigning his/her sexuality. If a school promotes the truth,
it cannot encourage other students to accept a falsehood about that troubled
student’s sexual identity.”
“If the parish
school promotes neither the faith nor the truth,” continued Lawler, “shut it
down.”
Those
who have both known the requests of heaven and have had the opportunity to
fulfill the First Saturday devotions of Reparation to the Immaculate Heart of
Mary but have failed to do so will have a much to answer for.
“Look My daughter, at My Heart, surrounded with thorns with which
ungrateful men pierce Me at every moment by their
blasphemies and ingratitude. You, at least, try to console Me, and announce in
My Name that I promise to assist at the hour of death, with all graces
necessary for salvation, all those who, on the first Saturdays of five
consecutive months, confess, receive Holy Communion, recite the Rosary and keep
Me company for fifteen minutes meditating on the fifteen mysteries of the
Rosary with the intention of making reparation to Me.”
Blessed Virgin Mary to Sister Lucy, December 10, 1925
“Whether the world has war or peace depends on the practice of this
devotion, along with the consecration to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. This is
why I desire its propagation so ardently, especially because this is also the
will of our dear Mother in Heaven.”
Sister Lucy, 1939
“Father, the Devil is fighting a decisive battle”
Sr. Lucy also told me:
“Father, the Devil is fighting a decisive
battle against the Virgin and, as you know, what most offends God and what will
gain him the greatest number of souls in the shortest time is to gain the souls
consecrated to God. For this also leaves unprotected the field of the laity and
the Devil can more easily seize them.
“Also, Father, tell them that my cousins Francisco and Jacinta made sacrifices
because they always saw the Blessed Virgin was very sad in all her apparitions.
She never smiled at us. This anguish that we saw in her, caused by offenses to
God and the chastisements that threaten sinners, penetrated our souls. And being
children, we did not know what measures to devise except to pray and make
sacrifices. …”
Referring to the vision of Hell that Our Lady
showed her and Jacinta and Francisco, she said:
“For this reason, Father, it is my mission not just to tell about the material
punishments that will certainly come over the earth if the world does not pray
and do penance. No, my mission is to tell everyone the imminent danger we are
in of losing our souls for all eternity if we remain fixed in sin.
“Father, we should not wait for a call to the world from Rome on the part of
the Holy Father to do penance. Nor should we wait for a call for penance to
come from the Bishops in our Dioceses, nor from our Religious Congregations.
No, Our Lord has often used these means, and the world has not paid heed. So,
now each one of us must begin to reform himself spiritually. Each one has to
save not only his own soul, but also all the souls that God has placed on his
pathway.
“Father, the Blessed Virgin did not tell me that we are in the last times of
the world, but I understood this for three reasons:
“The first is because she told me that the Devil is engaging in a battle with
the Virgin, a decisive battle. It is a final battle where one party will be
victorious and the other will suffer defeat. So, from now on, we are either
with God or we are with the Devil; there is no middle ground.
“The second reason is
because she told me, as well as my cousins, that God is giving two last
remedies to the world: the Holy Rosary and devotion to the Immaculate Heart of
Mary. And, being the last remedies, that is to say, they are the final
ones, means that there will be no others.
“And the third, because in the plans of the
Divine Providence, when God is going to chastise the world He always first
exhausts all other remedies. When He sees that the world pays no attention
whatsoever, then, as we say in our imperfect way of talking, with a certain
fear He presents us the last means of salvation, His Blessed Mother.
If we despise and reject this last means, Heaven will no longer pardon
us, because we will have committed a sin that the Gospel calls a sin against
the Holy Spirit. This sin consists in openly rejecting – with full knowledge
and will – the salvation that is put in our hands.
“Also, since Our Lord is a very good Son, He will not permit that we
offend and despise His Blessed Mother. We have as obvious testimony the history
of different centuries where Our Lord has shown us with terrible examples how
He has always defended the honor of His Blessed Mother.
“Prayer and sacrifice are the two means to save the world. As for the
Holy Rosary, Father, in these last times in which we are living, the Blessed
Virgin has given a new efficacy to the praying of the Holy Rosary. This in such
a way that there is no problem that cannot be resolved by praying the Rosary,
no matter how difficult it is - be it temporal or above all spiritual - in the
spiritual life of each of us or the lives of our families, be they our families
in the world or Religious Communities, or even in the lives of peoples and
nations.
“I repeat, there is no problem, as difficult as it may be,
that we cannot resolve at this time by praying the Holy Rosary. With the Holy
Rosary we will save ourselves, sanctify ourselves, console Our Lord and obtain
the salvation of many souls.
“Then, there is devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, our Most Holy
Mother, holding her as the seat of mercy, goodness and pardon and the sure door
to enter Heaven. This is the first part of the Message referring to Our Lady of
Fatima, and the second part, which is briefer but no less important, refers to
the Holy Father.”
Sister Lucy of Fatima to Fr. Augustin
Fuentes in 1957
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 most 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
and they have a Lutheran theological conception of the Holy Eucharist. The common thread among all these
“ecclesiastical realities” is that they seek an encounter with Christ without
the burden of dogma or moral restrictions 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. Catherin of Siena. JP 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 took credit for
introducing the Charismatic movement into Argentina, addressed these “new
ecclesial realities” on the vigil of Pentecost and 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 a clue regarding discernment of
spirits. St. Francis and Peter Waldo
embraced radical poverty but they were of a entirely
different spirit. One was a saint, the
other a heretic. There is no encounter
with Christ without believing His revealed truth, that is, all dogma as a formal objects of Divine and Catholic faith, and
keeping His commandments. None of the
saints identified by Cardinal Ratzinger ever held any of 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 the remarkable miracles as a testimony to
the truth of their mission. The winter
of Vatican II will be getting a colder and darker.
Nuns practice ‘transgender’ school policy with disturbing role-play
LifeSiteNews | JEFFERSON CITY, Missouri |
May 30, 2017– Catholic nuns from the Diocese of Jefferson City facilitated a
role-play of same-sex couples at a recent gathering to implement a new diocesan
process that opens the door for children who identify as “transgender” to
attend schools in the diocese.
The Pastoral Process of Accompaniment and
Dialogue Addressing Children and Youth in Relation to Gender Concerns and
Non-Traditional Families was presented to priests and educators of the diocese
in recent weeks by diocesan officials. […..]
Jesuit chaplain to U.S. House: Church teaching on homosexuality is a
‘dead end’
LifeSiteNews | May 30, 2017—
In an undated video interview published March 31, 2015, on YouTube, the
U.S. House of Representatives Jesuit chaplain declares that Catholic teaching
on homosexuality is a "dead end."
He doesn’t stop there. Many of Fr. Patrick
Conroy’s statements challenge not only the Magisterium, but they defy natural
law.
The high-profile chaplain suggests that
Catholic teaching is outdated and has not kept up with the times.
“Now, we have theology on all this stuff
and the answer is ‘gays can never engage in this and can never be
married,’" he said. "But that’s a theology that goes back centuries
before there was any understanding of human psychology, human individuality,
human sexuality and all those kinds of understandings of the human psychosis,
and the human person that weren’t as complete prior to these kinds of advances
in understanding.”
Fr. Conroy is suggesting that teaching on
homosexuality is culturally conditioned, and that advancements in understanding
in the worlds of psychology, sociology and pastoring lead not to better means
of caring for the same-sex attracted but rather to allow, if not encourage, the
same-sex attracted to sin.
He continues, “Human beings procreate
male-female, but human sexuality isn’t just about that. It’s about so much more
... which is self-evident.”
Fr. Conroy misuses the term ‘self-evident,’
which applies to observable truth. What Fr. Conroy describes as self-evident are
observable contortions and breaches of natural law.
There was a popular t-shirt a few years ago
at gay pride events that said, “If the hearts fit, the parts fit.” No matter
how popular this meme may have been, it’s a falsehood, a wistful statement based
on pure emotion and imagination, not fact. […..]
Vatican calls President Trump’s
Rejection of Pro-Abortion Earth Worship Paris Agreement “a huge slap in the
face for us” and “a disaster for everyone.”
Trump:
‘We’re getting out’ of ‘very unfair’ Paris Climate Agreement
LifeSiteNews | PARIS, France, June 1, 2017—
President Trump made good on a major campaign promise today, announcing that
the U.S. will “cease all implementation of the non-binding Paris accord,”
commonly called the Paris Climate Agreement.
The agreement seeks
to reduce worldwide carbon dioxide emissions with quotas enforced by taxes and
subsidies for poorer countries.
Pro-life
organizations opposed the Paris Climate Agreement because they say it was
pro-abortion. Voice of the Family said “the agreement contains
language designed to promote abortion and contraception.”
The Paris agreement
calls for countries to “promote … gender equality, empowerment of women
and intergenerational equity,” among other things. These phrases, pro-lifers
say, are common to U.N. documents as euphemisms for the promotion of
homosexuality and abortion.
The
U.N. Sustainable Development Goals lists 17 major goals with 169
subsidiary “targets” to be funded. One major goal is “gender equality” to
“empower all women and girls.” Its “target” to be funded is to “ensure
universal access to sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights.”
Other U.N.
documents also use “gender equality” and “empowerment of women” to mean the
promotion of abortion.
The president focused
on economic reasons for his decision, explaining that the Obama-negotiated
agreement put U.S. employers and employees at a “permanent disadvantage” with
China, India, and other countries. He said the agreement would “punish” his
country with “onerous energy restrictions” that would slow the nation's
economic recovery from its recession under Obama.
The president also
pointed out that the agreement places an unfair financial burden on the U.S.,
which has already reduced its carbon-dioxide emissions by 12 percent since 2006
and is already a Clean Energy leader.
Critics of the
agreement say it would ultimately cost the U.S. $3 trillion and also 6.5
million industrial and manufacturing sector jobs. Furthermore, the agreement
would punish the U.S. for emissions but allow other countries such as China to
get away with heavy emissions. In fact, critics claim that under the Paris
Agreement China will actually increase emissions until 2030.
“The bottom line is
that the Paris accord is very unfair at the highest level to the United
States,” Trump explained.
Trump criticized
the agreement's Green Climate Fund, which seeks to take $100 billion from
affluent countries to subsidize poorer countries' climate change efforts. “This
agreement is less about the climate and more about other countries gaining
financial advantage over the United States,” he reasoned.
The one concession
Trump offered was an openness to negotiating a new
agreement that would be less burdensome to U.S. companies. “We’re getting out,”
Trump characteristically blurted, “but we will start to negotiate and we will
see if we can make a deal that’s fair.”
Liberal
politicians, environmentalists and globalists condemned the president's move.
Former Vice President Al Gore called it “reckless and indefensible.” Former
President Barack Obama issued a statement charging, “This administration joins
a small handful of nations that reject the future.” Democrat politicians called
it a “betrayal,” “traitorous,” and “one of the worst foreign policy blunders in
our nation's history.” Environmentalists called Trump’s nation a “climate
deadbeat” and accused Trump himself of having “total contempt for our planet's
future.”
The Vatican entered
the climate agreement fray as well. Bishop Marcelo Sanchez Sorondo, chancellor
of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, characterized Trump's decision as “a
huge slap in the face for us” and “a disaster for everyone.” […..]
“Whosoever killeth you will
think that he doth a service to God. And these things will they do to you,
because they have not known the Father, nor Me.” Jesus Christ
When the Catholic faithful are
persecuted and martyred it will be at the direction of the Novus Ordo clerics
just as the first Christians where persecuted and martyred by the Synagogue!
Pro-life professor on suspension from Catholic university: ‘Our Lord is
eternally victorious’
LifeSiteNews | June 1, 2017 – The young
professor facing termination from his job at Belgium's Catholic University of
Louvain for showing his students pro-life arguments says he doesn't fear for
his future because “Our Lord is eternally victorious.”
Stéphane Mercier,
who is currently under “investigation” by the Belgian university, spoke to
LifeSiteNews at the 2017 Rome Life Forum. He revealed that his inspiration for
the lecture that caused so much backlash was articles
he read on LifeSiteNews.
“It’s thanks to
LifeSiteNews that I felt somewhat compelled to say a few things to my students
about the truth about abortion,” he said. “Your work has determined me in the
best of ways.”
He says he wondered
“what would I say on the day of judgment, when the
Lord will ask me, 'what have you done with your teaching activity?’ I’ve done
quite a few interesting things in my opinion, but nothing that really matters
from an existential point of view,” Mercier explained. “And so, I thought
that I should speak about human dignity.” To “allow the students to reflect on
the importance of human dignity from the very beginning in the mother’s womb,”
Mercier showed them non-religious arguments for the humanity of the pre-born
child.
“I told them that
I’m not here to teach them what to believe,” he said. “I’m here to teach them
that they have to reflect by themselves, not on the basis of slogans that are
being given by the mass media or the culture of death. They have to think by
themselves and reflect on real arguments... as I teach philosophy,
I didn’t want to enter the theological realm. I strictly kept to
philosophy.”
Mercier “developed,
in a rhetorical way, arguments that show that you don’t change from one species
to another while in the course of your development...when you are an embryo,
it’s a human embryo, when you are a child, it’s a
human child, and so on.”
Most of the
students were “quite welcoming” to considering this viewpoint, he said. But a
few weeks later, he made “another strong statement,” this time against gender
studies and its accompanying ideology. He explained how gender ideology is “a
matter of ignoring biology” and reality. Using summaries of books from
prestigious Paris book publishers, Mercier made the case for why gender
ideology is “completely confused and wicked.”
Just a few days
later, the Belgian media ”became rabid” – not about Mercier's comments on
gender, but about his abortion lecture from a few weeks before. His gender presentation
hadn't yet been published on his lecture website, and he said if his opponents
were going to call him “homophobic,” then they should be calling the
prestigious Paris publishers whose books he used “homophobic” as well.
“The authorities of the university
reacted very quickly and very emotionally in favor of the media and against
me,” he said.
The university quickly issued a
statement saying it “defends the fundamental right to abortion, and
particularly women’s right to choose.” It suspended Mercier and launched an
investigation into the matter.
The Catholic University of
Louvain said that regardless of what its investigation concludes, “the right to abortion is enshrined in Belgian law and the
note that was brought to the attention of UCL is at odds with the values upheld
by the university. Conveying standpoints that contradict these values in the
framework of a teaching course is unacceptable.” [……]
From
Adam to this day, divine worship that is acceptable to God has always been,
without exception, the creation of God.
Christ chose the Cenacle In which to celebrate the Passover, because there lived,
died, and were buried Melchisedech, David, Solomon and all the kings of David’s
family till the Babylonian Captivity.
Melchisedech comes into history
under this name in the account of the four Mesopotamian kings, who went into
Palestine, captured Lot, Abraham’s nephew, and started for home. Abraham roused
his servants, fell on them at night, rescued Lot, took their spoils, and
returning passed by Salem, as Jerusalem then was named.
“But Melchisedech, the king of
Salem, bringing forth bread and wine, for he was a priest of the most high God,
blessed him and said: ‘Blessed be the most high God by whose protection thy
enemies are in thy band.’ And be gave him tithes of all.”
Here for the first time in Holy
Writ we find a priest “of the most high God” offering the “bread and wine” of
the Passover and Mass. Eight centuries of silence pass, and 1,100 years before
Christ, David wrote of Christ’s priesthood: “Thou are a priest forever
according to the order of Melchisedech.” Then this great pontiff-king appears
no more, in Holy Writ, till St. Paul in his Epistle to the Hebrews mentions him
eight times as a type of Christ. [.....]
But here for the first time in
history, comes forth another order of priests, this mysterious Melchisedech
offering bread and wine of the Last Supper and Mass. To him Abraham offered
tithes—the tenth part of the fruits of his victory. Therefore Melchisedech's
priesthood was higher than that of Abraham; it was to be eternal; it pointed to
Christ’s priesthood of the Last Supper and of the Catholic Church. The whole
prophetic scene in that vale beside the sacred city was emblematic of the
future.
[.....] Who was Melchisedech?
St. Paul says: “Without father, without mother without genealogy, having
neither beginning of days, nor end of life, but likened unto the Son of God,
continueth a priest forever.” [.....] Melchisedech was the patriarch Sem, sole survivor of the flood, eldest son and heir of Noe,
king and high priest of the world. Noe
established the right of primogeniture, that the eldest son should succeed the
father in his property, kingship and priesthood, a custom coming down to our
day.
Fr. James L. Meagher, D.D., How
Christ Said the First Mass
Iconoclasm Revisited: The Great Neo-Modernist Heresy – The
belief that there exists a merely accidental relationship between the “revealed
truths” and the dogmatic “manner of stating those truths and theological
doctrines.”
Students
must learn to distinguish between on the one hand revealed truths, which all
require the same assent of faith, and on the other hand the manner of stating
those truths and theological doctrines. As far as the formulation of revealed
truths is concerned, account will be taken of what is said by, among others,
the declaration of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith's Mysterium
Ecclesiae, n. 5: “The truths which the Church intends actually to teach
through its dogmatic formularies are, without doubt, distinct from the changing
conceptions proper to a given age and can be expressed without them, but it can
nonetheless happen that they will be expressed by the magisterium, in terms
that bear traces of those conceptions. Account having been taken of these
considerations, it must also be said that from the beginning the dogmatic
formularies of the magisterium have always been appropriate for communicating
revealed truth and that, remaining unchanged, they will always communicate it to
those who interpret them properly”. Students should therefore learn to make the distinction between the
“deposit of faith itself or the truths which are contained in our venerable
doctrine”, and the way in which these truths are formulated; between the truths
to be proclaimed and the various ways of perceiving them and shedding light
upon them; between the apostolic Tradition and strictly ecclesiastical
traditions, and at the same time they should learn to recognize and respect the
permanent value of dogmatic formulations. From the time of their
philosophical formation, students should be prepared to appreciate the
legitimate diversity in theology which derives from the different methods and
language theologians use in penetrating the divine mysteries. From which it
follows that different theological formulations are often more complementary
than contradictory.
The Ecumenical Directory
To live together as brother
and sister? Of course I have
high respect for those who are doing this. But it’s a heroic act, and heroism
is not for the average Christian. I would say that people must do what is
possible in their situation. We cannot as human beings always do the ideal, the
best. We must do the best possible in a given situation.
Cardinal Kasper, interview with Commonweal,
May 7, 2016
If a divorced and remarried person is truly sorry that he or she failed
in the first marriage, if the commitments from the first marriage are clarified
and a return is definitively out of the question, if he or she cannot undo the
commitments that were assumed in the second civil marriage without new guilt,
if he or she strives to the best of his or her abilities to live out the second
civil marriage on the basis of faith and to raise their children in the faith,
if he or she longs for the sacraments as a source of strength in his or her
situation, do we then have to refuse or can we refuse him or her the sacrament
of penance and communion, after a period of reorientation? [.....]
Cardinal Walter Kasper, The Gospel of the
Family
Pope
Francis makes the error of Kasper his own!
49. In such difficult situations of need, the Church must be
particularly concerned to offer understanding, comfort and acceptance, rather
than imposing straightaway a set of rules that only lead people to feel judged
and abandoned by the very Mother called to show them God’s mercy. Rather than
offering the healing power of grace and the light of the Gospel message, some
would “indoctrinate” that message, turning it into “dead stones to be hurled at
others.”
122. We should not however confuse different levels: there is no need
to lay upon two limited persons the tremendous burden of having to reproduce
perfectly the union existing between Christ and his Church, for marriage as a
sign entails “a dynamic process…, one which advances gradually with the
progressive integration of the gifts of God.”
Pope Francis, Amoris Laetitia
The
sign of the Ark condemned a sinful world!
Why is it that only Catholics like the Franciscans of the Immaculate
can possess “schismatic tendencies”? Is
there any example of religious orders being destroyed because of “liberal
tendencies,” “modernist tendencies,” “heretical tendencies”? The answer is known by everyone but not
publically stated. Modernist Rome hates
the Catholic faith and any sign of its material manifestation because those
signs are analogous to the sign of Noe.
The sign of the Ark condemned a sinful world!
As already said: Francis will end Conservative
Catholicism; they are forced to choose sides!
Priest: Pope’s ambiguity a ‘true blessing’ because it draws false
Church out of shadows
LifeSiteNews | ROME, May 24, 2017 -- Pope
Francis’ influence in the Catholic Church has been a “great and true blessing”
since his ambiguous teachings have drawn the “anti-Church” out of the shadows
into clear view for all the faithful to see, a priest told a gathering of
pro-life and pro-family leaders in Rome last week.
“The advent of Pope Francis has, in the divine
order of things, proved a great and true blessing,” Fr. Linus Clovis of Family
Life International said in his talk at the Rome Life Forum on May 18.
“A
hidden conflict has been raging in the Church for over one hundred years…Under
Francis, the first Jesuit pope, the first pope from the Americas and the first
pope whose priestly ordination was in the New Rite, it is now full blown, with
the potential of rendering the Church smaller but more faithful,” he
added. [……]
Council of Trent, Session VI, decrees on Justification
·
CANON
XVIII -If any one saith, that the commandments of God are, even for one that is
justified and constituted in grace, impossible to keep; let him be anathema.
·
CANON XIX
-If any one saith, that nothing besides faith is commanded in the Gospel; that
other things are indifferent, neither commanded nor prohibited, but free; or,
that the ten commandments nowise appertain to
Christians; let him be anathema.
·
CANON XX
-If any one saith, that the man who is justified and how perfect soever, is not
bound to observe the commandments of God and of the Church, but only to
believe; as if indeed the Gospel were a bare and absolute promise of eternal
life, without the condition of observing the commandments ; let him be
anathema.
·
CANON XXI
-If any one saith, that Christ Jesus was given of God to men, as a redeemer in
whom to trust, and not also as a legislator whom to obey; let him be anathema.
·
CANON
XXII -If any one saith, that the justified, either is able to persevere,
without the special help of God, in the justice received; or that, with that
help, he is not able; let him be anathema.
COMMENT: Conservative Catholics recognize the
heresy of Pope Francis/Bergoglio and his lapdog, Cardinal Walter Kasper, only
in the practical moral application of their doctrinal errors. They apparently never recognized that Kasper
was just as much a heretic during his curial days with John Paul II and
Benedict XVI. He has been promoting
situation ethics in an effort to overturn Catholic doctrinal and moral truths
for a long, long time. How is it that
they now find the moral relativism of Francis/Bergoglio so offensive while
never complaining about the doctrinal relativism of the Assisi Prayer Meetings
and the interfaith events in Jewish synagogues invoking their “common
god”? Now they muse about the
good-old-days under less radical conciliar popes as if that offers a
safe-harbor. To invoke the concilarist
popes, John Paul II's Familiaris
Consortio and Benedict XVI's Sacramentum
Caritatis against Francis/Bergoglio's corrupting the sacrament of Marriage
is not just futile, but stupid, for all of them, without exception, embraced
the heresy as a first principle of their Modernist faith that Catholic dogma
does and must necessarily evolve.
Francis/Bergoglio has done nothing that could possible offend John
Paul/Wojtyla or Benedict/Ratzinger. Are
we expected to employ the same Novus Ordo salami techniques that were used by
concilarists to corrupt the Catholic faith in order to help conservative
Catholics recover it? It does not work
that way. Either conservative Catholics
will repent and conform themselves to the “rule of faith” which is Catholic
dogma or they will continue to do what they have done over the last fifty years
– that is, nothing beyond attacking those whose acts condemn their
effeminacy. They, along with
Francis/Bergoglio and Kasper need to understand that when God abandons anyone
to their “reprobate sense” they will no longer be able to recognize Truth.
But
yet the Son of man, when he cometh, shall he find,
think you, faith on earth? (Luke 18:8)
The survey of 1,007
self-identified adult Catholics was commissioned by the U.S. bishops'
Department of Communications and conducted by the Center for Applied Research
in the Apostolate at Georgetown University in Washington. A 178-page report on
the results was released April 13…. Only 2 percent of Catholics across all
generations said they participated in the sacrament of reconciliation once a
month or more, 12 percent said they did several times a year, 12 percent said
they did once a year, 30 percent said less than once a year and 45 percent said
they never made a sacramental confession… However, the study found that only 36
percent of the younger Catholics attend Mass at least once a month, compared with
64 percent of the older generation.
Sixty-eight percent of all Catholics surveyed said they agreed that they
believed they could be in good standing with the Church without going to weekly
Mass. Only 43% of Catholics say they look to Church teachings, the pope and
their bishops “in deciding what is morally acceptable.”
Pope
lashes back against faithful Catholics who defend DOGMA
So we are faced with two groups of people. The group of the apostles
who want to discuss the problem, and the others who go
and create problems. They divide, they divide the Church, they say that what
the Apostles preached is not what Jesus said, that it is not the truth.
There were many [councils], up until Vatican II, which clarified doctrine:
for example, when we recite the Creed, it is the result of councils that have
defined doctrine… It is a duty of the Church to clarify doctrine so that what
Jesus said in the Gospels is better understood, what is the
Spirit of the Gospels….
But there were always those people who, without any commission, go
about disturbing the Christian community with speeches that upset souls: ‘Eh,
no, someone who says that is a heretic, you can’t say this, or that; this is
the doctrine of the Church.’ And they are fanatics about things that are not
clear, such as these fanatics who go about there, sowing discord in order to
divide the Christian community. And this is the problem: when the doctrine of
the Church, that which comes from the Gospel, that which the Holy Spirit
inspires – because Jesus said, 'He will teach us and remind you of all that I
have taught’ – that doctrine becomes an ideology. And this is the great error
of these people.
Pope Francis the Fanatic, open confession of his ideological driven
obfuscation of doctrine, May 19, 2017
Since the Year of Mercy is long gone.... No more Mr. Nice Guy!
The Cardinal who sustains this, is a
disillusioned man, inasmuch as he wanted power and lost it. He thought he was
the highest authority in the United States.... He is not the Magisterium: the Holy Father
is the Magisterium, and it is he who teaches the entire Church. The other just
states his own ideas, and they deserve no further
comment. These are the words of a poor man..... The Catholic right-wing wants power and not truth. If they say they
find some “heresy” in Francis’ words, they are greatly mistaken, since they
think like men and not as the Lord wills.
Cardinal
Rodriguez Maradiaga’s petty insults against Cardinal Raymond Burke, Only the Gospel is Revolutionary
Hermeneutics
of Continuity/Discontinuity
Catholic Church Teaches:
“That the mystical body of Christ and the
Catholic Church in communion with Rome are one and the same thing, is a doctrine
based on revealed truth” Pius XII, Humani
Generis
(Modernism teaches that) “the
formulas which we call dogma must be subject to these vicissitudes, and are,
therefore, liable to change. Thus the
way is open to the intrinsic evolution of dogma. Here we have an immense structure of sophisms
which ruin and wreck all religion.” Pope
St. Pius X, Pascendi, 1907
With truly lamentable results, our age,
casting aside all restraint in its search for the ultimate causes of things,
frequently pursues novelties so ardently that it rejects the legacy of the
human race. Thus it falls into very serious errors, which are even more serious
when they concern sacred authority, the interpretation of Sacred Scripture, and
the principal mysteries of Faith. The fact that many Catholic writers also go
beyond the limits determined by the Fathers and the Church herself is extremely
regrettable. In the name of higher knowledge and historical research (they
say), they are looking for that progress of dogmas which is, in reality,
nothing but the corruption of dogmas.
Pope St. Pius X, Lamentabili Sane,
1907
The Vatiacan II Church Teaches:
“Church of Christ… subsits in the Catholic Church.” Lumen Gentium, Vatican II
NOTE: The author of
this term, “subsist in,” was Pastor Wilhelm Schmidt, a Protestant minister who
made the suggestion to Cardinal Augustin Bea, the ecumenist, modernist biblical
scholar, patron of Fr. Annibale Bugnini, and confessor to Pope Pius XII, who in
turn recruited the support of Fr. Joseph Ratzinger who then convinced Cardinal
Josef Frings of Cologne to bring the matter to the Council. This story was personally verified by Fr. Franz Schmidberger,
First Assistant to the Superior General of the SSPX, by directly contacting
Pastor Schmidt.
The problem remains
if Lumen Gentium strictly and exclusively identifies the Mystical Body
of Christ with the Catholic Church, as did Pius XII in Mystici Corporis. Can we
not call it into doubt when we observe that
not only is the attribute "Roman" missing, but also that one avoids
saying that only Catholics are members of the Mystical Body. Thus they are
telling us that the Church of Christ and of the Apostles subsistit in, is found in the Catholic Church. There is consequently
no strict identification, that is exclusive, between
the Church of Christ and the "Roman"
Church. Vatican II admits, fundamentally, that non-Catholic Christians are
members of the Mystical Body and not merely ordered to it.
Yves Cardinal Congar
Church of Christ
is not exclusively identical to the Roman Catholic Church. It does indeed
subsist in Roman Catholicism but it is also present in varying modes and
degrees in other Christian communities. (Bold face in
original).
Avery Cardinal Dulles, a member of the
International Theological Commission
It is difficult to
say that the Catholic Church is still one, Catholic, apostolic, when one says
that the others (other Christian communities) are equally one, Catholic and
apostolic, albeit to a lesser degree. ---- at Vatican
Council II, the Roman Catholic Church officially abandoned its monopoly over
the Christian religion.
Fr. Edward Schillebeeckx
Concretely and
actually the Church of Christ may be realized less, equally, or even more in a
Church separated from Rome than in a Church in communion with Rome. This
conclusion is inescapable on the basis of the understanding of Church that
emerges from the teaching of Vatican Council II.
Fr. Gregory Baum
And we now ask:
What does it mean to restore the unity of all Christians?...
This unity, we are convinced, indeed
subsists in the Catholic Church, without the possibility of ever being lost
(Unitatis Redintegratio) the Church
in fact has not totally disappeared from the world. On the other hand, this unity does not mean what could be
called ecumenism of the return: that is, to deny and to reject one’s own
faith history. Absolutely not!
Pope Benedict XVI, addressing Protestants
at World Youth Day, August 19, 2005
Congregation for the
Doctrine of the Faith Offers Clarification (?):
QUESTION: What is the meaning
of the affirmation that the Church of Christ subsists in the Catholic Church?
RESPONSE:
Christ “established here on earth” only one Church and instituted it as a
“visible and spiritual community”, that from its beginning and throughout the
centuries has always existed and will always exist, and in which alone are
found all the elements that Christ himself instituted. “This one Church of
Christ, which we confess in the Creed as one, holy, catholic and apostolic […].
This Church, constituted and organized in this world as a society, subsists in
the Catholic Church, governed by the successor of Peter and the Bishops in
communion with him”.
In number 8 of the Dogmatic Constitution Lumen
Gentium ‘subsistence’ means this perduring, historical continuity and the
permanence of all the elements instituted by Christ in the Catholic Church, in
which the Church of Christ is concretely found on this earth.
REPLY:
Lutherans, Methodists, Anglicans, and many
other Protestant groups recite the Nicene Creed professing a belief in the
“one, holy, catholic, apostolic Church.”
They clearly do not define the word “catholic” in the same sense as
Roman Catholics do. Is the CDF giving a
Catholic or Protestant meaning to the word “catholic” when it explains the word
“subsist”? Is the comment of Cardinal
Congar explaining the significance of the failure to use the word “Roman”
important to our understanding of the CDF’s response? Is this a cleaver
corruption of dogmatic truth through corruption of language? Should we be grateful to Cardinal Congar for
his open and honest comments? Since the
“ecumenism of return” is rejected then, do Protestants that do not have to
“return” to the Roman Catholic Church already belong to the “Church of Christ”?
Is there salvation in the “Church of
Christ” separated from the Roman Catholic Church?
Our
“Open Letters” to the Dioceses of Harrisburg and Philadelphia,
and to Rome illustrate the results of Aggiornamento: The “Modern Mind” subsumes
the Novus Ordo Cleric!
The third and far the most
formidable element of Main Opposition to the Faith today, is what I propose to
call by its own self-appointed and most misleading title: “The Modern Mind.”
[.....] Upon dissecting it we discover the “Modern Mind” to contain three
main ingredients and to combine them through the force of one principle. Its
three ingredients are pride, ignorance, and intellectual sloth; their unifying
principle is a blind acceptance of authority not based on reason. Pride causes those who suffer from this
disease to regard whatever they think they have learned, whatever they have
absorbed, through no matter how absurd a channel, as absolute and sufficient. Ignorance forbids them to know with any
thoroughness what men have discovered about these things in the past, and how
certainly. Intellectual sloth
forbids them to examine an argument, or even to appreciate the implications of
their own assertions.
With most men who are thus
afflicted the thing is not so much a mixture of these vices as the mere
following of a fashion; but these vices lie at the root of the mental process
in question. As to the principle of
blindly accepting an authority not based on reason, it runs through the whole
base affair and binds it into one: Fashion, Print, Iteration, are the commanders
abjectly obeyed and trusted. [.....] The
color in which the whole of the “Modern Mind” is dyed is essentially stupidity:
it will not think—and that is a very strange weakness for anything which calls
itself a “mind”!
If it were an active
enemy, its lack of reason would be a weakness: being (alas!) not active, but a
passive obstacle, like a bog, it is none the weaker for being thus irrational.
Hilaire Belloc, Survivals and New Arrivals, The
Modern Mind
Pope Francis
paying public homage Kisses the Hand of, and concelebrates Novus Ordo with,
Notorious Homosexual Activist Priest - some sample quotations from this
degenerate:
Today the Church's
attitude to homosexuals is strict, inhuman and has caused much suffering by
claiming that homosexuality is sin. Some church people say, “It
is acceptable to be gay, but they must not have any relationships, they cannot
love each other”! The maximum is
hypocrisy. This is like talking to a plant,
and saying, 'you cannot bloom, you may not bear fruit.' (sic)
Don Michele De Paolis,
Interview with LGBT group Bethel of Genoa, Italy.
In the holy
Church of God, not everyone is suffering from homophobia. Those who want
to make you “heterosexuals,” as it is called, would
be force you to act contrary to nature and to make you unhappy psychopaths. We
need to put into our heads that God our Father wants us, his children, to be
happy, by making fruitful the gifts that He has placed us in our “nature”! [.....] You have the right to go looking for a partner. And be quite unconcerned: where agape is, is God. Live your love with joy. And with our mother Church we must have patience.
Her attitude to homosexuals will change. In this sense numerous initiatives have already been
engaged. Don Michele De Paolis, Addressing gathering of homosexual activists
We must liberate our
thinking from a risk: fundamentalism, that is, to take literally what the Bible
says. The new obedience to the gospel is free, responsible and
conscious. Instead of wasting energy in endless religious polemics,
it aims to a new Christian spirituality of joyful acceptance of yourself forming gratitude to God, knowing that homosexual
love is His gift, which is not less than the heterosexual. Don Michele De
Paolis, Essay
In like manner, the ceremonies
of the Old Law prefigured Christ as having yet to be born and to suffer;
whereas our Sacraments signify Him as already born and having suffered. Consequently, just as it would be a mortal
sin now for anyone, in making a profession of faith, to say that Christ is yet
to be born, which the fathers of old said devoutly and truthfully; so too, it
would be a mortal sin now to observe those ceremonies which the fathers of old
accomplished with devotion and fidelity.
Such is the teaching of St. Augustine.
St. Thomas Aquinas
Hermeneutics
of Continuity/Discontinuity
Martin
Luter:
"God does not save factious sinners. Be a sinner and sin boldly, but believe and
rejoice in Christ every more boldly. No
sin will separate us form the Lamb, even though we commit fornication and
murder a thousand times a day."
Martin Luther
When I awoke last night the Devil came and wanted to debate with me
arguing that I was a sinner. To this I
replied, "Tell me something new, Devil! I already know that perfectly
well; I have committed many a solid and real sin. Indeed there must be good
honest sins not fabricated and invented ones for God to forgive." Martin Luther
In translating St. Paul, “We account a man to be justified by faith”
(Romans 3:28), Luther added the word, "alone." In answer to those who objected to his
mutilating Sacred Scripture, he answered:
“If your Papist annoys you with the word (alone), tell him straightway: Dr.
Martin Luther will have it so. Whoever will not have my translation, let him
give it the go-by; the devil’s thanks to him who censures it without my will
and knowledge. Dr. Martin Luther will have it so, and he is a doctor above all
the doctors in Popedom.”
Pope
Francis the Lutheran:
"I think that Marin Luther's intentions were not mistaken. He was a reformer.... And today, Luther and
Catholics, Protestants, all of us agree on the doctrine of justification. On
this point which is very important, he did not err."
Pope Francis, public interview, June 26, 2016
Catholic
Faith: Council of Trent: Selected Canons on Justification
CANON IX.-If any one saith, that by faith alone the impious is
justified; in such wise as to mean, that nothing else is required to co-operate
in order to the obtaining the grace of Justification, and that it is not in any
way necessary, that he be prepared and disposed by the movement of his own
will; let him be anathema.
CANON XII.-If any one saith, that justifying faith is nothing else but
confidence in the divine mercy which remits sins for Christ's sake; or, that
this confidence alone is that whereby we are justified; let him be anathema.
CANON XIV.-If any one saith, that man is truly absolved from his sins
and justified, because that he assuredly believed himself absolved and justified;
or, that no one is truly justified but he who believes himself justified; and
that, by this faith alone, absolution and justification are effected; let him
be anathema.
CANON XV.-If any one saith, that a man, who is born again and
justified, is bound of faith to believe that he is assuredly in the number of
the predestinate; let him be anathema.
CANON XII.-If any one saith, that justifying faith is nothing else but
confidence in the divine mercy which remits sins for Christ's sake; or, that
this confidence alone is that whereby we are justified; let him be anathema.
CANON XIII.-If any one saith, that it is necessary for every one, for
the obtaining the remission of sins, that he believe for certain, and without
any wavering arising from his own infirmity and disposition, that his sins are
forgiven him; let him be anathema.
CANON XIV.-If any one saith, that man is truly absolved from his sins
and justified, because that he assuredly believed himself absolved and
justified; or, that no one is truly justified but he who believes himself
justified; and that, by this faith alone, absolution and justification are
effected; let him be anathema.
CANON XV.-If any one saith, that a man, who is born again and
justified, is bound of faith to believe that he is assuredly in the number of
the predestinate; let him be anathema.
CANON XIX.-If any one saith, that nothing besides faith is commanded in
the Gospel; that other things are indifferent, neither commanded nor
prohibited, but free; or, that the ten commandments
nowise appertain to Christians; let him be anathema.
CANON XXIX.-If any one saith, that he, who has fallen after baptism, is
not able by the grace of God to rise again; or, that he is able indeed to
recover the justice which he has lost, but by faith alone without the sacrament
of Penance, contrary to what the holy Roman and universal Church-instructed by
Christ and his Apostles-has hitherto professed, observed, and taugh; let him be
anathema.
CANON XXXIII.-If any one saith, that, by the Catholic doctrine touching
Justification, by this holy Synod inset forth in this present decree, the glory
of God, or the merits of our Lord Jesus Christ are in any way derogated from,
and not rather that the truth of our faith, and the glory in fine of God and of
Jesus Christ are rendered (more) illustrious; let him be anathema.
In the Moral
Order – Modernism is the Refuge of the Slothful
Sloth in general, pigritia,
is a voluntary and culpable repugnance to work, to effort, and consequently a
tendency to idleness, or at least to negligence, to pusillanimity, which is
opposed to generosity or magnanimity.
Sloth is an evil disposition of the will and of the sensible appetites,
by which one fears and refuses effort, wishes to avoid all trouble, and seeks a
dolce farniente….. When idleness affects the accomplishment of the
religious duties necessary to sanctification, it is called acedia.
It is an evil sadness: opposed to spiritual joy, which is the fruit of
generosity in the love of God. Acedia is a disgust
for spiritual things, a disgust which leads one to perform them negligently, to
shorten them, or to omit them under vain pretexts. It is the cause of tepidity. This sadness, which is radically opposed
to that of contrition, depresses the soul and weighs it down because it does
not react as it should. Then it reaches a voluntary disgust for spiritual
things, because they demand too much effort and self-discipline. Whereas
devotion, which is the promptness of the will in the service of God, lifts the
soul up, spiritual sloth weighs down and crushes the soul and ends by causing
it to find the yoke of the Lord unbearable and to flee the divine light, which
reminds it of its duties. St. Augustine says: “Light which is so pleasant to
pure eyes, becomes hateful to infirm eyes which can no
longer bear it.” This depressing
sadness, the result of negligence, and this disgust, which is at least
indirectly voluntary, are quite different from the sensible or spiritual
aridity which, in divine trials, is accompanied by true contrition for our
sins, by fear of offending God, by a keen desire for perfection, by a need of
solitude, of recollection, and of the prayer of simple gaze.
Rev. Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange, O.P., The
Three Ages of the Interior Life
Humility restrains the appetite from aiming at great things against
right reason, while magnanimity urges the mind to great things in accord with
right reason. Hence it is clear that magnanimity is not opposed to humility,
indeed, they concur in this, that each is according to right reason.
St. Thomas
It should be our
principal business to conquer ourselves, and, from day to day, to go on
increasing in strength and perfection. Above all, however, it is necessary for
us to strive to conquer our little temptations, such as fits of anger,
suspicions, jealousies, envy, deceitfulness, vanity, attachments, and evil
thoughts. For in this way we shall acquire strength to subdue greater
ones.
St. Francis de Sales
Again, if we are to avoid the errors which are the source and
fountain-head of all the miseries of our time, the teaching of Aquinas must be
adhered to more religiously than ever. For Thomas refutes the theories
propounded by:
·
the
Modernists in every sphere,
·
in philosophy,
by protecting, as We have reminded you, the force and power of the human mind
and by demonstrating the existence of God by the most cogent arguments;
·
in
dogmatic theology, by distinguishing the supernatural from the natural order
and explaining the reasons for belief and the dogmas themselves;
·
in
theology, by showing that the articles of faith are not based upon mere opinion
but upon truth and therefore cannot possibly change;
·
in
exegesis, by transmitting the true conception of divine inspiration;
·
in the
science of morals, in sociology and law, by laying down sound principles of
legal and social, commutative and distributive, justice and explaining the
relations between justice and charity;
·
in the theory of
asceticism, by his precepts concerning the perfection of the Christian life and
his confutation of the enemies of the religious orders in his own day.
·
Lastly,
against the much vaunted liberty of the human reason and its independence in
regard to God he asserts the rights of primary Truth and the authority over us
of the Supreme Master.
Pope Pius X, Doctoris Angelici, 1914
Religious
Liberty - the doctrine that the creature possesses the right from the Creator
to disregard His truths and disobey His Commandments, that is, to hold his
Creator in contempt - is the fruit of Pride!
What is clear concerning St.
Thomas Aquinas' teaching on the virtue of humility is that it is both a
necessary virtue for salvation, along with being an inclusive perfection. With true humility, the soul virtually possesses
all of the perfections necessary for salvation. Such is the unique character of
humility and the way in which it most accurately mirrors the greatest of the
virtues, charity. Since humility is a confession and affirmation of the majesty
of God, it engenders a spiritual condition by which we are disposed to accept
all that which God desires for us. “Be humble, and thou shalt obtain every
grace from God” (Ecclus iii, 21). Because it by means of this virtue, and this
virtue alone, that a free and intellectual creature is rightly subordinated to
its Creator, which is the “position” all such creatures must be in to receive
any of the spiritual benefits of the Blessed Trinity. St. Thomas teaches that,
“Acquired humility is in a certain sense the greatest good” (Humilitas
acquisita est maximum bonum secundum quid).
Not only is humility an
encompassing virtue and perfection, engendered both by the grace of God and the
cooperative will of the free creature, it is, also, a matter of divine mandate.
Man, because of his metaphysical relationship to God, has the moral obligation
to cooperate with the Holy Ghost in His pacification of the soul. It is
impossible to achieve man's final, supernatural end without humility's passive
acceptance of the perfect good which God seeks to give, the good of His own
being. “No one reaches the kingdom of Heaven except by humility” (Ad regnum
coelorum nemo venit nisi per humilitatem sine aliis) says St. Augustine.
Dr. Peter Chojnowski, Humility and the Great-Souled
Man
Humility
in human relations: It is not humility to subject what is of God in ourselves to what is of man in worldy clerics!
In man, two things have to be considered: that which is of God, and that
which is of man. . . But humility in the strict sense means the awe in virtue
of which man subjects himself to God. Consequently man, with regard to that
which is of himself, must subject himself to his
neighbor with regard to that which is of God in him. But humility does not
require that one subject that which is of God in himself to that which seems to
be of God in the other. . . Humility likewise does not require that one subject
that which is of himself to that which is of man in
the other.
St. Thomas Aquinas
Hermeneutics
of Continuity/Discontinuity
As Pope Pius XII explained in Humani
Generis, it is impossible to affirm the Catholic dogma of that “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
forever by its usage in dogma.
Benedict/Ratzinger denies the meaning of “substance” and then, 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. 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
“One Lord, One Faith, One
Baptism.”
With
reference to its object, faith cannot be greater for some truths than for
others. Nor can it be less with regard to the number of truths to be believed.
For we must all believe the very same thing, both as to the object of faith as
well as to the number of truths. All are equal in this because everyone must
believe all the truths of faith--both those which God Himself has directly
revealed, as well as those he has revealed through His Church. Thus, I must
believe as much as you and you as much as I, and all
other Christians similarly. He who does not believe all these mysteries is not
Catholic and therefore will never enter Paradise.
St. Francis de Sales, The Sermons
of Saint Francis de Sales for Lent Given in 1622
The overthrow of Christ the King and the enthronement of
the kingship of Man
“Christ is King in the sense that in Him, in the testimony that He
rendered to the truth, is manifested the ‘kingship’ of every human being, the
expression of every person’s transcendent character. Such is the Church’s
proper inheritance.” The kingship that Jesus claims before Pilate “is not
first of all to exercise authority over others; it is a manifestation of the
kingly character of man. This kingly
character is embedded within human nature, within the structure of the human
personality.”
Cardinal
Karol Wojtyla, Lenten Conference given to Pope Paul VI and the Vatican Curia,
1979
Old
Evangelization vs. New
Evangelization
The old evangelization holds that any man, like all men born with
original sin and an enemies of God, if he believes what God by His Son, Jesus
Christ, has revealed and repents from his sins, can be raised by the sacrament
of Baptism to the dignity by being a “child of God” and heir to eternal life
with God in heaven because the sacrament of Baptism with the desire to receive
it marks his soul with an indelible character and removes all guilt of sin and
punishment due to original sin and actual sins.
The Novus Ordo Church holds the novel doctrine of Religious Liberty
which is the belief that the natural dignity of man is so great that he
possesses the right not to believe what God has revealed or do what God
commands. Oddly, the Novus Ordo Church holds that Baptism actually lowers the
dignity of man because it takes away his right of Religious Liberty, makes him
a slave to the arbitrary whims of the pope, and if he should, for some reason,
become a Traditional Catholic, well then, he would be so undignified as to
become a “heretic” and “schismatic.”
Has a more inanely naive comment ever been uttered?
The conditions of modern life have eliminated
those innumerable obstacles by which, in the past, the sons of this world
impeded the free action of the Church.
Pope “Novus Ordo Saint” John XXIII
What shall I say of fortitude, without which neither wisdom nor justice
is an any worth?
Fortitude is not of the body, but is a constancy of soul; wherewith we
are conquerors in righteousness, patiently bear all adversities, and in
prosperity are not puffed up. This is
fortitude he lacks who is overcome by pride, anger, greed, drunkenness, and the
like. Neither have they fortitude who when in adversity make shift to escape at their souls'
expense; wherefore the Lord saith, "Fear not those who kill the body, but
cannot fill the soul." In like
manner those who are puffed up in prosperity and abandon themselves to
excessive joviality cannot be called strong.
For how can they be called strong who cannot hide and repress the
heart's emotion? Fortitude is never
conquered, or if conquered, is not fortitude.
St. Bruno
The Apostles, disciples of Christ, are held to
be teachers of the faithful; the valiant Confessors give battle, the heroic
martyrs triumph, and Christian hosts, armed by God, always prevail over the
devil. All these have been men, alike in valor, unlike in their strife,
glorious in their victory. Hence, O Christian, you are but a faint-hearted
soldier if you think you can conquer without a battle, triumph without a
struggle. Use your strength, fight manfully, wage a
fierce battle. Remember your covenant, consider your situation, study your battlefield. You have pledged yourself to a
contract, you have taken up a responsibility, you have
enlisted in an army.
St. John Chrysostom
From
God-Man to man-god!
All of you who are still seeking God, all of you who already have the
inestimable good fortune to believe, and also you who are tormented by doubt:
please listen once again, today in this sacred place, to the words uttered by
Simon Peter. In those
words is the faith of the Church. In those same words is the new truth, indeed,
the ultimate and definitive truth about man: the son of the living God—”You are
the Christ, the Son of the living God.”
John Paul II, first homily, October 27, 1978
The hopeful news is that more and more conservative
Catholics are publically recognizing that the pope is not the “rule of
faith.” The remote “rule of faith” is
sacred Scripture and Tradition. The
proximate “rule of faith” is Dogma. When
the pope stands against Dogma, faithful Catholics must stand against the
pope. It is the Faith that is the
primary sign and cause of the unity of the Church, not the pope!
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LifeSiteNews | May 1, 2017 -- Pope Francis’
teachings on marriage do not “breathe the Spirit of Christ” since they offer an
“accommodation to human weakness,” said one of the world's top Catholic experts
on the Church Fathers in an exclusive interview with LifeSiteNews.
Dr. Anna M. Silvas, a professor at the University
of New England, said there has been a “fierce war” going on within the Church
over the nature of marriage. On one side is the teaching of the Church on the
matter as developed by the Fathers of the early Church.
On the other side are those who seek to undermine and change that
teaching.
“There's a fierce war that's been going on
on this issue for some decades. And currently, Pope Francis thinks he's
winning. But he's not doing things in the Spirit of Christ. Whatever it is, it
does not breathe the Spirit of Christ,” she said.
Silvas said that Catholics seeking to be
faithful to the Church must “cleave” to Christ more than ever.
“And we have to center on Him absolutely.
Popes come and go, but Jesus Christ is the real Lord and Master, and the Bridegroom
of the Church, absolutely. The same yesterday, today and
forever. Getting a good, strict purchase on that will be the one remedy,
at least in our own pained situations, individually, that we can look for,” she
said. […….]
Pope Francis tries to reframe what Catholics have long understood as
the truth about marriage and chastity as merely an ideal, possibly an
impossible or oppressive one, if taken too seriously by mere Christians. He
pits his concept of mercy against marriage, as if a true understanding of the
latter were a threat to the former. Pope Francis reveals himself to be a pope
of his times, and embodies the defects of the Church he leads; Amoris Laetitia is characterized by
loquacity and evasiveness in trying to dignify and disguise moral cowardice
borne from a lack of faith.
Michael Brendan Dougherty, The Cowardice and
Hubris of Pope Francis, THE WEEK, April 11, 2016
“But a
stranger they follow not, but fly from him, because they know not the voice of
strangers.... I am the Good Shepherd.... My sheep hear my voice: I know them,
and they follow me.”
Today, unlike
in the parable of the lost sheep, the Church has one sheep and the other
ninety-nine are missing !
Pope Francis,
June 17, 2013
Christ the
King
As long as the dark
foundation of our nature, grim in its all-encompassing egoism, mad in its drive
to make that egoism into reality, to devour everything and to define everything
by itself, as long as that foundation is visible, as long as this truly
original sin exists within us, we have no business here and there is no logical
answer to our existence. Imagine a group of people who are all blind, deaf and
slightly demented and suddenly someone in the crowd asks, “What are we to
do?”... The only possible answer is “Look for a cure”. Until you are cured,
there is nothing you can do. And since you don't believe you are sick, there
can be no cure. But if the faith communicated by the Church to Christian
humanity is a living faith, and if the grace of the sacraments is an effectual
grace, the resultant union of the divine and the human cannot be limited to the
special domain of religion, but must extend to all Man's common relationships
and must regenerate and transform his social and political life.
Vladimir
Solovyov, Minding the Monarchical Church,
Russian Philosopher and Orthodox convert to the Catholic Church, friend of
Dostoyevsky, died 1900, pauper and homeless.
The very best (or worst) of “Brave New World” and “1984”
rolled into one utopian (dystopian) nightmare!
The Novus Ordo Church always plays ‘catch-up’ with modern
trends but this should force even them to do a little sober reflection before
getting on board with the new political correctness. They don’t want to be accused of “systemic
violence” in peddling the insensitive “biblical worldview” of “transphobic
misinformation” but
still, changing “gender identity… daily” might even make them
sick. The up-side to this, Feminism is
dead. Feminist theory is based upon
“fixed binaries” and “biological essentialism” that intentionally “misgender”
half the population. The whole thing will just have to go!
Harvard: Students can change gender daily,
saying otherwise is ‘violence’
LifeSiteNews | CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts
|April 24, 2017 -- One of the world’s premier academic institutions has
published a student guide that states one’s gender can “change from day to day”
and merely saying that’s not true “is a form of … violence.”
Homosexual
activists in the Harvard University office of “LGBTQ Student Life” passed out a
school-sponsored guide that urges students to “fight transphobia.”
Among other claims
presented as facts, the guide decrees that “there are more than two sexes.”
“Gender is fluid
and changing,” the guide instructs.
Using carefully
worded transgender phraseology, the guide refers to biological gender as one’s
“sex assigned at birth.”
“How are you
supposed to write a law that protects against gender or sex discrimination if a
person’s ‘gender identity’ can change daily?” Chris Pandolfo at the
Conservative Review asks. “James Madison might’ve said something important
about ‘mutable’ or constantly changing government and ‘incoherent’ laws once.”
Furthermore, the
Harvard guide admonishes students that “fixed binaries” (in other words,
referring to the two sexes of male and female) and “biological essentialism”
(in other words, considering a boy to be a boy and a girl to be a girl)
“threaten(s) the lives of trans people.”
Calling a male by a
male pronoun is considered gender assault. “Misgendering someone” is considered
life-threatening. The biblical worldview is characterized as “transphobic
misinformation.”
“Transphobic
misinformation is a form of systemic violence,” the guide claims.
Critics say the
most dangerous claim of the Harvard encyclical is that opposing views are “a
form of systemic violence.” In other words, “traditional understandings of the
roles of men and women and the distinctions between male and female are
‘violence.’“
“If you follow this
line of thinking, then when, for example, Jesus says in Matthew 19, ‘Have you
not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and
female’… — that’s violence,” Pandolfo pointed out.
Campus Reform
reports that several Harvard students expressed outrage about the misuse of tuition
money for the politically correct student guide, but “all declined to comment
on the record due to concerns about potential repercussions from the school.”
Pandolfo opined,
“One wonders if Harvard’s administration has paused to consider whether they
are providing a ‘Safe Space’ for students who think that men are men and women
are women.”
“This is the sad
state of affairs at colleges and universities,” Pandolfo concludes.
”Traditional values are called violent. Mob violence to silence free
speech is called justice.”
From Pope Francis down, the homosexual lobby is running
the Vatican show!
Pro-homosexual Vatican consultant radically reinterprets Christ’s last
words
LifeSiteNews | WASHINGTON, D.C. | April 19,
2017 – Cardinal Donald Wuerl honored LGBT-endorsing Jesuit Father James
Martin on Good Friday by having him speak at his cathedral’s liturgy
commemorating the crucifixion and death of Christ.
Father Martin led
an hour of reflection on the Seven Last Words of Jesus at the Cathedral of St.
Matthew the Apostle in Washington, the Archdiocese of Washington’s newspaper
reported. The talk was followed by the Liturgy of the Lord's Passion, with
Cardinal Wuerl presiding.
The editor-at-large
for Jesuit America magazine, Father Martin is a frequent promoter of LGBT
issues on his prominent social media accounts and in other media.
Pope Francis
recently appointed the Jesuit as one of 13 consultants of the Secretariat for
Communications.
The Vatican office
that Father Martin will be working with runs the pope’s official Twitter
account, Vatican radio and TV, and the Holy See's website. […..]
Father Martin added
the following day on his Facebook page that he was honored by the invitation
from Cardinal Wuerl to preach the Seven Last Words liturgy.
Reinterpreting the
Lord
In his Good Friday
talk on the Seven Last Words of Christ during His crucifixion, Father Martin
implied reduced complicity for the Lord’s executioners in their actions.
And he cast doubt
upon the meaning of Christ’s statement that “It is finished.”
While the phrase is
widely understood to be the fulfillment of God’s will, the Catholic
Standard reported that Father Martin suggested it could also be interpreted as
a resignation on the part of Christ — that Jesus might not have known
whether the apostles would carry on His work after He died.
Father Martin told
those in attendance at the Good Friday liturgy that his favorite theological
question to ponder is whether Jesus knew what was going to happen on Easter
Sunday before He died.
Apparently disregarding
Christ’s divine nature, he said Jesus desired to do the Father’s will, but that
the answer to the question of whether he knew what this regarding Easter was
“is a mystery.”
In conflict with
Church teaching on homosexuality
In February after
President Trump reversed the Obama-era edict imposing “transgender” bathroom
access in public schools, Father Martin tweeted numerous times support for
allowing gender-confused children into the bathroom of the opposite sex.
The priest, who has
some 100K Twitter followers, attempted to justify the stance by implying it was
one Jesus would take.
The Catholic Church
opposes the concept of gender fluidity, as Church teaching holds that God
created humans as male and female and that God does not make mistakes.
Father Martin’s
tacit support for the 2015 Obergefell (legalizing homosexual “marriage”) ruling
drew considerable pushback on social media.
In response, he
lamented “the level of hatred around homosexuality.”
And he bypassed the
Church’s teaching on homosexual activity in selectively stating, “The Catholic church [sic] must do a much better job of teaching what the
Catechism says: that we should treat our LGBT brothers and sisters with
‘respect, sensitivity and compassion.’”
The Catholic Church
teaches that marriage is a sacrament between one man and one woman, and that
sexual intercourse is reserved for marriage. The Church also teaches that all
people are called to be chaste, which means celibacy for those not
married.
Specifically
regarding homosexuality, Church teaching says that while homosexuals must not
be subject to “unjust discrimination,” homosexual tendencies are disordered and
gravely immoral when acted upon.
During the 2014
Vatican Extraordinary Synod on the Family, Father Martin posted on Facebook a call
to pray for “an end to the kind of language, especially within our church, that
may lead to hatred for, rejection of, or violence against gays.”
The post was
accompanied by an image of "The Passion of Matthew Shepherd."
Shepherd was the young homosexual man from Wyoming killed brutally in a drug
deal gone bad whose story has been exploited by activists to advocate LGBT
issues.
In 2012, Father
Martin posted an America article from an openly gay priest endeavoring to
justify how Catholics could vote against a marriage protection amendment under
consideration there at the time.
“Comments will be
monitored closely and anything that is mean-spirited will be deleted,” he
warned.
Father Martin
expressed to a workshop audience at the 2005 LA Religious Education Conference
that more open role models of homosexual priests were needed.
“
… if only there were more public models of gay priests,” he said. “In
the absence of any healthy gay priests for Catholics to reflect on publicly,
and with the only examples being notorious pedophiles, the stereotype of the
gay priest as child abuser only deepens.”
Putting it in print
In his new book
titled Building A Bridge: How the Catholic Church and
the LGBT Community Can Enter into a Relationship of Respect, Compassion, and
Sensitivity, Father Martin argues that Catholic Church employees shouldn't be
fired for contravening Church teaching by espousing homosexual acts or openly
professing homosexuality.
He accepted an
award last year from the pro-homosexual group New Ways Ministry, which has been
condemned by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) and the U.S.
Conference of Catholic Bishops.
During his speech
before homosexual activists, Father Martin said the Church should embrace
homosexuality’s “special gifts.”
He also praised a
17-year-old for “coming out” on a retreat, and likened sexual tendencies to
race and age. Father Martin said the Catholic Church must “lay to rest” its
language about the “objectively disordered” nature of homosexual inclinations
and acts.
Father Martin
claimed that the Catechism’s language is “needlessly cruel” and “needlessly
hurtful” because it says “that one of the deepest parts of a person — the part
that gives and receives love — is ‘disordered’ in itself.”
[Modernism is the] synthesis of all
heresies [whose] system means the destruction not of the Catholic religion
alone, but of all religion....
[Modernists] partisans of error are to be sought not only among the
Church’s open enemies; but what is to be most dreaded and deplored, in her very
bosom, and are all the more mischievous the less they keep in the open.... They
put themselves forward as reformers of the Church [though they are] thoroughly
imbued with the poisonous doctrines taught by the enemies of the Church.... They assail all that is most sacred in the
work of Christ.... [They are] the most pernicious of all the adversaries of the
Church... They lay the axe not to the branches and shoots, but to the very
root, that is, to the Faith and its deepest fibers.... The most absurd tenet
of the Modernists, that every religion according to
the different aspect under which it is viewed, must be considered as both
natural and supernatural. It is thus
that they make consciousness and revelation synonymous. From this they derive the law laid down as
the universal standard, according to which religious consciousness is to be put
on an equal footing with revelation, and that to it all must submit, even the
supreme authority of the Church.
St. Pius X, Pascendi
Therefore: In
the Novus Ordo Church of Sweet Dreams where harshness is always frowned upon
unharshly!
·
Religious Liberty is the doctrinal validation of
“Religious Consciousness.”
·
Ecumenism is the collectivization and synthesis through
dialogue of the individual’s “Religious Consciousness.”
·
“Faith” is the affirmation of the subjective
“Religiousness Consciousness” on the authority of the believer.
·
“Dogma” is the historical and transitory expression of
“Religiousness Consciousness” for a particular age.
·
“Tradition” is the historical experience from which the
present “Religious Consciousness” has evolved.
Ecumenical Talking Points for Luther’s Upcoming 500th
Anniversary
“And the fifth
Angel sounded the trumpet; and I saw a star fall from Heaven upon the earth, and to him was given the key to the bottomless
pit. And he opened the bottomless pit:
and the smoke of the pit ascended as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun
was darkened, and the air with the smoke of the pit: And from the smoke of the pit, there came out
locusts upon the earth, and power was given to them, as the scorpions of the
earth have power.” (Apoc: 9:1-3)
Luther did truly open the pit and let loose
against the Church all the fury of hell. Therefore modern interpreters almost
universally see in this fallen star, Luther.
The whole description of the locusts fits
down to the last detail the kings and princes who established by force the
heresy of the 16th Century. When Luther
propounded his heretical and immoral doctrine, the sky became as it were
obscured by smoke. It spread very rapidly over some regions of the earth, and
it brought forth princes and kings who were eager to despoil the Church of her
possessions. They compelled the people of their domains and in the territories
robbed from the Church to accept the doctrines of Luther. The proponents of
Protestantism made false translations of the Bible and misled the people into
their errors by apparently proving from the ‘Bible’ (their own translations)
the correctness of their doctrines. It was all deceit, lying and hypocrisy. Bad
and weak, lax and lukewarm, indifferent and non-practicing Catholics and those
who had neglected to get thorough instruction were thus misled; and these,
seeing the Catholic Church now through this smoke of error from the abyss and
beholding a distorted caricature of the true Church, began both to fear and
hate her.
Luther did everything to instill hatred of
the [Catholic] Church into the hearts of his followers. The princes of Germany eagerly took up Lutheranism
to become the spiritual heads of the churches in their domains and to plunder
the Church. Their assumed jurisdiction in spiritual matters was usurpation ...
In Denmark, Norway and Sweden the Kings imposed Lutheranism upon the people by
the power of the sword and by lying, deceit and hypocrisy. They left the altars
in the churches and had apostate priests use vestments and external trappings
of the Catholic Church to mislead the people. They crushed out the Catholic
faith by terrorism, by making it a felony and treason to remain a Catholic.
Each monarch made himself the spiritual head of the church in his kingdom. They
had so-called historians falsify history to arouse hatred against the Church in
the hearts of the people. They pretended to prove the truth of Lutheranism by
false translations of the Bible made by Luther and by others and by still
falser interpretations of it. Those princes and kings were the locusts
appearing in the vision of St. John. They had the teeth of lions to terrify
lukewarm Catholics into submission. Rev. Fr. Herman Bernard Kramer, The Book of Destiny
As
we have already said, the heresy will end conservative Catholicism!
“The document will mark the start of the greatest revolution
experienced by the Church in 1500 years.”
Cardinal Walter Kasper, comment on the final document of the
Synod on the Family to be released directly
A Historical Indictment
“Yet you, Holy Father, who are always cold
and detached regarding the dogma of the Church, have uncritically wed
yourself to absurd ecological dogmas … making a granitic profession of
faith in that absurd climatist ideology… [I]t is improper and ridiculous
that a Pope makes the climate and the environment (to which he dedicated
the first encyclical he penned) the heart of his preaching… The Lord did not
say: ‘Convert and believe in global warming,’ but rather: “Convert and believe
in the Gospel.” And He never commanded: ‘Separate your refuse’ but rather
‘Go and baptize all peoples’“
(p. 134)..... “But above all, Father Bergoglio [a reference to the
Pope’s penchant for introducing himself thus], how is it possible that you do
not notice and do not indicate other emergencies than those of the climate, or
at least with equal insistence? The apostasy of entire peoples from the faith of
the true God is not a drama that merits your most ardent appeals? The war against the family and against life? The neglect of Christ and the massacre of Christian communities?
It seems that only the environment and other themes of the
religion of political correctness merit your passion.
“A great French intellectual, Alain Finkielkraut, has
described you as “Supreme Pontiff of the world journalistic ideology.”
Is he wrong? Does he exaggerate?
“In effect, in ‘your’ Church it seems that the themes of
separating refuse and recycling take precedence over the tragedy of entire
peoples who, in the turn of a few years, have abandoned the faith. You
sound the alarm over “global warming” while the Church for two millennia has
sounded it concerning the fire of Hell” (p. 142).
“Before the spiritual catastrophe of
the eternal perdition of multitudes, which induced the mother of God to come
earnestly to Earth, I find it frankly incomprehensible that you preoccupy
yourself for the most part—as you did in your encyclical Laudato si
—with biodiversity, the fate of worms and little reptiles, the lakes, and the
abuse of plastic bottles and air-conditioning” (p. 148).
“I
invite you, reread attentively these words because
they describe dramatically what is occurring during your pontificate. In fact,
it is precisely you personally, Holy Father, who accuse of ‘fundamentalism’
those who have a clear and certain faith and bear witness to their fidelity to
Catholic doctrine….
“You, curiously, are convinced that the
danger for the Church of today is Christians fervent in their faith and those
pastors who defend the Catholic creed. In your Evangelii gaudium you
attack “some who dream of a monolithic doctrine” and those who “use a language
completely orthodox.”
“Should
we then prefer those who are carried here and there by every ideology and use
heretical language? Evidently yes, seeing that they are never
attacked by you.
“If
one chooses any day, one will almost always find that you, in your discourse,
attack those you call ‘rigorists,’ ‘rigid,’ that is, men with fervent faith,
whom you identify with ‘Scribes and Pharisees’“ (p.
153-155).
“(You)should overcome your personal resentment toward those who
have studied; you should know that, in the Christian horizon, it is completely
absurd to oppose mercy to Truth, because both are incarnated in the same Jesus
Christ. Thus it is false to oppose doctrine to the pastoral, because that would
be to oppose the Logos (doctrine) to the Good Shepherd (the Truth made flesh):
Jesus is the Logos (the Truth made flesh) and, at the same time, the Good
Shepherd” (p. 159).
“… closed hearts that often hide even
behind the teaching of the Church, or behind good intentions, to sit in the
chair of Moses and judge, sometimes with superficiality and superiority, to
judge difficult cases and wounded families….
“The
true defenders of doctrine are not those who defend the letter but the spirit;
not the idea but the man; not the formula, but the gratuitous love of God and
of his pardon.”
“So
doing, do you not think that you have disqualified your predecessors and all
the Magisterium of the Church, in order to affirm your strictly personal
concept of mercy different from the doctrine of the Church?...
“Evidently,
even Jesus would have been, according to you, doctrinaire, a rigorist, one
who defends the idea instead of the man.
“In
effect—applying your criterion—we would have to say that Jesus would not have
been accepted to a seminary during your pontificate because he was the most
fundamentalist of all; in fact, not only was he certain of the truth, but
he proclaimed himself the Truth made flesh (‘I am the way, the truth, and the
life.’ Jn 14, 6).”
Antonio Socci’s La Profezia Finale
There is one that humbleth himself wickedly, and his interior
is full of deceit.
Ecclus.
19:23
Pope horrified by 'unacceptable massacre' in Syria
Catholic News Service | Junno Arocho
Esteves | April 5, 2017
Pope
Francis strongly condemned a shocking chemical attack in Syria that left some
70 people, including at least 10 children, dead.
"We are horrified by the
latest events in Syria. I strongly deplore the unacceptable massacre that took
place yesterday in the Idlib province, where dozens of civilians, including
many children, were killed," the pope said April 5 before concluding his
weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square.
Images of dead men,
women and children lying on the streets provoked international outrage
following the attack April 4 in a rebel-held area. Pope Francis said, “I appeal
to the conscience of those with political responsibility both locally and
internationally to cease this tragedy and bring relief to that dear population
that for too long has been exhausted by war.”
Western leaders have accused
Syrian President Bashar Assad and the country's military of perpetrating the
attack, based on reports that warplanes dropped chemical bombs in the early
morning.
According to The New York Times,
the Syrian military denied attacking the town and said the attack was caused by
insurgents who blame the Syrian government for similar attacks "every time
they fail to achieve the goals of their sponsors. [……]
COMMENT:
The images of children being murdered should always be disturbing. But that is not the case. Only certain images of children designated as
official victims being slaughtered are placed before the public conscience by
the official media. The images of
aborted babies are never displayed by the official media. Neither are the images of Palestinian
children slaughtered by the Israel Defense Forces considered acceptable for
public viewing. A simple GOOGLE search
will show hundreds of images that should disturb everyone but they don’t. Without grace the common man cannot be
affected by disturbing images unless he is told that the official response
requires that he be disturbed. So the
pope in accord with the policy of the official media is appropriately disturbed
by images of Syrian children exposed to chemical warfare. The chemical attack without a shred of
evidence is blamed on the Syrian President Assad by the Western War Party. The response generated was the unthinking
attack by the United States directed by President Trump. This attack constituted an unconstitutional
and unprovoked act of war. Is the
official media disturbed by this usurpation of power by President Trump? Is the official media even concerned about
determining actual guilt? Why does the
Catholic Pope whose ignorance knows no limits feel compelled to comment on
everything that he knows nothing about?
The official media rejoices that a dummy like Francis can be enrolled to
support and amplify their artificially contrived indignation for their
anti-Christian political ends.
Cardinal Kasper: Pope sees married priests
debate ‘positively,’ seeks proposals from bishops’ conferences
LifeSiteNews | April 7, 2017 – German
Cardinal Walter Kasper says Pope Francis wants bishops' conferences to submit
to him proposals for ordaining married men.
Kasper said this in
an interview with Katholisch.de, the official website of the German
bishops' conference. Dr. Maike Hickson at OnePeterFive translated his remarks.
There is an
"urgent need for action" on the question of married priests, Kasper
said. Previous discussions on this topic were "not approved officially by
Rome," but now the pope is open to the question. Kasper noted Pope Francis
hasn't said where he stands on this, but said he views the discussion
"positively."
"This discussion is very
urgent" given the shortage of priests in Germany, according to Kasper. The
entire country only has 40 candidates for the priesthood; in liberal
Cardinal Reinhard Marx’s archdiocese, there's only one.
Pope Francis
"wants to leave the decision up to the bishops’ conferences," Kasper
claimed. If they make to him a "reasonable request, I have the impression
that he is willing to respond then positively to it. It is now up to the
bishops’ conferences."
Kasper hinted that
Marx "(Francis) wishes to push things ahead" regarding married
priests, but "he cannot directly intervene" in every diocese.
The Catechism of
the Catholic Church explains, "Called to consecrate themselves with
undivided heart to the Lord and to 'the affairs of the Lord,' [priests] give
themselves entirely to God and to men. Celibacy is a sign of this new life to
the service of which the Church's minister is consecrated; accepted with a
joyous heart celibacy radiantly proclaims the Reign of God" (CCC 1579.
Married men may
already in some circumstances be ordained Catholic priests. For example,
married men are allowed to be ordained in the Eastern churches. And, if a
former Episcopal or Anglican priest has converted to Catholicism, there is a
special pastoral provision that allows for him to become a Roman Catholic
priest and remain married to his wife.
Nevertheless,
"priestly celibacy is held in great honor in the Eastern Churches and many
priests have freely chosen it for the sake of the Kingdom of God," the
Catechism continues. "In the East as in the West a man who has already
received the sacrament of Holy Orders can no longer marry".
A number of married
Roman Catholic priests, who began as priests of Protestant denominations, have
said they don't think married priests should be the norm. They point out that parishes
will have to support not only priests but also their (potentially very large)
families. They also point out the difficulty of being a shepherd to "two
flocks" – a parish and a family.
"A married
priesthood alters one of the underlying symbolic systems of the Catholic
priesthood. The Catholic priest is 'married to the Church.' Having a wife
undermines that essential and traditional symbolism," Father Dwight
Longenecker, a married priest, wrote in the New York Times in 2014. [….]
"You might be
surprised to know most married Catholic priests are staunch advocates of
clerical celibacy," Father Joshua Whitfield, a Catholic priest with a
wife and four kids, wrote recently in the Dallas Morning News.
"Laity who
have no real idea of what priesthood entails and even some priests who have no
real idea of what married family life entails both assume normalizing married
priesthood would bring about a new, better age for the Catholic Church,"
wrote Whitfield. "But it's an assumption with little supporting evidence.
One need only look to the clergy shortage in many Protestant churches to see
that opening up clerical ranks doesn't necessarily bring about spiritual
renaissance or growth at all, the opposite being just as likely."
"But more
importantly, calls to change the discipline of celibacy are usually either
ignorant or forgetful of what the church calls the 'spiritual fruit' of
celibacy, something largely incomprehensible in this libertine age, but which
is nonetheless still true and essential to the work of the church,"
Whitfield continued.
Canon lawyer Father
James Bradley, an unmarried convert from Anglicanism, shares Whitfield's view.
High Treason: “Betrayal of your sovereign by acts of aid and
comfort to the monarch’s ‘enemies.’”
On the one hand, therefore, it is necessary
that the mission of teaching whatever Christ had taught should remain perpetual
and immutable, and on the other that the duty of accepting and professing all
their doctrine should likewise be perpetual and immutable. “Our Lord Jesus Christ, when in
His Gospel He testifies that those who not are with Him are His enemies, does
not designate any special form of heresy, but declares that all heretics who
are not with Him and do not gather with Him, scatter His flock and are His
adversaries: He that is not with Me is against Me, and he that gathereth not
with Me scattereth” (S. Cyprianus, Ep. lxix., ad Magnum, n. I).
The Church, founded on these principles and
mindful of her office, has done nothing with greater zeal and endeavour than
she has displayed in guarding the integrity of the faith. Hence she regarded as
rebels and expelled from the ranks of her children all who held beliefs on any
point of doctrine different from her own. The Arians, the Montanists, the
Novatians, the Quartodecimans, the Eutychians, did not certainly reject all
Catholic doctrine: they abandoned only a tertian portion of it. Still who does
not know that they were declared heretics and banished from the bosom of the
Church? In like manner were condemned all authors of heretical tenets who followed them in subsequent ages. “There can be nothing
more dangerous than those heretics who admit nearly the whole cycle of
doctrine, and yet by one word, as with a drop of poison, infect the real and
simple faith taught by our Lord and handed down by Apostolic tradition” (Auctor
Tract. de Fide Orthodoxa contra Arianos).
Pope Leo XIII, Satis Cognitum, On the Unity of the Church
When it is a question of protecting the bishop’s assets
from legal forfeiture, then the property is held in “trust” for the
faithful. When it is a question of the
faithful trying to protect their churches from being closed and the savings
confiscated by the diocese, then the property is an asset of the bishop to do
with whatever he pleases.
Great Falls-Billings Diocese becomes 15th to file for bankruptcy
National Catholic Reporter | Dan
Morris-Young | April 3, 2017
Are parish assets
immune from liquidation?
That was a dominant
question among those that pastors and others posed to Great Falls-Billings
Bishop Michael Warfel leading up to the Montana diocese's March 31 filing for
Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, brought on by financial pressures from sex
abuse lawsuits.
The diocese
embraces the concept that parish assets are held "in trust," Warfel
told NCR March 31, but attorneys for the currently 72 claimants caution
otherwise.
"It is my
understanding that the diocese will assert that some of its real estate
holdings, investments and cash assets are held 'in trust' for the benefit of
parishes, and are thus not available to fund a settlement or jury verdict
should any case proceed to trial," Bryan Smith, an attorney whose firm
represents nearly half of current plaintiffs, told NCR in an email.
"However,
there does not appear to be any evidence that the parishes are separately
incorporated. If the cases do not resolve in mediation, the issue of which
assets are reachable in bankruptcy could be the subject of litigation,"
said Smith, who works for the Tamaki Law firm, which is based in Washington state.
"There has been
no court ruling on which diocesan assets are available to fund a potential
settlement" and which are "off limits," Smith added.
"Whether the court will agree with the diocese or with the abuse survivors
on that point is unclear, as it has not yet been raised — and will not be
unless the parties are unable to settle the case at mediation."
The diocese filed
for Chapter 11 reorganization on Friday afternoon (March 31) in the U.S.
Bankruptcy Court for the District of Montana, becoming the 15th Catholic diocese
to seek such protection related to sexual abuse by clergy. Two religious
communities have also filed for bankruptcy. […..]
PREDICTION: If President Trump, as commander-in-chief of the
armed forces, does not overturn this crude effrontery to his presidency, he
will accomplish nothing of any worth.
Lesbian with ‘wife’ and two kids selected to lead U.S. Air Force
Academy
LifeSiteNews | Colorado Springs | March 30,
2017— An open lesbian has been chosen to be the next commandant of the U.S.
Air Force Academy, according to a USAF Academy report and other media.
Col. Kristin
Goodwin has a “wife”and two children. She will take charge of the USAF Academy
pending approval by the U.S. Senate. If approved, she likely will assume her
new position in May. That is usually a formality, but conservative opposition
to her appointment might make it less so.
Air Force Academy
alumnus and former Navy Chaplain Gordon James (“Chaps”) Klingenschmitt, a conservative
activist, is urging concerned citizens to call their U.S. senators to oppose
Goodwin’s nomination to lead the USAF cadets.
Klingenschmitt, who
heads the Pray in Jesus Name Project, told LifeSiteNews that Goodwin’s
appointment under a Trump presidency is part of a “deep state problem of
Obama’s appointments remaining in office while the Senate drags its feet to
confirm Donald Trump’s appointments to replace them.” [......]
Center for Medical Progress (CMP) released a new video of
Planned Parenthood selling baby body parts. Now CMP directors are the only
people criminally charged for revealing this bloody hideous crime! Abortion is
really just ritual murder by another name by those who worship at the
“tabernacle of Moloch and (follow) the star of (their) god Rempham.” (Acts
7:43)
Planned Parenthood’s Cecile Richards refuses questions about newest
baby parts video
LifeSiteNews | Washington, D.C. | March 30,
2017– Cecile Richards, the President of Planned Parenthood, walked away from
LifeSiteNews after being asked about the new Center for Medical Progress (CMP)
video during which a Planned Parenthood abortionist discusses what to do if
babies show signs of life after being unsuccessfully aborted.
Richards also
wouldn't comment on two pro-life activists from CMP being charged with felonies
for exposing the abortion company's baby body parts sales.
On March 29, the
same day the shocking CMP video was released, Planned
Parenthood held a rally on Capitol Hill. LifeSiteNews was there and asked
Richards for her reaction to the new video and Daleiden being charged. The charges against Daleiden and his co-worker Sandra Merritt
were announced March 28.
Richards walked
away upon hearing the questions. Planned Parenthood staffers attempted to cover
the camera and direct LifeSiteNews away.
CMP's newest
undercover video shows Dr. DeShawn Taylor explaining that aborting some babies
requires strength causing a need to "hit the gym."
She graphically described how to deliver aborted babies intact so that
their body parts can be harvested and said she pays "attention to who's in
the room" if an aborted baby shows signs of life.
"It’s not a
matter of how I feel about it coming out intact, but I gotta worry about my
staff and people’s feelings about it coming out looking like a baby,"
Taylor said of the elective abortions she does up to 24 weeks.
Pro-life investigators charged with 15 felonies for exposing Planned
Parenthood baby parts sales
LifeSiteNews | CALIFORNIA | March 28, 2017
– The state of California charged pro-life investigators
David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt of the Center for Medical Progress (CMP)
with 15 crimes Tuesday.
CMP's undercover
videos showing Planned Parenthood executives haggling over the prices of
aborted baby body parts spurred a Congressional investigation and calls for the
abortion company to be stripped of its federal tax dollars.
"These bogus
charges from Planned Parenthood's political cronies are fake news," said
Daleiden in a statement to LifeSiteNews. "They tried the same collusion
with corrupt officials in Houston, TX and both the charges and the DA were
thrown out."
"The public
knows the real criminals are Planned Parenthood and their business partners
like StemExpress and DV Biologics—currently being prosecuted in Orange
County—who have harvested and sold aborted baby body parts for profit for years
in direct violation of state and federal law. I look forward to showing the
entire world what is on our yet-unreleased video tapes of Planned Parenthood’s
criminal baby body parts enterprise." [.......]
Cardinal Marx admits what has been common knowledge for
years: Vatican II's Lumen Gentium
taught a radically new and heretical ecclesiology. But don't expect him to ever figure out why
there is a “great upheaval in the Church” or why out of a diocese of 1.7
million he has only one candidate for the priesthood.
Cardinal Marx: Lay people can run parishes
LifeSiteNews | Munich, Germany | March 28,
2017– German Cardinal Reinhard Marx plans to allow lay people in his
archdiocese to run parishes in response to the priest shortage there and is
also open to the possibility of married priests.
Cardinal Marx said
parishes in the Archdiocese of Munich will have to be reorganized and current
requirements for admission to the priesthood be
reconsidered. The archdiocese has a
Catholic population of more than 1.7 million but just one candidate for the
priesthood this year.
“We are experiencing a great upheaval in
the Church at the moment,” the cardinal said.
The 63-year-old Marx,
who is president of the German Bishops’ Conference and a member Pope Francis’
Council of Cardinals as well as a close adviser of the pope, recently announced
a pilot project this fall with parish leadership models.
Cardinal Marx said
all of the possibilities were not yet thought through. He cited the “priesthood
of all the faithful” and referenced the Second Vatican Council (Chapter 2,
Lumen Gentium: “the common priesthood of the faithful and the ministerial or
hierarchical priesthood are nonetheless interrelated”). [.....]
Simple Explanation: According to the aesthetical theology
of the Desert Fathers, Depression is one of the capital sins along with sloth,
avarice, lust, gluttony, anger, envy, and pride. A life without the grace of God is necessarily
depressing.
Global depression rates up 18 per cent since 2005: WHO
Reuters | Kate Kelland | LONDON | Mar.
30, 2017
Depression is now
the leading cause of ill health and disability worldwide, the World Health
Organization (WHO) said on Thursday, with more than 300 million people
suffering.
Rates of depression
have risen by more than 18 per cent since 2005, but a lack of support for the
mental health combined with a common fear of stigma means many do not get the
treatment they need to live healthy, productive lives.
“These new figures
are a wake-up call for all countries to re-think their approaches to mental
health and to treat it with the urgency it deserves,” Margaret Chan, the WHO’s
director-general, said in a statement from the U.N. agency’s Geneva
headquarters.
The WHO is running
a mental health campaign to tackle stigma and misconceptions called
“Depression: Let’s Talk.”
“For someone living
with depression, talking to a person they trust is often the first step towards
treatment and recovery,” said Shekhar Saxena, director of the WHO’s mental
health department.
Depression is a
common mental illness characterized by persistent sadness and a loss of
interest and lack of ability in everyday activities and work. It affects around
322 million people worldwide. [.....]
Sodomy,
a sin that cries to Heaven for Vengeance!
“But they act in a contrary way, for they come full of impurity to this
mystery, and not only of that impurity to which, through the fragility of your
weak nature, you are all naturally inclined (although reason, when free will
permits, can quiet the rebellion of nature), but these wretches not only do not
bridle this fragility, but do worse, committing that accursed sin against
nature, and as blind and fools, with the light of their intellect darkened,
they do not know the stench and misery in which they are. It is not only that
this sin stinks before me, who am the Supreme and Eternal Truth, it does indeed
displease me so much and I hold it in such abomination that for it alone I
buried five cities by a divine judgment, my divine justice being no longer able
to endure it. This sin not only displeases me as I have said, but also the
devils whom these wretches have made their masters.
Not that the evil displeases them because they like anything good, but because
their nature was originally angelic, and their angelic nature causes them to
loathe the sight of the actual commission of this enormous sin.
God the Father to St. Catherine of Siena, Dialogues
“No sin in the world grips the soul as the accursed sodomy; this sin
has always been detested by all those who live according to God.…
Deviant passion is close to madness; this vice disturbs the intellect, destroys
elevation and generosity of soul, brings the mind down from great thoughts to
the lowliest, makes the person slothful, irascible, obstinate and obdurate,
servile and soft and incapable of anything; furthermore, agitated by an
insatiable craving for pleasure, the person follows not reason but frenzy.…
They become blind and, when their thoughts should soar to high and great
things, they are broken down and reduced to vile and useless and putrid things,
which could never make them happy.... Just as people participate in the glory
of God in different degrees, so also in hell some suffer more than others. He
who lived with this vice of sodomy suffers more than another, for this is the
greatest sin.”
St. Bernardine of Siena, Sermon
“As the Sacred Scripture says, the Sodomites were wicked and exceedingly
sinful. Saint Peter and Saint Paul condemn this nefarious and depraved sin. In
fact, the Scripture denounces this enormous indecency thus: ‘The scandal of
Sodomites and Gomorrhans has multiplied and their sins have become grave beyond
measure.’ So the angels said to just Lot, who totally abhorred the depravity of
the Sodomites: ‘Let us leave this city....’ Holy Scripture does not fail to
mention the causes that led the Sodomites, and can also lead others, to this
most grievous sin. In fact, in Ezechiel we read: ‘Behold this was the iniquity
of Sodom: pride, fullness of bread, and abundance, and the idleness of her, and
of her daughters: and they did not put forth their hand to the needy, and the
poor. And they were lifted up, and committed abominations before me; and I took
them away as thou hast seen’ (Ezech. 16: 49-50). Those unashamed of violating
divine and natural law are slaves of this never sufficiently execrated
depravity.”
St. Peter Canisius, S.J., Doctor of the Church
Or was it his “Wife”? Protocol be damned!
The Prime Minister of Luxembourg is Received
in the Vatican With “Husband.”
Adalante Te Fe | March 24, 2017 | Rome: A meeting of Pope Francis held a
celebration with 27 leaders of the world on the occasion of the 60th
anniversary of the Treaty of Rome, in which this “curious” shot of Luxembourg
Prime Minister Xavier Bettel, a well-known pro-sodomy activist, along with his
“husband”, was taken.
“One Baptism”?
Around four o’clock in the afternoon on January 3rd 1944, in
the convent chapel of Tuy, in front of the Tabernacle, Our Lady urged Sister
Lucia to write the text of the Third Secret and Sister Lucia recounts:
“I felt my spirit inundated by
a mystery of light that is God and in Him I saw and heard the point of a lance
like a flame that is detached touch the axis of the earth and it trembles:
mountains, cities, towns and villages with their inhabitants are buried. The
sea, the rivers and clouds exceed their boundaries, inundating and dragging
with them in a vortex, houses and people in a number that cannot be counted; it
is the purification of the world from the sin in which it is immersed. Hatred,
ambition, provoke the destructive war. After I felt my
heart racing and in my spirit a soft voice that said: ‘In time, one faith, one
baptism, one Church, Holy, Catholic, Apostolic. In eternity,
Heaven!’ This word ‘Heaven’ filled my heart with peace and happiness in
such a way that, almost without being aware of it, I kept repeating to myself
for a long time: Heaven, Heaven!!”
Um Caminho
sob o olhar de Maria (A Path under the eyes of Mary), published in 2013 by the sisters of the Carmel
of Coimbra
The Jewish question of our time does not differ greatly from the one
which affected the Christian peoples of the Middle
Ages. In a foolish way it is said to arise from hatred towards the Jewish
tribe. Mosaism in itself could not become an object of hate for Christians,
since, until the coming of Christ, it was the only true religion, a
prefiguration of and preparation for Christianity, which, according to God’s
Will, was to be its successor. But the Judaism of the centuries [after Christ]
turned its back on the Mosaic law, replacing it with the Talmud, the very
quintessence of that Pharisaism which in so many ways has been shattered through
its rejection by Christ, the Messiah and Redeemer. And although Talmudism is an
important element of the Jewish question, it cannot be said, strictly speaking,
to give that question a religious character, because what the Christian nations
despise in Talmudism is not so much its virtually non-existent theological
element, but rather, its morals, which are at variance with the most elementary
principles of natural ethics.
“The Jewish Question in Europe”; La
Civiltà Cattolica, Series XIV, Vol. VII, 23 October 1890
Cardinal
Gerhard Müller reaffirms what every Catholic child should already know before
he receives his first sacramental Confession in preparation for his first Holy
Communion:
….. Let us now return to the new Tertio interview itself.
Cardinal Müller, when speaking about truth and mercy, explicitly says that “there are no circumstances that would make adultery not be a mortal sin”
and that “The merciful God does not
dispense of the Commandments.” Pastors “cannot
remove the responsibility toward others” and cannot “exempt people from the Commandments.” Cardinal Müller also
says that “the teaching on the
indissolubility of marriage is clear” and stresses the importance of the “responsibility for the children.” While
we all as human beings can commit errors and sins, the cardinal adds, “we need
forgiveness for our sins” and have to “beg (God) for mercy.” Cardinal Müller importantly explains: “Again, mercy is not a licence to sin or to live in sin.” In
Catholic terms, contrition of heart “must be accompanied by a willingness to
convert.” The cardinal insists that “a just mercy helps us to live in truth,
and a wrong mercy gives us false assurances, but does not make us free.”
Thus, with God’s Grace, marriage can be for a lifetime, and we have to pray for
that, and therefore “marriage is an
achievable project that makes people happy.”
It is to be hoped that this set of authentic quotes from this latest
interview of Cardinal Müller may now spread in lieu of the earlier misrepresentations.
[….]
Steve Skojec, editor OnePeterFive,
commenting on March 1, 2017 interview by the Belgian Catholic weekly, Tertio,
of Cardinal Gerhard Müller, Prefect for the Congregation for the Doctrine of
the Faith
First of all they lay down the general principle that in a living
religion everything is subject to change, and must change, and in this way they
pass to what may be said to be, among the chief of their doctrines, that of Evolution.
To the laws of evolution everything is subject - dogma, Church, worship, the
Books we revere as sacred, even faith itself, and the penalty of disobedience
is death. The enunciation of this principle will not astonish anybody who bears
in mind what the Modernists have had to say about each of these subjects.
Having laid down this law of evolution, the Modernists themselves teach us how
it works out.
Pope St. Pius X, Pascendi, On
the Doctrines of the Modernists.
And
just where are the Modernist Liturgists going “forward” to? They won’t tell you because they don’t really
know! We should just “Let them alone: they are blind, and leaders of the blind.
And if the blind lead the blind, both will fall into the pit.” Matt. 15:14
Reform of the
Reform of the Reform of the Reform of the Reform of the Reform of.........
The Last 50
years of Liturgical Wasteland is not enough for the New Barbarians-
“More progress must be made, there is a long
way yet to go.... We must always go forward, always forward.....”
The liturgy is not something strange, there, distant, and while it is
being celebrated I am thinking of many things, or I pray the Rosary. No, no.
There is a correspondence between the liturgical celebration, which I then
carry into my life; and on this more progress must be made, there is such a
long way yet to go. [.....] Thank you so much, thank you so much for your
hospitality, for the prayer with me in the Mass; and we thank the Lord for what
He has done in the Church in these 50 years of liturgical reform. It was in
fact a courageous gesture of the Church to draw close to the People of God, so
that they could understand well what she does, and this is important for us, to
follow the Mass in this way. And we cannot go back; we must always go forward, always
forward and whoever goes back is mistaken. We go forward on this way.
Pope Francis, March 7, 2015 celebrating the 50th anniversary 1965
Bugnini transitional Missal which is remembered by almost no one. Even the papal documents that imposed this
“reform” were formally revoked by Benedict XVI so that the evolutionary changes
between the 1962 “extra-ordinary” and the 1969 “ordinary” Bugnini transitional
missals would appear as an example of liturgical punctuated equilibrium.
“Beware
of disturbing settled questions!”
King Henry VIII, interrupting Cardinal Thomas Wolsey when Wolsey first
broached his opinion to King Henry that his marriage to Queen Catherine was
invalid thus sowing the seed that led to heresy, schism and the martyrdom of
many, many Faithful Catholics.
Pope Francis – his “most gentle manner”!
They (our
most holy predecessors) knew the capacity of innovators in the art of
deception. In order not to
shock the ears of Catholics, the innovators sought to hide the
subtleties of their tortuous maneuvers by the use of seemingly innocuous words
such as would allow them to insinuate error into souls in the most gentle manner. Once the truth had been compromised, they could, by means of slight
changes or additions in phraseology, distort the confession of the faith that
is necessary for our salvation, and lead the faithful by subtle errors to their
eternal damnation. This
manner of dissimulating and lying is vicious, regardless of the circumstances
under which it is used. For very good reasons it can never be tolerated in a
synod of which the principal glory consists above all in teaching the truth
with clarity and excluding all danger of error. Moreover, if all this is sinful, it cannot be excused in the
way that one sees it being done, under the erroneous pretext that the seemingly
shocking affirmations in one place are further developed along orthodox lines
in other places, and even in yet other places corrected; as
if allowing for the possibility of either affirming or denying the statement,
or of leaving it up the personal inclinations of the individual – such has
always been the fraudulent and daring method used by innovators to establish
error. It allows for both the possibility of promoting error and of
excusing it. It is a most reprehensible technique for the insinuation of
doctrinal errors and one condemned long ago by our predecessor St. Celestine,
who found it used in the writings of Nestorius, bishop of Constantinople, and
which he exposed in order to condemn it with the greatest possible severity.
Once these texts were examined carefully, the impostor was exposed and
confounded, for he expressed himself in a plethora of words, mixing true things with others that were
obscure; mixing at times one with the other in such a way that he
was also able to confess those things which were denied while at the same time
possessing a basis for denying those very sentences which he confessed.
Pope Pius
VI, Auctorem Fidei, 1794 papal bull addressed
to all the faithful condemning 85 propositions from the Council of Pistoia,
1786
He
preserved “the basic elements, the bread, the wine,” but so did every
Protestant sect. The question is, ‘Did
he preserve the True Presence? Did he
preserve the Sacrifice?
“Certainly, we will preserve the basic elements, the bread, the wine,
but all else will be changed according to local traditions: words, gestures,
colours, vestments, chants, architecture, decor. The
problem of liturgical reform is immense.”
Fr. M. Malinksi, Mon Ami: Karol
Wojtyla, Le Centurion, 1980, p.220
Pope Francis never kneels before the Blessed Sacrament!
Why?
Then Jesus said to them: Amen, amen I say
unto you: Except you eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, you
shall not have life in you. He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood,
hath everlasting life: and I will raise him up in the last day. For my flesh is
meat indeed: and my blood is drink indeed. He that eateth my flesh, and
drinketh my blood, abideth in me, and I in him. As the living Father hath sent
me, and I live by the Father; so he that eateth me, the same also shall live by
me. This is the bread that came down from heaven. Not as your fathers did eat
manna, and are dead. He that eateth this bread, shall
live for ever. John 6:54-59
For as often as you shall eat this bread,
and drink the chalice, you shall shew the death of the Lord, until he come.
Therefore whosoever shall eat this bread, or drink the chalice of the Lord
unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and of the blood of the Lord. But let a
man prove himself: and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of the chalice.
For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh judgment to
himself, not discerning the body of the Lord. 1 Cor 11:26-29
Because for Francis, “This is a hard saying; who can
listen to it?” (John 6:60)
Worth Remembering: Pope Francis the Fatuous claims to be
morally superior to all previous popes who were too stupid to know anything
about the Fifth Commandment!
Pope Francis appeals for global end to capital punishment
Pontiff tells crowd in St Peter’s Square that ‘You shall not kill’
applies to the innocent as well as the guilty
REUTERS | 21 February 2016
Pope Francis has called for the worldwide abolition of the
death penalty, saying the commandment “You shall not kill” is absolute and
valid for the guilty as well as the innocent.
Using some of his
strongest ever words against capital punishment, he also called on Catholic
politicians worldwide to make “a courageous and exemplary gesture” by seeking a
moratorium on executions during the church’s current holy year, which ends in
November.
“I appeal to the
consciences of those who govern to reach an international consensus to abolish
the death penalty,” he told tens of thousands of people in St Peter’s Square in
the Vatican on Sunday.
“The commandment ‘You shall not
kill’ has absolute value and applies to both the innocent and the guilty,” he
told the crowd. [....]
“Sure
as the sun to-morrow”
St. Paul has foretold the coming of one whom he calls the lawless. No
word more truly describes the state of the modern world. All ages have, indeed,
been lawless, in the sense of violence which breaks the law. But the modern
world is lawless in that it rejects the idea of law, and destroys the basis of
law, by resolving all authority into the will of numbers. The idea of right as
limiting popular aspirations is extinct. Facts are taken to be just, because
accomplished; as if robbery could become lawful by completion. The logic of
facts is the series of wrongs which, once begun, necessitate each other. And
the logic of facts is now one of the supreme reasons of state. The popular will
may aspire after its neighbour’s house and goods, all right and justice
notwithstanding; for the popular will is a law to itself, and makes law by its
aspirations. What it desires it wills, and what it wills is right. What is this
but the reign of license, the corruption of liberty, the extinction of
morality, the negation of justice, which is the negation of God? And yet such
is the substitute in the modern world for the even law of nations and of God,
which, at least by public recognition, ruled and sustained Christendom.
And with this lawlessness comes the supremacy of might. Once, right and
might met together, sanctioning and confirming each other’s acts. Now, might
without right tramples down right without might. The weaker perish, and the
stronger reign, till by mutual destruction men and nations execute on each
other the just judgment of God. That this is in store for Europe, if these
principles prevail, who can doubt? That this will be the solution of the Roman
question, if this sacrilege be not repaired, is sure as the sun to-morrow.
Cardinal Henry Edward Manning, Archbishop of Westminster, Rome, the Capital of Christendom, after
the unjust war of aggression to overthrow the nearly 1200 year-old Papal State
by Victor Emmanuel II, King of Italy, 1870. The temporal power of the pope was
the oldest of all western monarchies upon which all others were grounded. After its overthrow,
followed the overthrow of all. Victor Emmanuel died in Rome in 1878,
after refusing to meet with Blessed Pope Pius IX’s envoy, who was sent with the
authority to reverse the excommunication and restore him to the Church in the
hope that he would obtain a holy death and his salvation. The unfortunate
“father of the Italian state” was buried in the Pantheon, while still
technically a Catholic church, is now far closer to
its original purpose as a pagan temple. The Italian monarchy ended in
1946.
For the “Hard of Heart” the Law of Moses Still Applies
So says an
illustrious biblicist, with a new interpretation of
the words of Jesus on marriage and divorce. But the Catholic Church has always
preached indissolubility without exception. Will it come to admit second
marriages, as in the East?
by Sandro Magister
There are not only
the well-known arguments of Cardinal Walter Kasper in favor of communion for
the divorced and remarried.
There are also those who are traveling new and original paths, in obedience to
the assignment of the synod last October, according to which “the question must
be examined further.”
This is the case of one famous biblicist and patrologist, Guido Innocenzo
Gargano, a Camaldolese monk, former prior of the Roman monastery of San
Gregorio al Celio, and professor at the Pontifical Biblical Institute and the
Pontifical Urbaniana University.
In an article in the latest issue of the theology quarterly “Urbaniana
University Journal,” Fr.
Gargano shows how Jesus’ words about marriage are mainly prompted by what God
says through the mouth of the prophet Hosea: “I desire mercy, and not
sacrifice.”
And as a result he
maintains that Jesus, when he affirms that “man must not divide what God has
joined,” does not thereby cancel God’s forbearance with the “hardness of heart”
of his people, for whom Moses had permitted divorce.
The keystone of Fr. Gargano’s argument is the statement of Jesus in the Sermon
on the Mount: “I have come
not to abolish the Law or the Prophets, but to fulfill them.”
In his judgment, the
significance of this statement is that the two laws - that of “it was said to
them of old” and the new one of “but I say to you” - both coexist in the
preaching of Jesus and clarify each other.
So much so that Jesus,
again in the Sermon on the Mount, does not exclude from the kingdom of heaven
but brings in as the “least” even “he who transgresses the least of these
precepts” and therefore - Fr. Gargano comments - also the one who makes use of the
Mosaic concession of repudiation because of “hardness of heart.”
The author of the article develops these and other points at length and with
acuity, without explicating the practical applications that could result from
this in the life of the Catholic Church, not only on the “vexata quaestio” of
communion for the divorced and remarried, but also on whether or not to allow
second marriages.
He limits himself, in
fact, to an exercise of New Testament exegesis and theology on texts in Matthew
concerning marriage, with only minimal references to the subsequent
developments of Church doctrine and practice in East and West, and with
complete silence on the dogmatic canons of the Council of Trent and the
pastoral constitution of Vatican Council II “Gaudium et Spes,” which confirm the absolute
indissolubility of Christian marriage.
Of course, the discussion also remains open on the exegesis that Fr. Gargano
makes of the saying of Jesus: “I have come not to abolish the Law or the
Prophets, but to fulfill them.” [......]
COMMENT: The first problem is that this
Exegetist ignores Dogma. Dogma is
the formal object of divine and Catholic faith.
It is the direct revelation of God.
To ignore Dogma in the exegesis of Holy Scripture and offer an
interpretation that is contrary to Dogma is what the faithless Protestants
do. To interpret Sacred Scripture
contrary to Dogma is to be counted among those censored by St. Peter in his
second epistle when he commented upon those corrupting the epistles of St. Paul
saying, “As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in
which are certain things hard to be understood, which the unlearned and
unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, to their own
destruction.” The arguments of this
exposition are so weak, so stupid, that they would not have merited a critical
comment by a Catholic biblical scholar at the time of the Reformation.
The second problem is that the
Church Fathers and Doctors have provided excellent commentary on this
scriptural passage. This idiot
proceeds as if they had nothing to say, at least nothing that would interest
him. The law was fulfilled in Jesus,
perfected, not abolished. He did not
establish two different moral standards, one for those seeking perfection and
another for those still suffering from “hardness of heart.” The restoration of Marriage as indissoluble
is possible because of its elevation as a sacrament by God which is the
“fulfilling” of the law. What this man argues for, and Pope Francis has done,
is a return to “hardness of heart” which cannot have a good ending for it turns
away from the grace of God. “But according to thy hardness and impenitent
heart, thou treasurest up to thyself wrath, against the day of wrath, and
revelation of the just judgment of God” (Romans 2:5). The comments from the
Church Fathers referenced in the biblical commentaries of Cornelius a Lapide,
St. Thomas’ Catena Aurea, and the Fr. Haydock’s commentary interpret the
“least” in the kingdom of heaven to mean that they will not be in the kingdom
of heaven at all. Those in the kingdom
of Heaven will regard those outside the kingdom who have not kept the law as
the “least” or “last.”
When any member of the
faithful sees Catholic teaching being eroded or undermined, it is his
right—indeed it is even his duty—to speak out in protest. It is not the right
of wayward theologians, or of bishops who may acquiesce in their views, to
decide that certain parts of the Gospel and Catholic tradition are now
antiquated and may be dropped—and then to protest against usurpation of their
authority when the faithful demand that they receive the whole Word of God.
John J. Mulloy,
conservative Catholic apologist, scholar and editor of Christopher Dawson’s
Dynamics of World History
Pope
Francis complains of Political Decay in the West – The cause? The failure of
the Catholic Church to teach Catholic doctrine and Catholic morals!
Providence is the proper instrument for change,
and the test of a statesman is his cognizance of the real tendency of
providential social forces… it acts through the instincts and intuitions
of our feeble flesh, [demonstrating] that religion and politics are
inseparable, that the decay of one must produce the decay of the other.”
Russell Kirk, The Conservative Mind
“Doubts?”
What “doubts”? Well, it’s doubtful that
the authors of the Dubia are members of the homosexual lobby, but we expect
that Bruno already knows that!
“The doubts raised (Dubia) raise doubts about those who raised them
because they were present and experienced the collegial spirit for themselves. Amoris
laetitia focuses on the crisis of the real family. The message is that
despite the wounds and the failure, it is worthwhile support the family. So
what is to be done? Love as God does. And how shall this attention be expressed for the wounded? With forgiveness, which is the great power of love…. The way of accompanyment
has its summit in the Communion for the remarried divorced, which is a sign of
obedience toward the mercy of God.”
Archbishop Bruno Forte, the very same Bruno Forte who during the Synod
on the Family praised homosexual unions as possessing positive elements that
could contribute to the Church, criticizing the four cardinals who submitted
the Dubia to Pope Francis in September 2016 while endorsing the heretical
opinion that Holy Communion is permissible for those living in unrepentant
adulterous unions. The Dubia has not
been formally answered by Francis, which is his duty, but he has on several occasions
made indirect insulting remarks against its authors.
Separation
of Church and State is impossible. Every
state has an established religion with a creedal profession containing articles
of faith that it demands its citizens profess.
These articles of faith cannot be proven to be true or even demonstrated
as consistent with natural law. The
U.S.A. is no exception to this rule. We have a state religion but it is called
by another name. The secular dogma, ‘Separation
of Church and State’, is nothing more than a tool to prevent competition
against the state religion in the public forum.
The state demands a “faith” in “general values” that are always
“relative and changing.”
All organization is action and all action is rude. […..] There is a hierarchy
of values which have been expressed in nearly every revolutionary slogan in
history…. These values are up on top.
The democratic way of life is nothing more than a process, a device, a modus operandi, designed as the best
way, we believe, of achieving those values, of growing into them so to speak.
Now, those values that I have mentioned cannot be discussed, they cannot be
argued, they cannot be debated, they are articles of faith. [..…] In a free and open society, equality is a value you cannot discuss
or debate or put on a ballot. If you do not accept our values then you can have
no voice in a democratic process. Then get out of our system and go someplace
else. [……] These values and goals, out of necessity, are always stated in
general terms. Every literate
revolutionary knows that you cannot be any more than general (in your) terms
because all values are relative and are changing.
Saul Alinsky, Jewish revolutionary, explaining the ‘religion’ of the
modern democratic state, 1/17/69, UCLA
Pope Francis
will “come to nothing.”
The
Church has ever proved indestructible. Her persecutors have failed to destroy
her; in fact, it was during times of persecution that the Church grew more and
more; while the persecutors themselves, and those whom the Church would
destroy, are the very ones who came to nothing.
St. Thomas Aquinas
Why
the Modern Clerics Lack “Counsel, Reason, and Inspiration”?
They
have been “gathering from strange and unwholesome streams”!
But the chief and special glory of St. Thomas, one which he has shared
with none of the Catholic Doctors, is that the Fathers of Trent made it part of
the order of conclave to lay upon the altar, together with sacred Scripture and
the decrees of the supreme Pontiffs, the Summa of Thomas Aquinas, whence to
seek counsel, reason, and inspiration. Our first and most cherished idea is
that you should all furnish to studious youth a generous and copious supply of
those purest streams of wisdom flowing inexhaustibly from the precious
fountainhead of the Angelic Doctor…. be careful to guard the minds of youth
from those which are said to flow thence (from St Thomas), but in reality are
gathered from strange and unwholesome streams.
Pope Leo XIII, Aeterni Patris (1879)
Society
has already reached a sense of being “defeated” and “futureless.” The crime of the Novus Ordo Church is that
they are a cause and contributor to this sense rather than a light of hope of
union with Jesus Christ!
[You must help] the people in the community… feel so frustrated,
so defeated, so lost, so futureless in the prevailing system that they are
willing to let go of the past and chance the future. [An] organizer must
shake up the prevailing patterns of their lives –agitate, create disenchantment
and discontent with the current values, to produce, if not a passion for
change, at least a passive, affirmative, non-challenging climate. [You
must] fan the embers of hopelessness into a flame of fight.
Saul Alinsky, Rules for Radicals
The progressives have found no substitute for virtue. They can offer
only such morbid stopgaps as contraception, abortion, and euthanasia. The Dark
Ages understood virtue built a civilization; the progressive age doesn’t
understand virtue and is tearing down the civilization it inherited. Euthanasia
is a fitting symbol: the last sacrament of a society that cannot aspire to
heaven, but only to painless annihilation.
Joe Sobran, “Dark Ages, New Morality”
The
Head of the CDF is reduced to using secular press interviews to defend Catholic
Dogma!
….. Let us now return to
the new Tertio interview itself. Cardinal Müller, when speaking about
truth and mercy, explicitly says that “there are no circumstances that
would make adultery not be a mortal sin” and
that “The merciful God does not dispense
of the Commandments.” Pastors “cannot
remove the responsibility toward others” and cannot “exempt people from the Commandments.” Cardinal Müller also
says that “the teaching on the
indissolubility of marriage is clear” and stresses the importance of the “responsibility for the children.” While
we all as human beings can commit errors and sins, the cardinal adds, “we need
forgiveness for our sins” and have to “beg for mercy.” Cardinal Müller importantly explains: “Again, mercy is
not a license to sin or to live in sin.” In Catholic terms, contrition of heart “must be accompanied by a
willingness to convert.” The cardinal insists that “a just mercy helps us to live in truth, and a wrong mercy gives us
false assurances, but does not make us free.” Thus, with God’s Grace,
marriage can be for a lifetime, and we have to pray for that, and therefore
“marriage is an achievable project that makes people happy.”
It is to be hoped that
this set of authentic quotes from this latest interview of Cardinal Müller may
now spread in lieu of the earlier misrepresentations. [….]
Steve Skojec, editor OnePeterFive, commenting on March 1, 2017
interview by the Belgian Catholic weekly, Tertio,
of Cardinal Gerhard Müller
Wisdom
is the most perfect knowledge, of the most important things, in their right
order of reference. Without the “right
order of reference”, Wisdom is impossible. Pope Francis has no Wisdom. He does not even know the “greatest
commandment in the law”!
Master, which is
the greatest commandment in the law? Jesus said to him: Thou shalt love the
Lord thy God with thy whole heart, and with thy whole soul, and with thy whole
mind. This is the greatest and the first commandment.
Matt. 22:36-38
Along with the virtues, this means above all the new commandment, the first and the greatest of
the commandments, and the one that best identifies us as Christ’s disciples:
“This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you”
(Jn. 15:12).
Pope Francis, Evangelii Gaudium, (161) On the Proclamation of the
Gospel in Today’s World
Why not instead just “demand” the resignation of Pope
Francis? After all, he is the owner of
these two dogs!
After the latest scandals, we demand the resignation of Archbishop
Paglia and Bishop Sanchez Sorondo
By Roberto
de Mattei | Rome | March 2, 2017
Among the most
recent events, which have caused upset among Catholics, two make for special attention. The first incident is the immense praise for
Marco Pannella by the Archbishop of Verona, Vincenzo Paglia, President of
the Pontifical Academy for Life. The occasion was the posthumous
presentation of Pannella autobiography at the headquarters of the Radical Party
in Rome: “Lo Spirito di Marco ci aiuti a vivere in quella stessa direzione”
(The Spirit of Marco, help us to live in the same way).
The second incident
is the presentation by Dr. Paul Ehrlich, a well-known representative of today’s
“culture of death”, which he was able to hold at the invitation of the Roman Catholic,
Marcelo Sanchez Sorondo, in the Vatican. The American biologist is
connected with Marco Pannella, and both the deceased leader of the Radical
Party like Ehrlich, is an abortion advocate and a declared enemy of the
Catholic Church. While Mgr. Paglia more or less gave spontaneous
explanations as in delirium, Sanchez Sorondo, in his capacity
as chancellor of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences and
the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, made an official
invitation to Ehrlich.
Sanchez Sorondo,
like Paglia, is a confidant of Pope Francis, and although “thousands of people
have asked Francis to end this scandal, it goes on,” complained Maria Madise
of Voice of the Family. More than 10,000 signatures had been sent by
the Catholic Organization of the United States to Pope Francis, with a request
to prevent the participation of Ehrlich in the Vatican.
In a joint
press release, the Voice of Family, LifeSiteNews, the
Lepanto Foundation and Famiglia Domani have emphasized that
Ehrlich is one of the most famous Neo-Malthusian abortion
representatives. In 1968 he published the bestseller The Population
Bomb. He prophesied to mankind a cataclysmic future dominated by
overpopulation and demanded compulsory measures for birth control in order to
avert them.
Although his
predictions did not occur and had even colossally disregarded the facts,
Ehrlich continues to assiduously demand selective abortion and mass
sterilization as a legitimate means of population control. Ehrlich’s ideas have
been implemented in the People’s Republic of China, India, Kenya and other
states with governmental authority, making him responsible for the millions of
deaths of those unborn.
In an interview by
Mara Hvistendahl of 2011, Ehrlich defended selective abortion by saying, “It
would be a good idea to leave the people the right to make decisions so that
they have only a few children and only those who want them.” The
determination of the sex of the born children by abortion and even the killing
born children is better for women, says Ehrlich, than the fate that she would
expect in an overpopulated world.
In an article
published in 2015, Ehrlich attacked the Catholic faith as “dangerous”, because
it opposes the contraceptive mentality. In the same year, he openly
criticized the encyclical of Laudato si by Pope Francis, because he
made passages against the birth control.
In 2014 he said:
“The Pope and many bishops
represent a real evil and are part of the backward forces of the planet, which
I believe are primarily interested in preserving their power.”
John Henry Westen,
the editor-in-chief of LifeSiteNews, wrote that Pope Francis, by not
attacking Ehrlich, “does not follow his duty to protect the faith entrusted to
the Church by Christ.” Westen added:
“In an interview, Ehrlich told
us that he was ‘electrified’ by the direction that Pope Francis is giving to
the Catholic Church.”
The invitation of
Ehrlich to the Vatican, therefore, represents a scandal which increases the
already existing confusion in the Church. Perhaps Monsignor Sanchez Sorondo
thinks of Ehrlich what Msgr. Paglia said about Marco Pannella:
“He is a man of great
spirituality (...) His death is a great loss to our country (...) His mind
blows on ... He was the stimulus of a more beautiful life, not only for Italy,
but for our whole world, the more Because every man needs to know how to speak
(...) I wish that the spirit of Marco might help us live in the same way.”
Some Catholic associations and media have rightly demanded
the resignation of Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia from his office as President of
the Pontifical Academy for Life and as Grand Chancellor of
the Pontifical Institute John Paul II for Studies on Marriage and the
Family. For the same reasons, we also demand the resignation of Bishop
Marcelo Sanchez Sorondo from his office as Chancellor of the Pontifical
Academy of Sciences and the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences.
Now
the Novus Ordo Church has its own Bergoglian Schism!
Warning
to all who hope to remain faithful to Jesus Christ: “You can tell
if he is mesleading you”!
“I want to change, but I know that I am not capable of
changing, but I want to change.... You have to pay attention to what the
penitent says. If you know- you can tell
if he is misleading you.”
Cardinal Francesco Coccopalmerio, President of the Pontifical Council
for the INterpretation of Legislative Texts, applying the new Bergoglian Rule
that those remaining in adulterous relationships can receive sacramental
absolution in the confessional without repentance and Holy Communion if they
profess that they want to change but are not capable of changing.
Pope
Francis’ Idea of Zero Tolerance!
In Italy there has been an uproar over the act of “mercy” with
which Francis has graced Fr. Mauro Inzoli, a prominent priest of the movement Communion
and Liberation, reduced to the lay state in 2012 by the Congregation for the
Doctrine of the Faith for having abused numerous young boys, but restored to
the active priesthood by Francis in 2014, with the admonishment that he lead a
life of penance and prayer. In the civil arena, Inzoli was caught again and
charged. He has been sentenced to 4
years and 9 months in prison.
Sandor Magister
Do penance: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.[.....]
Ye brood of vipers, who hath shewed you to flee from the wrath to come? Bring
forth therefore fruit worthy of penance.[.....]
For now the axe is laid to the root of the trees. Every tree therefore that
doth not yield good fruit, shall be cut down, and cast into the fire. I indeed
baptize you in the water unto penance, but he that shall come after me, is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear;
he shall baptize you in the Holy Ghost and fire.
St. John the Baptist
Note: Do penance (Paenitentiam agite). Which word, according to the use of the
scriptures and the holy fathers, does not only signify repentance and amendment
of life, but also punishing past sins by fasting, and such like penitential
exercises.
The
Heresy of Ecumenism first denies Truth and then seeks an Accommodation of Error
with other Liars!
As the Holy Office affirms, there is no unity without truth. Truth first, unity afterwards, truth the cause, unity the effect.
To invert this order is to overthrow the Divine procedure. The unity of Babel
ended in confusion; the union of Pentecost fused all nations into one Body and
one dogma of the Faith…. Truth alone generates unity.
Cardinal Henry Edward Manning
“In the six hundredth year of the life of Noe, in the second
month, in the seventeenth day of the month, all the fountains of the great deep
were broken up, and the flood gates of heaven were opened…. And the waters
prevailed upon the earth a hundred and fifty days.”
Genesis 7:11 & 24
COMMENT:
The Jewish calendar is a lunar calendar, therefore,
the dates will not correspond each year with the Gregorian calendar. It is therefore unusual that this year, the
“second month (Iyar), in the seventeenth day” when the “flood gates of heaven
were opened” falls on May 13 which is the 100th anniversary of the first
appearance of the Blessed Virgin at Fatima.
The Fatima apparitions continued for five months ending on October 13,
1917 with the Miracle of the Sun.
October 13 will be the 300th anniversary of the miraculous finding of
the statue of Our Lady of Aparacida which was accompanied by a miraculous draw
of fish. The Fatima apparations lasted
five months. The flood waters recorded
in Genesis prevailed upon the earth for 150 days, that is, five months.
“Sure
as the sun to-morrow”
St. Paul has foretold the coming of one whom he calls the lawless. No
word more truly describes the state of the modern world. All ages have, indeed,
been lawless, in the sense of violence which breaks the law. But the modern
world is lawless in that it rejects the idea of law, and destroys the basis of
law, by resolving all authority into the will of numbers. The idea of right as
limiting popular aspirations is extinct. Facts are taken to be just, because
accomplished; as if robbery could become lawful by completion. The logic of
facts is the series of wrongs which, once begun, necessitate each other. And
the logic of facts is now one of the supreme reasons of state. The popular will
may aspire after its neighbour’s houe and goods, all right and justice
notwithstanding; for the popular will is a law to itself, and makes law by its
aspirations. What it desires it wills, and what it wills is right. What is this
but the reign of license, the corruption of liberty, the extinction of morality,
the negation of justice, which is the negation of God? And yet such is the
substitute in the modern world for the even law of nations and of God, which,
at least by public recognition, ruled and sustained Christendom.
And with this lawlessness comes the supremacy of might. Once, right and
might met together, sanctioning and confirming each other’s acts. Now, might
without right tramples down right without might. The weaker perish, and the
stronger reign, till by mutual destruction men and nations execute on each
other the just judgment of God. That this is in store for Europe, if these
principles prevail, who can doubt? That this will be the solution of the Roman
question, if this sacrilege be not repaired, is sure as the sun to-morrow.
Cardinal Henry Edward Manning, Archbishop of Westminster, Rome, the Capital of Christendom, after
the unjust war of aggression to overthrow the nearly 1200 year-old Papal State
by Victor Emmanuel II, King of Italy, 1870. The temporal power of the pope was
the oldest of all western monarchies upon which all others were grounded. After its overthrow,
followed the overthrow of all. Victor Emmanuel died in Rome in 1878,
after refusing to meet with Pope Pius IX's envoys, who was sent with the
authority to reverse the excommunication and restore him to the Church in the
hope to obtain a holy death and his salvation. The unfortunate "father of
the Italian state" was buried in the Pantheon, while
still technically a Catholic church, is far closer to its original purpose as a
pagan temple. The Italian monarchy ended in 1946.
The
friends of Pope Francis are drawn from the enemies of the Catholic Faith!
I'm not a Catholic, I'm an atheist. But I like the Pope better than you
do.
Bill Maher, Jewish entertainer, Real Time with Bill Maher, segment with
Rick Santorum
For the “Hard of Heart” the Law of Moses Still Applies
So says an
illustrious biblicist, with a new interpretation of
the words of Jesus on marriage and divorce. But the Catholic Church has always
preached indissolubility without exception. Will it come to admit second
marriages, as in the East?
by Sandro Magister
There are not only
the well-known arguments of Cardinal Walter Kasper in favor of communion for
the divorced and remarried.
There are also those who are traveling new and original paths, in obedience to
the assignment of the synod last October, according to which “the question must
be examined further.”
This is the case of one famous biblicist and patrologist, Guido Innocenzo
Gargano, a Camaldolese monk, former prior of the Roman monastery of San
Gregorio al Celio, and professor at the Pontifical Biblical Institute and the
Pontifical Urbaniana University.
In an article in the latest issue of the theology quarterly “Urbaniana
University Journal,” Fr.
Gargano shows how Jesus’ words about marriage are mainly prompted by what God
says through the mouth of the prophet Hosea: “I desire mercy, and not
sacrifice.”
And as a result he
maintains that Jesus, when he affirms that “man must not divide what God has
joined,” does not thereby cancel God’s forbearance with the “hardness of heart”
of his people, for whom Moses had permitted divorce.
The keystone of Fr. Gargano’s argument is the statement of Jesus in the Sermon
on the Mount: “I have come
not to abolish the Law or the Prophets, but to fulfill them.”
In his judgment, the
significance of this statement is that the two laws - that of “it was said to
them of old” and the new one of “but I say to you” - both coexist in the
preaching of Jesus and clarify each other.
So much so that Jesus,
again in the Sermon on the Mount, does not exclude from the kingdom of heaven
but brings in as the “least” even “he who transgresses the least of these
precepts” and therefore - Fr. Gargano comments - also the one who makes use of
the Mosaic concession of repudiation because of “hardness of heart.”
The author of the article develops these and other points at length and with
acuity, without explicating the practical applications that could result from
this in the life of the Catholic Church, not only on the “vexata quaestio” of
communion for the divorced and remarried, but also on whether or not to allow
second marriages.
He limits himself, in
fact, to an exercise of New Testament exegesis and theology on texts in Matthew
concerning marriage, with only minimal references to the subsequent
developments of Church doctrine and practice in East and West, and with
complete silence on the dogmatic canons of the Council of Trent and the pastoral
constitution of Vatican Council II “Gaudium et Spes,” which confirm the absolute indissolubility of
Christian marriage.
Of course, the discussion also remains open on the exegesis that Fr. Gargano
makes of the saying of Jesus: “I have come not to abolish the Law or the
Prophets, but to fulfill them.” [......]
COMMENT: The first problem is that this exegetist ignores Dogma. Dogma is the formal object of divine and
Catholic faith. It is the direct
revelation of God. To ignore Dogma in the
exegesis of Holy Scripture and offer an interpretation that is contrary to
Dogma is what Protestants do. To interpret Sacred Scripture contrary to
Dogma is to be counted among those censored by St. Peter in his second epistle
when he commented upon those corrupting the epistles of St. Paul saying,
"As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which
are certain things hard to be understood, which the unlearned and unstable
wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, to their own destruction." The arguments of this exposition are
so weak, so stupid, that they would not have merited a critical comment by a
Catholic biblical scholar at the time of the Reformation.
The second problem is that the Church Fathers and Doctors have provided
excellent commentary on this scriptural passage. This idiot proceeds as if they had nothing to
say, at least nothing that would interest him.
The law was fulfilled in Jesus, perfected, not abolished. He did not establish two different moral
standards, one for those seeking perfection and another for those still
suffering from "hardness of heart."
The restoration of Marriage as indissoluble is possible because of its
elevation as a sacrament by God which is the "fulfilling" of the law.
What this man argues for, and Pope Francis has done, is a return to
"hardness of heart" which cannot have a good ending for it turns
aways from the grace of God. "But
according to thy hardness and impenitent heart, thou treasurest up to thyself
wrath, against the day of wrath, and revelation of the just judgment of
God" (Romans 2:5). The comments from the Church Fathers referenced
in the biblical commentaries of Cornelius a Lapide, St. Thomas' Catena Aurea, and the Fr. Haydock's
commentary interpret the "least" in the kingdom of heaven to mean
that they will not be in the kingdom of heaven at all. Those in the kingdom of Heaven will regard
those outside the kingdom who have not kept the law as the "least" or
"last."
Once Again, Pope Francis Corrupts the Literal Meaning of
Holy Scripture. This time his purpose is to overthrow all Catholic Morality!
He set out from there and
went into the district of Judea [and] across the Jordan. Again crowds gathered
around him and, as was his custom, he again taught them. The Pharisees
approached and asked, “Is it lawful for a husband to divorce his wife?” They
were testing him. He said to them in reply, “What did Moses command you?” They replied, “Moses permitted him to
write a bill of divorce and dismiss her.” But Jesus told them,
“Because of the hardness of your hearts he wrote you this commandment. But
from the beginning of creation, ‘God made them male and female. For this
reason a man shall leave his father and mother [and be joined to his
wife], and the two shall become one flesh.’ So they are no longer two but
one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, no human being must
separate.” In the house the disciples again questioned him about
this. He said to them, “Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her; and if she
divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery.”
Mark 10:1-12
Commentary of Pope Francis on Mark 10, 1-12:
Jesus does not
answer whether it (divorce) is permitted or not. He does not enter into their
(the Pharisees’) classic casuistry. Because they (the Pharisees) thought of
faith merely in the framework of “one may not” or “one may” – up to which point
one may, up to which point one may not. Thus logic of casuistry: Jesus does not
enter into it. And He Himself poses a question: “Now, what did Moses command
you? What is written in your law?” And they explain the permission which Moses
gave to write a divorce certificate and to dismiss a woman from marriage; and
it is they who went into a trap, yes. Because Jesus calls them “hard hearted”:
“only because you are so hard hearted, he has given you this law,” and He spoke
the truth. Without casuistry, without permissions. The truth.
This is the way of
Jesus – it is quite clear – it is the path from casuistry to truth and mercy.
Jesus leaves aside the logic of casuistry. To those who wanted to test him, to
those who thought of this logic of ‘it is possible’, he termed them – not here,
but in another passage of the Gospel – hypocrites. Even with the fourth
commandment, they denied assistance to their relatives with the excuse that
they had given a good offer to the Church. Hypocrites.
The casuistry is hypocritical. It is a form of hypocrisy. ‘You can – you
cannot’ … which then becomes more subtle, more evil: I? I can up to this point
but from here to here, I cannot. This is the deception of casuistry.
Pope Francis,
commentary on Mark 10:1-12
Commentary on Pope Francis’ Commentary on Mark 10, 1-12:
It is hardly
possible to be this ignorant. Even a person without faith simply reading the words of this
scripture passage and reporting on the literal meaning would articulate a
better understand than Pope Francis. The only alternative possible is a
willful corruption of the text to bring it into the service of a perverse
ideology.
Firstly, Jesus does not beg the question of the
Pharisees. He answers it directly and
forcefully on a much higher plane. The
simple answer is, “it is lawful in your law
because Moses permitted it” because of the “hardness of your hearts.” But the higher answer is given by Jesus
wherein He indirectly declares his divinity to the Pharisees by asserting His
authority to set aside the law of Moses and
reestablish the original intent of God for His creation. Only God can give this answer to the
Pharisees' question. The reason Francis
does not find an answer in Jesus' reply is because he does not believe that
Jesus is God any more than the Pharisees did.
Divorce was an indult granted by God through Moses to the Jews because
of their “hardness of hearts.” His
followers would by the grace of God rise above this “hardness of heart” and
will be able to keep the law of God.
Therefore, the indult granted by Moses is made void by the Word of
God. The final answer is divorce is not
permitted by the law of God and those who divorce and remarry are guilty of
adultery.
Secondly, the science of moral theology concerns what one
must do or not do to avoid sin. It is
the science of limits which cannot be crossed without offending God either venially
or mortally. The science of mystical and
aesthetical theology deals with what one must do or not do to become a
saint. Casuistry is a scholastic method
of case study to help understand and apply the actual principles of moral
theology in particular cases where conflicting obligations exist. Casuistry, like all human acts, can be
perverted from its proper end which is to avoid sin. When its
end become to permit sin it becomes the science of the Pharisees which can be
studied today in the Jewish Talmud.
Francis’ morality is Talmudic and not Catholic. The example provided by Francis of the
perverse Jewish casuistry that permitted the Jews to break the 4th commandment
by claiming that their personal wealth could not be used to support their needy
parents because it was set aside for the temple is analogous to what Francis
has done by permitting Catholics to live in unrepentant adultery and receive
the sacraments of Penance and Holy Communion.
In both cases, the law of God is overturned. The hypocrisy of Francis is oozing from his
every pore. That is what a perverted
casuistry is. Francis the Hypocrite is
characterizing all good and necessary moral inquiry as a perverted casuistry
which he opposes to “truth and mercy.”
He is making war on all morality.
There is no opposition between “truth and mercy” and the
its practical application in moral norms. The very science of moral
theology deals with what “one may not” or “one may” do to keep the friendship
of God. It was Jesus who said, “If you love me, keep my commandments.” The sign of the love of God is the keeping of
His commandments. Francis by trashing
the entire field of moral theology is heaping contempt on the law of God. He embodies everything that Jesus condemned
so severely in the Pharisees. The
condemnations that Jesus leveled at the Pharisees can be heaped upon this most
perverse man.
Lastly,
this is the morality of Martin Luther and his sect. Luther taught that it was impossible to keep
the law of God and no one should even try.
This was specifically condemned at the Council of Trent.
Francis urges priests to ‘welcome’ cohabitating couples in the ‘style
of the Gospel’
LifeSiteNews | ROME | February 27, 2017
Pope Francis urged parish
priests participating in a Vatican-run course titled the “New Marriage
Procedure” to “welcome” cohabitating couples living in fornication who “prefer
to live together without getting married.” The pope did not ask priests to
admonish such couples for living in grave sin nor did he ask them to work for
their conversion and repentance.
“At the same time, make
yourselves close with the style of the Gospel itself, in the encounter and
welcome of those young people that prefer living together without getting
married,” he told priests at the Saturday, February 25 event organized
by the Roma Rota, the Vatican’s highest ecclesiastical court.
“On the spiritual and moral
plane, they are among the poor and the little ones, toward whom the
Church, following in the footsteps of her Teacher and Lord, wants to be a Mother
that does not abandon but comes close and takes care. These persons are also
loved by Christ’s heart. This care of the last, precisely because it emanates
from the Gospel, is an essential part of your work of promotion and defense of
the Sacrament of Marriage,” he added.
Last year Francis said that
cohabitating couples are in a “real marriage” and receive the grace of the
Sacrament. “I’ve seen a lot of fidelity in these cohabitations, and I am sure
that this is a real marriage, they have the grace of a real marriage because of
their fidelity,” he said at that time.
The Catechism of
the Catholic Church calls fornication “gravely contrary to the dignity of
persons and of human sexuality which is naturally ordered to the good of
spouses and the generation and education of children.”
It further states
that situations such as cohabitation “offend against the dignity of marriage;
they destroy the very idea of the family; they weaken the sense of fidelity.
They are contrary to the moral law. The sexual act must take place exclusively
within marriage. Outside of marriage it always constitutes a grave sin and
excludes one from sacramental communion.” [......]
Effigy of Pope Francis the Communist being mocked in a Shrove Monday
Celebration along with cherub images of Mao, Lenin and Castro. The measure of the man by
faithful Catholics is being taken more accurately every day but unfortunately,
the measure of the man is doing incalculable damage to the dignity of the
office with the loss of many souls.
Catholic
saints and the religious that have followed their examples have done more for
the poor, for children, for exploited women than all the others throughout all
of history. We own no apology to anyone
for Catholic charity! Is Francis, the
class warior, begging for an apology because he was mistreated?
“I believe that the church not only should apologize to the person who
is gay whom it has offended, but has to apologize to the poor, to exploited
women, to children exploited for labor; it has to ask forgiveness for having
blessed many weapons.”
Pope Francis
Working on the theory that pigs get fed and hogs get
slaughtered?
Pro-Pope Francis Cardinals Seek His Resignation to Avoid Schism,
Reports Times of London
OnePeterFive | Deacon Nick Donnelly | March
2, 2017
The London Times
newspaper is reporting that a group of cardinals who supported Pope Francis now
want him to resign and be replaced by Cardinal Pietro Parolin because they fear
his reforms will cause a schism “more disastrous” than the Reformation. The
Times article draws on a report by the Vatican expert Antonio Socci, a
prominent Italian Catholic journalist.
Antonio Socci
reports that it is the curial faction of the Holy See that backed the election
of Jorge Mario Bergoglio out of “impatience with the rule of his
predecessor, Pope Benedict XVI” that now wants Pope Francis to resign out of
fear of an impending schism. The Times reports:
A large part of the cardinals
who voted for him is very worried and the curia . . . that organised his
election and has accompanied him thus far, without ever disassociating itself
from him, is cultivating the idea of a moral suasion to convince him to retire.
It was the latter faction who
now believed that the Pope should resign and who would like to replace him with
Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican secretary of state, Mr. Socci said. He
believed that the group numbered around a dozen, but the importance of the
members counts more than their number. Four years after Benedict XVI’s
renunciation and Bergoglio’s arrival on the scene, the situation of the
Catholic church has become explosive, perhaps really on the edge of a schism,
which could be even more disastrous than Luther’s [who is today being
rehabilitated by the Bergoglio church].
The cardinals are worried that
the church could be shattered as an institution. There are many indirect ways
in which the pressure might be exerted.
An expert on the
Vatican gave this assessment of the latest development:
A good number of the majority
that voted for Bergoglio in 2013 have come to regret
their decision, but I don’t think it’s plausible that members of the hierarchy
will pressure the Pope to resign. Those who know him know it would be useless.
[He] has a very authoritarian streak. He won’t resign until he has completed
his revolutionary reforms, which are causing enormous harm.
Antonio Socci
reports that the significance of this development is that the group who want Pope Francis to resign are not the
“conservative” cardinals who have opposed the Holy Father’s
innovations, “What was significant, he said, was that the doubters were
not the conservative cardinals who had been in open opposition to the Pope
since early in his reign.”
Editor’s note from OnePeterFive: this
post originally appeared at EWTN Great Britain, but an editorial decision was
made to remove it from the website. It is now a 1P5 exclusive. Our thanks to Deacon Nick Donnelly for allowing us to publish it
here.
Homosexuals are not “gay”
Depression and Sexual Orientation
Written by Michael Kerr | Medically
Reviewed by George Kruick, M.D.
LGBT students are more likely than
heterosexual students to report high levels of drug use, feelings of
depression, and suicide attempts. [.....]Depression
is the leading cause of disability and the second leading cause of years of
life lost due to premature death in the world. Major depressive disorders are
the number one predictor of suicide and account for between 20 and 35 percent
of all suicide deaths each year. Five-hundred thousand Americans attempt
suicide each year and the number of those who succeed—30,000—is more than the
number that die in motor vehicle accidents annually.
As glum as those numbers are, research shows that
things are even worse for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people.
Depression affects LGBT people at much higher rates than the general population
[......] three times as likely to use illegal drugs as their heterosexual
peers, three times as likely to engage in unprotected and “risky” sex, six
times as likely to experience high levels of depression, and eight times as
likely to attempt suicide.
[.....] A 2001 study published in the American
Journal of Epidemiology found 12-month prevalence rates for major
depressive disorder (MDD) were 10.3 percent for gay men, compared to 7.2
percent for heterosexual men. Another 21-year study published in the Archives
of General Psychiatry in 1999 found lifetime prevalence rates of MDD among
gay, lesbian and bisexual people were 71.4 percent, compared to 38.2 percent
among heterosexuals.[....]
“But it did not last long.”
I saw many pastors cherishing dangerous ideas against the Church. . . .
They built a large, singular, extravagant church which was to embrace all
creeds with equal rights: Evangelicals, Catholics, and all denominations, a
true communion of the unholy with one shepherd and one flock. There was to be a
Pope, a salaried Pope, without possessions. All was made ready, many things
finished; but, in place of an altar, were only abomination and desolation. Such
was the new church to be, and it was for it that he had set fire to the old
one; but God designed otherwise.
Blessed Anna Katherine Emmerich
I saw also the relationship between the two popes.... I saw how baleful would
be the consequences of this false church. I saw it increase in size; heretics
of every kind came into the city of Rome. The local clergy grew lukewarm, and I
saw a great darkness... Then, the vision seemed to extend on every side. Whole
Catholic communities were being oppressed, harassed, confined, and deprived of
their freedom. I saw many churches close down, great miseries everywhere, wars
and bloodshed. A wild and ignorant mob took to violent action. But it did not last
long.
Blessed Anna Katherine Emmerich, May 13, 1820
The 14 promises revealed to Brother Estanislao by Our Lord for those
who pray the Way of the Cross
·
I promise
Eternal Life to those who pray from time to time, The Way of the Cross.
·
I will
grant everything that is asked of Me with faith, when
making The Way of the Cross.
·
I will
follow them everywhere in life and help them, especially at the hour of death.
·
Even if
they have more sins than blades of grass in the fields, and grains of sand in
the sea, all of them will be erased by praying The Way of the Cross.
·
Those who
pray The Way of The Cross often, will have a special glory in Heaven.
·
I will
deliver them from Purgatory, indeed if they go there at all, the first Tuesday
or Friday after their death.
·
At the
hour of death I will not permit the devil to tempt them; I will lift all power
from him in order that they shall repose tranquilly in My Arms.
·
If they
pray it with true love, I will make of each one of them a living Ciborium in which
it will please Me to pour My grace.
·
I will
fix My Eyes on those who pray The Way of The Cross often; My
hands will always be open to protect them.
·
I will
bless them at each Way of The Cross, and My blessing
will follow them everywhere on earth and after their death, in Heaven for all
Eternity.
·
As I am
nailed to the Cross, so also will I always be with those who honor Me in making
The Way of The Cross frequently.
·
They will
never be able to separate themselves from Me, for I
will give them the grace never again to commit a Mortal sin.
·
At the
hour of death I will console them with My Presence and we will go together to
Heaven. Death will be sweet to all those who have honored Me
during their lives by praying The Way of the Cross.
·
My Soul
will be a protective shield for them, and will always help them, whenever they
have recourse.
“We have to admit . . . that the
testimony of the Fathers, with regard to the possibility of salvation for
someone outside the Church, is very weak. Certainly even the ancient Church
knew that the grace of God can be found also outside the Church and even before
Faith. But the view that such divine grace can lead man to his final salvation
without leading him first into the visible Church, is
something, at any rate, which met with very little approval in the ancient
Church. For, with reference to the optimistic views on the salvation of
catechumens as found in many of the Fathers, it must be noted that such a
candidate for baptism was regarded in some sense or other as already ‘Christianus,’
and also that certain Fathers, such as Gregory Nazianzen and Gregory of Nyssa
deny altogether the justifying power of love or of the desire for baptism.
Hence it will be impossible to speak of a consensus dogmaticus in the early
Church regarding the possibility of salvation for the non-baptized, and
especially for someone who is not even a catechumen. In fact, even St.
Augustine, in his last (anti-pelagian) period, no longer maintained the
possibility of a baptism by desire.”
Rev. Rahner, Karl, Theological Investigations, Volume II, Man in the
Church
The ‘Bergoglio Business Plan’! Now that “apologetics” is
nothing more than “subtle theoretical discussions” over “opinions” and
“proselytism is solemn nonsense,” how do they measure “strong Christian witness,” “effective
evangelization,” “fruitful ecumenical
spirit,” and “constructive dialogue”?
If the “Mission of the Church in the World” is the supreme law… the salus animarum, how does any of this
contribute towards fulfilling this “Mission”? It is never “easy to achieve such
a goal” under the best of conditions because to obtain salvation is to enter by
the “narrow gate.” Now that every material sign to measure success toward this
goal has been destroyed or set aside by the modern Church how can they possibly
have any idea what they are doing, unless, of course, the idea is to not have
any ides what they are doing?
Today we will present a summary of the work done in recent months to
develop the new Apostolic Constitution for the reform of the Curia. The goal to
be reached is always that of promoting greater harmony in the work of the
various Dicasteries and Offices, in order to achieve a more effective
collaboration in that absolute transparency which builds authentic synodality
and collegiality.
The reform is not an end in itself, but a means to give a strong Christian witness;
to promote a more effective
evangelization; to promote a more fruitful ecumenical spirit; to encourage a more constructive dialogue
with all.
The
reform, strongly advocated by the majority of the Cardinals in the context of
the general congregations before the conclave, will further perfect the
identity of the same Roman Curia, which is to assist the Successor of Peter in
the exercise of his supreme pastoral office for the good of and in the service
of the universal Church and the particular Churches. This exercise serves to
strengthen the unity of faith and communion of the people of God and promote the mission of the
Church in the world.
Certainly, it is not easy to
achieve such a goal. It requires time, determination and above all
everyone’s cooperation. But to achieve this we must first entrust ourselves to
the Holy Spirit, the true guide of the Church, imploring the gift of authentic
discernment in prayer.
It is in this spirit of collaboration that our meeting begins, which
will be fruitful thanks to the contribution which each of us can express with
parrhesía, fidelity to the
Magisterium and the knowledge that all of this contributes to the supreme law,
that being the salus animarum. Thank You.
Pope Francis, on the agenda of the
Consistory for the Reform of the Roman Curia
“If there be no enemy, no fight; if no fight, no victory; if no
victory, no crown.”
“Whoever
excommunicates me, excommunicates God.”
Fra Girolamo
Savonarola, excommunicated by Pope Alexander VI and burned to death as a
heretic, was regarded as a saint by many including St. Philip Neri and St.
Catherine de Ricci.
Ecumenism, Love, Hatred, and St. John the Evangelist
In his encyclical Mortalium Animos, Pope
Pius XI makes notable appeal to the teaching of the Apostle and Evangelist John
to distinguish between true and false charity toward non-Catholic Christians:
“These
pan-Christians who turn their minds to uniting the churches seem, indeed, to
pursue the noblest of ideas in promoting charity among all Christians:
nevertheless how does it happen that
this charity tends to injure faith? Everyone knows that John himself, the
Apostle of love, who seems to reveal in his Gospel the secrets of the Sacred
Heart of Jesus, and who never ceased to impress on the memories of his
followers the new commandment “Love one another,” altogether forbade any
intercourse with those who professed a mutilated and corrupt version of
Christ’s teaching: “If any man come to you and bring not this doctrine, receive
him not into the house nor say to him: God speed you.” For which
reason, since charity is based on a complete and sincere faith, the disciples of Christ must be united principally by the bond
of one faith. Who then can conceive a Christian Federation, the members of
which retain each his own opinions and private judgment, even in matters which
concern the object of faith, even though they be repugnant to the opinions of
the rest? And in what manner, We ask, can men who
follow contrary opinions, belong to one and the same Federation of the
faithful? For example, those who affirm, and those who deny that sacred
Tradition is a true fount of divine Revelation; those who hold that an
ecclesiastical hierarchy, made up of bishops, priests and ministers, has been
divinely constituted, and those who assert that it has been brought in little
by little in accordance with the conditions of the time; those who adore Christ
really present in the Most Holy Eucharist through that marvelous conversion of
the bread and wine, which is called transubstantiation, and those who affirm
that Christ is present only by faith or by the signification and virtue of the
Sacrament; those who in the Eucharist recognize the nature both of a sacrament
and of a sacrifice, and those who say that it is nothing more than the memorial
or commemoration of the Lord’s Supper; those who believe it to be good and
useful to invoke by prayer the Saints reigning with Christ, especially Mary the
Mother of God, and to venerate their images, and those who urge that such a
veneration is not to be made use of, for it is contrary to the honor due to
Jesus Christ, “the one mediator of God and men.” How so great a variety of
opinions can make the way clear to effect the unity of the Church We know not;
that unity can only arise from one teaching authority, one law of belief and
one faith of Christians. But We do know that from this
it is an easy step to the neglect of religion or indifferentism and to modernism, as they call it.”
No one understands charity better than St.
John, but he understood that the theological virtue of charity must be founded
on the theological virtue of faith, and therefore anything that undermines the
faith of necessity undermines charity. And therefore he commands us to avoid
contact with those who would undermine the faith.
In general one can see that love
necessarily cause the one loving to hate anything which threatens to destroy
what is loved. Thus, since we naturally love health, therefore we naturally
hate disease; since we naturally love life, we naturally hate anything that
destroys our lives, and so on. And charity is no exception the supernatural
love of God above all things necessarily implies hatred of sin, which is
directly opposed to that charity, and error which is opposed to the faith on
which it is founded.
But ecumenists have difficulty seeing this.
Even if they would perhaps hesitate to use such strong words, they would probably
agree with the non-Catholic New Testament scholar Gerd Lüdemann’s judgement on
St. John, in his critique of Benedict’s Deus
Caritas Est:
“[The]
Johannine communities fell far short of exhibiting the love that [Pope Benedict
XVI] recommends to the contemporary church. For not only does the First Letter
of John—from which the encyclical takes its theme and exhortation—restrict
brotherhood to those of orthodox belief, but the Second Letter of John, which
quite predictably is not mentioned in the encyclical, takes the same approach
and pushes it even further. In verses 9 through 11 of this very brief letter,
its author, who identifies himself only as ‘the Elder,’ commands the community
to receive into their homes only those brothers who confess Christ’s coming in
the flesh. Any present or former brothers who have a different opinion
concerning Christ’s incarnation should be spurned. Indeed, “John” forbids the members of his communities even to greet them.
He deems this precautionary measure necessary, lest the community of right
belief become infected by the evil doctrines and consequent guilt of its
dissident brothers. How strange it is to encounter such harsh and hate-filled expostulations in a letter overflowing
with assurances of mutual love and attesting to a community’s unanimous
recognition of sacred truth!”
Lüdemann’s reasoning is precisely the sort
of thing that one is likely to hear from contemporary ecumenists. And the
reason is clear: they are not motivated by the supernatural virtue of charity,
founded on the one true faith, but rather by a vague benevolence, founded on
modernism and indifferentism. And like every kind of love, this vague
benevolence causes a hatred of everything that threatens the object of love;
they do not (like St. John) hate heresy, rather they hate “fanaticism” and
“fundamentalism.” In other words they hate the perennial claim of the Catholic
Church to teach the truth.
COMMENT: This was copied from
the conservative Catholic blog, Rorate Caeli. It is interesting for two reasons.
Firstly, because what it says concerning the virtues of Faith and Charity is
what every traditional Catholic already knows and has defended over the last
fifty years but, nevertheless we do not tire of hearing it repeated from time
to time. It is also interesting because it politely affirms that Pope Benedict,
and a fortiori, Pope Francis and Pope John Paul II, by professing the
heresy of ecumenism, “are not motivated by the supernatural virtue of charity,
founded on the one true faith” and therefore “hate the perennial claim of the
Catholic Church to teach the truth.” It is a hopeful sign that younger
conservative Catholics recognize that it is first and foremost the Faith, with
Dogma as the Rule of Faith, that must be defended by keeping the immemorial
ecclesiastical traditions of our Church that make that Faith known and
communicable to others. At this time, established publications who claim to be
traditional are content with the crumbs offered by Benedict XVI and continually
heap praise upon him and his Motu Proprio, Summormum Pontificum, they
fail to recognize that the battle has always been and will continue to be the
Faith itself that Modernists and Neo-modernists aim to destroy. These younger
conservative Catholics will hopefully become the radical traditionalists that
are so desperately needed at this time for the Church militant. The Novus Ordo
Church keeps two fast days during Lent and abstains on Fridays. Let us keep
faithfully the traditional penances during Lent as an act of reparation for our
own sins and the welfare of the Church. If traditional Catholics do not do it,
it will not be done.
Pope Francis: “Muslim Terrorism Does Not Exist”
but “Ecological Crisis is Real”!
Breitbart | Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D. | 17
Feb 2017
In
an impassioned address Friday, Pope Francis denied the existence of Islamic
terrorism, while simultaneously asserting that “the ecological crisis is real.”
“Christian terrorism does not exist, Jewish
terrorism does not exist, and Muslim terrorism does not exist. They do not
exist,” Francis said in his speech to a world meeting of populist movements.
What he apparently
meant is that not all Christians are terrorists and not all Muslims are
terrorists—a fact evident to all—yet his words also seemed to suggest that no
specifically Islamic form of terrorism exists in the world, an assertion that
stands in stark contradiction to established fact.
“No people is
criminal or drug-trafficking or violent,” Francis said, while also
suggesting—as he has on other occasions—that terrorism is primarily a result of
economic inequalities rather than religious beliefs. “The poor and the poorer
peoples are accused of violence yet, without equal opportunities, the different
forms of aggression and conflict will find a fertile terrain for growth and
will eventually explode.”
The Pope also
reiterated his conviction that all religions promote peace and that the
danger of violent radicalization exists equally in all religions.
“There are
fundamentalist and violent individuals in all peoples and religions—and with
intolerant generalizations they become stronger because they feed on hate and
xenophobia,” he said.
While denying the
existence of Islamic terrorism, Francis also seemed to condemn the denial of
global warming, asserting that “the ecological crisis is real.”
“A very solid
scientific consensus indicates that we are presently witnessing a disturbing
warming of the climatic system,” he said.
We know “what
happens when we deny science and disregard the voice of Nature,” the Pope said.
“Let us not fall into denial. Time is running out. Let us act. I ask you
again—all of you, people of all backgrounds including native people, pastors, political leaders—to defend Creation.”
While acknowledging
that science is not “the only form of knowledge,” and that “science is not
necessarily ‘neutral’” and often “conceals ideological views or economic
interests,” he still insisted that people of good will should not oppose
“scientific consensus” regarding global warming.
Leftist media like
the liberal Guardian in the U.K. immediately politicized the speech,
predictably claiming that the Pope was backing “anti-Trump protests,” despite
the fact that the Pope himself denied such a claim, explicitly declaring that
“I am not speaking of anyone in particular.”
“I am not speaking
of anyone in particular, I am speaking of a social and political process that
flourishes in many parts of the world and poses a grave danger for humanity,”
he said.
Moreover, although
the Guardian claimed that the Pope was “condemning populism,” in point of fact,
he was speaking to populist movements and praised their commitment to
democracy.
“The direction
taken beyond this historic turning-point,” Francis said, “will depend on
people’s involvement and participation and, largely, on yourselves, the popular
movements.”
Nevertheless, the
Vatican’s Secretary of State, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, said Monday that the
Holy See is concerned over growing populist and nationalist movements, both in
Europe and in the United States.
In an interview for
the Italian evening news on the state-owned RAI network, the Cardinal was asked
whether the Vatican is worried about what the interviewer called “the spread of
nationalism and populism not only in Europe but also in the United States with
Donald Trump.”
“I think so, I
think so,” Parolin said. “Certainly these closings are not a good sign,” since
many of them “are born of fear, which is not a good counselor.”
In his address
Friday, the Pope denounced “the guise of what is politically correct or ideologically
fashionable,” which he described as a “hypocritical attitude,” while urging
real solutions to unemployment, corruption, the identity crisis, and “the
gutting of democracies.”
“The system’s
gangrene cannot be whitewashed forever because sooner or later the stench
becomes too strong,” he said.
Pope Francis Praises Soros-Funded Organization;
Encourages “Resistance”
OnePeterFive | Maike Hickson | Feb 20, 2017
On 17 February,
Pope Francis released a letter written for those gathered for the World
Meeting of Popular Movements held in California from 16-19 February — a meeting
organized by the Vatican. Such meetings regularly take place in the Vatican and
are initiated by Pope Francis himself in his attempt to work together with a
variety of grassroots movements world-wide.
In the letter,
which is dated 10 February, Pope Francis publicly praises the organization PICO
— People Improving Communities through Organizing — which was one of the
promoters of this Vatican event. Francis writes:
I would also like to highlight
the work done by the PICO National Network and the organizations promoting this
meeting. I learned that PICO stands for “People Improving Communities
through Organizing”. What a great synthesis of the mission of popular
movements: to work locally, side by side with your neighbors, organizing among
yourselves, to make your communities thrive.
What Pope Francis
does not mention here is that PICO is heavily funded by George Soros. Leftist
watchdog website Discover the Political Networks describes PICO as a group that “uses Alinsky-style organizing
tactics to advance the doctrines of the religious left.” As John-Henry Westen,
editor-in-chief of LifeSiteNews reported in August of 2016, leaks from
the Soros Foundation have shown how Soros funded PICO and other organizations
in order to influence the Vatican in favor of certain policies and agendas.
Westen reports:
Leaked email through WikiLeaks
reveal that billionaire globalist George Soros — one of Hilary Clinton’s top
donors— paid $650,000 to influence Pope Francis’ September 2015 visit to the
USA with a view to “shift[ing] national paradigms and priorities in the run-up
to the 2016 presidential campaign.” The funds were allocated in April 2015 and
the report on their effectiveness suggests that successful achievements
included, “Buy-in of individual bishops to more publicly voice support of
economic and racial justice messages in order to begin to create a critical
mass of bishops who are aligned with the Pope.” […] Grantees were PICO, a
faith-based community organizing group, and Faith in Public Life (FPL), a
progressive group working in media to promote left-leaning ‘social justice’
causes. Soros has funded left-wing causes the world over and was just
found to have been funding an effort to eliminate pro-life laws around the
globe.
That there are
already well-established ties between the Vatican and this progressive, often
subversive, Soros-funded organization PICO can also be seen in this part of
Westen’s report:
In order to seize on the
opportunity provided by the Pope’s visit to the US, says the report, “we will
support PICO’s organizing activities to engage the Pope on economic and racial
justice issues, including using the influence of Cardinal Rodriguez, the Pope’s
senior advisor, and sending a delegation to visit the Vatican in the spring or
summer to allow him to hear directly from low-income Catholics in America.”
In 2013 Cardinal Rodriguez
endorsed PICO’s work in a video during a visit from PICO representatives to the
cardinal’s diocese. “I want to endorse all the efforts they are doing to
promote communities of faith,” he said, “… Please, keep helping PICO.”
This same network
is right now raking steps to oppose President Donald Trump’s policies with
regard to immigration questions, specifically the so-called Immigration Ban. It
is organizing protests an different locations in the
U.S. As one statement on PICO’s website regarding “Organizing for the
Resistance” says:
This morning, PICO National
Network, United We Dream, and Church World Service declared together on a media
conference call that faith communities in America are taking a prophetic stance
against President-elect Trump’s promised persecution of immigrants, Muslims and
people of color by providing Sanctuary in more than 800 congregations. And this
is just the beginning. […] Now is the time for us to create empathetic space
for uncommon encounters across difference, building bridges and disrupting
patterns of isolation and fear in our communities. This is a moment for multi-racial,
multi-faith communities to reimagine the Beloved Community, taking bold and
prophetic action to realize it.
This is part of the
managed chaos we have been witnessing in the U.S. for some weeks now. And it
seems that Pope Francis, in his own 10 February letter, encourages such crises:
As Christians and all people of
good will, it is for us to live and act at this moment. […] The direction taken
beyond this historic turning-point—the ways in which this worsening crisis gets
resolved—will depend on people’s involvement and participation and, largely, on
yourselves, the popular movements. We should be neither paralyzed by fear nor
shackled within the conflict. We have to acknowledge the danger but also the
opportunity that every crisis brings in order to advance to a successful
synthesis. [sic. The dialectical
method.] In the Chinese language, which expresses the ancestral wisdom
of that great people, the word “crisis” is comprised of two ideograms: Wēi,
which represents “danger”, and Jī, which represents “opportunity”.
The grave danger is to disown our neighbors.
Pope Francis
himself calls for resistance, and implicitly seems to encourage the
self-proclaimed “chaos managers”:
But here we also find an
opportunity: that the light of the love of neighbor may illuminate the Earth
with its stunning brightness like a lightning bolt in the dark; that it may
wake us up and let true humanity burst through with authentic resistance,
resilience and persistence.
In reiterating some
themes discussed before, Pope Francis adds:
Here are the roots of the
authentic humanity that resists the dehumanization that wears the livery of
indifference, hypocrisy, or intolerance. I know that you have committed
yourselves to fight for social justice, to defend our Sister Mother Earth [sic]
and to stand alongside migrants. I want to reaffirm your choice and share two
reflections in this regard.
The pope adds the
importance of protecting nature and his plea for religious tolerance, namely
that “no people is criminal and no religion is
terrorist. Christian terrorism does not exist, Jewish terrorism does not exist,
and Muslim terrorism does not exist. They do not exist.”
Does it surprise us
that this Vatican meeting in California “criticizes Trump orders”? As the Miami
Herald reports:
Speakers at a Vatican-sponsored
conference in Northern California — including an archbishop — denounced
President Donald
able to receive
womb transplants and bear children within a decade.