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this missal is hereafter to be followed absolutely, without any scruple of
conscience or fear of incurring any penalty, judgment or censure, and may
freely and lawfully be used ..... Nor
are superiors, administrators, canons, chaplains, and other secular priests, or
religious, of whatever title designated, obliged to celebrate the Mass otherwise
than as enjoined by Us. ..... Accordingly,
no one whatsoever is permitted to infringe or rashly contravene this notice of
Our permission, statute, ordinance, command, precept, grant, direction, will,
decree and prohibition. Should any person venture to do so, let him
understand he will incur the wrath of Almighty God and of the Blessed Apostles
Peter and Paul.
Pope
St. Pius V, Papal Bull, QUO PRIMUM,
Tridentine
Codification of the “received and approved” traditional Roman Rite of the Mass.
Fourth
Sunday after Easter
St. Paul of the Cross, Confessor
St. Vitalis, Martyr
April 28, 2024
Today’s liturgy exalts the justice of
God which is shown forth by our Lord’s triumph, and by the sending of the Holy
Ghost. “The right hand of the Lord hath
wrought strength” in raising Christ from the dead (Alleluia) and in causing Him
to go into heaven on the day of His ascension.
It is expedient for us that Jesus should leave the earth, for from
heaven He will send to His Church the Spirit of truth (Gospel), that best gift
which comes from the Father of lights.
The Holy Ghost will teach us all truth (Gospel, Offertory, Secret), He will “show us” whatever our Lord tells Him, and in receiving this word of life we shall be saved (Epistle). The Holy Ghost will reveal to us the wonderful things which God hath wrought for His Son and this testimony of signal justice done to our Lord, will console our souls and uphold us in the midst of persecutions. And since, according to St. James, “the trying” of our faith worketh patience which drives away inconstancy and makes perfect our good deeds (First nocturn), so “let us imitate the patience of our God and Father” (Second nocturn) in whom “there is no change or shadow of alteration” (Epistle), and then our hearts will be “set where true joys are to be found.”
On the other hand, the Holy Ghost will also convince Satan and the world of the sin they committed in delivering Jesus Christ to death (Gospel, Communion), and in continuing to persecute Him in His Church.
INTROIT:
Ps. 97. Sing ye to the Lord a new canticle, alleluia: for the Lord hath done wonderful things, alleluia; he hath revealed his justice in the sight of the Gentiles, alleluia, alleluia, alleluia.
Ps. His right hand hath wrought for him salvation; and his arm is holy. Glory be, etc. Sing ye to the Lord, etc.
COLLECT:
O God, who makest the minds of the faithful to be of one accord, grant unto Thy people to love what Thou commandest and to desire what Thou dost promise; that amidst the various changes of the world our hearts may there be fixed where true joys abide. Through our Lord, etc.
O Lord Jesus Christ, who didst endow holy Paul with rare charity, in
preaching the mystery of the cross, and didst will that through him a new
family should flourish in the Church, grant, that through his intercession we
may bear Thy Passion ever in mind on earth and be deemed worthy to receive its
fruit in heaven. Who livest and reignest, etc.
Grant, we beseech Thee, almighty
God, that we who keeping the festival of blessed Vitalis, Thy Martyr, may
through his intercession be strengthened in the love of Thy name. Through our
Lord, etc.
EPISTLE: James 1, 17-21.
Dearly beloved, every best gift and
every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with
whom there is no change nor shadow of alteration. For of His own will hath He
begotten us by the word of truth, that we might be some beginning of His
creatures. You know, my dearest brethren. And let every man be swift to hear,
but slow to speak and slow to anger. For the anger of man worketh not the
justice of God. Wherefore, casting away all uncleanness and abundance of
naughtiness, with meekness receive the ingrafted word, which is able to save
your souls..
INSTRUCTION Of all the gifts that come from God, the most excellent is the gospel and regeneration in baptism, by which He has made us His children and heirs of heaven. How great is this honor, and how earnestly we should endeavor to preserve it! To hear the word of God, when preached to us in sermons, will aid our endeavors. The admonition of the apostle to be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger, contains true wisdom, for: In the multitude of words there shall not want sin; but he that refraineth his lips is most wise (Prov. 10, 19).
ASPIRATION Aid
me, O Lord, to preserve the dignity received in baptism, grant me a great love
for Thy divine word, and strengthen me to subdue my tongue and to use it only
for Thy glory.
GREAT ALLELUIA: Alleluia, alleluia.
Ps.117. The right hand of the Lord hath wrought victory, the right hand of the Lord hath exalted me. Alleluia.
Rom. 6. Christ rising again from the dead, dieth now no more; death shall no more have dominion over Him, alleluia.
GOSPEL: John 16, 5-14.
At that time Jesus said to His
disciples: I go to Him that sent Me; and none of you asketh Me: Whither goest
Thou? But because I have spoken these things to you, sorrow hath filled your
heart. But I tell you the truth: it is expedient to you that I go; for if I go
not, the Paraclete will not come to you: but if I go I will send Him to you.
And when He is come, He will convince the
world of sin, and of justice and of judgment. Of sin, because they believed not
in Me; and of justice, because I go to the Father, and you shall see Me no
longer; and of judgment, because the prince of this world is already judged. I
have yet many things to say to you: but you cannot bear them now. But when He,
the Spirit of truth, is come, He will teach you all truth. For He shall not
speak of Himself: but what things soever He shall hear He shall speak, and the
things that are to come He shall show you. He shall glorify Me: because He
shall receive of Mine and shall show it to you.
INSTRUCTION As the disciples, in their grief at Christ's going to His passion and death, after the accomplishment of which He was to return to His Father, never once asked Him: "Whither goest Thou?" many Christians, because of their attachment to this world and its pleasures, never ask themselves: Whither am I going, whither leads my way? By my sinful life I am perhaps going towards hell, or will my little fervor for the right, my lukewarm prayers take me to heaven? Ask yourself in all earnestness, dear Christian, whither leads the way you are going? Is it the right path? If not, retrace your steps, and follow Jesus who by suffering and death entered heaven.
Why could the Paraclete not
come before the Ascension of Christ?
Because the work of Redemption had first to be completed, Christ had to die, reconcile man to God, and enter into His glory, before the Spirit of truth and filial adoption could abide in man in the fulness of grace. From this we may learn that we must purify our hearts, and be reconciled to God, if we wish to receive the gifts of the Holy Ghost.
How will the Holy Ghost
convince the world of sin, of justice and of judgment?
He will convince the world, that is, the Jews and Gentiles, of sin, by showing them through the preaching, the sanctity and the miracles of the apostles, as well as by gradual inward enlightenment, the grievous sins which they have committed by their infidelity and their vices; of justice, by unveiling their error, and showing them that Christ whom they unjustly rejected, is the fountain of justice; of judgment, by showing them their condemnation in their prince and head, the devil, whom they served. This prince is now driven from idols and from the bodies of men, and his kingdom is destroyed in the name of Jesus by the apostles.
Why did not Christ tell His
apostles all He had to tell them?
Because they could not yet comprehend, and keep it in their memory; because they were still too weak, and too much attached to Jewish customs, and also because they were depressed; He therefore promised them the Holy Ghost, who would fit them for it by His enlightenment, and would teach them all truth.
How does the Holy Ghost teach
all truth?
By guiding the Church, that is, its infallible administration, by His light to the knowledge of the truth necessary for the salvation of souls, preserving it from error; and by advancing those members of the Church who seek His light and place no obstacle in its way, in the necessary knowledge of truth.
What is meant by: He shall not
speak of himself, but what things so ever he shall hear, he shall speak?
That the Holy Ghost will teach us only that which He has heard from all eternity from the Father and Son; His teaching will, therefore, perfectly agree with Christ's teachings, for the Holy Ghost proceeds from the Father and Son and is equal God to them, and that which He teaches is also their doctrine, which is expressed in the words: He shall receive of mine.
ASPIRATION Ah,
my Lord and my God! direct my feet in the way of Thy commandments and preserve
my heart pure from sin, that Thy Holy Spirit may find nothing in me deserving
of reproach, that He may teach me all truth, and lead me to Thee, the eternal
Truth, in heaven. Amen.
OFFERTORY:
Ps. 65. Shout with joy to God, all the earth, sing ye a psalm to His name; come, and hear, and I will tell you, all ye that fear God, what great things the Lord hath done for my soul, alleluia.
SECRET:
O God, who by the august communion of this sacrifice hast made us partakers of one sovereign Godhead, grant, we beseech Thee, that as we know Thy truth, so we may follow it up by worthy behavior. Through our Lord, etc.
May these mysteries of Thy Passion and death, O Lord, fill us with that heavenly fervor, with which St. Paul when he offered them presented his body a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing unto Thee. Who livest and reignest, etc.
As Thou
hast received our gifts and prayers, O Lord, cleanse us, we beseech Thee, by
Thy heavenly mysteries and graciously hear us.
Through our Lord, etc.
PREFACE
FOR EASTER:
It is truly meet and just, right and profitable unto salvation, that we should at all times extol Thy glory, O Lord, but more especially at this season when Christ our Pasch was sacrificed. For He is the true Lamb that hath taken away the sins of the world; Who by dying hath overcome our death, and by rising again hath restored our life. And therefore with the angels and archangels, the thrones and dominions, and the whole host of heavenly army we sing a hymn of Thy glory, saying again and again: Holy, holy, holy, etc.
COMMUNION:
John 16. When the Paraclete shall come, the Spirit of truth, he shall convince the world of sin, and of justice, and of judgment, alleluia, alleluia.
POSTCOMMUNION:
Stand by us, O Lord our God, that by what we have faithfully received we may be cleansed from our vices and rescued from all dangers. Through our Lord, etc.
We have received, O Lord, the divine sacrament, which is a perpetual memorial of Thy boundless love; grant, we pray, that through the merits and example of St. Paul, we may draw from Thy fountains water springing up to life eternal, and, in our life and conduct, may keep Thy most holy Passion ever impressed upon our hearts. Who livest and reignest, etc.
Grant we
beseech Thee, O Lord our God, that we who in time render joyful service in
memory of Thy saints, may be gladdened by their company in eternity. Through our Lord, etc.
“And when He is
come, He will convince the world of sin, and of justice and of judgment. Of
sin, because they believed not in Me.”
PROPER OF THE SAINTS FOR THE WEEK OF APRIL 28th:
28 |
Sun |
4th Sunday after Easter St. Paul of the Cross, C St. Vitalis, M |
sd |
W |
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Mass 9:00 AM, Members of Mission; Confessions 8:00
AM; Rosary of Reparation 8:30 AM |
29 |
Mon |
St. Peter of Verona, M |
d |
R |
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Mass 8:30 AM; Rosary of Reparation before Mass |
30 |
Tue |
St. Catherine of Siena, V |
d |
W |
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Mass 8:30 AM; Rosary of Reparation before Mass |
1 |
Wed |
Ss. Phillip & James, App |
d2cl |
R |
|
Mass 8:30 AM; Rosary of Reparation before Mass |
2 |
Thu |
St. Athanasius, BpCD |
d |
W |
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Mass 8:30 AM; Rosary of Reparation before Mass |
3 |
Fri |
Finding of the Holy Cross St.
Alexander I, P & Comp., Mm FIRST FRIDAY |
d2cl |
R |
A |
Mass 8:30 AM; Rosary of Reparation before Mass;
Benediction & Holy Hour of Reparation |
4 |
Sat |
St. Monica, W FIRST SATURDAY |
d |
W |
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Mass 9:00 AM; Confessions 8:30 AM; Benediction &
Holy Hour of Reparation with Rosary of Reparation |
5 |
Sun |
5th Sunday after Easter St. Pius V, PC |
sd |
W |
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Mass 9:00 AM; Rosary of Reparation 8:30 AM; Confessions
8:00 AM; Mission Members |
During his sojourn on
earth, our Redeemer thus explained the mystery of baptism to Nicodemus, who was
a ruler among the Jews, and a master in Israel: Unless a man be born again of water and the
Holy Ghost, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. Here he foretells what he intends to do at a
future time; he prepares us for the mystery by telling us that as our first
birth was not pure, he is preparing a second for us; that this second
birth will be holy, and that water is to be the instrument of so great a
grace.
Dom Gueranger, The
Liturgical Year, Fourth Sunday after Easter
The Holy Ghost tells
us, in the sacred Volume, that a threefold cord is not easily broken
(Eccles. 4, 12). Now we have such a
one; and it keeps us in the glorious unity of the Church: hierarchy, dogma, and
sacraments, all contribute to make us one Body. Everywhere, from north to south, and from
east to west, the sacraments testify to the fraternity that exists amongst us;
by them we know each other, no matter in what part of the globe we may be, and
by the same we are known by heretics and infidels.
Dom Gueranger, The
Liturgical Year, Fourth Sunday after Easter
The Mass is the most favorable occasion to speak with the eternal Father,
because then we offer Him His only Son as a victim for our salvation. Before
celebrating, reflect on the sufferings of your Redeemer, commune peaceably with
Him, even in the midst of dryness; carry to the altar the needs of the entire
world.
St. Paul of the Cross
How wonderful are the treasures which are enclosed in the divine
Eucharist! I exhort you, even though you live in the world, to receive
Communion often, but with piety. Holy Communion is the most efficacious means
of uniting one's self to God. Always prepare yourself well for this sacred
banquet. Have a very pure heart, and watch over your tongue, for it is on the
tongue that the Sacred Host is laid. Carry Our Lord home with you after your
thanksgiving, and let your heart be a living tabernacle for Jesus. Visit Him
often in this interior tabernacle, offering Him your homage, and the sentiments
of gratitude with which divine love will inspire you. Preserve carefully the
sentiments of love with which you are filled after Communion.
St. Paul of the Cross
Therefore, be constant in practicing every virtue, and especially in
imitating the patience of our dear Jesus, for this is the summit of pure love.
Live in such a way that all may know that you bear outwardly as well as
inwardly the image of Christ crucified, the model of all gentleness and mercy.
For if a man is united inwardly with the Son of the living God, he also bears
his likeness outwardly by his continual practice of heroic goodness, and
especially through a patience reinforced by courage, which does not complain
either secretly or in public. Conceal yourselves in Jesus crucified, and hope
for nothing except that all men be thoroughly converted to his will.
St. Paul of the Cross
St. Vitalis was the
father of Ss. Gervase and Protase. He was martyred for the faith at Ravenna
under Nero about the year 62 A.D. after being racked then thrown into a deep
pit and stoned to death. A church was dedicated to his memory in Rome and the
station is held there on Friday of the Second week in Lent.
Roman Martyrology
The Church does not know of any
means other than Baptism that assures entry into eternal beatitude; this is why she
takes care not to neglect the mission she has received from the Lord to see
that all who can be baptized are “reborn of water and the Spirit.” Catechism of the Catholic Church, On the
Necessity of Baptism
The secret things belong to the Lord our God,
but the things revealed belong to us and to our sons forever, that we may
observe all the words of this law.
Deuteronomy
29:29
When the Holy Ghost
is come, he will convince the world of sin, because they believed not in
me. How great must, indeed, be the responsibility
of them that have been witnesses of Jesus’ wonderful works, and yet will not
receive his teaching! Jerusalem will be
told that the Holy Ghost has come down upon the disciples: and she will receive
the news with the same indifference as she did the miracles which proved Jesus
to be her Messias. The coming of the
Holy Ghost will serve as a sort of signal of the destruction of the deicide
city. Jesus adds: The Paraclete will convince the world of
justice, because I go to the Father, and ye shall see me no longer. The Apostles, and they that believe their
word, shall be just and holy by faith: they will believe in him that is gone
to the Father in him whom they are to see no longer in this world.
Jerusalem, on the contrary, will remember him only to blaspheme him; the
holiness, the faith, the justice of them that shall believe, will be her
condemnation, and the Holy Ghost will leave her to her fate. Jesus continues: The Paraclete will convince the world of
judgment, because the prince of this world is already judged. They that follow not Christ Jesus, follow
Satan: he is their prince, but his judgment is already
pronounced. The Holy Ghost warns the
followers of the world that their leader is already in eternal
torments. Let them reflect well upon
this; for, the pride of man has no right to reckon upon indulgence; let
it but think of the hell into which even the angels were cast because
they were proud.
St. Augustine
"In order that
the oblation [of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass] by which the faithful offer
the divine Victim to the heavenly Father may have its full effect, still one
thing more is necessary; it is necessary that they immolate themselves as
victims…. together with the Immaculate Host, a victim acceptable to God the
Father."
Pope Pius XII, Mediator
Dei
O my Savior, in union with
the offering and the sacrifice of Yourself which You made to the Father and in
His honor, I offer myself to You to be a bloody victim of Your will, a victim
immolated for Your glory and that of Your Father. Unite me to Yourself, O good Jesus, draw me
into Your sacrifice, so that I may be sacrificed with You and by You. Since the victim must be sacrificed,
slaughtered, and consumed by fire, make me die to myself, that is, to my vices
and passions, to all that is displeasing to You. Consume me entirely in the sacred fire of
Your divine love, and grant that hereafter my whole life may be a continual
sacrifice of praise, glory, and love for Your Father and for You.
St. John Eudes
THE GREAT PROMISE FOURTH
SUNDAY AFTER EASTER
PRESENCE OF GOD ‑ O Jesus, prepare my heart
to receive the Holy Spirit whom You have promised and merited for me.
MEDITATION:
1.
Since last Sunday, the Church has been preparing us for the Ascension of Our
Lord. Today, taking up the subject again, she goes a step further. She mentions
the coming of the Holy Spirit, and in so doing, makes use of a passage from
Jesus' discourse after the Last Supper. Our Lord is speaking to the Apostles
and preparing their souls for His departure. Sad and thoughtful, they listen to
Him, without courage to question Him. Like a kind father, the Lord breaks the
painful silence. “And now I go to Him that sent Me, and none of you asketh Me:
`Whither goest Thou?'“ He hastens to console them: “It is expedient to you that
I go, for if I go not, the Paraclete will not come to you; but if I go, I will
send Him to you” (Gosp : Jn 16,5‑14). Only Jesus' death
could merit this great gift for us, and it was not until after His Ascension
into heaven that the Holy Spirit, the Envoy of the Father and the Son, could
descend upon the Church. The Apostles were about to lose the sensible, physical
presence of their adored Master. However, He would not leave them orphans and
would continue to help them invisibly by His Spirit, who would take up His work
with them. Jesus did His work in a visible manner in their midst; the Holy
Spirit would do His in a secret, hidden way, but in one no less efficacious and
real. Furthermore, as Jesus Himself said, the action of the Holy Spirit would
complete His. “I have yet many things to say to you: but you cannot bear them
now. But when He, the Spirit Truth, is come, He will teach you all truth.... He
shall receive of mine and shall show it to you.” The hearts of the Apostles,
still dulled by sin, could not, really comprehend these profound truths; it was
necessary that Jesus, by dying on the Cross, destroy sin‑ the great
obstacle to the action of the Holy Spirit‑ and then, when He had ascended
into heaven, He would send the divine Paraclete whom He merited for them and
for us by His Passion.
The
sending of the Holy Spirit to our souls is the principal fruit of the Passion
of Jesus.
2.
We can draw some practical applications from today's Gospel. First of all, we
must fervently prepare ourselves for Pentecost, so that the coming of the Holy
Spirit will be renewed in us in all its plenitude. Since sin is the obstacle to
the outpouring of the Holy Spirit, our preparation must consist in a very
special purity of conscience. Sin must be destroyed in us, not only in its
actual manifestations, even though they are slight, but also in its deepest and
most hidden roots.
We must
be convinced, furthermore, that a certain action of the Holy Spirit is never
interrupted in a soul in the state of grace; this is even more true of a soul
who tries to correspond faithfully to the divine motions. This action does not
necessarily have to be perceived and consoling. In aridity and despondency the
Holy Spirit also works in the faithful soul; His action is secret and hidden,
but also real and effective. Its chief purpose is to purify the soul and
dispose it for union with God. If the soul is convinced of this, it will remain
confident, even in difficulties, and, if it neither understands nor sees its
path, it will trust in the Holy Spirit, who sees and knows well the goal to
which He is leading it.
Finally, today's Gospel invites us to invoke the
action of the Holy Spirit on the Church and on the whole world; on the Church,
to govern and direct her in the accomplishment of her mission; on the world, to
convince it of the truth which it rejects. “And when He is come,” said Jesus,
“He will convince the world of sin, and of justice, and of judgment” that is,
He will make it see that it is the slave of sin because it has not believed in
Christ. He will make it understand that justice and sanctity are found only in
Him, the Redeemer, and He will show it that the devil, the “prince of this
world,” is henceforth overcome and condemned.
COLLOQUY:
“Ah!
eternal Word, tell me, I beg You, what prevents the Holy Spirit from
accomplishing all His work in the soul? You tell me that the first impediment
is malice; another impediment is the self‑will of those who want to serve
You, but in their own way. We want Your Spirit, but we want Him in the way that
pleases us, and as much as pleases us; in this way we make ourselves incapable
of receiving Him. At other times, lukewarmness is the hindrance; we think we
are serving You and do not realize we are serving ourselves. But You, O Lord,
want to be served with humility and sincerity, without self-love. Thus Your
Spirit takes no rest but in a soul which He finds plunged in humility. Alas! O
loving Word, I should like to know what I ought to do about these hindrances,
for what good will it do me to understand them, if I do not know the cure for
them? Now, I see plainly that the remedy for malice is a simple right
intention; the remedy for self‑will is a will so dead to self that it
wills only what You will. The cure for lukewarmness is the ardor of charity,
which like fire, comes into our hearts and burns up all tepidity” (St. Mary
Magdalen dei Pazzi).
“Come,
O Holy Spirit, sanctify me! Come, O Spirit of Truth, fill me! Your divine
Wisdom will establish me in the truth. I am thirsting for truth, and wish it to
rule over my mind, my words, my affections, and my actions, avoiding everything
that is opposed to it, not only lies, but also dissimulation, duplicity, and
lack of sincerity with myself.
“Come,
O Spirit of Peace, bring me Your peace! That profound peace which dilates the
soul and prepares it for Your operations, that peace which calms and dominates
all the sensible part of the soul and even the superior part.
“Come,
O Spirit of Charity, inflame me and inspire me with Your love, so that I can
pour it out over the souls whom I would bring to You! Oh! transform me into
love; only thus shall I be able to fully respond to Your call, and be of use to
the Church” (Sr. Carmela of the Holy
Spirit, O.C.D.).
Do not tarry on the way, but strive like strong men until you die in
the attempt, for you are here for nothing else than to strive. Come what may, happen what will, let those
complain who will, tire yourself as you must, but even if you die halfway along
the road… tend always toward the goal.
St. Teresa of Avila
“Friend, I am ready and you
take courage… I warn you that I have a short neck and therefore be attentive to
strike correctly so that you do not have a blot on your good reputation.”
St. Thomas More, to his
executioner, July 6, 1535
The most fashionable
philosophy today is Deconstructionism, and that’s the explicit denial of the
very essence of language: “intentionality”.
That’s the technical, traditional term for the quality that words have
that makes them meaningful, significant, signs
that point beyond themselves to objective reality. There is no objective reality to these
Deconstructionists, no world beyond texts.
Texts are worlds, and worlds are texts.
It makes morality as arbitrary as penmanship.
Peter Kreeft, Ph. D., A Refutation of Moral Relativism
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
In one city, a
prominent man had been won to heresy, because the devil, taking the form of the
Blessed Virgin, appeared at the heretics' meetings and encouraged him to join
them. Peter, determined to win the man back to the truth, went to the meeting
and, when the devil appeared in his disguise, held up a small pyx in which he
had placed a consecrated Host. "If you are the Mother of God," cried
Peter, "adore your Son!" The devil fled in dismay and many were
converted. Among other miracles, St. Peter predicted that he would be murdered
by heretics, who indeed waylaid him on the road between Como and Milan. Peter
went to his death singing the Easter Sequence, and fell unprotesting beneath
the blows of his assassins. Carino cut his head with an ax, and then his
companion Dominic stabbed him. As Peter rose to his knees and commended himself
to God, Carino killed him with a blow of his axe to Peter's side. One of his
murderers, "Blessed" Carino, was touched by grace at the sight of a
saint, was converted, and eventually became a Dominican at Forli. To him as to
us, Peter had pointed out the way to heaven when he traced on the dust of the
road, in his own blood, the creed that had lighted his path: "Credo in
Unum Deum.”
St. Peter of Verona,
OP, also known as St. Peter Martyr
St Catherine was born
on Annunciation Day, March 25th, 1347, which in that year was also Palm Sunday.
By the time she was weaned, Siena had lost 80,000 people in the Black Death,
which was sweeping over Europe. Overgrown fields and empty houses were grim
reminders to those who were left and to those of the new generation………On Shrove
Tuesday, 1366, while the citizens of Siena were keeping carnival, and Catherine
was praying in her room, a vision of Christ appeared, accompanied by His mother
and the heavenly host. Taking the girl's hand, Our Lady held it up to Christ,
who placed a ring upon it and espoused her to Himself, bidding her to be of
good courage, for now she was armed with a faith that could overcome all
temptations. To Catherine the ring was always visible, though invisible to
others. The years of solitude and preparation were ended and soon afterwards
she began to mix with her fellow men and learn to serve them. Like other
Dominican tertiaries, she volunteered to nurse the sick in the city hospitals,
choosing those afflicted with loathsome diseases—cases from which others were
apt to shrink.
St. Catherine of Siena,
Dominican Tertiary, Doctor of the Church
What
Liberalism Is?
Protestantism naturally begets toleration of
error. Rejecting the principle of authority in religion, it has neither
criterion nor definition of faith. On the principle that every individual or
sect may interpret the deposit of Revelation according to the dictates of
private judgment, it gives birth to endless differences and contradictions.
Impelled by the law of its own impotence, through lack of any decisive voice of
authority in matters of faith, it is forced to recognize as valid and orthodox
any belief that springs from the exercise of private judgment. Therefore
does it finally arrive, by force of its own premises, at the conclusion that
one creed is as good as another; it then seeks to shelter its inconsistency
under the false plea of liberty of conscience. Belief is not imposed by a
legitimately and Divinely constituted authority, but springs directly and
freely from the unrestricted exercise of the individual's reason or caprice
upon the subject matter of Revelation. The individual or sect interprets as
it pleases-----rejecting
or accepting what it chooses. This is popularly called liberty of conscience.
Accepting this principle, Infidelity on the same plea rejects all Revelation,
and Protestantism, which handed over the premise, is powerless to protest
against the conclusion; for it is clear that one, who under the plea of
rational liberty has the right to repudiate any part of Revelation that may
displease him, can not logically quarrel with one, who on the same ground
repudiates the whole. If one creed is as good as another on the plea of rational
liberty, on the same plea no creed is as good as any. Taking the field with
this fatal weapon of Rationalism, Infidelity has stormed and taken the very
citadel of Protestantism helpless against the foe of its own making.
As a result, we find amongst the people of
this country [excepting Catholics of course] that authoritative and positive
religion has met with utter disaster, and that religious beliefs or
unbeliefs have come to be mere matters of opinion, wherein there are always
essential differences, each one free to make or unmake his own creed-----or accept no creed.
Such is the mainspring of the heresy
constantly dinned into our ears, flooding our current literature and our press.
It is against this that we have to be perpetually vigilant. The more so as it
insidiously attacks us on the grounds of a false charity and in the name of a
false liberty. Nor does it appeal only to us on the ground of religious
toleration.
The principle ramifies in many directions,
striking root into our domestic, civil, and political life, whose vigor and
health depend upon the nourishing and sustaining power of religion. For
religion is the bond which unites us to God, the source and End of all good;
and Infidelity, whether virtual as in Protestantism or explicit as in
Agnosticism, severs the bond which binds men to God, and seeks to build human
society on foundations of man's absolute independence. Hence we find Liberalism
laying down as the basis of its propaganda the following principles:
·
The absolute sovereignty of the individual in
his entire independence of God and God's authority.
·
The absolute sovereignty of society in its
entire independence of everything which does not proceed from itself.
·
Absolute civil sovereignty in the implied
right of the people to make their own laws in entire independence and utter
disregard of any other criterion than the popular will expressed at the polls
and in parliamentary majorities.
·
Absolute freedom of thought in politics,
morals, or in religion. The unrestrained liberty of the press.
Such are the radical principles of
Liberalism. In the assumption of the absolute sovereignty of the individual,
that is, his entire independence of God, we find the common source of all the
others. To express them all in one term in the order of ideas, they are
RATIONALISM or the doctrine of the absolute sovereignty of human reason. Here
human reason is made the measure and sum of truth. Hence we have individual,
social and political Rationalism, the corrupt fountain head of liberal
principles [which are]: absolute freedom of worship, the supremacy of the
State, secular education repudiating any connection with religion, marriage
sanctioned and legitimatized by the State alone, etc.; in one word, which
synthesizes all, SECULARIZATION, which denies religion any active intervention
in the concerns of public and of private life, whatever they be. This is
veritable social atheism.
Don Felix Sarda Y Salvany, Liberalism is a
Sin
Let us pray for heretics and
schismatics, that our Lord and God may deliver them from all their errors, and
vouchsafe to recall them to their holy Mother, the Catholic and Apostolic
Church. Almighty, eternal God, Who dost save all, and willest not that any
should perish, look upon the souls deceived by diabolical fraud, that,
abandoning all heretical depravity, the hearts of the erring may regain sanity
and return to the unity of truth. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, Who livest and
reignest, with God the Father, in the unity of the Holy Ghost, one God, world
without end. Amen.
Why the Feast of Ss. Philip
and James on May 1st and not that of St. Joseph the Worker?
In the 1962 Indult Missal of the Roman Rite, the feast of Ss. Philip and James was translated from May 1st to May 11th so that the feast of St. Joseph the Worker could be instituted on May 1st corresponding with the International Workers Day celebrated by Marxist revolutionaries in what was in effect an early practical application of “liberation theology.” In former times the Church christened pagan festivals, making use, with complete freedom, of dates and ceremonies and endowing them with an entirely new, and Christian, significance in their intent and practice, only so doing when she exercised sufficient social and political influence to insure a complete supplanting of any pagan admixture in Catholic practice. In this matter however, the principle was completely inverted by enrolling St. Joseph in the service of a pagan festival. This was done in 1955 during the reign of Pope Pius XII upon the recommendation of the Liturgical Commission that was directed by Fr. Annibale Bugnini, the alleged Freemason. Fr. Bugnini argued that in “some countries there are popular non-Christian feasts that can be Christianized by celebrating some great Christian feast on the same day: for example, the feasts of St. Joseph” that would “achieve new brilliance if it were coordinated with the concrete exigencies of a particular culture.” It has been more than fifty years since this novel approach of Fr. Bugnini has been employed to “Christianize” Marxist nations with no evident success. The Blessed Virgin Mary at Fatima proposed a radically different approach to the problem.
Karl Marx was an admitted Satanist. The Marxists apparently chose May 1st because it is the most important ancient pagan festival celebrated in honor of the demon known as “Beltaine” in the British Isles and by other names throughout Europe. The name is believed to literally mean Bel-Fire, lord or god of light. It is the worship of the scriptural demon known as Baal in a pagan rite once requiring ritual human sacrifice.
Once the feast of St. Joseph, the Worker, was established on May 1st, it was argued that two feasts of St. Joseph could not be so close together therefore, the Feast of the Solemnity of St. Joseph Patron of the Universal Church, extended to the entire Church by Blessed Pius IX in 1847 on the eve of, and in response to, the revolutionary Masonic uprisings in Europe, and celebrated with a common octave beginning on the Wednesday following the second Sunday of Easter, was suppressed. The Church, having shamefully slighted her great patron, has since suffered the most ignoble degradations in her great history.
The directors of Ss. Peter and Paul Roman Catholic Mission from their inception expressed our preference for the pre-1962 Roman Rite Missal and its calendar as the more ideal liturgical tradition for the following two major reasons:
1) The Catholics of Ss. Peter and Paul Roman Catholic Mission hold to the Ecclesiastical Traditions of the Roman Rite by virtue of our rights as baptized Catholics and not by virtue of Indult or grant of any particular and conditional privilege.
An indult is the permission to do something that is normally considered illegal. The 1962 Missal was regarded as an Indult by Pope Benedict XVI, Pope John Paul II, the Roman curia and its Ecclesia Dei Commission, the Fraternity of St. Peter, the former Society of St. John, the Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest, and every bishop in the world holding ordinary jurisdiction until the recent publication of Summorum Pontificum. This document declared that the 1962 missal to have never been illegal, and consequently could never have been justly relegated to the status of an “Indult.” The Motu Proprio however enacted an entirely new set of conditions for the exercise of what has now become a grant of legal privilege. An immemorial tradition can never been the subject of an Indult or grant of legal privilege and thus the members of Ss. Peter and Paul Roman Catholic Mission adhere to the immemorial Roman rite as it existed before the liturgical innovations of the Bugnini liturgical reform.
2) The 1962 Missal was primarily the
work of the Liturgical Commission headed by Fr. Annibale Bugnini who would
later give the Church the 1965 Missal and the 1969 Missal (Novus Ordo). When asked in 1962 if that Missal was the end
of the liturgical changes, Fr. Bugnini replied: “Not by any stretch of the imagination. Every good builder begins by removing the
gross accretions, the evident distortions; then with more delicacy and
attention he sets out to revise particulars.
The latter remains to be achieved for the Liturgy so that the fullness,
dignity and harmony may shine forth once again.” Thus such feasts as the Solemnity of St.
Joseph, the Chair of St. Peter at Rome, and many other liturgical changes,
considered “gross accretions and evident distortions” by those who would
eventually give the Church the liturgical “fullness, dignity and harmony” of
the Novus Ordo, were done away with in the 1962 Missal.
The Diocese of Harrisburg, which had offered the 1962 Missal by virtue of Indult, now permits this Missal to be used according to the conditions of Summorum Pontificum. We are grateful for this development that has been made possible in response to the dedicated work of the members of Ss. Peter and Paul, and our hope is that it will introduce many Catholics to the traditional Roman Rite from which they have been most unjustly deprived. This conditional exercise of the Latin Mass however will come at the price of their agreement that what they are given is a gratuitous concession that can be withdrawn or modified at any time and for any reason.
We at Ss. Peter and Paul hold our traditions by virtue of our rights as Catholics. Once these rights are recognized we understand and agree that properly constituted authority can justly regulate them. If that authority eventually holds that the 1962 Missal is the normative expression of the immemorial Roman Rite and justly treats it as such, then it is the Missal that we will embrace.
St. Philip, like Ss. Peter and Andrew, was
of Bethsaida in Galilee. He died at
Hierapolis in Phrygia, on the cross, like them.
It is he whom Jesus addresses at the multiplication of the loaves and it
is through him as intermediary that the Gentiles seek to address the Saviour. To him also we owe what the Master said in
His discourse at the Last Supper: “Philip, who seeth Me, seeth My Father”
(Gospel). To go to Christ is to go to
God, for the works of the Messias have proved His divinity (Gospel). It is in virtue of His divine nature that He
rose again, and the two apostles whose feast coincides with the Easter feasts,
by their martyrdom (Introit, Epistle) confirm the truth of which they have been
witnesses.
St. James, called the Minor, was of Cana in
Galilee. A cousin of our Lord, he had
for brother the Apostle Jude, and was made, by Peter, bishop of Jerusalem. It is of him that St. Paul speaks when he
says: “I did not see any apostle except James the brother of the Lord.” Called upon by the High Priest to deny Jesus,
he was thrown down from the terrace of the Temple and his head was broken by
the blow of a club.
Their names are inscribed in the Canon of
the Mass.
Feast of Ss. Philip and
James, Apostles
Prayer to Saint Philip
O Saint Philip, chosen disciple of the Lord, who brought Nathaniel to Christ,
who most zealously preached thy Lord, Jesus Christ, and out of love to Him
willingly gave thyself to be nailed to the cross, and put to death, obtain, I
beseech thee, for me, and for all men, grace with zeal to bring others to the
practice of good works, to have a great desire after God and His truths, and,
in hope of the eternal blissful contemplation of God, to bear patiently the
adversities and miseries of this life. Amen.
Prayer to Saint
James
O Saint James, who lived so temperately and strictly, who, like thy master,
prayed so earnestly and constantly for thy tormentors, I beseech thee that thou
wouldst procure us from Jesus grace, after thy example, to live sober and
penitential lives, and to worship God in spirit and in truth. Obtain for us,
therefore, the spirit with which thou didst write thine epistle, that we may
follow thy doctrine, be diligent in good works, and, like thee, love and pray
for our enemies. Amen
Hermeneutics of
Continuity/Discontinuity
“The Roman Missal promulgated by Pope Paul VI and
the last edition prepared under Pope John XXIII, are two forms of the Roman
Liturgy, defined respectively as ordinaria
and extraordinaria: they are two
usages of the one Roman Rite, one alongside the other. Both are the expression
of the same lex orandi of the
Church.”
Benedict XVI, Universae Ecclesiae, May13, 2011, (n.
6)
“The Novus Ordo represents,
both as a whole and in its details, a striking departure from the Catholic
theology of the Mass as it was… definitively fixed by the Council of Trent.”
Cardinal Alfredo Ottaviani,
Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine for the Faith, September 3, 1969,
Brief Critical Study of the New Order of Mass, Cardinals Ottaviani and Bacci
“The analysis of the Novus Ordo made by these
two cardinals has lost none of its value nor, unfortunately, of its relevance….
The results of the reform are considered by many today to be devastating. It
was to the credit of Cardinals Ottaviani and Bacci that they discovered very
quickly that the change of the rites led to a fundamental change of doctrine.”
Cardinal Alfons Maria Stickler,
Librarian of the Holy Roman Church and Archivist of the Secret Archives of the
Vatican, November 27, 2004, on the occasion of the reprinting of the Brief
Critical Study by Cardinals Ottaviani and Bacci
Forty years after the crucifixion, Jerusalem was destroyed by the
Romans, the instruments of God’s vengeance.
The Holy Places were desecrated by the idolaters. A small temple to Venus was erected on
Calvary, and another to Jupiter over the Holy Sepulchre. By this, the pagans intended derision;
whereas, they were perpetuating the knowledge of two spots of most sacred
interest. When peace was restored under
Constantine, the Christians had but to remove these pagan monuments and their
eyes beheld the holy ground that had been bedewed with the Blood of Jesus, and
the glorious Sepulchre.
Dom Gueranger, The Liturgical Year, Finding of the Holy Cross
All
our Ecclesiastical Traditions are Signs, Images which signify a greater
Truth. It is this “Greater Truth” that
the Novus Ordo attacks.
“Whoever venerates an image
venerates the person portrayed in it.”
St. Basil, De Spiritu Sancto 18, 45
“The beauty of the images moves
me to contemplation, as a meadow delights the eyes and subtly infuses the soul
with the glory of God.”
St. John Damascene, De Imag 1,
27
Such is the civilization that never knew
Christ! - What will the one be like that has rejected Him?
St. Paul, addressing
the Romans, whose triumphant civilization had absorbed all the strength and all
the vices of the conquered peoples, tells them to their face with that intrepid
firmness which fears no contradiction: You are without affection, without
fidelity; you are filled with malice, with iniquity, with bitterness; hateful,
hating one another; finally, you are without mercy (Rom. 1 and 3; Tit. 3). And
yet St. Paul is the most reserved of all the writers of that time. Plato,
Aristotle, Aristophanes, Plautus, Titus, Livy, Tacitus, Juvenal, Suetonius,
Plutarch, Seneca, relate the horrors of pagan society with a good faith and
indifference which make one shudder. It is evident this was the accepted and
public morality of the most civilized nations. Strangers, prisoners, the
vanquished, slaves, debtors, the sick, the poor, the aged, children, women, all
who were weak, all who suffered, all who labored----in a word, the great
majority of the human race was hated, despised, and oppressed. The rest
wallowed in the mire of vice. Vice itself was deified; it had its temples, its
priests, its altars in every city of the world; disorder became a social
obligation, and immorality a public worship. Such was the pagan world before
the coming of Christ…."It is estimated," says Loudun in his work
L'Antiquite, "that the spectacle of the gladiators cost, on an
average, thirty thousand men a year."
Fr. W. Devivier, SJ, Christian Apologetics: A Defense of the Catholic
Faith, Christian Civilization
THE ONE THING NECESSARY
As everyone can easily understand,
the interior life is an elevated form of intimate conversation which everyone
has with himself as soon as he is alone, even in the tumult of a great city.
From the moment he ceases to converse with his fellow men, man converses
interiorly with himself about what preoccupies him most. This conversation
varies greatly according to the different ages of life; that of an old man is
not that of a youth. It also varies greatly according as a man is good or bad.
As soon as a man
seriously seeks truth and goodness, this intimate conversation with himself
tends to become conversation with God. Little by little, instead of seeking
himself in everything, instead of tending more or less consciously to make
himself a center, man tends to seek God in everything, and to substitute for
egoism love of God and of souls in Him. This constitutes the interior life. No
sincere man will have any difficulty in recognizing it. The one thing necessary
which Jesus spoke of to Martha and Mary consists in hearing the word of God and
living by it.
Rev. Reginald
Garrigou-Lagrange, O.P., The Three Ages of the Interior Life
What, then, is purity
of intention? Purity of intention is having God alone as our object, free from
all self-interest. …. The truth is, of course, that only God knows us through
and through; above all in the most essential thing, namely whether we are
worthy in His eyes of love or hatred. We cannot be absolutely certain that any
of our actions are pleasing to Him, and this uncertainty will remain with us all
our life; we will never be able to pronounce with certitude on the purity of
our intentions. For if we were sure on this point, we would be equally sure
that our actions were holy, and consequently that we were in a state of grace.
For this reason, we must always say with David: From my secret sins, cleanse
me, O Lord. And who knows fully his own frailty? The truth is in itself very
painful, and particularly grievous to self-love, which is always seeking for
assurance. According to God's designs, however, it should humble us, but not
drive us to despair. If in this matter we cannot arrive at absolute certitude,
yet by learning to know ourselves and by humbly asking it of God, we can obtain
sufficient moral certitude to give us peace. But we must do all that lies in
our power.
Rev. John Nicholas
Grou, S.J., Spiritual Maxims
Yes I know Bergoglio,
[says a Jesuit superior from another Latin American country]. He’s a person
who’s caused a lot of problems in the Society and is highly controversial in
his own country. In addition to being accused of having allowed the arrest of
two Jesuits during the time of the Argentinean dictatorship, as provincial he
generated divided loyalties: some groups almost worshipped him, while others
would have nothing to do with him, and he would hardly speak to them. It was an
absurd situation. He is well-trained and very capable, but is surrounded by
this personality cult which is extremely divisive. He has an aura of
spirituality which he uses to obtain power. It will be a catastrophe for the
Church to have someone like him in the Apostolic See. He left the Society of
Jesus in Argentina destroyed with Jesuits divided and institutions destroyed
and financially broken. We have spent two decades trying to fix the chaos that
the man left us.
Fr. Vallely, Pope Francis: Untying the Knots, 2013
“Blessed be the Lord my God, who teacheth my
hands to fight, and my fingers to war.”
Psalms 143:1
“More people
have been imprisoned for Liberty, humiliated and tortured for Equality, and slaughtered
for Fraternity in this century, than for any less hypocritical motives, during
the Middle Ages.”
Roy Campbell,
poet, journalist, Catholic convert, footnote appended to his poem Flowering Rifle.
Pacem in
Terris - Celebrating 50+ years of Masonic Corruption of Religious Liberty
Experts: ‘Pacem in Terris’ encyclical by John XXIII, April 11, 1963,
had radical impact on church teaching Jerry
Filteau, Apr. 18, 2013, National Catholic
Reporter
One of the beauties of Pacem in Terris, (Fr. J. Bryan) Hehir said, was the fact that against centuries of Catholic thought and practice asserting the primacy of truth over conscience in religious matters, John (XXIII) simply asserted, without laying out detailed arguments, that civil authorities have an obligation to protect the freedom of their citizens to worship and practice religion as they see fit in their own conscientious belief.
It took three more council sessions after John's death in June 1963 for
the fathers of Vatican II to struggle to consensus on the same conclusion and
adopt their Declaration on Religious Freedom (Dignitatis Humanae) in
1965, he said.
Modernist
Definition: Pastoral = The teaching that the truths revealed by God and the moral
duty He imposes can be ignored if they constitute a physical or psychological
imposition to our self-love.
Catholic
members of royal couples won't have to raise kids Catholics By Catholic News Service
LONDON (CNS) -- Church leaders have told the British government that members of
the royal family who marry Catholics under recently passed legislation will not
be obliged to bring up their children in the Catholic faith.
Lord Wallace of Tankerness, speaking
on behalf of the government, said he had been assured personally by Msgr.
Marcus Stock, general secretary of the Bishops' Conference of England and
Wales, that the canonical requirement of Catholics to raise their children in
the faith was not always binding.
“I have the specific consent of
Msgr. Stock to say that he was speaking on behalf of Archbishop (Vincent)
Nichols (of Westminster) as president of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of
England and Wales and can inform the House that the view taken by the Catholic
Church in England and Wales is that, in the instance of mixed marriages, the
approach of the Catholic Church is pastoral,” he said.
“It will always look to provide
guidance that supports and strengthens the unity and indissolubility of the
marriage,” Lord Wallace said.
But would it
not be enough for one to be a Catholic in heart only,
without
professing his religion publicly?
No, for Jesus
Christ has solemnly declared that, “He who shall be ashamed of Me and My words,
of him the Son of Man shall be ashamed when He shall come in His majesty, and
that of His Father, and of the holy angels.” (Luke 9:26) Fr. Michael Muller, C.SS.R, Questions and
Answers on Salvation
And since Jesus Christ, the Son of God,
morally obliges every Catholic the duty to profess his faith in the public
forum, every Catholic possesses by right the use of the ecclesiastical
traditions of our Church which constitute the perfect outward expression of our
holy faith.
Last Words of Catholic Martyrs
"Whosoever
dieth out of the Catholic Church he dieth in the state of damnation."
St. John Shert, English
Catholic priest and martyr, executed during the reign of Elizabeth I on May 28,
1582
"Benedicat
nos omnipotens Deus, Pater et Filius et Spiritus Sanctus, Father
Roberts has told you the reason why we are to suffer death, and so it is not
necessary that I should repeat more than one thing. I did not refuse to take
the oath because I refused any sort of allegiance that her Majesty the Queen
could justly demand of me. I refused on account of the matters of Faith
included in that oath, and that is why it has been forbidden by His Holiness
the Pope, whom all of us who are sheep of Christ are bound to obey in matters
of Faith. I pray you all therefore and exhort you to be obedient to the chief
Shepherd of the Church of God. Out of the Church there is no salvation."
St. Thomas Somers, English Catholic priest and martyr, executed on the
same day as St. John Roberts
"Memorare
novissima tua — Let man remember his end. Quia nos omnes
manifestari oportet ante tribunal Christi — We must all appear before the
judgment-seat of Christ there to render an account of our Faith and of our
deeds. Those who have done well will have eternal life, and those who have done
evil will suffer eternal torments. Extra ecclesiam nulla est salus —
Outside the true Church of Christ there is no salvation."
St. John Roberts, English
Catholic priest and martyr, executed on December 10, 1610
The Kingdom of God is not the work of man and does not emerge by a
natural law of progress from the course of human history. It makes a violent
interruption into history and confounds the work of man, like the stone hewn
from the mountain without human agency which crushes the image of the four
world empires into dust.
Christopher Dawson, Dynamics of World History
“Liberalism is
the belief that there could exist any part of God’s creation that is not
subject to His dominion.”
Fr. Dennis
Fahey
The World of Instability
that Vatican II Attempts to Conform the Church: “Artificial and Mechanical”
Western civilization at the present day is passing through a crisis
which is essentially different from anything that has been previously
experienced. Other societies in the past have changed their social institutions
or their religious beliefs under the influence of external forces or the slow
development of internal growth. But none, like our own, has ever consciously
faced the prospect of a fundamental alteration of the beliefs and institutions
on which the whole fabric of social life rests ... Civilization is being
uprooted from its foundations in nature and tradition and is being
reconstituted in a new organisation which is as artificial and mechanical as a
modern factory.
Christopher Dawson, (1889-1970), Catholic Historian, Enquiries into
Religion and Culture, 1947
"The True God from Whom is all being, beauty, form and number,
weight and measure; He from Whom all nature, mean and excellent, all seeds of
forms, all forms of seeds, all motions, both of forms and seeds, derive and
have being… He ( I say) having left neither heaven nor earth, nor angel nor
man, no, for the most base and contemptible creature, neither the bird’s
feather nor the herb’s flower, nor the tree’s leaf, without the true harmony of
their parts, and peaceful concord of composition; it is in no way credible that
He would leave the kingdoms of men and their bondages and freedom loose and
uncompromised in the laws of His eternal providence."
Christopher Dawson, Catholic historian, Dynamics of History
Admission of Heretical
Ambiguity introduced into Vatican II Documents
In many places, [the
Council Fathers] had to find compromise formulae, in which, often, the positions
of the [conservative] majority are located immediately next to those of the
[modernist] minority, designed to delimit them. Thus, the conciliar texts
themselves have a huge potential for conflict, open the door to a selective
reception in either direction.
Walter Cardinal Kasper, former assistant to Vatican II peritus Hans
Kung. Kasper at one time had his theological teaching faculties suspended by
the Vatican because he rejected Catholic teaching on contraception and papal
infallibility, April 12, 2013, L'Osservatore
Romano
The Devil
Reads a “Book” by its Cover
“Nobody doubts that unclean
spirits can influence the character of our thoughts, but this is by affecting
them from without by sensible influences, that is, either from our inclinations
or from our words, and those likings to which they see that we are especially
disposed.”
St. John Cassian, Seventh Talk
to Monks
"We must, with God's help, eradicate the deadly poison of the
demon of anger from the depths of our souls. So long as he dwells in our hearts
and blinds the eyes of the heart with his somber disorders, we can neither
discriminate what is for our good, nor achieve spiritual knowledge, nor fulfill
our good intentions, nor participate in true life; and our intellect will
remain impervious to the contemplation of the true, divine light; for it is
written, 'Man's anger does not bring about the righteousness of God' (James.
1:20)."
St. John Cassian
"The
thief on the cross certainly did not receive the Kingdom of Heaven as a reward for
his virtues but as a grace and a mercy from God. He can serve as an authentic
witness that our salvation is given to us only by God’s mercy and grace. All
the holy masters knew this and unanimously taught that perfection in holiness
can be achieved only through humility."
St. John Cassian, who was an Eastern monk, theological writer and
Church Father. He went to Palestine in 380 with a companion, Germanus, and
became a monk in Egypt. In 400 he entered into the discipleship of St.
John Chrysostom, going to Rome to defend the much-oppressed saint
before Pope Innocent I. Ordained in Rome, John started monasteries in
southern France, near Marseilles, thus helping to pioneer monasticism in
Europe. His two main writings, Institutes
of the Monastic Life and Conferences
on the Egyptian Monks, were much praised by St. Benedict and were
long influential; the former had a direct impact upon Benedict during
the time that he was composing his famed Rule. John also
authored the work De Incarnatione Doniini,
in seven books, at the behest of Pope Leo I the Great so as to inform the
Western Church of the details of the teachings of the heresiarch Nestorius who
denied the blessed Virgin Mary her title, Mother of God.
St. John Cassian died in 435.
Pope Francis Kisses 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
"The first and most
excellent of these aids (for strengthening and ordering the human will) is the
power of God’s Divine Grace, whereby the mind can be enlightened and the will
wholesomely invigorated and moved to the constant pursuit of moral good, so
that the use of our inborn liberty becomes at once less difficult and less
dangerous. Not that the divine
assistance hinders in any way the free movement of our will, just the contrary,
for grace works inwardly in man and in harmony with his natural inclinations,
since it flows from the very Creator of his mind and will, by whom all things
are moved in conformity with their nature.
As the Angelic Doctor points out, it is because Divine Grace comes from
the Author of nature, that it is so admirably adapted to be the safeguard of
all natures, and to maintain the character, efficiency, and operations of
each."
Pope Leo XIII, Libertas
“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
Penance then is as it were, a salutary weapon placed in the hands of
the soldiers of Christ, who wish to fight for the defense of and restoration of
the moral order in the universe. It is a
weapon that strikes right at the root of all evil, that is, at the lust of
material wealth and the wanton pleasures of life. Be means of various works of penance, the
noble-hearted Christian subdues the base passions that tend to make him violate
the moral order. But if zeal for the
divine law and brotherly love are as great in him as they should be, then not
only does he practice penance for himself and his own sins, but he takes upon
himself the expiation of the sins of others, imitating the saints who often
heroically make themselves victims of reparation of the sins of whole
generations, imitating even the divine Redeemer, Who became the Lamb of God,
'Who taketh away the sins of the world,' (1 john 1:29).... The divine Heart of
Jesus cannot but be moved at the prayers and sacrifice of His Church, and He
will finally say to His spouse, weeping at His feet, under the weight of so
many griefs and woes: 'Great is thy faith, be it done to thee as thou wilt'
(Matthew 15:28).
Pope Pius XI, Caritate Christi
Human beings are created to
praise, reverence, and serve God our Lord, and by means of this to save their
souls. The other things on the face of
the earth are created for human beings, to help them in working toward the end
for which they are created. From this it
follows that I should use these things to the extent that they help me toward
my end, and rid myself of them to the extent that they hinder me. To do this, I must make myself indifferent to
all created things, in regard to everything which is left to my freedom of will
and is not forbidden. Consequently, on
my own part I ought not to seek health rather than sickness, wealth rather than
poverty, honor rather than dishonor, long life rather than a short one, and son
in all matters. I ought to desire and
elect only the thing which is more conducive to the end for which I am
created.
St. Ignatius of Loyola,
Principle and Foundation of the Spiritual Exercises
Amazing!
Martyrdom is a barrier to ecumenical unity!
If you have a Church that considers martyrs, that sets them off against
the others, this in itself contains the pebbles of a rocky road to disunity.
Sure I appreciated [Cardinal Joseph Zen’s] concerns and sufferings… You have to
be proud of the Church that suffers, but also worried that a Church that
suffers allows that suffering to be a barrier to the common union to which the
Lord has called us.
Cardinal Theodore McCarrick the Homosexual Pervert, criticizing
Cardinal Zen and the faithful Catholics of China for resisting a forced unity
with the Catholic Patriotic Association (CPA) founded by the communist
government.
“He will convince the world of sin”
The Four Sins That Cry To
Heaven For Vengence - Are Protected Acts under U. S. Law.
1.
Willful murder. - Unjust war
2.
Defrauding the laborer of his wages. - Federal Confiscatory
Taxation
3.
Oppression of the poor. - Usury
4.
Sin of Sodom.
- Hate crimes, Homosexual “marriage”, etc.
“O
God, come to my assistance; O Lord, make haste to help me.”
Not without reason has this verse been selected out of the whole body of
Scripture. For it takes up all the emotions that can be applied to human nature
and with great correctness and accuracy it adjusts itself to every condition
and every attack. It contains an invocation of God in the face of any crisis,
the humility of a devout confession, the watchfulness of concern and of
constant fear, a consciousness of one's own frailty, the assurance being heard,
and confidence in a protection that is always present and at hand, for whoever
calls unceasingly on his protector is sure that he is always present. It
contains a burning love and charity, an awareness of traps, and a fear of
enemies. Seeing oneself surrounded by these day and night, one confesses that
one cannot be set free without the help of one's defender. This verse is an
unassailable wall, an impenetrable breastplate, and a very strong shield for
those who labour under the attack of demons.
St. John Cassian, The Conferences, Commentary Psalm 69
Q: But would it not be enough
for one to be a Catholic in heart only, without professing his religion
publicly?
A: No, for
Jesus Christ has solemnly declared that, “He who shall be ashamed of Me and My
words, of him the Son of Man shall be ashamed when He shall come in His
majesty, and that of His Father, and of the holy angels.” (Luke 9:26) Fr. Michael Muller, C.SS.R, Questions and
Answers on Salvation
And since Jesus Christ, the Son of God, morally obliges every Catholic
the duty to profess his faith in the public forum, every Catholic possesses by
right the use of the ecclesiastical traditions of our Church which constitute
the perfect outward expression of our holy faith.
Hermeneutics
of Continuity/Discontinuity
A
Illustrative Example of the Heresy of Neo-Modernism
It is not enough to find a new language in which to articulate our
perennial faith; it is also urgent, in the light of the new challenges and
prospects facing humanity, that the Church be able to express the ‘new things’
of Christ’s Gospel, that, albeit present in the word of God, have not yet come
to light.
Pope Francis the Destroyer, Address, October 11, 2018
A
Illustrative Example of the Catholic Faith
If there are any present-day teachers making every effort to produce
and develop new ideas, but not to repeat “that which has been handed down,” and
if this is their whole aim, they should reflect calmly on those words which
Benedict XV proposes for their consideration: “We wish this maxim of our elders
held in reverence: Nihil innovetur nisi quod traditum — let nothing new be introduced, but
only what has been handed down; it must be held as an inviolable law in matters
of faith, and should also control those points which allow of change, though in
these latter for the most part the rule holds: non nova sed noviter—not new things but in a new way.”
Pope Pius XII,
Si Diligis, Allocution to
Cardinals, Archbishops, and Bishops on the Canonization of St Pius X, May 31,
1954.
Worth Reading Again from Previous Year:
Open Letter by “Papal favorite” calling for
End of Summorum Pontificum
OPEN
LETTER on the “State of Liturgical Exception” | Andrea Grillo, April 29, 2020
To
all theologians, scholars, and students of theology:
The great
liturgical tradition, which has always accompanied and supported the Church in
her history of grace and sin, hears the groaning of individuals and nations in
this pandemic crisis, which brings suffering and affliction to those who are
sick, and fear, isolation and loneliness to everyone else. The ordinary
rhythm of the Lenten and Paschal journey is altered and subverted, in
solidarity with our common suffering. We would never have thought, however,
that a small but not marginal suffering would also come at the same time
through the exercise of ecclesial authority and through the decrees Quo
magis e Cum sanctissima, which the Congregation for
the Doctrine of the Faith published on 25 March 2020.
It is no surprise
that This Congregation should devote its attention to the liturgy. But special
and singular is the fact that it modifies the ordines, introduces prefaces
and formularies for feasts, and modifies calendars and criteria of precedence.
And it does this on a 1962 missal. How is this possible? The Congregation, as is known,
in this case moves in the space of an exceptional authority, which dates
back 13 years, in accordance with motu proprio Summorum
pontificum. But
since time is greater than space, what is possible on the regulatory level is
not always appropriate. Therefore, it is crucial to engage in critical
reflection on the logic of this development.
Time, in fact, has
unveiled to us the paradox of a competence on the liturgy being taken away from
the Bishops and the Congregation of Worship: this was arranged, in Summorum
pontificum, with an intention of solemn pacification and generous
reconciliation, but soon it changed into a serious division, a widespread
conflict, and became the symbol of a “liturgical rejection” of the Second
Vatican Council. The greatest distortion of the initial intentions of the motu
proprio can be seen today in those diocesan seminaries where it is expected
that the future ministers will be trained at the same time in two different
rites: the conciliar rite and the one that denies it. All this reached its most
surreal point the day before yesterday, when the two Decrees were released. They
mark the culmination of a distortion which is no longer tolerable, and which
can be summed up as follows:
· the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith acts as a
substitute in exercising competences conferred by the Second Vatican
Council on Bishops and the Congregation for Divine Worship;
· it undertakes to elaborate ”liturgical variants” of
the ordines without having the historical, textual,
philological and pastoral competences;
·
it seems to ignore, precisely on the dogmatic level, a
grave conflict between the lex orandi and the lex credendi,
since it is inevitable that a dual, conflictual ritual form will lead to a
significant division in the faith;
· it seems to underestimate the disruptive effect this
“exception” will have on the ecclesial level, by immunizing a part of the
community from the “school of prayer” that the Second Vatican Council and the
liturgical reform have providentially given to the common ecclesial journey.
A “state of
exception” is also happening today on the civil level, in its harsh necessity,
and this fact allows us greater ecclesial foresight. To return to an ecclesial
normality, we must overcome the state of liturgical exception established 13
years ago in another world, with other conditions and with other hopes, by Summorum pontificum. It
no longer makes sense to deprive diocesan bishops of their liturgical powers;
neither does it make sense to have an Ecclesia Dei Commission (which has in fact already been
suppressed), or a Section of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith
which take away authority from diocesan Bishops and the Congregation of Divine
Worship; it no longer makes sense to enact decrees to “reform” a rite that is
closed in the historical past, inert and crystallized, lifeless and without
vigor. There can be no resuscitation for it. The double regime is over; the
noble intention of SP has waned; the Lefebvrians have raised the barhigher and
higher and then run away, insulting the Second Vatican Council and the present
pope along with all three of his predecessors. Continuing to nourish a
“state of liturgical exception” – one that was born to unite, but does nothing
but divide – only leads to the shattering, privatization, and distortion of the
worship of the Church. On the basis of these considerations, we
resolve together to request that the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith
immediately withdraw the two decrees of 25/03/2020 and restore all powers
concerning the liturgy to the diocesan Bishops and the Congregation for Divine
Worship.
Obviously, we ask this without prejudice to the powers that this Congregation
retains in doctrinal matters.
So let
us leave the “state of liturgical exception”. If not now, when?
With best wishes
to all colleagues and students, besieged but not conquered in life, during
these bitter yet still generous times.
“Time is
greater than space” – The ideological lynchpin of Pope Francis the Great
Equivocator
This liturgical OPEN LETTER
structures its argument around the phrase: Time is Greater Than Space.” This
slogan of Pope Francis, “Time is greater than space” (TGTS), appeared in his
first two encyclicals, Lumen Fidei and Laudato Si’. It surfaced
again in the apostolic exhortations, Evangelii Gaudium and Amoris
Laetitia.
From Lumen Fidei:
“Let us refuse to be robbed of hope, or to allow our hope to be dimmed
by facile answers and solutions which block our progress, ‘fragmenting’ time
and changing it into space. Time is always much greater than space. Space
hardens processes, whereas time propels towards the future and encourages us to
go forward in hope.”
Evangelii Gaudium is more revealing as to the cryptic meaning of this
phrase:
222. A constant tension exists between fullness and limitation.
Fullness evokes the desire for complete possession, while limitation is a wall
set before us. Broadly speaking, “time” has to do with fullness as an
expression of the horizon which constantly opens before us, while each
individual moment has to do with limitation as an expression of enclosure.
People live poised between each individual moment and the greater, brighter
horizon of the utopian future as the final cause which draws us to itself. Here
we see a first principle for progress in building a people: time is greater
than space.
223. This principle enables us to work slowly but surely, without being
obsessed with immediate results. It helps us patiently to endure difficult and
adverse situations, or inevitable changes in our plans. It invites us to accept
the tension between fullness and limitation, and to give a priority to time.
One of the faults which we occasionally observe in sociopolitical activity is
that spaces and power are preferred to time and processes. Giving priority to
space means madly attempting to keep everything together in the present, trying
to possess all the spaces of power and of self-assertion; it is to crystallize
processes and presume to hold them back. Giving priority to time means being
concerned about initiating processes rather than possessing spaces. Time
governs spaces, illumines them and makes them links in a constantly expanding
chain, with no possibility of return. What we need, then, is to give priority
to actions which generate new processes in society and engage other persons and
groups who can develop them to the point where they bear fruit in significant
historical events. Without anxiety, but with clear convictions and tenacity.
St. Pius X said in Pascendi that Evolution is the fundamental principle of the heresy of Modernism.
This error is practically applied when Modernists embrace Becoming and reject Being.
This neologism of Francis, TGTS, is just a repacking of this old philosophical
error of Modernism. Francis is trying to sound clever by putting a little
make-up and bow-tie on the pig. But the pig remains a pig because that is his Being. Fr. Réginald Marie Garrigou-Lagrange, O.P.
explained this error in his great essay, Where
is the New Theology Leading Us?, that was published in the Angelicum in 1946.
It should be remembered
that on December 1, 1924, the Holy Office condemned 12 propositions taken from
the philosophy of action, among which was number 5, or the new definition of
truth: “Truth is not found in any particular act of the intellect wherein
conformity with the object would be had, as the Scholastics say, but rather
truth is always in a state of becoming, and consists in a progressive alignment
of the understanding with life, indeed a certain perpetual process, by which
the intellect strives to develop and explain that which experience presents or
action requires: by which principle, moreover, as in all progression, nothing
is ever determined or fixed.” The last of these condemned propositions is:
“Even after Faith has been received, man ought not to rest in the dogmas of
religion, and hold fast to them fixedly and immovably, but always solicitous to
remain moving ahead toward a deeper truth and even evolving into new notions,
and even correcting that which he believes.”
Many, who did not heed
these warnings, have now reverted to these errors.
……
It revisits modernism. Because it
accepted the proposition which was intrinsic to modernism: that of
substituting, as if it were illusory, the traditional definition of truth: aequatio
rei et intellectus (the adequation of intellect and reality), for the
subjective definition: adequatio realis mentis et vitae (the adequation of
intellect and life). That was more explicitly stated in the already cited
proposition, which emerged from the philosophy of action, and was condemned by
the Holy Office, December 1, 1924: “Truth is not found in any particular act of
the intellect wherein conformity with the object would be had, as the
Scholastics say, but rather truth is always in a state of becoming, and
consists in a progressive alignment of the understanding with life, indeed a
certain perpetual process, by which the intellect strives to develop and
explain that which experience presents or action requires: by which principle,
moreover, as in all progression, nothing is ever determined or fixed” (v.
Monitore ecclesiastico, 1925. t. I; p. 194.)
The truth is no longer the
conformity (of judgment) to the intuitive reality and its immutable laws but
the conformity of judgment to the exigencies of action, and of human life which
continues to evolve. The philosophy of being or ontology is substituted by the
philosophy of action which defines truth as no longer a function of being but
of action.
Thus is modernism reprised: “Truth
is no more immutable than man himself, inasmuch as it is evolved with him, in
him and through him. As well, Pius X said of the modernists, “they pervert the
eternal concept of truth.”
……
The traditional definition truth is
no longer for them the conformity of judgment to intuitive being and the
immutable laws of non-contradiction, of causality, etc. For them, the truth is
no longer that which is but that which is becoming — and is constantly and
always changing.
For the Modernist heretic, Pope
Francis, “Time is greater than space,” “Time” means the process of becoming through evolution and “Space” is the limitation of static being. A library could be filled with
analyzing the implications of this error but suffice for the present there are
two obvious to everyone: Firstly, the very definition of heresy is the
rejection of DOGMA. For the faithful Catholic, DOGMA is NECESSARILY the
proximate rule of faith. This is directly rejected by the Modernists. They
replace Dogma with the person of the pope as the proximate rule of faith and he
is free to corrupt the revealed truth in whatever manner he pleases. The second
obvious error is that they deny the philosophical meaning of substance. They follow modern
reductionist Scientism that resurrected the Greek philosopher Democritus’
(460-370 B.C.) theory that the fundamental nature of all that existed is “atoms
and the void.” Since all reality is just the recombination of atoms and the
void between them, then there cannot be such thing as a fixed substance in which accidents adhere. Consequently, we have Benedict/Ratzinger denying substance and making the accident of relationship the fundamental ground of all reality. It is therefore
not surprising when he denies the Dogma of Transubstantiation. And what becomes
of the Dogma that the Father and the Son are Consubstantial? Francis follows in
the same manner and never kneels before the Blessed Sacrament. No argument can
touch these blighted minds, if you call something that never thinks a “mind.”
It matters not what wreckage and ruin that has followed since Vatican II
because the being of the wreckage
cannot overcome their ideological fantasy of becoming as Pope Francis looks to his “brighter horizon of the utopian future… for progress in
building a people.”
The truth is just the opposite,
‘Space is Greater than Time.’ God revealed His name to Moses, “I AM.” Jesus
applied this name to Himself. God is perfect BEING; He is perfect ACT:
“Every best gift, and every perfect gift, is from above, coming down from the
Father of lights, with whom there is no change, nor shadow of alteration”
(James 1:17). Ultimately time will end in a changeless
eternity where the faithful will be with God in a space prepared by Him
for each one of us. “In my Father's house there are many mansions. If
not, I would have told you: because I go to prepare a place for you. And
if I shall go, and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and will
take you to myself; that where I am, you also may be” (John 14:2-3).
Andrea Grillo gives
as a reason for the suppression of the Latin Mass granted to the Indult crowd:
·
it seems to ignore, precisely on the dogmatic level, a
grave conflict between the lex orandi and the lex credendi,
since it is inevitable that a dual, conflictual ritual form will lead to a
significant division in the faith;
He to believes with Francis that TGTS. Latin Mass Catholics are stuck
in space while the Catholic Church is
moving in time to a new “dogmatic level” that will inevitably “lead to a significant
division in the faith.”
The two rites he says represent a “grave conflict between the lex orandi and the lex credenda.” Are we to congratulate Grillo
for this insight?Cardinal Alfredo Ottaviani, Prefect of the Congregation for
the Doctrine for the Faith with
his Interventionin in 1969 said the same thing! This is a truth
that faithful Catholics have known for more than 50 years! Yet Indultists
publicly deny this truth professing that both the Novus Ordo and the
traditional Latin rite express an identity of “lex orandi /lex credendi.” This is the price they have
paid for their Indult; a mind that turns its back on the first principle of the
understanding cannot even be called a “mind”!
Ss. Peter & Paul Roman
Catholic Mission’s purpose is to make a public profession of the Catholic faith
before our local ordinary and Rome. Foundational to this purpose is that DOGMA
IS divine revelation infallibly defined by the Magisterium of the Church, which
is irreformable both in its truth (form) and its terminology employed (matter),
IS the “formal object of divine and Catholic faith” and constitutes the
proximate rule of faith for all the faithful. Furthermore, our immemorial
ecclesiastical traditions are necessary attributes of the faith by which alone
the faith can be known and communicated to others. Since God has imposed a duty
upon His faithful to profess their faith and worship Him in the public forum,
every Catholic possesses the inalienable right to our immemorial traditions by
which alone these duties can be fulfilled. Those who have accepted the Latin
Mass by virtue of Indult and/or grant of legal privilege want a
non-confrontational modus vivendi
with Modernist heretics. This has never worked in the past and it will not work
now. Being neither ‘cold nor hot’, they please no one and will soon learn that
having traded their birth right for bowl of pottage there is nothing left to
eat.
Neo-Modernism
Postulates the grave error that there exists a disjunction between DOGMA and
the Words used to formulate the dogmatic definition. This error became the
overarching theme of Vatican II!
[…..] In theology some (i.e., Neo-Modernists) want to reduce to a minimum the meaning
of dogmas; and to free dogma itself from terminology long established in the
Church and from philosophical concepts held by Catholic teachers, to
bring about a return in the explanation of Catholic doctrine to the way of
speaking used in Holy Scripture and by the Fathers of the Church. They cherish
the hope that when dogma is stripped of the elements which they hold to be
extrinsic to divine revelation, it will compare advantageously with the
dogmatic opinions of those who are separated from the unity of the Church and
that in this way they will gradually arrive at a mutual assimilation of
Catholic dogma with the tenets of the dissidents.
Moreover, they assert that when Catholic doctrine has been reduced to
this condition, a way will be found to satisfy modern needs, that will permit
of dogma being expressed also by the concepts of modern philosophy, whether of
immanentism or idealism or existentialism or any other system. Some more
audacious affirm that his can and must be done, because they hold that the
mysteries of faith are never expressed by truly adequate concepts but only by
approximate and ever changeable notions, in which the truth is to some extent
expressed, but is necessarily distorted. Wherefore they do not consider it
absurd, but altogether necessary, that theology should substitute new concepts
in place of the old ones in keeping with the various philosophies which in the
course of time it uses as its instruments, so that it should give human
expression to divine truths in various ways which are even somewhat opposed,
but still equivalent, as they say. They add that the history of dogmas consists
in the reporting of the various forms in which revealed truth has been clothed,
forms that have succeeded one another in accordance with the different
teachings and opinions that have arisen over the course of the centuries.
It is evident from what We have already said, that such tentatives not
only lead to what they call dogmatic relativism, but that they actually contain
it. The contempt of doctrine commonly taught and of the terms in which it is
expressed strongly favor it. […..]
Pope Pius XII, Humani Generis
Sin of Envy
From a nomadic jungle tribe, to a Catholic Civilization, to a nomadic jungle tribe!
Those who gave promise of no
particular aptitude in any special direction became agriculturists, and were
sent out to labour in the fields. Those who bade fair to become expert
craftsmen were apprenticed to a suitable trade.
The range of these was sufficiently
wide to give scope to an ingenuity considerably greater than that of the
Guarani, notable enough though this proved itself. According to a contemporary
Jesuit writer: “There are everywhere workshops for gilding, painters, and
sculptors; gold, silver, and other smiths; clockmakers, carpenters, joiners,
weavers, and founders — in a word, for all the arts and trades that can be
useful to them.” In their dealings with the Indians the missionaries realized
the value of the specialist, and it was undoubtedly due to this fact and to the
early training accorded to their converts that such meritorious results were
obtained. [……]
It became evident…. that they (Guaranis)
possessed the power of imitation to an extraordinary degree. On this the
Jesuits worked with a fervour that afforded really brilliant results.
In the course of time each town became
possessed not only of its skilled craftsmen, but of a certain number of artists
and sculptors as well. It is remarkable to think that the decorations,
pictures, and sculpture in all the churches and in every place throughout the
settlements were the work of the Indians alone. No object, apparently, was too
elaborate in design for them to imitate with the utmost success. The most
decorative candlestick, the costliest piece of furniture, or the finest morsels
of carving — all these were faithfully reproduced by the ingenious converts.
Their claim to distinction as builders is
sufficiently proved by the fact that all the churches themselves in the land of
the missions were the work of their hands. They were no crude and makeshift
buildings these. Bias Garay (an extreme critic of the Jesuits) protests that
they were the largest and most beautiful in South America, and that their
ornaments rivalled those of Madrid and Toledo — a bold statement that is not so
very wide of the mark, as the crumbling ruins in the midst of the forests will
testify to to-day. [……..]
Behind such fabrications the real
position was simple enough. Working with most unpromising material, and almost
certainly with no motives beyond those of conversion and civilization of the
native races, the Jesuit missions in Paraguay had, while making men of the
Guarani Indians, established a semi-communism which left the practical,
fortune-hunting colonist altogether out of the reckoning. It is true that this
went far to deprive the latter of unlimited free labour, and came perilously
near reducing him to working for a living. Beyond the influence of the Jesuit
Reductions, his fellow-colonists had slaves in plenty — subject, of course, to
the plastic regulations framed in Spain for the welfare of the natives — and
the settler who found himself placed at a disadvantage in this manner sought,
in the expulsion of the hated Order, his only means of redress. It took two
hundred years to bring about this redress, but in June 1767 the order was sent
to Don Francisco de Paula Bucareli y Ursua, Governor of Buenos Aires, to
accomplish the expulsion of the Jesuits from Paraguay. [………]
From the departure of
Cardenas up to 1767, the mission work went on, though always the Jesuits were
hated by the Spanish colonists for refusing to lend themselves to the
enslavement of the Indians, and suspected of concealing rich mines for their
own advantage, though independent search had proved the baselessness of this
suspicion. At last the decree for the expulsion of the Jesuits from Spain and
all her colonies was signed, and in June 1767, Bucareli, Governor of Buenos
Aires, received an order to put the decree in force in Paraguay. In July of
that year he deported all the Jesuit priests of Corrientes, Cordoba, Santa Fe
and Monte Video, and then he set about removing the missionaries of Paraguay.
Fearing resistance, and
knowing what a strong hold the Jesuits had on their Guarani converts — who
numbered at that time over a hundred and fifty thousand, Bucareli prepared and
armed a military expedition, with which he embarked for Paraguay on 24th May
1768. At Salto on the Uruguay he disembarked and divided his forces into three
bands, setting out as to a conquest.
The Jesuits, however,
made no resistance, but delivered up their keys and authority and suffered to
be bound like sheep. Seventy-eight mission leaders went prisoners to Buenos
Aires, and thence to Spain. Their places were filled by Franciscan and
Dominican priests, who had had little or no experience of mission work.
Bucareli framed laws for
the maintenance of the missions on the lines followed by their original
founders, but with the passing of the Jesuits passed the spirit that had made
for success. Corruption and selfish ends on the part of these new masters
alienated the confidence of the Guaranis, who seceded from the Reductions at
such a rate that in thirty years from the expulsion of the Jesuits the missions
had fallen into decay, and the work was at an end.
W. H. Koebel, In Jesuit Land, The Jesuit Missions in Paraguay
The Church that knows how to celebrate Easter is synodal
Vatican Insider | Paolo
Scarafoni and Filomena Rizzo | 4-20-21
“It is a matter of putting Jesus Christ at
the centre of community life and of living a new Pentecost. The paradigm
remains the Second Vatican Council: once it began, at the moment of real sharing, precisely on the
subject of the «liturgical celebration», it was no longer possible to harness
the Holy Spirit and keep him under the control of a few, and so the novelty
could enter the world.”
COMMENT: The blasphemy never
ends. These Modernist heretics have the effrontery to say that before Vatican
II, that Holy Spirit was “harnessed” and “kept under control” to prevent Him
from inflicting His liturgical “novelty” on the Church. The “received and
approved” Roman rite of Mass is the object of Dogma. It is therefore the work
of the Holy Ghost as all true worship of God is and always has been from the
beginning to this day. For these heretics, the countless saints, martyrs and
confessors that fill the history of the Church never “put Jesus Christ at the
centre of community life and the living a new Pentecost.” The Novus Ordo Church
knows nothing about the celebration of Easter because they know nothing about a
penitential exercise of Lent. They want the joy of the Resurrection without the
contradiction of the Cross and Passion of Jesus Christ. That is the “novelty”
they pursue. It is the same that the Pharisees wanted: “Let Christ the king of
Israel come down now from the cross, that we may see and believe” (Mark 15:32).
These constitute the “many” who will one day hear our Lord say: “Not every one
that saith to me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven: but he
that doth the will of my Father who is in heaven, he shall enter into the
kingdom of heaven. Many will say to me in that day: Lord, Lord, have not we
prophesied in thy name, and cast out devils in thy name, and done many miracles
in thy name? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from
me, you that work iniquity” (Matt 7:21-23). They have betrayed the Faith and
yet promise themselves heaven as if it were possible that the Truth of Christ
could be immaterial to His friendship. Jesus Christ said that there is a sin
that will not be forgiven in this world or the next: the sin against the Holy
Ghost. Why? It may very well be because the “many” believe they possess the
grace of God and therefore cannot repent of a sin they are blind to. Pray God
to deliver us sins of ignorance.
Usury: Making
fertile what is by nature sterile!
Antonio: Or is
your gold and silver ewes and rams?
Shylock: I
cannot tell. I make it breed as fast.
Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
Hermeneutics of Continuity/Discontinuity
Martin Luther:
“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
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.
“The liturgical reform has made a giant step
forward and we have drawn quite close to the liturgical forms of the Lutheran
Church.” Fr. Annibale Bugnini, L’Osservatore
Romano, October 13, 1967
The Novus Ordo has destroyed the faith in
countless Catholics over the last 50+ years. No Catholic is obliged to attend a
service that damages his faith!
Catechism of
St. Pius X teaches (No. 217), anyone
who “without a real impediment” fails to hear Mass on days of
obligation commits a mortal sin; otherwise, “any moderately grave reason
suffices to excuse one from assistance at Holy Mass, such as considerable
hardship or corporal or spiritual harm either to oneself or another.”
Fr. Heribert
Jone, Moral Theology, No. 198
How did Pope Francis become a heretic? The Novus
Ordo Mass and its Lutheran “mode of liturgy”?
“There was corruption and worldliness in the (Catholic) Church; there
was attachment to money and power. That was the basis of his (Marin Luther’s) protest.
He was also intelligent, and he went ahead, justifying his reasons for it. Nowadays, Lutherans and
Catholics, and all Protestants, are in agreement on the doctrine of
justification: on this very important point he was not mistaken. He
offered a ‘remedy’ for the Church, and then this remedy rigidified in a state
of affairs, a discipline, a way of believing, a way of acting, a mode of
liturgy.”
Pope Francis the Lutheran, 2017, commenting on the Joint Declaration on
the Doctrine of Justification by the Lutheran World Federation and the Catholic
Church (signed October 31, 1999). Once the “mode of liturgy” was changed to the
Novus Ordo, the heretical Protestant doctrine of Justification by “faith alone”
followed.
Ecumenism
with Lutherans requires abandoning both Reason and Free Will which helps
explain why Modernists are both stupid and reckless!
“Reason is a
whore, the greatest enemy that faith has; it never comes to the aid of
spiritual things, but more frequently than not struggles against the divine
Word, treating with contempt all that emanates from God.” Martin Luther
“This error of
free will is a special doctrine of the antichrist.” Martin Luther
“Of all divine
things, the most godlike is to co-operate with God in the conversion of sinners.”
St. Denis the
Areopagite
Even
with a bad knee, Pope Francis cannot resist kicking Catholics faithful to
Tradition!
Pope decries
divisions caused by old-school liturgy fans
PICTURE: Pope Francis speaks at an audience with nuns and religious superiors
in the Paul VI Hall at The Vatican, Thursday, May 5, 2022. Francis, 85, was
wheeled to the audience after he has been suffering from strained ligaments in
his right knee for several months. He revealed he recently received some
injections to try to relieve the pain. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)
ROME
(AP) - May 5, 2022 - By FRANCES D'EMILIO
— Pope Francis on Saturday blasted Catholics who, hewing to old-school
versions of liturgy like the Latin Mass, have made an ideological battleground of
the issue, decrying what he described as devil-inspired divisiveness in the
church.
Francis pressed his papacy’s battle against traditionalists, whose
prominent members include some ultra-conservative cardinals. They have resisted
restrictions, imposed last year by the Vatican, on celebrations of the old Mass
in Latin in St. Peter’s Basilica and, more generally, for years have disparaged
the modernizing reforms of the Second Vatican Council in the 1960s.
Speaking at the Vatican to instructors and students of the Pontifical
Liturgical Institute, Francis said, “I emphasize again that the liturgical
life, and the study of it, should lead to greater Church unity, not division.
When the liturgical life is a bit like a banner of division, there is the
stench of the devil in there, the deceiver. It’s not possible to worship God
while making the liturgy a battleground for issues that are nonessential questions, indeed, outdated issues, and to
take sides starting with the liturgy, with ideologies that divine the Church.”
Francis has made clear he prefers Mass celebrated in local languages,
with the priest facing the congregation instead of with his back to the pews.
That was the way Mass was celebrated before the revolutionary Vatican Council
reforms, more than a half century-ago, which aimed at making rank-and-file
Catholics feel more connected to liturgical celebrations.
COMMENT: Once again we find
Pope Francis the Deceived landing not far from the truth but again missing it
all together. Pope Francis/Bergoglio always sees things in light of an
“ideology” because he himself is an ideologue. The Faith is not an ideology but
a revealed truth and theological virtue from God. Pope Francis/Bergoglio views
the faith through an ideology drawn from modern philosophy that is not only
dated but boring. If he were not the pope his opinions would be shared by no
one. The “battleground” causing “divisiveness in the church” is caused by those
with a modernist ideology who have attempted to overthrow the immemorial
ecclesiastical traditions, especially the “received and approved” Roman rite of
the Mass because these traditions are effective signs of the faith they hate.
They are the neo-iconoclasts and the immemorial images are anathema to
them. It is indeed ‘devil inspired” but
it is Francis/Bergoglio doing the bidding of the devil. Francis/Bergoglio is
dead on when he says, “It’s
not possible to worship God while using the liturgy as a ‘battleground’”
for the Novus Ordo does not worship God and it is the worship of God that he wants
destroyed. The Novus Ordo is a man-made liturgy directed to the worship of man.
It is the offering of Cain, the “fruit of the earth and the work of human hands.”
Francis/Bergoglio is lying when he says that this battle is over things that
are “nonessential
questions.” If they were “nonessential” he would be indifferent to the
matter because every Catholic is free to do as he pleases in “nonessentials.”
It is most “essential” to him because he knows that in destroying the images of
our faith he will destroy the very means by which it can be known and
communicated to others. By destroying the “received and approved” rite of Mass
he is destroying the very means by which God communicates His grace.
Liturgical rites that are “received and approved”, although different,
do not lead to “division” but have unity in their expression of the same faith.
The Council of Florence mandated that every priest must celebrate the Mass
according to the custom of his rite. The Council of Trent dogmatized the
“received and approved” rites and forbade any pastor in the Churches whomsoever
to introduce new rites. This dogma was included in the Tridentine Profession of
Faith. The Novus Ordo ideologues rejected the “received and approved” rite
because they rejected the faith. They introduced a man-made liturgical
fabrication that expresses a different faith and worships a different god. Even
for Pope Francis the Deceiver this question is most “essential” and is not
“outdated.”
The Church is one in faith and worship. Francis/Bergoglio does not
possess the faith “without which it is impossible to please God” and his
worship is an abomination for which he will soon have to answer.
“...the Novus Ordo Missae—considering
the new elements susceptible to widely different interpretations which are
implied or taken for granted—represents, both as a whole and in its details, a
striking departure from the Catholic theology of the Mass as it was formulated
in Session XXII of the Council of Trent. The ‘canons’ (i.e.: dogmas) of the
rite definitively fixed at that time erected an insurmountable barrier against
any heresy which might attack the integrity of the Mystery.” Cardinals
Ottaviani and Bacci, A Brief Critical Study of the Novus Ordo Mass (The Ottaviani Intervention), written
after seeing the ‘reverent’ version of the Novus Ordo in Latin celebrated at
the Sistine Chapel
SSPX
and the Evolution of Catholic Dogma: CCC goes from ‘NOT engraved in stone’
to ‘engraved in stone’ in 28 years! Is the SSPX ‘maturing’ or growing
senile?
“The Catechism of the Catholic Church is
a non-Catholic catechism.”
SSPX position,
1994
“Cardinal
Reinhard Marx declared in an interview published on March 31, 2022 in the
newspaper Stern, that The Catechism of the Catholic Church ‘is
not engraved in stone’ and that, consequently, ‘one can doubt what it says.’ In
itself, this proposition is aberrant….
The catechism is nothing other than the teaching of the Church, dogmatic
and moral, made available to the faithful.”
SSPX position
2022
Catholics
Faithful to Immemorial Traditions
Divine Providence often allows, owing to seditions or disturbances
stirred up by carnal men, even good men to be driven out from the assembly of
Christians. When for the peace of the Church such men endure this insult and
injustice with all patience, and do not give their support to any novelty of
heresy or schism, they furnish a lesson to mankind of the true affection and
sincere charity with which God should be served. The aim of such men is either
to resume their voyage when the waves have grown calmer, or if that is
impossible, either because the same storm continues, or because the like or
some worse would be roused if they ventured to return, they keep at least the
will to help those to whose
turbulent clamour they have yielded, defending unto death and helping
by their witness, without forming factious groups, that faith which they know
to be found in the bosom of the Catholic Church. These the Father seeth in
secret, and in secret rewards. This kind of man seems rare, but examples are
not wanting; indeed, there are more than may well be credited.
St. Augustine, (De vera relig. 6, 11. P.L., xxxiv, 128)
Remember in your charity:
Remember the welfare of our expectant mothers:
Anastasia Matthews, Vanessa LoStracco,
John
Zavodny, the
grace of a holy death is the petition of Phyllis Virgil,
For Sr.
Maria Junipera, who took her final vows as a nun with the Slaves of the
Immaculate Heart of Mary in Richmond, New Hampshire April 8,
Stephen
Bryan,
the brother of a devout Catholic religious, for his spiritual welfare,
Marie
Kolinsky,
for her health and spiritual welfare is the petition of her family,
Gene Peters requests our prayers for the
conversion of Shirley Young
and Carl Loy who are dying,
Rev. Leo Carley, an eighty-nine year old
priest faithful to Catholic tradition, who is seriously ill,
For the recovery of Hayden Yanchek, the grandson of Francis Yanchek, injured in
a farming accident,
Maureen
Nies, for
the recovery of her health is the petition of Camilla Meiser,
Daniel
Vargs, for
his health is the petition of his parents,
Art Noel, for the restoration of his
health,
For the welfare of Peg Berry and her husband, Bill,
Marianne Connelly asks prayers for Chris Foley, who is gravely ill, and the welfare of his wife, Mary Beth,
The spiritual welfare of the Sal & Maria Messineo & their
family is the petition of the Drew’s,
Liz Agosta, who is seriously ill, for her
spiritual and temporal welfare,
Warren
Hoffman, a
long time member of our Mission who is in failing health,
Patrick
Boyle,
for the recovery of his health and his spiritual welfare,
For the spiritual welfare of the Drew children,
Lamonte
White,
requests our prayers for his spiritual and temporal welfare,
Monica Bandlow request our prayers for the
welfare of Ray who is
recovering from a MVA, and his daughter, Sonya,
and Tera Jean Kopczynski, who
is in failing health, and for a good death for Mr. Howald, Kathy
Simons, Regina Quinn, James Mulgrew, Ruth Beaucheane, John Kopczynski, Roger
& Mandy Owen
The health and spiritual welfare of Nate Schaeffer is the petition
of Gene Peters,
Peg Berry requests our prayers for her
brother, William Habekost,
Louise
McCarthy, who
has suffered a stroke,
For the health and welfare of
Katherine Wedel,
For the recently widowed, Maike Hickson, and her children,
For the spiritual welfare of
the Carmelite nuns in Fairfield, PA,
Geralyn Zagorski,
recovery of her health and spiritual welfare and the conversion of Randal
Pace is the petition of Philip Thees,
For
the grandson of Joe & Liz Agusta,
The
health of Joseph Cox,
Fr.
Waters requests our prayers for the health and spiritual welfare of Elvira
Donaghy,
For
the health and conversion of Stephen Henderson,
Fr.
Paul DaDamio requests our prayers for the welfare of Rob Ward,
and his sister, Debra Wagaman,
For
the health and spiritual welfare of Peggy Cummings, the neice of
Camila Meiser, who is gravely ill,
Kaitlyn McDonald, for the recovery of her
health and spiritual welfare,
Roco Sbardella, for his health and spiritual welfare,
Mufide Rende requests our
prayers for the spiritual and physical welfare of the Rende Family,
The Vargas’ request our
prayers for the spiritual welfare of their son, Nicholas,
Family, for the welfare of Lazarus Handley, his mother, Julia, and his brother, Raphael,
with Down’s Syndrome,
Fr. Waters requests prayers
for the spiritual and physical welfare of Frank
McKee,
Nancy Bennett, for the recovery of her
health,
For the spiritual welfare of Mark Roberts, a Catholic
faithful to tradition,
Joe Sentmanet request prayers
for Scott Nettles (who is in
need of conversion), who is gravely ill,
Michael Brigg requests our
prayers for the health of John Romeo,
The health and welfare of Gene Peters,
Conversion of Anton Schwartzmueller, is the paryer
request of his children,
Stacy Fernandez requests are
prayers for the heath of Terry
Patterson, Steven Becerra, and Roberto Valez,
Christine Kozin, for her health and spiritual
welfare,
Teresa Gonyea, for her conversion and health, is the
petition of her grandmother, Patricia McLaughlin,
Nolan Moran, a three year old diagnosed with brain tumor,
and his family,
For the health of Sonya Kolinsky,
Jackie Dougherty asks our
prayers for her brother who is gravely ill, John Lee,
Rose Bradley asks our prayers
for the health and spiritual welfare of her granddaughter, Meg Bradley,
Timothy & Crisara, a couple from Maryland have
requested our prayers for their spiritual welfare,
Celine Pilegaard, the seven year old daughter of
Cynthia Pilegaard, for her recovery from burn injuries,
Rafaela de
Saravia, for
her health and welfare,
Mary Mufide,
requests our prayers for her family,
Abbe Damien
Dutertre,
traditional Catholic priest arrested by Montreal police while offering Mass,
Francis
(Frank) X. McLaughlin, for the recovery of his
health,
Nicholas
Pell,
for his health and spiritual welfare is the petition of Camilla Meizer,
Mary Kaye
Petr,
her health and welfare is petitioned by Camilla Meizer,
The welfare of Excellency Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò,
The welfare of Rev. Fr. Martin Skierka, who
produces the traditional Ordo in the U.S.,
For the health and welfare of
Katie Wess, John Gentry, Vincent
Bands, Todd Chairs, Susan Healy and James O’Gentry is the petition of
Camilia,
Marieann Reuter, recovery of her health, Kathy Kepner, for her health, Shane Cox, for his health,
requests of Philip Thees,
Thomas A. Nelson, long time faithful
traditional Catholic the founder and former owner of TAN Books &
Publishing, suffered a recent stroke,
The Joseph Cox Family, their spiritual welfare,
The Thomas Dube Family, for their conversion and spiritual
welfare,
Luis Rafael Zelaya, the brother of Claudia
Drew, spiritual welfare,
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,
Joann DeMarco, for her health and spiritual
welfare,
Regina (Manidis) Miller, her spiritual welfare and
health,
Melissa Elena Levitt, her 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 spiritual and temporal
welfare of Irwin Kwiat,
Fr. Waters asks our prayers
for Elvira Donaghy,
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 and he family members, living and deceased,
Mary and Bill Glatz, their health and the
welfare of their family,
Barbara Harmon, who is ill, and still cares for her ailing parents,
Jason Green, a father of ten children, recovery of his
health,
For the health and welfare of
Sorace family,
Fr. Waters asks our prayers
for the health and spiritual welfare of Brian
Abramowitz,
Thomas Schiltz family, in grateful appreciation
for their contribution to the beauty of our chapel,
Welfare of Bishop Richard Williamson, for
strength and courage in the greater battles to come,
John Rhoad, for his health and spiritual welfare,
Kathy Boyle, requests our prayers for her welfare,
Joyce Laughman and Robert Twist, for their conversions,
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 Rene McFarland,
Lori Kerr, Cary Shipman and family, David Bash, Crystal and family, Larry
Reinhart, Costanzo Family, Kathy Scullen, Marilyn Bryant, Vicki Trahern and
Time Roe are the petitions of Gene Peters,
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,
For the health and conversion
of Kathryn Lederhos, the aunt
of David Drew,
For the welfare of Fr. Paul DaDamio and Fr. William T.
Welsh,
The Drew’s ask our prayers
for the welfare of Joe & Tracey
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
requested our prayers for the welfare of
his 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,
Philip Thees asks our prayers
for his family, for McLaughlin Family,
the welfare of Dan & Polly Weand,
the conversion of Sophia Herman,
Tony Rosky, the welfare Nancy Erdeck, the wife of
the late Deacon Erdeck, John Calasanctis, Tony Rosky, James Parvenski, Kathleen Gorry, health of mind and body of Cathy Farrar.
Pray for the Repose of the Souls:
Catherine Martel, a lapsed Catholic, received the last
sacraments in a good disposition from Fr. Waters on March 25 and died on April
4,
Father Basilio Méramo, a faithful priest, died March 5,
removed from the SSPX for opposing their accommodation with Rome,
Julia McDonald, the mother of Kyle McDonald, died March 1,
Agnus Melnick, died February 28, a long time faithful Catholic and mother of eight children, including a traditional priest,
Chris Foley, the brother of Mary Lou Loftus, died February 1,
Louis Zelaya, the brother of Claudia Drew, died January 30,
Monica Bandlow asks prayers for Fr. Juan-Carlos Iscara, SSPX, who died December 20,
Monica Bandlow
requests our prayers for Fr. James
Louis Albert Campbell, a faithful priest who died December 18 at 91
years of age,
Charles
Harmon,
the father of Tracey Sentmanet, died October 1, after receiving the rites of
the Church,
Fr. Waters requests prayers for Elvira Donaghy, his friend and
former secretary a for Bishop Gerado Zendejas, died September 9,
Robert
Hickson,
a faithful Catholic apologist who died Septembber 2,
Monica Bandlow requests
prayers for her brother, Richard
Bandlow, died August 22, Fr.
Christopher Darby, SSPX, who
died March 17, Robert Byrne, Michelle
Donofrio McDowell, her cousin, died March 5, and Patricia Fabyanic, the Prefect of Our Lady’s Sodality, March
8, John Kinney, died December
21, Willaim Price, Jr., and Robert
Arch Ward, died January 10, and Myra,
killed in a MVA June 6,
John Sharpe,
Sr.,
died July 20,
Maria
Paulette Salazar, died June 6,
Dale Kinsey requests prayers for his wife, Katherine Kinsey, died May 17,
Richard
Giles,
who died April 29, the father of Traci Sentmanat who converted to the Catholic
faith last All Saints' Day,
Joseph
Sparks,
a devout and faithful Catholic to tradition died February 25,
Joyce Paglia, died January 21, and Anthony Paglia, died January 28,
who were responsible for the beautiful statuary in our chapel,
Joe Sentmanet request prayers
for Richard Giles and Claude Harmon who converted to
the Catholic faith shortly before their deaths,
Rodolfo Zelaya, the brother of Claudia Drew,
died January 9,
Elizabeth Agosta petitions
our prayers for Joseph Napolitano,
her brother, who died January 2,
Michael Dulisse,
died on December 26,
Michael
Proctor, a close friend of the Drews,
died November 9,
Richard
Anthony Giles, the father-in-law of Joe Sentmanat converted to the Catholic faith on
All Saints Day, died November 5,
Robert
Kolinsky,
the husband of Sonja, died September 18,
Gabriel
Schiltz,
the daughter of Thomas & Gay Schiltz, died August 21,
Mary Dimmel, the
mother –in-law of Victoria Drew Dimmel, died July 18,
Michael
Nesbit,
the brother-in-law and dear friend of the Drew's, died July 14,
Thomas Thees, the brother of Philip, died
June 19,
Carmen Ragonese,
died June 22,
Juanita Mohler, a friend of Camella Meiser,
died June 14,
Kathleen Elias, died February 14,
Hernan Ortiz, the brother of Fr. Juan
Carlos Ortiz, died February 3,
Mary Ann Boyle, the mother of a second order Dominican nun, a
first order Dominican priest, and a SSPX priest, died January 24,
John DeMarco, who attended this Mission in
the past, died January23,
Charles O’Brien, the father of Marlene Cox,
died December 30,
Mufide Rende requests our
prayers for the repose of the souls of her parents, Mehmet & Nedime,
Kathleen Donelly, died December 29 at 91
years of age, ran the CorMariae website,
Matthew O'Hare, most faithful Catholic, died at age 40 on
November 30,
Rev. Patrick J. Perez, a
Catholic priest faithful to tradition, pastor Our Lady Help of Christians,
Garden Grove, CA, November 19,
Elizabeth Benedek, died December 14, requested
by her niece, Agnes Vollkommer,
Dolores Smith and Richard Costello, faithful
Catholics, died November,
Frank D’Agustino, a friend of Philp Thees,
died November 8,
Fr. Dominique Bourmaud, of
the SSPX, Prior of St. Vincent in Kansas City, died September 4,
Pablo Daniel Silva, the brother of Elizabeth
Vargas, died August 18,
Rose Bradley, a member of Ss. Peter &
Paul, died July 14,
Patricia Ellias, died June 1, recently
returned to the Church died with the sacraments and wearing the brown scapular,
Joan Devlin, the sister-in-law of Rose Bradley, died May
18,
William Muligan, died April 29, two days after
receiving the last sacraments,
Robert Petti, died March 19, the day after
receiving the last sacraments,
Mark McDonald, the father of Kyle, who died
December 26,
Perla Otero, died December 2020, Leyla Otero, January 2021, cousins of Claudia Drew,
Mehmet Rende, died December 12, who was the
father of Mary Mufide,
Joseph Gravish, died November 26, 100 year
old WWII veteran and daily communicant,
Jerome McAdams, the father of, died November 30,
Rev. James O’Hara, died November 8, requested by
Alex Estrada,
Elizabeth Batko, the sacristan at St. John the
Baptist in Pottstown for over 40 years, died on First Saturday November 7
wearing the brown scapular,
Fr. Anthony Cekada, a traditional Catholic
priest, died September 11,
William Cox, the father of Joseph Cox, who
died September 3,
James Larson, Catholic apologists, author
of War Against Being publication,
died July 6, 2020,
Hutton Gibson, died May 12,
Sr. Regina Cordis, Immaculate Heart of Mary
religious for sixty-five years, died May 12,
Leslie Joan Matatics, devoted
Catholic wife and mother of nine children, died March 24,
Victoria Zelaya, the sister-in-law of Claudia
Drew, died March 20,
Ricardo DeSilva, died November 16, our
prayers requested by his brother, Henry DeSilva,
Roland H. Allard, a friend of the Drew’s, died
September 28,
Stephen Cagorski and John Bogda, who both died wearing the brown scapular,
Cecilia LeBow, a most faithful Catholic,
Rose Cuono, died Oct 23,
Patrick Rowen, died March 25, and his brother, Daniel Rowen, died May 15,
Sandra Peters, the wife of Gene Peters, who died June 10
receiving the sacraments and wearing our Lady’s scapular,
Rev. Francis Slupski, a priest who kept the
Catholic faith and its immemorial traditions, died May 14,
Martha Mochan, the sister of Philip Thees, died April 8,
George Kirsch, our good friend and supporter of this
Mission, died February 15,
For Fr. Paul J. Theisz, died October 17, is the petition of Fr.
Waters,
Fr. Mecurio Fregapane, died Jan 12, 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,
John Vennari, the former editor of Catholic Family News,
and for his family’s welfare, April 4,
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,
Paula P. Haigh, died October 22, a great defender of our
Catholic faith in philosophy and natural science,
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,
Msgr. Donald Adams, who offered the Indult Mass,
died April 1996,
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,
Stanley Spahalski, who died October 20, and his
wife, Regina Spahalski, 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 6,
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. Michael Shear, a Byzantine rite Catholic
priest, died August 17, 2006,
Fr. James Francis Wathen, 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, and Kathleen
Heinbach,
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 Sonja Kolinsky
Bishops Senior of Harrisburg and Lori of Baltimore using
same playbook!
Traditionis
Custodes went into immediate effect in July 2021 and could have resulted in
the immediate cessation of Mass according to the Missal of 1962. For the
pastoral good of the faithful, the Holy See in its wisdom granted an indult to
allow St. Mary's to temporarily continue Mass according to the Missal of 1962
during a period of transition. The purpose of the indult was to
allow those who had become accustomed to Mass according to the Missal of 1962
to receive catechesis and formation so they would come to welcome and embrace
the Novus Ordo.
As the transition period will soon be
coming to a close, it is now important to share what will take place after the
indult expires in August. After much careful and prayerful consideration, I
have discerned that for the pastoral good of all the faithful in the
Archdiocese of Baltimore, the celebration of the liturgical rites and pastoral
care according to the Missal of 1962 within the Archdiocese of Baltimore on or
after August 1, 2024 will be entrusted solely to the Priestly Fraternity of St.
Peter (FSSP) at the National Shrine of St. Alphonsus Liguori in Baltimore.
[....] Most Reverend William E. Lori, Archbishop of Baltimore, 3-13-2004
COMMENT: Like
the Diocese of Harrisburg, the Archdiocese of Baltimore under Archbishop Lori
has restricted the use of the Indult 1962 Bugnini transitional Missal to the
single location. As long as Ss. Peter & Paul Roman Catholic Mission is in
York, PA there will be an Indult offered in Harrisburg and Baltimore. If we
were not here, they would not be there. It is however refreshing to hear +Lori
admit that the purpose of the Indult is to provide remedial educational
transition for recalcitrant traditional Catholics into the Novus Ordo. This is
why to FSSP never, ever criticizes the heretical and immoral slag that flows
from the Vatican.
“Only take heed to yourself and guard your soul diligently.” Deut 4:9
"It is
a sin to believe there is salvation outside the Catholic Church!"
Blessed
Pope Pius IX
OLDER BULLETIN POSTINGS THAT REMAIN TIMELY CONTINIUE BELOW:
Modernism
and Neo-Modernism, built upon linguistic Deconstructionism which denies the
intentionality of language, “fabricates a fictitious reality.” The Novus Ordo Church can only offer just
another “pseudo-reality” to modern man and not the Absolute Truth of God's
revelation. The worst thing of all is
that most Novus Ordo Catholics are “satisfied with a fictitious reality created
by design through the abuse of language.” No wonder Pope Francis hates the
“Absolute Truth” and declared it to be “idolatrous” and “godless”!
Plato's literary activity
extended over fifty years, and time and again he asked himself anew: What is it
that makes the sophists so dangerous?
Toward the end he wrote one more dialogue, the Sophist, in which he added a new element to his answer: “The
sophists,” he says, “fabricate a fictitious reality.” That the existential realm of man could be
taken over by pseudo-realities whose fictitious nature threatens to become
indiscernible is truly a depressing thought.
And yet this Platonic nightmare, I hold, possesses an alarming
contemporary relevance. For the general
public is being reduced to a state where people not only are unable to find out
about the truth but also become unable even to search for the truth because they are satisfied with deception and
trickery that have determined their convictions, satisfied with a fictitious
reality created by design through the abuse of language. This, says Plato, is the worst thing that the
sophists are capable of wreaking upon mankind by their corruption of the
word.
Josef Pieper, Abuse of Language - Abuse of Power
St. Thomas (II-II:11:1) defines heresy: "a species of infidelity in men who, having professed the faith of Christ, corrupt its dogmas". The right Christian faith consists in giving one's voluntary assent to Christ in all that truly belongs to His teaching. There are, therefore, two ways of deviating from Christianity: the one by refusing to believe in Christ Himself, which is the way of infidelity, common to Pagans and Jews; the other by restricting belief to certain points of Christ's doctrine selected and fashioned at pleasure, which is the way of heretics. The subject-matter of both faith and heresy is, therefore, the deposit of the faith, that is, the sum total of truths revealed in Scripture and Tradition as proposed to our belief by the Church.
Catholic Encyclopedia, 1907
“Dearly
beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits if they be of God:
because many false prophets are gone out into the world.” (I John 4:1)
“But let your
speech be yea, yea: no, no: and that which is over and above these, is of
evil.” (Matt 5:37)
The
Spirit of Intended Ambiguity that animated Vatican II
It would be most inconvenient for the articles of our Constitution to
be rejected by the Central Commission or by the Council itself. That is why we
must tread carefully and discreetly. Carefully, so that proposals be …
formulated in such a way that much is said without seeming to say anything:
let many things be said in embryo and in this way let the door remain open to
legitimate and possible postconciliar deductions and applications: let nothing be said that suggests
excessive novelty and might invalidate all the rest.
Archbishop Annibale Bugnini, L’Osservatore Romano, March 19, 1965
Even
Paul VI proclaimed the necessity of PROSELYTISM! He was progressive but
apparently not progressive enough for Francis the Apostate!
“Through this wordless witness
these Christians stir up irresistible questions in the hearts of those who see
how they live: Why are they like this? Why do they live in this way? What or
who is it that inspires them? Why are they in our midst? Such a witness is
already a silent proclamation of the Good News and a very powerful and
effective one. […..] Nevertheless this always remains insufficient, because
even the finest witness will prove ineffective in the long run if it is not
explained, justified – what Peter called always having ‘your answer ready for
people who ask you the reason for the hope that you all have’ – and made
explicit by a clear and unequivocal proclamation of the Lord Jesus. The Good
News proclaimed by the witness of life sooner or later has to be proclaimed by
the word of life. There is no true evangelization if the name, the teaching,
the life, the promises, the kingdom and the mystery of Jesus of Nazareth, the
Son of God, are not proclaimed.”
Pope Paul VI, Evangelii nuntiandi
“I’ve said it many times: proselytism is not Christian. Today I felt a
certain bitterness when a woman approached me with a young man and a young
woman, and said to me: ‘Your Holiness, I am from South Africa. This boy was a
Hindu and converted to Catholicism. This girl was Anglican and converted to
Catholicism.’ She told me in a triumphant way, as though she was showing off a
hunting trophy. I felt uncomfortable and said to her, ‘Madam, evangelization
yes, proselytism no’.”
Pope Francis the Apostate, to Jesuit community in Mozambique, September
2019
COMMENT: In about twenty years we will be celebrating the 500th
anniversary of the beginnings of Jesuit missionary work throughout the world.
These missionaries provided regular detailed journal submissions to their superiors
regarding the work of proselytism which included exactly to whom they preached
the Gospel with their successes and failures in gaining Catholic converts, the
very purpose of their work. Many of these documents are available on line. A
brief review of them is enough to see what a vulgar reprobate they would
consider Francis/Bergoglio. He actively works to obstruct the grace of God in
the work of salvation of souls.
Cardinal
Fernández’s Dignitas Infinita condemns abortion, gender theory but is silent on
homosexuality
In the newly
released text Cardinal Victor Fernández criticizes abortion and the rejection
of gender differentiation as attacks on human dignity, while neglecting to
discuss homosexuality.
LifeSiteNews | Vatican City | Michael Haynes | Mon Apr 8, 2024 — Cardinal Victor Manuel Fernández has
released his long-anticipated document on human dignity, written in line with
Pope Francis’ encyclical Fratelli Tutti and modern teaching on dignity,
which condemns abortion and surrogacy while notably remaining silent on
homosexuality.
Released via press conference April 8 – the transferred feast of the
Annunciation – the new text, Dignitas infinita, aims to highlight a
line from Fratelli Tutti – namely, that “dignity exists ‘beyond all
circumstances.’”
“The Declaration strives to show that this is a universal truth that we
are all called to recognize as a fundamental condition for our societies to be
truly just, peaceful, healthy, and authentically human,” wrote Fernández,
prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith (DDF) and from whose
office the document emerged.
As summarized by Andrea Tornielli (editorial manager for the Vatican’s
Dicastery for Communication) the document aims to address issues outside of the
bioethical sphere:
The new text thus contributes to overcoming the dichotomy that exists
between those who focus exclusively on defending nascent or dying life while
forgetting so many other attacks against human dignity and, conversely, those
who focus only on defending the poor and migrants while forgetting that life
must be defended from conception to its natural conclusion.
Summarizing his lengthy text, Fernández wrote that “the Church, with
the present Declaration, ardently urges that respect for the dignity of the
human person beyond all circumstances be placed at the center of the commitment
to the common good and at the center of every legal system.”
He had earlier decried how a modern misconception of dignity is
“occasionally misused to justify an arbitrary proliferation of new rights, many
of which are at odds with those originally defined and often are set in
opposition to the fundamental right to life.”
While mentioning the Church’s condemnation of abortion and euthanasia,
the text only mentions “sin” on two occasions – both of which occurred in
the same sentence in section 22. The treatment of gender theory was critical,
but only critical, whilst Pope Francis – under whose authority the
document was written – has been much more condemnatory in his remarks.
Key also is the absence of any mention, much less condemnation, of
homosexuality. In a text given to denoting teaching on human dignity, and the
ways in which is is gravely violated, such an omission appears striking.
COMMENT: While it is good to see the condemnations of abortion,
euthanasia, IVF and transgenderism from the Vatican, it is unfortunate that it
is done for the wrong reasons. There is no reference to divine law and only
passing reference to natural law. The grounds for opposition to these
perversions in overwhelmingly argued from human dignity. In this respect this
current document is analogous to Paul VI's condemnation of artificial birth
control in Humanae vitae when Paul VI
based his opposition against artificial contraception upon humanist arguments
rather than arguments grounded upon natural law, divine law, the constant
tradition and previous Magisterial teaching of the Church.
The entire argument of Dignitas
Infinita is, as the title indicated, based upon the “infinite (sic)
dignity” of the human person. This theory of the “infinite dignity” of the
human person is derived from a false modernist philosophy of personalism and
the theology of Vatican II.
He Who is “the image of the invisible God” (Col. 1:15),(21) is Himself
the perfect man. To the sons of Adam He restores the divine likeness which had
been disfigured from the first sin onward. Since human nature as He assumed it
was not annulled, by that very fact it has been raised up to a divine dignity
in our respect too. For by
His incarnation the Son of God has united Himself in some fashion with every
man. Vatican II, Gaudium et spes, Church in the Modern
World
From this presupposition, the document Dignitatis Humanae (On Religious Freedom) was developed which
taught:
A sense of the
dignity of the human person has been impressing itself more and more deeply on
the consciousness of contemporary man, and the demand is increasingly made that
men should act on their own judgment, enjoying and making use of a responsible
freedom, not driven by coercion but motivated by a sense of duty. The
demand is likewise made that constitutional limits should be set to the powers
of government, in order that there may be no encroachment on the rightful
freedom of the person and of associations. This demand for freedom in human
society chiefly regards the quest for the values proper to the human spirit. It regards, in the first place,
the free exercise of religion in society. This Vatican Council takes careful
note of these desires in the minds of men. It proposes to declare them to be
greatly in accord with truth and justice. To this end, it searches into
the sacred tradition and doctrine of the Church-the treasury out of which the
Church continually brings forth new things that are in harmony with the things
that are old. [.....] This
Vatican Council declares that the human person has a right to religious
freedom. Vatican II, Dignitatis
Humanae, Religious freedom
This teaching of Vatican II forms the ground for this current document,
Dignitas Infinita, by the downgraded
Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith. The document references for its
authority Vatican II nine times, JPII nineteen times, Benedict XVI twelve
times, Paul VI six times, Pius XII once, Pius XI once, and Pope Francis an
amazing seventy-five times! It is clearly a Neo-Modernist product developed
from a humanist ideology. Jesus Christ is referenced only eight times and these
references are always ideologically driven, such as, in repeating Gaudium et spes, it says again: “By uniting himself with every
human being through his Incarnation, Jesus Christ confirmed that each person
possesses an immeasurable (sic) dignity simply by belonging to the human
community; moreover, he affirmed that this dignity can never be lost.”
The problem with this Vatican II teaching is that it is not true which
is easily apparent in the used of the words “infinite” and “immeasurable,”
attributes of God and God alone, to describe the dignity of man. In the
Incarnation, the Second Person of the Blessed Trinity DID NOT unite Himself
with all humanity. He united Himself with a single human nature when the Holy
Ghost overshadowed the Immaculate Virgin Mary and she became the Mother of
Jesus Christ, both God and Man. The human flesh of the Man-God became the
material cause of the redemptive grace for all mankind when he suffered and
died on the cross and rose again from the dead on the third day. Through faith
those who believe in His name, received the sacraments of Baptism (born again
of water and the Holy Ghost) and the Holy Eucharist, every individual man can
then become united with Jesus Christ and by this union be raised to the dignity
of being a Son of God by grace. All humanity stand in potentia to this dignity but only those who are members of the
Catholic Church and in the state of grace possess this dignity in actu. This dignity can be lost by
mortal sin and yet by recovered by sacramental penance. Without the dignity of
being a son of God there is no hope whatsoever of salvation. St. Paul makes
this teaching clear in his letter to the Romans that the true dignity of man is
found only in his participation in the glory of God:
·
“For all
have sinned, and do need the glory of God.” Rom. 3:23
·
“By whom
(Jesus Christ) also we have access through faith into this grace, wherein we
stand, and glory in the hope of the glory of the sons of God.” Rom. 5:2
·
“For we
are buried together with him by baptism into death; that as Christ is risen
from the dead by the glory of the Father, so we also may walk in newness of
life.” Rom. 6:4
·
“Because
the creature also itself shall be delivered from the servitude of corruption,
into the liberty of the glory of the children of God.” Rom. 8:21
·
“I have
therefore glory in Christ Jesus towards God.” Rom. 15:17
Vatican II teaches something altogether different. The Neo-modernists
believe that by virtue of the Word becoming flesh, human nature itself was
“infinitely” dignified to the exalted level that no person was anymore
obligated to believe in God's revealed truth, obey His commandments, or worship
God according to his “received and approved” immemorial rites. This is such an
absurd abuse of the first principles of the understanding that it is evident
that it is impossible to reason anyone out of this opinion because it is
impossible that they could have ever reasoned themselves into it in the first
place! All rights are derived from duties is Catholic truth. They have inverted
this claiming that rights determine duties and the duty to worship God, believe
His revelation and keep His commandments cannot impose any obligation on any
creature who possesses the exalted human dignity to do whatever he pleases!
Vladimir Soloviev, the Catholic Russian philosopher and defender of the
Kingship of Jesus Christ, who died in 1900 at the age of 47 in extreme poverty,
said that justice is the practical application of truth. Dignitatis Humanae from Vatican II affirms that aspirations of
modern man to Religious freedom are “greatly in accord with truth and justice.” They are not. If man
possessed a right to worship idols than God would be unjust for punishing
idolaters and the Vatican II teaching on “infinite dignity” is just another
form of idolatry that has led to generalized human degradation. The Vatican II
teaching of human dignity is just one big lie and the practical application of
lies is called injustice. Francis claims that he discovered the moral truth
that none of his predecessors could discover that all capital punishment for
whatever reason is intrinsically evil because of the “infinite dignity” of the
human person. Now a murderer has a greater right to life than the his victim.
Or in the case of abortion, the mother's convenience has a greater standing
that the life of her child. Now Francis might argue against this claim but his
argument has no greater validity than the mother who wants the abortion. After
all, in the conflict of rights between two “infinite dignities” than what is to
stop mightier from being right?
Francis the Solipsist, the longer he lives the more self-referential
his theological productions. Unfortunately for Francis, unless he repents, he
will learn that in hell the only evidence for “infinite... immeasurable human
dignity” that “can never be lost,” will be that the punishment is eternal.
Criminal
Courts now indicting faithful Catholic priests for criticism of Homosexual
pederast clergy!
Catholic priest
in Switzerland faces ‘hate crime’ trial over article criticizing homosexual
clergy
The trial
against Fr. Manfred Hauke for publishing an article by Polish priest, Fr.
Draiusz Oko, critical of predatory, homosexual clergy began on Monday in
Bellinzona, Switzerland.
LifeSiteNews | Andreas Wailzer | April 10, 2024 — Catholic priest and
theology professor Fr. Manfred Hauke has to stand trial at a criminal court in
Switzerland for publishing an article critical of homosexual clergy.
Katholisch.de reports that the trial against Hauke started on Monday at
the criminal court in Bellinzona, Switzerland. The court case was triggered
after the German priest appealed a fine that he received in December 2022.
Hauke, who teaches theology at the University of Lugano, Switzerland,
is accused of violating a ban against “discrimination” and “inciting hatred”
against homosexuals for publishing an article as the publisher of the magazine
Theologisches in 2021.
The article was authored by Polish priest Fr. Draiusz Oko and highlighted cases of abuse by
homosexual priests and bishops and detailed mechanisms used by “homoclans” or a
“homomafia” of predatory clerics to avoid accountability.
Oko described such
groups as “a colony of parasites” that “cares first of all for itself, and not
for the hosts at whose expense it lives” and as a “homosexual plague” or a
“cancer that is even ready to kill its host,” among other things. He stressed
that “the existence of such powerful clans” attested to by both Pope Francis
and Pope Benedict XVI “is an obvious logical, ethical, and dogmatic
contradiction to the very essence of the Church and her teaching.”
In May 2022, Oko and 91-year-old Fr. Johannes Stöhr, the editor
responsible for publishing the article in the journal, were sentenced to fines
of € 3,150 and € 4,000, respectively, by a German court.
Fr. Wolfgang Rothe, a dissident, scandal-plagued priest with the
Archdiocese of Munich, confirmed that he was the one who reported Oko, Stöhr,
and Hauke to German authorities.
Rothe, who is openly homosexual, is one of the most aggressively
outspoken promoters of the LGBT agenda in the Catholic Church in Germany.
In 2004, Rothe was involved in a major Church scandal when he had
to step down as vice-rector of a seminary in St. Pölten, Austria, after child
pornography and photographs depicting homosexual activity involving
seminarians and staff emerged. Photos also showed Rothe kissing a man. The
seminary was eventually shut down by the Vatican’s special investigator, Bishop
Klaus Küng.
DOGMA, the proximate rule of faith for the faithful:
According to Fr. Joseph Fenton, editor of
the American Ecclesiastical Review:
·
Dogmas
are “truths,” not precepts.
·
Dogmas
are “teachings we are obliged to believe with the assent of divine and Catholic
faith.”
·
Dogmas
are defined “truths” which the “apostles of Jesus Christ preached to His
Church.”
·
Dogmas
are “truths” that have been “supernaturally communicated or revealed by God
Himself.”
·
Dogmas
“constitute the central or primary object of the Church’s infallible teaching
activity.”
A dogma is by definition immutable and unchangeable. The denial of any
dogma makes one a heretic by definition.
·
Hence,
also, that understanding of its sacred dogmas must be perpetually retained,
which Holy Mother Church has once declared; and there must never be recession
from that meaning under the specious name of deeper understanding.
Therefore... let the understanding... be solely in its own genus, namely the
same dogma, with the same sense and the same understanding.
Vatican I, Dei Filius
·
Let
nothing of the truths that have been defined ( i.e.: dogmas) be lessened,
nothing altered, nothing added; but let them be preserved intact, in word and
meaning.
Pope Gregory XVI, Mirari Vos
·
[Dogma
must be understood] by the very sense by which it is defined and must be held
to be by itself a sufficient demonstration, very sure and adapter to all the
faithful.
Ven. Pope Pius IX, Inter Gravissimas, 1870
·
If anyone
shall have said that it is possible that to the dogmas declared by the Church a
meaning must sometimes be attributed according to the progress of knowledge,
different from what the Church has understood and understands: let him be
anathema.
Vatican I, Dei Filius
·
[Regarding
dogma] nothing else is to be believed other than the words; and I hold that
this absolute and unchangeable truth, which was preached by the Apostles from
the earliest times, is to be understood in no other way than by the
words.
Oath Against Modernism
“Back then everything was covered up. [Pope John Paul’s decisions must
be] interpreted with the hermeneutics of the respective time.” Pope Francis
Pope Francis’ comment to the Argentinean
newspaper, La Nacion, when asked
about the recent publication of evidence that Pope John Paul II as Archbishop
of Krakow actively covered up for several homosexual predator priests after
they sexually abusing boys and moved them to other assignments where the abuses
continued. The book, Maxima Culpa,
written by Dutch journalist Ekke Overbeek, was researched from Polish archives
for over three years. In the book he documents that he “found concrete cases of
concrete priests in the archdiocese of Krakow,” when the late pope was its
Archbishop from 1964 to 1978 where “The future pope knew of them and yet
transferred these men. That led to new victims.”
COMMENT: This is really not
surprising. There is plenty of evidence that JPII was willing to overlook the
crimes of homosexual pederasts that devastated the Church during his long
pontificate such as his cover-up for the serial rapist Father Marcial Maciel, founder of the
Legionaries of Christ. That only thing new is that he was doing it long before
he became pope which may have been one of the reasons he was elected. The
comment of Pope Francis is disgusting! What can be said about every Catholic
saint is that they are conformers to Jesus Christ crucified and NOT conformers
to the world. Francis thinks otherwise. Vatican II goal was to conform the
Church to the world and that is the chief characteristic of Vatican II popes,
conformity to the world. The comment by Francis portrays JPII as a victim of
historical circumstances, “Back then everything was covered up.” This is proof
that JPII was no saint in the Catholic sense. Francis’ comment does however
open a can of worms: Since “back then everything was covered up,” what else
besides pederasty by homosexual clerics was “covered up”?
Sources of the corruption of Catholic Dogma:
Baptism is Necessary for both justification and salvation!
By which words,
a description of the Justification of the impious is indicated, as being a
translation, from that state wherein man is born a child of the first Adam, to
the state of grace, and of the adoption of the sons of God, through the second
Adam, Jesus Christ, our Saviour. And this translation, since the promulgation
of the Gospel, cannot be effected, without the laver of regeneration, or the
desire thereof, as it is written; unless a man be born again of water and the
Holy Ghost, he cannot enter into the Kingdom of God. [.....]
The instrumental cause (of justification) is the sacrament of baptism, which is the sacrament of faith, without which (faith) no man was ever justified. We must believe that to those justified nothing more is wanting from being considered as having satisfied the divine law by those works which have been done in God according to the state of this life, and as having truly merited eternal life to be obtained in its own time (if they shall have departed this life in grace) [Rev. 14:13] (Denz. 809).
Council of
Trent, Decree on Justification, copied from Vatican source
Comment: Neo-modernist as a rule habitually take Catholic
doctrinal teaching out of context. They even do this with dogma which never
admits to contextualization. Doctrinal examples can be easily provided where
Neo-modernist have taken a single sentence out of a paragraph and given it a
meaning that contradicts the paragraph from which it was taken. In this example
they take a word out of context to imply an overturning of the intentional
meaning of the sentence from which it is taken.
In this quotation from the Council of Trent, the Vatican
publication puts the word "faith" in parenthesis after the pronoun
"which" in the first sentence. Their purpose is to convey the meaning
that no man is justified without faith (which is true) but some men are
justified without baptism (which is NOT true). It is this type of word
manipulation from which Pope Francis embraced the Lutheran heresy of
"justification by faith alone." And since the Council of Trent
teaches that justification is all that is necessary for salvation therefore,
since a man is justified by faith alone, he therefore obtains salvation by
faith alone and consequently they believe that the sacraments are NOT necessary
for salvation!
The Vatican makes the prepositional phrase, "without
which no man was ever justified" modify "faith" as if it has no
other bearing on the rest of the predicate which is grammatical non-sense!
Well, what faith is the sentence talking about? It is talking about the
"sacrament of faith"! And what is the "sacrament of faith"?
The answer is the "sacrament of baptism" without which "no man
was ever justified" modifies as part of the predicate!
And thus, the Council of Trent dogmatically declared:
If
any one saith, that the sacraments of the New Law are not necessary unto
salvation, but superfluous; and that, without them, or without the desire
thereof, men obtain of God, through faith alone, the grace of
justification; though
all (the sacraments) are not indeed necessary for every individual; let him be
anathema.
Council
of Trent, Canon 4
This dogma condemns three propositions: 1) If you say
that the baptism is not necessary for salvation, let him be anathema; 2) If you say that baptism is not necessary for
justification, "OR" 3) If you say that the desire for baptism is not
necessary for justification, let
him be anathema.
Those like Pope Francis who follow Martin Luther's heresy
on justification and salvation claim that in this dogma, the coordinating
conjunction "or" must be taken in an exclusive sense meaning that the
"desire" for baptism makes the sacrament itself unnecessary for
justification as a necessity of means. Luther's heresy of justification by
faith alone is supposedly defended by Catholic dogma! But this interpretation
is impossible!!!
It is true that the coordinating conjunction “or” can
grammatically be used in an exclusive or inclusive sense. It is more often exclusive, but
either way, the sense is always reciprocal. For example, if you
were to win a new car and the dealer says you can have it in red or white, if
you take the white, you cannot have the red. Reciprocally, if you take the red, you cannot have
the white. This is taking the conjunction exclusively.
In the dogma cited, the assumption of the heretics is that the conjunction “or”
is exclusive in that you can have the "desire" without the sacrament
and be justified. Therefore,
if this were correct, the reciprocal would have to occur, that is, the
sacrament without the desire would then end in justification. We know
that this cannot happen. If for example, a Jew while staying a Jew, is baptized
because he wants to escape persecution and has no desire to receive the
sacrament, then the sacrament itself without the desire will not end in
justification because he has rejected the faith. Therefore, the conjunction “or” in this dogma must
necessarily be inclusive and cannot be exclusive because, only in the inclusive
sense is the relationship reciprocal. That means there must be both the
sacrament present and the desire for the sacrament present to end in
justification.
The dogma confirms the teaching of the narrative text
that both the sacrament of baptism and the desire for the sacrament are
necessary for justification, "as it is written; unless a man be
born again of water and the Holy Ghost, he cannot enter into the Kingdom of
God." It confirms that a state of
justification is all that is necessary for salvation. And it confirms that the
sacrament of baptism is necessary for salvation.
DOGMA: "A genuine
message for the First Cause of the universe"
If the teaching
proposed by the Church as dogma is not actually and really the doctrine
supernaturally revealed by God through Jesus Christ Our Lord, [........]then
there could be nothing more pitifully inane than the work of the Catholic Magisterium. [........]
This common basis of the false doctrinal Americanism and of the Modernist
heresy is, like doctrinal indifferentism itself, ultimately a rejection of Catholic
dogma as a genuine supernatural message or communication from the living God
Himself. It would seem impossible for anyone to be blasphemous or silly enough
to be convinced, on the one hand, that the dogmatic message of the Catholic Church
is actually a locutio
Dei ad homines, and to
imagine, on the other hand, that he, a mere creature, could in some way improve
that teaching or make it more respectable. The very fact that a man would be so rash as to attempt
to bring the dogma of the Church up to date, or to make it more acceptable to
those who are not privileged to be members of the true Church, indicates that
this individual is not actually and profoundly convinced that this dogmatic
teaching of the Catholic Church is a supernatural communication from the living
and Triune God, the Lord and Creator of heaven and earth. It would be the
height of blasphemy knowingly to set out to improve or to bring up to date what
one would seriously consider a genuine message from the First Cause of the
universe.
Fr. Joseph C.
Fenton, American Ecclesiastical Review, Sacrorum Antistitum and the Background of the Oath Against Modernism
[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
hard reality is always frowned upon harshly!
·
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 perceptions from which the present “Religious Consciousness” has
evolved.
Hermeneutics of Continunity/Discontinunity
Blessed Virgin Mary, Co-Redemptrix, “The Mother of all
the living”!
Pope Francis theological tripe:
“Being faithful to her Master, who is her
Son, the only Redeemer, she never wanted to take anything for herself from her
Son. She never presented herself as a co-redemptrix…. When they come to us with
the story according to which we should declare this, or that other dogma, let
us not get lost in foolishness.”
Pope Francis, denying the title of the
Blessed Virgin as Co-Redemptrix
Wisdom of Catholic Truth:
·
“Just as
Eve, wife of Adam, yet still a virgin, became by her disobedience the cause of
death for herself and the whole human race, so Mary, too, espoused yet a virgin,
became by her obedience the cause of salvation for herself and the whole human
race.” St. Irenaeus, 2nd century
·
“Death
through Eve, life through Mary.” St.
Jerome, 4th century
·
“Through
the Blessed Virgin Mary, we are redeemed from the tyranny of the devil.” Modestus of Jerusalem, 7th century
·
“Hail
thou, through whom we are redeemed from the curse.” St. John Damascene, 8th century
·
“Through
her (the Blessed Virgin Mary), man was redeemed.” St. Bernard of Clairvaux, 12th century
·
“That
woman (namely Eve), drove us out of Paradise and sold us; but this one (Mary)
brought us back again and bought us.”
St. Bonaventure, 13th century
·
“The
Blessed Virgin merits for us de congruo what Christ merited de condign.” Pope St. Pius X, Ad diem illum
·
“(The
Blessed Virgin Mary) offered Him on Golgotha to the Eternal Father together
with the holocaust of her maternal rights and her motherly love like a new Eve
for all children of Adam.” Pope Pius
XII, Mystici Corporis
COMMENT:
Many date the title of the Blessed Virgin
Mary as Co-Redemptrix to the 16th century. It is actually much older than that
but the theological truth that the title describes is found in Scripture, the
Church Fathers and the constant tradition of the Catholic Church. It may have
become more evident in the 16th century only because the Protestants deny it.
Pope Francis denies the title because he is
a Protestant heretic. He is on public record affirming his belief in Luther’s
heretical doctrine of Justification which denies any incorporation of the
baptized into Jesus Christ with the end to share in His sanctification and
glorification. Catholic truth teaches that every Catholic “who has been
baptized in Christ, has put on Christ” (Gal 3:27). And every Catholic who has
“put on Christ” must then “deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow
(Jesus Christ)” (Matt 16:24) so that he can “fill up those things that are
wanting of the sufferings of Christ, in my flesh, for his body, which is the
church” (Col 1:24). Every baptized Catholic is called upon to be a co-redemtrix
with Jesus Christ and this constitutes the greatest honor for any of the
faithful. Pope Pius XII said:
Because Christ the Head holds such an eminent position, one must not
think that he does not require the help of the Body. What Paul said of the
human organism is to be applied likewise to the mystical Body: “The head cannot
say to the feet: I have no need of you.” It is manifestly clear that the
faithful need the help of the Divine Redeemer, for He has said: “Without me you
can do nothing,” and according to the teaching of the Apostle every advance of
this Mystical Body towards its perfection derives from Christ the Head. Yet
this, also, must be held, marvelous though it may seem: Christ has need of His
members. First, because the person of Jesus Christ is represented by the
Supreme Pontiff, who in turn must call on others to share much of his
solicitude lest he be overwhelmed by the burden of his pastoral office, and
must be helped daily by the prayers of the Church. Moreover as our Savior does
not rule the Church directly in a visible manner, He wills to be helped by the
members of His Body in carrying out the work of redemption. This is not because
He is indigent and weak, but rather because He has so willed it for the greater
glory of His spotless Spouse. Dying on the Cross He left to His Church the
immense treasury of the Redemption, towards which she contributed nothing. But
when those graces come to be distributed, not only does He share this work of
sanctification with His Church, but He wills that in some way it be due to her
action. This is a deep mystery, and an inexhaustible subject of meditation,
that the salvation of many depends on the prayers and voluntary penances which
the members of the Mystical Body of Jesus Christ offer for this intention and
on the cooperation of pastors of souls and of the faithful, especially of
fathers and mothers of families, a cooperation which they must offer to our
Divine Savior as though they were His associates.
Pope Pius XII, Mystici Corporis
“The
salvation of many depends on the prayers and voluntary penances which the
members of the Mystical Body of Jesus Christ offer for this intention.” Those
who will not “take up their cross” and enter into applying this “treasury of
the Redemption” for the salvation of others are not “worthy of Jesus Christ.”
“No, I say to you: but unless you shall do penance, you shall all likewise
perish” (Luke 13:3).
Now if it can be predicated that every one
of the faithful is called upon to be a co-redemptrix, a fortiori, what can be
predicated concerning the Mother of God, the ever Blessed Virgin Mary, the new
Eve, the new Mother of all the Living who are reborn of God to the life of
grace? The Blessed Virgin, our Lady of Sorrows, is the exemplar Co-Redemptrix sine qua non there would no others. It
was her fiat at the Annunciation and
repeated at the foot of the cross that brought Christ from the Father and
offers Him again to the Father as a sacrificial reparation for the salvation of
all.
For Pope Francis our Lady’s title is
“foolishness.” And why? “But the sensual man perceiveth not these things that
are of the Spirit of God; for it is foolishness to him, and he cannot understand, because it is
spiritually examined” ( 1 Cor 2:14).
Cursed by the man who denies the Blessed
Virgin Mary, our Lady of Sorrows, her rightful title conferred upon her by God
as Co-Redemptrix.
"It is
right that these people (homosexual unions) who live the gift of love can have
legal coverage like everyone else." [.....]
"Jesus
often went out to meet people who were living on the margins, and that's what
the Church should do today with people from the LGBTQ+ community, who within
the Church are often marginalized: make them feel at home, especially those who
have received baptism and are for all intents and purposes part of the people
of God. And those who have not received baptism and wish to receive it, or
those who wish to be godparents, please let them be welcomed."
Pope Francis
the Pervert, excerpt from his autobiography published March 19. Released by
Vatican News
O Mary, Mary,
bearer of the fire of love, and dispenser of mercy! Mary, co-redemptrix of the
human race, when you clothed the Word with your flesh, the world was redeemed.
Christ paid its ransom with His Passion, and you paid it with the sorrows of
your body and soul.
St. Catherine
of Siena, Doctor of the Church, Instructed by God Himself
Novus Ordo 'Dogma': Congregation for the Doctrine of the
Faith Gutting Catholic Truth!
"[.....] With all this in mind, it
must be said that the dogmatic formulas of the Magisterium of the Church have
been apt from the beginning to communicate the revealed truth and, as long as
they are maintained, they will always be fit for those who interpret them
correctly. However, it
does not suggest that each of them has been or will remain so to the same
extent. For this reason theologians try to determine exactly what is the
intention to teach really contained in the various formulas, and provide with
this work a remarkable help to the living Magisterium of the Church, to whom
they (the theologians) are subordinate. For this very reason it may also
be that some ancient dogmatic formulas and others related to them remain alive
and fruitful in the habitual use of the Church, provided that new exhibitions
and statements are added in due course and that they preserve and illustrate
their primary meaning. On
the other hand, it has also happened sometime that in this same usual use of
the Church some of these formulas have given way to new expressions that,
proposed or approved by the sacred Magisterium, express their sense clearer and
more fully.
"As for the meaning of dogmatic
formulas, this remains ever true and constant in the Church, even when it is
expressed with greater clarity or more developed. The faithful therefore must
shun the opinion, first, that dogmatic formulas (or some category of them)
cannot signify truth in a determinate way, but can only offer changeable
approximations to it, which to a certain extent distort of alter it; secondly,
that these formulas signify the truth only in an indeterminate way, this truth
being like a goal that is constantly being sought by means of such
approximations. Those who hold such an opinion do not avoid dogmatic relativism
and they corrupt the concept of the Church's infallibility relative to the
truth to be taught or held in a determinate way.
"Such an opinion clearly is in
disagreement with the declarations of the First Vatican Council, which, while
fully aware of the progress of the Church in her knowledge of revealed truth,
nevertheless taught as follows: "That meaning of sacred dogmas...must
always be maintained which Holy Mother Church declared once and for all, nor
should one ever depart from that meaning under the guise of or in the name of a
more advanced understanding." The Council moreover condemned the opinion
that "dogmas once proposed by the Church must, with the progress of
science be given a meaning other than that which was understood by the Church,
or which she understands." There is no doubt that, according to these
texts of the Council, the meaning of dogmas which is declared by the Church is
determinate and unalterable." [.....]
Declaration
in Defense of the Catholic Doctrine on the Church Against Certain Errors of the
Present Day, Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Mysterium
Ecclesiae, June 24, 1973
COMMENT: The word "magisterium" is used equivocally in this
document. There is the Magisterium (with a capital "M") of the Church
grounded upon the Church's divine attributes of Infallibility and Authority to
teach without the possibility of error in the name of God. This is what is
meant when Jesus Christ said, "He who heareth you, heareth Me." When
a pope engages the Magisterium of the Church he is entering into the one and
same Magisterium that every pope in the history of the Church has entered since
Pope Peter the Apostle to this present day.
There is also the magisterium (with a
lower case "m") of churchmen teaching by virtue of their grace of
state. This teaching has been deserving of a presumption of correctness and
respectful adherence throughout the history of the Church, however, this
teaching is the product of men and is capable of error. Since Vatican II the
repeated teaching by the magisterium of churchmen has been heretical more often
than not. Under Pope Francis it has not only been doctrinally heretical but at
time grossly immoral.
Ultimately, only the pope can engage the
Magisterium of the Church. The teaching that proceeds from the Magisterium is
infallible and is called Dogma and constitutes the formal object of divine and
Catholic faith. Dogma is God giving explicit clarity of definition to His
revealed doctrine. God is the formal and final cause of Dogma. The pope is the
necessary but wholly insufficient material and instrumental cause of Dogma.
Since God is the cause of Dogma, Dogma is infallible in both the truth it
teaches and the words by which that truth is taught. That is, Dogma is
irreformable in both its form (the truth) and its matter (the words) employed.
Dogma ends theological discussion on the doctrine defined. Theologians may
develop the implications that are necessarily derived from Dogmatic Truth but
the Dogma in itself remains fixed in its truth and its manner of expression.
Therefore, the proper tools for understanding Dogma are definition and grammar,
and not necessarily theological competency.
This
citation is three paragraphs from the document from the Sacred Congregation for
the Doctrine of the Faith published in 1973. It both defends the infallible
truth of Dogma in the second and third paragraph by citing the teaching of
Vatican I, while at the same time, it undermines and corrupts Dogmatic truth in
the first paragraph!
It corrupts Dogma when it recognizes and
presupposes that Dogma is the proper subject matter for speculation by
theologians and development by the "living magisterium," (the pope
teaching by his fallible grace of state), to articulate a different non-literal
meaning. Theologians are permitted to critically contextualize Dogma to "interpret
them correctly." Theologians are directed to examine the
"intention" of the Dogmatic formulation. Is this even possible? Well
no, it is not. The "intention" is God's and no one can know the mind
of God beyond what God has revealed. The "intention" of what is in
fact the wholly insufficient material and instrumental cause of Dogma is
irrelevant and completely immaterial to the question. Imagine asking the chisel
and the block of marble what its "intention" was in producing
Michelangelo's Pieta!
So we end up with fallible theologians and the fallible "living
magisterium" determining that "some of these formulas (Dogmas) have given way to
new expressions." We have the fallible reformulating the
infallible. This has been the rule of the churchman for the last fifty years
since the publication of this document and the sub rosa practice for about 35 years before that. We are fortunate
that God has a perfect memory. His truth is not compromised by lying churchmen.
They claim to be speaking in the name of God to make God a liar like
themselves. It will not work. The
remote rule of faith is Scripture and Tradition. The proximate rule of faith is
Dogma. Heresy is defined as the denail of Dogma! Our duty is to keep the
faith inviolate and uncompromised for which God has promised the eternal reward
of His divine presence. Those who corrupt God's revealed Truth will have their
eternal reward as well.
Sensus fidei for the Neo-Modernist: Goal is to direct the mob and use the mob to confirm their heterodoxy!
“The Second
Vatican Council highlights that ‘all human beings are called to the new people
of God’ (LG, 13). God is truly at work in the entire people that he has
gathered together. This is why ‘the entire body of the faithful, anointed as
they are by the Holy One, cannot err in matters of belief. They manifest this
special property by means of the whole people’s supernatural discernment in
matters of faith when from the Bishops down to the last of the lay faithful,
they show universal agreement in matters of faith and morals’ (LG, 12).” Vademecum on Synodality Syndod
COMMENT: The word “universal”
is corrupted to exclude the attribute of time. A universal by definition
necessarily includes the attribute of time without which it is not a universal.
The sensus fidei that excludes time
considering only the current mass of Catholics at one specific historical
period looks only to popular trends and not Catholic truth. If every Catholic
in the Church at one given time holds a doctrine or moral position that is
contrary to the traditional teaching or practice, then it is not evidence of
the sensus fidei but rather evidence
of general apostasy and nothing more. “When the Son of man comes, will he find
faith on earth?” (Lk 18:8). The implied answer is No! He will find apostasy and
He will not call it a new sensus fidei.
Vatican II peritus, Hans Kung, who denied the
Resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, appealed to John Henry Cardinal
Newman as his theological predecessor, invoking the same liberal modernist
principles!
In John Cardinal Newman's Grammar of Assent are found all of the
elements that determined the character of Newman's thought. The basis of
his-peculiar form of liberalism that troubled Church authorities in his day
manifests itself in this his most mature essay, written in 1870, five years
after the Apologia. The
underlying current of the entire essay reveals an aversion for the traditional
methods of philosophy and theology on account of their being, as he would say,
too abstract and impersonal.[.....]
It was also Newman's liberal personalism
that made him reluctant to accept the definition of Infallibility in its
fullest sense and import, as can be seen from a letter he wrote in 1871 (after
the dogma of infallibility was defined) to Mr. Mashell, an Oxford convert who
had published a pamphlet against Cardinal Manning. After Newman writing "I
never; expected to see such a scandal in the Church.[.....]
An entire thesis, if not a small book, is
required to do justice to the topic of Newman's position in the Grammar of
Assent; here only the chief position will be discussed and contrasted with the
philosophy of St. Thomas and those who follow him and the exigencies of
reality. The philosophical
principles which the Church from time immemorial has upheld and which Newman
rejected, or seems to reject, are as follows:
1. that the abstract and speculative is
superior to the concrete and practical;
2. that true science depends upon the
admission that the nature of things can be known by the mind by abstracting
from the here and the now;
3. that the natural order and the moral law
are independent of men's perception of it and are not based upon a man's personal
characteristics;
4. that causation in nature is discernable by
the human mind without an a priori reference to itself;
5. that the existence of God is demonstrable
by an investigation of nature and not merely by examining a man's consciousness
and his awareness of his conscience;
6. that final causes are operative in the
whole of creation and that God is the final cause, or purpose, of all things;
7. that logic is a noble and useful art which
is grounded upon reality and aids the human mind to understand the conspectus
of reality without falsity;
8. and that the dogmas and doctrines of the
Church are apprehended by 'believers as they are in themselves, and not in an
uncertain personalist fashion.
I hope that the reader untrained in the
fundamental principles of philosophy will be able to perceive that Newman's
thinking, however subtly and elegantly expressed, is opposed to and
incompatible with true Catholic philosophy.
Richard Sartino, Another Look at John Henry Cardinal Newman
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 certian 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
As Archbishop of Buenos Aires, Jorge Mario Bergoglio, now known as Pope
Francis, kneels down to receive the “blessing” from Protestant ministers before
thousands. Buenos Aires, 2006
COMMENT: We are required to subject
what is of man in ourselves to what is of God in our fellow men. This is
justice.
We are permitted to subject what is of man in ourselves to what is of
man in our fellow men. This is humility.
We are NOT permitted to subject what is of God in ourselves to what is
of man in our fellow men. This is betrayal. This is treason!
He preserved “the basic elements, the bread, the wine,”
but so did every Protestant sect. The
question is, ‘Did he preserve the Sacrifice?
Did he preserve the True Presence?
“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.”
Msgr. Mieczyslaw Malinksi, Mon Ami: Karol Wojtyla, Le Centurion,
1980, p.220, quoting Cardinal Karol Wojtyla during informal meeting with fellow
Poles during the Vatican II Council
Anti-Semitism’s “Working Definition”
The
International Holocaust Remembrance
Alliance (IHRA) (until
January 2013, known as the Task Force
for International Cooperation on Holocaust Education, Remembrance, and Research
or ITF) is an intergovernmental organization founded in 1998 which unites governments
and experts to strengthen, advance and promote Holocaust education, research
and remembrance worldwide and to uphold the commitments of the Declaration of
the Stockholm International Forum on the Holocaust. The IHRA has 34 member
countries, one liaison country and seven observer
countries. (Wikipedia)
The
IHRA’s working definition for Antisemitism that has been adopted by member
countries:
“Antisemitism
is a certain perception of Jews, which may be expressed as hatred toward Jews.
Rhetorical and physical manifestations of antisemitism are directed toward
Jewish or non-Jewish individuals and/or their property, toward Jewish community
institutions and religious facilities.” Such
as:
· Denying the Jewish people their right to self-determination, such as by claiming that the existence of a State of Israel is a racist endeavor.
·
Applying
double standards by requiring of Israel behavior not expected or demanded of
any other democratic nation.
·
Comparing
contemporary Israeli policy to that of the Nazis.
This “working definition,” although worded a
little differently in light of their differing perspectives, is very close to
the definition coined by Joe Sobran who said: “An
anti-Semite used to mean a man who hated Jews. Now it means a man who is hated
by Jews.” The IHRA’s definition it not grounded on any objective standard but
solely on the subjective “perception of Jews.” You can expect this “working
definition,” which has been adopted by U.S. government agencies to work its way
into the United States legal code notwithstanding any legal niceties such as
freedom of speech, equal protection under the law, etc. The Jewish religion is
a race base belief that Jews possess a special salvific relationship with God
because of their DNA irrespective of what they believe or what they do. Jesus
Christ was killed by the Jews in part because he told them that this was not
so. And like Jesus our Lord, the Catholic Church will necessarily fall under
this definition of Anti-Semitism as well. Soon enough, the Novus Ordo Church of
the New Advent will be calling faithful Catholics anti-Semites.
U.S. Politics: Jewish revolutionary, Saul Alinsky, died
6-12-1972 and will soon be celebrating his 50th year in hell. His
book, Rules for Radicals, enumerates twelve rules for effective political
organization:
RULE 1: “Power is not only what you have,
but what the enemy thinks you have.”
RULE 2: “Never go outside the expertise of
your people.”
RULE 3: “Whenever possible, go outside the
expertise of the enemy.”
RULE 4: “Make the enemy live up to its own
book of rules.”
RULE 5: “Ridicule is man’s most potent
weapon.”
RULE 6: “A good tactic is one your people
enjoy.”
RULE 7: “A tactic that drags on too long
becomes a drag.”
RULE 8: “Keep the pressure on. Never let
up.”
RULE 9: “The threat is usually more
terrifying than the thing itself.”
RULE 10: “If you push a negative hard
enough, it will push through and become a positive.”
RULE 11: “The price of a successful attack
is a constructive alternative.”
RULE 12: “Pick the target, freeze it,
personalize it, and polarize it.”
The purpose of the “rules” is to impose the eight levels
of control that must be accomplished in the formation of a Godless socialist
state.
1. Healthcare — Control healthcare and you
control the people.
2. Poverty —Increase the Poverty level as high
as possible:’ poor people are easier to control and wiIl not fight back if you
are providing everything for them to live.
3. Debt — Increase the debt to an
unsustainable level. That way you are able to increase taxes, and this will
produce more poverty.
4. Gun Control— Remove the ability to defend
themselves from the government. That way you are able to create a police state.
5. Welfare — Take control of every aspect of
their lives (Food, Housing, and Income).
6. Education — Take control of what people
read and listen to — take control of what children learn in school.
7. Religion — Remove the belief in the God
from the government and schools.
8. Class Warfare – Divide the people into the
wealthy and the poor. This will cause more discontent, and it will be easier to
take (tax) the wealthy with the support of the poor.
Pope Francis: An Eschatological Overview
The massive emphasis on mercy–giving and receiving–is the key to
understanding the eschatological dimension of his pontificate
Vatican Insider | Stephen Walford | February 8, 2020
[….]This teaching on divine mercy is one
example where a beautiful convergence between authentic private revelation and
the magisterium has enabled the faithful to grasp an essential element of what
it means to live an authentic Christian life. But there is more to it than
that. In the Diary of St Faustina Kowalska, there is a little talked of, but
undeniable theme running through it: the Lord makes clear the season of divine
mercy is for the end times. St Faustina herself was told she would prepare the
world for the Lord’s second coming, while St John Paul II in 2002 referred to
the promise of Jesus to St Faustina that “a spark from Poland will prepare the
world for my final coming” as binding.
It is surely the case that Pope Francis
has–with the prompting of the Holy Spirit–taken what was in part embryonic in
the pontificate of St John Paul II, and placed mercy as the absolute key for
the future of the Church and the world. Its salvific message is plastered
across almost every page of the Holy Father’s writings in one way or another,
as the antidote to the ever increasing evil that offers only death and
destruction.
Fr Spadaro in his essay also touches upon
several teachings and attitudes that I too have long considered as of having
great importance in understanding this Pope: Francis shuns a millenarian view of the future of
humanity where some golden age of peace within history rules; his focus rests
solely on the criteria for a blessed Final Judgement as found in the
Beatitudes. The criteria, therefore is Jesus himself, since the Beatitudes are
in essence, a portrait of the Lord. Furthermore, the Pope sees
opportunities everywhere to build bridges and to invite reconciliation. No situation
or soul is beyond help or redemption in the time God allows for conversion.
This charism of the Pope is the great dividing line between those who
understand him and those who do not. How can he sting like St John the Baptist,
yet at other times appear far too generous? In reality, he is following the
criteria of Jesus to the letter–some may say even rigidly! He condemns
hypocrisy, narcissism, self- love, and a pharisaical attitude that divides
between “them” and “us.” He continually invites, even demands help for the poor
and marginalised. His constant criticisms in Santa Marta simply warn us
that we will be judged on love, and that no defence attorney will be present if
we live now as armchair Christians with a Jonah syndrome. No, the Holy Father
cares deeply, he knows Jesus recoils at hypocrisy and spiritual apathy and
therefore in his heart, he must give the Church some tough love. What Pope
Francis is obviously aware of, is the sad reality that for even many Catholics,
Jesus’ warning concerning “love growing cold” (cf. Matt 24:12) applies now more
than ever. How many refuse to forgive, to apologise, to give of themselves
generously? How many create their own moral code, with excuses and exemptions?
How many prefer to look after their own interests no matter how much suffering
they leave in their wake? This
in reality is apostasy from the central Christian message: to love God and
neighbour. And thus charity, repentance, mercy are watered down to such an
extent that they become meaningless.
In an eschatological sense, I see Francis trying to form a Church that
is far more conformed to Jesus himself; one that is authentically evangelical;
one that has its foundations in the dirt and dust of its precious flock; one in
which love and humility are never again overshadowed by the lust for prestige,
power and worldly success. In short, this is the vision of a Church that is
being prepared as the Bride fit for her meeting with the Bridegroom.
Many Traditionalists are right though: there is a war, there is a powerful
enemy, there is an apocalyptic battle being waged, but they are being seduced
by that same enemy. The enemy is Satan, not Pope Francis, or other Catholics
who they don’t agree with. Pope Francis, as a realist, knows the depth of this
spiritual war, but he also knows wounded souls (no matter how those wounds came
about) need love and mercy. They need salvation and are not to be seen as
enemies fighting for the other side. This attitude of mercy is entirely in line
with Jesus rebuking James and John, who suggested sending down fire from heaven
on those who did not welcome the Lord (Lk 9:54).
The division being caused by those opposed to the Holy Father, does
nothing other than serve the cause of Satan in creating confusion and doubt in
the hearts of ordinary Catholics. Satan, of course, does not care too much with
“the world” –he desires far more to destroy the Lord’s work in His Church; to
suffocate the sacramental life from souls and to present preaching as
hypocritical nonsense. He despises this Pope because Francis shines a
light on his deviousness, and because the Holy Father is willing to take risks
for the sake of the lost sheep.
Pope Francis has also contributed to the
Marian Era that began in the mid nineteenth century; a period of time
prophesied by St Louis de Montfort as preparation for the second coming of
Jesus. Not only his very personal Marian devotion, but his emphasis on the
church as Mother in imitation of Mary– including the new Feast of Mary Mother of
the Church– has enabled the Church to reflect ever more the Marian dimension in
its mission to bring the salvation of her Son to all. The Pope’s protection of Medjugorje should also be
seen in this context. This Marian dimension is essential in the years ahead
because it prepares for the Triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, when
divine love will proclaim the final victory; it moulds the faithful into humble
souls who imitate Mary, and who follow her command to “do whatever He tells
you” (Jn 2:5).
Of course, Pope Francis, like his
predecessors shuns idle speculation and sees a danger in spending time immersed
in apocalyptic literature especially from private revelation. What is
important, is to keep an Advent spirit of watchfulness; to continually discern
the signs of the times, but always with a vision of hope for eschatological
glory, and not some intra historical era that will never come. Faith tells us
that we can see a dawn breaking on the horizon, from the East; we can see the
signs that summer is near (Matt 24:32), but we also know that until that Day
arrives, the spiritual war will become more intense. To remain loyal to the Pope and his magisterium is
to have a sure guide for what is still to come; it is to help avoid the
pitfalls that will inevitably hurt us, but above all, it will keep us close to
Jesus Christ.
In the magisterium and prophetic voice of Pope Francis, we are told to
strip ourselves of all that hinders a full adherence to the Gospel:
“Along this journey, the cultivation of all that is good, progress in the
spiritual life and growth in love are the best counterbalance to evil. Those
who choose to remain neutral, who are satisfied with little, who renounce the
ideal of giving themselves generously to the Lord, will never hold out. Even
less if they fall into defeatism, for “if we start without confidence, we have
already lost half the battle and we bury our talents… Christian triumph is
always a cross, yet a cross which is at the same time a victorious banner,
borne with aggressive tenderness against the assaults of evil”
Even if we do not know the day or the hour,
we do know how to keep our lamps lit; we know how to prepare. A revolution of love, tenderness
and mercy is Pope Francis’ answer to the reality of the Last Judgment, from which
no one can escape, and which in a very real sense is already in progress.
If holiness is grasped with both hands, then the apocalypse holds no fears; in
fact it presents a wealth of opportunities to serve the Lord.
Maranatha is the prayer that can and should live joyfully in the hearts
of the faithful in this season of mercy. We can take it to the poor, the sick,
the lonely, announcing that their liberation is near. And even if centuries are
still to pass by, the Church will live by a new evangelical urgency that will
ensure the torch of hope burns bright until the true light comes to illuminate
a transfigured creation. Pope Francis is playing a vital part in ensuring the
Church prepares well for whatever the Lords asks it to go through in the future.
Let us pray for him and his immensely important task.
COMMENTARY on Overview of the
Eschatology of Francis:
The
first problem with the theologian Stephen
Walford, and it is a huge problem, is that he makes the pope his
proximate rule of faith and not Dogma. He therefore cannot distinguish between
the pope’s personal magisterium based upon his grace of state and the
Magisterium of the Church based upon the attribute of Infallibility that Jesus
Christ endowed His Church. Whatever the current pope says or does becomes his
rule of faith and is necessarily, in his estimation, the work of the Holy
Ghost. Beginning with this colossal error, he works to build a bridge between
the teaching of a heretical pope and the Catholic faithful.
But
putting this error aside, he brings up a question that the Catholic faithful
must be able to answer clearly with the revealed truth of God. So what is wrong with the modern
popes emphasis of divine mercy? The problem is essentially that he
emphasizes divine mercy in opposition to divine justice and not as a different
facet of the same jewel. Walford seems to be correct in that the popes of the
Church of the New Advent believe that we are in the last age of the Church
before the second coming of Jesus Christ. They also believe that this age is
the time of mercy (as if other ages were not) and not justice (as if other ages
were). Benedict/Ratzinger held an interview with Jacques Servais, S.J.
conducted in October of 2015 on questions of Faith and Justification. The
interview was read by the Prefect of the Pontifical Household, Archbishop Georg
Gänswein, to a subsequent Conference in November 2015 on Justification and
published in March of 2016. In this interview Benedict/Ratzinger places in
constant opposition the attributes of God’s mercy and God’s justice repeatedly
characterizing His justice as “cruelty.” He quotes in support of his theology
John Paul II who was “deeply impregnated with this impulse,” and Pope Francis
whom he praises for his “pastoral practice (that) is expressed in the fact that
he continually speaks to us of God’s mercy.” These popes all point to the
gospel description of the last judgment in which the criteria for salvation or
condemnation are the corporal works of mercy. Therefore they conclude, what one
believes is of no importance but rather what one does for his fellow man. Thus,
after dividing justice and mercy, they drive a wedge between faith and charity.
It is from this that the term “evangelization” is redefined and distinguished
from “proselytism,” heretofore they have always been considered as necessary
compliments as a cause is to its direct effect. Proselytism, the traditional
fruit of evangelization, converting others to the true faith, is condemned as
“solemn nonsense” and the new evangelization becomes only dialogue to exchange
opinions for the end of promoting corporal works of mercy.
Wisdom
is the perfect knowledge of the most important things in their right order of
reference. Discounting malice, Pope Francis has no wisdom because he has no
right order of reference. “Without faith it is impossible to please God.” (Heb
11:6) Charity, which is the friendship between God and man through grace, is
greater than Faith, which is believing what God has revealed on the authority
of God the Revealer, but without Faith, Charity is impossible. Why? Because God
is simple. He is not composed of parts. The intellect of God and the will of
God are one. Man to be united with God must conform his intellect to God's
revealed Truth and turn his will to the divine Goodness conforming it to the
will of God. No one can have the friendship of God who does not believe His
Truth and keep His commandments.
Acts
of Charity are an extension of the virtue of Charity because they are entirely
grounded upon seeing the image of God in other men. There can be no Charity
without Faith, and although Charity is greater than Faith, Faith takes
precedence in time. St. Thomas considers sins against Faith as the greatest of
all sins because they radically separate the person from God and the
possibility of Charity. In the Acts of the Apostles, the apostles began the
work of evangelization by making proselytes out of the Jews and pagans. When
the Faithful of the Church grew from these labors, the obligation for works of
Charity correspondingly increased. What did the apostles do? They established
the deaconate to attend to works of Charity so that these works of Charity
would not impede the work of evangelization to make new proselytes.
The
second coming of Jesus Christ will be characterized by the Great Apostasy from
the Faith as described by St. Paul: “Let no man deceive you by any means, for unless there come a revolt first,
and the man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition...” (2 Thess. 2:3) Jesus
said, “Will not God revenge his elect who cry to him day and night: and will he
have patience in their regard? I say to you, that he will quickly revenge them.
But yet the Son of man,
when he cometh, shall he find, think you, faith on earth?” (Luke 18:7-8)
We are now in the Great Apostasy for at no time in history has the apostasy
been so generalized and extended from the summit of Church authority.
Try
as they may, it is impossible to drive a wedge between God’s justice and God’s
mercy. God is perfect Act and infinite Simplicity. He is present wherever He
acts. There are no distinguished parts in God. Mercy is only possible in the
context of justice and vice versa, otherwise the entire Passion of Jesus Christ
becomes meaningless. Jesus does not suffer the cruelty of His passion from the direct
will of the Father but from sinful men by the Father’s permissive will. It is
not the cruelty of God but cruelty of sinful men. Jesus as the Son of Man
willingly suffers His Passion firstly gives honor and glory to the Father in
the name of mankind to the end of redeeming man from sin.
“Without
faith it is impossible to please God.” It is only through Faith that Charity
can exist without which the merits of the redemptive suffering of Christ’s
passions cannot be personally gained. “Therefore I said to you, that you shall
die in your sins. For if
you believe not that I AM he, you shall die in your sin. They said
therefore to him: Who art thou? Jesus said to them: The beginning (I AM), who
also speak unto you” (John 8:24-25).
In
the last judgment when God makes a radical public distinction between “them”
and “us,” Jesus Christ will say, “When I was thirsty and you gave me to drink”
(Matt 35:25). The faithful will ask,
“Lord, when did we see thee… thirsty and give thee to drink?” (37). Jesus will
say, “Amen I say to you, as long as you did it to one of these my least brethren [that is, ‘As many
of you as have been baptized in Christ, have put on Christ’ (Gal 3:27) when
they were ‘born again by water and the Holy Ghost’ (John 3:5) they became the
‘brethren’ of Jesus Christ,] you did it to me.” Only the faithful can see the image of God in the other
and the likeness restored by the grace of Jesus Christ
in the “brethren.”
Then
He will say to those on His left condemned to hell, “Amen I say to you, as long
as you did it not to one of these least (that is, the “brethren” of Christ),
neither did you do it to me” (45). Christ dwells in the souls of the faithful
by Charity. Those condemned did not see Christ in the faithful. Those who are
condemned may have given a drink to the thirsty but without faith, they did not
see the image of God in the other,
and therefore, they did not do it for Him. They were not works of Charity but
works of human philanthropy. Works of mercy do not profit for salvation without
Faith. While Faith can exist without Charity, Charity cannot exist without
Faith in this world. Faith will pass with death but Charity will remain. That
is why the last judgment is determined by acts of mercy and not articles of
Faith because at the Last Judgment everyone will believe.
The
modern Church of the New Advent is in true apostasy which is, by definition,
the actual denial of revealed truth. They do not do works of mercy that profit
for eternal salvation because they do not have faith. Yet Walford claims, in a
remarkable inversion of divine Wisdom, that apostasy is failure in works of mercy rather
than that apostasy is the failure of faith which in turn leads to the failure
of works of mercy. The rank hypocrisy in this claim is evident in that Catholic
institutions doing works of mercy have crumbled since Vatican II when the age
of mercy supposedly got underway. And still, the popes of the Church of the New
Advent do not get it. Only by preaching the faith will acts of mercy again
abound. Jesus said to St. John the Baptist who resisted baptizing Him, “For so
it becometh us to fulfill all justice” (Matt 3:15). The Church of the New
Advent cannot have part in the mercy of God because they have no part with Him
to “fulfill all justice.” The blasphemy is this: the modern popes believe they
are more merciful than God.
They
proclaim the era of divine mercy in opposition to God’s “cruel” justice while
at the same time essentially removing all penitential practices during Lent.
They accuse traditional
Catholics of being “seduced by Satan” and “serving the cause of Satan” by the
“division… creating confusion and doubt
in the hearts of ordinary Catholics” when they oppose the rank heresy of
Pope Francis. The implications of this division between justice-mercy and
charity-faith overturns the Catholic dogmas on justification. The Church of the
New Advent has a Lutheran conception of justification. In the Servais interview
Benedict/Ratzinger said, “It seems to me that in the theme
of divine mercy is expressed in a new way what is meant by justification by
faith. Starting from the mercy of God, which everyone is looking for, it is
possible even today to interpret anew the fundamental nucleus of the doctrine
of justification, and have it appear again in all its relevance.”
Benedict/Ratzinger “interprets anew” by mischaracterizing the Catholic dogmatic
teaching on justification from the Council of Trent as “the conceptuality of St.
Anselm” which he says “has now become for us incomprehensible” because it necessarily includes the justice of God. He then adds, “Only where there is mercy does
cruelty end, only with mercy do evil and
violence end. Pope Francis is totally in agreement with this line. His pastoral
practice is expressed in the fact that he continually speaks to us of God’s
mercy. It is mercy that moves us toward God, while justice frightens us before
Him.” What is worse, Benedict/Ratzinger adds that God “simply cannot leave 'as is' the mass of evil that comes from the
freedom that He Himself has granted. Only He, coming to share in the world's
suffering, can redeem the world.” So God becomes responsible for the “mass of evil” in the world because He is responsible for granting man “freedom” and is therefore compelled by
justice “to share in the world's
suffering” to “redeem the
world”! The end of this is that God is compelled by a necessary obligation in
justice for mercy. The corollary to this is that man has an unconditional right
to divine mercy.
God
is not compelled to anything outside Himself. He cannot positively will evil.
He can and does permit evil only because He and He alone is capable of bring
good out of evil. No man can earn God's mercy and eternal salvation on their
own merits.
“Charity is man’s friendship with God based
on man’s share in the Divine Life, in the happiness of God Himself. But man
cannot naturally share in God’s own life. Man’s participation in the Divine
Life is a free supernatural gift which God gives to man. Charity then cannot be
acquired by any purely human effort. It is a gift of God infused in man’s soul
by God’s goodness and generosity. Charity, like the other theological virtues,
is a supernatural virtue infused in the will by God Himself. Who can give man a
share in the Divine Love except God Himself?”
Rev. Walter Farrell, O. P., My Way of Life, Pocket Edition of St.
Thomas
A
faithful Catholic in the state of grace is able to merit eternal life and atone
for his sins because of his union by grace with Jesus Christ in Charity. This
is what gives value to his prayers, penances, and mortifications without which
they have no value at all in obtaining a supernatural end. This union of
Charity with Christ by grace permits the faithful to not only atone for their
own sins but also for the sins of others as St. Paul said, “Who now rejoice in
my sufferings for you, and fill up those things that are wanting of the
sufferings of Christ, in my flesh, for his body, which is the church” (Col
1:24). And thus:
“The observance of Lent is the
very badge of the Christian warfare. By it, we prove ourselves not to be
enemies of the Cross of Christ. By it, we avert the scourges of divine justice.
By it we gain strength against the princes of darkness, for it shields us with
heavenly help. Should mankind grow remiss in their observance of Lent, it would
be a detriment to God’s glory, a disgrace to the Catholic religion, and a
danger to Christian souls. Neither can it be doubted, but that such negligence
would become the source of misery to the world, of public calamity, and of
private woe.”
Pope Benedict XIV, Non Ambigimus,
May 30, 1741
Without
the justice of God there could be no mercy and without God’s mercy there could
be no justice. The faithful rejoice in the justice of God for by it we are made
children of God and can merit eternal life. Those who divide God's mercy from
His justice and believe that eternal life awaits them without the necessity of
Faith and penance are whistling in the wind. There will not have any part with
God in eternal life. May God in His mercy keep us in the right Faith, a burning
Charity and a penitential spirit until our last breath.
“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. Karl Rahner, Theological Investigations,
Volume II, Man in the Church
Pope Francis: ‘Without liturgical reform there is no reform of the
Church’
Pope
Francis addressed members of the Dicastery for Divine Worship and the
Discipline of the Sacraments on Thursday morning, Feb. 8, 2024, to discuss the
importance of liturgical reform as a core feature of the broader “renewal of
the Church.”
Catholic News Agency | Matthew Santucci |
Feb 8, 2024
Pope Francis met with members of the
Vatican’s Dicastery for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments on
Thursday morning to discuss the importance of liturgical reform as a core
feature of the broader “renewal of the Church.”
The address comes as the dicastery is
meeting for its annual plenary assembly, which is addressing the “liturgical
formation from Sacrosanctum Concilium to Desiderio Desideravi”
for ordained ministers as well as “liturgical training courses for the people
of God.”
The meeting will also seek to “provide
bishops with practical suggestions for developing pastoral projects in their
dioceses with the aim of putting into practice the reflections of the papal
document,” a Feb. 5 press release from the dicastery stated.
Recalling that it has been 60 years since
the promulgation of the Second Vatican Council’s seminal document on the
liturgy, Sacrosanctum Concilium, the pope stressed in his Feb.
8 address that liturgical reform underscored the council fathers’ objective of
renewing the Church’s “fundamental dimensions” such as “spiritual, pastoral,
ecumenical, and missionary” work.
“Without liturgical reform there is no reform of the Church,” the pope
said.
“A church that does not feel the passion for spiritual growth, that does
not try to speak in an understandable way to the men and women of his time,
that does not feel pain for the division between Christians, who does not
tremble with the anxiety of announcing Christ to the people, is a sick Church,
and these are the symptoms,” the Holy Father emphasized in his
address.
The pope qualified these remarks by saying “we can only make such a
statement by understanding what the liturgy is in its theological sense.”
Speaking specifically on the theme of the
assembly’s 2024 meeting, the pope noted that their work must focus on making
formation more accessible so it is not a “specialization for a few
experts, but of an interior disposition of all the people of God.”
“This naturally does not exclude that there is a priority in the
training of those who, by virtue of the sacrament of orders, are called to be
mystagogues, that is, to take each other by the hand and accompany the faithful
in the knowledge of the holy mysteries,” Francis continued.
The Holy Father also noted that liturgical
formation is predicated upon a love for Christ by highlighting the theological
representation of the Church as Christ’s bride, saying: “Every instance of
reform of the Church is always a question of spousal fidelity.”
“The Church is a woman, the Church is a
mother, the Church has its figure in Mary and the Church-woman.”
The pope added that the Church “is more
than Peter … everything cannot be reduced to ministeriality. The woman in
herself has a very great symbol in the Church as a woman, without reducing her
to ministeriality.”
“This is why I said that every instance of
reform of the Church is always a question of spousal fidelity, because she [the
Church] is a woman.”
The pope also reflected on the centrality
of the liturgy in our lives, saying that “it is the place for excellence in
which to encounter the living Christ,” which “continually animates and renews
baptismal life.”
The pope also said that it is his desire
that the dicastery undertakes this work in collaboration with the Dicastery for
Culture and Education, the Dicastery for the Clergy, and the Dicastery for
Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life to reflect “the
spirit of synodal collaboration.”
COMMENT: This is rich, really rich!
Pope Francis says, “A church that does not feel the passion for spiritual
growth, that does not try to speak in an understandable way to the men and
women of his time” now calls priests, “mystagogues”, and calls upon the
“mystagogues” to rise above mere “ministeriality” and direct liturgical renewal
in the “the spirit of synodal collaboration”! Man-made worship is about to
reach its term. The Novus Ordo Church of the New Advent, the Church of the New
Evangelization, the Church of the Third Millennium is not a bride but a whore.
It strives to evangelize the Faithful to its heretical and schismatic
doctrines.
But we will give Francis
credit for this, “Without liturgical reform there is no reform of the Church,”
without pointing out the obvious: Without liturgical deformation there is no
deformation of the Church! Sacrosanctum Concilium was the first document published by
Vatican II and from the corruption of Divine Worship all the other Vatican II
documents followed. Pope Francis has correctly identified the cause of the greatest
collapse of Catholic faith and practice in the history of the Church. First
deform the acceptable worship of God by replacing it with a man-made,
man-centered Gnostic mystery cult effectively cutting off the flow of grace and
the Church will essentially wither like the branch cut from the vine.
Francis was born in 1936 and
knows that in his youth and early manhood there were in every diocese Catholic
schools, hospitals, orphanages, nursing homes, charitable institutions of every
king staffed by priests and religious dedicating their lives to corporal and
spiritual works of mercy. What is left of them are totally corrupted from the
ends to which they were created. Besides those in active ministry there were
thousands consecrated souls living lives dedicated to constant prayer and
penance for the welfare of the Church and the conversion of sinners. They are
all dead and dying excepting where traditional restoration is active. Francis
like every ideologue never takes credit for the evil their actions are directly
responsible. The failure is always attributed to others who failed to apply
their innovations with enough purity, with enough rigor, for sufficient
time. To this ugly fact, Francis
replies, “Time is greater than space.” It has been as Francis said, 60 years
since the promulgation of Sacrosanctum Concilium, 60 years of marching deeper into the spiritual desert,
but as time goes by, fewer and fewer are following this old fool and more and
more are returning to the acceptable worship of God from which true reform will
begin.
“I do not bless
a ‘homosexual marriage,’ I bless two people who love each other and I also ask
them to pray for me... No one is shocked if I give a blessing to an
entrepreneur who maybe exploits people, and that is a very serious sin, whereas
they are scandalized if I give it to a homosexual (couple)… This is hypocrisy!
The heart of the document is welcome.”
Pope Francis,
defending his "blessing" of homosexual couples in Fiducia Supplicans
COMMENT: This is rich! The entrepreneur
"maybe exploits people" and then again, maybe not. The homosexual
couple is publically living in a grossly perverse relationship and asking the
Church to bless this manifest sin with no evidence of repentance. And if the
entrepreneur is in fact manifestly defrauding the laborer of his wages and
oppressing the poor, sins which also cry to heaven for vengeance, he should not
receiving a blessing either. The comparison is as perverse as the person making
it. As for love, Pope Francis has no comprehension what the word means. The
love of a man for pizza dinner causes the destruction of the pizza. Such is the
narcissistic love shared by a homosexual couple. The love of God is sacrificial
not narcissistic. As for "hypocrisy", Pope Francis the Pharisee is a
real master of the art.
Abp. Viganò: Pope Francis’ invitation of Anglican ‘bishopess’ signals
his intention to ‘ordain’ women
‘Bergoglio intends to fundamentally change the concept of Holy Orders,
placing alongside the Priesthood (reserved for men) forms of ‘non-ordained’
ministry for women, with a view to their sacramental ordination,’ Archbishop
Viganó said.
LifeSiteNews | Emily Mangiaracina | Feb 8,
2024 — Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò has declared that Pope Francis’ invitation
to a female Anglican prelate to speak to the Council of Cardinals about “gender
equality and the role of women in the Church” signals his intention to
eventually “ordain” women.
In a message posted to X on Tuesday,
Archbishop Viganò wrote, “Bergoglio intends to fundamentally change the concept
of Holy Orders, placing alongside the Priesthood (reserved for men) forms of
‘non-ordained’ ministry for women, with a view to their sacramental
ordination.”
Bergoglio intends to fundamentally change
the concept of Holy Orders, placing alongside the Priesthood (reserved for men)
forms of "non-ordained" ministry for women, with a view to their
sacramental ordination.
The public defender will say that no,
Bergoglio does not want to…
The Vatican whistleblower anticipated the
objection that Francis “does not want to make women deacons or women priests,
much less women bishops, and that these are speculations put out by those who
sow division among the faithful.”
“If that is the case, why did Bergoglio
invite an Anglican ‘bishopess,’ i.e., a heretical, schismatic, invalidly
ordained woman, to the Council of Cardinals meeting to speak about ‘gender
equality and the role of women in the Church’?” he questioned.
The archbishop’s assessment is shared by
Deacon Nick Donnelly, who wrote regarding Rev. Jo Bailey Wells’ presence before
the pope and the C9 that Catholics “couldn’t have a stronger signal that
Bergoglio is planning the faux ordination of women deacons, with a trajectory
towards the faux ordination of women priests and bishops.” Couldn't have a
stronger signal that Bergoglio is planning the faux ordination of women
deacons, with a trajectory towards the faux ordination…
Wells, a “bishop” of the Church of England
who has been described as “a pioneer in the spread of equality between the
sexes,” gave a speech to Pope Francis and his Council of Cardinals on Monday.
The C9 – as the group is known – is
continuing the examination of the “role of women in the Church,” a subject it
began discussing in December 2023. The timing of such discussions is
significant, given that the 2023 Synod on Synodality interim report highlighted
an “urgent” call for canon law to be changed in order to allow more female
governance roles.
A Synod on Synodality voting lay member
shared last year that “a large number of bishops” are now “ready to take clear
steps” to women’s “ordination” via a discussion on “women deacons.”
Helena Jeppesen-Spuhler, a member of the
Swiss delegation to the Synod’s European Assembly, clarified that while she
doesn’t think “women priests” are now possible, she sees that the possibility
of women’s “ordination” to the diaconate is on the table.
“There are now a large number of bishops who
are ready to take clear steps,” said Jeppesen. “The priesthood of women will
not be introduced immediately, but the diaconate of women should be seriously
discussed at the assembly in Rome.”
Regarding the “role of women” in the
Catholic Church in general, Jeppesen said “it became clear in practically all
country reports that the church must finally move forward.”
Both clerical and lay Catholics have raised
concerns that the Synod on Synodality’s call for increased female governance
may signal the Church hierarchy’s intention to “ordain” women. Indeed, the
campaign for female “deacons” continues to receive vocal support from leading
members of the synod, as evidenced by Cardinal Blase Cupich advocating for
recognition of women “pastors” who are already “serving as the head of
communities because they don’t have enough priests.”
Pope Francis established a 12-member
commission to study the issue of women deacons in August 2016, and the
commission included a leading advocate of “ordaining women” to the “diaconate”.
With another commission then drawn up in 2020, the 2023 Synod report called for
the results of both studies to be presented at the October 2024 Synod
meetings. [.....]
Pope John Paul II affirmed this truth (that
women cannot be ordained) when he condemned attempts at female “ordination” in
his 1994 apostolic letter Ordinatio Sacerdotalis,
writing: “I declare that the Church has no authority whatsoever to confer
priestly ordination on women and that this judgment is to be definitively held
by all the Church’s faithful.”
This letter, former CDF prefect Cardinal
Gerhard Müller explained, refers to the diaconate as well, and expresses a
“dogma” of the Catholic Faith.
He further noted that “the impossibility
that a woman validly receives the Sacrament of Holy Orders in each of the three
degrees [deacon, priest, bishop] is a truth contained in Revelation and it is
thus infallibly confirmed by the Church’s Magisterium and presented as to be
believed.”
“We can see how
many of the Euro-Atlantic countries are actually rejecting their roots,
including the Christian values that constitute the basis of Western
civilization. They are denying moral principles and all traditional identities:
national, cultural, religious and even sexual. They are implementing policies
that equate large families with same-sex partnerships; belief in God with the
belief in Satan.
“The excesses
of political correctness have reached the point where people are seriously
talking about registering political parties whose aim is to promote pedophilia.
People in many European countries are embarrassed or afraid to talk about their
religious affiliations. Holidays are abolished or even called something
different; their essence is hidden away, as is their moral foundation. And
people are aggressively trying to export this model all over the world. I am
convinced that this opens a direct path to degradation and primitivism,
resulting in a profound demographic and moral crisis.
“What else but
the loss of the ability to self-reproduce could act as the greatest testimony
of the moral crisis facing a human society? Today almost all developed nations
are no longer able to reproduce themselves, even with the help of migration.
Without the values embedded in Christianity and other world religions, without
the standards of morality that have taken shape over millennia, people will
inevitably lose their human dignity. We consider it natural and right to defend
these values. One must respect every minority’s right to be different, but the
rights of the majority must not be put into question.”
Vladimir Putin,
President of the Russian Republic, 2013
“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
Modernism vs. Neo-modernism: A difference in method, an
agreement in ends
The
heresy of Modernism denies dogma directly. Neo-modernism is a more subtle
heresy. The end remains the denial of
dogma but the method of denial is indirect.
Dogma, the revelation of God that forms the formal objects of divine and
Catholic faith, is formulated in categorical propositions that are always and
everywhere true or false. There are two
methods the Neo-modernist employs to destroy dogma. The first method is to
change the category of dogma from truth-falsehood to the category of
authority-obedience. They treat dogma as
if it were laws, commands, precepts, injunctions, etc., etc., etc., and then
limit the universal truth with all the moral restrictions that apply to laws,
etc. For example, the dogma that the
sacrament of baptism is necessary for salvation is treated as a law and
therefore as a law, it does not bind in cases of impossibility, necessity,
unreasonable burden, psychological impediment, etc., etc.
The
second method is to corrupt the dogmatic proposition be changing the meaning of
the terms OR altering the universality of the copula. An excellent example of
this corruption of terminology can be seen in Benedict/Ratzinger’s treatment of
the word, substance.
“…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
It
is impossible to affirm the Catholic dogma that “Lord Jesus Christ... is
consubstantial with the Father” or the Catholic dogma of Transubstantiation if
the concept of “substance” is rejected in the sense as used by scholastic
theologians found in the perennial realist philosophical tradition. And so we have Benedict/Ratzinger writing:
“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
The Catholic Church infallibly teaches:
“By
the consecration of the bread and wine there takes place a change of the
whole substance of the bread
into the substance of the body of
Christ our Lord and of the whole substance
of the wine into the substance of his blood. This change the holy Catholic
Church has fittingly and properly called transubstantiation.”
Council of Trent, Session XIII, chapter IV
“If
anyone denies 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 says that He is in it only as in a
sign, or figure or force, let him be anathema.”
Council of Trent, Session XII, Canon I
Benedict/Ratzinger’s
affirmation of these dogmas is done within the corrupted context of mutilating
the meaning of the terms. The entire hermeneutic of discontinuity/rupture vs.
the hermeneutic of reform proposed by Benedict/Ratzinger is predicated upon
accepting or rejecting his false philosophy which ultimately elevates the
accident of relationship to overthrow
the concept of substance. Reciting
the Credo is no longer evidence of the Catholic faith without clearly defining
every term.
“The plenitude of power over the Universal Church, conferred on the
Holy See, is limited by nothing but Divine and natural law.”
The Bishop of
Rome, as direct successors of the Prince of the Apostles, according to Catholic
teaching, possess by Divine appointment the plentitude of episcopal power over
the Universal Church. Supreme, full, and lawful spiritual authority over all
the faithful is theirs. In virtue of this supreme authority, all her members,
including Bishops, are subject to the Pope; subject, whether we view them as
isolated individuals, or as assembled in Council. Far from subjecting the Pope
to a Council, the early Church held it as a principle that the supreme
authority could be judged by no one. A General Council cannot exist without the
Pope or in opposition to him, for, as head of the Church he is the necessary
and essential head of the General Council, whose decrees receive their
oecumenical validity solely from his confirmation. As supreme legislator, the
Pope can, in matters of discipline, revise and change the decrees of a General
Council, as well as those of his predecessors. Former ecclesiastical
legislation forms a precedent for his action, in so far as he, being the
superior, is by his own example to show respect to the law. The power of the
Primacy also contains, comprehended within itself, the supreme judicial power.
Appeal may accordingly be made to him in all ecclesiastical matters; there is
no appeal from his judgment to another tribunal; the plenitude of power over the Universal Church,
conferred on the Holy See, is limited by nothing but Divine and natural law.
Dr. Ludwig
Pastor, Professor of History in the University of Innsbruck, History of the Popes from the close of the
middle ages, 1906
Pope Francis: Small ideological groups oppose same-sex blessings;
Africa a ‘special case’
Catholic News Agency | Tyler Arnold | Washington, D.C. | Jan 29, 2024
Pope Francis suggested that the opposition
to the Vatican’s approval of non-liturgical blessings for same-sex couples
mostly comes from “small ideological groups” with the exception of Africa,
which he said is “a special case.”
“Those who vehemently protest belong to small ideological groups,”
Francis said in an interview on Monday with the Italian newspaper La Stampa, according to an English
translation from the Church-run Vatican News.
Regarding the bishops in Africa, who have expressed some of the strongest
criticisms of such blessings, the pontiff said they are “a special case”
because “for them, homosexuality is something ‘ugly’ from a cultural point of
view; they do not tolerate it.”
The Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith
(DDF), led by Cardinal Victor Manuel Fernández, published a declaration on Dec.
18, 2023, titled Fiducia Supplicans,
which prompted the backlash. The declaration permits “spontaneous” pastoral
blessings for “same-sex couples” and other couples in “irregular situations”
but does not allow liturgical blessings, recognition of civil unions, or any
actions that would make the blessings appear like a marriage.
Bishops around the world have been divided
on how to implement the document or whether to implement it at all.
The Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar, which
represents all of the African bishops’ conferences, is refusing to bless
same-sex couples. In a statement, it said such blessings could not be carried
out on the continent “without exposing themselves to scandals.”
The bishops’ conferences in Hungary and Poland similarly rejected any
blessings for same-sex couples, as have various other bishops around the world.
Alternatively, the heads of the bishops’
conferences in other countries, such as Austria, Germany, and Argentina, have
embraced the declaration and the opportunity to bless same-sex couples. Some
other bishops’ conferences, such as the United States, have accepted the
declaration but put a strong emphasis on ensuring that such blessings are not
confused as a change in Church teaching.
Francis, in his interview, dismissed the
idea that this division could spark a schism in the Catholic Church.
“In the Church, there have always been small groups that manifest
reflections of a schismatic nature,” the pope said. “One must let them carry on
and pass away... and look ahead.”
Francis said that he trusts that “gradually, everyone will be reassured
about the spirit of the declaration,” which he said “aims to include; not
divide.” He added that the declaration “invites us to welcome and then entrust
people, and to trust in God.”
“The Gospel is to sanctify everyone,” the pontiff said. “Of course,
there must be goodwill. And it is necessary to give precise instructions on the
Christian life (I emphasize that it is not the union that is blessed, but the
persons). But we are all sinners: Why should we make a list of sinners who can
enter the Church and a list of sinners who cannot be in the Church? This is not
the Gospel.”
Earlier this month, the DDF issued a five-page
news release in response to the backlash from some bishops. The news release,
written by Fernández, said that the opposition “cannot be interpreted as
doctrinal opposition because the document is clear and definitive about
marriage and sexuality.”
“There is no room to distance ourselves doctrinally from this
declaration or to consider it heretical, contrary to the tradition of the
Church, or blasphemous,” the cardinal said.
COMMENT:
"We
are all sinners" is true. Jesus came to "call sinners" to penance.
Those sinners that go to heaven do penance and those who go to hell do not.
Jesus said, "I say to you: but unless you shall do penance, you shall all
likewise perish.... No, I say to you; but except you do penance, you shall all
likewise perish" (Luke 13: 3,5). So we do in fact have a "list of
sinners who can enter the Church and a list of sinners who cannot enter the
Church." The "good Thief" entered the Church and stole heaven by
doing penance; the "bad thief" was cast into hell because he did not.
Pope
Francis thinks homosexuality is normal in non-African nations and opposition
there is characterized as 'ideological'. In the unlighted African nations it is
a cultural opposition that only time will correct. Catholic morality is
grounded upon the law of God which does not change irrespective of individual
cultures. Pope Francis in this clearly proves he is an ideologue. But this
comment is not concerned with Pope Francis' corrupted ideology but another
pressing matter: The question of schism. Can the pope enter into schism and
lead others into schism?
The
modern Novus Ordo Church of the New Advent looks to the pope as the proximate
rule of faith. For them, whatever the pope says and whatever the pope does is
the rule for what Catholics must say and do. For faithful Catholics, dogma is
the proximate rule of faith and what Catholics must say and do is driven by
God's revealed Truth.
The
three attributes of the Church are: Infallibility to teach without the
possibility of error, Indefectibility to sanctify the faithful, and Authority
to govern. These are first and essentially attributes of God and God alone.
They are attributes of the Church because the Church is a divine institution,
the Mystical Body of Jesus Christ. These are NOT personal attributes of the
pope! Those that make the pope their proximate rule of faith are guilty of
divinizing the pope by attributing to him personally divine attributes. The
pope, occupying the office of the papacy established by God for His Church,
can, secondarily and accidentally, under specific circumstances and for
specific reasons, engage these attributes to teach, sanctify and govern the
faithful for specific ends established by God.
Schism
has a legal definition of refusing communion with the pope or with those subject
to him. Its moral definition concerns refusing to recognize the universal
jurisdiction of the pope to govern the Church. Jurisdiction is practical
application of the attribute of Authority. The authority of the pope is not
arbitrary. St. Pius X in Pascendi
says “every society needs a directing authority to guide its members toward the
common end, to foster prudently the elements of cohesion, which in a religious
society are doctrine and worship; hence, the triple authority in the Catholic
Church, disciplinary, dogmatic and liturgical” (emphasis his). The purpose of
the “directing authority” (i.e. disciplinary) is to direct the Church “toward
the common end” which are “doctrine” (dogmatic) and “worship” (liturgical). The
“directing authority” does not possess any authority to harm doctrine, pervert
worship or corrupt morals. Law as an "act of reason for the common
good" cannot be valid if it opposes the "common end."
Human law, even the highest form of human law imposed by the pope,
has all the limitations of every human law. That is, a law for validity must be a promulgation of reason, by the proper
authority, promoting the common good,
and not in any way opposed to Divine or natural law. As
St. Thomas said,
an ‘unjust law is not a law.’ St. Thomas lists three principal conditions which must be
met for any human law to be valid: 1) It must be consistent with the virtue of
Religion; that is, it must not contain anything contrary to Divine law, 2) It must be consistent with
discipline; that is, it must conform to the Natural law; and 3) It must
promote human welfare; that is, it must promote the good of society (Fr.
Dominic Prummer, Moral
Theology). Sodomy is a direct perversion of Divine and natural law. It is a
sin that "cries to heaven for vengeance."
"Every best gift, and every perfect gift, is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no change, nor shadow of alteration" (James 1:17). The attributes of God are 'without change, or shadow of alteration', and so are these divine attributes of the Church, a divine institution. When a pope by virtue of the office of the papacy engages a divine attribute he is exercising accidentally an attribute of God. Jurisdiction of the pope is the practical exercise of the attribute of Authority. Every pope from St. Peter to Pope Francis, when exercising the attribute of divine Authority is exercising the one and same Authority in which there is "no shadow of change, nor shadow of alteration." When any pope exercises authority contrary to the divine Authority, he is acting in opposition to the jurisdiction delegated by God and is in fact refusing to recognize the jurisdiction of the papacy. He then acts schismatically. Pope Francis is in schism from the Church he governs and unless he does penance, 'he will likewise parish'.
Lastly,
many bishops let the loose theological terminology and dissimulating language
of Vatican II stand because it was merely a "pastoral council" and
therefore, they falsely held that it could not adversely affect Catholic
doctrine. This current document by the downgraded Dicastery for the Doctrine of
the Faith and signed by Pope Francis is playing the same corrupted
dissimulation. The document permitting blessing sodomite couples is dismissed
and merely "pastoral" and not "liturgical" affecting
Catholic doctrine or worship. Vatican II is the mother of sodomite
"blessings".
Being
homosexual isn't a crime, it's a human condition. We are all children of God
and God loves us as we are and for the strength that each one of us had to
fight for our dignity. Yes, it's a sin. Being homosexual is not a crime. It's
not a crime. Let's make the distinction first between sin and crime. But it's
also a sin to lack charity with one another, so what about that? And being homosexual
isn't a crime, it's a human condition.
Pope Francis,
Interview with The Associated Press, Jan 25, 2023
COMMENT: All crimes are not sins but all sins are crimes. The four sins that
cry to heaven for vengeance are willful murder, oppressing the poor, defrauding
the laborer of his wages, and sodomy. All four sins have been decriminalized
throughout the former Christian nations. Abortion is willful murder, excessive
taxation oppresses the poor, usury and inflation defraud the laborer of his
wages and property. Sodomy has not only been decriminalized it is being
idolized throughout the corrupted West. The "human condition" is
fallen human nature from original sin. The remedy for the human condition is
the grace of God through faith and baptism, and only through faith and baptism,
by which we can become children of God. To deny this remedy to homosexuals is a
grave sin against charity. Would Pope Francis regard willful murder as a sin but
not a crime? Usury a sin but not a crime? Theft from the poor a sin but not a
crime? God loves us for what we can be and not for what we are. His love is conditional: "If you
love me, keep my commandments" (John 14:15). "If you keep my
commandments, you shall abide in my love; as I also have kept my Father's
commandments, and do abide in his love" (John 15:10).
Novus Ordo Church now to be known as the Church of the
Third Millennium:
CTMers ‘Up, Up & Away!’
"Synodality is a style, it is a walk together, and it is what the
Lord expects from the Church of the Third Millennium." Pope Francis, Synod
on Synodality
USCCB post on the Seven
Catholic Attitudes Necessary for membership in the CTM; and no if, ands,
or buts!!
1.
Innovative Outlook
2.
Inclusivity
3.
Open Mindedness
4.
Listening
5.
Accompaniment
6.
Co-responsibility
7.
Dialogue
CTM found in
Catholic Prophecy: “A Dark Cloud of Fog Instead of a Head”
I saw a strange church being
built against every rule.... No angels were supervising the building
operations. In that church, nothing came
from high above... There was only division and chaos. It is probably a church of human creation,
following the latest fashion, as well as the new heterodox church of Rome,
which seems of the same kind... I saw
all sorts of people, things, doctrines, and opinions. There was something proud, presumptuous, and
violent about it, and they seemed to be very successful. I did not see a single Angel or a single
saint helping in the work. But far away
in the background, I saw a laughing figure which said: 'Do build it as solid as
you can; we will pull it to the ground'.... Among the strangest things that I
saw, were long processions of bishops. Their thoughts and utterances were made
known to me through images issuing from their mouths. Their faults towards
religion were shown by external deformities. A few had only a body, with a dark
cloud of fog instead of a head. Others had only a head, their bodies and hearts
were like thick vapors. Some were lame; others were paralytics; others were
asleep or staggering.
Blessed Anna-Katarina Emmerick,
Yves Dupont, Catholic Prophecy
COMMENT: Historians require an appitutde to enter
into the mind of the historical setting they are considering: its level of
civilization, culture, fundamental suppositions, self-understanding, its
religion, its heros, etc. When Church historians look upon Vatican II era they
will be at a loss because there is simply is no mind to enter into.
“And if Satan also be divided against himself, how shall
his kingdom stand?”
“Mutual respect… Freedom to practice one’s religion…
Freedom to follow one’s conscience without suffering ostracism or persecution,”
is extended to every error but, has and will never be extended by the Novus
Ordo hypocrites toward Catholic tradition and truth.
Ever since the Second Vatican Council, the Catholic Church has placed
special emphasis on the importance of dialogue and cooperation with the
followers of other religions. In order to be fruitful, this requires reciprocity on the part of all
partners in dialogue and the followers of other religions. I am thinking in
particular of situations in some parts of the world, where cooperation and
dialogue between religions calls for mutual respect, the freedom to practise
one’s religion and to engage in acts of public worship, and the freedom to
follow one’s conscience without suffering ostracism or persecution, even after
conversion from one religion to another. Once such a respect and openness has
been established, peoples of all religions will work together effectively for
peace and mutual understanding, and so give a convincing witness before the
world.
Pope Benedict XVI, St. Mary’s University
College, London, September 17, 2010
Daily
Examination of Conscience
“The troubled
waters of venial offenses rise daily in the hold of our hearts; whoever, then,
wishes not to perish, let him empty out every day, as sailors do the hold of a
ship, by a careful and contrite Examination of Conscience.” St Augustine
“Virtue, cannot
grow in the company of vice. If the one is to flourish, the other must perish.
Clear away, then, what is superfluous and vicious, and that which is wholesome
and virtuous will at once spring up. Whatever you withhold from your lusts will
turn to the profit and advantage of your spiritual life. Therefore, let us take
heed to cut down by a diligent self-examination the noxious growth of faults,
vices, and defects, if we wish to see the flowers of every virtue bloom forth
in the garden of our souls.”
St Bernard
“St Paul says,
‘If we judge ourselves we shall not be judged.’ If we examine and search into
our conscience, submitting it to a rigorous trial, and if, when we discover any
sins, we wash them away with tears of contrition, we shall not be judged by
God; in other words, we shall escape punishment at His awful judgment.”
Rev. Cornelius
a Lapide
Pope Francis
has denied his faith and the duty of his office. Dialogue, whose purpose is to
end at opinion, without Proselytism cannot dissolve the essential difference
between heretics and Catholics. Ultimately, that essential difference will
result, as Father Abraham said, “And besides all this, between us and you,
there is fixed a great chaos: so that they who would pass from hence to you,
cannot, nor from thence come hither.” Luke 16:26
Question from a young girl: Eighty percent of
locals do not belong to any Christian denomination. Should I convince these
friends, who are good and happy people, of my faith?
Pope Francis Reply: It's not licit to convince
someone of your faith. Proselytism is the strongest venom against the path of
ecumenism. The Apostle Paul tells us that, by virtue of our baptism, we all
form the one Body of Christ. The different members, in fact, are one body. This
is why we belong to each other and when one suffers, all suffer, when one
rejoices, all rejoice. Let us continue with confidence on our ecumenical
journey, because we know that, beyond the many open questions that still
separate us, we are already united. What unites us is much more than what
divides us.
Pope Francis,
October 13, 2016, to a group of Lutherans in Rome
The CHURCH: “Another
Christ”;The “most perfect image of Christ”, and now, the Image of Christ as
seen in the Shroud of Turin.
The Church came
forth from the side of our Savior on the Cross like a new Eve, Mother of all
the living.... Christ sustains the
Church in a divine manner; He
lives in her to such a degree that she is, as it were, another Christ...
We can think of nothing more glorious, more noble, and more honorable than
membership in the Holy Roman Catholic Church, by which we become members of
such a holy Body (the Mystical Body of Christ), are guided by one divine Spirit
(the Holy Ghost), and finally, are nourished in this earthly exile with one
doctrine (Dogma) and one same heavenly Bread (the Holy Eucharist) until we are
permitted to share the one eternal beatitude in heaven.... (Let us love the Church,) the
most perfect Image of Christ.
Pope Pius XII, Mystici Corporis
The Novus Ordo: Fulfilling
both the genus and species of true Sacrilege
As the student
of moral theology is aware, there are many difficult questions concerning the
doctrine of sacrilege. Doctors are not agreed even upon the definition of the
term. Sir Henry Spelman, who was deeply read in the scholastic theologians and
canonists, defines it as “an invading, stealing, or purloining from God, any
sacred thing, either belonging to the majesty of His Person, or appropriate to
the celebration of His divine service.” Thus there are two kinds of sacrilege;
the first kind is committed “when the very Deity is invaded, profaned, or
robbed of Its glory,” says Sir Henry. And so the sin of Lucifer and his angels,
of our first parents, of Cain (who offered the fruits of the earth and the work
of human hands), of those destroyed by the flood, of the builders of the tower
of Babel, of Nimrod, and of others, was a sin of sacrilege. “In this high sin,”
he further says, “are blasphemers, sorcerers, witches, and enchanters; and as
it maketh the greatest irruption into the glorious majesty of Almighty God, it
maketh also the greatest divorce betwixt God and man.” In other words, as modern theologians say, all sins against the
virtue of religion may be called sacrilege in the wider sense of the term.
In this sense it is not a specific sin, but rather a genus containing under it
many different species of sin.
Sir Henry
admits that this meaning of the term was not the common one with the schoolmen
and canonists. “I come now,” he says, “to the second part, which indeed is that
which the schoolmen and canonists only call sacrilege, as though the former
were of too high a nature to be expressed in the appellation: so exorbitant a
sin, as that no name can properly comprehend it: the Greek word meaning, a warring against
God, and a Greek word meaning, a direful violence upon Divine Majesty, a
superlative sacrilege.” In the strict sense of the term, the specific sin of
sacrilege is “a violating, misusing, or a putting away of things consecrated or
appropriated to divine service or worship of God: it hath many branches time,
persons, function, place: and materially. All (saith St. Thomas Aquinas) that
pertains to irreverent treatment of holy things, pertains to the injury of God,
and comes under the character of sacrilege. . . . Sacrilege of time is, when
the Sabbath or the Lord’s day is abused or profaned: this God expressly punished
in the stickgatherer.”
Rev. Thomas
Slater, S.J., Questions of Moral Theology, Doctrine on Sacrilege in Moral
Theology
Believe Dogma as it was once declared
There is only one way to believe dogma: as
holy mother Church has once declared.
Pope Pius IX, First Vatican Council, Sess. 3, Chap. 2 on Revelation,
1870, ex cathedra:
“Hence, also, that understanding of its sacred dogmas must be
perpetually retained, which Holy Mother Church has once declared; and
there must never be a recession from that meaning under the specious
name of a deeper understanding.”
This
definition of the First Vatican Council is critically important for dogmatic
purity, because the primary way the Devil attempts to corrupt Christ’s
doctrines is by getting men to recede (move away) from the Church’s
dogmas as they were once declared. There is no meaning of a
dogma other than what the words themselves state and declare, so the Devil
tries to get men to “understand” and “interpret” these words in a way that is
different from how holy mother Church has declared them.
Many of us have dealt with people who have
attempted to explain away the clear meaning of the definitions on Outside
the Church There is No Salvation by saying, “you
must understand them.” What they really mean is that you
must understand them in a way different from what the words themselves
state and declare. And this is precisely what the First Vatican
Council condemns. It condemns their moving away from the
understanding of a dogma which holy mother Church has once declared to a
different meaning, under the specious (false) name of a “deeper understanding.”
Besides those who argue that we must “understand”
dogmas in a different way than what the words themselves state and declare,
there are those who, when presented with the dogmatic definitions
on Outside the Church There is No Salvation, say, “that is your
interpretation.” They belittle the words of a dogmatic formula to
nothing other than one’s private interpretation. And this also is
heresy.
Pope St. Pius X, Lamentabile,
The Errors of the Modernists, July 3, 1907, #22:
“The dogmas which the Church professes as revealed are not truths
fallen from heaven, but they are a kind of interpretation of religious
facts, which the human mind by a laborious effort prepared for
itself.”- Condemned
Pope St. Pius X, Lamentabile, The Errors of the Modernists, July 3, 1907, #54:
“The dogmas, the sacraments, the hierarchy, as far as
pertains both to the notion and to the reality, are nothing but
interpretations and the evolution of Christian intelligence, which have
increased and perfected the little germ latent in the Gospel.”- Condemned
Dogmas of the
faith, like Outside the Church There is No Salvation, are truths fallen
from heaven; they are not interpretations. To accuse one who adheres
faithfully to these truths fallen from heaven of engaging in “private
interpretation” is to speak heresy.
The very point of a dogmatic DEFINITION is
to DEFINE precisely and exactly what the Church means by the very words of the
formula. If it does not do this by those very words in the
formula or docuмent (as the Modernists say) then it has failed in
its primary purpose – to define – and was pointless and worthless.
Anyone who says that we must interpret or
understand the meaning of a dogmatic definition, in a way which
contradicts its actual wording, is denying the whole point of the Chair of
Peter, Papal Infallibility and dogmatic definitions. He is asserting
that dogmatic definitions are pointless, worthless and foolish and that the
Church is pointless, worthless and foolish for making such a definition.
Also, those who insist
that infallible DEFINITIONS must be interpreted
by non-infallible statements (e.g., from theologians, catechisms,
etc.) are denying the whole purpose of the Chair of Peter. They are
subordinating the dogmatic teaching of the Chair of Peter (truths from
heaven) to the re-evaluation of fallible human docuмents, thereby
inverting their authority, perverting their integrity and denying their
purpose.
Pope Gregory XVI, Mirari Vos (#7), Aug. 15, 1832:
“…(Regarding Dogma) nothing of the things appointed ought to be diminished;
nothing changed; nothing added; but they must be preserved both as regards
expression and meaning.”
Thus, there is no “strict” or “loose” interpretation of
Outside the Church There is No Salvation, as the liberal heretics like to
emphasize; there is only what the Church has once declared.
Most Holy Family Monastery, Outside the Catholic Church There is
Absolutely No Salvation
Abp. Viganò: Attacking those who denounce the Deep State and Deep
Church is a ‘stab in the back’
The new conciliar and synodical religion requires giving up the
exclusivity of the Gospel in order to 'reposition ourselves under the banner of
pluralism,' that is, apostatize from the Faith and give up the Christian
combat.
Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò
LifeSiteNews | January 25, 2024— Archbishop
Carlo Maria Viganò issued a statement on X, (formerly Twitter), on Thursday
rebuking an article written by Canadian Catholic Cardinal Marc Oullet in which
Oullet said the “age of Christianity is over” and urged Christians to
“reposition themselves in relation to their environment.”
Where is the “missionary nature” of the Vatican II church? Where is the
“conciliar spring” that by opening its doors to the world was supposedly going
to revive the church after the post-Tridentine “obscurantism”? In their
eagerness to conform to the demands of the age, the proponents of the conciliar
and synodal revolution have become irrelevant and superfluous.
In the civil sphere they tell us that
globalism requires sacrifices and that we must give up our sovereignty,
impoverish ourselves, eat insects, be controlled in all our movements, and
undergo ethnic replacement. In the ecclesiastical sphere they repeat the same
mantra: the new conciliar and synodical religion requires giving up the
exclusivity of the Gospel in order to “reposition ourselves under the banner of
pluralism,” that is, apostatize from the Faith and give up the Christian
combat, the apostolate, preaching, and the defense of Catholic principles. Deep
State and Deep Church both show that they are the origin of the impending ruin
and demand that we surrender to the enemy without resistance. The proponents of
dissolution, just like their globalist accomplices, contemplate the rubble of
sixty years of apostasy as if the ruin around them had nothing to do with their
subversive action.
But if the lies of the subversives who undermine the social and
religious order are not surprising, the contradiction of those who deplore the
effects of the current revolution but refuse to identify those responsible for
it is becoming increasingly evident. With a myopic gaze they denounce
the daily horrors of the Hierarchy and civil leaders rulers but do not hesitate
to attack those who, in the face of the cowardly absconding of authority, try
as best they can to resist. This
schizophrenic attitude – it must be acknowledged – is worse than the action of
the declared enemy, it is friendly fire, it is a stab in the back.
“No one can serve two masters: for either he will love the one and hate
the other; or he will prefer the first and despise the second. You cannot serve
God and mammon” (Mt. 6:24).
COMMENT: The most assured
sign that a Catholic has a true member of the faithful is when he is repeatedly
attacked by Conservative Catholics. This is happening Archbishop Carlo Maria
Viganò more and more frequently. We have said from the beginning of this
Mission that it is not the liberal heretical Catholics who have brought about
such unmeasured destruction to the Church with the concomitant loss of
countless souls but rather the Conservative Catholics who have not only failed
to defend the Church, but have constantly attacked the Catholics who have been
faithful to the traditions of our Church. They believe that obedience to what
is objectively sinful will excuse their supine cowardice. As Archbishop Viganò
says, they are “worse than the action of the declared enemy, it is the friendly
fire, it is a stab in the back.”
Pope Francis doubles down on homosexual blessings: ‘Not the union, but
the people’ are blessed
Pope Francis emphasized that the
extra-liturgical blessings 'do not require moral perfection to be received' and
'that when a couple spontaneously approaches to ask for them, one does not
bless the union, but simply the people who together made the request.'
LifeSiteNews | VATICAN CITY | Michael Haynes—
Pope Francis defended the controversial text Fiducia Supplicans today, stating that blessings of same-sex
couples do “not bless the union, but simply the people who together make the
request.”
The Pontiff made his comments during a
January 26 meeting with the plenary assembly of the Congregation (now
Dicastery) for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF). Fiducia Supplicans emerged from that same body of the Roman Curia
on December 18, having been written by the new CDF Prefect Cardinal Victor
Manuel Fernández, and approved by the Pope.
Speaking about “evangelization” and the
sacraments, Francis closed his address by commenting on the hotly contested
text. “The intent of
‘pastoral and spontaneous blessings’ is to show concretely the closeness of the
Lord and the Church to all those who, finding themselves in different
situations, ask for help to carry on – sometimes to begin – a journey of
faith,” he said.
The Pontiff doubled down on the arguments
both he and Fernández have respectively made in the document and in their
subsequent brief comments on it, stating that the blessing of two people
together is not meant to condone the fact of the two people being together:
I would like to emphasize briefly two
things: the first is that these blessings, outside of any liturgical context
and form, do not require moral perfection to be received; the second, that when
a couple spontaneously approaches to ask for them, one does not bless the
union, but simply the people who together made the request.
Not the union, but the people — of
course taking into account the context, the sensitivities, the places where
people live and the most appropriate ways to do it.
The Pope’s defense of Fiducia Supplicans, and by extension its author Cardinal Fernández,
follows widespread opposition to the text from bishops, cardinals, and bishops’
conferences around the world.
COMMENT: Pope Francis the
Blasphemous Pervert, official head of the HomoLobby, like his fellow-travelers,
is shameless. It is ironic that this comment should occur in the context of the
'new evangelization' which, unlike Catholic evangelization, officially
repudiates any connection with conversion and repentance (proselytism). Any
homosexual, responding to actual grace in an effort to convert and repent, can
approach a Catholic priest and beg a blessing. But such a blessing is
impossible to homosexual couples because the fact that they are a
"couple" manifests no intention to convert and repent. Any attempt to
"bless" a homosexual couple is sacrilegious because the nature of the
actor, a priest who is ordained to more perfectly share in the priesthood of
Jesus Christ, and it is scandalous because it leads others to believe that
sodomy is acceptable to the Church, and thus, acceptable to God. Sodomy is a sin
that "cries to heaven for vengeance." The sins that cry to heaven for
vengeance are sins that directly violate the fundamental nature of man and its
social relationships at their very core.
Pope Francis, Archbishop of Canterbury lead ecumenical Vespers in papal
basilica
Archbishop Justin Welby joined Francis on
the altar at St. Paul's Outside the Walls and commissioned the assembled
Anglican and Catholic prelates in pairings to return to their home nation to
promote Christian unity.
LifeSiteNews | VATICAN CITY | Michael
Haynes— Pope Francis and the Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury concluded an
ecumenical ceremony in Rome today with a “commissioning” to the assembled
Anglican and Catholic prelates.
In the Basilica of St. Paul’s Outside the
Walls, Pope Francis and Anglican Archbishop Justin Welby joined forces on the
altar to lead ecumenical Vespers and to send out pairings of Anglican and
Catholic prelates – both male and female – on ecumenical endeavors.
Hailing from 27 countries, the ecumenical
pairing involved a Catholic and Anglican prelate from each country, who then
return to their home nation to spread ecumenical efforts in the current style
of Christian unity.
During Pope Francis’ homily, he spoke on
the manner in which “unity” was to be effected, saying that “only a love that
becomes gratuitous service, only the love that Jesus taught and embodied, will
bring separated Christians closer to one another.
“Only that love, which does not appeal to
the past in order to remain aloof or to point a finger, only that love which in
God’s name puts our brothers and sisters before the ironclad defense of our own
religious structures will unite us,” he added.
Stating how “each baptized person is a
member of the one Body of Christ,” Francis drew heavily from today’s feast
– the Conversion of St. Paul – saying “all efforts to attain full
unity are called to follow the same route as Paul, decentralizing our own ideas
in order to hear the Lord’s voice and give him the space to take the
initiative.”
Addressing the assembled ecumenical clergy
and a large body of the Roman Curia, Francis did not highlight the primacy of
the Catholic Church but spoke instead of the role of “prayer” in the pursuit of
“unity.” Quoting from St. Paul’s dialogue with God in the Scripture passage of
his conversion, Francis stated:
What are we to do Lord? In asking that
question, we already have an answer, because the first answer is prayer. Prayer
for unity is the primary responsibility in our journey together. And it is a
sacred responsibility, because it means being in communion with the Lord, who
prayed above all to the Father for unity.
Francis thanked Welby for being present for
the joint commissioning of bishops, highlighting that “we can confer on these
joint groups of bishops the mandate of continuing to testify to the unity
willed by God for his Church in their respective regions, as they move forward
together ‘to extend the mercy and peace of God to a world in need.’”
Welby delivered an unplanned homily after
Francis’, highlighting the themes of “unity” and “love” and how such aspects
must be prioritized over “anger.”
During the commissioning itself, Francis
pointed back to Pope Gregory the Great sending St. Augustine to convert the
English people. Meanwhile Welby urged that “your ministry alongside one another
as Catholics and Anglicans be for the world a foretaste of the reconciling of
all Christians in the unity of the one and only Church of Christ for which we
pray this day.”
At this point, Francis and Welby pronounced
together in English a commendation to the bishops before greeting them in their
pairs as the prelates approached the altar and shook hands with Francis and
Welby.
“The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, the
love of God, and the Communion of the Holy Spirit be with all of you,” Francis
and Welby said in unison after greeting the prelates.
Just prior to the close of the Vespers,
Cardinal Kurt Koch – prefect of the Dicastery for the Promotion of Christian
Unity – thanked the Pope for his presence, saying it highlighted “how much
ecumenical engagement is close to your heart.”
“The ecumenism of charity has enabled us to
rediscover the fraternity that, among us Christians and among us Christian
communities, exists by reason of the baptism common to all, offering us an
effective network of friendly relations,” Koch continued.
The ceremony took place at the conclusion
of the week of prayer for Christian unity. Running alongside the week of prayer
for Christian unity is the “Growing Together” summit, which is being organized
by the International Anglican-Roman Catholic Commission for Unity and Mission
(IARCCUM).
IARCCUM is “an official commission of the
Anglican Communion and the Catholic Church, established to support ecumenical
dialogue between the traditions,” and it was the final event of the Rome
section of the IARCCUM summit that Francis joined forces with Welby at Vespers.
IARCCUM described the event as “a
significant moment, symbolic for Anglican-Catholic bonds and advancing
ecumenical dialogue.”
It marks the second time that Francis and
Welby have commissioned the pairs of Anglican and Catholic bishops since 2016,
a year which saw the first IARCCUM summit.
Over his pontificate, Pope Francis has
formed a close relationship with Welby, most recently journeying with him to South
Sudan on an ecumenical pilgrimage and inviting the Anglican prelate to
take a place of honor at the ecumenical prayer vigil held on the eve of the
Synod on Synodality.
COMMENT: The
"unity" Jesus Christ prayed for His Church at the Last Supper was granted
by God and has never been absent from His Catholic Church. The Church is called
the "Mystical Body of Christ" and constitutes a substantial unity so
that we can speak of the Church as one, holy, catholic and apostolic. It is one
in the profession of faith; it is holy in the sacraments and the grace of God;
it is catholic in that it is universal in both time and space. The unity is
characterized by the attributes of faith, sacraments and government. Those that
deny any dogma of Catholic faith are called heretics. Those that deny the
jurisdictional governance of the pope are schimatics. Both heretics and
schismatics are cut off from God's grace and the unity of the Mystical Body of
Christ even if they remain a material member of the Church and even if they
constitute part of the governance of the Church.
Schism like heresy has both a legal and a
moral definitions. Legally schism is the failure to have communion with the
pope and those who are subject to him. Morally schism must be viewed from the
perspective of God and divine law. God established His Church with
jurisdiction. This jurisdiction is one and universal. Every pope from St. Peter
to the current occupier of the papacy enters into the one and only jurisdiction
established by God. When any pope or bishop engages the jurisdiction of the
Church to destroy the ends for which Jesus Christ established His Church, he
becomes morally a schismatic for he acts against and denies the jurisdiction
established by God.
Pope Francis by entering into common liturgical
prayer, which the Divine Office is, with the heretical and schismatic Anglicans
is committing the sin of heresy and schism. Although the pope cannot be legally
judged by any man because there exists no greater criminal jurisdiction, does
not prohibit any of the faithful Catholics from a moral judgment when the pope
commits manifest sins of heresy and schism.
Manifest sins are sins that have already been judged by God. And so St.
Paul could say with divine certitude:
Know you not that the unjust shall not
possess the kingdom of God? Do not err: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor
adulterers, nor the effeminate, nor liers with mankind (sodomites), nor
thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor railers, nor extortioners, shall
possess the kingdom of God. 1 Cor. 6:9-10
Now the works of the flesh are manifest,
which are fornication, uncleanness, immodesty, luxury, idolatry, witchcrafts,
enmities, contentions, emulations, wraths, quarrels, dissensions, sects,
envies, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like. Of the which I
foretell you, as I have foretold to you, that they who do such things shall not
obtain the kingdom of God. Gal 9:19-21
Those who habitually commit "manifest
sins" with no intention of conversion or repentance are known as
"dogs" and "swine" and Catholics are warned by Jesus Christ
to "Give not that which is holy to dogs; neither cast ye your pearls
before swine, lest perhaps they trample them under their feet, and turning upon
you, they tear you" (Matt 7:6).
Hermeneutics of
Continuity/Discontinuity
Pope Francis
denies Catholic Dogma:
“Those who do not repent and cannot therefore
be forgiven disappear. There is no hell, there is the disappearance of sinful
souls.”
Pope Francis the Vanishing, quoted by Eugenio
Scalfari in a private interview
“What I’m about to say is not a dogma of the Faith but something
I hold personally: I like to think that hell is empty. I hope that’s the
reality!"
Pope Francis the 'Is there anyone else here?', Italian
television interview, 1-13-2024
St. Athanasius
Profession of Catholic Dogma:
“Who suffered
for our salvation; descended into hell; rose again the third day from the dead.
He ascended into heaven, he sitteth on the right hand of God the Father
Almighty, from whence he will come to judge the living and the dead. At whose
coming all men will rise again with their bodies; And shall give account for their own works. And they that
have done good shall go into life everlasting; and they that have done evil,
into everlasting fire.
This is the catholic
faith; which except a man believe truly and firmly, he cannot be saved.”
Athanasian
Creed
Pope Francis the Pasty Faced does not have
long to live. He will soon know existentially that Hell is real, the punishment
is real, and the duration is eternal!
There is a
fitting irony that it was on the 500th anniversary of the Luther’s
revolt that Pope Francis embraced divorce and adultery when he publically
proclaimed his personal belief in Luther's heretical doctrine of justification!
Archbishop Viganò: Today we celebrate the papacy amid a historic phase
of ‘crisis and apostasy’
During this crisis, we remember the prophecy of Leo XIII who warned
that 'where the See of Blessed Peter and the Chair of Truth was established to
enlighten the nations, there they have placed the throne of their abomination
and impiety, so that by striking the Shepherd they might also scatter the
flock.'
CATHEDRA VERITATIS
Sermon on the Feast of the Chair of Saint
Peter in Rome
Praised be Jesus Christ.
Today the Church in Rome celebrates the
feast of the Chair of Saint Peter, with which the authority that Our Lord
conferred on the Prince of the Apostles finds in the Chair its symbol and
ecclesial expression. We find traces of this celebration since the third
century, but it was in 1588, at the time of the Lutheran heresy, that Paul IV
established that the feast of the Chair qua primum Romæ sedit
Petrus would take place on January 18, in response to the denial of the
presence of the Apostle in the City of Rome. The other feast for the Chair of the
first Diocese founded by St. Peter, Antioch, is celebrated by the universal
Church on February 22.
Let me point out this important aspect:
just as the human body develops antibodies when disease arises, so that it can
be defeated when it is infected; so too the ecclesial body defends itself from
the contagion of error when it occurs, affirming with greater incisiveness
those aspects of dogma threatened by heresy. For this reason, with great
wisdom, the Church proclaimed Truths of the Faith at certain times and not before,
since those Truths were hitherto believed by the faithful in a less explicit
and articulated form and it was not yet necessary to specify them. The sacred
Canons of the Ecumenical Council of Nicaea respond to the Arian denial of the
divine nature of Our Lord, and are echoed by the splendid compositions of the
ancient liturgy; the denial of the sacrificial value of the Mass,
transubstantiation, suffrages, and indulgences are answered by the sacred
Canons of the Council of Trent, and along with them also the sublime texts of
the Liturgy. Today’s feast responds to the anti-papal denial of the foundation
of the Diocese of Rome by the Apostle Peter, a feast that was desired by Paul
IV precisely in order to reiterate the historical truth contested by Protestants
and to strengthen the doctrine that derives from it.
The heretics and their neo-modernist
followers, who have infested the Church of Christ for the past sixty years, act
in the opposite way. And where they do not brazenly deny the Catholic Magisterium,
they attempt to weaken it by being silent about it, omitting it, and
formulating it in such a way as to make it equivocal and therefore acceptable
even by those who deny it. This is exactly how the heresiarchs of the past also
acted; this is how the innovators acted at Vatican II; and this is how those
who, in order not to be accused of formal heresy, seek to cancel those “immune
defenses” with which the Church had endowed herself, so as to make the faith
fall into error and infect those defenses with the plague of heresy. Almost
everything that the Mystical Body had wisely developed over the centuries – and
particularly during the second millennium of the Christian era – growing
harmoniously like a child who becomes an adult and strengthens himself in body
and spirit, has now been willfully obscured and censured, with the deceptive
excuse of returning to the primordial simplicity of Christian antiquity, and
with the unspeakable purpose of adulterating the Catholic Faith in order to
please the enemies of the Church. If you take the Montinian Missal, you will
not find explicit heresies in it; but if you compare it with the traditional
Missal, you will find that the omission of so many prayers composed in defense
of revealed Truth was more than enough to make the Reformed Mass acceptable
even to Lutherans, as they themselves admitted after the promulgation of that
fatal and equivocal rite. To confirm this, even the feasts of the Chair of St.
Peter in Rome and Antioch have been combined into one, in the name of
that cancel culture that the modernist sect adopted in the
ecclesiastical sphere well before the woke Left appropriated it in
the civil sphere.
Today we celebrate the glories of the
Papacy, symbolized by the Cathedra
Apostolica that the genius of Bernini artistically composed on the
altar of the apse of the Vatican Basilica, which is dominated by the alabaster
window depicting the Holy Spirit and guarded by four Doctors of the Church:
Saint Augustine and Saint Ambrose for the Latin Church, Saint Athanasius and
Saint John Chrysostom for the Greek Church. In the original project, which has
remained intact through the centuries, the Chair was located above an altar,
which the devastating fury of the innovators did not spare, moving it between
the apse and the baldacchino of the Confession. Yet it is precisely in the
architectural unity of altar and chair – which today has been deliberately
erased – that we find the foundation of the doctrine of the Primacy of Peter,
which is founded on Christ, He who is the lapis angularis, just as the altar of
sacrifice, which is also a symbol of Christ, is made of stone.
We celebrate the Papacy in a historical
phase of grave crisis and apostasy, which has risen even to the level of the
Throne on which Peter first sat. And while our hearts are broken in
contemplating the ruins caused by the devastation of the innovators to the
detriment of so many souls and the glory of the divine Majesty; while we
implore from Heaven a light that will allow us to understand how to combine Our
Lord’s promise Non prævalebunt with the steady stream of heresies and
scandals spread by the one whom Providence has inflicted on us at the head of
the ecclesial body as punishment for the sins committed by the Hierarchy in
these decades; while we see the division between those who deluded themselves
that they still had a Pope segregated in the Monastery and the schism in the
Dioceses of Northern Europe with their wicked synodal journey strongly desired
by Bergoglio, we remember the prophecy of Leo XIII of happy memory, who wanted
to insert in the prayer of the Exorcism against Satan and the apostate angels
those terrible words that at the time must have sounded almost scandalous, but
that today we understand in their supernatural sense:
Ecclesiam, Agni immaculati sponsam, faverrimi hostes repleverunt
amaritudinibus, inebriarunt absinthio; Ad omnia desiderabilia ejus impias
miserunt manus. Ubi sedes beatissimi Petri et Cathedra veritatis ad lucem
gentium constituta est, ibi thronum posuerunt abominationis et impietatis suæ;
ut percusso Pastor, et gregem disperse valeant.
Terrible
enemies have filled the Church, bride of the immaculate Lamb, with bitterness,
they have poisoned her with absinthe; they have laid their wicked hands on all
desirable things. There where the See of Blessed Peter and the Chair of Truth
was established to enlighten the nations, there they have placed the throne of
their abomination and impiety, so that by striking the Shepherd they might also
scatter the flock. These are not randomly written words: they were
written after Leo XIII, at the end of Mass, had a vision in which the Lord
granted Satan a period of time of about a hundred years to test the men of the
Church. They echo the message of the Blessed Virgin at La Salette, fifty years
earlier: “Rome will lose
the Faith and become the seat of the Antichrist,” and precede by little
more than a decade that third part of the Secret of Fatima in which, in all
likelihood, Our Lady predicted the apostasy of the Hierarchy with the Second
Vatican Council and the liturgical reform.
Every believer down the centuries has been
able to look to Rome as a beacon of truth. No Pope, not even the most
controversial popes in history like Alexander VI, ever dared to usurp his
sacred Apostolic Authority in order to demolish the Church, adulterate her
Magisterium, corrupt her Morality, and trivialize her Liturgy. In the midst of
the most shocking storms, the Chair of Peter has remained unshaken and, despite
persecution, it has never failed in the mandate conferred on it by
Christ: Feed my lambs. Feed my
sheep (Jn 21:15-19). Today, and for ten years now, feeding the lambs
and sheep of the Lord’s flock is considered as a “solemn foolishness” by the
one who now occupies the Throne of Peter, and the command that the Lord has
given to the Apostles – Go therefore
and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and
of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have
commanded you (Mt 28:19-20) – is seen as deplorable “proselytism,” as
if the divine mission of the Holy Church were comparable to the heretical
propaganda of sects. He said so on October 1, 2013; January 6, 2014; September
24, 2016; May 3, 2018; September 30, 2018; June 6, 2019; December 20, 2019;
April 25, 2020, and again just a week ago on January 11, 2023. And here
collapses the last, gasping vestige of what was Vatican II, which made
“mission” [missionarietà] its watchword without understanding that in order to
proclaim Christ to a paganized world it is necessary first of all to believe in
the supernatural Truths that He taught the Apostles and that the Church has the
duty to guard faithfully. Watering down Catholic doctrine, silencing
it, and betraying it in order to please the mentality of the age is not the
work of Faith, because this virtue is based on God who is the Supreme Truth; it
is not a work of Hope, because one cannot hope for the salvation or help of a
God whose revealing authority and saving love one rejects; it is not a work of Charity,
because one cannot love Him whose very essence is denied.
What is the vulnus that has struck the ecclesial body, making possible
this apostasy of the leaders of the Hierarchy, to the point of causing scandal
not only in Catholics, but also in the people of the world? It is the abuse of
authority. It is believing that the power connected with authority can be
exercised for the very opposite purpose of that purpose which legitimizes
authority itself. It is taking God’s place, usurping His supreme power to
decide what is right and what is not, deciding what can still be said to people
and what is to be considered old-fashioned or outdated in the name of progress
and evolution. It is to use the power of the Holy Keys to loose what ought to
be bound and bind what ought to be loosed. It is not to understand that
authority belongs to God and to no one else, and that both the rulers of
nations and the prelates of the Church are all hierarchically subjected to
Christ the King and High Priest. In short, it is separating the Chair from the
altar, the authority of the Vicar and the Regent from that of the One who makes
that authority sacred, ratified from above, because He possesses its fullness
and is its divine origin.
Among the titles of the Roman Pontiff, there
recurs, along with Christi Vicarius,
also that of Servus servorum Dei.
If the first has been disdainfully rejected by Bergoglio, his choice to retain
the second sounds like a provocation, as his words and his works demonstrate.
The day will come when the prelates of the Church will be asked to clarify what
intrigues and conspiracies may have led to the Throne one who acts as the servant of Satan’s servants, and why
they have fearfully assisted his excesses or made themselves accomplices of
this proud heretical tyrant. Let those tremble who know and yet are silent out
of false sense of prudence: by their silence they do not protect the honor of
the Holy Church, nor do they preserve the simple from scandal. On the contrary,
they plunge the Bride of the Lamb into ignominy and humiliation, and drive the
faithful away from the Ark of Salvation at the very moment of the Flood.
Let us pray that the Lord will deign to
grant us a holy Pope and holy rulers. Let us implore Him to put an end to this
long period of trial, thanks to which – like every event permitted by God – we
are now understanding how fundamental it is instaurare
omnia in Christo, to recapitulate everything in Christ; how hellish –
literally – is the world that rejects the Lordship of Christ, and how much more
infernal is a religion that strips itself with contempt of its royal garments –
robes dyed with the Blood of the Lamb on the Cross – to become the servant of
the powerful, of the New World Order, of the globalist sect. Tempora bona veniant. Pax Christi veniat.
Regnum Christi veniat.
And so may it be.
+ Carlo Maria Viganò, Archbishop
January 18, 2023
Cathedra sancti Petri Apostoli, qua
primum Romae sedit
COMMENT: It is an uplifting sermon by Archbishop Viganò.
It is particularly encouraging for our Mission that Archbishop Viganò is
celebrating the Feast of the Chair of St. Peter at Rome. This feast was removed
from the 1962 Bugnini transitional Missal celebrated by Indult communities.
Archbishop Viganò is using the same Missal used at our Mission which is
undoubtedly the "received and approved" immemorial Roman rite which
every Catholic possesses by the right of his baptism.
COMMENT: Víctor
Manuel Fernández – Pope Francis'
appointment to head the downgraded “Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith,”
is as fundamentally perverse as his boss. The African and many Eastern Catholic
bishops have revolted against Francis/Bergoglio's recent authorization for
"blessings" of Sodomites which they dismiss as a "cultural"
problem. These "blessings" however will proceed at the Vatican. It is
unfortunate that it has taken something so grossly perverse to awaken these
bishops and remove the scales from their eyes but awake they are, and if they
now begin to trace carefully the roots of this problem they will eventually
return to the Catholic Faith in its purity and worship. In the end, Vatican II
will be thrown into the same garbage with Fernandez and his books.
Abp. Viganò: Fernández’s blasphemous sex book is yet another fruit of
the Vatican II revolution
'If we think of the spousal model that Saint Paul offers us in the most
chaste relationship between Christ and the Church (Eph 5:22), Tucho’s
unmentionable obscenities reveal to us a soul totally corrupted by vice, and by
a vice that with all evidence seems to have been amply experimented.'
Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò
LifeSiteNews
| January 11, 2024 — If, before Vatican II, an official of the Holy Office had
been tasked with examining the text of La Pasión Mística to draw up a report on
it in view of making a judgment about it, in all probability he would not have
dedicated more than “ten, fifteen seconds” to it before throwing it into the
stove. But before Vatican II a heretical pornographer would never have aspired,
not only to the Sacred Purple of the cardinalate, but not even to the priesthood;
nor would his Superiors have ever admitted him to Holy Orders. Víctor Manuel
Fernández – known as “Tucho” by the friends of Santa Marta – instead rose to
the very top of the Hierarchy, created Cardinal and appointed Prefect of the
Holy Office – excuse me, of the “Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith” – by
another Argentine heretic, Jorge Mario Bergoglio, who, since March 13, 2013,
has demonstrated by his governance and teaching actions that he is an emissary
of the globalist elite, following the wishes, or rather the mandates, of the
Anglo-American deep state. But just when Fernández’s cursus horrorum seemed to
reserve him entry into the Conclave as Jorge Mario’s candidate, along came the
embarrassing pamphlet dusted off from the shelf, destined to weigh like a
tombstone on Tucho’s ambitions.
A cursory reading of La Pasión Mística is
difficult and shocking for anyone. The limping prose and the didactic
insistence on aspects of copulation are accompanied by descriptions of
obscenity that would embarrass even a consummate frequenter of brothels, to the
point of wondering if certain details were also the subject of personal
experimentation by Tucho Fernández. The most obvious and normal reaction to
seeing the obscene pages of this pamphlet is the instinctive disgust one feels
for the shameful satisfaction in juxtaposing perversions unworthy of a
civilized person to the sphere of spirituality, and this is enough to avoid
indulging in dangerous curiosities and throw it into the flames. No complex theological
speculations are needed to understand that this insistence on sexuality cloaked
in mystical ambitions is one of the incontrovertible signs of diabolical
action, as Saint Ignatius teaches. But once we have seen Fernández’s foul work
being consumed in the avenging fire, we are left with the feeling of having
been somehow stained by his moral filth.
If
the condemnation without appeal of this work does not even have to be
explained, so obvious is its obscenity, it is nevertheless necessary to ask
ourselves some questions about its author and ask ourselves how much the
doctrinal and spiritual approach that emerges from La Pasión Mística and Saname
Con tu Boca is compatible with the priestly, episcopal and the cardinalatial
dignity and the role of Prefect of the Dicastery. Because what shocks the
reader is not only the author’s ease in dealing with scabrous topics, but in
having dared to take them as a key to understanding the mystical experience, in
a blasphemous subversion. In fact, if the Christian soul starts from the union
with God, from the bond of pure and spiritual Charity that binds it to its
Lord, Creator and Redeemer, to behave accordingly in the face of good and evil;
Tucho starts instead from a borderline reality to make it the yardstick of divine
life, to interpret the relationships between the Three Divine Persons and the
soul in the light of a corrupt and deviant sexuality. In his view it is
therefore not the Truth of God that illuminates our moral action, sanctifying
it and making it meritorious, but the sinful action of the individual and the
couple that determines the very essence of God. We have already had various
previews of this inverted vision of the terms, not the least of which is the
idea that would like to consider the Commandments as ideal objectives which man
is supposedly unable to conform to, according to the situational morality
endorsed by the Argentine Jesuit. For Tucho it is not the individual who must
obey God, but God who must adapt His requests, His Law, to what the individual
decides. It is the mentality of Fiducia Supplicans, which in the absence of any
doctrinal basis to legitimize a seriously sinful union, invents a new way of
considering the blessings in use in the Church – a “true novelty” – in order to
bless what cannot be blessed and ratify what not only cannot be ratified, but
must indeed be condemned.
“Let us now ask ourselves whether these
particularities of the male and female in orgasm are somehow also present in
the mystical relationship with God,” writes Tucho, who does not only speak of
the “aggressive grunts” of the man or of “images with violent sexual scenes,
images of orgies” which according to the author should entice the man more than
the woman, but also of their sacrilegious use as a figure of supernatural love,
so that it is no longer the married couple who give themselves in the fruitful
marital relationship on the model of divine Charity, but it is the Divine
Persons who see themselves reduced to partners in a sexual relationship, with
the aggravating circumstance that this reference model is deliberately
distorted and distorted by choosing it from the most extreme examples inspired
by pornography, an industry managed almost entirely by Rabbi Solomon Friedman’s
MindGeek, with the aim of morally corrupting the goyim.
If we think of the spousal model that Saint
Paul offers us in the most chaste relationship between Christ and the Church
(Eph 5:22), Tucho’s unmentionable obscenities reveal to us a soul totally
corrupted by vice, and by a vice that with ll evidence seems to have been amply
experimented.
The horror that a normal person feels when
reading the revolting pamphlet is twofold: one’s horror at the indecent and
blasphemous contents is combined with the horror of seeing how the current
Prefect of the most important Roman Dicastery is not only not ashamed of it,
but actually has brazenly tried to justify his literary attempts, which
according to him could constitute “a moment of dialogue with young couples who
wanted to better understand the spiritual meaning of their relationships”.
Because if certain perversions are deplorable and serious in a soul brutalized
by vice, they become intolerable when they are made the subject of publication
by a priest who is a professor of moral theology – as Tucho was at the time the
book was published, before being made a Bishop by Bergoglio.
It is not surprising if, in conjunction
with the news of the existence of this pamphlet, the Maltese Archbishop Charles
Scicluna – Adjunct Secretary of the Tucho dicastery, former Promoter of Justice
of the CDF under Benedict XVI – asked to discuss – rectius: asked to open up
for discussion – the topic of ecclesiastical celibacy. If the Prefect of the
former Holy Office was able to write and publish such blasphemous obscenities,
it is because he wants them to become normality not only for lay people, but
also and above all for clerics, so that their moral brutalization precludes
them from any even remote possibility of preaching a Gospel that they are the
first to contradict, and which, according to another Cardinal, “is not a
distillation of truth”. Those who ask to abolish Celibacy do so because it is
the last Catholic bastion to protect the Priesthood. Look at the erotic
frescoes commissioned by Vincenzo Paglia in the Terni cathedral; Rupnik’s
blasphemous and sacrilegious sexual magic rituals; the “chem parties” with
prostitutes of the secretary of Cardinal Coccopalmerio, Monsignor Capozzi; the
appointments of Ricca in Santa Marta and as Prelate of the IOR [Vatican Bank],
of Maradiaga to the Council of Cardinals, of Grech, of Hollerich, not to
mention the Substitute of the Holy See, Archbishop Peña Parra; the shame of
Fabian Pedacchio, former personal secretary of Bergoglio and “companion” of the
Secretary of the Dicastery of Bishops Ilson Montanari; look at the cover-ups of
the McCarrick sex scandals that I denounced and how his circle is still found
in roles of high responsibility, both in the Vatican and in the United States,
with Farrell, Cupich, Tobin, Gregory, and McElroy; Bergoglio’s audiences with
transsexuals, well-known homosexuals, and cohabiting lovers: can anyone
seriously believe that there is no coherence in this cesspool of vices and
perversions with what Tucho wrote in 1998?
The first confirmation of this coherence
comes from the enthusiastic approval enjoyed by Bergoglio and his henchmen
among the declared enemies of Christ and the Church: Freemasons, globalists,
LGBTQ+ and gender activists, promoters of the woke ideology, proponents of
neo-Malthusian eugenics, abortionists. How can we believe that those who enjoy
the support of Lynn Forester de Rothschild, the Soros’s, the Clinton’s, Bill
Gates and Klaus Schwab can at the same time fight in the name of the Gospel of
Christ against the infernal ideology that drives these criminal subversives?
There are those who have rightly pointed out that, in light of this shameful
mass of pseudo-mystical and sacrilegious pornography, all the insistence of
Tucho and the Bergoglian sect on the inclusion of sodomites and concubinarists sounds
like a shameless and shameless Cicero pro domo sua. Even the simple faithful,
with the common sense that comes from being members of the Church, have
understood that this mass of perverts only seeks to legitimize the vices of
others in order to be able to practice them themselves in broad daylight, after
having clumsily hidden them for decades; and that this shameful conflict of
interest is so evident in its obscene arrogance that it disqualifies the
mellifluous and deceptive declarations of welcome. Because these misguided
people do not seek the salvation of lost souls, but cynically use them as a
pretext for their own personal gain, to indulge their own vices and those of
their accomplices, to fuel the vile network of blackmail that controls rulers,
politicians, actors, clerics, journalists, magistrates, doctors, and
entrepreneurs from all over the world.
What Fernández writes in La Pasión Mística
is not that different from what actually happened on Jeffrey Epstein’s island.
But this is not normality, even if it is what the author of the pamphlet would
like us to believe, with pseudoscientific petulance: “On a hormonal and
psychological level there are no pure males and females.” If these are Tucho’s
hormones and psychology, there are however many people who live their affection
and marital relationship using reason, free will, and the Grace of God. There
are people – and this is what Fernández cannot understand – who have the
humility to recognize themselves as weak and fallible, but who precisely because
they are aware of their own weakness find in God the strength to resist
temptations and grow in virtue, with that heroism that only Charity can inspire
and nourish in the hearts of those who do not look at reality from a pool of
smelly manure. Virtue: something unknown to the new usurpers of Santa Marta.
The silence we have witnessed so far has finally been broken by a choral
protest to say the least: the list of entire Episcopal Conferences, of some
Cardinals, of diocesan Ordinaries, of associations of clerics and professors of
ecclesiastical disciplines who oppose Bergoglio is growing longer every day.
And to the grievances of the Clergy are added those of the Catholic laity and
even exponents of other religious confessions, tired and exasperated by this
mad rush towards the abyss. But if the indignation for Fiducia Supplicans and
the concomitant Vatican scandals is right and proper, we must have the courage
to recognize that the Argentine Jesuit represents the metastasis of the
conciliar cancer, and that his apostasy through synodalism – that is, resorting
to methods of control of assemblies in which the totalitarian communist regimes
are very expert – is consistent with the ideological foundations laid by the
collegiality theorized by Vatican II.
I repeat: we must recognize that a
revolutionary process has been underway for over a century; a planned process
which then materialized with the subversive action of the neomodernists at the
Council and with their seizure of power throughout the post-conciliar period; a
process in which all the Popes from John XXIII to Benedict XVI took an active
part. If we arrived at the worship of the Pachamama it is because we passed
through Assisi; if the Abu Dhabi Declaration was signed and desired by the Holy
See, it is because we first tolerated Nostra Ætate and Dignitatis Humanæ; if we
have come to hear deaconesses theorized it is because we have suffered in
silence the introduction of “extraordinary ministers of the Eucharist” and
altar girls. And – let’s say it! – if today the Vatican is reduced to a
brothel, it is because since the time of Paul VI there was no desire to nip in
the bud the lavender mafia that was encysted in the Vatican, instead favoring
those who, being more blackmailable, gave greater guarantees of obedience. The
pattern of how the deep church acted to infiltrate the Catholic Church is a
mirror image of what the deep state followed to take control of civil
governments, as recent news shows us. The sewer from which the infamous
pamphlet of the Prefect of the former Holy Office re-emerged is the same from
which the scandals of the characters mentioned in Epstein’s list emerge. We
need a radical return to the God of the human race, through a purification of
civil society and the ecclesial body. We need to oppose this attack with
collective action, so that the Papacy may return to being a Beacon of Truth and
a Harbor of Salvation, and not the megaphone of the antichristic synarchy of
the World Economic Forum.
RULE OF FAITH
The Rule
of Faith was given to
the Church in
the very act
of Revelation and
its promulgation by the
Apostles. But for
this Rule to
have an actual
and permanently efficient character,
it must be
continually promulgated and enforced
by the living
Apostolate, which must exact
from all members
of the Church
a docile Faith
in the truths of
Revelation authoritatively proposed,
and thus unite the
whole body of
the Church, teachers
and taught, in perfect
unity of Faith. Hence
the original promulgation is the
remote Rule of
Faith, and the
continuous promulgation by the
Teaching Body (i.e.: DOGMA) is
the proximate Rule.
Scheeben’s
Dogmatic Manuel of Catholic Theology
“Without
faith, it is impossible to please God.” (Heb.
11-6)
Scripture and Tradition ARE the
‘Remote Rule of Faith’; DOGMA IS the ‘Proximate Rule of Faith’
If
Pope Francis wants to understand St. Vincent of Lerins, he has only to read
Vatican Council I!
For,
the doctrine of faith which God revealed (the “doctrine of faith” that “God revealed,” is found in
Scripture and Tradition, the remote rule of faith) has not been handed
down as a philosophic invention to the human mind to be perfected, but has been
entrusted as a divine deposit to the Spouse of Christ, to be faithfully guarded
and infallibly interpreted (the “faithful and infallible interpretation” of the “divine deposit”
of faith is called DOGMA which is the proximate rule of faith).
Hence, also, that understanding of its sacred dogmas must be perpetually
retained, which Holy Mother Church has once declared (that is, the DOGMA itself is
the “once declared... understanding”); and there must never be recession
from that meaning under the specious name of a deeper
understanding. “Therefore […] let the understanding, the knowledge, and
wisdom of individuals as of all, of one man as of the whole Church, grow and
progress strongly with the passage of the ages and the centuries; but let it be
solely in its own genus, namely
in the same dogma, with the same sense and the same understanding.” [Vincent
of Lerins, Commonitorium, 23, 3].
Vatican
Council I, Dogmatic Constitution on the Faith, Dei Filius
For all the gods of the Gentiles are devils; but the Lord made the
heavens. Ps. 44
Pope Francis denigrates traditional Catholics as
schismatics and regards those who keep the immemorial ecclesiastical customs of
our Faith as “neo-Pelegians.” If the
members of Ss. Peter & Paul were really “schismatics,” we would then have
their “respect” for us, and “respect (for our) religion, its teachings, its
symbols, its values.... (for our) religious leaders and places of
worship.”
....Turning to mutual respect in
interreligious relations, especially between Christians and Muslims, we are
called to respect the religion of the other, its teachings, its symbols, its
values. Particular respect is due to religious leaders and to places of
worship. How painful are attacks on one or other of these!
It is clear that, when we show respect
for the religion of our neighbours or when we offer them our good wishes on the
occasion of a religious celebration, we simply seek to share their joy, without
making reference to the content of their religious convictions.
Regarding the education of Muslim and
Christian youth, we have to bring up our young people to think and speak
respectfully of other religions and their followers, and to avoid ridiculing or
denigrating their convictions and practices.
We all know that mutual respect is
fundamental in any human relationship, especially among people who profess
religious belief. In this way, sincere and lasting friendship can grow.....
Pope
Francis, greeting to Mohammedans at the end of Ramadan
The Theological Virtues of faith and hope can
exist without charity. But then they are
not perfect virtues. Perfect virtue
enables a man to act perfectly in the pursuit of happiness. But an act of faith which does not proceed
under the impulse of charity is not a perfect act of faith. Believing in God without loving Him does not
effectively lead a man to God. Similarly
hope cannot be perfect without charity or the love of God. The sinner who hopes for Heaven through some
future repentance is doing a good thing, but he is not doing it well. To hope perfectly in God’s goodness a man
must love God and be in union with God’s will.
Rev. Walter Farrell, O. P., My Way of Life, Pocket Edition of St. Thomas
COMMENT: The former
bishop of Harrisburg, the Most Reverend Kevin C. Rhoades, became visibly angry
when he was told that we know that the only reason he has established an Indult
community for the Latin Mass in Harrisburg, in a beautiful church, at a central
location, and at convenient Mass times, with all the other sacraments is
because that is what is being offered in York, PA. He did not deny it because
it is true. He became visibly angry because it revealed his hypocrisy. We
rejected Bishop Rhoades offer to become an Indult community because the Indult
is a conditional grant of legal privilege to do something that is normally
against the law. It therefore can be revoked or altered at any time for any
reason whatsoever. What is more damaging, accepting an Indult is at the same
time a renouncement of any claim to our God given rights as Catholics to the
"received and approved" immemorial Roman rite of Mass. As long as Ss.
Peter & Paul Roman Catholic Mission is here in York, the Indult will be
available in Harrisburg. We are glad for this. This is one of the important
reasons for the establishment of our Mission. It is, however, not the most
important reason.
The current
regulations governing the Indult published with this letter by Bishop Senior
contains no changes excepting the use of the 1962 Rituale Romanum will be restricted to the chapel in Harrisburg. If
anyone wants to be married, buried or shriven in the 1962 Bugnini rite they
will have to do so in Harrisburg. The conditions to obtain the Indult requires
Catholics to accept only 1962 Indult Bugnini transitional Missal and they must
accept the "validity" of Vatican II.
We at Ss.
Peter & Paul reject the Indult Bugnini transitional Missal and offer only
the "received and approved" immemorial Roman rite dogmatized at the
Council of Trent, inserted in the Tridentine Profession of Faith, and codified
after the Council by the infallible decree, Quo
Primum. It is the Mass in common
usage before Bugnini laid his filthy Masonic hands on it.
As for the
"validity" of Vatican II we are in agreement. It was an act of the
"authentic magisterium," that is, an act of valid churchmen acting by
virtue of their grace of state. It was "valid" in a legal sense and
legally "valid" merely as pastoral council that binds no Catholic
conscience whenever it departs from or undermines any Catholic doctrine or
morals. Vatican Council II has corrupted the Catholic faith and Catholic
worship and wrought unspeakable damage to the Church with the concomitant loss
of untold number of souls. "Valid" in purely legal sense but
nevertheless heretical in the doctrinal sense. The bishops of Harrisburg have
been repeatedly invited to enter into an open public exchange on the merits of
our doctrinal, moral, liturgical and canonical claims for over twenty years now
for the purpose of bringing those in error back to the truth. We have had no
takers. Pope Francis is the fruit of Vatican II. He now declares that a bishop
cannot forbid a priest from "blessing" homosexual couples but the
bishop can forbid the acceptable worship of God.
“Living Tradition,” synonym for Immanentism of the Modernist
The term, “living tradition,” a novelty of modernist
construction given official standing at Vatican II, conflates the subjective
understanding with the objective truth, is part of the theological justification
to replace our received traditions with novelties grounded in fantasy.
The root of
this schismatic act can be discerned in an incomplete and contradictory notion
of Tradition. Incomplete, because it does not take sufficiently into account
the living character of Tradition, which, as the Second Vatican Council
clearly taught, “comes from the apostles and progresses in the Church with the
help of the Holy Spirit. There is a growth in insight into the realities and
words that are being passed on. This comes about in various ways. It comes
through the contemplation and study of believers who ponder these things in
their hearts. It comes from the intimate sense of spiritual realities which
they experience. And it comes from the preaching of those who have received,
along with their right of succession in the episcopate, the sure charism of
truth”.
John Paul II, explaining the problems with
Archbishop Lefebvre’s consecration of four bishops from his failure to
understand the novel Vatican II definition of tradition
“Pearls of Great Price” – Every single one of our
Immemorial Ecclesiastical Traditions which the “dogs” despise!
What
are these mysteries? What are these good pearls? They are not only every
doctrine of Jesus Christ and every dogma of His Church, but every holy
sacrament, every pious practice, every rule and ordinance of the Church; every
means of practicing and advancing virtue and good works; every means of
conferring and increasing the sanctifying grace of God, consequently sanctity
and holiness of life, which is a pearl of infinite value, and adorns the soul
with such transcendent beauty that the mind of man can never conceive its
inestimable grandeur and loveliness. Moreover, each of these heavenly gifts was
purchased at the infinite price of the precious blood of Jesus, from which it
derives all its beauty and virtue. The least of them is worth buying, even the
risk of losing all that a man holds dear in this life. Even a drop of holy
water or a blessed medal is to time pious believer a “holy thing,” a valuable
pearl. “The sensual man, who perceiveth not the things that are of the Spirit
of God,” despise them; they are “foolishness to him.” But the true Christian
believes that “every creature is sanctified by prayer and the word of God,” and
when sanctified it is a “holy thing” and not to be given to dogs — that is to
say, to such as would have no more respect for them than a dog, if it were
given to him.
Rev.
Joseph Prachensky, S.J., The Church of the Parables and True Spouse of the
Suffering Savior
“It is not to be excluded that I will enter
history as the one who split the Catholic Church.”
Pope Francis, concluding remarks attributed
to him in the Der Spiegel article on the Crisis in the Catholic Church.
COMMENT: As
if that is not Pope Francis' intention and what in fact he has long been doing?
The question remains as to what name in history will Francis be known? But
let's leave that for later. The truth is that Conservative Catholics have never
gotten anything in its right hierarchical order. They stupidly thought the
“split” in the Church began when traditional Catholics were disobedient by
resisting the overthrow of our Ecclesiastical Traditions by which alone the
Faith can be known and communicated to others. Conservative Catholics are only
now turning to face the front of this conflict but they are unarmed for the
fight. Pope Francis, professing the same doctrine as his conciliar
predecessors, has only driven the wedge far deeper into the Bark of Peter to
“split” the Church. The Conservative Catholics are at last alarmed because the
Ship is taking on massive amounts of water. Unfortunately, the poor
Conservative Catholics who are raising their voices against the corruption of
Francis will surely fail. Let's call them the Dubiaists. The Dubiaists have
doubts but no real convictions. They will fail because they turned their backs
against the literal meaning of DOGMA long ago and now have nothing from which
to mount their defense for DOGMA is the one and only weapon against an abusive
authority. Authority is subject only to Truth.
Hermeneutics of Continuity/Discontinuity
Pope Francis Teaches:
If
someone comes to you and feels something must be removed from him, but perhaps he is unable to say
it, but you understand … it’s all right, he
says it this way, with the gesture of coming. First condition. Second, he is
repentant. If someone comes to you it is because he doesn’t want to fall into
these situations, but he doesn’t dare say it, he is afraid to
say it and then not be able to do it. But if he cannot do it, ad impossibila
nemo tenetur. And the Lord understands these things, the language of
gestures. Have open arms, to understand what is inside that heart that cannot be said or said this
way … somewhat
because of shame … you understand me. You must receive everyone with the
language with which they can speak. Pope
Francis the Faithless
Catholic Church Teaches:
If
any one denieth, that, for the entire and perfect remission of sins, there are
required three acts in the penitent, which are as it were the matter of the
sacrament of Penance, to wit, contrition, confession, and
satisfaction, which are called the three parts of penance; or saith that there
are two parts only of penance, to wit, the terrors with which the conscience is
smitten upon being convinced of sin, and the faith, generated (a) by the
gospel, or by the absolution, whereby one believes that his sins are forgiven
him through Christ; let him be anathema. Council of Trent, Canon IV on the sacrament
of Penance
God is TRUTH,
and those who fall away from TRUTH fall away from GOD
While he (the eldest brother of the Machabees) was suffering therein
long torments, the rest, together with the mother, exhorted one another to die
manfully, saying: The Lord God will look upon the truth, and will take pleasure
in us, as Moses declared in the profession of the canticle: 'And In his
servants he will take pleasure'. (II Machabees 7:5-6)
“That it should
be very clear that these priests have nothing to do with those who place in
doubt… the doctrinal soundness of the Roman Missal promulgated by Pope Paul VI,
in 1970 and that their position should be without any ambiguity and publicly
known.” One of several "conditions" agreed upon by Indult Catholics
to offer or attend a Bugnini transitional Missal Mass of 1962
COMMENT: IF Saints Peter & Paul Roman Catholic Mission were not in
York, PA, the Indult community under the Fraternity of St. Peter would not be
in Harrisburg, PA. There is not a single Catholic receiving a single sacrament
at the Harrisburg Indult who does not owe a debt of gratitude for the
sacrifices made by members of our Mission. God always keeps score.
Signs of the Times:
"Rome will lose the faith...." Our Lady of
LaSallette
Statue of St. Peter, Our
Lady of the Holy Rosary Church of St. Nicolas located close to Buenos Aires,
Argentina was stuck by lightening on Gaudete Sunday melting away the aureole
and the keys. Could it mean that we should 'rejoice' because our Lady of the
Holy Rosary has stripped the heretic pope, Francis/Bergoglio, of his image of
sanctity and the keys of authority? Or maybe it means Francis/Bergoglio was
never pope because Benedict/Ratzinger never fully abdicated and, therefore, he
is just a bishop symbolized by the crosier being undamaged? After all, the very
hairs on the head even of this statue are numbered! Why should a singular
lightening strike be seen as anything but purposefully directed by God's
providence?
The Jewish genocidal holocaust
against the Palestinian people will soon enter its third month with over 20,000
dead, the majority of them children. The U.S.A. has provided all the munitions
to Israel to make this possible.
Israel
Routinely Dropping US-Supplied 2,000-lb Bombs in Dense Civilian Areas
Zero Hedge | Tyler Durden | December 24,
2023
As civilian casualties in the Israel-Hamas
war continue to mount -- surpassing 20,000 from a population of just 2 million
-- alarm is growing over
Israel's all-too-eager use of a particularly devastating weapon: the
2,000-pound MK-84 bomb.
Gaza is one of the most densely populated
areas on Earth. For most other militaries, that would
be cause for restraint, particularly where the MK-84 is concerned,
given its 3,280-foot hazardous blast radius. However, as the IDF (Israeli
Defense Forces ) presses its campaign against the militant group Hamas and its
elaborate tunnel system, it's exhibiting an unusually high tolerance for civilian harm.
For perspective, consider that the US military used only one MK-84 bomb
during its entire fight with ISIS. However, the US has poured an astounding
5,400 of them into Israel's arsenal since the Oct. 7 Hamas invasion of southern Israel.
Defying IDF assurances that it seeks to
minimize civilian casualties, a New York Times analysis of satellite imagery
suggests that Israel has even dropped more than 200
MK-84 bombs alone in the area of South Gaza where it told Palestinians
to flee for safety.
Parish Priest: Around
noon today, December 16, 2023, a sniper of the IDF (Israeli Defense Forces)
murdered two Christian women inside the Holy Famnily Catholic Parish in
Gaza, where the majority of Christian
families have taken refuge since the start of the war. Mahida and her daughter
Samar were shot and killed as they walked to the Sister's Convent. One was
killed as she tried to carry the other to safety. Seven more people were shot
and wounded as they tried to protect others inside the church compound. No
warning was given, no notification was provided. They were shot in cold blood
inside the premises of the Parish, where there are no belligerents.
Israeli Response: I
would reject the characterization of the words he used, 'cold blooded killing'.
That would indicate deliberate targeting of civilians that is something we
don't do. We don't shoot people that are going to church to pray. That doesn't
happen. That's not the way the IDF operates. That's against our rules of
engagement. We don't know exactly what happened and I would urge people to not
jump to conclusions. There have also been in the past all sorts of stories put
out by Hamas and their supporters accusing Israel of all sorts of terrible
deeds that in the end proved to be wrong. We are talking about a combat area
where there is an exchange of fire between Israeli forces and Hamas terrorists.
To say that Israel is deliberately targeting Christian worshipers is a terrible
accusation that is unfounded.
FACT: As for a policy of targeting civilians, IDF
snipers have been directly targeting international press reporters wearing
clear press identification. Approximately 80 press reporters have so far been
shot and killed. Israel is anxious that photographic evidence of their war
crimes are suppressed. The use of a 2,000-pound
MK-84 bombs each with a destructive radius of more than 1/2 mile against a
densely populated area to kill a 'suspected terrorist' is the very definition
of terrorism.
Fiducia
supplicans, published by the prefect of the
Dicastery (formally the Congregation ) for the Doctrine of the Faith, on the
question of blessings for “couples in an irregular situation and couples of the
same sex”, was signed by the Pope Francis himself.
Most American bishops are going along with Pope Francis’ ‘blessings’
for homosexual couples
The majority of prelates so far have sought to defend and downplay Pope
Francis’ new declaration approving ‘blessings’ for homosexual couples despite
the unchangeable Catholic teaching that the Church cannot bless sinful
relationships.
LifeSiteNews | Michael Haynes | December
19, 2023 In the aftermath of Pope Francis’ new document attesting that priests
are permitted to bless “couples in irregular situations and same-sex couples,”
the majority of prelates so far have sought to defend and downplay the
document’s significance, with others welcoming it as a sign of change.
Across the U.S. episcopate reactions have
as yet been largely muted, with bishops seeking to avoid or downplay Pope Francis
and Cardinal Victor Manuel Fernández’s December 18 document Fiducia Supplicans, in which the Vatican
approved of “blessings” for same-sex couples. Providing the national response
was a statement from the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB),
although only from a spokesman, not from a representative bishop.
It read:
The Declaration issued today by
the Vatican’s Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith (DDF) articulated a
distinction between liturgical (sacramental) blessings, and pastoral blessings,
which may be given to persons who desire God’s loving grace in their lives. The
Church’s teaching on marriage has not changed, and this declaration affirms
that, while also making an effort to accompany people through the imparting of
pastoral blessings because each of us needs God’s healing love and mercy in our
lives.
Fiducia Supplicans reiterated the Church’s
teaching on marriage as only between man and woman, but added that under
certain conditions there exists “the possibility of blessings of couples in
irregular situations and of same-sex couples.”
In his preamble to the document, Fernández
– the new prefect of the Congregation (now Dicastery) for the Doctrine of the
Faith – stated that the Church’s teaching on marriage was not changing,
but that the document’s “innovative contribution” to, and “broadening” of, the
“understanding of blessings” was a “real development from what has been said
about blessings in the Magisterium and the official texts of the Church.”
Causing instant consternation in the
Catholic world, the text was swiftly welcomed by pro-LGBT advocates, notably
including Father James Martin S.J, who said he would now “be delighted to bless
my friends in same-sex unions.”
Numerous traditional Catholics have also
been swift to highlight the import of the text from the opposite position,
however there has also been widespread efforts by both clerical and lay figures
to present Fiducia Supplicans as not
being in juxtaposition with Church teaching.
Some bishops argued that the text did not
offer any possibility of blessing for same-sex couples. Bishop Robert McManus
of the Diocese of Worcester wrote the document “reaffirmed that the Church does
not have the power to impart a liturgical blessing on irregular or
same-sex couples or to bless their union.”
Instead, McManus argued it offered “a type
of blessing that can be conferred on anyone to invoke God’s help and mercy in
their lives if the individuals seek to be guided by a greater understanding of
God’s plan for love and truth. These blessings are offered for the people
themselves, not their union.”
But in contrast, Bishop Mark Brennan of the
Diocese of Wheeling–Charleston was well aware of the document’s openness to the
blessing of homosexual couples. “I guess the change is widening the scope of
our consciousness of who can receive blessings,” he said, adding:
But all the way along I think people have
received blessings whether they were in any kind of union they were in,
heterosexual or homosexual… If they’re living in a union in which they’re
sexually active, and if it’s not a union the church can recognize, then they
should not receive Holy Communion. They are welcome to come to Mass, they are
welcome to pray.
This awareness was similarly stated by
Bishop Michael Fisher of the Diocese of Buffalo, who noted not to confuse any
homosexual blessing with marriage, and said:
Although we have not had time to study the
document more fully, we understand that Catholic priests may now bless a
same-sex couple, or other unmarried couples, as long as it is not a formal
liturgical blessing and that the blessing does not impart the impression that
the Church is blessing the union as if it were a marriage.
Especially warm in his praise for the pope
and Fernández’s new document was the pro-LGBT Archbishop John Wester of Santa
Fe. He described the text as “a wonderful decision the Pope has made, and I
support it completely.”
“God loves us all. That is what the pope is
saying,” added Wester, before saying that the document was a preventative
measure to clergy “who only deny, reject and exclude.”
According to local news, Cardinal Daniel
DiNardo of the Archdiocese of Houston–Galvaston stated he had “no problems”
with the document’s proposal of blessings that do not resemble marriage. The
reason for this stance was “because I don’t think anything really has changed,
except we want to be merciful, always merciful,” he said:
God wants to bless everyone. There is a
thing called sacramental blessings for marriage. They remain what they are.
People who are not in valid unions you can’t bless the union but human beings
reach out to God. They sometimes cry out to God, so for a priest to say a
blessing for someone, that’s fine. [.....]
COMMENT:
Then they led Jesus from Caiphas to the governor's hall. And it was
morning; and they went not into the hall, that they might not be defiled, but
that they might eat the pasch (John 18:28).
During the mock mob trail of Jesus before
Pontius Pilate the proceeding was conducted outside the governors hall located
in the Antonia Fortress so the Jews would maintain their ritual purity and not
be defiled before the great feast of the Passover. But what could be more
defiling than conspiring for the death of the God-Man Jesus Christ? This
document of Pope Francis, Fiducia
Supplicans, is an attempt to maintain 'ritual purity' while at the same
time 'blessing' the sin of Sodom in the sight of the secular world.
The possibility that Pope Francis could be
converted to the Catholic faith is as morally impossible as the conversion of
Caiaphas the High Priest. From the subjective perspective Francis/Bergoglio
denies the value of proselytism, that is, he categorically denies the value of
what St. John the Baptists called for, conversion and penance. From the
objective perspective, he has repeatedly attributed heretical teaching and
immoral acts to the work of the Holy Ghost. Jesus Christ said that those who
"speak against the Holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in
this world, nor in the world to come" (Matt. 12:32). The sin against the
Holy Ghost was identified by Jesus Christ when the Pharisees attributed the
miracles of Jesus to Beelzebub. Attributing acts of God to the devil and
attributing acts of the devil to God are of the same nature because "He
that is not with me, is against me.... Therefore I say to you: Every sin and
blasphemy shall be forgiven men, but the blasphemy of the Spirit shall not be
forgiven." (Matt. 12:30-31).
When we look at Pope Francis, we are
looking at a damned soul. Is this giving unjust judgment? No! We are forbidden
to cast pearls before swine or to give what is holy to dogs. We therefore are
to distinguish who are pigs and who are a dogs! The sins of Pope Francis are
manifest. They, by their very nature, do not and cannot admit a good intention
that could mitigate guilt and reserve judgment. St. Paul describes many
manifest sins: "Know you not that the unjust shall not possess the kingdom
of God? Do not err: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, Nor the
effeminate, nor liers with mankind (sodomites), nor thieves, nor covetous, nor
drunkards, nor railers, nor extortioners, shall possess the kingdom of
God" (1 Cor. 6:9-10). These manifest sins are already judged: "Some
men's sins are manifest, going before to judgment: and some men they follow
after. In like manner also good deeds are manifest: and they that are
otherwise, cannot be hid" (1 Tim. 5:24-25).
The sins of Pope Francis will cause
immeasurable damage to the Church but will not touch the faithful who keep
dogma as their proximate rule of faith. As for the American bishops, Bishop
Strickland is the only voice of opposition to be raised. All the other bishops
are dogs that do not bark. They will learn in turn that silence or any
equivocation in the face of the manifest sins of Pope Francis makes them
accessories to his sins and equally worthy of condemnation.
We know that in the end, as the Mother of
God has said, "My Immaculate Heart will triumph." She will crush the
head of Satan. Remember that Jesus said that the gates of hell will not prevail
against His Church. "Gates" are an image of a defensive fortress. It
is the Church that is attacking against the gates of hell. After the fall of
Adam and Eve we have the promise of the Woman who will crush the head of Satan.
In the Old Testament there are several types of the Blessed Virgin Mary seen in
women who repeatedly strike deadly blows against the heads of Satan's seed. In
everyone of these types, the woman is the aggressor such as Jael, Judith, and
the woman throwing the millstone. The Mother of God will triumph, and by the
grace of God, she will see that her children will have part in this victory.
St. Paul addressing the bishops in Greece before his
final departure
Wherefore I take you to witness this day,
that I am clear from the blood of all men; For I have not spared to declare
unto you all the counsel of God. Take heed to yourselves, and to the whole
flock, wherein the Holy Ghost hath placed you bishops, to rule the church of
God, which he hath purchased with his own blood. I know that, after my departure,
ravening wolves will enter in among you, not sparing the flock. And of your own
selves shall arise men speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after
them. Therefore watch, keeping in memory, that for three years I ceased not,
with tears to admonish every one of you night and day.
St. Paul, Acts of the Apostles, 20:26-31
COMMENT:
"Clear from the blood of all
men"? How so? By preaching God's truth without a shadow of prevarication.
The point is, St. Paul is warning the bishops "take heed" of themselves
so that they too will be "clear from the blood of all men." They must
guard the flock committed to their care from "ravening wolves." And
some of the "ravening wolves" will be bishops. But we may observe, if
all the warnings given to the Apostle Judas by Jesus Christ Himself repeated
oven more than a year only hardened his heart in sin, what will the warnings of
St. Paul produce? No, St. Paul is not addressing the "ravening
wolves" among the bishops. He is addressing the faithful bishops that they
will someday need to protect the faithful from other clerical wolves. In the
apostasy of England Bishop John Fisher alone stood against the "ravening
wolves." Today in the U.S.A. only the conservative Bishop Strickland has
opened his mouth against the blasphemy of Fiducia
Supplicans which has as its ultimate purpose the indirect destruction of
the sacrament of marriage. Yet Bishop Strickland fled from the "ravening
wolves" and abandoned the flock that the 'Holy Ghost had placed him to
rule.' Pope Francis, like all heretics and schismatics, will attempt to
overthrow the sacrament of marriage for it is the metaphor Jesus Christ has
established to represent His union with His Church and each of His Faithful. As
we approach the punishment that will cleanse the Church we pray that some of
them may repent but expect that most if not all will 'go to their own place'
(Acts 1:25) as did Judas.
The
precious light of faith will go out in souls because of the almost total moral
corruption… The licentiousness will be such that there will be no more virgin
souls in the world… By having gained control of all the social classes, the
sects will tend to penetrate with great skill into the heart of families and
destroy even the children… Priests will abandon their sacred duties and will
depart from the path marked out for them by God. The then Church will go
through a dark night for lack of a Prelate and Father to watch over it with
love, gentleness, strength and prudence.
Our
Lady of LaSalette to Melanie
Pope Francis
the Despicable
'One ought to obey God rather than man'; therefore, were the Pope to
command anything against Holy Scripture, or the articles of faith, or the truth
of the Sacraments, or the commands of the natural or divine law, he ought not
to be obeyed, but in such commands is to be passed over (despiciendus).
Juan
Cardinal de Torquemada, O. P. (1388-1468) Summa
de Ecclesia
COMMENT: Pope Francis the Despicable has managed
to corrupted Holy Scripture, denied Catholic Dogma, perverted the Sacraments,
and now issues direct commands against divine and natural law. The translation
of despiciendus as "to be passed over" is mild.
The literal translation is "to be despised."
“As regards the bishops, very few of them
possess genuine zeal for souls … So we have to pray to Jesus Christ that he
would give us as head of the Church one possessed of more spirit and zeal for
the glory of God than of learning and human prudence. He should be free of all
party attachments and devoid of human respect. If, by chance, for our great
misfortune, we should get a Pope that does not have the glory of God as his
sole purpose, the Lord will not help him greatly and things from their present
condition will go from bad to worse.”
St. Alphonsus Marie Liguori, excerpt from
letter commenting on the Papal Conclave, October 24, 1774
The work of the devil will
creep even into the Church in such a way that cardinals will be opposed to
other cardinals, and bishops against bishops. The priests who venerate me, will
be despised and hindered by their brethren… the Church will be full of those
who accept compromises.
Blessed Virgin Mary, Our
Lady of Akita
Our refuge in temptation
LET us take two very simple practical
rules. One is: when we are tempted by any approach of evil, to fix our eyes
inwardly upon Him hanging upon the Cross. Let us then call to mind His five
wounds, and His crown of thorns. This will abate our pride, break our will, and
cast out our evil thoughts. If the temptation be strong and abiding, keep your
eyes upon him until you are delivered. Look upon Him, as upon the true Serpent
of brass, till the fever and the poison of your sin be healed. Go, if you can,
into some secret place, and kneel down in His sight; and, there, stay upon your
knees till the sting of sin is allayed, and the temptation passed away.
The other rule is: to pray, day by day,
that our will may be crucified with Him. This prayer, if we persevere, will, by
His grace, slay the enmity that is in us, and make us, not enemies, but lovers
of His Cross. St. Paul says, “They that are Christ’s have crucified the flesh
with the affections and lusts;” (Gal. v. 24.) and again, he says still more, “I
am crucified with Christ;” (Gal. ii. 20.) This shall be even our state at last.
Happy and blessed are they who are dead to themselves, alive to Him alone. Let
us, therefore, pray Him so to unite us to the spirit of His crucifixion, that
we may die to sin, to the world, to our own will; to all that flatters,
fosters, strengthens the love of ourselves. As in Baptism we were signed with
His life-giving sign, and charged to fight manfully under His banner, so let us
pray, that in life and in death we may be under the shadow of His Cross.
Howsoever He may fulfil this prayer, be not afraid. It may be He will send you
sickness, or sorrow, or contradiction of sinners, or suffering of some kind.
For your prayer is an appeal to His Passion. He may suffer you to receive the
stigmas which the world printed on Him. Be it so. Let come what may, if only we
have upon us the mark of our crucified Master at that day when the sign of the
Son of Man shall appear, and the angels “shall gather His elect from the four
winds of heaven.”
Cardinal Henry Manning, sermon
The Collegium Traditionis is born
A traditional house of clerical formation
Dear
Friends and Benefactors,
On December 2, the President of Exsurge Domine offered hospitality in
Torrita di Siena for the celebration of Mass on the First Saturday of the
month, followed by a reception attended by a number of friends and supporters.
It was an opportunity to get to know each other in person - or to meet again -
and to let you know about the decision to undertake the establishment of the Collegium Traditionis, the house of
clerical formation that will welcome young traditional vocations and accompany
them with discernment toward the Priesthood: I invite you to read my homily for
a more complete picture. Needless to say, this ambitious project responds to an
obvious pastoral need of the faithful - especially in Italy - and to my duty,
as Successor of the Apostles, to ensure a doctrinally and morally safe harbor
for new and holy Vocations: only with a long-term view, projected toward the
future of our children, will we be able to create the basis for the rebirth of
a genuinely Christian society. Without workers, you know well, the Vineyard of
the Lord bears no fruit.
By now you will have learned of the
unilateral decision of the Nuns of Pienza not to continue on the path they had
taken and to abandon the Monastic Village project, which Exsurge Domine had generously offered them. Without going into the
merits of the choice of the Benedictine Community, I would like to reiterate -
as the President has already had the opportunity to communicate - that what has
been done so far thanks to your support will not be interrupted, but will
simply be adapted to the new destination of the properties and buildings: no
longer a cenobium for nuns, but a Seminary and a place of retreat for those who
feel called to the service of God. I also believe that this change has allowed
the realization of something more urgent and certainly desired by Divine
Providence. Of course, I cannot help but feel sorry for the attacks made
against Exsurge Domine; but you know
better than I that any work that has a supernatural purpose is targeted by the
devil. So let us not be surprised if even our efforts - however prudent and
conscientious they may be - are made the object of ungenerous criticism and
slander: this will rather enable us to commit ourselves with greater confidence
to the Lord's help.
This new issue of the Exsurge Domine Newsletter is published on a special and symbolic
occasion: the Feast of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
And it is under Her patronage that we place our apostolate, our activity, our
commitment, but also your families, your intentions and concerns. To Her, our
Queen and Lady, we entrust ourselves, our loved ones and all of you, whose
prayers and material support have made possible what has been done so far. I
trust that we can count on your help and that of so many generous people to
support all that remains to be accomplished.
With deep gratitude, I wish you all to
spend Advent in a spirit of preparation for the Nativity of Our Lord,
accompanied on this journey of waiting and prayer by the maternal protection of
the Immaculate Virgin.
+ Carlo Maria Viganò, Archbishop
www.exsurgedomine.org
What we cannot do, because we do not have
the authority, is to officially declare that Jorge Mario Bergoglio is not Pope.
The terrible impasse in which we find ourselves makes any human solution
impossible.
Our task must not be to engage in the
abstract speculations of canonists, but to resist with all our strength – and
with the help of God’s Grace – the explicitly destructive action of the Jesuit
Argentine, refusing with courage and determination any collaboration, even
indirect collaboration, with him and his accomplices.
+ Carlo Maria Viganò, Archbishop
December 9, 2023, Infra Octavam Imm. Conc. B.M.V.
Pope Francis is an enemy of the
Catholic Faith and Catholic Morality. Although we pray for our enemies, we do
not pretend that they are our friends!
But I say to
you, Love your enemies: do good to them that hate you: and pray for them that
persecute and calumniate you: That you may be the children of your Father who
is in heaven, who maketh his sun to rise upon the good, and bad, and raineth
upon the just and the unjust. For if you love them that love you, what reward
shall you have? do not even the publicans this? And if you salute your brethren
only, what do you more? do not also the heathens this? Be you therefore
perfect, as also your heavenly Father is perfect. Matt. 5:44-48
Revolutionary France: Civil
Constitution of the Clergy, Title II, Article XXI
Things began to change quickly in 1789. On August 4, the newly assembled National Assembly drafted the ‘Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen,’ and over the next year completely dismantled French society and rebuilt it from the ground up. Part of this included nationalizing all Church lands and transferring ownership to the state. By June 1790 the Assembly had officially abolished the nobility, and on July 12 passed the Civil Constitution of the Clergy.[.....]
The most contentions aspects of the constitution, however, involved how new bishops would be appointed to office and the duties required of them. The Church was now essentially completely incorporated as a branch of government, and bishops were to be elected by popular vote. This was received with outrage by many clergy, as it not only completely up-ended the top-down appointment system of the Church, but would then allow Protestants, Jews, and atheists to directly influence Church matters. What would cause the greatest problems though, was Article XXI of Title II. This required bishops to take an oath before municipal officials asserting their loyalty to the nation of France before all other things, or their office would be declared vacant.[.....]
The oath of loyalty created a massive schism within the clergy. Many lower clergy had supported revolutionary calls for reform, even reform within the Church, but this was beyond the pale. Thousands of priests, monks, and nuns now had to choose between refusing the oath and risking arrest and punishment, or taking the oath and risking their salvation. In March 1791, the Pope forced the issue by issuing a papal bull officially condemning the Revolution's actions towards the Church and leveling excommunication upon any clergy who took the oath.
The clergy was then split into juring priests (those who took the oath) and non-juring or refractory priests (those who refused). ....
Wikipedia
COMMENT: The situation in
revolutionary France is analogous to the revolutionary Church that is known as
the "Church of the New Advent."
Article XXI of Title II required of every Catholic priest as a necessary
condition to function as a priest that he take an oath placing the authority of
man above the authority of God. Today, the Church of the New Advent imposes the
1989 Profession of Faith and Oath of Fidelity upon every priest in the Church
as a necessary condition to exercise any authority. This Profession includes an
unconditional oath of submission of the mind and will, or as Lumen Gentium say,
submission of the soul, to the authentic magisterium of the pope. The
"authentic magisterium" is a term that only identifies the person who
occupies the office of the papacy. The Profession of Faith and Oath of Fidelity
demand an unconditional submission of the mind and will to a man as man. Unconditional
submission of the mind and will can only be given to God and to God alone. It
is time that those priests in the Church of the New Advent be referred known as
"juring" priests as it will become more and more evident with the
passage of time when they will be required to go along with Pope Francis'
overturning all Catholic morality.
“Give not that
which is holy to dogs; neither cast ye your pearls before swine...”
I reproached a
woman some months ago in a parish because she was pregnant with her eighth
child, after having had seven C-sections. But does she want to leave the seven
as orphans? This is to tempt God. I speak of responsible paternity. This is the
way, a responsible paternity. [......] Therefore, the key word, to give you an
answer, and the one the Church uses all the time, and I do too, is responsible
parenthood. How do we do this? With dialogue. Each person with his pastor seeks
how to do carry out a responsible parenthood. That example I mentioned
shortly before about that woman who was expecting her eighth child and already
had seven who were born with caesareans. That is an irresponsibility. That
woman might say ‘no, I trust in God.’ But, look, God gives you means to be
responsible. Some think that – excuse the language – that in order to be good
Catholics, we have to be like rabbits. No. Responsible parenthood.
Pope Francis,
from his “authentic magisterium” during return flight from the Philippines,
1-19-2015
“Hell strives with all its might to break the unity of those who recite
the same Credo.”
Ernest Hello
“Truth is One, and religion, being true, can
neither contradict nor embarrass Truth… God is never in danger. Error is
charged with its own destruction… As Truth does not belong to us, we cannot
concede on fraction of it.”
Ernest Hello, French Catholic apologist and
journalist
Lord
God our Master, Who established in heaven the ranks and armies of angels and
archangels for the service of Your glory, grant that as we make our entrance,
the holy angels may enter too, serving with us and joining in the praise of
Your goodness. For all glory, honor and worship befit You, Father, Son and Holy
Spirit, now and for ever and ever Amen.
Byzantine
Liturgy, Entrance prayer
An Example of
the “Universal and Ordinary” engagement of the Magisterium of the Church to
teach Infallibly; “universal” because it is “based on the sources of
revelation” and “ordinary” because it is the subject matter of a papal
encyclical!
Some say they are not bound by the doctrine,
explained in Our Encyclical Letter [Mystici Corporis] of a few
years ago, and based on the sources of revelation, which teaches that the
Mystical Body of Christ and the Roman Catholic Church are one and the same
thing.
Pius XII, Humani Generis
This moreover is true if you consider the
mass of mankind. For by far the greater portion of men are Infidels, Turks,
Saracens, or heretics. S. Augustine (lib. 4 contr. crescent. c. 53) compares
the Church to a threshing-floor in which there is far more chaff than grains of
wheat, more bad than good, more who will be damned than will be saved. Yet
others, with greater mildness, think it probable that the greater portion of
professing Christians will be saved, because most of them receive the Holy
Sacraments before they die. And they justify sinners, not only those who have
contrition, but who have attrition. But this seems to be true of those who have
not lived in constant and habitual sins, such as fornication, usury, hatred.
For such, when they are sick, conceive with difficulty any serious and
efficacious purpose of amendment, or if they do conceive it, God in just
punishment of their past sins suffers the demon of their bygone lusts to tempt
them, and he furbishes and sharpens their memory, and so the sick man in
consequence of his habits easily yields, and consents in his heart to sin, and
thus he falls and is damned. Of this there are many examples.
Rev. Cornelius a Lapide, Commentary on St.
Matthew
The silkworm
starts to spin its silk and to build the house in which it is to die…. On then,
my daughters, let us hasten to perform this task and spin this cocoon. Let us renounce our self-love and self-will,
and our attachment to earthly things.
Let us practice penance, prayer, mortification, obedience, and all the
other good works that you know of…. Let the silkworm die – let it die, as in
fact it does when it has completed the work which it was created to do. Then we shall see God and shall ourselves be
as completely hidden in his greatness as is this little worm in its cocoon… And
let us see what becomes of this silkworm, for all that I have been saying about
it is leading up to this. When it is in
this state of prayer, and quite dead to the world, it comes out a little white
butterfly. Oh, greatness of God, that a
soul should come out like this, after being with him for so short a time.
St. Theresa of
Avila
Father of Modernism: Novus Ordo “Saint” John Henry Newman
It
has always been incomprehensible to me why Manning’s hostility to Newman should
be imputed to him as a sin, while Newman’s hostility to Manning is held to be a
virtue. [.....] Yet at the present hour, when the Modernists have claimed
Newman as their precursor, supporting their contention with many a passage from
his writings, it would seem that Manning, as the exponent of orthodox doctrine,
was justified in his appreciation of Newman’s teaching.[....] Manning had
everything to lose by becoming a Catholic, Newman had everything to gain.
[....]This is shown by the willingness with which (Manning) threw aside
ambition, comfort, and prosperity, when as the high road to the foremost and
pleasantest preferments in the Church of England, to enter upon the tedious
life of a Roman Catholic mission priest. His new durance called forth from him
no moaning such as Newman poured out when he was sent to work in Ireland. [....
] Manning’s religion was free from all pious affectation. Yet in close contact
with him one felt that he was always living in the presence of an unseen Power,
not as a pompous agent, but as its simple and humble messenger. It has been my
lot to witness some of the most imposing religious ceremonies of modern
Christendom; but nothing so impressive, so faith-inspiring has ever met my eyes
as the sight of the noble old Englishman in his threadbare cassock kneeling
alone before the altar of his bare chapel.”
[......]
“I became a Catholic off my own bat” (Manning) exclaimed to indicate the
lack of conviction in the Oxford converts. Afterwards the conversation moved to
theological ground, and Manning’s tone changed. “From an observation you made”,
he said, “I gather that you are under the impression that Doctor Newman is a
good Catholic.” I replied that such was my vague belief. He retorted: “Either
you are ignorant of the Catholic doctrine, or of the works of Doctor Newman” -
he always said ‘Doctor Newman’ in Oxford fashion, and never gave him the title
of Cardinal. After asking me which of Newman’s books I had read, he proceeded
to tick off on his tapering fingers, in his usual way, ten distinct heresies to
be found in the most widely-read works of Dr. Newman.” [.....] To Msgr. Talbot
Manning wrote, “. . an English Catholicism, of which Newman is the highest
type. It is the old Anglican, patristic, literary, Oxford tone transplanted
into the Church... In one word, it is a worldly Catholicism, and it will have
the worldly on its side, and will deceive many. [....] He is the most dangerous
man in England.”
Richard Sartino, Another Look at Cardinal Newman, quoting J. E. C. Bodley, a
Protestant and Mason, on Cardinal Newman and Cardinal Manning
Indulgences
for the Blue Scapular, (the Scapular of the Immaculate Conception)
“As
for me, I would take all scapulars. But above all you must know that the
scapular of the Immaculate Conception, which is blessed by the Theatine
Fathers, besides all its partial indulgences, has all the indulgences granted
to whatever religious order, whatever devotion, whatever person there can be.
And particularly that by reciting six times Pater, Ave, and Gloria, in honor of the Most Holy Trinity and Mary
Immaculate, can be gained each time all the indulgences of Rome, of
Portiuncula, of Jerusalem, and of Galicia, which amounts to 533 plenary indulgences,
without speaking of partial indulgences, which are innumerable.”
St. Alphonsus Liguori, Glories of Mary. These indulgences have
been confirmed by Gregory XVI in a decree dated July 12, 18
For decades the South American Church has
been falling into ruin, its crisis the greatest on the planet: the latest data,
just published by the Pew Center, confirming the precipitous drop of membership
in the Catholic Church in Latin America. Now that same recipe for failure is being
applied to the whole Church. And so we soon we will see the same
ruins. The Bergoglio Effect.
Antonio Socci, Italian journalist and author
Hermeneutics of Continuity/Discontinuity – Even JPII did
not deny this dogma!
Pope Francis Teaches:
We hold the Jewish people in special regard
because their covenant with God has never been revoked, for “the gifts and the
call of God are irrevocable” (Rom.11:29). The Church, which shares with Jews an
important part of the Sacred Scriptures, looks upon the people of the covenant
and their faith as one of the sacred roots of her own Christian identity (cf.
Rom. 11:16-18). As Christians, we cannot consider Judaism as a foreign
religion; nor do we include the Jews among those called to turn from idols and
to serve the true God (cf. 1 Thes. 1:9). With them, we believe in the one God
who acts in history, and with them we accept his revealed word.
Pope
Francis, Evangelii Gaudium
The Church officially recognizes that the
People of Israel continue to be the Chosen People. Nowhere does it say: “You
lost the game, now it is our turn.” It is a recognition of the People of
Israel.
Pope
Francis, On Heaven and Earth
The Catholic Church Teaches:
Hebrews 7:18: “On the one hand, a former commandment is annulled because of its weakness and uselessness…”;
Hebrews 10:9: “Then he says, ‘Behold, I come to do your will.’ He takes away the first [covenant] to establish the second [covenant]…”;
2 Corinthians 3:14: “For to this day when they [the Jews] read the Old Covenant, that same veil remains unlifted, because only through Christ is it taken away”;
Hebrews 8:7: “For if there had been nothing wrong with that first covenant, no place would have been sought for another”;
Colossians 2:14: “Having canceled the written code, with its decrees, that was against us and stood opposed to us; He took it away nailing it to the cross”;
Pope Pius XII, Mystici Corporis, para. 29: “…the New Testament took the place of the Old Law which had been abolished…but on the gibbet of His death Jesus made void the Law with its decrees fastened the handwriting of the Old Testament to the Cross”;
The Catechism of the Council of Trent: “…the people, aware of the abrogation of the Mosaic Law…”;
Council of Florence: [This council] firmly believes, professes, and teaches that the matter pertaining to the law of the Old Testament, of the Mosiac law, which are divided into ceremonies, sacred rites, sacrifices, and sacraments, because they were established to signify something in the future, although they were suited to the divine worship at that time, after our Lord's coming had been signified by them, ceased, and the sacraments of the New Testament began; and that whoever, even after the passion, placed hope in these matters of the law and submitted himself to them as necessary for salvation, as if faith in Christ could not save without them, sinned mortally. Yet it does not deny that after the passion of Christ up to the promulgation of the Gospel they could have been observed until they were believed to be in no way necessary for salvation; but after the promulgation of the Gospel it asserts that they cannot be observed without the loss of eternal salvation. All, therefore, who after that time observe circumcision and the Sabbath and the other requirements of the law, it declares alien to the Christian faith and not in the least fit to participate in eternal salvation, unless someday they recover from these errors. Pope Eugene IV, Council of Florence, Cantate Domino
Council of Trent: “but not even the Jews by the very letter of the law of Moses were able to be liberated or to rise therefrom”;
Cardinal Ratzinger: “Thus the Sinai [Mosaic] Covenant is indeed superseded” (Many Religions – One Covenant, p. 70).
St. John Chrysostom: “Yet surely Paul’s object everywhere is to annul this Law….And with much reason; for it was through a fear and a horror of this that the Jews obstinately opposed grace” (Homily on Romans, 6:12); “And so while no one annuls a man’s covenant, the covenant of God after four hundred and thirty years is annulled; for if not that covenant but another instead of it bestows what is promised, then is it set aside, which is most unreasonable” (Homily on Galatians, Ch 3);
St. Augustine: “Instead of the grace of the law which has passed away, we have received the grace of the gospel which is abiding; and instead of the shadows and types of the old dispensation, the truth has come by Jesus Christ. Jeremiah also prophesied thus in God’s name: ‘Behold, the days come, says the Lord, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah…’ Observe what the prophet says, not to Gentiles, who had not been partakers in any former covenant, but to the Jewish nation. He who has given them the law by Moses, promises in place of it the New Covenant of the gospel, that they might no longer live in the oldness of the letter, but in the newness of the spirit” (Letters, 74, 4);
Justin Martyr: “Now, law placed against law has abrogated that which is before it, and a covenant which comes after in like manner has put an end to the previous one; and an eternal and final law – namely, Christ – has been given to us, and the covenant is trustworthy…Have you not read…by Jeremiah, concerning this same new covenant, He thus speaks: ‘Behold, the days come,’ says the Lord, ‘that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah…’” (Dialogue with Trypho, Ch 11).
John Paul II: “Christ fulfills the divine promise and supersedes the old law.” (Redemptoris Mater)
Taken from Robert Sungenis, The
Old Covenent: Revoked or Not Revoked?
Unto the Angel of the Church
of Ephesus write: …
But I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first charity
(Apocalypse 2:4).
St. Timothy, Bishop of Ephesus for more than 40 years, showed himself
to be somewhat lax in preaching of the word of God to the Ephesians in the work
for their conversion. The reason for this was that he had to face the
pertinacity of both the Jews and adorers of Diana against his apostolate.
Hence, moved in part by pusillanimity and moderation and in part by human
prudence, he considered it more convenient to become softer so as not to
disturb the life of Religion by an excessive zeal or to provoke the fury of the
Gentiles against him and his flock, as happened with St. Paul, who had to face
the mob shouting against him: ‘Hail the great Diana of Ephesus’ (Acts 19: 34).
So, the first ardor of St. Timothy in preaching the Gospel grew weaker, and
this was his sin, not mortal but venial.
This also happens with persons who have authority. They sin more often by
tepidity disguised as prudence, than by imprudence under the appearance of
zeal.
The counsel of Christ given through St. John to St. Timothy corrected his fault,
and he returned to his first fervor. Actually he reproved the adorers of Diana
so ardently that he received martyrdom by their hands in the year 109 of the
Lord, on the 24th day of January, whose memory is registered in the sacred
annals of the Church.
Rev. Cornelius a Lapide, Commentarii in Sacram Scripturam
“God's word is brief. Believe me, I speak
from long experience; the more you say, the less people will remember, and the
less you say, the more they will profit. Those who load their hearers' memory
destroy it, just as you extinguish a lamp by filling it too full or kill plants
by unmeasured watering. When a discourse is too long, the end makes one forget
the middle and the middle puts out the beginning. Indifferent preachers are
bearable if they are brief, but even good preachers become intolerable when
they are lengthy. Depend upon it, there is no more detestable quality a
preacher can possess than tediousness.”
St. Francis de Sales
DOGMA AS THE PROXIMATE RULE OF FAITH
"We teach and define as a
divinely revealed dogma that when the Roman pontiff speaks ex cathedra, that is, when,
1. in the exercise of his office
as shepherd and teacher of all Christians,
2. in virtue of his supreme apostolic authority,
3. he defines a doctrine concerning faith or morals
to be held by the whole church,
he possesses, by the divine
assistance promised to him in blessed Peter, that infallibility which the divine Redeemer willed his
church to enjoy in defining doctrine concerning faith or morals.
Therefore, such definitions of the Roman pontiff are of themselves, and not by
the consent of the church, irreformable."
VATICAN I COUNCIL
His friends just call him
“Bergoglio”!
We were close for a few days, the three daily
meals and have shared other moments both public and private. We talked about
everything: about dialogue, but also about the journey that we will do together
to Israel [.....] Together we have celebrated the beginning of Shabbat, he was
by my side when I recited the Kiddush and has broken challah, which Zion
Evrony, the Israeli Ambassador, brought to the Holy See. They were
unforgettable days and I think that they have a value that goes beyond the
affection and confidence that has always connected us [.....] "Important
signal": "I see great value in Bergoglio's comments against
proselytism. It is a point on which he insists with a special emphasis and gets
even more weight when we think of the evangelizing framework within which these
statements were made...... But now, the Pope speaks of it (of evangelization)
only to introduce Catholics to the faith.
Rabbi Abraham Skorka from Argentina,
interview for the Jewish monthly Pagine
Ebraiche, which was reproduced in Osservatore
Romano November 25, about his visit to the Community of Sant'Egidio in Rome
as a "personal guest of Bergolio in Santa Maria."
The ‘Remote Rule of Faith’
is Scripture & Tradition constitute; The ‘Proximate Rule of Faith’ is
Dogma!
The definitions
of the church have something of the character of criminal jurisprudence. They
are not a part of the revelation,—are not necessary to her positive enunciation
of the word, or essential to its life and operation; but they are required to
vindicate it from error, as criminal courts pass sentences to vindicate the law
which has been violated. Nobody who comprehends any thing of the matter
restricts the word to the definitions of the church, or supposes that the
definitions either make the faith or cover the whole of the revealed word. It is
not to be supposed that nothing is believed, or to be believed that is not
formally defined by the church, for her definitions touch only so much of the
faith as has been controverted or denied. But all theological questions, however unsound they may
be, that have not been condemned or declared to be contrary to the
faith,
may be held without incurring the note of heresy, and be freely discussed, pro and con. according to the judgment or
prejudices of theologians.
Orestes Brownson, Faith and Theology
COMMENT: Heresy has both a
legal and moral definitions. A legal heretic is a baptized Catholic who denies
a revealed doctrine of faith that has been formally defined (i.e.: a Dogma).
Few of the revealed truths of the Catholic Faith have been dogmatically defined.
The dogmatic definition of Jesus Christ's divinity was made at the Council of
Nicaea in 312. Therefore, the arch heretic Arius was a legal and moral heretic
after the dogmatic declaration at the Council. Before the Council Arius was a
moral heretic. Could an Arian be saved before the Council of Nicaea while
denying the divinity of Jesus Christ? No, but all determinations of moral
culpability are in the hands of God and known to Him alone. On the other hand,
a legal heretic is guilty of manifest sin because the imputability of guilt has
been revealed to all by God in the dogma itself. “And if he will not hear thee, take with
thee one or two more: that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word
may stand. And if he will not hear them: tell the
church. And if he will not hear the church, let him be to thee as the heathen
and publican” (Matt 18:16-17).
Reported exchange NOT yet confirmed by our Vatican
Sources:
'Please accept this as an honest and sincere token of my undying passionate devotion to your
sweet person!'
'Oh thank you my snookems, (wink, wink) I could just
pinch your cheek!' (Smack, Smack, Smack)
On
13 June 1525, after weeks of speculation, Martin Luther secretly married
Katharina von Bora, a former nun, in a private ceremony officiated by city
preacher Johann Bugenhagen and attended by jurist Johann Apel, professor Justus
Jonas, and artist Lucas Cranach and his wife. Over the last centuries,
scholars, writers, artists, Wittenberg citizens—in their popular, annual
Lutherhochzeit [Luther’s wedding] festival—and even a recent filmmaker have
characterized this event as one of the iconic episodes of the Lutheran
Reformation. Yet Luther’s marriage neither legalized nor heralded an immediate
acceptance of priestly marriage even in reformed territories. Luther certainly
was not the first cleric to marry. Three of the witnesses at his wedding—Apel,
Bugenhagen, and Jonas—were former Catholic clergy who had all married by
mid-1523, a full two years before this event. Only a few weeks prior to this
event, Luther expressed hesitation about marriage even for political reasons,
suggesting perhaps he would agree to a chaste marriage, a Josephehe, to support married clergy. Luther’s marriage does
illustrate many aspects of the ongoing reform process. His mixed feelings about
marrying, the atmosphere that led him to a decision, the subsequent outcry
about marriage, and the personal trials that faced him and his wife in their
married life had much in common with the many clergy who married before and
after him in the first decades of the German Reformation.
Marjorie Elizabeth Plummer, Western
Kentucky University, From Priest’s Whore
to Pastor’s Wife: Clerical Marriage and the Process of Reform in the Early
German Reformation
Evil is the
Depravation of a Necessary Good – Therefore, the Novus Ordo is Objectively Evil
“Although God knows evil, still there is no
ideal of evil in the Divine Mind. For evil is not a positive formation, but a
deformity or deformation of things; it is not a work of the Divine Wisdom nor a
work of God at all.”
Scheeban’s
Manual of Catholic Theology
Pope Francis' trip to COP 28, the U.N. annual climate conference, was
cancelled because of failing health. He sent this message in a video link:
“The
destruction of the environment is an offense against God. It seems that it is
not only personal but also structural. One that greatly endangers human beings
especially the most vulnerable in our midst and threatens to unleash a conflict
between generations. The development of many countries already burdened by
great economic debt should not be penalized. Instead we should consider the
footprint of the few nations responsible for a deeply troubling ecological debt
towards many others. It would only be fair to find suitable means of remitting
the financial debt that burdens different people. Climate change singles the
need for a political change. Let us emerge from the narrowness of self
interests in nationalism. These are approaches that belong to the past. Let us
join in embracing an alternative vision. This will help to bring about an
ecological conversion. For there are no lasting changes without cultural
changes..... In this regard, I would
assure you of the commitment and support of the Catholic Church, which is
deeply engaged in the work of education and of encouraging participation by
all, as well as in promoting sound lifestyles, since all are responsible and
the contribution of each is fundamental.”
Pope Francis the Gaia High Priest,
addressing U.N. Climate Change Conference, COP28, in Dubai, December 5, 2023
COMMENT: Pope Francis the
Ideologue is back in form doing what he does best, proselytizing for the New One World Order.
Here he speaks about the need for "conversion" to his ideological
religion which he believes he has enrolled the "commitment and support of
the Catholic Church." His religion is just a revival of the old pagan
earth worship cults with its own revelation, doctrine, morality, soteriology
and eschatology. Itself is the foundation for the culture of man-god while the
culture founded on the God-Man is relegated to the "past". Why Dubai?
Maybe Pope Francis wanted to personally dedicate the "catholic"
contribution to the Abrahamic interfaith cube.
Pope Francis dines with transgender women for Vatican luncheon
The Vatican approved gender-dysphoric people to be baptized earlier
this month
FOX NEWS | Jamie Joseph | November 23, 2023
Pope
Francis hosted a group of transgender women — many of whom are sex workers or
migrants from Latin America — to a Vatican luncheon for the Catholic Church's
"World Day of the Poor" last week.
The pontiff and the transgender women have
formed a close relationship since the pope came to their aid during the
COVID-19 pandemic, when they were unable to work. Now, they meet monthly for
VIP visits with the pope and receive medicine, money and shampoo any day,
according to The Associated Press.
"Before, the church was closed to us.
They didn't see us as normal people, they saw us as the devil," one member
of the transgender group, Andrea Paola Torres Lopez, told the AP.
Some 1,200 people who are impoverished or
homeless also attended the luncheon inside the papal audience hall for a full
meal and dessert.
The invitation to the transgender women comes as the Vatican released a
controversial document earlier this month affirming that individuals suffering
from gender-identity disorders are allowed to be baptized or be named as
godparents under specific circumstances.
The document is an official response to a dubia
submitted by Brazilian Bishop Giuseppe Negri of Santo Amaro seeking guidance on
the issue. It was propagated by the Vatican's Dicastery for the Doctrine of the
Faith and signed by Pope Francis.
However, in a somewhat ambiguous
clarification, the guidance specifies that in order for individuals with
gender-identity afflictions to be baptized, it must not cause
"scandal" or "disorientation."
This same stipulation applied to their
eligibility to act as godparents or witness marriages, according to the Vatican.
The move was praised by LGTBQ+ advocates.
The ruling's ambiguity is consistent with a
variety of theological statements from the Vatican under Pope Francis and can
make understanding how to implement the ruling difficult for the clergy.
Father Brian Graebe, a priest with the
Archdiocese of New York who holds a doctorate in theology from the Pontifical
Gregorian University in Rome, told Fox News Digital previously that the
Vatican's guidance is not contradictory to church teaching, but possibly "deficient."
"There's nothing in the document that
contradicts church teachings. My reaction to it when I read it yesterday was
that it's deficient. The problem isn't so much in what it says as in what it
leaves unsaid," Graebe said.
He continued, "What I was disappointed
not to see in the document was affirmation that in the right of baptism itself,
whatever name the person has, we call it a Christian name [or] their baptismal
name [...] what we must affirm is that the correct biological pronouns are to
be used."
The Catholic Church teaches that gender
ideology and transgender lifestyles are a "grave disorder" in need of
correction through spiritual and secular therapy.
Just who is the guilty
party for the thousands of murdered Palestinian children, women, and men in
Gaza?
“All of our missiles, the ammunition, the
precision-guided bombs, all the airplanes and bombs, it’s all from the U.S. The
minute they turn off the tap, you can’t keep fighting. You have no capability.
… Everyone understands that we can’t fight this war without the United States.
Period.”
IDF Maj. General Yitzhak Brick, retired,
on Israel’s military dependence on the United States, interview 12-5-2023
All the “daughters” of
“Sodom” and the “daughters” of “Samaria” will suffer the same punishment!
“However, I
will restore the fortunes of Sodom (homosexuality) and her daughters, and of
Samaria (religious syncretism) and her daughters, and your fortunes
(Phariseeism) along with them, so that you may bear your disgrace and be
ashamed of all you have done in giving them [Sodom and Samaria] comfort. And
your sisters, Sodom with her daughters and Samaria with her daughters, will
return to what they were before; and you and your daughters will return to what
you were before. You would not even mention your sister Sodom in the day of
your pride, before your wickedness was uncovered.”
Ezekiel
16:54-57
The Fall of Simon the Magician and his “lying wonders”!
For there shall arise false Christs, etc.
Signs, wrought by art magic, by the power of the devil, whom many heresiarchs
have had as a familiar spirit, as I have shown in I Tim. 4:1. Such was their great prince Simon Magus
(Simon the Magician), who deluded Nero and the Romans, so that they erected a
statue to him at Rome; but at length he himself, flying through the air by the
aid of the devil, was dashed down to the earth by the prayers of St. Peter, and
falling upon a stone, broke his knees “so that he who had attempted to fly was
not able to walk; and he who had taken wings, lost his legs,” as S. Maximus
says (Hom. 5, de SS. Petro et Paulo).
Rev. Cornelius a Lapide, The Great
Commentary, Matt 24:24
“Only a misguided
mind would seek to afford equal rights to both good and evil.”
Conservative Catholics are double losers. Now that Summorum Pontificum is revoked and with
it their grant of legal privilege,
they are now at the Indult and have renounced any legal or moral grounds to
complain because they accepted the legitimacy of the Novus Ordo and Vatican II!
In the civil sphere, the deep state has managed political and social
dissent by using organizations and movements that are only apparently
opposition, but which are actually instrumental to maintaining power.
Similarly, in the ecclesial sphere, the deep church uses the moderate
“conservatives” to give the appearance of offering freedom to the faithful. The
Motu Proprio Summorum Pontificum
itself, for example, while granting the celebration in the extraordinary form,
demands saltem impliciter that we
accept the Council and recognize the lawfulness of the reformed liturgy. This
ploy prevents those who benefit from the Motu Proprio from raising any
objection, or risk the dissolution of the Ecclesia Dei communities. And it
instills in the Christian people the dangerous idea that a good thing, in order
to have legitimacy in the Church and society, must necessarily be accompanied
by a bad thing or at least something less good. However, only a misguided mind would seek to afford equal
rights to both good and evil. It matters little if one is personally in favor
of good, when he recognizes the legitimacy of those who are in favor of evil.
Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò
“And in those days cometh John the Baptist preaching in the
desert of Judea. And saying: Do
penance: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand (Matthew 3: 1-2).”
The majority of those who hear this word –
“Do penance” – immediately think of a moral change in life. This is correct. In
practice, the one who converts gives up dark deeds (idolatry, sorcery, theft,
fornication, adultery, drunkenness, etc.) in order to live a Christian life.
This change in life, as Saint Augustine tells us, presupposes that someone
feels remorse for the wrongs they have done, prompting them to begin a new
life: “Unless one repent of his former life, he cannot begin a new life.” This
change in life can rightfully be considered a concrete interpretation of the
Gospel word – “Do penance.” And yet, the word itself indicates something deeper
than a change in life. As we will see further, it points to the very root, the core, the essence that generates the actual
change in life. Let’s see what it is about.
The Greek word translated as “Do penance” (or
“Repent”) is a compound verb: μετανοεῖτε (metanoeite) –
μετανοέω (metanoeó), formed from the
preposition μετά (meta) – “beyond” – and the verb
νοέω (noeó) – “to think,” “to understand” – which derives
from the noun νοῦς
(noûs) – “mind,” “intellect.” Simply and clearly translated, this verb means
“to change one’s mind.” It actually indicates a change in the mind of
the one invited to enter the Kingdom of Heaven. The way the world, life, deeds
– in a word, everything –
is understood undergoes a profound transformation. The preposition “meta” even
seems to indicate a change in the sense of lifting the mind beyond its natural
limits.
If we think, for example, of articles of
faith such as the mystery of the Holy Trinity or the Virgin Birth of the
Savior, we realize that these exceed our natural capacity for understanding.
Also, if we consider the absolutely unusual – from a strictly natural-human
point of view – way Christians relate to death, we realize that we are dealing
with an understanding of life completely opposite to the common one: how many
people would prefer to die as martyrs rather than acknowledge the supposed
divinity of Roman emperors? As it were, how many would die for a single word,
κύριος (kurios) –
“lord,” which Christians used exclusively for God, refusing to apply it to the
Roman emperor?
Such deeds truly indicate a change of mind in
those who embrace the faith. Moreover, if we recall the excellent definition
given by St. Thomas Aquinas to faith, everything becomes crystal clear:
“The
act of believing is an act of the intellect adhering to the Divine truth at the
command of the will moved by the grace of God” (Latin: Credere
est actus intellectus assentientis veritati divinae ex imperio voluntatis a Deo
motae per gratiam.)
This adherence of our intellect to the divine
Truth revealed represents precisely the
change of mind that underlies the transformation of our entire lives.
That’s why all those actions related to the virtue of religion, such as prayer,
meditation, lectio divina, etc., actions that involve the use of intellect in
the biblical, liturgical, and sacramental context provided by the Church, are
so insistently recommended by saints of all times. Because they help us acquire
minds transformed by grace that will motivate us to change our lives in the
direction desired by God and imperatively requested by Him:
“You shall be holy, for I am holy” (1 Peter 1:16).
Robert Lazu Kmita, Romania
The “received and
approved rites of the Catholic Church, accustomed to be used in the solemn
administration of the sacraments”:
…..Because, as we will see, Catholics must
celebrate only the “received and
approved rites” of the Church as a matter of Divine Law.
God revealed this truth in Scripture
through St. Paul. Before St. Paul teaches the Corinthians liturgical and
theological details concerning the Holy Mass (consecration formula, Real
Presence), he prefaces his teaching by affirming: “For I have received of the Lord that
which I also delivered unto you…”
(I Cor 11:23). St. Paul says again: “For I delivered unto you first of all,
which I also received” (1Cor 15:3). In these and other verses, St. Paul
emphasizes that we must believe and practice only what we have “received” from
Christ and the apostles which has been “delivered” unto us, and which includes
the liturgical rites of the Church. This is a divinely revealed truth and a
matter of Faith.
The Church has taught this divine truth
throughout her history. For example, in the Papal Oath of Coronation, which
originates at least as far back as Pope St. Agatho in 678 A.D. (and which was
set aside by Paul VI), every Pope swore to change nothing of the “received
tradition.” Pope Pius IV’s Tridentine Profession of Faith,
which is binding on the souls of all Catholics, likewise expresses this
principle by requiring adherence to the
“received and approved rites of the Catholic Church used in the solemn
administration of the sacraments.” The “received
and approved rites of the Church” originate from the Spirit of Christ and
the traditions of the apostles which have been handed down to us through the
ages.
Because the “received and approved rites” are part of the Church’s infallible
expression of the unchanging Deposit of Faith, as inspired and nurtured by the
Holy Ghost, they cannot be set aside or changed into new rites. This is why the
Ecumenical Council of Trent (1545-1563) infallibly declared:
“If anyone says
that the received and approved
rites of the Catholic Church, accustomed to be used in the administration
of the sacraments, may be despised or omitted by the ministers without sin and
at their pleasure, or may be
changed by any pastor of the churches to other new ones, let him be anathema.”
Because the Council declares anathema (that
is, condemned, or severed from the Body of Christ) anyone who would set aside
or change into new rites the already “received
and approved rites” of the Church, proves that adherence to the “received and approved rites” is a
matter of Divine Law. The absolute necessity to preserve the substance of the
Church’s ancient liturgical rites is a requirement of the Faith because the
rites preserve and express that Faith. To hold that the Church’s rites can
change implies a belief that the Church’s doctrines can change, because the
rites preserve and express the doctrines. Hence, those who do not preserve the
Church’s rites (by omitting or changing them) are objectively anathema because they sin
against the Faith itself.
In light of the foregoing
condemnation, the Holy Council of Trent directed that the Roman Missal be
restored so that the faithful would know once and for all what is the “received and approved rite” of Mass.
To that end, Pope St. Pius V issued his papal bull Quo Primum Tempore to legally codify “the decrees of the Holy Council of Trent”
and render a definitive application of the Divine Law dogmatized by the
Council. This judgment mandated a single usage of the Roman rite for the Latin
Church, with some minor exceptions for usages greater than 200 years old, “in order that what has been handed down by
the most holy Roman Church, the Mother and Teacher of the rest of the churches
may be accepted and observed by all everywhere.” Hence, the sainted Pope
declared the oft-called “Tridentine
Mass” to be the “received and
approved rite” of the Church, and which precluded the creation of any “new
rite” of Mass in the future. Further, because Quo Primum is an infallible application of
Divine Law (that is, we must use only the “received
and approved rites”), St. Pius V rightly declared the decree to be
irreformable and valid forever.
This brings us to the inevitable and
troubling question: Is the
Novus Ordo a “new rite” of Mass that comes under the anathema of the Council of
Trent, as definitively interpreted by St. Pius V in Quo Primum? The name of the
rite itself (Novus Ordo
which means “new order” or “new ordinary” of the Mass) certainly suggests the
same. More importantly, so do the words of Pope Paul VI. In his November 19,
1969 General Audience address, Paul VI refers to the Novus Ordo as a “new rite” of
Mass several times, for example: “We wish to draw your attention to an event
about to occur in the Latin Catholic Church: the introduction of the liturgy of
the new rite of the Mass.”
He also says, “In the new rite you will find the relationship between the
Liturgy of the Word and the Liturgy of the Eucharist...”
We also consider the statements of
the members of Paul VI’s liturgical commission that created the New Mass, such
as the secretary and head of the commission, Fr. Annibale Bugnini, who said:
“It is not simply a question of restoring a valuable masterpiece, in some cases
it will be necessary to provide new
structures for entire rites…it will truly be a new creation.” Bugnini’s
assistant, Fr. Carlos Braga, also stated that the New Mass has “an entirely new foundation of
Eucharistic theology” and whose “ecumenical requirements” are “in harmony with
the Church’s new positions.”
Fr. Joseph Gelineau, one of the most influential members of the commission,
also said: “To tell you the truth, it is a different liturgy of the Mass. This
needs to be said without ambiguity: the
Roman rite as we knew it no
longer exists.” Therefore, both Paul VI and his appointed
authors of the Novus Ordo admitted that the New Mass is not the rite “received”
from tradition, but rather a rite created by innovation – an entirely
unprecedented act in the history of the Church.
But we should not rely on these
statements alone. While they may reveal the intent of the innovators, it is
still necessary to look at the substance of the Novus Ordo rite itself. As we have seen, the
Council of Trent and St. Pius V intended to preserve the substantial identity
of the Roman rite forever. If the New Mass does not preserve this identity,
then it cannot be considered the “received
and approved rite” of the Catholic Church no matter what anyone says. Even
the Second Vatican Council, which did not (and could not) mandate the creation
of a new rite of Mass, recognized this truth by directing that the rites “be revised carefully in the light of sound
tradition” with “due care being
taken to preserve their
substance.”
The Council of Trent’s condemnation
of omitting or changing the “received
and approved rites” into “new rites”
is best understood by referring to one of the oldest maxims of the Church’s
sacred theology: “legem credendi statuit lex orandi.”
This is a Latin phrase which means “the rule of prayer determines the rule of
faith” (often referred to as “lex
orandi, lex credendi”). In other words, the way we pray determines
what we believe. If a liturgical tradition which expresses a doctrine of the
Faith is altered or removed altogether, the underlying doctrine will
necessarily be compromised. This is why the “received and approved rites” must be faithfully preserved and
never transformed into “other new ones”
as declared by Trent.
…… However, the Novus Ordo Missae deviates from the Roman Missal
of St. Pius V to such an extent that it no longer retains the substantial
identity of the Roman rite. Even before the introduction of such abuses as
audible canons, vernacular and versus
populum (toward the people) celebrations, lay ministers, Communion
under both species, Communion in the hand to standing communicants and the
like, Cardinals Ottaviani and Bacci advised Paul VI that “the Novus Ordo
represents, both as a whole and in its details, a striking departure from the
Catholic theology of the Mass as it was formulated in Session XXII of the
Council of Trent.” Consequently, Cardinal Ottaviani (who, as head of the
Holy Office, was responsible for safeguarding the doctrine of the Faith), in
his famous intervention, concluded that the Novus Ordo was indeed a different
rite of Mass.
For example, Ottaviani says: “To abandon a liturgical tradition which
for four centuries stood as a sign and pledge of unity in worship, and to replace
it with another liturgy which, due to the countless liberties it
implicitly authorizes, cannot but be a sign of division – a liturgy which
teems with insinuations or manifest errors against the integrity of the
Catholic Faith – is, we feel bound in conscience to proclaim, an
incalculable error.” He also says,
“It is obvious that the New
Order of Mass has no intention of presenting the Faith taught by the
Council of Trent. But it is to this Faith that the Catholic
conscience is bound forever.” Accordingly, Ottaviani appealed to Paul VI “not to deprive us of the possibility of
continuing to have recourse to the integral
and fruitful Missal of St. Pius V, so highly praised by Your
Holiness, and so deeply venerated by the whole Catholic world.” Therefore,
both the critics and the
creators of the New Mass, including Paul VI himself, agree that the
Novus Ordo differs
in substance from the
Tridentine Missal and, hence, constitutes a “new rite” of Mass.
John Salza, J.D., The Novus Ordo Mass and Divine Law, excerpt from Catholic Family
News
Catholic
Truth against Modernist ERRORS:
“Science…
cannot be successfully studied without final reference to God's place in it.”
We deny that God is unknown by the light of
human reason. He is known by means of the visible things He has made. We set
against Modernism the trenchant words of St. Paul to the Gentiles, which apply
to their Modernist followers, in the paths of agnosticism. 'What is known of
God is manifested in them. For the invisible things of God, from the creation
of the world, are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made:
His eternal power also and His Divinity, so that they are inexcusable. Because
when they knew God they did not glorify Him as God . . . but became vain in
their thoughts . . . Professing themselves wise (Philosophers), they became
fools' (Rom. i. 20, 21, 22). God can never be excluded from the domain of
science, so the Modernist dogma that science is atheistic is inadmissible. We
can no more leave God out of the sciences than we can shut out the light of the
sun from our earth. Every branch of science, directly or indirectly, manifests
in its own way the Divine Mind that is its ultimate end. As the whole of
Nature, so the science of Nature is like a stream flowing from God, the Ocean
of all truth and of all knowledge. Science, then, is not atheistic, it cannot
be successfully studied without final reference to God's place in it. 'Vain is
the mind of man in which is not found the knowledge of God' (Wisdom).
Rev. Norbert Jones, C.R.L., Old Truths, Not Modernist Errors
More than
14,000 estimated murdered Palestinians in Gaza with half of them children!
The Planned Destruction of
the Palestinian People:
Before the Jews suffered
their own "holocaust" they were planning the holocaust of the
Palestinian Peoples
“The
land of Israel is not small at all, if only the Arabs will be removed, and if
its frontiers would be enlarged a little; to the north all the way to Litani
[River in Lebanon], and to the east including the Golan Heights . . . . while
the [Palestinian] Arabs be transferred to northern Syria and Iraq. . . .
From now on we
must work out a secret plan based on the removal of the [Palestinian] Arabs
from here . . . [and] . . . to include it into American political circles. . . . today we have no other
alternative. . . . We will not live here with Arabs.”
(Meeting with
Jewish National Fund Chairman, Menachem Ussishkin)
“It
must be clear that there is no room in the country for both peoples…. If the
Arabs leave it, the country will become wide and spacious for us…. The only
solution is a Land of Israel… without Arabs. There is no room here for
compromises… There is no way but to transfer the Arabs from here to the
neighboring countries, and to transfer all of them, save perhaps [a few].”
(Diary
entry, December 12, 1941)
Yosef Weitz
(1890-1972), Director of the Jewish National Fund's Land Settlement Department,
known as the “architect of
the transfer” of Jew to Palestine. Developed plan to ethnically cleanse
Palestine. quote taken from Expulsion of
the Palestinians by Nur Masalha
Americanist heretic, Fr.
Isaac Hecker, founder of the Paulists, who taught that Protestant heretics
possessed divine and salvific faith, is being advanced for Novus Ordo
"sainthood".
It is this
article of faith (that there is no
salvation outside the Catholic Church), not the reasons we gave for its truth,
that is the main controversy which [the writers of the Congregation of St.
Paul, better known as the Paulists, founded in 1858 by the American convert,
Fr. Isaac Hecker] have provoked . . .
It is a truth revealed by God and proposed by the Church for our belief. . .
and therefore as the Church teaches, Out of Her Pale there is positively no salvation for
anybody.... Any persons who shall presume to think in their hearts otherwise than
the Church has defined, must know that they are condemned by their own judgement,
that they have suffered shipwreck in the faith, and that they have fallen away
from the unity of the Church.
Fr. Michal
Meuller, CSsR, defending the Catholic dogma
that there is no salvation outside the Catholic Church against two Paulist
priests under the direction of Fr. Isaac Hecker
OUR LADY OF
LaSALLETTE - Pray to be "blessed with a special grace"!
. . .a great
number of priests and members of religious orders will break away from the true
religion; among these people there will even be bishops . . . In the year 1864,
Lucifer together with a large number of demons will be unloosed from hell; they
will put an end to faith little by little, even in those dedicated to God. They will blind them in such a
way that, unless they are blessed with a special grace, these people will take
on the spirit of these angels of hell; several religious institutions
will lose all faith and will lose many souls . . . The true faith in the Lord
having been forgotten, each individual will want to be on his own . . . Rome
will lose the faith and become the seat of the Antichrist.
Our Lady of
LaSallette addressed to "all her children" through Melanie Calvert
U.S. Bishops Vote to Advance Canonization Cause of American Priest
Isaac Hecker
Cardinal Timothy Dolan of the Archdiocese of New York raised the
question of furthering the cause of canonization at the local level to his
brother bishops at the U.S. bishops’ annual fall assembly in Baltimore on
Tuesday.
Joe Bukuras | CNA Nation | November 15, 2023
The U.S. bishops voted Tuesday to advance
the cause of beatification and canonization of Servant of God Isaac Thomas
Hecker, a 19th-century American priest who founded the Missionary Society of
St. Paul the Apostle, today known as the Paulist Fathers.
Father Hecker’s cause for canonization was
formally opened in 2008, at which time he received the title “Servant of God.”
Paulist Father Ron Franco, who is the
postulator of Father Hecker’s cause, told CNA Tuesday that the next step in the
process is to publicize the cause for canonization in the Archdiocese of New
York, where the Paulists are headquartered.
Father Franco said that “the long-term task
of the study of Isaac Hecker’s writings by a historical commission has already
begun.”
Cardinal Timothy Dolan of the Archdiocese
of New York raised the question of furthering the cause of canonization at the
local level to his brother bishops at the U.S. bishops’ annual fall assembly in
Baltimore on Tuesday.
After a vote, 230 bishops voted yes, seven
voted no, and two abstained. [....]
COMMENT: The Catholic process
of canonization is quite different. A deceased Catholic with a reputation for
holiness through the grace of God attracts a cult of devotion and through the
intercession of this holy person, God performs miracles. The reputation of the
person spreads, devotion grows and more evidence of heroic virtue is evident.
The Church then examines the evidence and if substantiated will declare the
person a Catholic saint. The Novus Ordo Synodal Church does it backwards. The
find a person whose life gives testimony of a particular ideology, they then
invent evidence of virtue and through carefully developed propaganda and
manufacture an apparent cult of devotion. The miracles are then presented such
as the cure of a headache after taking two aspirins or the resolution of a sore
back strenuous yard work. When all is said and done they will proclaim that the
dogma, 'there is no salvation outside the Catholic Church' really means that
everyone is really a Catholic regardless of what they believe or do. And there
proof? That what "Saint" Isaac Hecker taught!
Bishop Strickland Saga: Ousted Bishop Speculates on the Reasons the
Vatican Removed Him
What comes next for the now diocese-less bishop?
Jonathan Liedl | CNA Vatican | November 12,
2023
Just hours after Pope Francis removed
Bishop Joseph Strickland as the head of the Diocese of Tyler, the Texas prelate
went public to share his side of the story — filling in some blanks in the
gripping saga that has put the now-former ordinary of the small northeastern
Texas diocese into the global spotlight, but also leaving other critical
questions unanswered.
Bishop Strickland revealed, in an exclusive
November 11 interview with LifeSiteNews, conducted shortly after the Vatican
announced Pope Francis had relieved him from the “pastoral governance” of
Tyler, why he thinks he was removed from office.
“I really can‘t look to any reason except I’ve threatened some of the
powers that be with the truth of the Gospel,” said Bishop Strickland, a
controversial prelate who regularly speaks out against what he sees as attacks
on the teachings of the Catholic Church to his sizable social media
following.
During the interview, Bishop Strickland also underscored that Pope
Francis has the authority to remove him from diocesan governance, and
frequently encouraged those upset or confused by the development to pray for
the Pope and not to leave the Church.
But the 30-minute media appearance did not
answer several key unknowns in the Bishop Strickland saga, such as what the
Vatican’s stated reasons — if any were given — for the dramatic step, and also,
concretely, what comes next for the now diocese-less bishop. Here’s what Bishop
Strickland had to say, and what remains unanswered.
Why Was He Removed?
Bishop Strickland shared that he had been
asked to resign on Nov. 9, but that he "couldn’t, of my will, abandon the
flock that I’d been given.”
That version of events checks out with a
November 11 statement from Cardinal Daniel DiNardo, who as head of the
Archdiocese Galveston-Houston is the metropolitan of the ecclesiastical
province that includes the Diocese of Tyler.
In his statement, Cardinal DiNardo said
that following a June apostolic visitation by two retired American bishops at
the behest of the Vatican that included “an exhaustive inquiry into all aspects
of the governance and leadership” of Tyler under Bishop Strickland, a
recommendation was made to Pope Francis that “the continuation in office of
Bishop Strickland was not feasible.”
After months of deliberation, the Texas
bishop was presented with a request to resign, and “the Holy Father removed
Bishop Strickland from the Office of Bishop of Tyler” when the prelate declined
the request, Cardinal DiNardo wrote.
The findings of the apostolic visitation
have not been published, nor has the Vatican disclosed why Bishop Strickland
was removed from office.
When asked what was behind Pope Francis’
decision, Bishop Strickland said, “The only answer I have to that is because
forces in the Church right now don’t want the truth of the Gospel.” He
added, “They want it changed. They want it ignored.”
Bishop Strickland did not accuse Pope
Francis of being part of this push to undermine Church teaching, but he did say
that “many forces are working at him and influencing him to make these kinds of
decisions.” For those “forces,” the bishop said, “I’m a problem,” and so they
pushed for the “removal of a bishop for standing with the Gospel.”
Bishop Strickland didn’t get specific about
what “standing with the Gospel” entails, but he was likely alluding to his
outspokenness and provocative statements on social media platforms and public
speaking events.
For instance, Bishop Strickland tweeted on
May 12 that he rejected what he called Pope Francis’ “program of undermining
the Deposit of Faith” — a provocation, according to media reports, Vatican
figures said “crossed the line,” prompting the apostolic visitation.
He has also repeatedly criticized the Pope
for a “dangerous” lack of clarity in his statements, especially related to
sexuality, and has been a vocal critic of Pope Francis’ Synod on
Synodality.
“Regrettably, it may be that some will
label as schismatics those who disagree with the changes being proposed,”
Bishop Strickland wrote in a public letter in August. “Instead, those who would
propose changes to that which cannot be changed seek to commandeer Christ's
Church, and they are indeed the true schismatics.”
Did Diocesan Governance Concerns Factor In?
But according to multiple media reports on
both the June apostolic visitation and ensuing discussions within the Vatican’s
Dicastery of Bishops, Church officials were also seriously concerned about
major issues with Bishop Strickland’s governance of the Tyler diocese. These
concerns reportedly centered on concerns over large-scale diocesan staff
turnover, hiring a controversial former religious sister as a high school
employee, and support of a controversial planned Catholic community.
Bishop Strickland seemed to address these
concerns obliquely in his LSN interview.
“No place is perfect, no family is
perfect,” he said. “But the diocese is in good shape.”
The bishop cited the Diocese of Tyler’s
high number of seminarians — 21 for a diocese with under 120,000 Catholics —
and also noted that the diocese is in a position of financial strength due to
“tremendous generosity from the people.”
“I’m so proud of the priests and the
diocese,” said Bishop Strickland, adding that given what he sees as the success
of the diocese under his leadership, he couldn’t identify any other reason for
his removal other than the threat he poses to those trying to change Church
teaching.
Was Bishop Strickland told why he was
removed?
Earlier that day, however, Bishop Strickland
seemed to indicate that there may have been more concrete reasons given for the
action taken against him.
“I stand by all the things that were listed
as complaints against me,” he told LSN in a brief article that was published
before his 30-minute interview. “I know I didn’t implement Traditiones Custodes” — the pope’s
2021 restriction of the Traditional Latin Mass — “because I can’t starve out
part of my flock.”
Taken together, the bishop’s answers make
it unclear not only why, exactly, Pope Francis ultimately decided to remove
him, but also whether Strickland himself was informed of the rationale for the
decision. [....]
COMMENT: Bishop Strickland is
a conservative Novus Ordo Catholic prelate trying to defend the Catholic faith.
Shackled with the presuppositions of conservatism and neo-modernism, he will
learn that that cannot be done. How many notorious heretical perverts has Pope
Francis removed from the episcopacy? None known. Quite the opposite. His
appointments are assumed to be heretical perverts until proven otherwise. The
real question is: Does the pope have the authority to remove a bishop without
just cause? Is there any example of Pope St. Peter I removing one of the
apostles from office? The bishops are successors of the Apostles. The office of
bishop is just as much a creation of Jesus Christ as the office of the papacy.
The pope exercises universal jurisdiction but the purpose of that jurisdiction
is to 'feed the lambs, feed the sheep'. Once the pope appoints and consecrates
a priest as a bishop, that bishop then exercises a divinely established office.
He is 'married' to his diocese not by the pope but by God. He cannot be removed
without just cause and Pope Francis has no just cause to have removed Bishop
Strickland. Pray that Bishop Strickland will be converted becoming an integral
defender of Catholic truth in the manner of Archbishop Vigano.
COMMENT: This
is a brief encapsulation of the philosophy of Pope Francis. He is a pure
Modernist who presupposes the Hegelian evolutionary “process” as a given. All
things, including doctrine, are in a state of constant flux including the
morality that doctrine determines. Francis admits to being a “utopian” dreamer
who believes that the “processes” created by Vatican II will ultimately yield
good fruit in the “utopian future.” The rotten swill we are currently consuming
is only an unfortunate but necessary part of normal “processing”; ‘you can’t
make an omelet without breaking eggs’. Like all liberals, it is always the
theory that is normative, the facts are askew. Whatever problems we are
currently enduring is because the theory has not been applied correctly, in all
its purity, with sufficient rigor, for enough time, something like the
Elizabethan racking of Catholic saints. The prescription is always more of the
same rotten swill to “enhance human fullness.” But the truth is that Francis
has no idea where his “processes” are going. He is confident that future
“history” will judge his worth. We are confident of that as well. Unfortunately
for Francis, if he dies without repenting of this heretical folly, he will not
save his soul. And repentance is problematic for Francis attributes these blind
‘processes’ that overturn revealed truth to the Holy Ghost and, Jesus has said,
“He that shall
speak against the Holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this
world, nor in the world to come” (Matt 12:32). No wonder that Francis offers his own
interpretation to the parable of the wheat and the cockle editing himself out
of the narrative. But again, unfortunately for Francis, Jesus Christ leaves us
an explicit interpretation of the parable to His apostles: The Lord of the
harvest is Jesus Christ; the field is His kingdom; the enemy is Satan. Those in
the kingdom are born of water and the Holy Ghost through Baptism. Those that
slept are the church hierarchy negligent in
their duty to protect the “field.” Satan enters through the negligence of the
shepherds and sows the cockle which every Church Father identifies with heresy.
The “goodness of the wheat” do not destroy heretics but rather endure them for
the heretics are gathered up at the time of the harvest and cast into eternal
fires as it shall be on the Last Judgment. Where is Francis in this parable? He
is not the negligent sleeping shepherd but rather the chief enemy sowing the
cockle. It would be better for him to have a millstone cast about his neck and
thrown in the depths of the sea.
Time is greater than space: A constant tension exists
between fullness and limitation. Fullness evokes the desire for complete
possession, while limitation is a wall set before us. Broadly speaking, “time”
has to do with fullness as an expression of the horizon which constantly opens
before us, while each individual moment has to do with limitation as an expression
of enclosure. People live
poised between each individual moment and the greater, brighter horizon of the
utopian future as the final cause which draws us to itself. Here we see a first
principle for progress in building a people: time is greater than space.
This principle enables us to work slowly but surely, without being obsessed with immediate results. It helps us patiently to endure difficult and adverse situations, or inevitable changes in our plans. It invites us to accept the tension between fullness and limitation, and to give a priority to time. One of the faults which we occasionally observe in sociopolitical activity is that spaces and power are preferred to time and processes. Giving priority to space means madly attempting to keep everything together in the present, trying to possess all the spaces of power and of self-assertion; it is to crystallize processes and presume to hold them back. Giving priority to time means being concerned about initiating processes rather than possessing spaces. Time governs spaces, illumines them and makes them links in a constantly expanding chain, with no possibility of return. What we need, then, is to give priority to actions which generate new processes in society and engage other persons and groups who can develop them to the point where they bear fruit in significant historical events. Without anxiety, but with clear convictions and tenacity.
Sometimes I wonder if there are people in today’s world who are really concerned about generating processes of people-building, as opposed to obtaining immediate results which yield easy, quick short-term political gains, but do not enhance human fullness. History will perhaps judge the latter with the criterion set forth by Romano Guardini: “The only measure for properly evaluating an age is to ask to what extent it fosters the development and attainment of a full and authentically meaningful human existence, in accordance with the peculiar character and the capacities of that age”.
This criterion also applies to evangelization, which calls for attention to the bigger picture, openness to suitable processes and concern for the long run. The Lord himself, during his earthly life, often warned his disciples that there were things they could not yet understand and that they would have to await the Holy Spirit (cf. Jn 16:12-13). The parable of the weeds among the wheat (cf. Mt 13:24-30) graphically illustrates an important aspect of evangelization: the enemy can intrude upon the kingdom and sow harm, but ultimately he is defeated by the goodness of the wheat.
Pope Francis, Evangellii Gaudium
U. S. -
Israeli Foreign Policy: Might's Claim to Right
Athenians
Envoy: "...we shall not trouble you
with specious pretenses---either of how we have a right to our empire because
we overthrew the Mede, or are now attacking you because of the wrong that you
have done us---and make a long speech that would not be believed; and in
return, we hope that you, instead of thinking to influence us by saying that
you did not join the Lacedaemonians (Spartans), although they are colonists, or
that you have done us no wrong, will aim at what is feasible, ...since you know as well as we do the
right, as the world goes, is only in question between equal power, while the
strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must."
Thucydides,
reporting the dialogue between the attacking Athenians who offer the Medians
the choice of being enslaved or having themselves and their homes destroyed.
May 24, 2011 Israel Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu got 29 standing ovations during his speech before a joint
meeting of Congress. Jews and Jewish organizations provide 50% of all
Democratic political financial contributions and 25% of all Republican
financial contributions. The standing ovations were all bought and paid for.
Now Netanyahu has killed more than 8,000 Palestinian civilians including more
than 4,000 children. Congress is still providing standing ovations. The first act of the new Speaker of the
House, Rep. Mike Johnson (Rep. LA) was an appropriation of money for Israel.
Pope Francis:
Both a "False Contemplative" and a "Heretic"
The tenth
characteristic (of Satanic influence) is the alienation from Jesus Christ and
His imitation. As a proof of this, it is
enough to recall the great aversion towards the Person of the Redeemer, on the
part of the false contemplatives and heretics in whom the diabolical spirit triumphs:
the former forbidding meditation on Him and cancelling His memory from the
mind; the latter impeding His worship and veneration.
Fr. John
Baptist Scaramelli, S. J. (1687-1752), The
Discernment of Spirits for the Right Ruling of Our Own and Others' Actions, quoted
by Don Pietro Leone Monselice, The
Destruction of the Roman Rite, and applied to the Novus Ordo
“The New Evangelization” –
Without a foundation of repentance, prayer, and penance there will be no fruit
for, “The Interior Life is the Soul of the Apostolate.”
The purpose of the struggle against our
passions, the practice of the virtues, recollection, prayer, the practice of
the presence of God, and frequent reception of the Sacraments, is to foster
union with God and the growth of charity.
The interior life is a secret hearth where a soul in contact with God is
inflamed with His love, and precisely because it is inflamed and forged by
love, it becomes a docile instrument which God can use to diffuse love into the
hearts of others. Therefore, it is very
important to recall frequently this great principle: the interior life is the soul of the apostolate. A deep interior life therefore, from it will
spring a fruitful apostolate, a true sharing in Christ’s work of saving souls…
Where there is little or no interior life, charity and friendship with God are
in danger of being extinguished; and if this interior flame be extinguished,
then the apostolate will be emptied of its substance and reduced to mere
external activity which may make a great noise, but will not bring forth and
fruit.
Fr. Gabriel of St. Mary Magdalen, O.C.D.,
Divine Intimacy
The Saint Prophesies great
Schisms and Tribulations in the Church.
A SHORT time
before the holy Father’s death, he called together his Children and warned them
of the coming troubles, saying: ‘Act bravely, my Brethren; take courage, and
trust in the Lord. The time is fast approaching in which there will be great
trials and afflictions; perplexities and dissensions, both spiritual and
temporal, will abound; the charity of many will grow cold, and the malice of
the wicked will increase. The devils will have unusual power, the immaculate
purity of our Order, and of others, will be so much obscured that there will be
very few Christians who will obey the true Sovereign Pontiff and the Roman
Church with loyal hearts and perfect charity. At the time of this tribulation a
man, not canonically elected, will be raised to the Pontificate, who, by his
cunning, will endeavour to draw many into error and death. Then scandals will
be multiplied, our Order will be divided, and many others will be entirely
destroyed, because they will consent to error instead of opposing it. There
will be such diversity of opinions and schisms among the people, the religious
and the clergy, that, except those days were shortened, according to the words
of the Gospel, even the elect would be led into error, were they not specially
guided, amid such great confusion, by the immense mercy of God. Then our Rule
and manner of life will be violently opposed by some, and terrible trials will
come upon us. Those who are found faithful will receive the crown of life; but
woe to those who, trusting solely in their Order, shall fall into tepidity, for
they will not be able to support the temptations permitted for the proving of
the elect. Those who preserve their fervour and adhere to virtue with love and
zeal for the truth, will suffer injuries and persecutions as rebels and
schismatics; for their persecutors, urged on by the evil spirits, will say they
are rendering a great service to God by destroying such pestilent men from the
face of the earth. But the Lord will be the refuge of the afflicted, and will
save all who trust in Him. And in order to be like their Head, these, the
elect, will act with confidence, and by their death will purchase for
themselves eternal life; choosing to obey God rather than man, they will fear
nothing, and they will, prefer to perish rather than consent to falsehood and
perfidy. Some preachers will keep silence about the truth, and others will
trample it under foot and deny it. Sanctity of life will be held in derision even by those who outwardly profess it, for in those days
Our Lord Jesus Christ will send them not a true Pastor, but a destroyer.
WORKS OF THE
SERAPHIC FATHER ST. FRANCIS OF ASSIST, TRANSLATED BY A RELIGIOUS OF THE ORDER
from the original publication of the Franciscans in Cologne, Germany in 1848,
pp 248, published by R. Washbourne, London, 1882, Imprimatur, +William Bernard,
Bishop of Birmingham
“A
sentence declaratory of the offence is always necessary in the forum externum,
since in this tribunal no one is presumed to be excommunicated unless convicted
of a crime that entail such a penalty.”
Pope
Benedict XIV, De syndod, X, I, 5
“The Novelty of “Religious Liberty” is elevated to a
“Catholic Church….. Demand”
The Catholic Church firmly advocates that due
recognition be given to the public dimension of religious adherence. In an
overwhelmingly pluralist society, this demand is not unimportant. Care
must be taken to guarantee that others are always treated with respect. Mutual
respect grows only on the basis of agreement on certain inalienable values that
are proper to human nature, in particular the inviolable dignity of every
single person. Such agreement does not limit the expression of individual
religions; on the contrary, it allows each person to bear witness explicitly to
what he believes, not avoiding comparison with others.
Pope Benedict XVI to the Muslims in Germany, 10-2011
Religious Liberty is the Keystone for “peace” in the New World Order
Religion
Human
rights, of course, must include the right to religious freedom, understood as the expression of a dimension
that is at once individual and communitarian….. It is inconceivable, then,
that believers should have to suppress a part of themselves – their faith –
in order to be active citizens….. The full guarantee of religious liberty
cannot be limited to the free exercise of worship, but has to give due
consideration to the public dimension of religion, and hence to the possibility
of believers playing their part in building the social order. …..
My presence at this Assembly is a sign of esteem for the United Nations,
and it is intended to express the hope that the Organization will increasingly
serve as a sign of unity between States and an instrument of service to the
entire human family…..The United Nations remains a privileged setting in
which the Church is committed to contributing her experience “of humanity”, developed
over the centuries among peoples of every race and culture, and placing it
at the disposal of all members of the international community. This
experience and activity, directed towards attaining freedom for every
believer, seeks also to increase the protection given to the rights of the
person. Those rights are grounded and shaped by the transcendent nature of the
person, which permits men and women to pursue their journey of faith and their
search for God in this world. Recognition of this dimension must be strengthened
if we are to sustain humanity’s hope for a better world and if we are to create
the conditions for peace, development, cooperation, and guarantee of rights
for future generations….. That is why the Church is happy to be associated
with the activity of this distinguished Organization, charged with the
responsibility of promoting peace and good will throughout the earth. Dear
Friends, I thank you for this opportunity to address you today, and I promise
you of the support of my prayers as you pursue your noble task.
Pope Benedict XVI, Address to the United
Nations, April 18, 2008
This message is born from our
historic experience. It is as a specialist
in humanity that we bring to this
Organization the approval of our more recent predecessors, the entire Catholic
episcopate, and our own, convinced as we are that this Organization represents
the obligatory pathway for modern civilization and world peace….. No more war,
never again war. Peace, it is peace that must guide the destinies of people and
of all mankind.
Pope Paul VI, October 4, 1965,
Address to the United Nations
“Peace” requires a New World Order political organization with
“real teeth”
In
the face of the unrelenting growth of global interdependence, there is a
strongly felt need for…. reform of the United Nations Organization…. so that the concept of the
family of nations can acquire real teeth…. for the development of all peoples in solidarity.
To manage the global economy…. to bring about integral and timely disarmament,
food security and peace…. for all this, there is urgent need of a true world
political authority.
Pope Benedict XVI, Caritas In Veritate,
July 28, 2009
Peace Plan of Our Lady of
Fatima
1.
WHAT DOES THE MESSAGE OF FATIMA REQUEST?
At Fatima Our Lady said that God wished to
establish in the world devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Our Lady said
that many souls would be saved from Hell and the annihilation of nations
averted if, in time, devotion to Her Immaculate Heart were established
principally by these two means:
A.
the
Consecration of Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary by the Pope together
with the world's bishops in a solemn public ceremony, and
B.
the
practice or receiving Holy Communion (and other specific devotions of about 1/2
hour in duration) in reparation for the sins committed against the Blessed
Virgin Mary, on the first Saturdays of five consecutive months--a practice
known to Catholics as "the First Saturday" devotion.
2.
HAVE THESE REQUESTS OF OUR LADY OF FATIMA BEEN HONORED?
No, not entirely. A number of the Faithful
practice the "First Saturday" devotion, but Russia has yet to be
consecrated to the Immaculate Heart of Mary in a solemn public ceremony
conducted by the Pope together with the world's Catholic bishops.
In 1982 the last Fatima seer, Lucia, when a
cloistered nun living in Coimbra, Portugal, was asked if an attempted
consecration by Pope John Paul II had sufficed. She replied that it did not
suffice, because Russia was not mentioned and the world's bishops had not
participated. Another attempted consecration in 1984 likewise did not mention
Russia or involve the participation of many of the world's bishops, and Sister
Lucia stated immediately afterwards that this consecration, too, had failed to
meet Our Lady's requirements.
3. WHAT DOES THE MESSAGE OF FATIMA WARN?
It warns that if the requests of Our Lady of
Fatima for the Consecration of Russia and the First Saturday devotion are not
honored, the Church will be persecuted, there will be other major wars, the
Holy Father will have much to suffer and various nations will be annihilated.
Many nations will be enslaved by Russian militant atheists. Most important,
many souls will be lost.
4.
WHAT DOES THE MESSAGE OF FATIMA PROMISE?
The Message of Fatima promises that if the
requests of Our Lady of Fatima are carried out "My Immaculate Heart will
triumph. The Holy Father will Consecrate Russia to Me, which will be converted,
and a period of peace will be granted to mankind."
"The West is not the
people. The West is a system of global hegemony over humanity on behalf of an
illegitimate international oligarchy. The West is the insidious primary
enemy of the populace — especially of Europe and America. The West is the
antithesis of Europe. Europe has history, culture, roots, and traditions (all
grounded in the Catholic Church). The West has destroyed all these in both
Europe and the US. The globalists have hijacked America. It does not belong to
its people anymore. Therefore we (Russia) are not fighting against the people
of the West but instead for the cause of the people, for the liberation of the
people from the grip of the totalitarian liberal system.”
Aleksandr Dugin, Russian
political philosopher, a recent attempted assassination killed his
daughter
God is Good. When that statement calls to our minds the
reckless generosity of His gifts, running the gamut of life's beginning to
eternity's endlessness, we have actually missed the point of His goodness. The
gifts tell us of His love, His mercy, His benign providence; but His goodness
does not bring things to us so much as it takes our hearts away from us. The
good God is that ravishingly attractive Being Who is resisted only when He is
not seen; He is infinite enticement, rapturous beyond a man's most extravagant
desires, captivating lovableness to tear the heart out of a man. Confronted by
divine goodness, the heart of man bursts into such a flame as to make a torch
of his whole life. Fascinated by the invitation inherent in such goodness, a
man finds no journey too long, no danger too great, no obstacle too wearying;
here is strength, courage, daring for the weakest of men, for if this goodness
be achieved nothing is lost, if this be lost everything is bitterly lost.
Rev. Walter Farrell, O.P. S.T.M., My Way of Life,
Pocket Edition of the Summa
"If in
some way we have betrayed doctrine, moral teaching or the liturgy...."
Question:
It is becoming difficult not to think of this as a time of chastisement.
Answer: I
think about this first of all concerning myself. If I am suffering at this time
because of the situation in the Church, I think that the Lord is telling me
that I have need of purification. And I also think that, if the suffering is so
widespread, this means that the whole Church is in need of purification. But
this is not because of a God who is waiting only to punish us. This is because
of our own sins. If in some way we have betrayed doctrine, moral teaching or
the liturgy, it follows inevitably that we will undergo a suffering that
purifies us to put us back again on the narrow way.
Cardinal
Raymond Leo Burke, interview by Alessandro
Gnocchi, Il Foglio, October 13, 2014
COMMENT:
"If"? "Or"? There is no question as to admit
"ifs" and "ors"! There has been a betrayal of doctrine,
morality, AND the worship of God! No if, ands or buts except to the willfully
blind! The chastisement is here and now and will end with the bloody cleansing
of Rome itself.
The Damage Has Been Done - the Synod on the Family only confirm the
fact!
The
Extra-Ordinary Synod on the Family in October 2014 gave a Novus Ordo
beatification Paul VI. This is
ironically fitting in a perverse way because the Synod of Extra-Ordinary Pope
Francis has followed in the pattern of Catholic moral betrayal established by
Paul VI. Paul VI best know encyclical
was Humanae Vitae published in 1968
which reaffirmed in a very, very weak way the constant teaching of the Church
that artificial contraception was a grave sin.
In
1962 Novus Ordo St. John XXIII established a Papal Commission to study the
question of artificial birth control.
This Papal Commission was affirmed and expanded by Novus Ordo Blessed
Paul VI to over seventy members. The
Commission issued both a Majority and Minority Report in 1966 that were made
public in 1967. The Majority Report
approved of artificial birth control.
The Minority Report defended and affirmed the traditional Catholic moral
teaching based primarily upon Natural Law and the constant teaching of the
Magisterium that artificial birth control is always and necessarily a grave
sin. It said, that the "constant
and perennial affirmative answer (that artificial contraception is always
seriously evil) is found in the documents of the Magisterium and in the whole
history of teaching on the question."
The Minority Report affirmed that the Magisterium nineteen times between
1816 and 1929, always with the same conclusion, taught that "contraception
is always seriously sinful." The
Minority Report contained extensive quotations from the teachings of previous
popes including Casti Connubii of
Pius XI and the Allocution to the Italian Midwives by Pius XII.
The
conclusion of the Minority Report is that the Catholic teaching of the
sinfulness of contraception is infallible and irreformable. It said: In dealing with this question, to
dispute in a subtle way whether the teaching is technically "infalllible
by a judgment of the magisterium" is empty-headed. For it this doctrine is not substantially
true, the magisterium itself will seem to be empty and useless in any moral
matter.
The
Majority Report rejected the constant teaching of the Church and advised
permitting the use of contraception by appealing to a personalist philosophy
that has been the hallmark of conciliarist popes. According to Mr. John Galvin who wrote a
brilliant article on this subject in 2002 that he admirably defended against
its detractors, Humanae Vitae
affirmed the Catholic teaching that artificial birth control was sinful but
discarded that traditional Catholic grounds on which that teaching was based as
to why it is always sinful. It then
followed the Majority Report's method by using a personalist philosophy to
defend the traditional Catholic teaching.
This defense was wholly inadequate to the task.
The
bottom line is that Paul VI did irreparable damage to the Catholic teaching on
the sinfulness of artificial birth control by 1) opening to debate a closed
moral question, and by 2) using grossly insufficient and inadequate grounds for
defending the true Catholic teaching. In
a like manner, Pope Francis has done irreparable damage to the Catholic
teaching on Marriage and sexual morality by opening to question infallible and
irreformable Catholic moral teachings.
Even if the teaching of Pope Francis after this current synod should
reaffirm Catholic truth, the damage has already been done by calling that truth
into question.
At
the close of the extraordinary Synod in 2014, in which Francis exercised
complete control, Francis presented himself as a neutral arbiter between two
factions in search of truth. He
counseled moderation and conciliation to both sides of the question. Like the Liberation Theologians he admires,
Francis has employed the Hegelian dialectic as used in ideological Marxism to
corrupt truth. There can be no
compromise whatsoever on these moral questions of adultery and sodomy. Francis has done his best to control the
outcome of this current synod without apparent success. We shall soon see if he has the temerity to
overthrow Catholic truth on his own authority without the support of the
world’s bishops. Those who step away
from truth step away from God.
Question: How are the “Jews who killed the Lord Jesus” responsible for killing
the “prophets”?
Answer: Because Truth is one thing!
The Jews who
both killed the Lord Jesus, and the prophets, and have persecuted us, and
please not God, and our enemies to all men. ...
To fill up their sins always: for the wrath of God is come upon them to
the end. St. Paul, I Thessalonians
Conservatives
consolidations of Liberal revolutionary gains - Conservatives have conserved
NOTHING!
You will see a
time in which we as a nation finally recognize relationships between two men or
two women as just as real and admirable as relationships between a man and a
woman.
President Obama
to homosexual lobby group, Human Rights Campaign
I support
ensuring that committed gay couples have the same rights and responsibilities
afforded to any married couple in this country. I believe strongly in stopping
laws designed to take rights away and passing laws that extend equal rights to
gay couples. I've required all agencies in the federal government to
extend as many federal benefits as possible to LGBT families as the current law
allows. And I've called on Congress to repeal the so-called Defense of Marriage
Act and to pass the Domestic Partners Benefits and Obligations Act. And we must
all stand together against divisive and deceptive efforts to feed people's
lingering fears for political and ideological gain.
President Obama
asking Congress to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act
“It’s
(homosexual marriage) law. It was settled in the Supreme Court. I mean, it’s
done.”
President-elect
Trump, November 2016
“My great
honor!!!” exclaimed the President, re-tweeting his openly homosexual former
Director of National Intelligence and Ambassador to Germany, Richard Grenell's
tweet saying “President Trump is the most pro-gay president in American
history.”
COMMENT: The
Defense of Marriage Act, signed into law by President Bill Clinton in 1996,
recognized that marriage was a relationship possible only between a man and a
woman. This truth of natural law was declared unconstitutional by Supreme Court
in Obergefell v. Hodges (2015). President Trump immediately acquiesced
referring to homosexual marriage as "settled law" and then embraced
it.
Dogma is the
Proximate Rule of Faith. Infallibility is essentially
and necessarily an attribute of
God. It is essentially and necessarily an attribute of the Church
because it is God's Church;
Infallibility is only secondarily
and accidentally an attribute of the
pope because which he alone can, enter under dogmatically specified conditions,
exercise for dogmatically specified ends! God is the Formal and Final cause of
Dogma. The pope is the Material and Instrumental cause of Dogma.
An attribute is something that must be attributed to a nature because
that nature demands it. For example, the attribute of infallibility follows
from the nature of the Church. For the Church is a divine institution, a work
of God Himself, and, in its founding He declared that it was to speak in His
name and to lead men to God. Now, such being its nature, how can it conceivably
lead men astray? In other words, how can it be denied that this divinely
founded and dowered institution is infallible? The fact of infallibility
follows from and attends upon the nature of the Church. Precisely because the
Church is the essential thing that it is, it must be infallible. Therefore, by
a necessity of its nature (i. e., by natural necessity) the Church must be
infallible. And so we say that infallibility is an attribute of the Church.
[.....] The examples show us plainly that in creatures an attribute is something that follows from, and attends upon, the
rounded and operative essence of a reality, but is, in itself, an accidental
thing, not to be identified with the essence to which it belongs. The Church,
for example, is not its infallibility; the Church has infallibility.
Rev. Msgr. Paul
Joseph Glenn, Ph.D., S.T.D., President of College Seminary of St. Charles
Borromeo, Theodicy
ALL CAUSES MUST BE PRESENT AND
WORK TO THE SAME END FOR ANYTHING TO BE CAUSED!
We see that
of the four major causes two belong to the very being of the effect; they are intrinsic to the effect as such: these
are the material and the formal cause. The other two causes, viz., the
efficient and the final cause, are not part and parcel of the effect, but are extrinsic to it. Thus we divide the four
causes as follows:
1. Intrinsic
a) Material
(exists only for bodily effects)
b) Formal
(substantial and accidental)
2. Extrinsic
a) Efficient
(subserved sometimes instrumental and exemplary causes)
b) Final
Rev. Msgr.
Paul Joseph Glenn, Ph.D., S.T.D., President of College Seminary of St. Charles
Borromeo, Apologetics
Hermeneutics of Continuity/Discontinuity
Pope Francis Teaches:
"I think that Martin Luther's
intentions were not mistaken. Nowadays, Lutherans and Catholics, and all
Protestants, are in agreement on the doctrine of Justification. On this very
important point he was not mistaken."
Pope Francis the Lutheran Heretic
Catholic Church Teaches:
Moreover, because the preceding errors and many others are contained in
the books or writings of Martin Luther, we likewise condemn, reprobate, and
reject completely the books and all the writings and sermons of the said
Martin, whether in Latin or any other language, containing the said errors or
any one of them; and we wish them to be regarded as utterly condemned,
reprobated, and rejected. We forbid each and every one of the faithful of
either sex, in virtue of holy obedience and under the above penalties to be
incurred automatically, to read, assert, preach, praise, print, publish, or
defend them. They will incur these penalties if they presume to uphold them in
any way, personally or through another or others, directly or indirectly,
tacitly or explicitly, publicly or occultly, either in their own homes or in
other public or private places. [....]
As far as Martin himself is concerned, O
good God, what have we overlooked or not done? What fatherly charity have we
omitted that we might call him back from such errors? For after we had cited him,
wishing to deal more kindly with him, we urged him through various conferences
with our legate and through our personal letters to abandon these errors. We
have even offered him safe conduct and the money necessary for the journey
urging him to come without fear or any misgivings, which perfect charity should
cast out, and to talk not secretly but openly and face to face after the
example of our Savior and the Apostle Paul. [....]
But he always refused to listen and,
despising the previous citation and each and every one of the above overtures,
disdained to come. To the present day he has been contumacious. With a hardened
spirit he has continued under censure over a year. What is worse, adding evil
to evil, and on learning of the citation, he broke forth in a rash appeal to a
future council. This to be sure was contrary to the constitution of Pius II and
Julius II our predecessors that all appealing in this way are to be punished
with the penalties of heretics. In vain does he implore the help of a council,
since he openly admits that he does not believe in a council.
Therefore we can, without any further citation or delay, proceed
against him to his condemnation and damnation as one whose faith is notoriously
suspect and in fact a true heretic with the full severity of each and all of
the above penalties and censures. [....]
If, however, this Martin, his supporters, adherents and accomplices,
much to our regret, should stubbornly not comply with the mentioned
stipulations within the mentioned period, we shall, following the teaching of
the holy Apostle Paul, who teaches us to avoid a heretic after having
admonished him for a first and a second time, condemn this Martin, his
supporters, adherents and accomplices as barren vines which are not in Christ,
preaching an offensive doctrine contrary to the Christian faith and offend the
divine majesty, to the damage and shame of the entire Christian Church, and
diminish the keys of the Church as stubborn and public heretics.
Bull of Pope Leo X, Exsurge Domine, CONDEMNING THE ERRORS OF MARTIN LUTHER, June 15,
1520
“If you love me you will
keep my commandments… He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them; he it is
that loveth me. And he that loveth me, shall be loved of my Father: and I will
love him, and will manifest myself to him… If you keep my commandments, you
shall abide in my love; as I also have kept my Father’s commandments, and do
abide in his love… In this we know that we love the children of God: when we
love God, and keep his commandments.” (John 14:15; 14:21; 15:10; 1 John 5:2)
Pope Francis
will learn, souls are “condemned for ever” who teach the Lutheran heresy of
justification & deny the Catholic dogma that to abide in “true charity” is
“conditional” upon keeping the commandments!
“The way of the Church is not to condemn
anyone for ever; it is to pour out the balm of God’s mercy on all those who ask
for it with a sincere heart… For true charity is always unmerited,
unconditional and gratuitous….
It is a matter of reaching out to everyone,
of needing to help each person find his or her proper way of participating in
the ecclesial com-munity and thus to experience being touched by an “unmerited,
unconditional and gratuitous” mercy. No one can be condemned for ever, because
that is not the logic of the Gospel!”
Pope Francis, Amoris Laetitia, paragraphs 296 and 297
“Revelation
manifests itself more and more each day… it’s always moving.”
It is a dogma
of divine and Catholic faith that Revelation was completed at the death of the
last Apostle!
Ideologies are
bewitching; and so Paul says: “Oh foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you?”
Those who preach with ideologies: everything’s right! They are bewitching: it’s
all clear! But look, God’s revelation
isn’t clear eh? God’s revelation manifests itself more and more each day; it is
always moving. Is it clear? Crystal clear! It is Him, but we have to find it
along the way. Those who think they possess the whole truth are not just
ignorant, Paul goes as far as to call them ‘foolish’ for letting themselves be
bewitched.
Pope Francis,
sermon, October 6, 2016
Do you need to convince the
other to become Catholic? No, no, no! Go out and meet him, he is your brother.
This is enough. Go out and help him and Jesus will do the rest.
Pope Francis the
Neo-Evangelist
Pope Francis open the Youth Synod with novel ferula that
is most fitting for his LGBT agenda!
Stang: The stang is a straight branch with a fork or Y at one end,
and is most used in ritual circle as a type of centerpiece representing the
magick of the three –the trinity– in the following ways: Earth, Sea, and Sky;
Body, Mind and Spirit; God, Goddess and Unity; the three faced of the God; the
three faces of the Goddess; and the crossroads of life. Stangs used today are
normally five to six feet in height and are often decorated with ribbons and
flowers that match the seasonal ritual. The stang also relates to the legend of
the World Tree, and in some ritual groups it is the pole of libation, where
gifts of food and liquid are arranged or poured by the base in honor of the
Gods. This is similar to the pole erected in the center of a Voodoo rite,
dedicated to Damballah, called the Ponteau Mitan. The stang is normally place
at the north (the seat of all power) or directly behind the altar. A few
groups, often with Druidic leanings, place the stang in the center of the
circle.
Definition provided by "Magickal Necessities by Witches of the
Craft"
A Forked Staff: Perfect Symbol for the Synod on Youth and with its
“synodal” Blah, Blah, Blah
Fatima Perspectives #1239; By Chris Ferrara
As one website observes, when the
Antichrist arrives to preach his lies among men, seducing “(if it were
possible) even the elect” (Mk. 13:22), his forked tongue “will have the
eloquence of angels, his honeyed words will pierce to the very heart of those
who hear him. His arguments and positions will be so well presented that even
those who recognize him will be hard pressed to resist what he has to say.”
The Antichrist will make the devil’s
ultimate sales pitch. For now, however, the forked tongue belongs to
lesser voices, lacking all eloquence and nuance, including those who will be
spouting empty demagogic slogans and emotivist rubbish at the Synod of Youth
and Blah, Blah, Blah now underway in Occupied Rome.
We have heard it all before at the last
phony Synod, which was merely a disguise for what Francis wanted from the
beginning and shamelessly passed off as the voice of the Holy Ghost. And
now — bearing a forked staff, appropriately enough — Francis has said it all
again in his homily at the beginning of this elaborate stage show for further
subversion of the Church:
For we know that our young people will be capable of prophecy and
vision to the extent that we, who are already adult or elderly, can dream and
thus be infectious in sharing those dreams and hopes that we carry in our
hearts…
May the Spirit grant us the grace to be synodal Fathers anointed with
the gift of dreaming and of hoping. We will then, in turn, be able to anoint
our young people with the gift of prophecy and vision…
Hope challenges us, moves us and shatters that conformism which says,
“it’s always been done like this”. Hope asks us to get up and look directly
into the eyes of young people and see their situations….
And this demands that we be really careful against succumbing to a
self-preservation and self-centredness which gives importance to what is
secondary yet makes secondary what is important.
The gift of that ability to listen, sincerely and prayerfully, as free
as possible from prejudice and conditioning, will help us to be part of those
situations which the People of God experience….
This disposition protects us from the temptation of falling into
moralistic or elitist postures, and it protects us from the lure of abstract
ideologies that never touch the realities of our people….
Here we go again: “prophesy and vision,”
“dreams and hopes,” “see their situations,” eschewing “conformism,” moving
beyond what is “secondary,” freedom from “prejudice and conditioning,”
rejecting “moralistic or elitist postures” versus “the realities of our
people.”
In other words: another poisonous dose of
situation ethics to follow the recent scandal of “permission” for Holy
Communion to be administered to people who intend to continue engaging in
sexual relations within “second marriages” which constitute “none other than
disgraceful and base concubinage, repeatedly condemned by the Church,” to quote
Blessed Pope Pius XI.
This preposterous sham of a Synod features
the attendance of two communist Chinese bishops handpicked by Beijing from the
ranks of the Catholic Patriotic Association, which, following the Vatican
sellout of the Underground Church, promptly declared its “independence” from
Rome. Francis ludicrously declared in his homily that the attendance of these
puppets of Beijing and its “independent” pseudo-Church means that “the
communion of the entire Episcopate with the Successor of Peter is yet more
visible thanks to their presence.”
The inevitable outcome of this sham
(barring a veritable miracle) will be a further erosion of the Church’s moral
foundations under the specious pretext of an expression of the “ordinary
Magisterium” that takes into account “situations” and “concrete realities” — as
if reality and morality were somehow opposed, when in fact it is conformity to
God’s moral law that leads a soul to the reality of true freedom.
God help us. God rescue us. Holy Mother of God, intercede for us and obtain for the Church that holy and courageous Pope who will put an end to this utter madness by doing at long last what You requested of the Roman Pontiff nearly a century ago at Tuy: the Consecration of Russia to Your Immaculate Heart.
Homosexuals
have gifts and qualities to offer.... Are our communities capable of ....
accepting and valuing their sexual orientation, without compromising Catholic
doctrine?
Synod of the
Family, First Relatio written by Pope Francis’ Hand Picked Clerics
A Place (in
eternity) is Greater than Time
“In my
Father's house there are many mansions. If not, I would have told you: because
I go to prepare a place for you. And if I shall go, and prepare a place for
you, I will come again, and will take you to myself; that where I am, you also
may be” (John 14:2-3). Jesus Christ
“Time is Greater than Space:
A constant tension exists between fullness and limitation. Fullness evokes the
desire for complete possession, while limitation is a wall set before us.
Broadly speaking, “time” has to do with fullness as an expression of the
horizon which constantly opens before us, while each individual moment has to
do with limitation as an expression of enclosure. People live poised between
each individual moment and the greater, brighter horizon of the utopian future
as the final cause which draws us to itself. Here we see a first principle for
progress in building a people: time is greater than space.”
Pope Francis, Evangelii Gaudium, “Time is Greater than Space”
“God manifests himself in historical revelation, in history. Time
initiates processes, and space crystallizes them. God is in history, in the
processes. We must initiate processes, rather than occupy spaces.”
Pope Francis, Interview with
Anthony Spadaro
Since “time is greater than space,” I would make it clear that not all discussions of doctrinal, moral, or pastoral issues need to be settled by interventions of the magisterium. Unity of teaching and practice is certainly necessary in the Church, but this does not preclude various ways of interpreting some aspects of that teaching or drawing certain consequences from it. This will always be the case as the Spirit guides us towards the entire truth (cf. Jn 16:13), until he leads us fully into the mystery of Christ and enables us to see all things as he does. Each country or region, moreover, can seek solutions better suited to its culture and sensitive to its traditions and local needs. For “cultures are in fact quite diverse and every general principle…needs to be inculterated, if it is to be respected and applied.”
Pope Francis, Amoris Laetitia
“How many times do those who are prominent,
like the Pharisee with respect to the tax collector, raise up walls to increase
distances, making other people feel even more rejected. Or by considering them backward and of little
worth, they despise their traditions, erase their history, occupy their lands,
and usurp their goods…. Worship of self carries on hypocritically with its
rites and ‘prayers,’ forgetting the true worship of God which is always
expressed in love of one’s neighbor.”
Pope Francis, ending sermon from the
Amazonian Synod
COMMENT: How the hypocrite
Francis is blind to the ‘beam in his own eye.’
The arrogant pretense that he and his Novus Ordite cronies actually know
anything about the “worship of God” and the “love of one’s neighbor.” Catholic institutions of charity have
collapsed since Vatican II because these institutions were staffed by countless
vocations, men and women who gave their lives in the service of the love of
their fellow man for the love of God.
Vocations have dried up and these institutions have closed their doors
because without faith, there is no charity.
Furthermore, no one, absolutely no one, has
been considered of “little worth” more than Catholics faithful to our “received
and approved” traditions of the Catholic Church which produced these
vocations. Faithful Catholics have had
their “traditions despised,” their “history erased,” their churches and shrines
“occupied,” and their “goods usurped,” by the philistines of Vatican II who are
the new Iconoclasts.
The Mission of Ss. Peter & Paul has set
out to recover and restore this despised heritage by which alone the faith can
be known and communicated to others, from which alone true charity may once
more abound. May our Good God cleanse
His Church from this corrupt pontificate of Francis and everything he represents.
THE NATURE OF GOD'S CHRUCH - “The kingdom of heaven”
In the thirteenth chapter of St. Matthew
there are several parables recorded, commencing with the words, “The kingdom of
heaven is likened,” etc. Now, this cannot be the kingdom of God’s glory, for
there are no tares or bad fishes to cast out in that kingdom. It must of
necessity be the Church of Jesus Christ on earth, the new-chosen children of
God, who have superseded the people of the ancient law.
It is called “the kingdom,” in the singular
number, not in the plural number, kingdoms, for Jesus Christ founded but one
Church, which is His kingdom; “and of His kingdom there shall be no end” (Luke
1:33). He does not call it a republic, but a kingdom, thus describing the
monarchical form of government which He gave to His Church. A kingdom is a
country governed by a king; and if the king does not preside over it in person,
he governs it by means of a viceroy, who iii everything represents the king,
and governs the country according to the powers and laws received from the
king. If nowadays we have so many Christian sects, each one calling itself the
true Church of Christ, it is not because He founded them, but because “many
revolted and did not remain in the doctrine of Christ” (II John 9).
To say that all churches are good and
pleasing in the sight of God, since they all believe in the same God and in His
Son, Jesus Christ, whom He has sent, is the same as to say that provinces and
individuals originally of the same kingdom, but revolting against their
lawfully-constituted authorities and forming laws for themselves not sanctioned
by the king, are just as agreeable to the king as those who were always
faithful and submissive to him and to his ministers, and that it is enough to
say to Jesus Christ, “Lord, Lord!” in order to be saved, no matter how many of
His doctrines one rejects, nor how many of His laws and ordinances are
despised. He Himseif answers “Not every one that saith to me, Lord, Lord, shall
enter into the kingdom of heaven, but he that doth the will of My Father, who
is in heaven, he shall enter into the kingdom of heaven. Many will say to Me in
that day: Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Thy name?” (and to prophesy
does not only mean to foretell future things, but also to explain and discourse
on religious matters), “and cast out devils in His name, and done many miracles
in Thy name? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you : depart from
Me, you that work iniquity” (Matt 7:21). If the Apostle St. Paul says, “There
must be also heresies,” it is not because Jesus Christ approves of them, but He
permits them only “that they also who are approved may be made manifest” (l
Cor. 11:19). They are, as it were, the shades which serve to make what is light
still clearer and more visible to the world. But shade is darkness, and nothing
dark or defiled will ever be admitted into the kingdom of glory. “Take heed,
therefore, that the light which is in you be not darkness” (Luke 11:35).
If, then, Christ has established but one
Church, which is His kingdom — “the kingdom of heaven” — and this Church has a
monarchical form of government, behold here already a main feature of the holy
Catholic Church.
JOSEPH PRACHENSKY, S.J., TIlE CHURCH OF THE PARABLES - TRUE SPOUSE OF
THE SUFFERING SAVIOR, 1880
Another Neo-Con WAR:
Attention will now be redirected from the debacle of Ukraine and refocused upon
a smaller dog that can 'hopefully' be kicked with impunity!
Haaretz op-ed by the award-winning
Israeli journalist and commentator Gideon Levy, October 11, 2023
Opinion : Israel Can’t Imprison Two Million Gazans Without Paying a
Cruel Price
Behind
all this lies Israeli arrogance; the idea that we can do whatever we like, that
we’ll never pay the price and be punished for it. We’ll carry on undisturbed.
We’ll arrest, kill, harass, dispossess and
protect the settlers busy with their pogroms. We’ll visit Joseph’s Tomb,
Othniel’s Tomb and Joshua’s Altar in the Palestinian territories, and of course
the Temple Mount — over 5,000 Jews on Sukkot (Feast of Tabernacles) alone.
We’ll fire at innocent people, take out
people’s eyes and smash their faces, expel, confiscate, rob, grab people from
their beds, carry out ethnic cleansing and of course continue with the
unbelievable siege of the Gaza Strip, and everything will be all right.
We’ll build a terrifying obstacle around
Gaza — the underground wall alone cost 3 billion shekels ($765 million) — and
we’ll be safe. We’ll rely on the geniuses of the army’s 8200 cyber-intelligence
unit and on the Shin Bet security service agents who know everything. They’ll
warn us in time.
We thought we’d continue to go down to
Gaza, scatter a few crumbs in the form of tens of thousands of Israeli work
permits — always contingent on good behavior — and still keep them in prison.
We’ll make peace with Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates and the
Palestinians will be forgotten until they’re erased, as quite a few Israelis
would like.
We’ll keep holding thousands of Palestinian
prisoners, sometimes without trial, most of them political prisoners. And we
won’t agree to discuss their release even after they’ve been in prison for
decades.
We’ll tell them that only by force will
their prisoners see freedom. We thought we would arrogantly keep rejecting any
attempt at a diplomatic solution, only because we don’t want to deal with all
that, and everything would continue that way forever.
Once again it was proved that this isn’t
how it is. A few hundred armed Palestinians breached the barrier and invaded
Israel in a way no Israeli imagined was possible. A few hundred people proved
that it’s impossible to imprison 2 million people forever without paying a
cruel price.
On Saturday, Israel saw pictures it has
never seen before. Palestinian vehicles patrolling its cities, bike riders
entering through the Gaza gates. These pictures tear away at that arrogance.
The Gaza Palestinians have decided they’re willing to pay any price for a
moment of freedom. Is there any hope in that? No. Will Israel learn its lesson?
No.
On Saturday they were already talking about
wiping out entire neighborhoods in Gaza, about occupying the Strip and
punishing Gaza “as it has never been punished before.” But Israel hasn’t
stopped punishing Gaza since 1948, not for a moment.
After 75 years of abuse, the worse possible
scenario awaits it once again. The threats of “flattening Gaza” prove only one
thing: We haven’t learned a thing. The arrogance is here to stay, even though
Israelis paying a high price once again.
Efforts must therefore be made to bring about an
organization of society in which the life of the people will not be subordinate
to and at the mercy of Stock Exchange operations and financial coups by the
few. Already, in the great Encyclical Rerum Novarum, May 15th, 1891,
Pope Leo XIII had alluded to the havoc wrought by usury. “For the ancient
working-men's guilds were abolished in the last century and no other
organization took their place. Public institutions and the very laws have set
aside the ancient religion. Hence, by degrees, it has come to pass that
workingmen have been surrendered, all isolated and helpless, to the
hard-heartedness of employers and the greed of unchecked competition. The
mischief has been increased by rapacious usury, which, although more than once
condemned by the Church, is nevertheless, under a different guise, but with the
like injustice still practiced by covetous and grasping men. To this must be
added … the concentration of so many branches of trade in the hands of a few
individuals, so that a small number of very rich men have been able to lay upon
the teeming masses of the laboring poor a yoke little better than that of
slavery itself.”
Rev. Denis Fahey, The Kingship of Christ
According to the Principles of St. Thomas
“Have confidence,
I have overcome the world.” John 16:33
We have here a
prophecy of four great facts: first, of a revolt, which shall precede the
second coming of our Lord; secondly, of the manifestation of one who is called
“the wicked one”; thirdly, of a hindrance, which restrains his manifestation;
and lastly, of the period of power and persecution, of which he will be the
author. [.....] It seems to need little proof that this revolt or apostasy is a
separation, not from the civil, but from the spiritual order and authority; for
the sacred writers, again and again, speak of such a spiritual separation; and
in one place St. Paul seems expressly to declare the meaning of this word. He
forewarns St. Timothy that in the later days, “some shall depart or apostatise
from the faith” ; and it seems evident that the same spiritual falling away is
intended by the apostasy in this place. The authority, then, from which the
revolt is to take place is that of the kingdom of God on earth, prophesied by
Daniel as the kingdom which the God of heaven should set up, after the four
kingdoms should be destroyed by the stone cut out without hands, which became a
great mountain and filled the whole earth; or, in other words, the one
universal Church, founded by our Divine Lord, and spread by His Apostles
throughout the world. [....] The three notes (of the apostasy) will be schism,
heresy and the denial of the Incarnation. [....] The theory, that politics and
religion have different spheres, is an illusion and a snare. For history can only be truly read in the
light of faith; and the present can only be interpreted by the light of
revelation: for above the human wills which are now in conflict, there is a
Will, sovereign and divine, which is leading all things to fulfill its own perfect
end.
Cardinal Henry Edward Manning, The Present Crisis of the Holy See
A very simple
but profoundly True faithful Catholic observation that every bishop at Vatican
II failed to see!
The
implications are wider than those applied to marriage and the church. The
partial/fullness breakdown implies that any good in anything can be considered “on the
way to fullness.” The problem is that, since evil simply is the privation of
good, and anything insofar as it has being
at all is good, everything falls into this category. Hence, according to the
Vatican II logic, any evil whatsoever can be regarded as, while not meeting the fullness of goodness, possessing a part of it and
perhaps some “element of sanctification.” Metaphysically, it is either a
meaningless analysis with no implications for morals or it covers (and in some
sense excuses?) literally everything; e.g., rape may not be the fullness of
conjugal union, but it expresses a part of the real desire for marital
unity..... We already see this language applied to the divorced and remarried,
but by the same logic it applies to any evil act you can think of. This is a
major problem of Lumen Gentium that
has to be rectified by a serious theological determination on the part of the
church.
“BM”, posted on
OnePeterFive commenting on the question of giving communion to Catholics living
in adultery because there exists some “good” in their adulterous relationships.
Pope Francis
the Sophist: He ‘believes’ in “Absolute Truth” but denies that it can be known
or communicated to other!
“We believers
and of course above all we priests and we bishops believe in the Absolute, but
each in their own way because each one has his own head and thought. So our
absolute truth, shared by us all, is different from person to person. We do not
avoid discussions in the case where our different thoughts confront each
other. So there is a kind of relativism among us as well.”
Pope Francis,
quoted by Eugenio Scalfari in La Repubblica, 10-10-17
The end of dialogue is to produce opinion.
The purpose of logical argument is to appeal to the intellect to arrive at truth.
Rhetoric appeals to the will and poetry to the imagination. The emphasis
of the Novus Ordo Church since Vatican II on dialogue is therefore a repudiation of any claim to truth offering in its place only the opinions of churchmen. It is the
reduction of Jesus Christ’s gospel from Truth to just another opinion.
“The Church
will have to opt for dialogue as her style and method, fostering an awareness
of the existence of bonds and connections in a complex reality. . . . No
vocation, especially within the Church, can be placed outside this outgoing
dynamism of dialogue . . . . [emphasis added].”
Pope Francis’ Instrumentum
Laboris, XV ORDINARY
GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF SYNOD OF BISHOPS: YOUNG PEOPLE, THE FAITH AND VOCATIONAL
DISCERNMENT
And thus, the 'spirit of Vatican II' -
dialogue so that everyone can reach an accomodation of error and the
repudiation of logical argument appealing to truth!
“Don’t
proselytize; respect others’ beliefs. We can inspire others through witness so
that one grows together in communicating. But the worst thing of all is
religious proselytism, which paralyzes: ‘I am talking with you in order to
persuade you,’ No. Each person dialogues, starting with his and her own
identity. The church grows by attraction, not proselytizing.”
Pope
Francis
Our Lord has told us of the
“everlasting fire which was prepared for the devil and his angels,” indicating
a leadership in hell. “The order of divine justice,” says St. Thomas, “exacts
that whosoever consents to another’s evil suggestion, shall be subjected to him
in his punishment; according to II Peter 2:19 – ‘By whom a man is overcome, of
the same also he is the slave.’” The greatest creature God created spurned his
Creator; those who followed him are his slaves, not catering to his comfort but
augmenting his misery.
Fr. Walter Farrell, O.P., My Way of Life
“For the Jews, ‘Anti-Semitism’ is anything that is in opposition to the
naturalistic Messianic domination of their nation over all the others.” Rev. Denis Fahey, C.S.Sp., B.A., D.Ph., D.D.
On the Charge of Anti-Semitism in Our Time
“…Two reasons can be assigned to the fact
that Our Lord’s faithful members will often be betrayed by those who should be
on the side of Christ the King. Firstly, many Catholic writers speak of Papal
condemnations of Anti-Semitism without explaining the meaning of the term, and
never even allude to the documents which insist on the Rights of Our Divine
Lord, Head of the Mystical Body, Priest and King. Thus, very many are
completely ignorant of the duty incumbent on all Catholics of standing
positively for Our Lord’s Reign in society in opposition to Jewish Naturalism.
The result is that numbers of Catholics are so ignorant of Catholic doctrine
that they hurl the accusation of Anti-Semitism against those who are battling
for the Rights of Christ the King, thus effectively aiding the enemies of Our
Divine Lord. Secondly, many Catholic writers copy unquestioningly what they
read in the naturalistic or anti-Supernatural Press and do not distinguish
between Anti-Semitism in the correct Catholic sense, as explained above, and
‘Anti-Semitism’ as the Jews understand it. …”
Fr. Fahey’s Preface in Grand Orient
Freemasonry Unmasked: As the Secret Power Behind Communism by Monsignor George
F. Dillon, D.D.
Jews have hated &
persecuted the Catholic Church from the time of Jesus Christ to this very day!
[The Jews are] a people who, having imbrued
their hands in a most heinous outrage [Jesus’ crucifixion], have thus polluted
their souls and are deservedly blind. . . . Therefore we have nothing in common
with that most hostile of people the Jews. We have received from the Savior
another way . . . our holy religion. . .
. On what subject will that detestable
association be competent to from a correct judgment, who after that murder of
their Lord . . . are led… by. . .
their innate fury?
Council of Nicaea, 325 AD
Jewish Power
is inversely proportional to the spiritual health of the Catholic Church
“Jews should not be placed in public offices,
since it is most absurd that a blasphemer of Christ should exercise power over
Christians.”
Fourth Lateran Council
Good Night, Sweet Princeton! By Fr. Leonard Feeney, 1952
Maritainism is a system of thought which
allows Catholics to be both Catholic and acceptable in the drawing rooms of
Protestant and Jewish philosophers. Maritainism is not a seeking and a finding
of the Word made flesh. It is a perpetual seeking for un-fleshed truth in an
abstract scheme called Christianity. Maritainism is the scrapping of the
Incarnation in favor of a God Whose overtures to us never get more personal or
loving than the five rational proofs for His existence. This plot to encourage
only pre-Bethlehem interest in God takes its name from its perpetrator, that
highly respected religious opportunist, Jacques Maritain.
The slightest acquaintance with Maritain’s
history is sufficient to indicate how awry he must be in his Catholicism. He is
a former Huguenot who married a Jewish girl named Raïssa. During their student
days in Paris, both Jacques and Raïssa felt a double pull in the general
direction of belief. Intellectually they were attracted to the religious
self-sufficiency of a Jewish intuitionist named Henri Bergson. Sociologically
they were attracted to the spurious Catholicism of Leon Bloy, a French
exhibitionist who made a liturgy of his own crudeness and uncleaness and tried
to attach it to the liturgy of the Church. At some point in their association
with an unbaptized Bergson and an unwashed Bloy, the Maritains figured out that
there was a promising future ahead of them in Catholicism.
Jacques Maritain is noted for his
solemn-high, holier-than-thou appearance. For this reason, more than one priest
reports that by the time a Maritain lecture is over, any priest who is present
has been made to feel that the Roman collar is around the wrong neck and that
perhaps he, the priest, ought to put on a necktie and kneel for Maritain’s
blessing.
One explanation of Maritain’s distant
expression is that he fancies himself to be the Drew Pearson of the Christian
social order. Judging by Maritain’s passion for the abstract, the fulfillment
of all his prophecies will come in an era when mothers can sing such songs as “Rock-a-bye
Baby, on the Dendrological Zenith,” and children recite such bedtime prayers as
“The Hail Mariology.”
Jacques Maritain prefers Thomism to Saint
Thomas Aquinas and, similarly, he much prefers the notion of the papacy to the
person of the Pope. He could not, however, turn down the prestige of an
appointment as French ambassador to the Vatican. Maritain went to Rome, but he
protected himself against over exposure to Italian faith by visits to Dr.
George Santayana. In Maritain, Santayana recognized a brother, the kind of
European intellectual cast-off that is annually being grabbed-up by American
Universities.
That Jacques Maritain should now be found
preaching at Princeton University is not so strange. It did not require too
much insight on Princeton’s part to see that a Catholic who hates Franco,
speaks at Jewish seminaries, and favors “theocentricity” in place of Jesus,
would be a bizarre, but harmless, addition to anybody’s faculty club.
Perhaps Princeton realized also that a
Catholic’s admirers are a good measure of his militancy. Among Maritain’s more
prominent sympathizers are John Wild, Charles Malik and Mortimer Adler (N.B.
Adler was converted and received into the Catholic Church in 1999 only 18
months before he died at 98 years of age), who are, respectively, an Anglican,
a Greek schismatic, and a Jew. Naturally Maritain could not insult
intellectuals like these by telling them that although they are outside the
Church they can get into Heaven because of their “invincible ignorance.” It was
necessary that Maritain concoct a new way of getting around the dogma, “No
Salvation Outside the Catholic Church.”
After a lot of abstract deliberation,
Maritain decided that a man could be “invisibly, and by a motion of his heart,
a member of the Church, and partake of her life, which is eternal life.”
According to Maritain’s new covenant, the important salvation-actions in our
world are no longer a head bowed to the waters of Baptism, a hand raised in
Absolution, a tongue outstretched to receive Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament. “A
motion of his heart,” says Maritain, is all that is required before a man may
partake of eternal life.
The Sacred Heart might have saved Himself a
lot of inconvenience had He only known this, one Friday afternoon on Calvary.
COMMENT: Jacques Maritain was Paul VI’s favorite philosopher. Maritain's reputation as a great philosopher is based on his supposed integration of the Scholastic principles of St. Thomas with the modern world. He had a world-wide reputation and following that extending beyond his
native France to hold visiting professorships
at Princeton and the University of Chicago, as well as a visiting lecturer at Notre Dame, Yale, Harvard, and the University of Toronto. Pope Paul VI publicly confessed his
profound respect and influence by
Maritain’s thought on his Credo of the People of God (1968). At
the close of the Second Vatican Council on December 8, 1965, the pope’s “Address
to Men of Thought and Science” was dedicated to his “dear friend and mentor, Jacques Maritain.” Pope Paul offered Maritain a cardinal’s hat, but the philosopher declined
it. Vatican II’s Declaration on Religious Freedom—Dignitatis Humanae—which teaches that the dignity of man is so exalted
that he possesses the inalienable right to neither conform his mind to God’s
revealed truth nor obey God’s commandments, drew as its inspiration Maritain’s book Man and
the State (1951) which is an articulation of
the language of “rights”
that Dignitatis Humanae employs.
“By their
fruit you shall know them!”; & by their fruit you had better well know
them!
For such false apostles are
deceitful workmen, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ. And no
wonder: for Satan himself transformeth himself into an angel of light. Therefore it is no great thing
if his (Satan's) ministers be transformed as the ministers of justice,
whose end shall be according to their works.
II Corinthians 11:13-15
The order of divine justice exacts that whosoever consents to another's
evil suggestion, shall be subjected to him
in his punishment; according to II Peter 2:19: "By whom a man is
overcome, of the same also he is the slave."
St. Thomas Aquinas
The proper literal understanding of this dogma from the
Council of Trent:
Canon 4 on the sacraments in
general: If anyone says that the
sacraments of the New Law are not necessary for salvation but are superfluous,
and that without them or without the desire of them men obtain from God
through faith alone the grace of justification, though all are not necessary
for each one, let him be anathema.
The Dogma defines two revealed doctrinal truths:
1.
If anyone says: that the sacraments of the
New Law are not necessary for salvation but are superfluous, let him be
anathema.
2.
If anyone says: that without the
sacraments or (if anyone says) without the desire of the sacraments
men obtain from God through faith alone the grace of justification, let him be
anathema.
Both the Sacrament of Baptism and the will to
receive the Sacrament are necessary for salvation!
“But
God desired that his confession should avail for his salvation, since he preserved him in this life until the
time of his holy regeneration.” St. Fulgentius
“If anyone is not baptized, not only in
ignorance, but even knowingly, he can in no way be saved. For his path to salvation was through the confession,
and salvation itself was in baptism.
At his age, not only was confession
without baptism of no avail: Baptism
itself would be of no avail for salvation if he neither believed nor
confessed.” St. Fulgentius
Notice,
both the CONFESSION AND THE BAPTISM are necessary for salvation, harkening back
to Trent’s teaching that both the laver AND the “votum” are required for
justification, and harkening back to Our Lord’s teaching that we must be born
again of water AND the Holy Spirit.
In fact, you see the language of St. Fulgentius reflected in the Council of
Trent. Trent describes the votum (so-called “desire”) as the PATH
TO SALVATION, the disposition to Baptism, and then says that “JUSTIFICATION
ITSELF” (St. Fulgentius says “SALVATION ITSELF”) follows the dispositions in
the Sacrament of Baptism.
Yet another solid argument for why Trent is teaching that BOTH the votum
AND the Sacrament are required for justification.
“Hold
most firmly and never doubt in the least that not only all pagans but also all
Jews and all heretics and schismatics who end this present life outside the
Catholic Church are about to go into the eternal fire that was prepared for the
Devil and his angels.” St. Fulgentius
“The most Holy Roman Church firmly believes,
professes and preaches that none of those existing outside the Catholic Church,
not only pagans, but also Jews and heretics and schismatics, can have a share
in life eternal; but that they will go into the ‘eternal fire which was
prepared for the devil and his angels.’”
Pope Eugene IV, Cantate Domino
Ladislaus, CathInfo
COMMENT: This
article is included only to demonstrate how remarkably shameless and juvenile
Pope Francis and his Vatican henchmen have become. Any person involved with
encounter group psycho manipulation techniques used in the 1960s and 1970s will
only, and rightfully so, discuss their experiences on the condition of
anonymity. These techniques were used on the Jesuits and then by the Jesuits in
the spiritual formation of Francis/Bergoglio. They must of made a lasting
impression on him. These techniques work best on the fixedly immature with an
arrested psychological development and a fragile ego.
Ruffini on Synod: Church pausing to profoundly listen to one other
Paolo Ruffini, President of the Commission for Information of the
Synodal Assembly, holds a briefing for journalists to explain the methodology
of the Working Groups (Circuli Minores), and foresees press conferences after
each module with Synod participants.
Vatican News Service | Salvatore Cernuzio and Deborah Castellano
Lubov | 05 October
2023
The Synod's 35 working groups, or 'circuli
minores,' began their work on Thursday, explained Paolo Ruffini, the
Prefect of the Dicastery for Communication, who is serving as President of the
Commission for Information, whose members will be elected on 9 October. He was
speaking to journalists accredited to the Holy See in the Vatican on Thursday
afternoon.
In the working groups, he explained, the
participants had the opportunity to get to know each other better by
introducing themselves, and sharing their own experiences of synodality, and
reflecting on what struck them from the others' reflections. During the meeting
with the press, Dr. Ruffini also explained various aspects of the Synod's
methodology.
Pope Francis, the Prefect highlighted, already on Wednesday provided the
outline for this initial phase of the Synod's work in his address to the first
General Congregation, namely giving a priority to listening,
"fasting" from speaking (especially publicly), mutual acquaintance,
discernment, and respect for confidentiality. And so, the universal Catholic
Church, in these four weeks of assembly at the Vatican, takes a
"pause."
This time of quiet, respectful listening,
as desired by the Pope, said Dr. Ruffini, "can help the world on other
fronts as well: the war, the climate crisis, to stop, to listen to one
another."
The Prefect recalled the Pope's words of
gratitude to many journalists who will be engaged this month in the work of
covering the Synod and his encouragement to recognize the value of profound
listening.
Biblical and Gospel-rooted 'silence'
The "news," said the Prefect, is
just that, namely a "suspension of time," a "silence" that
allows for listening and discernment, as we see in the Bible and Gospel.
"The way in which an institution as
great as the Church, allows itself a moment of silence in faith, in communion,
in prayer is news," Dr. Ruffini said during the briefing in the Holy See
Press Office, the first of daily appointments with international media.
He also told journalists that press
conferences will be held at the end of each module of the assembly with Synod
participants.
Process of the working groups ('circuli minores')
Together with Sheila Pires, Secretary of
the Commission for Information and Communications Officer of the South African
Bishops' Conference, Dr. Ruffini explained - with an accompanying PowerPoint
presentation - how, on a technical and methodological level, the work of the 35
Working Groups has been and will be carried out as they gather in their
respective languages tables.
Currently at the center of the reflection
is Section A of the Instrumentum laboris, concerning "the
characteristic signs of a synodal Church" and "conversation in the
Spirit."
It represents an early stage of the Synod,
so more sensitive issues listed in the same working document, and mentioned by
the Pope himself, have not yet entered into the discussions on the first day of
the Circles.
In the four minutes allotted to each
participant, the first step was to introduce oneself, then to share the path
taken by one's own Church in the first phase of the synodal path (the
consultative one), "how it started, how it evolved, the difficulties
encountered, the relationship between the local Church and the universal Church."
A "rapporteur" was then elected
for each working group to gather the different experiences and instances and to
present them to the assembly following discussion within the group. This
person, elected by majority vote, drafts the report, and "will report convergences,
divergences, ideas that came up," said Dr. Ruffini.
Along with this, "anyone can speak in
General Congregation and send their text to the Secretariat of the Synod,"
the Prefect explained, stressing that "there is a lot of freedom,"
that the atmosphere is one of "serene sharing," and that everyone is
having a profound "spiritual experience."
He added that the experience has thus far
been above all one of "communion."
"It is not important what this or that
participant says, but what the Church decides in its spirit of communion,"
he said. "It is a complex process but it ensures that everyone can put
their own points of view."
The need to go step by step
"As journalists, it's normal that we
try to imagine the end of anything: it can be either the soccer game or a
political election," Dr. Ruffini said. "But you can't give an answer
as to what the end will be because we're really only at the beginning." As
Pope Francis has always said, the Synod is a process, all the more so this one
on synodality that will continue into 2024.
"Let's try to go step by step,"
urged the President of the Commission for Information, trying to make it clear
that it is the very methodology of the Synod which requires a step-by-step
journey.
"This is not a deliberative Synod. We
are in the middle, so you cannot ask this Assembly to foreshadow the end of the
next Assembly."
Nature of the final report
The final report that will be formulated at
the end of October, he went on to say, will include "convergences and
divergences" but still represent not a point of arrival but "a path
that we are taking."
“It will therefore be something more like
an Instrumentum Laboris than the final document of past Synods.”
The Synod is therefore "a body,"
Dr. Ruffini stressed, in which no one is excluded.
"The Working Groups are proceeding to
common discernment with the active participation of each member, so that they
can then offer to the whole assembly points of convergence and divergence,
tensions that have emerged and questions that remain open, insights and
proposals regarding concrete steps to be taken in relation to the issues
addressed," he explained.
"The members who are here are here to
do this. Either we believe this, or we don't give any value to the assembly. We
are not discussing the opinions of each member. It is not a yes or no, but it
is the whole Church listening and discerning."
Hermeneutics of
Continuity/Discontinuity
Pope Benedict XVI – The
novelty of “Religious Liberty” is elevated to a “Church… Demand”
“The Catholic Church firmly advocates that
due recognition be given to the public dimension of religious adherence. In an
overwhelmingly pluralist society, this demand is not unimportant. Care must be
taken to guarantee that others are always treated with respect. Mutual respect
grows only on the basis of agreement on certain inalienable values that are
proper to human nature, in particular the inviolable dignity of every single
person. Such agreement does not limit the expression of individual religions; on
the contrary, it allows each person to bear witness explicitly to what he
believes, not avoiding comparison with others.”
Pope Benedict XVI to the Muslims
Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre – Called for a
“Wholesale” Revision of the Texts of Vatican II and said that the text on
Religious Liberty is “Contrary to the Magisterium of the Church.”
The necessity of judging the Second Vatican
Council in the light of Tradition and the unchanging Magisterium of the Church,
so as to correct the texts that are either incompatible with Tradition or
equivocal.
Archbishop Lefebvre to Cardinal Ratzinger,
CDF, July 21, 1982
“Considering that the Declaration of
Religious Liberty is contrary to the Magisterium of the Church, we ask for a
wholesale revision of the text.”We consider likewise indispensable noteworthy
revisions of documents like ‘The Church in the Modern World’, ‘Non-Christian
Religions’, ‘Ecumenism’, and clarifications of numerous texts presently tending
toward confusion.
“Similarly on several points of prime importance, the new Code of Canon Law is
unacceptable by its opposition to the definitive Magisterium of the Church.”
Archbishop Lefebvre to Cardinal Ratzinger,
CDF, April 17, 1985
The Pew poll
affirms that 95% of Jewish leaders support the crime of abortion. Similar
numbers support same sex marriages. Just who is this “one god” that Pope
Benedict, Pope Francis and the Jews, in “mutual esteem and friendship,” adore?
Jews and Christians, growing
in mutual esteem and friendship will be able to witness in the world the values
that spring from adoration of the One God.
Pope Benedict XVI
Pope Francis
the Destroyer - The Nominalist attacks the created relationship between the
Reality, the Concept (which is formed only in a spiritual soul), and the
Language to symbolize - He denies that truth exists, that it can be known, and
that it can be communicated to spiritual souls - He attacks the created order
at its very foundation.
So often
[people ask]: ‘But do you believe?’: ‘Yes! Yes!’; ‘What do you believe in?’;
‘In God!’; ‘But what is God for you?’; ‘God, God’. But God does not exist: Do
not be shocked! So God does not exist! There is the Father, the Son and the
Holy Spirit, they are persons, they are not some vague idea in the clouds ...
This God pray does not exist! The three persons exist!
Pope Francis,
Santa Marta, 10-9-14
After 40 Years
of Dialogue, Rabbi identifies papal “conundrum.”
The real conundrum that faces Benedict XVI on
his visit to Israel… is should he be loyal to the Gospels which claim that only
acceptance of Christ can bring the messianic age, or should he endorse Vatican
II which acknowledges that Jews… can find the kingdom of God via a different
route? Should he look inwards, backwards
or forwards?
Rabbi Jonathan Romain, The Pope’s Jewish
Dilemma, The Guardian
The revealed
truth of the Gospel are reduced to “opinions”, to “merely human calculations”.
So many past controversies between
Christians can be overcome when we put aside all polemical or apologetic
approaches, and seek instead to grasp more fully what unites us, namely, our
call to share in the mystery of the Father’s love revealed to us by the Son
through the Holy Spirit. Christian unity – we are convinced – will not be the fruit
of subtle theoretical discussions in which each party tries to convince the
other of the soundness of
their opinions. […..…] In the call to be evangelizers, all the Churches
and Ecclesial Communities discover a privileged setting for closer cooperation.
For this to be effective,
we need to stop being self-enclosed, exclusive, and bent on imposing a
uniformity based on merely human calculations. Our shared commitment to
proclaiming the Gospel enables us to overcome proselytism and competition in
all their forms.
Pope Francis
“And what is most remarkable is that the enemies of the
Church—the movements that rend and crucify her—are in a sense her own offspring
and derive their dynamic force from her.” This includes her current enemies who
attack from within the household. In the crucible of conflict, saints are
forged and crowns won.
Actually, however, Christianity has never
accepted these postulates, and the Christian ought to be the last person in the
world to lose hope in the presence of the failure of the right and the apparent
triumph of evil. For all this forms part of the Christian view of life, and the
Christian discipline is expressly designed to prepare us to face such a
situation.
Christianity, to a far greater degree than
any other religion, is a historical religion and it is knit up inseparably with
the living process of history. Christianity teaches the existence of a divine
progress in history which will be realized through the Church in the Kingdom of
God. But at the same time it recognizes the essential duality of the historical
process—the co-existence of two opposing principles, each of which works and
finds concrete social expression in history. Thus we have no right to expect
that Christian principles will work in practice in the simple way that a
political system may work. The Christian order is a supernatural order. It has
its own principles and its own laws which are not those of the visible world
and which may often seem to contradict them. Its victories may be found in
apparent defeat and its defeats in material success.
We see the whole thing manifested clearly
and perfectly once and once only, i.e. in the life of Jesus, which is the
pattern of the Christian life and the model of Christian action. The life of
Jesus is profoundly historical; it is the culminating point of thousands of
years of living historical tradition. It is the fulfillment of a historical
purpose, towards which priests and prophets and even politicians had worked,
and in which the hope of a nation and a race was embodied. Yet, from the
worldly point of view, from the standpoint of a contemporary secular historian,
it was not only unimportant, but actually invisible. Here was a Galilean
peasant who for thirty years lived a life so obscure as to be unknown even to
the disciples who accepted his mission. Then there followed a brief period of
public action, which did not lead to any kind of historical achievement but
moved swiftly and irresistibly towards its catastrophic end, an end that was
foreseen and deliberately accepted.
And out of the heart of this catastrophe
there arose something completely new, which even in its success was a deception
to the very people and the very race that had staked their hopes on it. For
after Pentecost—after the outpouring of the Spirit and the birth of the infant
Church—there was an event as unforeseen and inexplicable as the Incarnation
itself, the conversion of a Cilician Jew, who turned away from his traditions
and from his own people so that he seemed a traitor to his race and his
religion. So that ultimately the fulfillment of the hope of Israel meant the
rejection of Israel and the creation of a new community which was eventually to
become the State religion of the Roman Empire which bad been the enemy of Jew
and Christian alike.
If you look on all this without faith, from
the rationalist point of view, it becomes no easier to understand. On the
contrary it becomes even more inexplicable; credo
quia incredibile.
Now the life of Christ is the life of the
Christian and the life of the Church. It is absurd for a Christian who is a
weak human vehicle of this world changing force to expect a quiet life. A
Christian is like a red rag to a bull—to the force of evil that seeks to be
master of the world and which, in a limited sense, but in a very real sense,
is, as St. John says, the Lord of this world. And not only the individual but
the Church as an historic community follows the same pattern and finds its
success and failure not where the politician finds them, but where Christ found
them.
The Church lives again the life of Christ.
It has its period of obscurity and growth and its period of manifestation, and
this is followed by the catastrophe of the Cross and the new birth that springs
from failure. And what is most remarkable is that the enemies of the Church—the
movements that rend and crucify her—are in a sense her own offspring and derive
their dynamic force from her. Islam, the Protestant Reformation, the liberal
Revolution, none of them would have existed apart from Christianity—they are
abortive or partial manifestations of the spiritual power which Christianity
has brought into history. “I have come to cast fire on the earth and what will
I, but that it be kindled.”
Christopher Dawson, Dynamics of World History
This is the argument made by every criminal to cover his
crime. It has been the modus operandi for the HomoLobby since
Vatican II. It is Satan who “counsels”
and “commands” “silence” so that the homosexual perverts may continue
“partaking” and “concealing” the sins of Sodomy to which they have given their
“consent” by claiming, “Who am I to judge.” These are nine ways of being an
accessory to another's sin and this is a sin that “cries to heaven for
vengeance”:
· By counsel.
· By command.
· By consent.
· By provocation.
· By praise or flattery.
· By concealment.
· By partaking.
· By silence.
· By defense of the ill done.
“Woe to you
that call evil good, and good evil: that put darkness for light, and light
for darkness: that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter.” Isaias 5:20
In these times, it seems
like the Great Accuser has been unchained and is attacking bishops. True, we
are all sinners, we bishops. He tries to uncover the sins, so they are visible
in order to scandalize the people. The Great Accuser, as he himself says to God
in the first chapter of the book of Job, “Roams the earth looking for someone
to accuse.”
A bishop’s strength against
the Great Accuser is prayer, that of Jesus and His own, and the humility of
being chosen and remaining close to the people of God, without seeking an
aristocratic life that removes this unction. Let us pray, today, for our
bishops: For me, for those who are here, and for all the bishops throughout the
world.
Pope Francis, homily during
recent Novus Ordo service, calling those who “uncover the sins” of homosexual
bishops’ perversions of being ‘Satan’.
Explicit
Supernatural Faith in God’s Revealed Truth is Necessary as a Necessity of Means
for Salvation.
If you do not
believe this, you do not possess Supernatural Faith!
Responses of the Holy Office
under Pope Clement XI, 1703:
Q. Whether a minister
is bound, before baptism is conferred on an adult, to explain to him all the
mysteries of our faith, especially if he is at the point of death, because this
might disturb his mind. Or, whether it is sufficient, if the one at the point
of death will promise that when he recovers from the illness, he will take care
to be instructed, so that he may put into practice what has been commanded him.
Resp. A promise is not
sufficient, but a missionary is bound to explain to an adult, even a dying one
who is not entirely incapacitated, the mysteries of faith which are necessary by a necessity of means, as
are especially the mysteries of the Trinity and the Incarnation.
Q. Whether it is
possible for a crude and uneducated adult, as it might be with a barbarian, to
be baptized, if there were
given to him only an understanding of God and some of His attributes,
especially His justice in rewarding and in punishing, according
to this passage of the Apostle "He that cometh to God must believe
that he is and that he is a rewarder' [Heb . 11:23], from which it is
inferred that a barbarian adult, in a certain case of urgent necessity, can be
baptized although he does not believe explicitly in Jesus Christ.
Resp. A missionary should not baptize
one who does not believe explicitly in the Lord Jesus Christ, but is bound to
instruct him about all those matters which are necessary, by a necessity of
means, according to the capacity of the one to be baptized.”
COMMENT: The infamous 1949 Holy Office Letter, sent privately to
Cardinal Richard Cushing of Boston for the purpose of censoring Fr. Lenard Feeney
for his belief in the Dogma that there is no salvation outside the Catholic
Church, affirmed the novel doctrine of 'salvation by implicit desire'. The
"implicit desire" was to be a "member of the Church" and
the evidence of this "implicit desire" was a belief in a 'god who
rewards and punishes'. The Letter teaches that the only requirement for
salvation is found in St. Paul's Letter to the Hebrews 11:13. No longer were
the belief in any revealed truth, the reception of any sacrament, or being a
subject of the Roman Pontiff necessary as necessities of means for salvation.
This Letter teaches that any "good-willed" Jew as a Jew, Hindu as a
Hindu, Mohammedan as a Mohammedan, Protestant as a Protestant, etc., etc. are
members of the Church and can obtain salvation because they believe in a 'god
who rewards and punishes'. The Holy Office response of 1703 makes it clear that
the belief in a God who rewards and punishes is only the natural philosophical
prerequisite for receiving the gospel good-news of salvation and of itself is
insufficient grounds for receiving the sacrament of Baptism.
Remember , O
man, that thou art dust and unto dust thou shalt return.
"An
excessive desire for liberty at the expense of everything else is what
undermines democracy and leads to the demand for tyranny." Plato
In a 2022
lecture at Notre Dame, Alasdair MacIntyre argued that the claims and
conceptions of universal and inalienable human dignity as reflected in
documents such as the 1948 United Nations’ Universal Declaration of Human
Rights and in various post-war European constitutions are puzzling, since this
dignity requires a duty of respect to everyone just for being human, no matter
their behavior or character, so Stalin the mass murderer has as much dignity
and deserves as much respect as Mother Teresa. Aquinas’ view
of dignitas as interpreted by Charles De Koninick is a challenge to
this view, for it assigns human dignity, not to the mere fact of being human,
but to the end to which we are called, which is supernatural, union with God,
which might not be attained due to one’s choices on earth against those common
goods which enable our attainment of the supernatural end, and so human
dignitas could be lost. According to this view, the 20th-century concept of
human dignity is much too individualistic, and because it is not based in
justice and the common good, can only provide negative prescriptions against
the undignified treatment of humans. It is unable to provide positive
prescriptions that enable persons to obtain the common goods and the virtues
they need to attain their supernatural end. For MacIntyre, we need to speak of
human dignity in terms of justice, what we owe to each other for the sake of
enabling persons to attain their personal and common goods and final end, which
is the knowledge and love of God in this life and the next.
Thaddeus
Kozinski, PhD, Introduction to Article entitled, From Liberal Democracy to
Global Totalitarianism, September 26, 2023
Tikkun olam (Hebrew תיקון עולם, literally, 'repair of the world') is
a concept in Judaism, often interpreted as aspiration to behave and act
constructively and beneficially. Documented use of the term dates back to the
Mishnaic period (ca. 10-220 AD), (that is, the time when the oral traditions of
the Jews were committed to the written form in the Mishna, also called the Oral
Torah). Since medieval times, kabbalistic literature has broadened use of the
term. In the modern era, among the post-Haskalah (Jewish enlightenment, 1770-1880)
movements, tikkun olam is the idea that Jews bear responsibility not only for
their own moral, spiritual, and material welfare, but also for the welfare of
society at large. For many contemporary pluralistic rabbis, the term refers to
"Jewish social justice" or "the establishment of Godly qualities
throughout the world". Wikipedia
COMMENT: Jews repeatedly since the
time of Jesus Christ are the passionate creators and principle instigators of
ideological movements conceived as necessary for the moral and material
improvement of political and social order. When one after the other proves to
be a political and social failure, it is simply dropped and they move on to
another. They recognize a ‘fall from grace’ because they recognize the ‘world
needs to be repaired.’ Since they have rejected Jesus Christ, the incarnate
Logos, the eternal Wisdom of the Father, they have rejected His divine plan for
the ‘repair of the world’ and in its place offer what Fr. Denis Fahey, C.S.Sp.
described as “Organized Naturalism” in opposition to the Supernatural Order of
Jesus Christ. Unfortunately, the truth of the matter is that whoever is not
working for God is working for the Devil. There is no middle ground. As Jesus
said, “He that is not with me, is against me: and he that gathereth not with
me, scattereth” (Matthew 12:30).
Where Tikkun Olam
can lead
OPINION: Stalin’s Jews
Israel News | ynetnews | Sever Plocker
Here's a particularly forlorn historical
date: More than 100 years ago, between the 19th and 20th of December 1917, in
the midst of the Bolshevik revolution and civil war, Lenin
signed a decree calling for the establishment of The All-Russian Extraordinary
Commission for Combating Counter-Revolution and Sabotage, also known as
Cheka.
Within a short period of time, Cheka became
the largest and cruelest state security organization. Its organizational
structure was changed every few years, as were its names: From Cheka to GPU,
later to NKVD, and later to KGB.
We cannot know with certainty the number of
deaths Cheka was responsible for in its various manifestations, but the number
is surely at least 20 million, including victims of the forced
collectivization, the hunger, large purges, expulsions, banishments,
executions, and mass death at Gulags.
Whole population strata were eliminated:
Independent farmers, ethnic minorities, members of the bourgeoisie, senior
officers, intellectuals, artists, labor movement activists, "opposition
members" who were defined completely randomly, and countless members of
the Communist party itself.
In his new, highly praised book "The
War of the World," Historian Niall Ferguson writes that no revolution in
the history of mankind devoured its children with the same unrestrained
appetite as did the Soviet revolution. In his book on the Stalinist purges, Tel
Aviv University's Dr. Igal Halfin writes that Stalinist violence was unique in
that it was directed internally.
Lenin, Stalin, and their successors could
not have carried out their deeds without wide-scale cooperation of disciplined
"terror officials," cruel interrogators, snitches, executioners,
guards, judges, perverts, and many bleeding hearts who were members of the
progressive Western Left and were deceived by the Soviet regime of horror and
even provided it with a kosher certificate.
All these things are well-known to some
extent or another, even though the former Soviet Union's archives have not yet
been fully opened to the public. But who knows about this? Within Russia
itself, very few people have been brought to justice for their crimes in the
NKVD's and KGB's service. The Russian public discourse today completely ignores
the question of "How could it have happened to us?" As opposed to
Eastern European nations, the Russians did not settle the score with their
Stalinist past.
And us, the Jews? An Israeli student
finishes high school without ever hearing the name "Genrikh Yagoda,"
the greatest Jewish murderer of the 20th Century, the GPU's deputy commander
and the founder and commander of the NKVD. Yagoda diligently implemented
Stalin's collectivization orders and is responsible for the deaths of at least
10 million people. His Jewish deputies established and managed the Gulag
system. After Stalin no longer viewed him favorably, Yagoda was demoted and
executed, and was replaced as chief hangman in 1936 by Yezhov, the
"bloodthirsty dwarf."
Yezhov was not Jewish but was blessed with
an active Jewish wife. In his Book "Stalin: Court of the Red Star",
Jewish historian Sebag Montefiore writes that during the darkest period of
terror, when the Communist killing machine worked in full force, Stalin was
surrounded by beautiful, young Jewish women.
Stalin's close associates and loyalists
included member of the Central Committee and Politburo Lazar Kaganovich.
Montefiore characterizes him as the "first Stalinist" and adds that
those starving to death in Ukraine, an unparalleled tragedy in the history of
human kind aside from the Nazi horrors and Mao's terror in China, did not move
Kaganovich.
Many Jews sold
their soul to the devil of the Communist revolution and have blood on their
hands for eternity. We'll mention just one more: Leonid Reichman, head of the
NKVD's special department and the organization's chief interrogator, who was a
particularly cruel sadist.
In 1934, according to published statistics,
38.5 percent of those holding the most senior posts in the Soviet security
apparatuses were of Jewish origin. They too, of course, were gradually eliminated
in the next purges. In a fascinating lecture at a Tel Aviv University
convention this week, Dr. Halfin described the waves of soviet terror as a
"carnival of mass murder," "fantasy of purges", and
"essianism of evil." Turns out that Jews too, when they become
captivated by messianic ideology, can become great murderers, among the
greatest known by modern history.
The Jews active in official communist
terror apparatuses (In the Soviet Union and abroad) and who at times led them,
did not do this, obviously, as Jews, but rather, as Stalinists, communists, and
"Soviet people." Therefore, we find it easy to ignore their origin
and "play dumb": What do we have to do with them? But let's not
forget them. My own view is different. I find it unacceptable that a person
will be considered a member of the Jewish people when he does great things, but
not considered part of our people when he does amazingly despicable
things.
Even if we deny it, we cannot escape the
Jewishness of "our hangmen," who served the Red Terror with loyalty
and dedication from its establishment. After all, others will always remind us
of their origin.
“Don’t Jews still believe in a Messias to come?” asks the credulous
Christian. “And don’t they believe in the same Biblical Heaven and Hell that we
do?”
The answer to both these questions is — no.
And it is an emphatic “No!” as the subsequent Jewish testimony will verify.
Concerning
the Messias: The Jews of today reject the notion of a personal
redeemer who will be born of them and lead them to the fulfillment of the Old
Testament prophecies. The Jews believe that the whole Jewish race is to be
elevated to a position of prosperity and overlordship and that, when this happy
day arrives (the Messianic Age), they will have achieved all that is coming to
them by way of savior and salvation. In his recent book, The Messianic Idea in Israel, Jewish theologian Dr. Joseph Klausner
explains: “Thus the whole people Israel in the form of the elect of the nations
gradually became the
Messiah of the world, the redeemer of mankind.”
Concerning
Heaven and Hell: A succinct summary of Jewish teaching on
“life after death” was given in the May, 1958 issue of B’nai B’rith’s National
Jewish Monthly. Under the caption, “What Can A Modern Jew Believe?” there appeared: “Judaism
insists that ‘heaven’ must be established on this earth. The reward of the
pious is life and happiness in this world, while the punishment of the wicked
is misery on earth and premature death … By hitching its star to the Messianic
future on this earth, Israel became the eternal people.” The article goes on:
“The best Jewish minds have always held that a physical hereafter is a
detraction from mature belief.” And the conclusion: “There is neither hell nor
paradise, God merely sends out the sun in its full strength; the wicked are
consumed by its heat, while the pious find delight and healing in its rays.”
Fr. Leonard Feeney, MICM, The Point, October
1958
The study also
found that on a variety of issues involving sexual morality that have roiled
other religious groups, Jews are much more liberal than other Americans. Jews
take a less critical view of homosexuality, abortion, birth control and
pornography than do Gentiles,” the study found.
In each case, Jewish leaders are even more tolerant than the Jewish
public.
For example, 48 percent of non-Jews say homosexuality is
wrong, compared to 23 percent of Jews and 7 percent of Jewish leaders. And
while 56 percent of non-Jews support abortion
rights, 88 percent of Jews and 96 percent of Jewish leaders do.
Only 38
percent of Jews support allowing the Ten Commandments to be displayed in public
schools, compared to 65 percent of non-Jews; 39 percent of Jews would allow the
teaching of creationism, compared with 63 percent of non-Jews; and 22 percent
of Jews would support vouchers that could be used at religious schools,
compared with 43 percent of non-Jews.
Pew Charitable Trusts, examining the
contemporary role of religious groups in the United States
Pope Francis quotes St. Vincent of Lerins in
Contradictions to the Vatican Council I, and for clarification, a
"philosophic invention to the human mind" is the definition of an
ideology!
“For, the doctrine of faith which God
revealed has not been handed down as a philosophic invention to the human mind
to be perfected, but has been entrusted as a divine deposit to the Spouse of
Christ, to be faithfully guarded and infallibly interpreted. Hence, also, that
understanding of its sacred dogmas must be perpetually retained, which Holy
Mother Church has once declared; and there must never be recession from that
meaning under the specious name of a deeper understanding ‘Therefore […] let the understanding, the
knowledge, and wisdom of individuals as of all, of one man as of the whole
Church, grow and progress strongly with the passage of the ages and the
centuries; but let it be solely in its own genus, namely in the same dogma,
with the same sense and the same understanding.’ (Vincent of Lérins, Commonitorium, 23, 3).”
Vatican Council I, on doctrinal development
quoting St. Vincent of Lerins
Although the article is old, its
subject matter is timely. Cardinal George Pell died unexpectedly January 10,
2023 after undergoing hip surgery in Rome. What has become his final public
statement was his condemnation of the Synod on Synodality which will conclude
with two Synods in Rome beginning next month. The Synod on Synodality has
produced far greater anxiety among conservative Catholics than those Catholics
faithful to tradition because faithful Catholics who understood the rotten
first principles adopted at Vatican II have been watching and describing the
trajectory as this corruption for more than 50 years.
Cardinal George Pell: Synod on Synodality Has Become ‘Toxic Nightmare’
Breitbart News | Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D. | Jan 12, 2023
ROME — Australian Cardinal George Pell has
blasted the Catholic Church’s synodal way as “hostile” to the apostolic tradition
in a posthumous
essay published Wednesday in the Spectator.
In what has become his final public
statement, Cardinal Pell, who died unexpectedly of cardiac arrest Tuesday
evening, offers a searing critique of the 45-page working document meant to
guide the “Continental stage” of the Church’s ongoing “synod on synodality.”
The Catholic Synod of Bishops has produced
“one of the most incoherent documents ever sent out from Rome,” Pell writes,
and what was intended to express “God’s dream” of synodality “has developed
into a toxic nightmare.”
The synodal document, titled “Enlarge the
Space of Your Tent,” focuses primarily on radical inclusion, listening,
participation, and co-responsibility with believers and nonbelievers, while
ignoring central themes of Christian teaching and practice, Pell observes.
“The document does not urge even the
Catholic participants to make disciples of all nations (Matthew 28:16-20), much
less to preach the Saviour in season and out of season (2 Timothy 4:2),” he
notes, calling the text a “recent update of the good news.”
In the text, the Christian message of
salvation has been gutted of all content and “the distinction between believers
and unbelievers is rejected,” he writes.
Moreover, the synodal document proposes
that no definitive positions on abortion, contraception, the ordination of
women to the priesthood, homosexual activity, polygamy, and divorce and
remarriage “can be established or proposed,” the cardinal notes.
Pell goes on to ask rhetorically what can
be made of “this outpouring of New Age good will,” which far from being a
summary of Catholic faith or New Testament teaching, is “hostile in significant
ways to the apostolic tradition and nowhere acknowledges the New Testament as
the Word of God, normative for all teaching on faith and morals.”
For its part, the Old Testament “is
ignored, patriarchy rejected and the Mosaic Law, including the Ten
Commandments, is not acknowledged,” he adds.
In his essay, Pell also addresses the
thorny subject of the person chosen to manage the two final synods in Rome in
2023 and 2024, namely the heterodox Jesuit Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich.
Hollerich, Pell observes, “has publicly
rejected the basic teachings of the Church on sexuality, on the grounds that
they contradict modern science,” something that in ordinary times would have
precluded him from continuing as “Relator” of the synod.
The synods will have to decide whether they
are “servants and defenders of the apostolic tradition on faith and morals” or
sovereign masters tasked with reinventing Catholic teaching, Pell proposes.
In a call to action to his brother bishops,
Pell recalls that the bishop is “the guarantor of continuing fidelity to
Christ’s teaching, the apostolic tradition,” which means they are “governors
and sometimes judges, as well as teachers and sacramental celebrants, and are
not just wall flowers or rubber stamps.”
Therefore, bishops have true authority and
“are not there simply to validate due process and offer a ‘nihil obstat’ to
what they have observed,” he states
“By an enormous margin, regularly
worshipping Catholics everywhere do not endorse the present synod findings,”
Pell declares. “Neither is there much enthusiasm at senior Church levels.”
Many Catholics are rightly concerned with “the
deepening confusion, the attack on traditional morals and the insertion into
the dialogue of neo-Marxist jargon about exclusion, alienation, identity,
marginalisation, the voiceless, LGBTQ” in the synodal way, along with “the
displacement of Christian notions of forgiveness, sin, sacrifice, healing,
redemption,” he observes.
Additionally, the synodal way “has
neglected, indeed downgraded the Transcendent, covered up the centrality of
Christ with appeals to the Holy Spirit and encouraged resentment, especially
among participants,” he writes.
This working document needs “radical
changes,” Pell concludes, and much work is to be done, in God’s name, “sooner
rather than later.”
Pope Francis to address pro-abortion Clinton Foundation conference on
‘climate change’
Pope Francis will kick off the 2023 Clinton Global Initiative two-day
conference September 18, by holding a 'special conversation' with former
President Clinton.
LifeSiteNews | Michael Haynes | Sep 14, 2023 Listen to this article
VATICAN CITY— Pope Francis is to address
the Clinton Global Initiative conference via video link next week in a “special
conversation” with President Bill Clinton, in a discussion including “climate
change, the refugee crisis, the welfare of children.”
Announced by the Vatican September 14, details
of the pope’s involvement with the Clinton family endeavors were revealed. Pope
Francis will kick off the 2023 Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) two-day
conference September 18, by holding what was described as a “special
conversation” with former President Clinton.
The press bulletin read:
Today, President Bill Clinton, Secretary
Hillary Rodham Clinton, and Clinton Foundation Vice Chair Chelsea Clinton
announced programming and participants for next week’s Clinton Global
Initiative (CGI) 2023 Meeting, to be held September 18-19 in New York
City.
CGI 2023 will begin Monday at 9:15 AM ET
with a special conversation between President Clinton and His Holiness Pope
Francis via remote link, on what it takes to keep going on the most pressing
global challenges of our time like climate change, the refugee crisis, the
welfare of children, and the mission and projects of the Bambino Gesù
Children’s Hospital.
Pope Francis recently met with Clinton in
an un-announced private visit at the Vatican on July 5, at which the two men
reportedly spoke about “peace.”
The 75-year-old Clinton is famous for his
adulterous sexual affair with a young White House intern and subsequent
impeachment for perjury and obstruction of justice, as well as his adamant
support of abortion and same-sex “marriage.”
Greeting the former president warmly,
Francis presented him with a statue made at the Vatican which “symbolizes the
work for peace,” according to the Pontiff.
While the Pope is providing the opening
keynote address at the CGI conference, other speakers and participants include
notable left-wing or pro-abortion politicians and advocates. California
Governor Gavin Newsom and Michigan’s Gretchen Whitmer will be in attendance.
Former U.K. Prime Minister and staunch
advocate of globalist policies Tony Blair will attend, as will the pro-abortion
former White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki.
But other participants previously announced
as attending include:
Albert Bourla, Pfizer CEO, who Pope Francis
secretly received twice in 2022
Actors Orlando Bloom and Matt Damon
Kathy Hochul: New York’s pro-abortion
governor
“Qween Jean” a trans-“rights” activist, and
founder and executive director of Black Trans Liberation
Among the many sponsors of the 2023 CGI
conference are the Rockefeller Foundation and Pfizer Inc. [.....]
But the CGI conference includes – not
unexpectedly, given its naming after the Clintons – strong support for abortion
and contraception. Among its endeavors is the “Clinton Health Access
Initiative” (CHAI). This works across the world, allowing some 125 countries to
have access to specially reduced “medicines, diagnostics, vaccines, devices, or
other life-saving health products and services.”
One of the CHAI’s programs is the “Women
and Children’s Health,” which – employing oft-used contraceptive style
language, ensures that “women have access to the tools they need to safely plan
their families to improve health outcomes and economic well-being.”
CHAI boasts of its work to offer “simple
and effective interventions…to prevent unintended pregnancies, treat pregnancy
and labor complications and save the lives of newborns.” [.....]
“Opinions opposed to reason
inevitably produce actions opposed to nature.”
Louis de Bonald, (1754-1840)
French counter-revolutionary, statesman, philosopher
What every normal person already knows! Anyone supporting
the novelty of Gender Ideology is de
facto guilty of child abuse!
Gender Ideology Leads to Child Abuse:
Pediatricians
Susan Yoshihara, Ph.D. | NEW YORK, Center
for Family & Human Rights
“Facts – not ideology – determine reality,” the American College of Pediatricians (ACP) said in a warning to legislators and educators about the dangers of surgical and medical sex change operations to children.
“Conditioning children into believing that a lifetime of chemical and surgical impersonation of the opposite sex is normal and healthful is child abuse,” the physicians said, “Rates of suicide are twenty times greater among adults who use cross-sex hormones and undergo sex reassignment surgery, even in Sweden which is among the most LGBTQ – affirming countries.”
The group, which aims at getting parents involved in their children’s health and education about health, said, “Gender (an awareness and sense of oneself as male or female) is a sociological and psychological concept; not an objective biological one,” and that, “A person’s belief that he or she is something they are not is, at best, a sign of confused thinking.”
To the contrary, the group maintained that human sexuality is a “binary trait” and said the XY and XX chromosomes that determine female or male sex are “genetic markers of health” not “genetic markers of a disorder.”
“No one is born with a gender. Everyone is born with a biological sex,” the statement said.
The American Academy of Pediatricians, the larger professional society from which the ACP broke away in 2002, has surgical and medical interventions in youth to suppress the hormones that naturally cause girls to grow into women and boys to men.
The ACP says this change in position has put American teens at higher risk for physical and mental illness. ”Puberty is not a disease and puberty-blocking hormones can be dangerous…as many as 98% of gender confused boys and 88% of gender confused girls eventually accept their biological sex after naturally passing through puberty,” the ACP pointed out, and noted that children who use puberty blockers to “impersonate the opposite sex” will require cross-sex hormones in late adolescence that in turn can cause dangerous health risks such as high blood pressure, blood clots, stroke and cancer.
One of the statement’s authors is psychologist Paul McHugh. Drawing upon his clinical work with LGBTQ persons as chief psychologist at Johns Hopkins hospital and research as distinguished professor at the university’s medical school, McHugh has criticized what he sees as the American Psychological Association’s embracing of gender ideology at the expense of sound medical practice. McHugh authored an amicus brief filed in the U.S. Supreme Court case that overturned man-woman marriage laws in the U.S. last year.
Pro-LGBT groups criticized the ACP statement saying it would incite discrimination; one group called it an “attack on transgender children”. A public interest law firm labeled the ACP a “hate group” when it filed an amicus brief with the Alabama Supreme Court which favored exceptions to the 2015 U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling knocking down U.S. laws protecting marriage as between a man and a woman.
Activists similarly criticized Pope Francis’ recent remarks to Polish bishops where he identified gender “ideology” as a form of “ideological colonization” and linked it to government corruption. He said, “Today children – children! – are taught in school that everyone can choose his or her sex. Why are they teaching this? Because the books are provided by the persons and institutions that give you money. These forms of ideological colonization are also supported by influential countries. And this is terrible!”
TO KNOW THE FAITH, YOU MUST
KNOW THE RULE
The Rule of
Faith was given to the Church in the very act of Revelation and its
promulgation by the Apostles. But for this Rule to have an actual and
permanently efficient character, it must be continually promulgated and
enforced by the living Apostolate, which must exact from all members of the
Church a docile Faith in the truths of Revelation authoritatively proposed, and
thus unite the whole body of the Church, teachers and taught, in perfect unity
of Faith. Hence the original promulgation is the remote Rule of Faith, and the
continuous promulgation by the Teaching Body, (i.e.: DOGMA) is the proximate
Rule.
Rev. Scheeben’s
Manual of Catholic Theology
Hermeneutics
of Continuity/Discontinuity
Tradition:
from an Objective Truth Received reduced to a Subjective Impression of
Historical Events
Now I make known unto you, brethren, the gospel which I preached to you, which also you have received, and wherein you stand; By which also you are saved, if you hold fast after what manner I preached unto you, unless you have believed in vain. For I delivered unto you first of all, which I also received.
St. Paul, 1
Cor. 15: 1-3
Concluding and
summing up, we can therefore say that Tradition is not the transmission of
things or words, a collection of dead things. Tradition is the living river
that links us to the origins, the living river in which the origins are ever
present, the great river that leads us to the gates of eternity.
Pope Benedict
XVI, General Audience, April 26, 2006
Both the Catholic and Protestant interpretation of Christianity have
meaning each in its own way; they are true in their historical moment... Truth
becomes a function of time... fidelity to yesterday’s truth consists precisely
in abandoning it, in assimilating it into today’s truth. [.....] The truth is whatever serves
progress, that is, whatever serves the logic of history.
Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, Principles of Catholic Theology: Building
Stones for a Fundamental Theology
Rights Are Created from Duties –
In the conflict of Law - The “Ends” Determine the Law
that Must be Followed
Let us examine these words of Aquinas. First, he says that “since a precept of law is binding, it is about something
to be done.” This is a truth to which we seldom if ever advert, namely,
that although right and duty are correlatives, duty is ultimately the basis of
right - not vice versa. And this is so because right and duty are grounded upon
law. Law, as we saw, is a directive norm of action which carries with it an
obligation. It binds us to do or avoid something. The Eternal, Natural and
Positive Laws are ordinations, commands of reason. The fundamental notion of
law then is obligation - not the concept of right. We have rights because we
have duties. Since a precept of law is binding it is about something to be
done.
Secondly, “that a thing must be done
arises from the necessity of some end.” Whenever a man does
anything, i.e., whenever he acts as a reasonable being, he acts for an end - to
obtain some good; and so the necessity of his doing anything as a man must come
from the end. However, because man is a rational being he is free and
consequently the necessity exercised by any particular end or good cannot be
psychological; it must be
moral. That is, man’s will remains free but he is obliged morally, he has a
duty to seek the end - and that because a precept of law binds him to do so.
Rights, therefore, are founded upon duties, duties are grounded upon
Natural or Positive Law, and because these laws are themselves based upon the
Eternal Law all rights and duties have their ultimate source in the same Eternal Law.
Rev. John A. Driscoll, O.P., S.T.Lr.,
Ph.D., Rights and Duties - Their
Foundation
Archbishop Viganò Calls for Abolition of the Novus Ordo
Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò calls on his fellow
bishops to celebrate in the Traditional Rite.
Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, the former Apostolic Nuncio in the USA
and a prominent critic of the Pope, calls on the bishops to celebrate Holy Mass
in the rite of St. Pius V in an interview he gave to Paix Liturgique.
COMMENT:
Although
Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò has not yet understood that the 1962 Bugnini
transitional reform missal is not the "received and approved" immemorial
Roman rite of Mass but the missal that cleared away what he considered
"gross accretions and evident distortion" of the immemorial Roman
rite of Mass, he does clearly see that Vatican II is heretical and its ultimate
form of worship in the Bugnini missal of 1969 is a gross parody of true
Catholic worship and corruption of the Catholic faith.
It will not
take long before Archbishop Viganò understands this and as he does, more
conservative Catholic commentators will become more critical and distance
themselves from his sound guidance.
Pope says some ‘backward’ conservatives in US Catholic Church have
replaced faith with ideology
August 28, 2023
ROME (AP) — Pope Francis has blasted the
“backwardness” of some conservatives in the U.S. Catholic Church, saying they
have replaced faith with ideology and that a correct understanding of Catholic
doctrine allows for change over time.
Francis’ comments were an acknowledgment of
the divisions in the U.S. Catholic Church, which has been split between
progressives and conservatives who long found support in the doctrinaire
papacies of St. John Paul II and Benedict XVI, particularly on issues of
abortion and same-sex marriage.
Many conservatives have blasted Francis’
emphasis instead on social justice issues such as the environment and the poor,
while also branding as heretical his opening to letting divorced and civilly
remarried Catholics receive the sacraments.
Francis made the comments in a private
meeting with Portuguese members of his Jesuit religious order while visiting
Lisbon on Aug. 5; the Jesuit journal La Civilta Cattolica, which is vetted by
the Vatican secretariat of state, published a transcript of the encounter
Monday.
During the meeting, a Portuguese Jesuit told Francis that he had
suffered during a recent sabbatical year in the United States because he came
across many Catholics, including some U.S. bishops, who criticized Francis’
10-year papacy as well as today’s Jesuits.
The 86-year-old Argentine acknowledged his
point, saying there was “a very strong, organized, reactionary attitude” in the
U.S. church, which he called “backward.” He warned that such an attitude leads
to a climate of closure, which was erroneous.
“Doing this, you lose the true tradition and
you turn to ideologies to have support. In other words, ideologies replace
faith,” he said.
“The vision of the doctrine of the church
as a monolith is wrong,” he added. “When you go backward, you make something
closed off, disconnected from the roots of the church,” which then has
devastating effects on morality.
“I want to remind these people that
backwardness is useless, and they must understand that there’s a correct
evolution in the understanding of questions of faith and morals,” that allows
for doctrine to progress and consolidate over time.
Francis has previously acknowledged the
criticism directed at him from some U.S. conservatives, once quipping that it
was an “honor” to be attacked by Americans.
COMMENT: Conservative Catholics are famous for
conserving nothing. There is not a dime's worth of difference between
Francis/Bergoglio and his conciliarists predecessors on matters of substance.
Francis is just more offensive in his practical application of established
heresies introduced from Vatican II. There is no defending of the faith by
offering a less offensive flavor of dung soup.
But to set the record straight, the faith is believing what God has
revealed on the authority of God the revealer, therefore, the faith is,
contrary to Francis, a monolith. It is one thing what God has revealed, and if
you reject any part of God's revelation you have rejected it all for those who
reject a single revealed truth reject the authority of God the revealer.
Faithful Catholics are not "backward" because they never went forward
into error. When you go "forward" into error you are the branch cut
off from the vine and can only look forward to being gathered and burned.
Francis is correct in seeing the connection between doctrine and morality. All
morality is derived from doctrine. Francis' morality is different from Catholic
morality and that is the evidence of who is fact is the ideologue in this
argument. Francis' morality is what Catholic moral theologians have in the past
called sin. Francis wants doctrine to "progress and consolidate over
time." That is, he wants the "progress" of the new
doctrine-morality and then he wants his new doctrine-morality to be
"consolidate" in habitual sin. The Catholic faith already has a consolidated
morality. The principles of morality are fixed only the situations where they
must be applied can and do change. From the beginning God has cursed those who
call evil, good and good, evil. From a human perspective it is impossible that
Francis can be saved, but with God anything is possible. But still, if it is
better to have a millstone tied around your neck and thrown in the depths of
the sea than to have scandalized an innocent soul, what about Francis who has
been a festering scab of scandal before the entire world from the beginning of
his papacy? As a general principle, it is a waste of time to argue doctrine
with a heretic. You can save yourself a lot of trouble by simple finding what
sin he habitually commits and refuses to repent. Any guesses what sin
Francis/Bergoglio loves?
And we DO know them!
"BY THEIR FRUITS YOU WILL KNOW THEM ... A GOOD TREE CANNOT
BEAR BAD FRUIT, NOR
CAN A BAD TREE BEAR GOOD FRUIT." JESUS
CHRIST, MATTHEW 7:15-18
What “Religious Submission” to the ‘Ordinary Authentic
Magisterium’ Actually Means
Nor must it be thought that what is
expounded in Encyclical Letters does not of itself demand consent just because
in writing such Letters the Popes do not exercise the supreme power [i.e.,
extra-ordinary magisterium] of their Teaching Authority. For these matters are
taught with the ordinary Teaching Authority [ordinary and universal magisterium],
of which it is true to say: “He that heareth you, heareth Me.” [Luke
10:16].
Pius XII, Humani Generis, par. 20.
COMMENT: This quotation taken from Pope Pius XII
is now referenced to support the Novus Ordo Church’s claim that every Catholic
must give unconditional submission of his “mind and will to the authentic
magisterium” of Pope Francis. Pope Pius
XII in his encyclical is referring to the “ordinary and universal magisterium”
and this can be clearly seen for two reasons: The examples provided by Pope
Pius XII that follow this statement in his encyclical refer specifically to
modern theological novelties that reject, for example, the infallible teaching
of the Church on the inerrancy of sacred scripture, the identity of the Church
and the Mystical Body of Christ, and the nature of Original Sin. These are all examples of the “ordinary and
universal” magisterium that Vatican I dogmatically defined as “infallible.”
The other reason is God cannot bind the
authority of His Truth to what can and have in the past contained errors. Fr. Joseph Fenton, in an article published in
the AER in 1949 entitled, On the Doctrinal Authority of Papal Encyclicals,
documents specific historical errors published in those documents. Whenever the
pope teaches by virtue of his grace of state from the ‘authentic ordinary
magisterium’, his teaching must be accepted by a religious submission which is always
and necessarily a prudent and conditional submission to the personal teaching
authority of the pope. Such conditional
acceptance of the word of God is not possible when the pope teaches infallibly
by engaging the “extra-ordinary magisterium” or the “ordinary and universal
magisterium” of the Church from which alone it can be said without
qualification whatsoever, “He that heareth you, heareth Me.” [Luke 10:16].
The modern encyclical by Pope Francis on
global warming/earth worship, for example, is wholly conscribed within a very
narrow and tenuous ideological framework that has little or nothing to do with
Catholic doctrine or morality. This document has nothing to do with the
“ordinary and universal” magisterium. It
is entirely a product of the personal authentic ordinary magisterium of Pope
Francis teaching by his grace of state.
Anyone to whom the document is addressed is free to toss the document in
the trash along with the junk mail if he, upon mature consideration, finds it
to be a novelty and, in its overall tone, an ideological screed divorced from
natural truth.
On the Necessity of Baptism
"By one man sin entered into the
world, and by sin death... so that in them there may be washed away by
regeneration, what they have contracted by generation, ‘For unless a man is
born again of water and the Holy Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God’
(John 3:5)."
Council of Trent, Session 5, Canon 4 on
Original Sin ....
"Particular texts (in sacred
Scripture) where the Church has defined that such is the meaning are few. The
following texts have been dogmatically defined:
·
Romans
5:12 on Original Sin
·
John 3:5
on Baptism
·
Words of
institution on the Holy Eucharist
·
John
20:23 on the remission and retention of sin
·
James 5:14
on the establishment of the sacrament Extreme Unction
·
Matthew
16:16 & John 21:15 on the universal jurisdiction of the St. Peter and the
papacy
....... From John 3:5 there is established
the absolute necessity of baptism and that real and natural water is necessary
for baptism (Council of Trent, Session V, Canon 4 Denz. 791, 858)
Fr. Sixtus Cartechini, De Valore notarum
theologicarum et de criteriis ad eas dignoscendas, 1951, Chap. 7
Liturgical Reform: “Nothing new under the sun!”
If and when Francis can direct the Police State to crush Catholic
worship do not expect any mercy from Francis the Merciful!
The
following episode illustrates the bitter hatred that erupted among the people
as a result of the (Josephism liturgical) reforms. In 1787, on the Feast Day of
St. John, a great disturbance occurred in the church. The new hymnal was being
introduced to replace the Latin choral singing, which heretofore had been the
accepted norm. During High Mass, when the children present were to have
responded to the Gloria in excelsis Deo, intoned by the celebrant, with a
German song, the people started to hiss, and the choir responded with unusual
force and vigor, ‘Et in terra pax hominibus....’ As the disturbance grew in
intensity, the Elector dispatched two companies of infantry, the artillery and
two squads of Hussars. Thirty ringleaders were sentenced to hard labor; and
some among them were never to see their fatherland again.
W.
Bamker, The Catholic German Church Hymn; cited by Msgr. Klaus Gamber who said:
“When
the German state embraced the Enlightenment philosophical ideas (Josephism,
after Holy Roman Emperor Joseph II), the traditional Latin coral Mass was
suppressed and replaced by the so-called ‘German High Mass’ by force of
government arms. During the Age of
Enlightenment, the purpose of worship was seen primarily as that of instilling
moral behavior in the people – which helps to explain why Latin as the language
of liturgy was rejected. The State told the Church to function as the extension
of its own temporal authority – the ill-starred joining of ‘Throne and Altar’ –
by making the people into obedient subjects of the state. That meant that the
priest in the pulpit now had to exercise function s that had nothing to do with
his office as a priest; for example, he had to explain and admonish people to
obey civil laws and police ordinances.
There was no lack of liturgical experimentation then, especially when it
came to the administration of the Sacraments. Yet these reforms did not survive
very long. They are, however, disturbingly similar to today’s experiments, and
they, too, were very much concerned with man and his social problems.”
Can the Blessed Sacrament be Consecrated Without the
Mass? The answer is NO!
The
Offertory of the immemorial Roman rite of Mass offers the "spotless
host" (hostiam=victim) and the "chalice of salvation" because
the Mass anticipates in the Offertory prayers the end which is the sacrificial offering accomplished in the Canon,
just as Jesus Christ anticipated His passion and death at the Last Supper. The Quam oblationem canonical prayer recited
by the priest directly before the consecration at Mass is addressed to God the
Father asking Him to "consecrate" the bread and wine so that "this
offering" "may become for us the Body and Blood of Thy most beloved
Son, our Lord Jesus Christ." God is the formal and final cause of
the consecration; the priest is the material
and instrumental cause of the
consecration; the Sacrifice of the Cross is the meritorious cause of the consecration. All causes must work in unison for the end to be accomplished. With the
proper form and matter in the context of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass the priest
declares his intention to do "what the Church does." The Church
"does" what Jesus Christ did on the evening before His passion and
death on the Cross, for the honor and glory of the Father and for the
redemption of mankind, when He offered the First Holy Sacrifice of the Mass.
St. Thomas teaches that the blood and water that issued forth from the pierced
side of Jesus Christ represents the sacraments of Baptism and Holy Eucharist.
The sacraments are the fruit of the Passion, Death and Resurrection of Jesus
Christ. The Sacrifice then is the meritorious
cause of the True Presence in the Holy Eucharist. The Mass is the representation of this same sacrifice,
and without this sacrifice, there is no Holy Eucharist.
The Novus
Ordo offertory offers the "fruit of the earth and the work of human
hands" and the "fruit of the vine and work of human hands." In
anticipation of what? and of worship to whom? "Cain offered, of the fruits
of the earth, gifts to the Lord.... But to Cain and his offerings he (God) had
no respect: and Cain was exceedingly angry, and his countenance fell. And the
Lord said to him: Why art thou angry? and why is thy countenance fallen? If
thou do well, shalt thou not receive? but if ill, shall not sin forthwith be
present at the door?" (Gen 4:7) God is the author of True Worship and it
is God who required blood sacrifice which Abel offered as a type of the sacrificial offering of
Jesus Christ. Just as Able was killed by his brother Cain out of envy, do not
be surprised when Novus Ordo Catholics hate faithful Catholics for the same
reason, that is, because God has "no respect" for their offerings. By
their fruit they are known!
"Pope Francis appears to reject the idea that homosexuals are
called to chastity"
LifeSiteNews | August 29, 2023
"Pope
Francis has again indicated an openness to homosexual activity, as he has
refused to affirm the Catholic teaching on chastity and celibacy for
homosexuals.
Full details of the pontiff’s recent
conversation with Portuguese Jesuits were released August 28. They include Pope
Francis’s thoughts on homosexuality, condemnation of a 'reactionary' attitude
amongst American Catholics, criticism of 'indietrists' and 'clericalism,' and
praise of the Synod on Synodality,
As part of his customary activities while
on foreign trips, Pope Francis met with Jesuits from the Portuguese province
while in Lisbon for World Youth Day at the start of August. The full transcript
has been released by Jesuit-run La Civilta Cattolica in Italian, English and
Spanish.
As often is the case in such meetings, Pope
Francis fielded questions on topics pertaining to Catholic morality and
doctrine, refusing on this occasion to issue a clear answer on the topic of
homosexuality. One Jesuit referenced his own work with university students, who
are 'very committed to the Church, to the center, very friendly with the
Jesuits, and who identify as homosexuals.'
The priest stated that such students 'feel
that they are an active part of the Church, but they often do not see in
doctrine their way of living affectivity, and they do not see the call to
chastity as a personal call to celibacy, but rather as an imposition.' He
queried whether the practice of homosexual activity in this instance would be
wrong:
Since they are virtuous in other areas of
their lives, and know the doctrine, can we say that they are all in error,
because they do not feel, in conscience, that their relationships are sinful?
And how can we act pastorally so that these people feel, in their way of life,
called by God to a healthy affective life that produces fruit? Should we
recognize that their relationships can open up and give seeds of true Christian
love, such as the good they can accomplish, the response they can give to the
Lord?
Pope Francis refused to directly answer
that such activity would be sinful, instead stating that 'I believe there is no
discussion about the call being addressed to everyone. Jesus is very clear
about this: everyone.'
'In other words, the door is open to
everyone, everyone has their own space in the Church,' he continued. 'How will
each person live it out? We help people live so that they can occupy that place
with maturity, and this applies to all kinds of people.'
The Argentinian pontiff criticized what he
referred to as examining the 'sins below the waist,' or 'sin of the flesh' with
a 'magnifying glass.'
Instead, he appeared to downplay the
universal call to practice chastity, arguing that 'the most appropriate
pastoral attitude for each person must be applied.'
We must not be superficial and naive, forcing
people into things and behaviors for which they are not yet mature, or are not
capable. It takes a lot of sensitivity and creativity to accompany people
spiritually and pastorally. But everyone, everyone, everyone is called to live
in the Church: never forget that.
The Pope also referenced his own regular
meetings with so-called transgender individuals at his weekly audiences in the
Vatican, revealing that he is in regular email contact with them. 'I realized
that these people feel rejected, and it is really hard,' he stated."
Pope says some ‘backward’ conservatives in US Catholic Church have
replaced faith with ideology
August 28, 2023
ROME (AP) — Pope Francis has blasted the
“backwardness” of some conservatives in the U.S. Catholic Church, saying they
have replaced faith with ideology and that a correct understanding of Catholic
doctrine allows for change over time.
Francis’ comments were an acknowledgment of
the divisions in the U.S. Catholic Church, which has been split between
progressives and conservatives
who long found support in the doctrinaire papacies of St. John Paul II and
Benedict XVI, particularly on issues of abortion and same-sex marriage.
Many conservatives have blasted Francis’
emphasis instead on social justice issues such as the environment and the poor,
while also branding as heretical his opening to letting divorced and civilly
remarried Catholics receive the sacraments.
Francis made the comments in a private
meeting with Portuguese members of his Jesuit religious order while visiting
Lisbon on Aug. 5; the Jesuit journal La Civilta Cattolica, which is vetted by
the Vatican secretariat of state, published a transcript of the encounter
Monday.
During the meeting, a Portuguese Jesuit told Francis that he had
suffered during a recent sabbatical year in the United States because he came
across many Catholics, including some U.S. bishops, who criticized Francis’
10-year papacy as well as today’s Jesuits.
The
86-year-old Argentine acknowledged his point, saying there was “a very strong,
organized, reactionary attitude” in the U.S. church, which he called
“backward.” He warned that such an attitude leads to a climate of closure,
which was erroneous.
“Doing this, you lose the true tradition
and you turn to ideologies to have support. In other words, ideologies replace
faith,” he said.
“The vision of the doctrine of the church
as a monolith is wrong,” he added. “When you go backward, you make something
closed off, disconnected from the roots of the church,” which then has
devastating effects on morality.
“I want to remind these people that
backwardness is useless, and they must understand that there’s a correct
evolution in the understanding of questions of faith and morals,” that allows
for doctrine to progress and consolidate over time.
Francis has previously acknowledged the
criticism directed at him from some U.S. conservatives, once quipping that it
was an “honor” to be attacked by Americans.
COMMENT: Conservative Catholics are famous for
conserving nothing. There is not a dime's worth of difference between
Francis/Bergoglio and his conciliarists predecessors on matters of substance.
Francis is just more offensive in his practical application of established
heresies introduced from Vatican II. There is no defending of the faith by
offering a less offensive flavor of dung soup.
But to set the record straight, the faith
is believing what God has revealed on the authority of God the revealer,
therefore, the faith is, contrary to Francis, a monolith. It is one thing what
God has revealed, and if you reject any part of God's revelation you have
rejected it all for those who reject a single revealed truth reject the
authority of God the revealer. Faithful Catholics are not "backward" because
they never went forward into error. When you go "forward" into error
you are the branch cut off from the vine and can only look forward to being
gathered and burned. Francis is correct in seeing the connection between
doctrine and morality. All morality is derived from doctrine. Francis' morality
is different from Catholic morality and that is the evidence of who is fact is
the ideologue in this argument. Francis' morality is what Catholic moral
theologians have in the past called sin. Francis wants doctrine to
"progress and consolidate over time." That is, he wants the
"progress" of the new doctrine-morality and then he wants his new
doctrine-morality to be "consolidate" in habitual sin. The Catholic
faith already has a consolidated morality. The principles of morality are fixed
only the situations where they must be applied can and do change. From the
beginning God has cursed those who call evil, good and good, evil. From a human
perspective it is impossible that Francis can be saved, but with God anything
is possible. But still, if it is better to have a millstone tied around your
neck and thrown in the depths of the sea than to have scandalized an innocent
soul, what about Francis who has been a festering scab of scandal before the
entire world from the beginning of his papacy? As a general principle, it is a
waste of time to argue doctrine with a heretic. You can save yourself a lot of
trouble by simple finding what sin he habitually commits and refuses to repent.
Any guesses what sin Francis/Bergoglio loves?
The proper understanding of this dogma from the Council
of Trent:
Canon 4 on the sacraments in general: If
anyone says that the sacraments of the New Law are not necessary for salvation
but are superfluous, and that without them or without the desire of them
men obtain from God through faith alone the grace of justification, though all
are not necessary for each one, let him be anathema.
The Dogma defines two revealed doctrinal truths:
3.
If anyone says: that the sacraments of the
New Law are not necessary for salvation but are superfluous, let him be
anathema.
4.
If anyone says: that without the
sacraments or (if anyone says) without the desire of the sacraments
men obtain from God through faith alone the grace of justification, let him be
anathema.
Both the Sacrament of Baptism and the will to
receive the Sacrament are necessary for salvation!
“But
God desired that his confession should avail for his salvation, since he preserved him in this life until the
time of his holy regeneration.”
St. Fulgentius
“If anyone is not baptized, not only in
ignorance, but even knowingly, he can in no way be saved. For his path to salvation was through the confession,
and salvation itself was in baptism.
At his age, not only was confession
without baptism of no avail: Baptism
itself would be of no avail for salvation if he neither believed nor
confessed.”
St. Fulgentius
Notice,
both the CONFESSION AND THE BAPTISM are necessary for salvation, harkening back
to Trent's teaching that both the laver AND the “votum” are required for
justification, and harkening back to Our Lord's teaching that we must be born
again of water AND the Holy Spirit.
In fact, you see the language of St. Fulgentius reflected in the Council of
Trent. Trent describes the votum (so-called “desire”) as the PATH
TO SALVATION, the disposition to Baptism, and then says that “JUSTIFICATION
ITSELF” (St. Fulgentius says “SALVATION ITSELF”) follows the dispositions in
the Sacrament of Baptism.
Yet another solid argument for why Trent is teaching that BOTH the votum
AND the Sacrament are required for justification.
“Hold
most firmly and never doubt in the least that not only all pagans but also all
Jews and all heretics and schismatics who end this present life outside the
Catholic Church are about to go into the eternal fire that was prepared for the
Devil and his angels.”
St.
Fulgentius
“The most Holy Roman Church firmly believes,
professes and preaches that none of those existing outside the Catholic Church,
not only pagans, but also Jews and heretics and schismatics, can have a share
in life eternal; but that they will go into the ‘eternal fire which was
prepared for the devil and his angels.’”
St.
Eugene IV, Cantate Domino
Ladislaus, CathInfo
Pope Francis praises nun for opening ‘trans home’ for men claiming to
be women, calls them ‘girls’
Pope Francis told the 'nun of the trans' that 'God who did not go to
the seminary or study theology will repay you abundantly. I pray for you and
your girls.'
LifeSiteNews | NEUQUÉN, Argentina | August 18, 2020 – After a controversial nun opened in Argentina a residence for ‘trans women’ — men who choose to identify as women — Pope Francis praised her work, referring to the men as “girls.”
Sister Mónica Astorga Cremona, 53, known locally in Argentina as the “Nun of the Trans,” cut the ribbon on the new complex of twelve small apartments dedicated solely to housing men claiming to be women and their partners.
Upon hearing the news the Pope responded in a communication, according to the nun, “Dear Monica, God who did not go to the seminary or study theology will repay you abundantly. I pray for you and your girls.”
The Supreme Pontiff, according to the nun, referred to the males, reported to be between 40 and 70 years old, as “girls.”
“Do not forget to pray for me. May Jesus blesses (sic) you and may the Holy Virgin take care of you,” he added, according to a report to Newsflare.
Last year, Cardinal Raymond Burke and Bishop Athanasius Schneider, joined by other prelates, issued a public declaration of truths of the faith where they called it a rebellion and “grave sin” for a man to “attempt to become a woman.”
“The male and female sexes, man and woman, are biological realities created by the wise will of God (see Gen. 1: 27; Catechism of the Catholic Church, 369). It is, therefore, a rebellion against natural and Divine law and a grave sin that a man may attempt to become a woman by mutilating himself, or even by simply declaring himself to be such, or that a woman may in like manner attempt to become a man, or to hold that the civil authority has the duty or the right to act as if such things were or may be possible and legitimate (see Catechism of the Catholic Church, 2297),” the document states.
Pro-LGBT Jesuit priest Fr. James Martin was delighted with the Pope’s congratulatory words to Sister Monica Cremona, saying in a Tweet: “Wow. Pope Francis sends his support for a Catholic sister in Argentina who ministers to transsexual women.” [.....]
How the SSPX Settled on the 1962 Bugnini Transitional
Novus Ordo Missal
Question:
Were you a strong supporter of the 1962 liturgy when Archbishop Lefebvre choose
that Missal and if so, are you still a strong supporter of that Missal today?
Bishop
Williamson:
There is no direct question between sedevacantism
and the question of the liturgy.
The reason that Archbishop Lefebvre (ABL)
settled on 1962 is because, there were reforms in 1962, 64, 67 and finally in
69. The Archbishop himself went along with the reforms on the grounds that the
pope is the 'Master of the Liturgy' in the Latin Rite of the universal Church.
That is, (the liturgy) depends upon the pope. And the pope apparently wanted
all those reforms of 64, 67 and 69. When the ABL himself prayed the liturgy of
67 he realized that his faith was being diminished. He realized that omitting
all those signs of the cross in the Mass for instance, was just one little
instance, and praying all the changes that were all really pretty far gone in
67, he himself came back to 1964 (missal). He founded the seminary in 1970 and
he began it with his personal experience on the 1964 (missal). The seminarians
a few years later into the 70s made it clear, one of the seminarians hid one of
the lecterns on which the 64 lessons used to be read. Now the Archbishop did
not usually give way to rebels, he was not, believe it or not, he was not a
rebel himself by any stretch of the imagination. He was obedient absolutely to
what he thought was the will of God coming through the Church. But what was
coming through the Church in the 1960s was not always coming from God. So he
himself settled on 1964. The seminarians gave him to understand that the 1964
was going too far and he must have thought that the Holy Ghost was speaking to
him through the seminarians and came back to 62. And that is where he settled.
His principle was if the 1962 is not
essentially against the faith, or is not diminishing the faith, then that is
the latest that had the approval from Rome, therefore (he reasoned) if I
combine what I myself realize is against the faith, that which is unacceptable,
with what the pope has approved and that is the latest is 1962, then combining
those two principles, then 62 is where I will settle. He settled on 62.
But notice that for the Holy Week he never
abandoned the knocking on the door of Palm Sunday which was eliminated by
Bugnini in 55 and the second confession the Archbishop never eliminated, the
confession just before communion. And so even he was not completely loyal to
the 62. But in any case what he was doing balancing two principles which the
Romans were making clash with one another. By departing from tradition, the
Romans were setting up authority to go one way and truth to go a different way.
And that is what essentially happened in 1969 in the revolution in the Church.
Catholic authority split from Catholic
Truth. And ever since all Catholics are more or less schizophrenic because if
truth and authority have separated from one another then either I follow
authority and forget truth or I forget truth and follow authority or somewhere
in between.
So I might mix it ten to ninety, I might
mix it twenty to eighty, I might mix thirty to seventy, etc. etc. etc. So all
Catholics who want to be Catholic are
somewhere in between zero and one-hundred and there is a great variety and
great confusion in the Catholic Church because of that and it will only be
settled when Almighty God, nobody else can do it, will bring these erring human
beings in Rome back to tradition and when authority and truth are reunited then
the crisis will be over.
Bishop Richard Williamson, interview with
Restoring the Faith, August 11, 2022, Feast of St. Philomena, Virgin Martyr
There are problems with the approach taken
by Archbishop Lefebvre and still followed by the SSPX. Most importantly, the
pope is NOT the 'Master of the Liturgy' but rather its first servant. If he
were the "master," the liturgy would be a matter of mere discipline
open to the free and independent will of the legislator but that is not the
case. Even Pope Benedict/Ratzinger recognized this fact.
The Master of the Liturgy is God. God
without exception throughout all history has been the author of acceptable
divine worship. Divine worship constructed by man had its first expression with
Cain who killed his brother Abel out of envy because God would not accept his
offering that was the "fruit of the earth and the work of human
hands." The Bugnini Novus Ordo reform which began by establishing its
theoretical foundations in 1948 is just the most recent modern example of
man-made worship.
Following from this first error, ABL places
himself in an impossible position to defend true worship. He accepts that the
pope can do anything he wants with the liturgy as long as it does not diminish
the personal faith. ABL has made himself the judge of liturgical innovation
based upon his personal subjective sense of his faith being diminished. Imagine
if every Catholic did the same thing. In principle it holds that the pope can
do as he likes with liturgy but every Catholic has the practical right to
accept or reject it based upon his subjective sense of fidelity to the faith.
This is a prescription for chaos.
Lastly, Bishop Williamson proposal of Truth
vs. Authority is a false dichotomy. It is God, Who is all Truth, and God Who is
all Authority. Every creature is subject to the Truth of God and the Authority
of God. The response to truth is conformity of the intellect and the response
to authority is obedience of the will. Authority exercised by churchmen, even
the pope, is a derived authority from God established to protect and propagate
the revealed Truth of God. Every Catholic, including those in Authority, are
subject to Truth. When Authority separates itself from Truth it separates
itself from God. While every Catholic is morally required to "obey God
rather than man" therefore every Catholic is obligated to oppose any
authority that is opposed to truth. So every Catholic who becomes
"schizophrenic" because he does not adhere 100% to Truth is in fact a
confused Catholic. The remote rule of faith is Scripture and Tradition. The
proximate rule of faith is Dogma. The 100% Catholic is the one who keeps the
rule of faith against any human authority that falls from Truth.
Archbishop
Carlo Maria Viganò: Satanic Freemasonary and
the NWO Doomed to Fail
The consistency of evil
[.....] But as there is
a consistency in good, so also there is a consistency in evil; and those
actions that we apparently judge not particularly serious – if we do not contextualize
them – turn out to be wheels of a gear, perhaps marginal and small, but which
allow it to function, and without which something would jam.
That is why evil –
which ontologically is a non‐being, an absence of Good – tries to creep
into our souls in small steps, obtaining progressive failures, making sure that
it does not arouse in us any concern or any remorse; and then grows and expands
like a cancer. And where good brings more good, so evil calls forth more evil,
getting us used to it, and to all that it attracts.
The infernal plans of
the globalist elite – which we have seen to be inherently evil – are also
consistent with each other, because they are moved by the adversary’s hatred of
Christ. Bill Gates’ project to obscure the sun and vaccinate the world’s
population; Soros’ plan to invade Western countries by hordes of Muslims and
undermine the natural family by financing the woke and LGBT
movements; Klaus Schwab’s plan to force us to eat insects or confine ourselves
to 15‐minute “smart cities”; Harari’s plan to erase the idea of a
transcendent God and compose a “politically correct” Bible; the plan of
the deep state to centralize control of citizens by means of digital ID,
electronic money and the manipulation of the vote;
Bergoglio’s plan to transform the Church into an agency of the U.N. and the
World Economic Forum – none of these are completely separate plans carried out
autonomously and without any relationship between them.
In all that has
happened in recent decades in a more underground form – and more recently in an
obvious way – we can see a mens, an
intelligence capable of organizing in a way that appears both infallible and
unstoppable. Because we have to admit it: whoever built this
infernal machine, in which all the gears seem to fit together perfectly,
demonstrates a superior, angelic, and indeed, a satanic intelligence.
Our observation of the
organizational efficiency of the wicked should not frighten us, nor make
us desist from fighting against their plans. Indeed, I believe that it is
precisely this “perfection” in the enemy camp that will end up constituting its
own condemnation: Simul stabunt, simul cadent, says the Latin adage – they will
either stand or fall together. And it will be exactly so, because the triumph of
evil is a fiction, a simulation, merely the staging of a scene, a scene that is
based – like everything that comes from Satan – on appearance and lies. [.....],
July 29, 2023, Pontmain, France
Hermeneutics of Continuity/Discontinuity
Catholic Faith:
Physical substances come into being through
the union of substantial form and primary matter. The Soul is the Substantial
Form of the Human Body; it is immortal and will be judged after the death of
the person and directed to Heaven or Hell for all eternity awaiting to be
joined again to its Body at the Resurrection of the Dead for the Last Judgment.
“In order that all may know the truth of
the faith in its purity and all error may be excluded, we define that anyone
who presumes henceforth to assert defend or hold stubbornly that the rational
or intellectual soul is not the form of the human body of itself and
essentially, is to be considered a heretic.” Council of Vienne
Neo-Modernists Ideology: [Ratzinger quotes provided by
James Larson, War Against Being]
“The medieval concept of substance has long
since become inaccessible to us.”
Rev. Joseph Ratzinger, Faith and the
Future
“The proper Christian thing, therefore, is
to speak, not of the soul’s immortality, but of the resurrection of the
complete human being [at the Final Judgment] and of that alone… The idea that
to speak of the soul is unbiblical was accepted to such an extent that even the
new Roman Missal (i.e.: the Novus Ordo) suppressed the term anima in its liturgy for the dead. It
also disappeared from the ritual for burial.”
Rev. Joseph Ratzinger, Eschatology:
Death and Eternal Life
“‘The soul’ is our term for that in us which
offers a foothold for this relation [with the eternal]. Soul is nothing other
than man’s capacity for relatedness with truth, with love eternal.” Rev. Joseph Ratzinger, Eschatology: Death and Eternal Life
“The challenge to traditional theology
today lies in the negation of an autonomous, ‘substantial’ soul with a built-in
immortality in favor of that positive view which regards God’s decision and
activity as the real foundation of a continuing human existence.”
Rev. Joseph Ratzinger, Eschatology: Death and Eternal Life
And those who have denied the reality of substantial being are those who are
responsible for the “dictatorship of relativism.”
“Every day new sects are created and
what Saint Paul says about human trickery comes true, with cunning which tries
to draw those into error (Eph 4, 14). Having a clear faith, based on the
Creed of the Church, is often labelled today as a fundamentalism. Whereas,
relativism, which is letting oneself be tossed and ‘swept along by every wind
of teaching,’ looks like the only attitude (acceptable) to today’s standards.
We are moving towards a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognise
anything as for certain and which has as its highest goal one’s own ego and
one’s own desires.”
Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, Homily
of the Dean of the College of Cardinals, 2005
“The liturgical
books promulgated by Saint (sic) Paul VI and Saint (sic) John Paul II, in
conformity with the decrees of Vatican Council II, are the unique only
expression of the lex orandi of
the Roman Rite.”
Pope Francis, Traditionis Custodes
“Responding to
your requests, I take the firm decision to abrogate all the norms,
instructions, permissions and customs that precede the present Motu
proprio, and declare that the liturgical books promulgated by the saintly (sic)
Pontiffs Paul VI and John Paul II, in conformity with the decrees of Vatican
Council II, constitute the unique only expression of the lex orandi of the Roman Rite. I
take comfort in this decision from the fact that, after the Council of Trent,
St. Pius V also abrogated all the rites that could not claim a proven antiquity,
establishing for the whole Latin Church a single Missale Romanum.”
Pope Francis,
explanatory letter accompanying Traditionis
Custodes
[Note: the English
translation used the word "unique" to soften the blow. The actual
accurate translation is "only." It was Cardinal Burke who provided
this correction.]
COMMENT: It has not occurred to Conservative Catholics that
Pope Francis is being brutally honest with them. They have accepted the false
presuppositions of Summorum Pontificum:
that is, the immemorial Roman rite is a simple matter of Church discipline
subject to the arbitrary will of the legislator; that the 1962 Bugnini
Transitional Missal (BTM) is the immemorial Roman rite; that the 1962 BTM has
never been outlawed; that the 1962 BTM is the “right” of all Catholics because
it has not been outlawed; that the BTM is the Extra-ordinary form and the Novus
Ordo is the Ordinary form of the Roman rite expressing a single lex orandi/lex
credendi; etc., etc.
Pope Francis is being honest but not entirely forthcoming.
He “takes comfort in this decision” because St. Pius V suppressed all rites
that had less than 200 years of “proven antiquity.” Pope Francis is doing the
same thing. The BTM of 1962 has less traditional standing than the Novus Ordo!
When are the Conservative Catholics going to wake up! How many times do they
have to be told? The 1962 BTM is not the immemorial Roman rite and it is now
legally suppressed. Therefore, turn to the “received and approved” immemorial
Roman rite used before Bugnini ever touched it. This rite is established by
immemorial custom and Catholic DOGMA. Whomsoever says that this “received and
approved” rite may be changed or set aside for a new rite by any pastor of the
churches whomsoever, is condemned, anathematized. Pope Francis is a “pastor” of
the Church and this divine truth applies just as much to him and his
predecessors as to every other Catholic.
It is also true that the Novus Ordo Missae is the “only unique”
expression of the “lex orandi” of the Novus Ordo Church because it determines
the Novus Ordo’s “only unique”
lex credendi. This is public confession that the Novus Ordo and the Catholic
Church do not have the same faith!
We recommend that all the faithful Catholics pray to
God to quickly and thoroughly cleanse His Church.
Cardinal Burke offers the
correction for two mistranslations in the English publication of the Motu
proprio of Pope Francis, “TRADITIONIS CUSTODES”
Art. 1. The
liturgical books promulgated by Saint Paul VI (sic) and Saint John Paul II
(sic), in conformity with the decrees of Vatican Council II, are the unique only expression of
the lex orandi of the Roman Rite.
Art. 4. Priests
ordained after the publication of the present Motu Proprio, who wish to
celebrate using the Missale Romanum of 1962, should must submit a formal
request to the diocesan Bishop who shall consult the Apostolic See before
granting this authorization.
Sacrament of Baptism: Significance of the Baptismal
Character and why it is absolutely necessary for salvation. Explains why St.
Ambrose said regarding catechumens who die before receiving the sacrament of
Baptism, they are “forgiven but not crowned”.
To be baptized is to become one with the
Church, and one with Christ. Thus
the ritual can say: “enter into the temple of God, that you may have part with
Christ, unto life everlasting.” The two ideas are correlative: to be
baptized into the Church and to be baptized into Christ; they are the visible
and invisible aspects of the same real effect. [….]
The effecting this incorporation into
Christ, Baptism marks the soul as permanently His; it stamps upon the soul a
spiritual “character”, or, as antiquity more commonly called it, a “seal”. For this reason, and putting the cause for
the effect, the rite of Baptism was itself called “the seal”, or “the seal of
faith”, or “the seal of water”, or “the seal of the Trinity” (which last
appellation endures still in the liturgical prayers for the dying, wherein God
is asked to remember His promises to the soul that in its lifetime was “stamped
with the seal of the Most Holy Trinity”).
The word “seal” derives from a group of
texts in St. Paul, which suggest this stamping of the soul at Baptism: “And in
Him (Christ), you too, when you had heard the word of truth, the good news of
your salvation, and believed in it, were sealed with the Holy Spirit of the
promise” (Eph. 1:13); “And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, in Whom you
were sealed for the day of redemption” (Eph. 4:30). However, nowadays we are
accustomed to speak rather of the baptismal “character”, a term that suggests
the text wherein Christ is called “the brightness of His (the Father’s) glory
and the image (in Greek, character) of His substance” (Hebr. 1:3).
Basically, two words give the same meaning:
a seal imprints an image, and a “character”, in the original sense of the word,
means image. Baptism, therefore, stamps the soul with the image of Christ, Who
is Himself the image of the Father. And in the Scripture, this stamping is
attributed to the Holy Spirit, Who is the Spirit of Christ. The fact that we
are stamped with such a character is clearly defined by the Council of Trent:
“If anyone says that by the three Sacraments, to wit, Baptism,
Confirmation and Orders, there is not imprinted in the soul a Character, that
is a certain spiritual and indelible sign on account of which they cannot be
repeated; let him be anathem.” (Denz. 852).
The Council of Trent teaches that this
seal, once stamped on the soul, is indelible. Just as Baptism irrevocable makes
one a member of the Church, so also it irrevocably makes one a member of
Christ. Not the gravest sin, nor even final impenitence and self-condemnation
to eternal separation from Christ in Hell, can avail to erase this baptismal
seal. And the indelibility of the seal is the immediate reason why Baptism can
never be repeated, once it has been validly received. [….]
The sense in which Baptism stamps us with
the image of Christ is suggested in the rite itself, by the anointing which
follows the ablution. It is done with Sacred Chrism, a mixed unguent of oil and
balm, specially consecrated by the bishop on Holy Thursday. Kings and priests
in antiquity (and even today) were anointed with chrism in token of their royal
and priestly dignity. And the baptism anointing signifies, therefore, that the
new Christian has entered into the “royal priesthood” of the Christian people,
and shares in the royal Priesthood of Christ Himself. He bears the image of
Christ, inasmuch as Christ was the Priest of all humanity, Who offered Himself
in sacrifice on the Cross.
The baptismal seal or character, therefore,
endows the Christian with a priestly function, and a priestly power. It is not
that special power and function given by the Sacrament of Holy Orders to
certain selected members of the Church, who are made her official ministers,
and authorized to offer her sacrifice and dispense her Sacraments. But it is
the priestly function and power which is common to all the members of the Body
of Christ. As He was born as Priest, His whole life orientated toward the
Passion and Death which wad His priestly Sacrifice, so too, they are priests
from their birth into the Christian life at Baptism; and their lives are
essentially orientated toward sacrifice, in a double sense.
First of all, they receive a function and a
power with respect to the ritual Sacrifice of the Church, which is the Mass.
[….] They are empowered to assist actively in the offering of the Mass, as
members of the Church, in whose name her specially qualified members, priests
and bishops, offer the Mass, which is the sacrifice of the whole Church through
her official ministers. In union with the Priest, the Christian offers up
Christ as a Victim Who belongs to him and to Whom he belongs. An unbaptized
person cannot do this….
Secondly, the baptismal character
consecrates the Christian to sacrifice in a wider sense: it gives him the
function, the duty, the power to lead a life of sacrifice, since He is in the
image of Christ whose life was one long sacrifice – a life of complete
obedience to the will of His Father: “I seek not My own will, but the will of
Him Who sent Me” (Jn. 3:50).The will of the Father is the supreme law of the
Christian’s life; it is all embracing and all pervasive; and constant and total
obedience to it necessarily gives a sacrificial quality to the whole of life,
since it demands the renunciation of many ideas, and a steady refusal to be led
by one’s own emotions or to seek one’s own pleasure and profit – in a word, it
demands the sacrifice of selfishness in all its forms. St. Peter, therefore,
was thinking of Baptism when he wrote:
“Lay aside therefore all malice and all deceit, and pretense, and envy,
and all slander…. Be you yourselves as living stones, built thereon (i.e., on
Christ) into a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual
sacrifices to God through Jesus Christ” (1 Peter 2:1,5).
Rev. John J. Fernan, S.J., Theology, Christ
Our High Priest, Baptismal Seal
Baptism imprints in your soul a
spiritual character, which no sin can efface. This character is a proof that
from this time you do not belong to yourself, but that you are the property of
Jesus Christ, who has purchased you by the infinite price of his blood and of
his death. You are not of yourself, but you are of Christ; wherefore,
St. Paul concludes, “that the Christian should no longer live for himself, but
for Him who died and rose again for him;” that is to say, that the Christian
should live a life of grace, and that he should consecrate to his Redeemer his
spirit, his heart, and all his actions. […..]
First, is true
penance; for, as the holy Council of Trent teaches, penance is no less
necessary for those who have sinned after Baptism, than Baptism is necessary
for those who have not received it. The Holy Scripture informs us, that there
are two gates by which we are to enter into heaven—baptismal innocence, and
penance. When a Christian has shut against himself the gate of innocence, in
violating the holy promises of Baptism, it is necessary that he should strive
to enter by that of penance; otherwise there is no salvation for him. On this
account, Jesus Christ, speaking of persons who have lost innocence, says to
them: “Unless you do penance, you shall all perish.”
But in order
that penance may prevent us from perishing—it must be true Penance. Confessors
may be deceived by the false appearance of conversion, and it is too often the
case; but God is never deceived. If, therefore, those who receive absolution
are not truly penitent and worthy of pardon, their sins are not forgiven before
God. In order to do true penance, it is not sufficient to confess all our sins
and to fulfill what is enjoined on us by the priest. There are two other things
which are necessary: First; to renounce sin with all your heart, and for all
your life… and second; to fly the occasions of sin, and to use the means to
avoid it.
St. John Eudes,
Man’s Contract with God in Baptism
Remember? The SSPX has been in “doctrinal”
discussions with Rome since 1997. A faithful Catholic who keeps DOGMA as his
proximate Rule of Faith will exhaust any “doctrinal discussions” with a
Modernist in a few hours at most if he is patient. The SSPX like the Modernists
in Rome both hold that DOGMA is just a human axiom that approximates the truth
but must necessarily be continually purged of its human accretions and purified
as deeper theological insights are discovered!
The overheard plans are
nearly identical to comments from an important Italian liturgist in an
interview published by France’s LaCroix earlier. Andrea Grillo a lay
professor at the Pontifical Athenaeum of St. Anselmo in Rome, billed by La
Croix as “close to the Pope,” is intimately familiar with Summorum Pontificum. Grillo in fact published a book against Summorum Pontificum before the papal document was even released.
Grillo told La Croix that
Francis is considering abolishing (which he eventually did) Summorum Pontificum. According to Grillo,
once the Vatican erects the Society of Saint Pius X as a Personal Prelature,
the Roman Rite (sic) will be preserved only within this structure. “But
[Francis] will not do this as long as Benedict XVI is alive (who is now dead
and judged).”
The plan, as related to
LifeSite, involved making an agreement with the Society of St. Pius X and, with
that agreement in place, sequestering those Catholics wanting the TLM to the
SSPX. For most, that would strip them of access to the TLM since there would
not be nearly enough SSPX priests to service Catholics wanting the TLM
worldwide.
LifeSiteNews, 2017
COMMENT: We have been warning the
faithful since 2012 that the SSPX hierarchy has already been regularized within
the Novus Ordo Church. They are committed to bringing the priests and laity
associated with them along for the ride. Ultimately, the SSPX will be filled
with Conservative Catholics who have not and cannot defend the Catholic faith
and tradition because they uniformly reject DOGMA as the proximate Rule of
Faith. They will overwhelm the few
faithful Catholics attending Mass at SSPX chapels. The SSPX will then introduce
the reform measures to the 1962 Bugnini transitional Missal to bring about, in
time, one expression of the “Roman rite.”
en.news
Francis Allowed Pius X To Ordain Whomever They Wish
The Society Pius X is “completely regular,” James Bogle, a former Una
Voce President, told Gloria.tv at the Roman Forum in Gardone, Italy (video
below).
en.news | July 29, 2023 Bogle is
a barrister in London. He counseled in the cases of Archie Battersbee
(2010-2022) and Alfie Evans (2016-2018), who were sentenced to death by British
courts, the latter despite interventions by the Polish, Italian and Vatican
governments.
Francis "recognised" all Pius X sacraments, including marriage and
confession, Bogle notes. In March 2015, Bishop Fellay was appointed a Vatican
judge for all annulments and clerical misdemeanours in Pius X.
Fellay told Bogle in May 2015 that Francis had written him a personal letter
allowing him to ordain "whomever he wants", without having to consult
the local bishops. Bogle calls this not just a recognition but a "special
privilege".
A member of the Order of Malta, Bogle believes Francis has "saved"
the order. At the 2014 Chapter General, a group of Germans were elected to the
governing body and then tried to secularise the order by marginalising the
professed members.
Francis stepped in and acted as a dictator, overriding all laws, codes and the
Order's constitution. This led to the expulsion of the Germans. Francis’
authoritarian and “frankly not legal” style worked in the Order's favour “by
accident”, says Bogle.
As for Francis' desire to close monasteries, Bogle recalls a dissolved monastery in Amalfi, Italy. Its
historic building was worth €80M. With Francis' knowledge, the nuns were told
that they were being suppressed and had to leave the convent.
For Bogle, Francis is reversing some
fundamentals of the faith and thus “destroying the Church”. But given his
treatment of Pius X he calls him "self-contradictory" and a “complex
figure”.
https://gloria.tv/post/4EijeQ8zRX4S3BG9tVvSLuw3F
SOON TO BE THE EXCLUSIVE
HOME FOR THE EVER FLUID BUGNINI TRANSITION MISSAL OF 1962
Maybe the
common ground is “does not care for doctrine”?
“A pope (Francis) who does not care for
doctrine, who looks at the people, and who has known us in Argentina. And he
appreciated our work in Argentina. And that's why he sees us with a good
disposition while in the same time he is against conservatism. This is like a
contradiction. But I have been able to verify several times that he really does
things personally for us.”
Bishop Bernard Fellay, SSPX, 2017
A Personal
Prelature for SSPX: comment from 2017
Bishop Fellay then commented on a project of
Personal Prelature which had been offered to the SSPX in the summer of 2015. As
he already said on January 26, 2016, such a canonical structure fits the needs
and the actual apostolate and presence of the Society all over the world. He
revealed that the written proposal given to the SSPX foresees that prelate
should be a bishop. How would the prelate be designated? The Pope would choose
amongst the three names presented by the SSPX through its own elections. It is
also foreseen, said Bishop Fellay, that other auxiliary bishops would be given
to the Society.
Everything that exists now will be recognized
all over the world. And the faithful also! They will be in this Prelature with
the right to receive the sacraments and teachings from the Society’s priests.
It will be also possible to receive religious congregations, as it is in a
diocese: Capuchins, Benedictines, Carmelites, and others. This prelature is a
Catholic structure which is not under the [authority of the local] bishops. It
is autonomous.”
The Angelus, SSPX publication for United
States District, 201
Hermeneutics of Continuity/Discontinuity
Pope Francis in Evangelii
Gaudium Smears Faithful Catholics as “Neo-pelagians”:
Catholics faithful in keeping God’s
moral law and believing His revealed truth are “self-absorbed promethean neopelagianism [who] observe certain rules or remain
intransigently faithful to a particular Catholic style [characterized by
a] narcissistic and
authoritarian elitism [which is a] manifestations of an anthropocentric immanentism. It is
impossible to think that a genuine evangelizing thrust could emerge from these
adulterated forms of Christianity.”
94.
This worldliness can be fuelled in two deeply interrelated ways. One is the
attraction of gnosticism, a purely subjective faith whose only interest is a
certain experience or a set of ideas and bits of information which are meant to
console and enlighten, but which ultimately keep one imprisoned in his or her
own thoughts and feelings. The other is the self-absorbed promethean neopelagianism of those
who ultimately trust only in their own powers and feel superior to others
because they observe
certain rules or remain intransigently faithful to a particular Catholic style
from the past. A supposed soundness of doctrine or discipline leads
instead to a narcissistic
and authoritarian elitism, whereby instead of evangelizing, one analyzes
and classifies others, and instead of opening the door to grace, one exhausts
his or her energies in inspecting and verifying. In neither case is one really
concerned about Jesus Christ or others. These are manifestations of an anthropocentric immanentism. It
is impossible to think that a genuine evangelizing thrust could emerge from
these adulterated forms of Christianity.
Pope
Francis, Evangelii Gaudium
While
in the same document he has this to say about the possibility of salvation for
“Non-Christinas”:
254.
Non-Christians, by God’s gracious initiative, when they are faithful to their
own consciences, can live “justified by the grace of God”, and thus be
“associated to the paschal mystery of Jesus Christ”.
Pope
Francis, Evangelii Gaudium, this
teaching of Pope Franics references the teaching of the International
Theological Commission.
“By God’s gracious initiative” is
pure invention. God has never revealed this fable. This is Pelagianism by
definition. This is what a Pelagian heretic affirms that salvation is possible
through being “faithful to their own consciences.” Catholic dogmas, formal
objects of divine and Catholic faith, affirm that supernatural faith, the
sacraments, membership in the Church, and subjection to the Roman Pontiff are
necessary as necessities of means to obtain eternal salvation. Pope Francis is
a Pelagian heretic. So where is his source material for this error? He cites as his authority the International
Theological Commission which teaches:
10.
Exclusivist ecclesiocentrism—the fruit of a specific theological system or of a
mistaken understanding of the phrase extra ecclesiam nulla salus—is no longer
defended by Catholic theologians after the clear statements of Pius XII (sic)
and Vatican II the possibility of salvation for those who do not belong visibly
to the Church (cf, e.g., Vatican II, LG 16; GS 22).
Christocentrism
accepts that salvation may occur in religions, but it denies them any autonomy
in salvation on account of the uniqueness and universality of the salvation
that comes from Jesus Christ. This position is undoubtedly the one most
commonly held by Catholic theologians, even though there are differences among
them.
International
Theological Commission, Christianity and the World Religions, 1997
This is the fundamental doctrine of
Neo-Modernism that holds that Dogmas need not be taken in a literal sense
because they are always undergoing evolutionary development in an effort to
achieve a closer approximation of truth. Catholics believe, as St. Pope Pius X
said, dogmas are “truths fallen from heaven.” Pope Pius XII never denied the
dogma that there is no salvation outside the Catholic Church. Those who claim he did are simply liars.
Vatican II on the other hand did, and Vatican II cites as its authority for the
denial of the dogma that there is no salvation outside the Catholic Church, the
heretical 1949 Holy Office Letter that teaches that the one and only thing
necessary for salvation is the ‘desire to do the will of a god who rewards and
punishes’. This can be known by natural philosophy and is simply a necessary
presupposition to receiving the Gospel message. The 1949 Holy Office Letter and
Vatican II are teaching Pelagianism. The
very error that Pope Francis attributes to faithful Catholics who believe the revealed
truths of our faith and keep our immemorial traditions. Is it any wonder that
Pope Francis who denies the necessity of faith, the sacraments, membership in
the Church, and submission to the Roman Pontiff as necessary for salvation as
necessities of means would then thoroughly corrupt the definition of “genuine
evangelization”?
Catholics who “observe certain rules
(like keeping the Ten Commandments or believing Catholic dogma) or remain
intransigently faithful to a particular Catholic style
(the “received and approved rites customarily used in the solemn administration
of the sacraments” Trent)” are guilty of “self-absorbed promethean
neopelagianism... narcissistic and authoritarian elitism [that is a]
manifestation of an anthropocentric immanentism... [whereby, it is] impossible to think that a genuine evangelizing
thrust could emerge from these adulterated forms of Christianity.”
Pope
Francis, Evangelii Gaudium
What is “Genuine evangelization”? Pope Francis
said: “Proselytism is
solemn nonsense, it makes no sense. We need to get to know each other,
listen to each other and improve our knowledge of the world around us. ..... I
believe I have already said that our goal is not to proselytize but to listen to needs, desires and
disappointments, despair, hope” (Interview with Italian journalist and
atheist Eugenio Scalfari). He also said in answer to a question from a Lutheran
girl, “It is not licit
that you convince them of your faith; proselytism is the strongest poison
against the ecumenical path.” On another occasion he said, “Proselytism among Christians,
therefore, in itself, is a grave sin.”
How is this possible? Proselytism
means to seek converts. A “proselyte” is a convert. It was the Great Commission
given by Jesus Christ to His Church: “Go ye into the whole world, and preach
the gospel to every creature. He that believeth and is baptized, shall be
saved: but he that believeth not shall be condemned.” (Mark 16:15-16) The goal
of “preaching” is to bring other to “believe” the revealed truth and become
members of the Church through “baptism” so that they may become a “proselyte,”
like one of the first deacons of the Church, Nicolas in Acts 6:5, and be
“saved.”
“Genuine evangelization” is the act
of proselytism and the fruit of evangelization is proselytes. “By their fruit
you shall know them.” In South America alone there have been more than 40
million Catholics lost to the faith since Vatican II. This is the fruit of the
“new evangelization” of Pope Francis which does not seek converts at all
because he sees no reason to convert.
So who in end is “self-absorbed
promethean neo-pelagian”? Prometheus was eternally punished for his hubris of
defying the gods while Pope Francis does the same thing by “intransigently”
overturning God’s revealed truth. His
heresy is the fruit of his own “narcissistic and authoritarian elitism” to
believe that he is better than God. He
proposes an “adulterated form of Christianity” which explains why he promotes
Catholic divorce. Heretics always permit
divorce because marriage is the metaphor used by God to describe His
relationship to His Church and to each of His faithful. The heretic cannot stand the integrity of the
metaphor and always permits divorce.
This is the unmistakable sign that Pope Francis is a heretic.
Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano,
Interview with Aldo Maria Valli
July 14, 2023
Your Excellency, some say that among
these latest cardinals could be Francis' successor. Do you agree?
I doubt that the College of Cardinals - once the Sacred College - will want to
elect a conservative or even moderately progressive pope; rather, it is clear
that the upcoming Conclave will be a provocation. Almost all the Cardinals were
created "in the image and likeness" of Bergoglio and they will be the
ones to choose his successor-perhaps him alive, given the new fashion for
Renunciation. If the electors had even a modicuм of love for the Church,
they should make themselves docile to the action of the Holy Spirit; but we
know that this congerie of heretics and immoral people - with rare exceptions -
has no intention of letting the Lord do that, for if they did it would mark
their own condemnation. But the good Lord sometimes reserves unexpected
surprises.
What is the logic followed by Bergoglio
in his appointments?
Bergoglio's logic is most evident: he wants to create the premises for a
schism, which in words he denies and deplores, but which he has been preparing
for some time. Bergoglio wants to separate, in one way or another, the good
part of the faithful and clerics from the official Church; and to achieve this,
to get them to turn away from the modernist Sanhedrin, he has placed in the key
posts of the Roman Curia those people who guarantee the worst management of the
Dicasteries entrusted to them, with the worst possible result and the greatest
damage to the ecclesial body.
The progressive restrictions on the celebration of the ancient Liturgy serve to
confine conservatives to hunting grounds, only to channel them to the St. Pius
X Fraternity, as soon as the Synod brings to their tragic consequences the
doctrinal, moral and disciplinary changes that are in the pipeline and cause an
exodus of Catholics to what, after the suppression or normalization of the
Ecclesia Dei Institutes, will become the "monopolist" of Tradition.
But at that point-when, that is, traditional Catholics have migrated into the
Fraternity and its leaders believe they have achieved a victory over the
competition of the suppressed Summorum Pontificuм-a new intolerable
provocation will force at least a parade of the St. Pius X Fraternity to
distance itself from Bergoglian Rome, sanctioning the
"excommunication" of traditionalism, no longer represented within the
official Church, assuming it ever was. That is why in my opinion it is
important to preserve a certain parcelization, so as to make the malicious
maneuver of ousting traditional Catholics from the ecclesial body more complex.
Diaconesses, abolition of ecclesiastical celibacy, blessing of ɧoɱosɛҳųαƖ
couples, tolerance for polygamy, gender theory, LGBTQ ideology, ecological
pantheism à la Teilhard de Chardin: these are the points of confrontation that
Begoglio is deliberately opening between the conservative (but not traditional,
already distant or out of touch) wing and the ultra-progressive wing. His aim
is to create the clash, let it grow, encourage with appointments and promotions
the proponents of the most extreme instances, and then witness the predictable
reaction of condemnation of the few remaining good bishops, priests and
religious, who before Bergoglio's pitfall will have two choices: return to
suffer in silence or stand up, denounce the betrayal of Catholic Truth and be
forced to leave their posts and exercise their ministry in hiding or at least
in apparent canonical irregularity.
Once the inconvenient pastors are ostracized and the conservative faithful
removed, the Bergoglian hierarchy will be able to exercise full control over
clergy and people, certain of the obedience of those left behind. And this sect,
which of Catholic will have only the name (and perhaps not even that anymore),
will totally eclipse the Bride of the Lamb, in the paradox of a treacherous and
corrupt Hierarchy abusing Christ's authority to destroy His Church.
This is what the principals of Bergoglio and his minions would like, but the
sensus fidei of God's Holy People could lead many to reject this fraud and take
part in an action of firm resistance and determined denunciation. The Lord will
allow the Church to appear dead, for the forces of the underworld to believe
they have defeated it, because He wants the Mystical Body to follow the way of
the Cross and Burial, like His divine Head, if He wants to join Him in the
glory of the Resurrection.
The College of Cardinals,
as desired by Francis, is said to represent the universal Church: really?
If we were to submit an anonymous questionnaire to the eminent members of the
College of Cardinals, in which they have to answer "true" or
"false" to a series of propositions on which the Magisterium has
already infallibly expressed itself, we would discover to our horror that the
absolute majority, if not almost all, of the Cardinals are not Catholics, tout
court. And in the number of those I believe we would also find some
conservatives. The notorious heresy of many Prelates is confirmed by their own
statements, before which Bergoglio has been very careful not to open his mouth,
as he knows how to do without too many scruples in regard to those few Prelates
who have remained faithful. The current College of Cardinals is the
quintessence of the Bergoglian Church: its members represent the capillary
spread of modernism and conciliar progressivism in the world. Certainly,
however, they are not an expression of the universal Church: first, because they
are not part of it except only apparently, being precisely heretics; and
second, because by God's grace the faithful and clergy are learning-after sixty
years of horrors, for ten even more obvious ones-to not take for granted
everything that comes out of the mouth of the pope, bishop or parish priest.
Thus these, after preaching disobedience to the true Magisterium, find
themselves suffering the consequences of a disobedience this time good and
rightful, because in obedience to Christ.
We are witnessing the systematic erasure of a whole part of the
Church-identifiable geographically, but also ideologically-still remaining
Catholic: some American bishops, with their dioceses; many African bishops,
faithful especially on moral issues; and an ever-growing number of parish
priests, priests, religious men and women who are realizing that they are the
next victims of the purges of Santa Marta - the case of the Monasteries of
Pienza and Marradi have not gone unnoticed - and are preparing for alternative
forms of ministry, uniting, confronting, organizing. This is the purpose of the
Exsurge Domine association (www.exsurgedomine.org)
that was formed under my patronage and is dedicated to helping and organizing the
resistance of clerics and religious persecuted by the Argentine junta.
Why does Francis continue
to ignore locations like Milan, Turin, Venice, Genoa, Naples?
He does so because he wants to take away the moral prestige of certain
Episcopal Sees, traditionally cardinals, for the benefit of a management of
appointments to the Porpora marked by a blatant ideological nepotism. All of
Bergoglio's friends, and friends of friends, have their careers paved, even at
the cost of stubbornly denying their scandals, their doctrinal errors, their
obvious unworthiness or incompetence. They like "shepherds who reek of the
smell of sheep," even if they are mercenaries and if the sheep have no
desire to be led by them. Which reveals a lack of human virtues even more
disheartening than the total absence of theological virtues. I have to say that
not naming the Archbishop of Milan a Cardinal ends up not being a disgrace
after all; but it is regrettable that the Patriarch of Venice, precisely
because of his very moderate conservatism, is not recognized with the Purple
that was all his predecessors'. The message for aspirants to the Vatican cursus
honorum is to pander to power with courteous servility, under penalty of
commissioning, Apostolic Visitation, transfer or even dismissal without new
appointments (see Burke and Gaenswein, among others).
Tucho Fernández will be a
cardinal. Until recently it seemed like a joke.
It remains a joke, because what has been happening for ten years now pertains
to farce rather than tragedy. All that the Santa Marta sect gives birth to is a
fraud: the supposed "democratization" of the Synod on Synodality, in
which the questions that are submitted to local communities are formulated in
such a way as to obtain the desired answers, always according to a precise
subversive design that starts from Bergoglio himself. The involvement of women
in the governance of the Church is a lie: this is contrary to the will of Our
Lord, and no power, however tyrannical and authoritarian it may be, can change
the matter of the Sacrament of Orders. The scandalous winks of Prelates and
clerics to the vices and lifestyles of the so-called "LGBTQ
community" are a deception: they are using the weaknesses of lay people
led astray by woke ideology to legitimize their personal sins, which sooner or
later emerge in their embarrassing prosaicness. Fernández himself, who has been
courting Bergoglio for years with public attestations of esteem, of confidence
in his reforming capacity, of certainty of the inexorability of his "prophetic"
(in the conciliar neo-language, a synonym for "heretical") action as
the Church's supreme Pastor, is also a constructed character.
Fernández stands to Bergoglio as Zelenskyj stands to Biden: they are puppets in
the hands of puppets. The strings are always pulled by that same subversive
elite that links the White House to the Vatican, Podesta's emails to
Ratzinger's abdication, the deep state to the deep church, Nancy Peℓσѕι
to "Father" James Martin sj.
Surely Fernández was put in charge of the former Holy Office to do nothing of
what the Prefect of this very important, now downgraded Dicastery should be
doing. He will do exactly the opposite: he will encourage the heresies and
moral deviations of the theologians in vogue today, of the bishops eager to
move to the Santa Marta hotel, of the proponents of gender; and instead he will
act with ruthless firmness for the priest who criticizes a heretical statement
by Bergoglio or one of his protégés, for the bishop who denounces the
deviations of the Synod, for the seminary professor who still teaches the
magisterial acts prior to Vatican II. We shall see how far this Fernández's
zeal will go in order to please his sponsor, and how far those who should be
targeted by the Pachamama Taliban will endure these attacks without replying or
even simply ignoring them.
Are the cardinals wanted
by Francis really all yes-men or is there anyone capable of autonomy of
judgment?
In order to be Cardinals today, it is necessary to have what our elders used to
call "hair on the stomach": for sixty years the purges have continued
relentlessly, and even some of the Most Eminent created by Benedict XVI have
proven to fall completely short of the expectations of the conservative
faithful, and not infrequently opportunists or cowards. Of the brave - shall we
say - Dubia's there are not many survivors left, who witnessed things at the
last Conclave that they do not publicly denounce, however. So, yes: they are
all yesmen; which, for those who should defend the Holy Church usque ad effusionem
sanguinis, is inconsistent to say the least.
The present crisis is the punishment with which the Lord punishes the Church
and the world for the unfaithfulness of His ministers and the rulers of
nations. We look upon this scourge as the stern gesture of a Father too long
offended but who still wants to save us. Conversion is the only possible way:
let us return to God, before Mercy yields to Justice.
Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, July 14, 2023; S. Bonaventuræ
Episcopi Confessoris et Ecclesiæ Doctoris.
COMMENT: Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano recognizes that Rome is working to
bring all Traditional and Conservative Catholics under the direct jurisdiction
of the SSPX. This is something that Ss. Peter & Paul Roman Catholic Mission
has been saying for years. We differ from Archbishop Vigano as to the ends for
which Pope Francis/Bergoglio is doing this. Archbishop Vigano believes that
Rome wants all faithful Catholics under one group so that he can produce a
schism by "excommunicating" everyone associated with the SSPX. We
disagree. We believe that Rome is doing this because they know the SSPX is
hopelessly compromised and will be easily lead over time to modernist
practices. The SSPX is Neo-modernist in its principles while traditional only
in its sentiments. Rome wants to use the SSPX as the recognized spokesman for
all the faithful Catholics because the SSPX cannot defend Catholic tradition.
They cannot defend Catholic tradition because they do not hold Dogma as their
proximate rule of faith. They cannot defend the immemorial "received and
approved" rites because they hold these traditions as being merely matters
of Church discipline under the pope. The SSPX will compromise with error
because they have already erred. Although we disagree on the ends we both clearly
see what Rome is doing and fortunately, we both agree on what should be done to
counter this. Archbishop Vigano recommends a diffuse, decentralized loose
confederation of traditional Catholics that are united by the profession of the
true faith and in the practice of the same immemorial "received and
approved" worship of God in the Roman rite of Mass. Such a decentralized
group can only be opposed by directly rejecting Catholic Dogma and purity of
worship.
Pope appoints longtime ally and ghostwriter of Amoris Laetitia as new
Vatican doctrine chief
Pope Francis' appointment of Argentinian Archbishop Victor Manuel
Fernández to the Vatican's top doctrinal position has raised concerns over his
support for Communion for the divorced and 'remarried,' promotion of erotic
actions, and downplaying Church teaching opposing same-sex 'marriage.'
LifeSiteNews | Michael Haynes | Jul 1, 2023
VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis has
appointed the highly controversial Archbishop Victor Manuel Fernández of La
Plata as new Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (now
Dicastery), with the new prefect known for his roles as the Pope’s longtime
friend and theologian and ghostwriter of numerous papal texts including Amoris Laetitia.
Issuing the news July 1, the Holy See Press
Office stated that Pope Francis had called Archbishop Fernández to succeed the
outgoing Cardinal Luis Ladaria Ferrer, S.J., who has come to the “conclusion of
his mandate,” having held the position since 2017.
The
60-year-old Fernández, like Francis, is a fellow native of Argentina and was
raised to become archbishop on May 13, 2013, just two months into the new
pontificate. Their close relationship dates back to Francis’ time as a prelate
in Argentina, with then-Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio giving Fernandez advice on his
clerical career choices.
This resulted in Bergoglio bringing
Fernández to the 2007 Fifth General Conference of the Latin American Bishops as
a peritus, or expert.
He was then nominated by Bergoglio to serve
as rector of the Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina in 2009, but only
acceded to the post in 2011 after completing questioning and answering
objections from the CDF. The CDF’s treatment of Fernández reportedly angered
Bergoglio at the time. Much speculation emerged in December and January
regarding the possible nomination of heterodox German Bishop Heiner Wilmer as
the new CDF head. Pope Francis had in fact considered Wilmer’s nomination but
was blocked by several cardinals who intervened with the Vatican not to make
the appointment.
Fernández will now assume his new role as
head of the Church’s doctrinal office in mid-September. With Fernández in
position at the head of the CDF, his roster includes, as expanded upon in the
article below:
·
Ardent
promotion and defense of Amoris Laetitia opening the door to Communion for the
divorced and “remarried.”
·
Public
promotion of erotic kissing and actions.
·
Downplaying
of need to oppose same-sex marriage.
·
Stating
how he is more progressive than the Pope on certain issues.
Key papal ally and ghostwriter
Fernández’s career has long been guided by
Francis, both before and after Francis’ ascent to the papal throne. This
intimate link has only grown since March 13, 2013, with Fernández now being
widely acknowledged as Francis’ “primary ghostwriter” and “trusted theologian.”
This includes his ghostwriting of Evangelii Gaudium, Laudato Sí, and the highly controversial Amoris Laetitia.
His role in writing Amoris Laetitia should not be unexpected: indeed, Pope Francis had
given Fernández key roles in the running of the 2014 and 2015 Vatican synods,
which led to the controversial apostolic exhortation.
Amoris
Laetitia’s now infamous Chapter 8 opened the door to allowing the divorced
and “remarried” access to receive Holy Communion. Francis soon responded to
questions by saying there is “no other
interpretation” of Amoris Laetitia except
the one provided by the bishops of Buenos Aires allowing Communion for the
divorced and remarried.
Francis was subsequently also asked
if Amoris Laetitia contained a
“change in discipline that governs access to the sacraments” for Catholics who
are divorced and “remarried.” He replied, “I can say yes, period.” Within
months, a group of Catholic scholars issued a letter to all the cardinals
and patriarchs, warning that Amoris Laetitia contained
“dangers to the faith.”
Fernández is believed to be chiefly
responsible for the lines that have led to so much consternation among faithful
Catholics. So much so that veteran Vatican journalist Sandro Magister
highlighted how the most controversial passages of text were in fact very
closely mirroring Fernández’s own writings from his years in Argentina.
In his personal defense of the apostolic
exhortation, Fernández argued that:
It is also licit to ask if acts of living together more uxorio [i.e. having sexual relations] should always fall, in
its integral meaning, within the negative precept of ‘fornication’ … there can
be a path of discernment open to the possibility of receiving the food of the
Eucharist … I say, ‘in its integral meaning,’ because one cannot maintain those
acts in each and every case are gravely dishonest in a subjective sense.
Francis’ “great innovation is to allow for
a pastoral discernment in the realm of the internal forum to have practical
consequences in the manner of applying the discipline,” Fernández wrote.
Papal welcome
Issuing a letter of welcome to the incoming
CDF prefect, Pope Francis hailed him as “brother,” writing the CDF’s “central
purpose is to guard the teaching that flows from the faith in order to ‘give a
reason for our hope, but not as enemies who point out and condemn.’”
Pope Francis receives Bill Clinton and George Soros’ son in private
Vatican visit
Pope Francis' private meeting with Clinton was unannounced by the Holy
See Press Office, and was reportedly about 'peace.'
LifeSiteNews | Michael Haynes | Jul 6,
2023
VATICAN CITY–– In an entirely unannounced
visit, Pope Francis hosted former U.S. President Bill Clinton along with George
Soros’ son and successor Alexander Soros in a cordial
visit at the Vatican.
Late evening July 5, the Vatican News social media accounts
posted a short video clip of Pope Francis receiving former President Clinton
and his party at the Casa Santa Martha hotel.
According to a subsequent report by Vatican News – which appears to be
the only official information released about the meeting – Clinton and
Francis spoke about “peace.”
“At the end of the meeting, Francis looked
out for a brief greeting to the security men and other friends accompanying the
former president on his trip to Rome and Europe, who had meanwhile been taken
on a tour of some of the Vatican sites.”
The 75-year-old Clinton is famous for his adulterous sexual affair with
a young White House intern and subsequent impeachment for perjury and
obstruction of justice, as well as his adamant support of abortion and same-sex
“marriage.”
Greeting the former president warmly,
Francis presented him with a statue made at the Vatican which “symbolizes the
work for peace,” according to the Pontiff.
Though unacknowledged in the Vatican’s brief report, accompanying
Clinton was 37-year-old Alexander Soros – son and successor to the notorious
abortion and population control advocate George Soros.
Alexander has been accompanying Clinton on
recent travels, with the party having come straight from Albania the day
before, where Clinton had been awarded the Great Star of Gratitude for Public
Achievements.
Alexander was recently announced to have
taken over the reigns of his father’s Open Society Foundations group, after he
was elected chairman of the $25 billion empire. As LifeSiteNews has reported,
Alexander Soros has promised to be more political than his father, a statement
which he has appeared to fulfill.
His Instagram account has pictures of
him alongside U.S. President Joe Biden, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer,
and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, among others. Alexander has
reportedly visited the White House more than 17 times in the last several
years, according to Breitbart.
With Soros widely noted as linked to, and having funded, a wide variety
of anti-family, anti-life and anti-Catholic endeavors, Alexander looks set to
now continue his father’s works. “We think alike,” Alexander told the Wall
Street Journal while speaking about his father’s political views.
His social media accounts provide evidence
of Alexander’s political activism, with regular international travels and
meetings with leading politicians documented, along with his support for
campaigns such as Black Lives Matter and attempts to have the U.K. rejoin the
European Union.
Speaking to the Journal, Alexander revealed that he would be investing
more finances into promoting abortion.
The Soros family campaigns have thus not
only caused concern for pro-family and Christian advocates, but have also drawn
the ire of Twitter owner and billionaire Elon Musk, who has said that the elder
Soros “hates humanity” and “wants to erode the very fabric of civilization.”
“You
assume they are good intentions. They are not. He wants to erode the very
fabric of civilization. [George] Soros hates humanity,” wrote Musk in May.
The meeting at the Vatican was not
announced to journalists, nor was it included on the Pope’s calendar. Francis’
private and public meetings have ostensibly been cancelled for the month of
July as part of the regular summer recess the Vatican traditionally observes,
although Francis is known for not observing as much of a break as his
predecessors did.
COMMENT:
We are known by our friends and clearly Pope Francis looks positively giddy shaking
the hand of Bill Clinton. Bill Clinton and the Soros Foundation have worked
closely together to establish a satanic world empire. Pope Francis hopes
someday to be spiritual head of this new one-world religion. We know from
Catholic prophecy how this story is going to end and it will not end well for
Clinton or Soros.
The apostasy of
the city of Rome from the vicar of Christ and its destruction by Antichrist may
be thoughts very new to many Catholics, that I think it well to recite the text
of theologians of greatest repute. First Malvenda, who writes expressly on the
subject, states as the opinion of Ribera, Gaspar Melus, Biegas, Suarrez,
Bellarmine and Bosius that Rome shall apostatize from the Faith, drive away the
Vicar of Christ and return to its ancient paganism. Then the Church shall be
scattered, driven into the wilderness, and shall be for a time, as it was in
the beginning, invisible; hidden in catacombs, in dens, in mountains, in
lurking places; for a time it shall be swept, as it were from the face of the
earth. Such is the universal testimony of the Fathers of the early Church.
Henry Edward
Cardinal Manning, The Present Crisis of
the Holy See, 1861
Dogma - The Proximate Rule of Faith, the Formal Object of
Divine & Catholic Faith
Now, first of all, let us see what is
dogma. In the mouth of the world it means some positive, imperious, and
overbearing assertion of a human authority, or of a self-confident mind. But
what does it mean in the mouth of the Church? It means the precise enunciation
of a divine truth, of a divine fact, or of a divine reality fully known, so far
as it is the will of God to reveal it, adequately defined in words chosen and
sanctioned by a divine authority.
It is the precise enunciation of a divine
truth or of a divine reality; for instance, the nature and the personality of
God, the Incarnation, the coming of the Holy Ghost, and suchlike truths and
realities of the mind of God, precisely known, intellectually conceived, as God
has revealed or accomplished them. Every divine truth or reality, so far as God
has been pleased to reveal it to us, casts its perfect outline and image upon
the human intelligence. His own mind, in which dwells all truth in all fulness
and in all perfection, so far as He has revealed of His truth, is cast upon the
surface of our mind, in the same way as the sun casts its own image upon the
surface of the water, and the disc of the sun is perfectly reflected from its
surface. So, in the intelligence of the Apostles, when, by the illumination of the
Holy Ghost on the Day of Pentecost, the revelation of God was cast upon the
surface of their intellect, every divine truth had its perfect outline and
image, not confused, nor in a fragmentary shape, but with a perfect and
complete impression. For instance, that God is One in nature; that in God there
are Three Persons, and one only Person in Jesus Christ. Next, it is not enough
that a truth should be definitely conceived; for if a teacher know the truth,
and is not able to communicate it with accuracy, the learner will be but little
the wiser. And therefore God, who gave His truth, has given also a perpetual
assistance, whereby the Apostles first, and His Church from that day to this,
precisely and without erring declare to mankind the truth which was revealed in
the beginning; and in declaring that truth the Church clothes it in words, in
what we call a terminology: and in the choice of those terms the Church is also
guided. There is an assistance, by which the Church does not err in selecting
the very language in which to express divine truth. For who does not see that,
if the Church were to err in the selection of the words, the declaration of
truth must be obscured? We are conscious every day that we know with perfect
certainty what we desire to say, but, from the difficulty of finding or
choosing our words, we cannot convey our meaning to another. The Church is not
a stammerer as we are. The Church of God has a divine assistance perpetually
guiding it, to clothe in language, that is, in adequate expression, the divine
truth which God has committed to her trust. Therefore a dogma signifies a
correct verbal expression of the truth correctly conceived and known. But,
lastly, it is not sufficient that it be clearly understood in the intellect and
accurately expressed in words, unless the authority by which it is declared
shall be divine; because without a divine authority we cannot have a divine
certainty; without a divine authority we can have no such assurance that the
doctrine which we hear may not be erroneous. The Apostles were such a divine
authority, for they spoke in the Name of their Master. Their successor to this
day is the Church, which, taken as a whole, has been, by the assistance of the
Holy Ghost, promised by our Divine Lord and never absent from it, perpetually
sustained in the path of truth, and preserved from all error in the declaration
of that truth. Therefore ‘He that heareth you heareth Me’ is true to this day.
He that hears the voice of the Church hears the voice of its Divine Head, and
its authority is therefore divine. This, then, is a dogma: a divine truth
clearly understood in the intellect, precisely expressed in words and by a
divine authority. There are many things which follow from this. First, it
proves that the Church of God must be dogmatic: and that any body which is not
dogmatic is not the Church of God. Any body or communion that disclaims a
divine, and therefore infallible, authority cannot be dogmatic, because it is
conscious that it may err. And therefore the- Catholic Church alone, the Church
which is one and undivided throughout the world, united with its centre in the
Holy See,—this, and this alone, is a dogmatic Church (as the world
reproachfully reminds us), and on that I build my proof that it alone is the
Church of God. A teaching authority which is dogmatic and not infallible is a
tyranny and a nuisance: a tyranny, because it binds the consciences of men by
human authority, liable to err; and a nuisance, because as it may err, in the
long-run it certainly will, and ‘if the blind lead the blind, shall they not
both fall into the ditch?’ We see, then, what dogma means. The Holy Catholic
Church always has been and always must be dogmatic. In this, and in no other
sense, is it dogmatic; for it delivers nothing to us to be believed except upon
divine authority, and that which it so delivers was revealed by God.
Cardinal Henry Edward Manning, Glories of the Sacred Heart
“The
problematic is primarily ecclesiological. I do not see how it is possible to
say that one recognizes the validity of the Council — though it amazes me that
a Catholic might presume not to do so — and at the same time not accept the
liturgical reform born out of Sacrosanctum Concilium, a document that expresses
the reality of the Liturgy intimately joined to the vision of Church so
admirably described in Lumen gentium.” ……
"Let us abandon our polemics to
listen together to what the Spirit is saying to the Church. Let us safeguard
our communion. Let us continue to be astonished at the beauty of the (Novus
Ordo) Liturgy. The Paschal Mystery has been given to us. Let us allow ourselves
to be embraced by the desire that the Lord continues to have to eat His
Passover with us. All this under the gaze of Mary, Mother of the Church."
Pope Francis
the Low and Vicious, Desiderio
Desideravi, his apostolic letter on liturgical formation
COMMENT: Nice to see Pope Francis
getting to the meat of the matter: How can “one recognizes the validity of the
Council…. and not accept the liturgical
reform.” So let’s “amaze” the deaf and dumb and repeat again, the Vatican II
Council was merely a pastoral council that has proven to be a pastoral failure
by every objective criterion that measures pastoral success or failure. The
Pope can babble all he wants about “Time is greater than space,” but after 60
years that psychological lollipop can only pacify the brain dead. Nothing,
absolutely nothing, from Vatican II binds the conscience of the Catholic
faithful regarding any matter of doctrine, morals or worship when that teaching
contradicts or contravenes directly or indirectly the Catholic faith, morals or
immemorial traditions. The Council is the work of churchmen teaching by their
grace of state and has nothing to do with the Magisterium of the Church
teaching by virtue of the Church’s attributes of Infallibility and Authority.
If this were not the case, then God would have failed in His divine promise to
preserve His Church from formal error, for as everyone knows but does not like
to say, the Vatican II Council is clearly heretical in many of its direct
pronouncements and their implications. The most important error of the Council
was declared by the Novus Ordo Saint John XXIII in his opening address where he
stated that the purpose of the Council was to reformulate Catholic truth with
new words and new images. This is the heresy of Neo-modernism which postulates
the heretical opinion that there exists a disjunction between the truth of
dogma and the words to express that truth. The very purpose of Vatican II was
heretical and its fruit has abundantly revealed this ugly fact. Pope Francis in
his direct endorsement of sexual perversion by his active associations with
homosexuals and abortion by his public praising of the likes of Nancy Pelosi,
is evidence of this fact. He hates the immemorial Roman rite of Mass because he
hates God and everything that pertains to His acceptable worship. The
immemorial Roman rite of Mass is the Holy Sacrifice of the Cross. The Novus
Ordo is a memorial meal, the offering of Cain, ‘the fruit of the earth and the
work of human hands’.
Francis/Bergoglio Plan of Action
Catholics flock to SSPX after Corpus Christi bishop cancels diocesan
Latin Mass
LifeSiteNews | Brian Mershon | Jun 27, 2023
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas— Eleven weeks after
Bishop William Michael Mulvey of Corpus Christi, Texas, eliminated the
Traditional Latin Mass (TLM) at St. John the Baptist Church, the parish’s
collections are down 29 percent as Catholics flock to the nearby Society of St.
Pius X (SSPX) chapel.
“The homeschool co-op and children’s choir
are currently in limbo,” said Libby Ibanez, a former parishioner who attended
the TLM faithfully on Sundays and weekdays, integrated as part of her
children’s daily homeschool routine.
“Youth ministry is in limbo. We are waiting on
the newly-assigned priest who starts July 5 to determine the fate of these
programs due to the lack of funding,” she added.
The figures bear that out. According to
bulletins on the parish website (with two missing in June), the average
collection at St. John the Baptist has dropped 29 percent since the final TLM
this Easter Sunday. The first 15 weeks of the calendar year showed an average
weekly collection of $14,357, while the post-TLM weekly average has just been
$10,152 for the nine bulletins showing since April 9.
The projected parish intake for the year –
which was originally $746,564, based on the first 15 weeks of collections – is
on pace to yield only $527,904 for 2023, a difference of $218,660.
The apparent beneficiary is the nearby SSPX
chapel, which was averaging about 30 Catholics each month and now has swelled
to more than 200, with plans for added weekly Masses beginning in July. “We did
have to buy bigger collection baskets, so that has been very encouraging!”
Ibanez said.
Andrew Greenwell, a former St. John the
Baptist parishioner, offered his insights regarding the sudden growth of the
SSPX chapel.
“Because of the influx of people that
formerly attended the diocesan Latin Mass at St. John the Baptist, the Society
of St. Pius X, starting next month, will be providing Mass every Sunday except
for the first Sunday of the month, and that is where I will be attending with
my family,” said Greenwell.
“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
Pope Francis
the Semanticist- He has unthinkingly internalized the habit of DoubleSpeak.
Our (i.e.: Pope
Francis personal) missionary proclamation is not proselytism — I emphasize this
so much — but sharing a personal encounter that has changed our lives! Without
this, we have nothing to announce, nor a destination to walk toward together.
I had a bad
experience in this, in a youth meeting a few years ago. I was coming out of the
sacristy, and there was a lady, very elegant, you could also see that she was
very rich, with a boy and a girl. And this lady, who spoke Spanish, says to me,
'Father, I'm happy because I converted these two. The boy here comes from such
and such a place and the girl comes from another such place.' I got angry, you
know, and I said, 'You didn't convert anything, you failed to respect these
persons. You didn't accompany them, you proselytized, and that is not
evangelizing.' She was proud of having converted them!
Be careful to
make a clear distinction between apostolic action and proselytism. We do not do
proselytism. The Lord never did proselytism.
Pope Francis
the Apostate, Audience with the Clerics Regular of St. Paul, 5-29-2023
Vatican releases Synod document calling for discussion of women, LGBT
Catholics, church authority and more
AMERICA, the Jesuit Review | Gerald O'Connell | June 20, 2023
The secretariat for the synod has published
the working document, known by its Latin title instrumentum laboris, for the
first session of the General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops on synodality
that will be held in the Vatican, Oct. 4 to Oct. 29. The second session will be
held in October 2024.
“A synodal church is founded on the
recognition of a common dignity deriving from baptism, which makes all who
receive it sons and daughters of God, members of the family of God, and
therefore brothers and sisters in Christ, inhabited by the one Spirit and sent
to fulfil a common mission,” said the document.
However, it said, many Catholics around the
world report that too many baptized persons—particularly L.G.B.T. Catholics,
the divorced and civilly remarried, the poor, women and people with
disabilities—are excluded from active participation in the life of the church
and, particularly, from its decision-making structures.
The
50-page text was presented at a press conference in the Vatican on June 20 by
Cardinals Mario Grech and Jean Claude Hollerich S.J., secretary general and
relator general of the upcoming synod, respectively, and Father Giacomo Costa,
S.J., the consultor of the synod’s secretary general.
Cardinal Grech described the working
document as “the fruit of a synodal process” that started on Oct. 10, 2021, and
“involved the whole church” in an exercise of listening to the people of God.
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Cardinal Grech described the working
document as “the fruit of a synodal process” that started on Oct. 10, 2021, and
“involved the whole church” in an exercise of listening to the people of God.
The first phase was articulated in three stages: at the local churches with
consultation of the people of God (clergy and laity); at the bishops’
conferences, which engaged in a discernment process about the input from the
local churches; and at the continental levels, where input from around the
world was synthesized.
“Where the bishops started and accompanied
the consultation, the contribution has been very alive and profound,” the
cardinal said, and the bishops were enriched with “a fruitful ministry.”
The document brings together “the fruits”
of the synodal journey since October 2021. Unlike the working documents for
past synods, which were intended to be amended, improved and voted upon, this
document is designed as “a practical aid for the conduct” of the October
assembly at which there will be more than 350 participants (including laymen
and around 45 women, both lay and consecrated), not a text to be amended.
The document states that it “is not a
document of the Church’s Magisterium, nor is it the report of a sociological
survey; it does not offer the formulation of operational indications, goals and
objectives, nor a full elaboration of a theological vision.” It is “part of an
unfinished process.” It draws on but also goes beyond the insights of the first
phase and articulates “some of the priorities that emerged from listening to
the People of God, but avoids presenting them as assertions or stances.
Instead, it expresses them as questions addressed to the synodal assembly,”
which “will have the task of discerning the concrete steps which enable the
continued growth of a synodal church, steps that it will then submit to the
Holy Father.”
Significantly, the working document does
not offer a theoretical understanding of synodality but rather presents “a
dynamic vision of the ways in which synodality has been experienced” in
different church communities and cultures worldwide during the almost two-year
synodal journey. It articulates “the insights and tensions that resonated most
strongly with the experience of the church on each continent” and identifies
“the priorities to be addressed in the first session of the synod.”
According to the working document, the
synodal journey so far “has made it possible to identify and share the
particular situations experienced by the church in different regions of the
world.” These experiences include “too many wars,” “the threat represented by
climate change,” “an economic system that produces exploitation, inequality and
a throwaway culture” and “cultural colonialism that crushes minorities.”
It points to “situations of persecution to
the point of martyrdom” and “emigration that progressively hollow out
communities.” It mentions the situation of “Christian communities that
represent scattered minorities within the countries in which they live” and
“the aggressive secularization that seems to consider religious experience
irrelevant, but where there remains a thirst for the Good News of the Gospel.”
In many regions, it says, “the churches are
deeply affected by the crisis caused by various forms of abuse, including
sexual abuse and the abuse of power, conscience and money.” It describes these
as “open wounds, the consequences of which have yet to be fully addressed” and
says the church must be “penitent” and intensify its commitment “to conversion
and reform.”
It says the October synod takes place in a
context that is “diverse but with common global features,” and participants
will be asked “to listen deeply to the situations in which the church lives and
carries out its mission.”
It says the synodal journey so far has
revealed the existence of “shared questions” and “part of the challenge of
synodality is to discern the level at which it is most appropriate to address
each question.” That same journey also showed there are shared tensions in the
church, but, the document says, “we should not be frightened of them, nor
attempt at any cost to resolve them, but rather engage in ongoing synodal
discernment” so that these tensions can “become sources of energy and not lapse
into destructive polarizations.”
At the press conference, Cardinal Grech
said “one of the discoveries” on the synodal journey that started on Oct. 10,
2021, was the method of “conversation in the Spirit,” which will now be used in
the October synod.
Father Costa described this method as
“shared prayer in view of a common discernment, by which participants prepare
themselves through personal reflection and prayer” before the discussion. He
said this method “opens ‘spaces’ in which to face together controversial
subjects, around which in both society and in the church there are often
clashes and confrontation, in person or through social media.”
The consultation phase has shown how this
method offers “a practical alternative to polarization in the church,” Father
Costa said.
To enable this method to be used at the
October 2023 synod, where there will be hundreds of participants, Father Costa
revealed that the assembly will be held in the Paul VI Audience Hall of the
Vatican and its members will be divided into small groups of 12 people. They
will work in these groups, then gather in plenary sessions and share their
input.
Part A of the working document, called “For
a synodal church, An Integral Experience,” highlights “the characteristic
signs” of a synodal church and emphasizes that “conversation in the Spirit” is
the way forward for this kind of church.
Cardinal Hollerich said the working
document “leads us to a matter of discernment, a discernment about the
concretization of communion, mission and participation,” which Part B of the
document lists as the three priority issues for the synodal church.
Cardinal Hollerich explained that “each of
these three priorities is linked to five worksheets. These [are] five
approaches [that] take into consideration the diversity of persons as well as
the diversity of the different social, cultural and religious contexts we have
experienced during the synodal process.”
Each of the worksheets contains many
questions for discernment that cannot all be listed here, but reveal the
wide-ranging and even radical nature of what it means to be a synodal church, a
church that includes and is not judgmental. The many questions raised around
the world that are recognized in the document relate to the role of women in
the church (including the women’s diaconate), the ways of exercising authority
in the church at all levels including the papacy, ecumenical and interreligious
relations, the need for a new language in church communication, the need for
renewal of the formation in the seminary, the question of the ordination of
mature married men in some regions, the approach to the divorced and remarried
Catholics and to L.G.B.T. people, the preferential option for the poor, the
preferential option for young people, the care of our common home and much
more.
As the two cardinals and Father Costa made
clear at the press conference, the synod on synodality cannot be reduced to
single issues; its mandate is much broader than any one issue. Indeed, to
reduce it to one or other issue would be to radically distort what the synod is
really about. As the working document states clearly, the synod has three main
priorities—communion, participation and mission—and these require bringing
about a profound conversion and cultural change in the way of being church in
the 21st century. It is not about making another church but a different church,
as Pope Francis, quoting Yves Congar O.P., one of the great theologians of the Second
Vatican Council, said in his speech to the synod in October 2021.
Below are the five main questions for
discernment linked to each of the three priorities. The full list of questions
can be found here.
Communion
1. How does the service of charity and
commitment to justice and care for our common home nourish communion in a
synodal Church?
2. How can a synodal Church make credible
the promise that “love and truth will meet” (Ps 85:11)?
3. How can a dynamic relationship of gift
exchange between the Churches grow?
4. How can a synodal Church fulfill its
mission through a renewed ecumenical commitment?
5. How can we recognise and gather the
richness of cultures and develop dialogue amongst religions in the light of the
Gospel?
Mission
1. How can we walk together towards a
shared awareness of the meaning and content of mission?
2. What should be done so a synodal Church
is also an ‘all ministerial’ missionary Church?
3. How can the Church of our time better
fulfill its mission through greater recognition and promotion of the baptismal
dignity of women?
4. How can we properly value ordained
Ministry in its relationship with baptismal Ministries in a missionary
perspective?
5. How can we renew and promote the
Bishop’s ministry from a missionary synodal perspective?
Participation
1. How can we renew the service of
authority and the exercise of responsibility in a missionary synodal Church?
2. How can we develop discernment practices
and decision-making processes in an authentically synodal manner that respects
the protagonism of the Spirit?
3. What structures can be developed to
strengthen a missionary synodal Church?
4. How can we give structure to instances
of synodality and collegiality that involve groupings of local Churches?
5. How can the institution of the Synod be
strengthened so that it is an expression of episcopal collegiality within an
all-synodal Church?
COMMENT:
It's all in how you frame the question that
directs the group to the "correct answer" the Synodal Church is
looking. For example, "Communion" question #2 refers to Psalm 85:11.
In a Catholic bible it is 84:11 and the actual verse is: "Mercy
and truth have met each other: justice and peace have kissed." The Synodal
Church, using a Protestant reference, changes the tense from past perfect to
the future tense and translates the word justice
as love. For what end can we guess
this perversion is intended? And what do these questions about
"missionary" church possible mean when proselytism is rejected as the
proper end for which Jesus Christ instituted His Church? The use of the
Encounter Group is entirely foreign to the Catholic spirit because it attacks
the freedom of the human will. The American Psychological Association
says:
"Encounter Group: a group of people
who meet, usually with a trained leader, to increase self-awareness and social
sensitivity, and to change
behavior through interpersonal confrontation, self-disclosure, and strong
emotional expression." It is a group of individuals in which
constructive insight, sensitivity to others, and personal growth are promoted
through direct interactions on an emotional and social level. The leader
functions as a catalyst and facilitator rather than as a therapist and focuses
on here-and-now feelings and interaction rather than on theory or individual
motivation."
The entire Synod on Synodality is nothing
more employing the experimental psychological techniques of encounter developed
by Jewish psychologists on the modern Church of the New Advent. It was these
same methods that were used on the Catholic religious orders in the 1960s that
brought about their destruction. Carl Rogers used these same psychological
methods on the Jesuits order at the time Pope Francis/Bergoglio began his
novitiate. They are now being employed by Francis the Destroyer to corrupt what
is left of the Catholic Church and form it in his own image. He claims to head
a "listening church" while he cannot keep his own mouth shut. That is
because Francis only wants to listen to himself. That last thing he wants to
listen to is the voice of of anyone who contradicts his ideology, especially
the voice of the dead, that is, the voice of tradition that constitutes, with
sacred Scripture, the Remote Rule of Faith for all Catholics. It is Francis
that is a committed anti-Catholic Ideologue and every faithful Catholic must
recognize this fact. The proximate Rule of Faith is Dogma. If every faithful
Catholic keeps this Truth as the guide of their faith and actions nothing
Francis can do can bring them any personal harm.
An assessment of the danger of the Encounter Group
published in the New York Times in 1974!
Encounter Movement, a Fad Last Decade Finds New Shape
New
York Times | Jan 13, 1974
| Robert Reinhold
BERKELEY,
CA—The encounter group movement, which became something of a national fad in
the nineteen‐sixties, has evolved into a new, more mature and gentler
form:
Having
largely discarded its more extreme and coercive aspects, along with extravagant
assertions of instant personal redemption, the encounter concept has quietly
found an accepted place in such established institutions as schools, churches,
industry and even the military and sports.
Meanwhile,
persistent doubts about the effectiveness as well as possible hazards of encounter
groups are being sorted out in the first rigorous appraisals of the groups and
their consequences.
These
studies, performed here in Berkeley and at Stanford University, are finding
that, while many people benefit enormously from the openness and baring of
emotions fostered by encounter, there are dangers to be guarded against.
Tried by Millions
By
now millions of Americans have touched, walked and talked their way through
some type of .encounter session. Encounter is loose term for a variety of group
techniques, such as T‐groups, sensitivity training, sensory awareness,
Synanon psychodrama, gestalt therapy and others, that are used as means of
personal growth for ostensibly healthy persons
The
encounter; or “human potential techniques are so routine today that the
pioneers at the Eselen Institute and elsewhere have already departed for new
psychological frontiers. Amid the dazzling succulents and eucalyptus trees on
the broken California coast at Big Sur, the Esalen leaders are moving into the
spiritual orbit of ‘transpersonal’ psychology—oriental meditation, mysticism,
“psychosynthesis"’ and other techniques of achieving new heights of self‐awareness.
Others
have been experimenting with such methods as “rolfing,” “feldenkrais,”
“bioenergetics,” in which massage and physicals are used to increase awareness.
A Variety of Method
Encounter
methods vary widely, but a group typically consists of eight to 18 persons led
by a “facilitator.” The members are urged to express their emotions toward one
another openly, both physically and verbally. Mutual trust, openness, honesty
and naturalness, are the watchwords, and the assumption is that this stripping
away of psychological defenses is healthy and will enhance both interpersonal
relationships and self‐awareness.
“A
lot of mistakes were made during the youthful period,” says John Levy,
executive officer of the Association for Humanistic Psychology, the San
Francisco‐based organization to which many of the practitioners of
encounter belong.
“The
movement suffered from excess enthusiasm—it made promises that could not hold
up. There are still plenty of encounter groups, but you don't hear about them
anymore. They are not the cutting edge."
Encounter
may be passé in the compulsive California and New York milieus that nurtured
it, says William C. Schutz of Esalen, author of “Joy” and other popular works
on encounter, but in Athens, GA and Rock Island, IL, and for the overwhelming
majority of Americans, encounter is just beginning.
Searing Experience
Whether
or not its assumptions are valid, encounter evidently filled a real need in a
depersonalized technological world. Millions flocked to “growth centers,” like oases in a psychological desert, Where
they could go through the searing but often uplifting experience of spilling
out their doubts and fears.
But
as in most fads, the phonies, fast‐huck artists, incompetents and
predators soon moved in. illequipped and sometimes sadistic leaders started
groups, the idea was exploited in the movies, and on stage. The Concord Hotel
offered “encounter singles weekends,” and a “group therapy” restaurant was
opened in New York.
Still,
the potential value of encounter has attracted a growing number of
conventionally trained psychologists and psychiatrists. Carl Rogers, the
psychologist who is often called the father of the movement, has termed
encounter “the most rapidly spreading social invention of the century, and
probably the most potent.”
‘A Psychic Whorehouse’
Even
such a harsh critic of encounter as Prof. Sigmund Koch of Boston University
agrees that the movement is “the most visible manifestation of psychology on
the American scene:” He has denounced it as providing “a convenient psychic
whorehouse for the purchase of a gamut of well‐advertised existential
‘goodies’: authenticity, freedom, wholeness, flexibility, community, love, joy.
One enters for such liberating consummations but settles for psychic strip
tease.”
Such
complaints notwithstanding, encounter has had a profound impact upon many
facets of American life. In Louisville, for example, educators credit it with
helping rescue the school system. Faced with, the second‐highest dropout
rate in the country (after Philadelphia), a demoralized staff, and bitter
racial division, the schools obtained a three‐year Federal grant ‘in 1969
to re-staff 14 schools with 1,000 teachers trained in encounter.
Called
Project Transition, the program involved not only the teachers but also
students, parents and community leaders. Robert Myers, a co‐director,
says it was a “terrific impetus for change in a school system that was
sinking.”
Reports of Suicide
Countless
individuals, meanwhile, report that their lives have been improved by group
experiences. But there have also been disturbing reports of breakdowns,
divorces and even suicides precipitated by encounter groups.
What
has been lacking until recently were objective, tightly controlled studies to
determine if groups really change behavior. What do groups do? What are the
dangers? What skills are needed for leaders? Are the effects lasting? Is it
worth it?
Some
preliminary answers to these questions are beginning to emerge from ‘a massive
study here supported by $1.25‐million from the National Institute of
Mental Health. Directed by Dr. Jim Bebout of the Wright Institute in Berkeley,
the study is evaluating 1,500 persons who participated in 150 groups over a
three‐year period at the University’s Young Men's Christian Association
in Berkeley.
The
groups, mostly low‐keyed sessions led by non‐professionals, were
observed and analyzed, and each member was asked to evaluate his attitudes and
feeling before, during and after the experience. The results are still
undergoing computer analysis, but some preliminary findings:
Ø Encounter
groups do work in that they consistently improve self‐satisfaction,
self-reliance and comfort with sexuality, and lessen loneliness, alienation and
social inhibition.
Ø Groups
do little to improve productivity in work or school.
Ø Professional
therapists do not usually do well as leaders. “They could not drop their
professional bag,” Dr. Bebout said.
Two Casualties Found
Of
the 1,500 members, Dr. Bebout said, only two could be considered casualties: an
obese woman who was rejected by the rest of the group and young man who fell in
love with the leader, who rejected him.
Dr.
Bebout offers the following advice to those considering joining a group:
“Pick
a leader willing to share your experience with you and not work on you without
telling you what he is doing. Make sure some proportion of your group is on
your side. If the first two meetings are full of silences, attacks, tensions
and obscure methods and general non-sharing, then pack up and go home.”
A
smaller, different kind of study performed at Stanford University produced
somewhat more ‘'negative” results. Unlike the Berkeley study, the Stanford
study used well‐known professional group leaders who led 210 students in
18 groups designed to represent a broad range of techniques, including T‐groups,
gestalt, transactional analysis, marathon, basic encounter and others.
Higher Casualty Rate
The
results of the study, performed by Dr. Morton A. Lieberman, Dr. Irvin D. Yalom
and Matthew. B. Miles, were recently published by Basic Books under the title
“Encounter Groups: First Facts.” The study found that one‐third of the
participants benefited from their experiences, while the rest either dropped
out or had negative experiences. This proportion did not compare unfavorably
with conventional psychotherapy.
The
study turned up an alarming 10 per cent casualty rate, with a casualty defined
as a person who was more psychologically distressed or maladapted eight months
after the group than before. One girl, for example, dropped out and sought
emergency psychiatric aid after the third meeting, at which she was called “a
fat Italian mama with a big Shiny nose.”
Verdict Is Mixed
All
in all, the Stanford study returned a mixed verdict. “When one strips away the
excesses and the frills, the ability of such groups to provide a meaningful
emotional setting in which individuals can overtly consider previously
prohibited issues cannot be ruled out as an important means for facilitating
human progress,” the study said. But it added, “Encounter groups present a
clear and evident danger if they are used for radical surgery in which the
product will be a new man.”
Those
who improved, Dr. Yalom said in an interview, were those who got something
intellectual out of the experience.
Partisans
of the encounter concept have faulted the Stanford study on various grounds,
saying that some distress is a prerequisite to enduring change, and that the
attack oriented techniques used in some of the Stanford groups are no longer in
vogue.
More Care Needed
Even
so, many of the more responsible leaders agree that more care needs to be taken
to screen out persons with histories of mental instability, and to train
leaders better. Dr. Julian Silverman, a psychologist who heads Esalen's program
at Big Sur, agrees that much damage has been done in groups and says, “We are
very concerned about getting better training of leaders.”
Dr.
Bernard Rappaport, a psychiatrist at Esalen who has written two survey papers
on the movement for the National Institute of Mental Health, argues that “the
benefits far out shadow the casualties,” but he agrees that reservations and
cautions are good. ‘We need an ethic of responsibility,” he says.
“Now
the approach is much gentler,” said Mr. Levy of the Association for Humanistic
Psychology. “There is less encouragement of coercive approaches. Big wild
breakthroughs are exciting to watch for a while, but not all that productive.
People are respecting the dignity of others.”
“This is
magisterium: the Council is the magisterium of the Church. Either you are with
the Church and therefore you follow the Council, and if you do not follow the
Council or you interpret it in your own way, as you wish, you are not with the
Church. We must be demanding and strict on this point. The Council should not
be negotiated in order to have more of these... No, the Council is as it is.
And this problem that we are experiencing, of selectivity with respect to the
Council, has been repeated throughout history with other Councils.” Pope Francis, 1-30-2021
“I dare say
that the Council has revolutionized to some extent the status of theology – the
believer’s way of doing and thinking.”
Pope Francis,
9-2-2015
“With the
Council, the Church entered a new phase of her history.”
Pope Francis, Misericordiae Vultus, 4-11-2015
COMMENT: It is true that Councils in the past have been “experiencing
selectivity.” Such as the Council of Trent and its dogmatic definitions
regarding the doctrine of Justification which Pope Francis has repeatedly
“selectively” rejected while professing his belief in the condemned
propositions of the arch-heretic Luther. Those who are “selective” on any
Catholic dogma are by definition, heretics. The word heresy means ‘to choose,’
in other words, to be “selective” of Catholic dogma. Vatican II was a “pastoral
council” that defined no doctrine and remained purely on the level of the
magisterium of churchmen grounded upon their grace of state. No Catholic is
required to assent to any teaching whenever that ‘teachings’ in any way
possibly contradicts revealed truth. The Magisterium of the Church is a
different matter. It is the infallible teaching of the Church grounded upon its
divine attributes of Authority and Infallibility which is incapable of error
and to which every Catholic conscience is bound to assent on pain of heresy.
Any Council that “revolutionized” a “believer’s way of doing and thinking” is
not Catholic by definition for the task of the Church is to protect, defend and
propagate God’s revealed truth and not to “revolutionize” it. A “believer” can
only be “revolutionized” by revolting against the revealed truth. To claim that
the “(Vatican II) Council is the magisterium of the Church” is an indirect
profession of apostasy, for whatever “Church” that this is the “magisterium”
for, is not the Catholic Church founded by Jesus Christ. Vatican II does
represent a “new phase” in the history of the Church. Every “phase of (the
Church’s) history” is defined by the current errors of that age propagated by
her enemies and the Church’s response to those errors in the defense of truth
with dogmatic councils. Vatican II is not a response to any error but is rather
the error itself propagated by her enemies. Traditional Catholicism is the
response to the modern errors!
Modernism vs. Neo-Modernism: What is the Difference?
The
overarching principle of post-conciliar theology is not modernism, properly
speaking. Let us get our terms straight.
Modernism is
the idea that there are no eternal truths, that truth is the correspondence of
the mind with one's lifestyle (adaequatio intellectus et vitae), and
that, therefore, old dogmas must be abandoned and new beliefs must arise that
meet 'the needs of modern man'. This is a radical denial of the traditional and
common sense notion of truth: the correspondence of the mind with reality (adaequatio
intellectus et rei), which is the basis of the immutability of Catholic
dogma.
No, the post-conciliar theological
principle is neo-modernism, and the
theology that is based on it is known as the nouvelle theologie.
It is the idea that old dogmas or beliefs must be retained,
yet not the traditional 'formulas': dogmas must be expressed and
interpreted in a new way in every age so as to meet the 'needs of modern man'.
This is still a denial of the traditional and common sense notion of
truth as adaequatio intellectus et rei (insofar as it is still an
attempt to make the terminology that expresses the faith correspond with
our modern lifestyle) and consequently of the immutability of Catholic
dogma, yet it is not as radical as modernism. It is more subtle
and much more deceptive than modernism because it claims that the faith
must be retained; it is only the 'formulas' of faith that must be
abandoned--they use the term 'formula' to distinguish the supposedly
mutable words of our creeds, dogmas, etc. from their
admittedly immutable meanings. Therefore,
neo-modernism can effectively slip under the radar of most pre-conciliar
condemnations (except Humani Generis, which condemns it directly) insofar
as its practitioners claim that their new and unintelligible
theological terminology really expresses the same faith of all times. In
other words, neo-modernism is supposed to be 'dynamic orthodoxy': supposedly
orthodox in meaning, yet always changing in expression to adapt to modern life
(cf. Franciscan University of Steubenville's mission statement).
Take extra ecclesiam nulla salus as
a clear example of a dogma that has received a brutal neo-modernist
re-interpretation: they claim that the old 'formula' that ”there is no
salvation outside the Church” must be abandoned; rather it is more meaningful
to modern man to say that salvation is not in, but through, the
Church; people who are not in the Church may still be saved
through the Church; thus, to them the dogma that “there is no
salvation outside the Church” means that there is salvation outside
the Church. Hence see Ven. Pope Pius XII condemning those “reduce to a
meaningless formula the necessity of belonging to the true Church in order to
gain eternal salvation.” (Humani generis 27).
Yet
this mentality of reinterpreting everything anew in order to 'meet the needs of
the times' is generally tends to be found in different degrees among different
post-conciliar sources:
It
tends to be (1) rampant
in men like De Lubac, Von Balthasar, Congar, etc.: it is the ultimate goal of
their writings, teachings, and activities as churchmen. To achieve
this end, they employ the technique of 'resourcement', the neo-modernist
strategy of fishing for the few dubious, questionable, or idiosyncratic
teachings of some Fathers of the Church and other authoritative writers, and
gather them into a massive, heterodox theological argument against the
traditional understanding of the faith (which they like to relativize by giving
it names such as “Counter-Reformation” Theology, “Tridentine” Theology, or
“Scholastic” Theology, instead of just admitting that it is Catholic Theology
plain and simple). This technique accomplishes three things that go hand-in-hand:
(a) offers a refutation of traditional Catholicism, (b) defends an
interpretation that meets the needs of modern times, and (c) gives it a
semblance of being traditional, because it appears to be based in the Fathers
et al. This type of argument is used, for example, by Von Balthasar in
his nearly heretical book, Dare We Hope that All Men be Saved? to
'prove', not that Hell does not exist (that is a dogma), but that it is empty.
But this technique and its neo-modernistic underpinnings is not only practiced
in almost all of these men's writings; it is also defended in theory by
many of them, particularly in Von Balthasar's daring little book, Razing
the Bastions, where he demonstrates that “Tridentine” theology must be
rejected in our times because it is 'boring'.
It
also tends to be (2) present in a more
moderate way in the non-binding statements by post-conciliar popes,
since they themselves were deeply involved in the developing of the nouvelle
theologie. Just to give one of a million possible examples, see Pope
Benedict's evolutionistic re-interpretation of the Resurrection of Our
Lord. Nothing here obviously contradicts the dogma of the
Resurrection (it may be interpreted as a simple analogy, even if a bad one, and
nothing more), but it is a novelty that can be easily understood as claiming
that the Resurrection is part of the natural development of nature (thus giving
credence to some of the nouvelle theologie's pet doctrines, such as De
Lubac's heterodox notion of the supernatural and De Chardin's pantheistic
evolutionism). This happens almost on a daily basis in what comes out of
the Vatican, not to mention what comes from local bishops.
And
finally, neo-modernism tends to be present (3) mostly implicitly or
behind-the-scenes in the Council, the Catechism, etc., even though it
seldom comes out more explicitly. Things are done at this level under the
pretext of 'aggiornamento', a euphemism for neo-modernism.
That is usually all the justification provided since at this authoritative
level, there is no need to justify things theologically. Hence, Vatican
II and the Catechism are not outright neo-modernistic. Rather, they (like
most of post-conciliar doctrine) tend in that direction and/or are inspired
by that mentality. In other words, most of the time these documents do
not explicitly teach neo-modernist errors (the kind of errors you hear
explicitly from neo-modernist theologians and priests). Rather, they are full
of dangerous ambiguities: statements that in a technical sense could be
interpreted as being in harmony with the traditional faith, but that, in their
natural, non-forced, interpretation are heterodox. One clear example of
this is Dignitatis humanae, par. 2; entire monographs have been written
in order to prove that, despite appearances, this document does not contradict
previous teaching. Maybe in fact it ultimately does not, but it is
obvious that the prima facie meaning does; otherwise there would be no
need to write so many volumes to prove it.
It must be noted that these are
general tendencies, and that in some documents (cf. Gaudium et Spes) and
every now and then in papal and episcopal statements neo-modernist principles
come out more explicitly.
For
a more detailed philosophical and theological critique of neo-modernism, and
how it is nothing but a re-hashing of modernism, see Garrigou-Lagrange's Where
is the New Theology Leading Us? and his The Structure of the
Encyclical Humani Generis.
Francisco J. Romero Carrasquillo, Ph.D., Professor of Theology and
Philosophy
“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.
“The
pluralism and the diversity of religions, color, sex, race and language are willed by God in His wisdom,
through which He created human beings..... An
insincere stance of openness to the other, as well as a corporatist attitude,
which reserves salvation exclusively to one’s own creed, is destructive of the
same creed. In the parable of the Good Samaritan, Jesus explained this to the
inquiring lawyer. Love lived in any religion pleases God. ‘Through an exchange
of gifts, the Spirit can lead us ever more fully into truth and
goodness.’”
Pope Francis approved Abu Dhabi
document
COMMENT: “For
all the gods of the Gentiles are devils” (Ps. 96:5). Pope Francis is affirming that the worship of
idols is “willed
by God in His wisdom.” This is blasphemy but not a surprising
blasphemy from Francis the Blasphemer.
What Pope Francis calls a “corporatist
attitude, which reserves salvation exclusively to one's own creed” is the denial of a revealed truth of God
that has been dogmatically defined by the Catholic Church on three separate
occasions. It is a dogma that there is “no salvation outside the Catholic Church.”
The denial of this dogma is heresy by definition and anyone holding this
heresy cannot be saved. Furthermore,
membership in the Catholic Church also dogmatically requires profession of the
true faith and reception of the sacrament of Baptism.
In the parable of the Good
Samaritan, Jesus may very well have had in mind a specific Samaritan man who
received him as the Messiah through the calling by the Samaritan Woman at the
Well. Be that as it may, are good works
alone sufficient for salvation? Those
that affirm this are Pelagian heretics which is a favorite calumny that Francis
mindlessly smears Catholics faithful to tradition. But unlike Francis, who accuses traditional
Catholics of Pelagianism without a shred of evidence, our accusations are
supported with the bile that flows routinely from Francis' mouth. The recognition of Logos, “which enlighteneth every man that cometh
into this world” (John 1:9), leads to the regulation of
life according to the natural law and is an essential prerequisite to receiving
the truth of the Gospel and the sacrament of Baptism, but of itself, it with
all the good works in the world, insufficient for salvation. Jesus' conversation with the Samaritan Woman
itself destroys this heretical claim of Francis. According to Francis, the Samaritan Woman
could have been saved in her idolatrous and adulterous state.
What every faithful
Catholic must know is that the faith is the necessary and sufficient cause of
and the sign of unity in the Catholic Church.
The pope is only secondarily and accidentally the cause and sign of
unity in the Catholic Church. When the
pope falls from the faith he is to be opposed to his face as St. Paul did to
St. Peter (Galatians 2:11). Those who
make the pope their proximate rule of faith will follow Francis in his heresy
and eventual apostasy. Those who keep
dogma as their proximate rule of faith will save their souls.
“Certainly there is to be development and
on the largest scale. Who can be so grudging to men, so full of hate for God,
as to try to prevent it? But it must truly be development of the faith, not
alteration of the faith. Development means that each thing expands to be
itself, while alteration means that a thing is changed from one thing into
another. The understanding, knowledge and wisdom of one and all, of individuals
as well as of the whole Church, ought then to make great and vigorous progress
with the passing of the ages and the centuries, but only along its own line of development,
that is, with the same doctrine, the same meaning and the same import.” St.
Vincent of Lèrins
COMMENT: Change can be either accidental (a “development” according to St. Vincent) or substantial (an “alteration” according
to St. Vincent). A boy growing to manhood constitutes a series of accidental changes. A boy changing into
a dog constitutes a substantial change
and this only happens in Hollywood fantasy. A sinner becoming a saint is an accidental change and this is an accidental change that the Neo-modernist
heretics refuse to make. They instead want the Church to substantially change into an institution that will accommodate
their love and complacency in sin. Pope Francis, for example, says that the
morality of capital punishment has evolved to the point that it is now known to
be intrinsically evil in that it is ‘opposed to the dignity of man and contrary
to the spirit of the gospel.’ Capital punishment changing from a morally
permissible to intrinsically evil act constitutes a substantial change and therefore impossible as a legitimate
development. There are many reasons why Neo-modernists, like Pope Francis and
his conciliarists predecessors, deny the reality of substance but this is an important one. Trying to enroll St.
Vincent of Lèrins in their defense is not a misunderstanding but just another
lie.
My heart was
utterly filled with pain, all the more because it was of a most fine and
delicate nature; the pain went from my Heart into my nerves, from my nerves
back to my Heart: it kept on increasing so that my death-agony was prolonged
while I was thus immersed in suffering, I opened my eyes and saw my dearest
Mother overcome by a sea of anguish and tears, which pained me more than my own
sufferings; I also saw my friends overwhelmed with sorrow. With this torture my
Heart was actually rent by the force and fury of the pain; and then it was that
my soul went forth from my body…… There are few persons who can imagine with
what pain I remained fastened to the wood of the Cross, my Heart being broken
and shattered by its violence: quando Cor meum crepuit.
Jesus Christ
addressing St. Bridget of Sweden, quoted by St. John Eudes, The Sacred Heart of Jesus
Thy divine
Heart was rent and broken in Thy dying, by the excess of Thy love of me. This
made Thee suffer such violent tortures for love of me that Thy adorable Heart
was broken by the force of the pain; so that I may say that Thou didst die of
pain and love for me. This can be repeated by each one of us with equal truth.
St. Gertrude
the Great, her address to our Lord Jesus Christ, quoted by St. John Eudes, The Sacred Heart of Jesus
Hermeneutics
of Continuity/Discontinuity
For as Pope
Benedict taught us, “The Church does not engage in proselytism. Instead, she
grows by ‘attraction’” This attractive and joyful witness is the goal to which
Jesus leads us with His loving gaze and with the outgoing movement that His
Spirit raises up in our hearts.
Pope Francis,
weekly audience
Go ye into the
whole world, and preach the gospel to every creature. He that believeth and is
baptized (i.e.: becomes a proselyte), shall be saved: but he that believeth not
shall be condemned (Mark 16: 15-16).
Jesus Christ
It is not only he who teaches heretically
who is called a heretic, but also he who shows his support for heretics and
heresy. For he is rightly reputed to be of the same doctrine who manifestly
consents and cooperates with it through his support.
Fr. Alfonso Muzzarelli, S.J.
When Pope Francis teaches
that Catholics living in a state of adultery can under certain circumstances
receive Holy Communion without repenting of Sin, he overturns the First
Principle of Catholic Moral Theology and thus destroys all Morality permitting
any and every kind of sin.
St. Thomas
lists the following as principles or sources of morality: 1) the moral object,
that is, that to which the action tends of its very nature primarily and necessarily;
2) the circumstances of the act; 3) the purpose of the act.
FIRST PRINCIPLE: The primary and
essential morality of a human act is derived from the object considered in its
moral aspect.
The primary and
essential morality of a human act is that which acts as the invariable basis of
any additional morality. Now it is the moral object which provides such a
foundation. This will be clear from an example. The moral object of adultery is
the transgression of another’s marriage rights. This moral object remains the invariable basis of the
moral character of the act, no matter what further circumstances or motives
accompany the act. It cannot be objected that in human acts the first
consideration should be given to the motive rather than to the object of the
act. For this motive is either the objective purpose of the act itself which is
identical with the moral object, or the subjective purpose (the end of the
agent) which presupposes moral goodness or evil in the object.
Rev. Dominic
Prummer, O.P., Handbook of Moral Theology
How Far Modern Judaism is
identified with Freemasonry
Although the Jewish role in Freemasonry is
for many reasons difficult to deal with, some acquaintance with that aspect of
the subject is essential for an intelligent grasp of the whole. It is a common
belief among Catholics and others that Freemasonry is somehow or other closely
associated with modern Judaism. Our present purpose is to discuss how far such
a belief is well-founded, and what is the nature of the relations between the
two. We may say at once that the available evidence points at least to the
following general conclusions: 1) That much of the external trappings of
Freemasonry, such as its ritual, its terminology, its legends, etc., are of
Jewish origin; 2) that the philosophy or religion of esoteric Freemasonry (that
is of the inner circles and controlling power) is practically identical with
the doctrines of the Jewish Cabala, which is the religion of philosophy of a
certain section of the Jews; 3) that a certain group, probably very few in
number, but of immense influence and power, are leading Freemasons; and 4) that
a somewhat larger group of very influential Jews pursue the same ends as
Freemasons, and use similar means, and are at least in close alliance with
them.
Rev. E. Cahill, S.J., Freemasonry and the
anti-Christian Movement, 1930.
“Naturalism is
more than a heresy: it is pure undiluted anti-christianism. Heresy denies one
or more dogmas; Naturalism denies that there are any dogmas or that there can
be any. Heresy alters more or less what God has revealed; Naturalism denies the
very existence of revelation. It follows that the inevitable law and the
obstinate passion of Naturalism is to dethrone Our Lord Jesus Christ and to
drive Him from the world. This will be the task of Antichrist and it is Satan's
supreme ambition.... The great obstacle to the salvation of the men of our day,
as the Vatican I Council points out in the first Constitution of Doctrine, what
hurls more people into hell nowadays than at any other epoch, is Rationalism or
Naturalism... Naturalism strives with all its might to exclude Our Lord Jesus
Christ, Our One Master and Saviour, from the minds of men as well as from the
daily lives and habits of peoples, in order to set up the reign of reason or of
nature. Now, wherever the breath of Naturalism has passed, the very source of
Christian life is dried up. Naturalism means complete sterility in regard to
salvation and eternal life.”
Cardinal Pie of
Poitiers (1850-1880), considered as principle theologian of the social Kingship
of Jesus Christ, his writing were on the night stand of St. Pius X.
COMMENT: Politics is concerned with the
organization of life within a community. Liberalism is Naturalism in politics.
It begins by denying Original Sin and presupposes natural goodness. It is then
faced with the reality of fallen human nature and objective sin for which it is
at a loss to comprehend. It consequently is constantly theorizing alternative
causes for sin such as racism, sexism, feminism, etc. and proposing legal and
social solutions such as communism which necessarily lead to ruin. Yet never to
be dismayed, the Liberal always blames the failure of his programs on others
who did not follow their plan of action with enough purity, with enough rigor,
for sufficient time. Current articles from the Jesuit magazine, America, posted
on their web site include: The Devastating Effect of Conversion Therapy on LGBT
Catholics; Should Catholic Schools Teach Critical Race Theory?; Father James
Martin (homosexual advocate) reviews a new little show called 'Friends.'; What
Catholics can do to fight Islamophobia; Is it safe to bring my unvaccinated,
unmasked 10-month-old to Mass? The Jesuits, who are responsible for the
spiritual formation of Pope Francis, are Catholic apostates who have embraced Naturalism.
Baptism should be considered an absolute impediment to joining the Order.
The Love of Money: The Deep
State is directed by the Avaricious and supported by the Avaricious
The bourgeois
lives for money, not merely as the peasant or the soldier or even the artist
often does, but in a deeper sense, since money is to him what arms are to the
soldier and land is to the peasant, the tools of his trade and the medium
through which he expresses himself, so that he often takes an almost
disinterested pleasure in his wealth because of the virtuosity he has displayed
in his financial operations. In short the bourgeois is essentially a moneymaker, at once its servant and its master, and the
development of his social ascendancy shows the degree to which civilization,
and human life are dominated by the money power.
Christopher
Dawson, Catholic Historian
“Be bold and
break with half measures and compromises; with mixing and matching teachings
and compromising principles. If you continue to believe that you can ‘come to
an arrangement’ with Heaven, that the rights of God are not so pressing, that
some words of the Gospel and of the Church can be chosen and others not; if you
believe that the Faith is nothing but a cupboard in which certain ingredients
are stored and occasionally used to appease the conscience, and that it should
not enter into the particulars of everyday life; if you do not want to take the
Faith in its truth and the Gospel in its bareness, if you are not willing to be
a Christian in all places and situations, to be nothing other than a Christian,
integral and absolute, without calculated interests, you will, in fact, not
understand this book — put it down….. Be
one, walking on your only path toward your only destination, without wandering
either to the left or to the right. Are you resolved to be a Christian? To be
one completely? To be one exclusively? Come, I will tell you what it means to
be a Christian and how to become one.”
Dom François de
Sales Pollien, Carthusian prior and spiritual director, prologue to Lived
Christianity
For the Christian doctrine
of the Incarnation is not simply a theophany—a revelation of God to Man; it is
a new creation—the introduction of a new spiritual principle which gradually
leavens and transforms human nature into something new. The history of the
human race hinges on this unique divine event which gives meaning to the whole
historical process.
Christopher Dawson, The Christian View of History
“Why, I ask, O damnable
sodomites, do you seek after the height of ecclesiastical dignity with such
burning ambition?”
St. Peter Damian, Doctor of
the Church
“Restorationism
has come to gag the Council. The number of groups of ‘restorers’ – for example,
in the United States there are many – is significant. An Argentine bishop told
me that he had been asked to administer a diocese that had fallen into the
hands of these ‘restorers.” They has never accepted the Council. There are
ideas, behaviors that arise from a restorationism that basically did not accept
the Council. The problem is precisely this: in some contexts, the Council has
not yet been accepted. It is also true that it takes a century for a Council to
take root. We still have 40 years to make it take root, then! [To doubt the
Council is] in the final analysis, to doubt the Holy Spirit himself who guides
the Church.”
Pope Francis the Incredulous, interview
from May 19, 2022 published in La Civiltà Cattolica on June 14
COMMENT:
Gee, only 40 more years of mindless babble? That is hard to believe. Who would
have thought that mindless babble could be sustained for 60 years? Yet there is
no shortage of mindless clerical babblers. What is disturbing is this
persistent effort to blame God for the destruction of the Church since the end
of Vatican II. God, as every mindful person knows, was not invited to Vatican
II. It was from the beginning to the end a purely human endeavor, a work of the
personal non-infallible magisterium of clerics grounded upon their grace of
state. To attribute this sinful, heretical Council of the DoubleSpeak to God
may be one of those ‘sins that will not be forgiven in this world or the next.’
Making the accusation of “restorationism” is actually an open admission of
corruption. Restore is derived from the Latin restaurare meaning to renew, to rebuild. Once the punishment
promised at Fatima has cleared the traitors from Rome, the Restorationists will
have their work cut out for them to do what Restorationists do, that is, to
“renew, rebuild,” but fear not, ‘with God, all things are possible.’
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.
Modernists and Neo-Modernists are willfully blind to Essence, that is, they are in the end
the most heatless of all!
Here is my secret. It is very simple. It is only with the heart that
one can see rightly; What is essential is
invisible to the eye.
Antoine de Saint Exupéry, The Little Prince
Pope Francis/Bergoglio receives award from the B'nai B'rith
In the photo, we see the CEO of B'nai
B'rith International Daniel S. Mariaschin giving Pope Bergoglio a gold chalice
with Jewish inscriptions and symbols. This was a symbolic award to thank Francis for his
constant support for this Jewish Masonic organization.
This took place during a meeting in the Papal Library when Francis received a
delegation of 27 members of that organization on May 30, 2022.
Commenting on the encounter, Mariachin told the Jerusalem Post: “From his years
as Cardinal in Buenos Aires until today, Pope Francis has expressed a special
interest in furthering Jewish-Catholic relations.” He continued, “Our audience
with him gave us an opportunity to demonstrate our appreciation for this
support, to confirm our shared aspirations for peace and mutual respect.”
In a formal speech, the president of the Jewish organization Seth Riklin asked
for papal support for the Abraham Accords, which is a Jewish initiative to make
Arabs recognize the State of Israel. This was an implicit request for the Holy
See to exercise its influence over the Middle East Arab countries to accept
Israel. This is what B'nai B'rith calls its work for fraternity and peace.
In
his speech, Francis praised B'nai B'rith for its “tireless commitment to
humanitarian causes.” He added: “If the duty to care for others is incumbent
upon every member of our human family, it applies even more to those of us who
are Jews and Christians.”
We see that, after Vatican II and its Nostra aetate Declaration, the conciliar
Popes have set aside any doctrinal discussion with the Jews about the divinity
of Our Lord Jesus Christ and are conducting a policy based on a supposed love
and common collaboration to solve social problems. On the other hand, the Jews
did not change one comma of their false beliefs.
What could be the final end of this policy
except a Judaization of the entire Church?
Tradition In Action
Diocese of Harrisburg completed its plan for judicial
resolution of Chapter 11 bankruptcy. This publication regarding reorganization
of the Diocese of Harrisburg by Bishop Ronald Gainer says nothing about the
liquidation of Catholic assets to pay creditors! What is worse, this plan of
reorganization does NOT identify that the cause of more than 90% of all sexual abuse cases are committed
by homosexual clerics using the clerical collar as cover for predatory abuse of
adolescent boys (the crime of pederasty) or offer any plan to eliminate these
predators from the clergy and religious vocations!
HARRISBURG, Pa. – Today, the Roman
Catholic Diocese of Harrisburg (RCDH) announced that its Chapter 11 Plan of
Reorganization has been approved by the United States Bankruptcy Court for the
Middle District of Pennsylvania. With this approval, the RCDH has emerged from
bankruptcy, nearly three years from when this process started. The Most
Reverend Ronald W. Gainer, Bishop of Harrisburg, offered the following
statement on the completion of this process:
“Three years ago, I announced that the
Roman Catholic Diocese of Harrisburg was filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protections.
That difficult decision was made as a means of stabilizing the Diocese’s
financial situation, while at the same time allowing us to make restitution to
survivors of clergy sexual abuse and continue our ministries.[....]
With the plan approved, the RCDH and
related entities will establish a Survivor Compensation Trust and provide
funding to the Trust in an amount equal to $7.5 million. The settling
insurers will contribute an additional $10.75 million, bringing the total Trust
amount to $18.25 million. This Trust will provide financial restitution for
survivors of clergy sexual abuse. According to the plan, the Trust will be
established by early March. More details related to the Trust are included in
the Plan, which is on file with the Bankruptcy Court and on the Diocesan
website. Once established, a Trust administrator, and not the Diocese, will
determine compensation amounts and claim eligibility for abuse survivors.
The RCDH filed for reorganization under
Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code in February 2020. More than 60
timely filed proofs of claim from clergy abuse survivors were received during
the reorganization process. The move to declare bankruptcy came after years of
financial hardship, which was exacerbated by the Grand Jury investigation and
subsequent lawsuits, and after every attempt to scale back operations,
including reducing overhead, were unsuccessful.
The RCDH has a zero-tolerance policy
regarding child abuse and has passed every audit related to the United States
Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Charter for the Protection of Children and
Young People since 2002. In 2019, the Diocese’s independent Survivor
Compensation Program assisted 111 survivors, for a total financial commitment
of $12,784,450.
The Same
Standard applies to Conciliar Heretics!
Before
answering the accusation (that Popes Liberius and Honorius were heretics and
formally taught heresy), we must once more remind our opponents that, in order
to overturn our thesis (of papal infallibility), they must prove not merely
that Liberius or Honorius has spoken or written what is contrary to faith, or
denied it, but that he did so as Pope, teaching in matters of faith or morals,
and thereby binding the Universal Church.
If they cannot prove this, they prove nothing, for the fallibility would
then be only personal and private, and would no more affect the infallibility
of the Pope as Universal teacher, than the denial of Peter in the Court of the
High Priest injured his infallibility as Prince of the Apostles. They must, then, first produce good,
historical evidence of the fact; secondly, they must prove that it was a
definition or teaching contrary to truth in matters of faith; and, thirdly,
that the Pope intended, by his teaching, to bind the Universal Church to
believe it.
Rev. F. X.
Weninger, S.J., D.D., On the Apostolical
and Infallible Authority of the Pope, when teaching the faithful, and on his
relation to a General Council
The Authority of the Pope, as it is with every one of the
faithful, is subject to the Faith and not vice versa as the Neo-Modernists
would have it!
v “Peter
is called a rock, and the foundations of the Church are planted in his faith.”
St. Gregory of Nazianzen
v “Faith
is the groundwork of the Church, because of the faith, and not of the person of
Peter, it was said, that the gates of death should never prevail against it.”
St. Ambrose
v “He
(Christ) called him Peter, that is, the rock, and praised the foundations of the
Church which was built on the Apostle’s faith.
St. Augustine
v “Peter
was made for us a living rock, on which, as on a foundation, the faith of the
Lord rests, and on which the Church is erected.” St. Epiphanius
v “He
(Christ) did not say Petrus, but Petra, because He did not build His
Church upon the man, but upon the faith of Peter.” St. John Chrysostom
v “Peter
so pleased the Lord by the sublimity of his faith, that, after being admitted
to the fruition of bliss, he received the solidity of an immovable rock, on
which the Church was so firmly built, as to bid defiance to the gates of hell
and the laws of death. St. Leo the Great
v “On
this rock, namely, on the unshaken faith, to which thou owest thy name, I will
built my Church.” Caesarius the Cistercian
Quotations
taken from Fr. F. X. Weninger, D.D., On
the Apostolical and Infallible Authority of the Pope when teaching the faithful
and on his relation to a General Council
“Of all divine things, the most godlike is to co-operate with God in
the conversion of sinners.”
St. Denis the Areopagite
God cannot be
offered anything less than everything!
God is Sufficient to Himself and Does Not
Need Any Creature:
Let us consider that the first reason why we
are useless servants arises from the greatness, sufficiency and plenitude of
God, Who calls Himself Sadai, that
is, “sufficient to Himself,” because He is so sufficient to Himself and replete
with good, that He has no need of us nor of any creature of heaven or earth.
Even the God-Man, Jesus Christ our Lord, says: “I have said to the Lord: Thou
art my God, for thou hast no need of my goods” (Ps 15, 2).
The fact that God has no need of our goods is
an infallible mark of His divinity. That is why, when we offer or give
anything to God, we sacrifice it to Him, that is, annihilate it before Him, to
testify thereby that He has no need of anything. If anyone presented a valuable
horse to a governor and were to kill the animal when offering it, the governor
would not be pleased because the gift would be useless to him. But the greatest
service we can render to God is to sacrifice and annihilate our offerings, to
testify thereby that He has no need of them. This why Jesus Christ sacrificed
Himself on the Cross. Now, if Jesus Christ is not necessary to God, and if all
the angels and saints and the Blessed Virgin can say: “We are unprofitable
servants,” with how much greater truth can we say it?
Let us rejoice that God is so replete with
every conceivable good; let us be glad to be useless because He is quite
sufficient to Himself.
St. John Eudes, Meditations on Various
Subjects: 8th Meditation on Humility
External Profession of Faith
Both God and the Church
command the external profession of faith.
The DIVINE PRECEPT to profess one’s faith
externally is easily gathered from the words of St. Paul: “The heart has only
to believe, we are to be justified; the lips have only to make confession, if
we are to be saved” (Rom. x, 9-10), and it follows from the very nature man
himself who must worship God not only with his mind but also with his body.
This precept is both affirmative and negative in character. Its negative aspect
forbids man to deny his faith externally, which he may do either directly—by
formal infidelity—or indirectly, by some action which externally gives a clear
indication of denial of faith even though the agent himself has no intention of
denying his faith. Thus, for example, a person indirectly denies his faith by
partaking of the Protestant communion even though in his own mind he does not
believe that Christ is present in that communion. It is never permissible to
deny one’s faith either directly or indirectly, because every denial of faith
is a grave insult to God since it undermines the authority of God and the
reverence due to Him. Hence Christ’s threat: “Whoever disowns me before men,
before my Father in heaven I too will disown him” (Matt. X, 32). But although
it is never lawful to deny one’s faith, occasions do arise when it is permissible
to conceal or dissemble one’s faith, as will be explained later.
According to St. Thomas the divine precept
obliges man to make an external profession of his faith when failure to do so
would detract from the honour due to God or cause injury to the spiritual
welfare of one’s neighbour.
1. The
honour due to God demands an external profession of faith: a) when a man is
questioned by public authority (not by private persons) about his faith; b)
when a person is provoked even by private individuals through hatred of
religion to a denial of his faith in word or deed.
2. The
spiritual welfare of our neighbour requires an external profession of faith
when grave scandal would ensue from its omission (v.g., Libellatici amongst the early Christians).
Dominic Prummer, Handbook Moral Theology
NOTE: Our immemorial ecclesiastical
traditions are necessary attributes of the Faith because, without them, there
can be no “external profession of the faith.”
“If any one saith, that the received and approved rites of the Catholic
Church, wont to be used in the solemn administration of the sacraments, may be
contemned, or without sin be omitted at pleasure by the ministers, or be
changed, by every pastor of the churches, into other new ones; let him be
anathema.”
Council of Trent, Canon XIII, On the Sacraments
“The favorite comeback of
progressives is that ‘the liturgy kept developing over time, so you can’t say
that Catholics ‘always’ worshiped this or that way.’ But that is a superficial
response. The deeper truth is that Catholics have always worshiped according to
the liturgy they have received, and any development occurred within this
fundamental assumption of the continuity of the rituals, chants, and texts. The
work of the Consilium of the 1960s rejected (N.B. actually, rejected by Rev.
Annibale Bugnini in 1948) this assumption in altering almost every aspect of
the liturgy, adding and deleting material according to their own theories.
Therefore what they produced is not and can never be an expression of Catholic
tradition; it will always remain a foreign body.”
Peter Kwasniewski, Ph.D.
“With them that hated peace I was peaceable: when I spake
unto them, they fought against me without cause.” (Ps. cxix) “Forty years long
was I nigh unto that generation, and said: They do always err in their heart;
and they have not known My ways to whom I swore in My wrath that they should
not enter into My rest.” (Ps. xciv)
“In the later editions of the Talmud the
allusions to Christianity are few and cautious compared
with the earlier or unexpurgated copies. The last of these was published at
Amsterdam in 1645. In them our Lord and Saviour is ‘that One,’ ‘such a One,’ ‘a
fool,’ ‘the leper,’ ‘the deceiver or Israel,’ &c.; efforts are made to
prove that He is the son of Joseph Pandira before his marriage with Mary. His
miracles are attributed to sorcery, the secret of which He brought in a slit in
his flesh out of Egypt. His teacher is said to have been Joshua, the son of
Perachlah. This Joshua is said to have afterwards excommunicated Him to the
sound of 800 rams’ horns, although he must have lived seventy years before His
time. Forty days before the death of Jesus a witness was summoned by public
proclamation to attest his innocence, but none appeared. He is said to have been
first stoned and then hanged on the eve of the Passover. His disciples are
called heretics, and opprobrious names. They are accused of immoral practices;
and the New Testament is called a sinful book. The references to these subjects manifest the most bitter
aversion and hate.”
Dr. Joseph Barclay, LL.D, Rector of
Stapleford, Hertfordshire, London, The
Talmud, 1878, from Introduction, p. 30
“Neither Jewish ethics nor Jewish
tradition can disqualify terrorism as a means of combat. We are very far from
having any moral qualms as far as our national war goes. We have before us the
command of the Torah, whose morality surpasses that of any other body of laws
in the world: ‘Ye shall blot them out to the last man.’”
Yitzhak Shamir,
Israeli Prime Minister 1986-1992, 1943 Quote
taken from “Document: Shamir on Terrorism
(1943)” Middle East Report 152
You must
understand. The leading Bolsheviks who took over Russia were not Russians. They
hated Russians. They hated Christians. Driven by ethnic hatred they tortured
and slaughtered millions of Russians without a shred of human remorse. The
October Revolution was not what you call in America the “Russian
Revolution.” It was an invasion and
conquest over the Russian people. More of my countrymen suffered horrific
crimes at their bloodstained hands than any people or nation ever suffered in
the entirety of human history. It cannot be understated. Bolshevism was the greatest human slaughter
of all time. The fact that most of the world is ignorant of this reality is
proof that the global media itself is in the hands of the perpetrators. We cannot state that all Jews are
Bolsheviks. But: without Jews there
would have been no Bolshevism. For a Jew
nothing is more insulting than the truth. The blood maddened Jewish terrorists
murdered sixty-six million in Russia from 1918 to 1957.
Aleksandr
Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008), Nobel-Prize winning novelist, historian and victim of
Jewish Bolshevism
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. Catherine 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 an
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 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.
St. John Eudes: “That there is a special contract made between God and man in Baptism.”
THE name of contract is given to any agreement entered into by two or more persons, in which the parties contracting incur mutual obligations. This clearly shows that a contract. has been entered into by the most Blessed Trinity and you in Baptism; since you have incurred many obligations towards the Blessed Trinity, and the Blessed Trinity has also obliged itself in regard to you. What is the nature of this contract? It is a reciprocal contract of gifts, the highest and most entire that can “enter into the heart of man to conceive;” for in making it you are obliged to give yourself entirely and forever to God; you have renounced all things to be united to Him, and for Him, and God on his part has given Himself entirely to you. The Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, come to you and take up their abode in your soul, in order to confer honors and benefits on you. They enrich you ‘with spiritual treasures to render you worthy of their three divine Persons.
It is a contract of adoption, since God the Father has taken you for his child, and has conferred on you the right of his inheritance with his only Son, and you have taken God for your Father, and have promised to entertain for him all the love and respect which a child owes to a so good a parent. “Consider,” writes St. John the Evangelist, “what love the Father has testified to you in wishing that you should be called, and that you should, really, be his children.”
Behold the admirable effect of the contract which you have made with God in Baptism, from being the child of wrath and an heir of hell, you have become the child of God and an heir to heaven! What you should not do to acknowledge the infinite goodness of God in your regard?
It is a contract of alliance with the Son of God, since in receiving Baptism you have united yourself to him as to your head, your master, and your sovereign, and since the Son has taken you for His servant and one of the members of his body, which is his Church. How great is the goodness of God, says St. Paul to the newly converted Christians of Corinth; “By whom you arc called unto the fellowship of His Son Jesus Christ our Lord.”
What were you before Baptism but the unhappy slave of Satan, and subject like him to eternal punishment? But by Baptism you have been delivered from this unhappy subjection, through the divine alliance which you have contracted with Jesus Christ, which procures you the enjoyment of eternal happiness, if you observe all its conditions.
Finally, it is a contract of alliance with the Person of the Holy Ghost; for faith teaches us, that the Holy Ghost takes the Christian soul as his spouse, and that the Christian reciprocally takes the Holy Ghost for his spouse. In consequence of this sacred alliance, the Holy Ghost calls you “his sister and his spouse,” and as, of yourself, you are poor indeed, he adorns your soul with all the gifts necessary to render it worthy of him, and he comes to take up his abode in it, and to consecrate it as his temple and his sanctuary. […..]
When you had been presented to the church to receive Baptism, you were treated as a person in the possession of the devil, for the priest pronounced over you the exorcism of the church, commanding the wicked spirit to depart from you, and to give place to the Holy Ghost.
This ceremony teaches you that by original sin you were really in possession of the devil, and that he abided in you, but that, through Baptism, he has been cast out of you; that your soul has been purified from the horrible stain which disfigured it, and that the Holy Ghost, having sanctified and ornamented it with his grace, comes to take up his abode in it. […..]
That Baptism imprints in your soul a spiritual character, which no sin can efface. This character is a proof that from this time you do not belong to yourself, but that you are the property of Jesus Christ, who has purchased you by the infinite price of his blood and of his death. You are not of yourself, but you are of Christ’s therefore, St. Paul concludes, “that the Christian should no longer live for himself, but for Him who died and rose again for him;” that is to say, that the Christian should live a life of grace, and that he should consecrate to his Redeemer his spirit, his heart, and all his actions. […..]
The Priest introduced you into the Church, by saying, “Enter into the house of God, that you may have eternal life.” This ceremony teaches you that Baptism enables you to enter into the Society of Jesus Christ, and of all the faithful who compose the house or family of God. By this entry, you begin to partake of all the good works of the faithful and you acquire a right to the sacraments, to the prayers, and to all the other good works which are done in the Church. Moreover, in entering into the Church, you have become her child, and have been made a child of God, the heir of God, and co-heir of Jesus Christ; you entered into society and communion with the angels and all the blessed who are in Heaven. By this ceremony you are likewise taught that, in order to be united to Jesus Christ, and to have eternal life, it is necessary to be a member of the Church, and to persevere therein to the end, believing all she teaches, obeying all she commands.
St. John Eudes, excerpt from Man’s Contract with God in Baptism
COMMENT: St. John Eudes makes
clear what every faithful Catholic should already know, that is, it is by
virtue of the sacrament of Baptism received with Faith that makes a person a
Child of God. The Neo-modernist popes since Vatican II heretically teach that
everyone is a child of God by virtue of the Incarnation of the Logos, the Word
becoming flesh, where the second Person of the Trinity, by personally uniting
Himself with our human nature, thereby elevated all humanity to being children
of God by virtue of this shared humanity. For them, Baptism is only an outward sign signifying what has already taken
place. It reduces Baptism from a performative
sign that is necessity of means
for salvation to a simple necessity of
precept which obligates only those who feel some inner compulsion to obey.
It is this fundamental corruption of revealed truth that makes modern ecumenism
with such events as the blasphemous “Prayer Meeting at Assisi” possible. For
them the “spiritual character” imprinted on the soul at Baptism is meaningless.
The “spiritual character” is both the sign of and cause of the adoption as Sons
of God. The character is like a receptacle that makes the reception of the
sacramental grace of adoption possible. Those who have the character of the sacrament
without the sanctifying grace of adoption will suffer the greatest torments of
all in hell.
It is an unfortunate fact that the many
traditional Catholics and conservative Catholics believe this tripe and profess
that any “good-willed” Protestant, Jew, Moslem, Hindu, Buddhist, etc., etc. can
be a child of God, a member of the Church, a temple of the Holy Ghost and an
heir to heaven by virtue of being a “good” Protestant, Jew, Moslem, Hindu,
Buddhist, etc., etc. This error is
derived essentially from the more fundamental error of denying Dogma as Dogma, by overturning Dogma in its very nature. For these
Neo-modernists, Dogma is not the revealed truth of God but only a human axiom
open to unending refinement and new interpretations.
But the truth is that Dogma is divine
revelation formally and infallibly defined by the Magisterium of the
Church. It is irreformable in both the
truth it declares and the words that it uses to define. It constitutes the formal object of divine and Catholic faith
and is the proximate rule of faith for
every faithful child of God. Not until every traditional Catholic
recognizes and defends this truth will any effective resistance to
Neo-modernist error be effectively mounted.
Pope to Italian Bishops: A synodal Church is open to everyone
As the Italian Bishops conclude their 77th General Assembly, Pope
Francis urges the Italian Church to continue journeying together on the synodal
path to promote the "co-responsibility" of laypeople and clergy and
build a less clerical Church.
Vatican News | Lisa Zengarini | May 23,
2023
Pope Francis on Thursday encouraged the
Italian Church to continue its synodal process “with courage and
determination”, above all by “valuing the potential” present in its parishes
and Christian communities.
The Pope was addressing the bishops and
diocesan representatives of the synodal path in Italy in the Paul VI Audience
Hall, as the Italian Bishops’ Conference (CEI) concluded its 77th General
Assembly focused on the synodal process in the lead up to the 2021-2024 Synod
on Synodality.
A unique spiritual experience of conversion and renewal
The Holy Father introduced his speech by
noting that the process is a “unique spiritual experience of conversion and
renewal” which can make ecclesial communities “more missionary and more
prepared to evangelize today's world”.
As the Italian Church concludes the
two-year listening phase and enters the discerning phase, he therefore offered
four recommendations responding to some questions submitted by the CEI
Permanent Committee regarding the pastoral priorities for the Italian Church,
how to overcome objections and concerns, and the participation of clergy and
lay people.
Keep walking guided by the Holy Spirit
The first indication he gave was to “keep
walking guided by the Holy Spirit”, always serving the Gospel and cultivating
“the freedom and creativity” of those who bear witness to the good news of
God's love by “staying grounded in what is essential”.
“A Church weighed down by structures,
bureaucracy, formalism – said the Pope - will struggle to walk through history,
in step with the Spirit, meeting the men and women of our time”.
Ecclesial co-responsibility
The second instruction the Pope gave was to
make Church together, that is enhancing “ecclesial co-responsibility” by
involving all the baptized in the life and mission of the Church as
called for by the Second Vatican Council.
“We need Christian communities in which
space expands, where everyone can feel at home, where the structures and
pastoral means favor not the creation of small groups, but the joy of being and
feeling co-responsible.”
Church ministry – the Pope stressed – can
never be exercised without others. This applies to bishops, whose ministry
cannot do without that of priests and deacons and to priests and deacons
themselves, but also to the entire community of the baptized, “in which each
one walks with other brothers and sisters at the school of the one Gospel and
in the light of the Spirit”.
“We must ask the Holy Spirit to make us
understand and experience how to be ordained ministers and how to exercise the
ministry in this time and in this Church: never without the Other with a
capital "O”.”
An open Church
The third point highlighted by Pope Francis
was to be a Church open to everyone, able to listen to the voices of young
people, women, the poor, those who are disillusioned, those who have been hurt
in their lives, as opposed to what is still perceived as “self-referential” and
clerical Church.
Clericalism is a perversion and a clerical
bishop or priest is perverse, but a clericalist layman or laywoman are even
worse.
“The Synod”, the Pope insisted “calls us to
become a Church that walks joyfully, humbly and creatively in our time, aware
that we are all vulnerable and need one another”.
A "restless" Church
Finally, the last instruction Pope Francis
gave to be a "restless" Church “that welcomes the challenges of our
time, that knows how to go out to everyone to proclaim the joy of the Gospel”,
without prejudices.
“We are called to collect the anxieties of
history and to allow ourselves to be questioned, to bring them before God, to
immerse them in Christ's Passover.”
The Holy Spirit is the protagonist of the synodal process
Bringing his address to a close, Pope
Francis again encouraged the Italian Church to continue this journey together,
trusting in the Holy Spirit, “the protagonist of the synodal process”. “It
is He who opens individuals and communities to listening; it is he who
makes dialogue authentic and fruitful; it is he who enlightens discernment; it is
he who directs choices and decisions. It is he above all the One who creates
harmony and communion in the Church”, Pope Francis concluded.
“Let's entrust ourselves the Holy Spirit.
He is harmony. He causes all this disorder, but He is capable of creating
harmony which is something totally different from the order that we could
create by ourselves.”
COMMENT: Proselytism is considered "solemn
nonsense" and clearly antagonistic to the "Synodal Way" because
it is "self-referential". The Catholic Church is "self-referential"
in the sense that the Church is the Mystical Body of Jesus Christ and the
essence of salvation is conformity to Jesus Christ. Therefore those who want to
find salvation can only do so by conformity of Jesus Christ and His Church and
that is why the Catholic Church's Mission must necessarily be to proselytize
and has been so from the first Pentecost. On the first Pentecost, "They
therefore that received (St. Peter's) word, were baptized; and there were added
in that day about three thousand souls (Acts 2:41) i.e.: three thousands souls
were proselytized to the Catholic Church. This was done in direct obedience to
the Mission of the Church given by Jesus Christ who said, "All
power is given to me in heaven and in earth. Going therefore, teach ye all
nations; baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the
Holy Ghost. Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded
you: and behold I am with you all days, even to the consummation of the
world" (Matt. 28:18-20).
So just what is the Mission of this
"restless" Church of the New Advent, this "open Church" of
the New Evangelization, this Church of the Synodal Way that through
"dialogue" is "collecting the anxieties of history"? It
claims its Mission is to bring about a "unique spiritual experience of
conversion and renewal" that denies, or rather more to the point, is in
direct opposition to the necessity for salvation to conform to the Truth
revealed by God or to keep His commandments. This cannot be a "unique spiritual
experience" because it is the path followed by every damned soul that has
ever lived because, as St. Augustine said, it 'seeks the love of self to the
contempt of God'. The sin against the Holy Spirit that cannot be forgiven in
this world or the next was spoken of by Jesus Christ in the context of the
Pharisees attributing the miracles done by the power of God to the work of the
devil. It is just as blasphemous to attribute the work of the devil to the Holy
Ghost. What is certain is that the Holy Ghost is NOT the "protagonist of
the synodal process". It is manifestly the work of the devil because only
the devil can "cause all this disorder". We have seen and know their
fruit.
When arguing with a
Neo-Modernist Novus Ordite Remember -
Modern Mind, Modern Thought:
Don't be surprised when you at last discover that the Modern Mind is Mindless
and Modern Thought is Thoughtless!
Modem Thought
shirks definition. In all truth it is a giant’s task to extract a clear-cut and
intelligible statement of what it exactly means by the terms it uses. For a
definition requires thought; it requires a close examination and analysis of
the nature of the thing to be defined, an accurate discrimination between its
essentials and accidentals, and a painstaking comparison of that thing with
similar things in order to discern what it has in common with them, and then to
pick out just that specific note which makes it the thing that it is and
different from everything else. All that, I say, calls for accurate and
connected reasoning, and Modern Thought is quite unequal to the task. For it
moves in a twilight of half-intelligence where it sees vague shapes and
transforms them into monsters. Make the experiment of this for yourselves; if
you will, take up the print of Modern Thought, some of which I shall presently
indicate, and see what travesties it can make of the ideas of
“dogma,”“faith,”“theology,”“metaphysics,”“God,”“morality,” etc., as well as of
“civilization,”“culture,”“science” and “progress.” To whatever other tortures
it may subject these words, or with whatever welter of brilliant sentences it
may mix them—define them it does not.
All this is the
same as saying that Modern Thought is flippant, cynical, skeptical, irrational
and thoughtless—no one of which is the mark of thought truly so-called. In the
face of searching questions, Modern Thought is as irresponsible as Boccacio’s
“Cymon,” who:
shunned the Church and used not
much to pray,
He trudged along, unknowing what he
sought,
And whistled as he went for want of
thought.
It is difficult
to speak of a flippant thing without oneself seeming to indulge in flippancy.
Yet, were I to take Modern Thought very seriously and to define its most
serious aspect, I could do no more than say that it is an attitude of mind
which prefers to interpret life and judge the world not in the light of principles,
tradition and authority, but according to a mood prompted by the moment and by
the expediency of immediate environment—or the gravitation of man’s lower
nature.
In justice to
Modern Thought let it be said that at is not consistent with itself, for, while
it spurns authority, it will nevertheless place the blindest reliance on any
“authority” that serves its mood and temper, and this mood can, with the
greatest ease, swing from the namby-pambiest optimism to the murkiest
pessimism. And, if besides being observant persons you are moderately well read
in history, it will soon break upon your realization that, after all, there is
nothing modern about this mental affliction. It is as ancient as the day when
Adam and Eve maimed their souls and bodies in Paradise in a fit of
independence; it is as ancient as Heracitus, Epicurus, and the classic pagans.
Its mood and their mood are essentially the same, the setting alone is
different, the chief difference being that to-day the printing-press, the
cinema and the radio (the T.V. and the
Internet) offer the neo-paganism so many more facilities to waft itself
abroad and spread the contagion of its mood.
Rev. Demetrius
Zema, S.J., The Thoughtlessness of Modern Thought, Conference at Fordham
University, 1933
Vatican recognizes Copts beheaded by Islamic State as martyrs
Adding members of the Orthodox religion to the list of those who have
died for their faith is a sign of communion between the two churches, the
Pontiff said
HomeWorldNews | 12 May, 2023
Pope
Francis flanked by Leader of the Coptic Orthodox Church Pope Tawadros II
blesses attendees during a general audience in the
Pope Francis has said that 21 Coptic
Orthodox Christians beheaded by Islamic State in Libya in 2015 will be
considered martyrs by the Catholic Church.
The Pontiff made the announcement on
Thursday during a meeting at the Vatican with Pope Tawadros II, head of the
Egypt-based Coptic Orthodox Church, which has an estimated 10 million followers
in North Africa and the Middle East.
Pope Francis said the inclusion of the
slain Copts in the Roman Martyrology had been decided with the consent of Pope
Tawadros, and that it was a “sign
of the spiritual communion that unites our two Churches.”
“These
martyrs were baptized not only with water and the Spirit, but also in blood, in
a blood that is the seed of unity for all followers of Christ,” the Pontiff said.
The execution of the group of Copts, 20 of
whom were from Egypt and one from Ghana, took place on February 15, 2015 at a
beach in the Libyan city of Sirte. Footage of the beheadings shared by the
extremists online showed the men dressed in orange jumpsuits and praying as
they were killed.
Their bodies were exhumed in 2018 and
brought to a shrine in the Egyptian settlement of El-Aour, from where most of
them hailed.
It is not the first time non-Catholic
Christians have been added to the Roman Martyrology (the list of saints
celebrated liturgically in the Catholic Church).
In 2001, several Orthodox saints were
added, including Sergius of Radonezh and Stephen of Perm, who are revered by
the Russian Orthodox Church.
COMMENT: The
Coptic Orthodox Church became schismatic and heretical after 451 when they
refused to accept the Council of Chalcedon under the direction of Pope St. Leo
the Great and its dogmatic judgment that Jesus Christ has two natures being
fully God and fully man in one person. In rejecting this Council and Pope St.
Leo they also reject the universal jurisdiction of the Pope of Rome, the See of
St. Peter.
The Coptic representatives at the Council
of Florence in 1442 established union with the Catholic Church but this was
rejected by the populace and clergy at home. There were many efforts to convert
the Coptic Orthodox Church. For example, a Franciscian Mission was established
in the early 17th century. A Capuchin priest from that Mission, St. Agathangelo
of Vendome was martyred in Ethiopia in 1638. The Jesuits came in 1675. In 1713,
the Coptic Patriarch of Alexandria again submitted to Rome but, as after the
Council of Florence in 1442, the union did not last long. In 1741, Coptic bishop Anba Athanasius of
Jerusalem became a Catholic. In 1781, he was appointed by Pope Benedict XIV as
vicar apostolic of the less than 2,000 Egyptian Coptic Catholics. There are to
this day Coptic Catholics.
The Catholic Church has dogmatically defined:
“There is but one universal Church of the
faithful, outside which no one at all is saved.”
Pope Innocent III, Fourth Lateran Council,
1215
“We declare, say, define, and pronounce that it is absolutely necessary for the
salvation of every human creature to be subject to the Roman Pontiff.”
Pope Boniface VIII, Bull Unam Sanctam, 1302
“The most Holy Roman Church firmly believes, professes and preaches that none
of those existing outside the Catholic Church, not only pagans, but also Jews
and heretics and schismatics, can have a share in life eternal; but that they
will go into the eternal fire which was prepared for the devil and his angels,
unless before death they are joined with Her; and that so important is the
unity of this ecclesiastical body that only those remaining within this unity
can profit by the sacraments of the Church unto salvation, and they alone can
receive an eternal recompense for their fasts, their almsgivings, their other
works of Christian piety and the duties of a Christian soldier. No one, let his
almsgiving be as great as it may, no one, even if he pour out his blood for the Name of Christ, can be
saved, unless he remain within the bosom and the unity of the Catholic Church.”
Pope Eugene IV, Bull Cantate Domino, 1441
Pope Francis is a heretic. The definition
of heresy is the denial of an article of "divine and Catholic faith",
that is, the denial of DOGMA. These unfortunate men who were killed by Islamic
terrorists were apparently NOT Catholic and the "canonizations" of
Pope Francis cannot change this fact. The "canonization" is
apparently of a similar order as the canonizations of the Vatican II conciliarist
popes.
The Heart of Francis is Rotten
Pope Francis talks with Hungarian Jesuits, as reported by Jesuit
periodical La Civiltà Cattolica:
Question: The Second Vatican Council talks about the
relationship between the Church and the modern world. How can we reconcile the
Church and the reality that is already beyond the modern? How do we find God’s
voice while loving our time?
[This question may have been better phrased: Vatican II was about getting
the Church united with the Modern world while the Modern world had already
turned to Post-Modernism. We started out so far behind the curve how is it
possible for us to catch up? And now "our time" is so clearly vulgar
and corrupt, if we "love are time", how can we ever find God?]
Francis: I wouldn’t know how to answer that theoretically, but I
certainly know that the Council is still being applied. It takes a century for a Council to be
assimilated, they say. And I know the resistance to its decrees is terrible.
There is incredible support for restorationism, what I call “indietrismo”
(backwardness), as the Letter to the Hebrews (10:39) says: “But we do
not belong to those who shrink back.” The flow of history and grace goes from the roots upward
like the sap of a tree that bears fruit. But without this flow you
remain a mummy. Going backwards does not preserve life, ever. You must change,
as St. Vincent of Lérins wrote in his Commonitory when he remarked that even the dogma of the Christian
religion progresses, consolidating over the years, developing with time,
deepening with age. But this is a change from the bottom up. The danger
today is indietrismo, the reaction against the modern. It is a nostalgic
disease. This is why I decided that now the permission to celebrate according
to the Roman Missal of 1962 is mandatory for all newly consecrated priests.
After all the necessary consultations, I decided this because I saw that the
good pastoral measures put in place by John Paul II and Benedict XVI were being
used in an ideological way, to go backward. It was necessary to stop this
indietrismo, which was not in the pastoral vision of my predecessors.
COMMENT: I think Pope Francis
understood the question and is dodging it because he and the contemporary world
are of one mind and one love. He takes the opportunity to provide an answer to
his own question that is troubling him, that is: What are we to do about those
nasty Catholic faithful who are opposing my work to destroy the Catholic
Church? We might ask: Who says that "it takes a century for a Council to
be assimilated"? Take for example the Council of Chalcedon. It was
immediately accepted by the Catholic world and immediately rejected by the
schismatic Oriental Orthodox that Pope Francis now accepts without reservation
while turning his back on the faithful Coptic Catholic Church. Who does he have
real communion with? Is the "resistance to its (Vatican II) decrees"
terrible? Or is the resistance Catholic against a cancer that has invaded the
Mystical Body of Christ? Francis corrupts the words of St. Paul and St. Vincent
Lerins making them look like liars to enroll them in his anti-Catholic tirade.
For the record, dogma does NOT progress. In fact dogma by definition is divine
revelation formally and infallibly defined for all times and for all peoples so
that the denial of dogma is the definition of heresy. Dogma is fixed. The
implications that can be drawn from dogma progress in response to the changing
errors of different ages but dogma itself is fixed. Francis wants faithful
Catholics to believe that the dogma has changed and now Catholics should stop
believing what was always held and start believing the new "dogma" of
Vatican II and the Neo-modernist Church of the New Advent. If Pope Francis was
himself a faithful Catholic, he would not oppose any traditional Catholic
expression, he would take no offense in it. He is content that the Coptic
Orthodox keep their traditions because those traditions have not prevented them
from converting from schismatic heretics. He opposes traditional Catholicism
because it is a bulwark against heresy. The fruit of Vatican II is toxic and
trying to hide this fact by claiming it takes a century to be assimilated and
"time is greater than space" is a lot of tripe! Pope Francis is a
boring, ignorant, crude, tyrannical, cynical and heretical manipulator. Pray
God that he either convert him or send him to his eternal reward.
Last
Words of Catholic Martyrs
Whosoever
dieth out of the Catholic Church he dieth in the state of damnation.
St. John Shert, English Catholic priest and martyr, executed during the
reign of Elizabeth I on May 28, 1582
Benedicat
nos omnipotens Deus, Pater et Filius et Spiritus Sanctus, Father
Roberts has told you the reason why we are to suffer death, and so it is not
necessary that I should repeat more than one thing. I did not refuse to take
the oath because I refused any sort of allegiance that her Majesty the Queen
could justly demand of me. I refused on account of the matters of Faith
included in that oath, and that is why it has been forbidden by His Holiness
the Pope, whom all of us who are sheep of Christ are bound to obey in matters
of Faith. I pray you all therefore and exhort you to be obedient to the chief
Shepherd of the Church of God. Out of the Church there is no salvation.
St. Thomas Somers, English Catholic priest and martyr, executed on the
same day as St. John Roberts
Memorare
novissima tua — Let man remember his end. Quia nos omnes
manifestari oportet ante tribunal Christi — We must all appear before the
judgment-seat of Christ there to render an account of our Faith and of our
deeds. Those who have done well will have eternal life, and those who have done
evil will suffer eternal torments. Extra ecclesiam nulla est salus —
Outside the true Church of Christ there is no salvation.
St. John Roberts, English Catholic priest and martyr, executed on December 10, 1610
Admission of Heretical Ambiguity introduced into Vatican
II Documents
In many places, [the Council Fathers] had to find
compromise formulae, in which, often, the positions of the [conservative]
majority are located immediately next to those of the [modernist] minority,
designed to delimit them. Thus, the conciliar texts themselves have a huge potential
for conflict, open the door to a selective reception in either direction.
Walter Cardinal Kasper, former assistant to Vatican
II peritus Hans Kung. Kasper at one time had his theological teaching faculties
suspended by the Vatican because he rejected Catholic teaching on contraception
and papal infallibility, April 12, 2013, L'Osservatore Romano
Worth Reading Again from Previous Year:
Open Letter by “Papal
favorite” calling for End of Summorum
Pontificum
OPEN LETTER on the “State of Liturgical Exception” |
Andrea Grillo, April 29, 2020
To all theologians, scholars, and students of theology:
The great liturgical tradition, which has always accompanied and
supported the Church in her history of grace and sin, hears the groaning of
individuals and nations in this pandemic crisis, which brings suffering and
affliction to those who are sick, and fear, isolation and loneliness to
everyone else. The ordinary rhythm of the Lenten and Paschal journey is
altered and subverted, in solidarity with our common suffering. We would never
have thought, however, that a small but not marginal suffering would also come
at the same time through the exercise of ecclesial authority and through the
decrees Quo magis e Cum sanctissima, which the
Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith published on 25 March 2020.
It is no surprise that This Congregation should devote its
attention to the liturgy. But special and singular is the fact that it modifies
the ordines, introduces prefaces and formularies for
feasts, and modifies calendars and criteria of precedence. And it does this on
a 1962 missal. How is this possible? The Congregation, as is known, in this case moves in the space
of an exceptional authority, which dates back 13 years, in accordance with motu
proprio Summorum pontificum. But since time is greater than space, what is possible on
the regulatory level is not always appropriate. Therefore, it is crucial
to engage in critical reflection on the logic of this development.
Time, in fact, has unveiled to us the paradox of a competence on
the liturgy being taken away from the Bishops and the Congregation of Worship:
this was arranged, in Summorum pontificum, with an
intention of solemn pacification and generous reconciliation, but soon it
changed into a serious division, a widespread conflict, and became the symbol
of a “liturgical rejection” of the Second Vatican Council. The greatest
distortion of the initial intentions of the motu proprio can be seen today in
those diocesan seminaries where it is expected that the future ministers will
be trained at the same time in two different rites: the conciliar rite and the
one that denies it. All this reached its most surreal point the day before
yesterday, when the two Decrees were released. They mark the culmination of a
distortion which is no longer tolerable, and which can be summed up as follows:
· the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith acts as a
substitute in exercising competences conferred by the Second Vatican
Council on Bishops and the Congregation for Divine Worship;
· it undertakes to elaborate ”liturgical variants” of
the ordines without having the historical, textual,
philological and pastoral competences;
·
it seems to ignore, precisely on the dogmatic level, a
grave conflict between the lex orandi and the lex credendi,
since it is inevitable that a dual, conflictual ritual form will lead to a
significant division in the faith;
· it seems to underestimate the disruptive effect this
“exception” will have on the ecclesial level, by immunizing a part of the
community from the “school of prayer” that the Second Vatican Council and the
liturgical reform have providentially given to the common ecclesial journey.
A “state of exception” is also happening today on the civil
level, in its harsh necessity, and this fact allows us greater ecclesial
foresight. To return to an ecclesial normality, we must overcome the state of
liturgical exception established 13 years ago in another world, with other
conditions and with other hopes, by Summorum pontificum. It
no longer makes sense to deprive diocesan bishops of their liturgical powers;
neither does it make sense to have an Ecclesia Dei Commission (which has in fact already been
suppressed), or a Section of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith
which take away authority from diocesan Bishops and the Congregation of Divine
Worship; it no longer makes sense to enact decrees to “reform” a rite that is
closed in the historical past, inert and crystallized, lifeless and without vigor.
There can be no resuscitation for it. The double regime is over; the noble
intention of SP has waned; the Lefebvrians have raised the barhigher and higher
and then run away, insulting the Second Vatican Council and the present pope
along with all three of his predecessors. Continuing to nourish a “state
of liturgical exception” – one that was born to unite, but does nothing but
divide – only leads to the shattering, privatization, and distortion of the
worship of the Church. On the basis of these considerations, we
resolve together to request that the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith
immediately withdraw the two decrees of 25/03/2020 and restore all powers
concerning the liturgy to the diocesan Bishops and the Congregation for Divine
Worship.
Obviously, we ask this without prejudice to the powers that this Congregation
retains in doctrinal matters.
So let us leave the “state of liturgical exception”. If not
now, when?
With best wishes to all colleagues and students, besieged but
not conquered in life, during these bitter yet still generous times.
“Time is greater than space” – The ideological lynchpin of Pope Francis
the Great Equivocator
This
liturgical OPEN LETTER structures its argument around the phrase: Time is
Greater Than Space.” This slogan of Pope Francis, “Time is greater than space”
(TGTS), appeared in his first two encyclicals, Lumen Fidei and Laudato
Si’. It surfaced again in the apostolic exhortations, Evangelii Gaudium
and Amoris Laetitia.
From
Lumen Fidei:
“Let us refuse to be robbed of hope, or
to allow our hope to be dimmed by facile answers and solutions which block
our progress, ‘fragmenting’ time and changing it into space. Time is always
much greater than space. Space hardens processes, whereas time propels towards
the future and encourages us to go forward in hope.”
Evangelii
Gaudium is more revealing
as to the cryptic meaning of this phrase:
222. A constant tension exists between
fullness and limitation. Fullness evokes the desire for complete possession,
while limitation is a wall set before us. Broadly speaking, “time” has to do
with fullness as an expression of the horizon which constantly opens before us,
while each individual moment has to do with limitation as an expression of
enclosure. People live poised between each individual moment and the greater,
brighter horizon of the utopian future as the final cause which draws us to
itself. Here we see a first principle for progress in building a people: time
is greater than space.
223. This principle enables us to work
slowly but surely, without being obsessed with immediate results. It helps us
patiently to endure difficult and adverse situations, or inevitable changes in
our plans. It invites us to accept the tension between fullness and limitation,
and to give a priority to time. One of the faults which we occasionally observe
in sociopolitical activity is that spaces and power are preferred to time and
processes. Giving priority to space means madly attempting to keep everything
together in the present, trying to possess all the spaces of power and of
self-assertion; it is to crystallize processes and presume to hold them back.
Giving priority to time means being concerned about initiating processes rather
than possessing spaces. Time governs spaces, illumines them and makes them
links in a constantly expanding chain, with no possibility of return. What we
need, then, is to give priority to actions which generate new processes in
society and engage other persons and groups who can develop them to the point
where they bear fruit in significant historical events. Without anxiety, but
with clear convictions and tenacity.
St.
Pius X said in Pascendi that Evolution is the fundamental principle
of the heresy of Modernism. This error is practically applied when Modernists
embrace Becoming and reject Being. This neologism of Francis, TGTS,
is just a repacking of this old philosophical error of Modernism. Francis is
trying to sound clever by putting a little make-up and bow-tie on the pig. But
the pig remains a pig because that is his Being.
Fr. Réginald Marie
Garrigou-Lagrange, O.P. explained this error in his great essay, Where is the New Theology Leading Us?, that
was published in the Angelicum in
1946.
It should be remembered that on December 1, 1924, the Holy Office
condemned 12 propositions taken from the philosophy of action, among which was
number 5, or the new definition of truth: “Truth is not found in any particular
act of the intellect wherein conformity with the object would be had, as the
Scholastics say, but rather truth is always in a state of becoming, and
consists in a progressive alignment of the understanding with life, indeed a
certain perpetual process, by which the intellect strives to develop and
explain that which experience presents or action requires: by which principle,
moreover, as in all progression, nothing is ever determined or fixed.” The last
of these condemned propositions is: “Even after Faith has been received, man
ought not to rest in the dogmas of religion, and hold fast to them fixedly and
immovably, but always solicitous to remain moving ahead toward a deeper truth
and even evolving into new notions, and even correcting that which he
believes.”
Many, who did not heed these warnings, have now reverted to these errors.
……
It revisits modernism. Because it accepted the proposition which was
intrinsic to modernism: that of substituting, as if it were illusory, the
traditional definition of truth: aequatio rei et intellectus (the adequation of
intellect and reality), for the subjective definition: adequatio realis mentis
et vitae (the adequation of intellect and life). That was more explicitly
stated in the already cited proposition, which emerged from the philosophy of
action, and was condemned by the Holy Office, December 1, 1924: “Truth is not
found in any particular act of the intellect wherein conformity with the object
would be had, as the Scholastics say, but rather truth is always in a state of
becoming, and consists in a progressive alignment of the understanding with
life, indeed a certain perpetual process, by which the intellect strives to
develop and explain that which experience presents or action requires: by which
principle, moreover, as in all progression, nothing is ever determined or
fixed” (v. Monitore ecclesiastico, 1925. t. I; p. 194.)
The truth is no longer the conformity (of judgment) to the intuitive
reality and its immutable laws but the conformity of judgment to the exigencies
of action, and of human life which continues to evolve. The philosophy of being
or ontology is substituted by the philosophy of action which defines truth as
no longer a function of being but of action.
Thus is modernism reprised: “Truth is no more immutable than man himself,
inasmuch as it is evolved with him, in him and through him. As well, Pius X
said of the modernists, “they pervert the eternal concept of truth.”
……
The traditional definition truth is no longer for them the conformity of
judgment to intuitive being and the immutable laws of non-contradiction, of
causality, etc. For them, the truth is no longer that which is but that which
is becoming — and is constantly and always changing.
For the Modernist heretic, Pope Francis,
“Time is greater than space,” “Time” means the process of becoming through evolution
and “Space” is the limitation of static being.
A library could be filled with analyzing the implications of this error but
suffice for the present there are two obvious to everyone: Firstly, the very
definition of heresy is the rejection of DOGMA. For the faithful Catholic,
DOGMA is NECESSARILY the proximate rule of faith. This is directly rejected by
the Modernists. They replace Dogma with the person of the pope as the proximate
rule of faith and he is free to corrupt the revealed truth in whatever manner
he pleases. The second obvious error is that they deny the philosophical
meaning of substance. They follow
modern reductionist Scientism that resurrected the Greek philosopher
Democritus’ (460-370 B.C.) theory that the fundamental nature of all that
existed is “atoms and the void.” Since all reality is just the recombination of
atoms and the void between them, then there cannot be such thing as a fixed substance in which accidents adhere. Consequently, we have Benedict/Ratzinger denying substance and making the accident of relationship the fundamental ground of all reality. It is therefore
not surprising when he denies the Dogma of Transubstantiation. And what becomes
of the Dogma that the Father and the Son are Consubstantial? Francis follows in
the same manner and never kneels before the Blessed Sacrament. No argument can
touch these blighted minds, if you call something that never thinks a “mind.”
It matters not what wreckage and ruin that has followed since Vatican II because
the being of the wreckage cannot
overcome their ideological fantasy of becoming
as Pope Francis looks to his “brighter
horizon of the utopian future… for progress in building a people.”
The
truth is just the opposite, ‘Space is Greater than Time.’ God revealed His name
to Moses, “I AM.” Jesus applied this name to Himself. God is perfect BEING; He
is perfect ACT: “Every best gift, and every perfect gift, is from above,
coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no change, nor shadow
of alteration” (James 1:17). Ultimately time will end in a changeless
eternity where the faithful will be with God in a space prepared by Him
for each one of us. “In my Father's house there are many mansions. If not,
I would have told you: because I go to prepare a place for you. And if I
shall go, and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and will take
you to myself; that where I am, you also may be” (John 14:2-3).
Andrea Grillo gives as a reason for the suppression of the Latin
Mass granted to the Indult crowd:
·
it seems to ignore, precisely on the dogmatic level, a
grave conflict between the lex orandi and the lex credendi,
since it is inevitable that a dual, conflictual ritual form will lead to a
significant division in the faith;
He to believes with Francis that TGTS.
Latin Mass Catholics are stuck in space
while the Catholic Church is moving in time
to a new “dogmatic level” that will inevitably “lead to a significant
division in the faith.”
The two rites he says represent a “grave conflict between the lex orandi and
the lex credenda.” Are we to congratulate Grillo for this
insight?Cardinal Alfredo Ottaviani, Prefect of the Congregation for the
Doctrine for the Faith with
his Interventionin in 1969 said the same thing! This is a truth
that faithful Catholics have known for more than 50 years! Yet Indultists
publicly deny this truth professing that both the Novus Ordo and the
traditional Latin rite express an identity of “lex orandi /lex credendi.” This is the price they have
paid for their Indult; a mind that turns its back on the first principle of the
understanding cannot even be called a “mind”!
Ss.
Peter & Paul Roman Catholic Mission’s purpose is to make a public
profession of the Catholic faith before our local ordinary and Rome.
Foundational to this purpose is that DOGMA IS divine revelation infallibly
defined by the Magisterium of the Church, which is irreformable both in its
truth (form) and its terminology employed (matter), IS the “formal object of
divine and Catholic faith” and constitutes the proximate rule of faith for all
the faithful. Furthermore, our immemorial ecclesiastical traditions are
necessary attributes of the faith by which alone the faith can be known and
communicated to others. Since God has imposed a duty upon His faithful to
profess their faith and worship Him in the public forum, every Catholic
possesses the inalienable right to our immemorial traditions by which alone
these duties can be fulfilled. Those who have accepted the Latin Mass by virtue
of Indult and/or grant of legal privilege want a non-confrontational modus vivendi with Modernist heretics.
This has never worked in the past and it will not work now. Being neither ‘cold
nor hot’, they please no one and will soon learn that having traded their birth
right for bowl of pottage there is nothing left to eat.
Neo-Modernism
Postulates the grave error that there exists a disjunction between DOGMA and
the Words used to formulate the dogmatic definition. This error became the
overarching theme of Vatican II!
[…..] In
theology some (i.e., Neo-Modernists) want to reduce to a minimum the meaning of dogmas; and to free
dogma itself from terminology long established in the Church and from
philosophical concepts held by Catholic teachers, to bring about a
return in the explanation of Catholic doctrine to the way of speaking used in
Holy Scripture and by the Fathers of the Church. They cherish the hope that
when dogma is stripped of the elements which they hold to be extrinsic to
divine revelation, it will compare advantageously with the dogmatic opinions of
those who are separated from the unity of the Church and that in this way they
will gradually arrive at a mutual assimilation of Catholic dogma with the
tenets of the dissidents.
Moreover, they
assert that when Catholic doctrine has been reduced to this condition, a way
will be found to satisfy modern needs, that will permit of dogma being
expressed also by the concepts of modern philosophy, whether of immanentism or
idealism or existentialism or any other system. Some more audacious affirm that
his can and must be done, because they hold that the mysteries of faith are
never expressed by truly adequate concepts but only by approximate and ever
changeable notions, in which the truth is to some extent expressed, but is
necessarily distorted. Wherefore they do not consider it absurd, but altogether
necessary, that theology should substitute new concepts in place of the old
ones in keeping with the various philosophies which in the course of time it
uses as its instruments, so that it should give human expression to divine
truths in various ways which are even somewhat opposed, but still equivalent,
as they say. They add that the history of dogmas consists in the reporting of the
various forms in which revealed truth has been clothed, forms that have
succeeded one another in accordance with the different teachings and opinions
that have arisen over the course of the centuries.
It is evident
from what We have already said, that such tentatives not only lead to what they
call dogmatic relativism, but that they actually contain it. The contempt of
doctrine commonly taught and of the terms in which it is expressed strongly
favor it. […..]
Pope Pius XII, Humani Generis
Hermeneutics
of Continuity/Discontinuity
A Illustrative
Example of the Heresy of Neo-Modernism
It is not enough
to find a new language in which to articulate our perennial faith; it is also
urgent, in the light of the new challenges and prospects facing humanity, that
the Church be able to express the ‘new things’ of Christ’s Gospel, that, albeit
present in the word of God, have not yet come to light.
Pope Francis the
Destroyer, Address, October 11, 2018
A Illustrative
Example of the Catholic Faith
If there are any present-day
teachers making every effort to produce and develop new ideas, but not to
repeat “that which has been handed down,” and if this is their whole aim, they
should reflect calmly on those words which Benedict XV proposes for their
consideration: “We wish this maxim of our elders held in reverence: Nihil
innovetur nisi quod traditum
— let nothing new be introduced, but only what has been handed down; it
must be held as an inviolable law in matters of faith, and should also control
those points which allow of change, though in these latter for the most part
the rule holds: non
nova sed noviter—not new things but in a new way.”
Pope Pius XII, Si
Diligis, Allocution to Cardinals, Archbishops, and Bishops on the
Canonization of St Pius X, May 31, 1954.
The Church that knows how to celebrate Easter is synodal
Vatican Insider | Paolo
Scarafoni and Filomena Rizzo | 4-20-21
“It is a matter of putting Jesus Christ at
the centre of community life and of living a new Pentecost. The paradigm
remains the Second Vatican Council: once it began, at the moment of real sharing, precisely on the
subject of the «liturgical celebration», it was no longer possible to harness
the Holy Spirit and keep him under the control of a few, and so the novelty
could enter the world.”
COMMENT: The blasphemy never
ends. These Modernist heretics have the effrontery to say that before Vatican
II, that Holy Spirit was “harnessed” and “kept under control” to prevent Him
from inflicting His liturgical “novelty” on the Church. The “received and
approved” Roman rite of Mass is the object of Dogma. It is therefore the work
of the Holy Ghost as all true worship of God is and always has been from the
beginning to this day. For these heretics, the countless saints, martyrs and
confessors that fill the history of the Church never “put Jesus Christ at the
centre of community life and the living a new Pentecost.” The Novus Ordo Church
knows nothing about the celebration of Easter because they know nothing about a
penitential exercise of Lent. They want the joy of the Resurrection without the
contradiction of the Cross and Passion of Jesus Christ. That is the “novelty”
they pursue. It is the same that the Pharisees wanted: “Let Christ the king of
Israel come down now from the cross, that we may see and believe” (Mark 15:32).
These constitute the “many” who will one day hear our Lord say: “Not every one
that saith to me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven: but he
that doth the will of my Father who is in heaven, he shall enter into the
kingdom of heaven. Many will say to me in that day: Lord, Lord, have not we
prophesied in thy name, and cast out devils in thy name, and done many miracles
in thy name? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from
me, you that work iniquity” (Matt 7:21-23). They have betrayed the Faith and
yet promise themselves heaven as if it were possible that the Truth of Christ
could be immaterial to His friendship. Jesus Christ said that there is a sin
that will not be forgiven in this world or the next: the sin against the Holy
Ghost. Why? It may very well be because the “many” believe they possess the
grace of God and therefore cannot repent of a sin they are blind to. Pray God
to deliver us sins of ignorance.
Usury: Making fertile what
is by nature sterile!
Antonio: Or is your gold and
silver ewes and rams?
Shylock: I cannot tell. I
make it breed as fast.
Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
Ecumenism with
Lutherans requires abandoning both Reason and Free Will which helps explain why
Modernists are both stupid and reckless!
“Reason is a whore, the
greatest enemy that faith has; it never comes to the aid of spiritual things,
but more frequently than not struggles against the divine Word, treating with
contempt all that emanates from God.”
Martin Luther
“This error of free will is
a special doctrine of the antichrist.”
Martin Luther
Hermeneutics of Continuity/Discontinuity
Martin Luther:
“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 DOGMAS on
Justification
v
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.
v
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.
v
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.
v
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.
v
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.
v
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.
v
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.
v
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.
How did Pope Francis become
a heretic? The Novus Ordo Mass and its Lutheran “mode of liturgy”?
“There was
corruption and worldliness in the (Catholic) Church; there was attachment to
money and power. That was the basis of his (Marin Luther’s) protest. He was
also intelligent, and he went ahead, justifying his reasons for it. Nowadays, Lutherans and
Catholics, and all Protestants, are in agreement on the doctrine of
justification: on this very important point he was not mistaken. He
offered a ‘remedy’ for the Church, and then this remedy rigidified in a state
of affairs, a discipline, a way of believing, a way of acting, a mode of
liturgy.”
Pope Francis
the Lutheran, 2017, commenting on the Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of
Justification by the Lutheran World Federation and the Catholic Church (signed
October 31, 1999). Once the “mode of liturgy” was changed to the Novus Ordo,
the heretical Protestant doctrine of Justification by “faith alone”
followed.
DOGMA is the proximate rule
of faith: Those that keep DOGMA are called the faithful; Those who corrupt
DOGMA are called heretics!
St. Thomas (II-II:11:1)
defines heresy: "a species
of infidelity in men who, having professed the faith of Christ, corrupt its
dogmas". The right Christian faith consists in giving one's
voluntary assent to Christ in all that truly belongs to His teaching. There
are, therefore, two ways of deviating from Christianity: the one by refusing to
believe in Christ Himself, which is the way of infidelity, common to Pagans and
Jews; the other by restricting belief to certain points of Christ's doctrine
selected and fashioned at pleasure, which is the way of heretics. The subject-matter of both faith and heresy
is, therefore, the deposit of the faith, that is, the sum total of truths
revealed in Scripture and Tradition as proposed to our belief by the Church.
Catholic Encyclopedia, 1907
Even with a bad knee, Pope Francis cannot resist kicking
Catholics faithful to Tradition!
Pope decries divisions caused by old-school liturgy fans
PICTURE: Pope Francis speaks at an audience
with nuns and religious superiors in the Paul VI Hall at The Vatican, Thursday,
May 5, 2022. Francis, 85, was wheeled to the audience after he has been
suffering from strained ligaments in his right knee for several months. He
revealed he recently received some injections to try to relieve the pain. (AP
Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)ROME (AP) - May 5, 2022 - By FRANCES D'EMILIO
—
Pope Francis on Saturday blasted Catholics who, hewing to old-school versions
of liturgy like the Latin Mass, have made an ideological battleground of the
issue, decrying what he described as devil-inspired divisiveness in the church.
Francis pressed his papacy’s battle against
traditionalists, whose prominent members include some ultra-conservative
cardinals. They have resisted restrictions, imposed last year by the Vatican,
on celebrations of the old Mass in Latin in St. Peter’s Basilica and, more
generally, for years have disparaged the modernizing reforms of the Second
Vatican Council in the 1960s.
Speaking at the Vatican to instructors and
students of the Pontifical Liturgical Institute, Francis said, “I emphasize
again that the liturgical life, and the study of it, should lead to greater
Church unity, not division. When the liturgical life is a bit like a banner of
division, there is the stench of the devil in there, the deceiver. It’s not
possible to worship God while making the liturgy a battleground for issues that are nonessential
questions, indeed, outdated
issues, and to take sides starting with the liturgy, with ideologies
that divine the Church.”
Francis has made clear he prefers Mass
celebrated in local languages, with the priest facing the congregation instead
of with his back to the pews. That was the way Mass was celebrated before the
revolutionary Vatican Council reforms, more than a half century-ago, which
aimed at making rank-and-file Catholics feel more connected to liturgical
celebrations.
COMMENT: Once again we find
Pope Francis the Deceived landing not far from the truth but again missing it
all together. Pope Francis/Bergoglio always sees things in light of an
“ideology” because he himself is an ideologue. The Faith is not an ideology but
a revealed truth and theological virtue from God. Pope Francis/Bergoglio views
the faith through an ideology drawn from modern philosophy that is not only
dated but boring. If he were not the pope his opinions would be shared by no
one. The “battleground” causing “divisiveness in the church” is caused by those
with a modernist ideology who have attempted to overthrow the immemorial
ecclesiastical traditions, especially the “received and approved” Roman rite of
the Mass because these traditions are effective signs of the faith they hate.
They are the neo-iconoclasts and the immemorial images are anathema to
them. It is indeed ‘devil inspired” but
it is Francis/Bergoglio doing the bidding of the devil. Francis/Bergoglio is
dead on when he says, “It’s
not possible to worship God while using the liturgy as a ‘battleground’”
for the Novus Ordo does not worship God and it is the worship of God that he
wants destroyed. The Novus Ordo is a man-made liturgy directed to the worship
of man. It is the offering of Cain, the “fruit of the earth and the work of human hands.”
Francis/Bergoglio is lying when he says that this battle is over things that
are “nonessential
questions.” If they were “nonessential” he would be indifferent to the
matter because every Catholic is free to do as he pleases in “nonessentials.”
It is most “essential” to him because he knows that in destroying the images of
our faith he will destroy the very means by which it can be known and
communicated to others. By destroying the “received and approved” rite of Mass
he is destroying the very means by which God communicates His grace.
Liturgical rites that are “received and
approved”, although different, do not lead to “division” but have unity in
their expression of the same faith. The Council of Florence mandated that every
priest must celebrate the Mass according to the custom of his rite. The Council
of Trent dogmatized the “received and approved” rites and forbade any pastor in
the Churches whomsoever to introduce new rites. This dogma was included in the Tridentine
Profession of Faith. The Novus Ordo ideologues rejected the “received and
approved” rite because they rejected the faith. They introduced a man-made
liturgical fabrication that expresses a different faith and worships a
different god. Even for Pope Francis the Deceiver this question is most
“essential” and is not “outdated.”
The Church is one in faith and worship.
Francis/Bergoglio does not possess the faith “without which it is impossible to
please God” and his worship is an abomination for which he will soon have to
answer.
“...the Novus Ordo Missae—considering the new
elements susceptible to widely different interpretations which are implied or
taken for granted—represents, both as a whole and in its details, a striking
departure from the Catholic theology of the Mass as it was formulated in
Session XXII of the Council of Trent. The ‘canons’ (i.e.: dogmas) of the rite
definitively fixed at that time erected an insurmountable barrier against any
heresy which might attack the integrity of the Mystery.”
Cardinals
Ottaviani and Bacci, A Brief Critical Study of the Novus Ordo Mass (The Ottaviani Intervention), written
after seeing the ‘reverent’ version of the Novus Ordo in Latin celebrated at
the Sistine Chapel
“The liturgical reform has
made a giant step forward and we have drawn quite close to the liturgical forms
of the Lutheran Church.”
Fr. Annibale Bugnini, L’Osservatore Romano, October 13, 1967
Diocese of Harrisburg completed its plan for judicial
resolution of Chapter 11 bankruptcy. This publication regarding reorganization
of the Diocese of Harrisburg by Bishop Ronald Gainer says nothing about the
liquidation of Catholic assets to pay creditors! What is worse, this plan of
reorganization does NOT identify that the cause of more than 90% of all sexual abuse cases are committed
by homosexual clerics using the clerical collar as cover for predatory abuse of
adolescent boys (the crime of pederasty) or offer any plan to eliminate these predators
from the clergy and religious vocations!
HARRISBURG, Pa. – Today, the Roman
Catholic Diocese of Harrisburg (RCDH) announced that its Chapter 11 Plan of
Reorganization has been approved by the United States Bankruptcy Court for the
Middle District of Pennsylvania. With this approval, the RCDH has emerged from
bankruptcy, nearly three years from when this process started. The Most
Reverend Ronald W. Gainer, Bishop of Harrisburg, offered the following
statement on the completion of this process:
“Three years ago, I announced that the
Roman Catholic Diocese of Harrisburg was filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy
protections. That difficult decision was made as a means of stabilizing the
Diocese’s financial situation, while at the same time allowing us to make
restitution to survivors of clergy sexual abuse and continue our
ministries.[....]
With the plan approved, the RCDH and
related entities will establish a Survivor Compensation Trust and provide
funding to the Trust in an amount equal to $7.5 million. The settling
insurers will contribute an additional $10.75 million, bringing the total Trust
amount to $18.25 million. This Trust will provide financial restitution for
survivors of clergy sexual abuse. According to the plan, the Trust will be
established by early March. More details related to the Trust are included in
the Plan, which is on file with the Bankruptcy Court and on the Diocesan
website. Once established, a Trust administrator, and not the Diocese, will
determine compensation amounts and claim eligibility for abuse survivors.
The RCDH filed for reorganization under
Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code in February 2020. More than 60
timely filed proofs of claim from clergy abuse survivors were received during
the reorganization process. The move to declare bankruptcy came after years of
financial hardship, which was exacerbated by the Grand Jury investigation and
subsequent lawsuits, and after every attempt to scale back operations,
including reducing overhead, were unsuccessful.
The RCDH has a zero-tolerance policy
regarding child abuse and has passed every audit related to the United States
Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Charter for the Protection of Children and
Young People since 2002. In 2019, the Diocese’s independent Survivor
Compensation Program assisted 111 survivors, for a total financial commitment
of $12,784,450.
Doctrine
may develop in itself in "due proportion".... with "no variety
of its definition." Dogma cannot develop in itself because its
"proportion" and "definition" are fixed by God. It can only
develop in its implications!
“Shall we then have no advancement of
religion in the Church of Christ? Let us have it indeed, and the greatest . . .
But yet in such sort that it be truly an advancement of faith, not a change (sed ita tamen ut vere profectus sit ille
fidel, non permutatio), seeing that it is the nature of an advancement,
that in itself each thing (severally) grow greater, but of a change that
something be turned from one thing into another. . . . Let the soul’s religion
imitate the law of the body, which, as years go on, develops indeed and opens
out its due proportions, and yet remains identically what it was. . . . Small
are a baby’s limbs, a youth’s are larger, yet they are the same. . . . So also
the doctrine of the Christian religion must follow those laws of advancement;
namely, that with years it be consolidated, with time it be expanded, with age
it be exalted, yet remain uncorrupt and untouched, and be full and perfect in
all the proportions of each of its parts, and with all its members, as it were,
and proper senses; that it admit no change besides, sustain no loss of its
propriety, no variety of its definition. Wherefore, whatsoever in this Church,
God’s husbandry, has by the faith of our fathers been sown, that same must be
cultivated by the industry of their children, that same flourish and ripen,
that same advance and be perfected.”
St. Vincent of Lerins, Commonitorium, nfl. 28, 29
“The
doctrine which God has revealed has not been proposed as some philosophical
discovery to be perfected by the wit of man, but has been entrusted to Christ’s
Spouse as a Divine deposit to be faithfully guarded and infallibly declared.
Hence sacred dogmas must ever be understood in the sense once for all (semel) declared by Holy Mother Church;
and never must that sense be abandoned under pretext of profounder knowledge
(altioris intelligentiae).”
Vatican Council
I, Sess. iii. chap. 4
Pope Paul VI - Evidence that he experienced intermittent
but remarkable periods of lucidity of thought and clarity of expression
“We believed that after the Council would
come a day of sunshine in the history of the Church. But instead there has come
a day of clouds and storms, and of darkness of searching and uncertainties…And
how did this come about? We will confide to you the thought that may be, we
ourselves admit in free discussion, that may be unfounded, and that is that
there has been a power, an adversary power. Let us call him by his name: the
devil. It is as if from some mysterious crack, no, it is not mysterious, from
some crack the smoke of Satan has entered the temple of God.”
Pope
Paul VI, June 29, 1972, Sermon
“The Church finds herself in an hour of
anxiety, a disturbed period of self-criticism, or what would even better be
called self-destruction. It is an
interior upheaval, acute and complicated, which nobody expected after
the Council. It is almost as if the Church were attacking
itself. We looked forward to a flowering, a serene expansion of
conceptions which matured in the great
sessions of the council. But ... one
must notice above all the sorrowful
aspect. It is as if the Church were
destroying herself.”
Pope Paul VI, December 7, 1968, Address, Lombard
Seminary at Rome
“Don't be surprised at Our answer and don't
write it off as simplistic or even
superstitious: one of the Church's
greatest needs is to be defended against
the evil we call the Devil.”
Pope
Paul VI, November 15, 1972, General Audience
“There is a great uneasiness, at this time,
in the world and in the Church, and that which is in question is the faith. It
so happens now that I repeat to myself the obscure phrase of Jesus in the
Gospel of Saint Luke: “When the Son of man returns, will He still find faith on
earth?” (Luke 18:8). It so happens that there are books coming out in which the
faith is in retreat on some important points. The episcopates are remaining
silent and these books are not looked upon as strange. This to me is strange. I
sometimes read the Gospel passage of the
end times and I attest that, at this time, some signs of this end are emerging.
Are we close to the end? This we will never know. We must always hold ourselves
in readiness, but everything could last a very long time yet. What strikes me
when I think of the Catholic world is that within Catholicism there seems
sometimes to predominate a non-Catholic way of thinking, and it can happen that
this non-Catholic thought within Catholicism will tomorrow become the stronger.
But it will never represent the thought of the Church. It is necessary that a
small flock subsist, no matter how small it might be.”
Jean
Guitton, The Private life of Pope Paul VI
“The tail of the devil is functioning in the
disintegration of the Catholic World. The darkness of Satan has entered and
spread throughout the Catholic Church even to its summit. Apostasy, the loss of
the faith, is spreading throughout the world and into the highest levels within
the Church”
Pope
Paul VI, October 13, 1977 address on the 60th anniversary of Fatima
“The Conciliar
Church has embarked on a course of its own destruction. The words of Paul VI to the Lombard Seminary
(regarding the smoke of Satan entering the Church) bear eloquent witness to
that undeniable yet desperately denied reality.
The zealots of the Novus Ordo
never tire of saying that the Holy Spirit guides the Church, like the ancient
Israelites who ignored the warnings of the prophets, saying “The Temple, The
Temple” -- yet the Temple was destroyed.
Our blessed Saviour's promise that the gates of hell will never prevail
against the Church will avail them nothing, for it was not of their church that He spoke.
The churches of
northern Africa departed from the orthodox tradition of Catholicism and were
swept away in the tide of Islam. A
church that breaks away from tradition is a branch that breaks away from the
tree of life, and is therefore destined to perish. Such is the inevitable destiny that awaits
the Conciliar Church -- It declared its own death sentence when it
broke with Tradition. Our Lord's
promise, “I am with you always, even unto the end of the world” is directed
only to those who remain faithful to Tradition.
His promise remains with them even though they be few in numbers, for
“Even if Catholics faithful to tradition are reduced to a handful, they are the
ones who are the true Church of Jesus Christ” (St. Athanasius).”
Fr. Paul L.
Kramer, B.Ph., S.T.B., M.Div., S.T.L., The
Suicide of Altering the Faith in the Liturgy
Even Paul VI
proclaimed the necessity of PROSELYTISM! He was progressive but apparently not
progressive enough for Francis the Apostate!
“Through this
wordless witness these Christians stir up irresistible questions in the hearts
of those who see how they live: Why are they like this? Why do they live in
this way? What or who is it that inspires them? Why are they in our midst? Such
a witness is already a silent proclamation of the Good News and a very powerful
and effective one. […..] Nevertheless this always remains insufficient, because
even the finest witness will prove ineffective in the long run if it is not
explained, justified – what Peter called always having ‘your answer ready for
people who ask you the reason for the hope that you all have’ – and made
explicit by a clear and unequivocal proclamation of the Lord Jesus. The Good
News proclaimed by the witness of life sooner or later has to be proclaimed by
the word of life. There is no true evangelization if the name, the teaching,
the life, the promises, the kingdom and the mystery of Jesus of Nazareth, the
Son of God, are not proclaimed.”
Pope Paul VI, Evangelii nuntiandi
“I’ve said it
many times: proselytism is not Christian. Today I felt a certain bitterness
when a woman approached me with a young man and a young woman, and said to me:
‘Your Holiness, I am from South Africa. This boy was a Hindu and converted to
Catholicism. This girl was Anglican and converted to Catholicism.’ She told me
in a triumphant way, as though she was showing off a hunting trophy. I felt
uncomfortable and said to her, ‘Madam, evangelization yes, proselytism no’.”
Pope Francis
the Apostate, to Jesuit community in Mozambique, September 2019
COMMENT: In about twenty years we will be celebrating the 500th
anniversary of the beginnings of Jesuit missionary work throughout the world.
These missionaries provided regular detailed journal submissions to their
superiors regarding the work of proselytism which included exactly to whom they
preached the Gospel with their successes and failures in gaining Catholic
converts, the very purpose of their work. Many of these documents are available
on line. A brief review of them is enough to see what a vulgar reprobate they
would consider Francis/Bergoglio. He actively works to obstruct the grace of
God in the work of salvation of souls.
Culture Wars: WOKE vs. ANTI-WOKE
"If good people beat bad people, it
serves them right; if bad people beat good people, the good people achieve
glory; if good people beat good people, it is a misunderstanding; without
beatings, you do not get acquainted and then no longer need to beat them."
Jiang Qing (1914-1991), also known as
Madame Mao as Mao Zedong's fourth wife, Chinese communist revolutionary, former
Chairman of the Communist Party after Mao's death, and leader of 'Gang of Four'
who controlled the Cultural Revolution in China from 1966 to 1976.
COMMENT: The Cultural
Revolution using Marxist revolutionary principles with a "Chinese
character" divided Chinese society into the Five Black Classes ("bad
people") and the Five Red Classes (good people). The Five Black Classes
included religious, educated, landlords, "rich" farmers,
counter-revolutionaries, traditional cultural defenders, and anyone else the
government did not like. The government organized and facilitated students and
workers of the Five Red Classes with police and army support to persecute,
publicly beat, and murder members of the Five Black Classes. The police and
army would intervene only if the Five Red Classes were beginning to lose.
In the United States the ruling oligarchs
have identified their own category of Black Classes and Red Classes with an
"American character". We are in the early stages of organized violent
state attacks against their identified categories of enemies. The January 6th
non-violent unarmed Trump supporters are still languishing without bail in
Washington, D.C. prison while the Black Livers Matter (BLM) supporters who did
hundred-millions of dollars of property damage and murder have never been
charged with any crime. Trump supporters are in the Five Black Classes and BLM
supporters are in the Five Red Classes. Since the overturn of Roe/Wade there
has been repeated damage to right to life clinics, support centers and to
Catholic Churches yet there has not been a serious investigation and no arrests
by federal police agents and prosecutors. And the same time a Mark
Houck, a Catholic
anti-abortion activist was arrested by a federal swat-team at gun point and
charged and tried for the hate crime of 'assaulting' an abortion worker. The
local authorities in Philadelphia found no evidence of any crime and no arrests
or charges were ever made. The federal charges were without merit and Mr. Houck
was acquitted of all charges after a federal jury trial. Abortionists are Five
Red Class members; Anti-abortionists are Five Black Class members. Other Five
Red Class members include the homosexual lobby with its LGQBT ideology, gender
identity perversion with the sexual mutilation of children, public school
teachers promoting WOKE indoctrination, feminism and other identified victim
classes all receiving large corporate and government grants. The entire WOKE
ideology is an attempt to employ Marxist ideology to divide Americans into defined
friend/enemy classes for the end to impose a communist regime of the oligarchs
in permanent state power by use of controlled civil violence by the deep state.
Thanks to Mr. James Lindsay
Freemason Anglican bishop celebrates ‘Mass’ in papal basilica with
Protestant clergy
Vatican authorities gave the Anglican clergy permission to say ‘Mass’
in St. John Lateran Basilica, the ‘Mother of all the Churches of Rome and of
the world.’ Pope Francis later greeted the group after his weekly general
audience.
LifeSiteNews | Vatican City | Michael
Haynes | Apr 19, 2023
Led
by a “re-married” Freemason, over 30 Anglican clergymen celebrated “Mass” in the
Papal Basilica of St. John Lateran this week, sparking outrage among faithful
Catholics.
On April 18, a group of Anglican clergy
from the Anglican suffragan Diocese of Fulham, England, were granted permission
to celebrate a liturgy in the historic Basilica of St. John Lateran. Led by
their bishop, Johnathan Baker of Fulham, over 30 clergymen took part in the
event, which was held at the altar of the cathedral in the basilica.
Footage from one of the participants shows
the clergymen processing up to the altar, kissing it, and then moving across to
the choir stalls. Baker, who has led the Anglican see of Fulham since 2013, can
be seen leading the “Mass.”
St. John Lateran is traditionally known as
the “Mother of all the Churches of Rome and of the world” and is the seat of
the bishop of Rome, the Pope. The basilica is thus technically ranked as more
important for Catholics than the Vatican. [.....]
COMMENT: "Bishop
Johnathan Baker" is layman; the communions service he and his 'clergy'
offered is not a Mass. Baker was previously a Freemason. While a student at
Oxford University, he joined the Apollo University Lodge, a masonic lodge
associated with the university, and served as its Worshipful Master. He held
the senior position of Deputy Grand Chaplain in the United Grand Lodge of
England. After twenty years membership, he left the organization upon being
appointed a bishop, stating that the criticism from some members of General
Synod threatened to overshadow the inauguration of his episcopal ministry (sic)
(WIKI).
In a letter dated 22 October 2014, Baker
wrote to his clergy informing them that he had been given permission by
'Bishop' Richard Chartres of London and 'Archbishop' Justin Welby of Canterbury
to remarry following his divorce. Until 2010, Church of England clergy who had
been divorced and remarried could not become bishops.
So congratulation to "Bishop"
Johnathan Baker are in order. He is certainly one on the periphery of perverse
Anglican sect identified by Pope Francis who likes to travel to the periphery
to find fellow travelers. He is a real breaker of established traditions: he is
the first Masonic bishop divorced and re-married of the Anglican heresy who has
personally desecrated the high altar of the pope's Church with the blessing of
Pope Francis the Blasphemer.
Pope Francis gives relics of Christ’s Cross to King Charles for
Anglican coronation ceremony
King Charles III's coronation will be marked by a procession led by
relics from the True Cross, gifted by Pope Francis
LifeSiteNews | Westminster, U.K. | Michael
Haynes | Apr 19, 2023
Pope
Francis has given the Protestant King Charles III two relics of the True Cross
on which Our Lord died, which will be blessed and then used by Anglican
ministers as part of the King’s upcoming coronation ceremony next month.
Leading the procession for the much
anticipated coronation of King Charles III on May 6 will be the Cross of Wales,
which is now adorned with two relics from the true Cross of Christ thanks to a
gift from Pope Francis to the English monarch.
The Anglican Church in Wales announced that
“in a significant ecumenical gesture, the Cross of Wales will incorporate
a relic of the True Cross, the personal gift of Pope Francis to His Majesty The
King to mark the Coronation.”
The True Cross is that on which Jesus
Christ was crucified and died in 33 A.D., and as such Catholics hold relics of
it as some of the most venerable in the Church, to be afforded due reverence
and veneration. These particular relics were reportedly given by Holy See
representatives to members of the Royal Household at the Chapel Royal at St.
James’s Palace last week.
Despite the fact that Charles III is leader
of the Church of England, (divorced and remarried), heavily promotes other
creeds such as Judaism and Islam, and also promotes globalist policies on
“climate change” and population control, Pope Francis has thus gifted the
monarch some of the most treasured relics of the Catholic faith.
The relics will now be seen by millions
around the world, as they are embedded in the center of the Cross of Wales,
which will be carried at the head of the procession into Westminster Abbey on
May 6 for the Anglican coronation ceremony of Charles III. The ceremony will be
led by the Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby.
The Cross of Wales is a processional cross
gifted by King Charles to the Anglican Church in Wales, to mark the Welsh
Anglican church’s centenary and the King’s coronation. [.....]
COMMENT: Res ipsa loquitor; the thing (SIN) speaks for itself
Pilate therefore said to him: Art thou a king then? Jesus answered:
Thou sayest that I am a king. For this was I born, and for this came I into the
world; that I should give testimony to the truth. Every one that is of the
truth, heareth my voice. (John 18:37)
My sheep hear my voice: and I know them, and they follow me. (John
10:27)
Abp. Viganò: Our elites’ adherence to lies and falsehood shows them to
be servants of Satan
The
true reset is returning to the truth of Christ, of the one who said of Himself:
'I am the way, the truth, and the life.'
“Brothers: Clear out the old yeast so that
you may be a new dough, since you are unleavened. For Christ our Passover has
been sacrificed. Therefore, let us feast: not with the old leaven, nor with the
ferment of malice and wickedness: but with the unleavened bread of sincerity
and truth.” — 1 Cor 5: 7–8
The modern world is held hostage by lies.
Everything that is theorized by the elite, affirmed by the institutions, and
propagandized by the media is a lie, a falsehood, and a deception.
The psychopandemic emergency is a lie, all
on account of a virus created in a laboratory for the sake of a mass
vaccination that is as ineffective as it is harmful to health. Gender theory is
a lie, which denies the distinction of the sexes willed by the Creator, and
which seeks to cancel the image and likeness of God in man. Climate change is a
lie, based as it is on the false premise of man-made climate crisis and on the
even more false chimera that the reduction of carbon dioxide emissions in
certain countries can even minimally change the earth’s temperature.
The Ukrainian crisis is a lie, which was
provoked in order to destroy the social and economic fabric of European nations
through unreasonable sanctions against the Russian Federation. The Agenda 2030
is a lie, which is being imposed by a gang of subversives in order to enslave
humanity. Woke ideology is a lie, which causes the cancellation of our
identity, our history, and our faith in order to impose the infernal religion
of the New World Order and the barbarism of the Great Reset.
What is most disconcerting is that this
fraud against the peoples – perpetuated by those in authority who ought instead
to be protecting and defending them – has also infected the ecclesial body,
where other no less serious falsehoods corrupt the purity of the faith,
offending the Divine Majesty and causing the damnation of many souls, whom the
Lord has paid for dearly, redeeming them with His Most Precious Blood.
Ecumenism is a lie, which abases the living
and true God to the level of the idols of the nations. The Synodal Way is a
lie, which subverts the divine constitution of the Church intended by Christ
under the false pretext of listening to the people of God. The liturgical
reform is a lie, introduced with the excuse of making the Mass understandable
to the faithful, with the sole intention of taking honor from God and pleasing
the heretics.
The feminine diaconate is a lie, which with
the alibi of giving a role to women attacks the Mass and the sacraments and
tampers with the Holy Orders instituted by Our Lord. The possibility of
divorced and cohabitating couples receiving Holy Communion is a lie, the
blessing of homosexual unions is a lie, the entrance of transsexuals into the
seminary is a lie: morality does not follow the fashions of the day, whatever
Bergoglio may say.
The acceptance of sodomy is a lie, which
too often seems to want to legitimize the conduct of many prelates and clergy
rather than saving the souls of poor sinners.
These lies have the effrontery to manifest
themselves as obvious falsehoods, deprived of any rational or credible
arguments. They are not the lies with which one clumsily tries to hide
something: they are the arrogant affirmation of falsification, of the
subversion of logic, of the negation of the truth.
But why do so many people voluntarily
choose to renounce their own critical judgment and accept blatant lies as
rational and true? Because adherence to error is the price that the world asks
of its adorers, of those who do not want to be marginalized, criminalized, and
persecuted. And who is the prince of lies if not Satan, the father of lies, he
who was a murderer from the very beginning?
Satan, who tempted our first parents with a
no less brazen lie: “If you eat of this fruit, you will be like gods.” This was
a brazen falsehood, and by believing it Adam and Eve chose to abdicate reason
and disobey God in order to follow a false promise made by a repugnant
creature.
What Satan promises Our Lord when he
tempted Him in the desert was also a lie: “All this will be yours” for the sake
of something of which Christ was not only already the master but also the
Creator.
In the Epistle of the Mass on this most
holy day on which we celebrate the resurrection of Our Lord Jesus Christ from
the dead, the apostle exhorts us to eliminate the old leaven: expurgate vetus fermentum.
Anyone who is familiar with the ancient
methods of making bread knows that the mother dough is that portion
of flour and water which, when left to ferment, becomes the leavening mass. It
can be kept for decades, periodically re-kneaded with new flour and new water,
so that today’s bread is substantially linked to all the preceding bread going
back in time. But if the fermentum is vetus, if the leaven is
old, this affects the new dough and the new bread.
Purging the old leaven means starting over
from the beginning, accomplishing a true “great reset” of each individual soul
and of the social body, cancelling the ferment of malice and perversity, and
starting afresh with unleavened bread, a figure of the Holy Eucharist and
Blessed Sacrament of the new and eternal covenant made by Christ with His
Church, made new in grace and not subject to the changes of time, fashion, and
circumstances.
This is why St. Paul speaks of
the azymes, of the unleavened bread. A bread of austerity, the bread of
those who do not have time to preserve the mother dough alive, the bread of
those who prepare with their loins girt to eat the lamb without blemish and the
bitter herbs before abandoning the land of Egypt and crossing the Red Sea.
The reset, the new creation, the new
Passover, is fulfilled in Christ, the unique, indispensable, eternal truth, the
living and true Word of the Eternal Father. The true reset is
returning to the truth of Christ, of the one who said of Himself: “I am the
way, the truth, and the life.” A Truth that is, while error in contrast
has no existence. A Truth that demands sincerity on our part – in azymis
sinceritatis – as a necessary response to light of truth – et veritatis.
Satan, the ape of God, grotesquely mimics
creation, engaging in monstrosities that any sensible person recognizes as
such. He mimics the redemption even more grotesquely, promising men a good that
is unknown to him and which he does not himself first possess, asking in
exchange that men acknowledge him as their god. We ought to recognize this law
of his for what it is; we ought to reject and fight against it.
If we fight for the truth – for any truth,
not just theological truth – we align ourselves on the side of Christ; on the
side of the one who was not lying when He announced to His Apostles His own
death and resurrection.
If instead we choose not to fight for the
truth, or even to allow error to be proclaimed or to spread it ourselves, we
align ourselves on the side of Satan, the prince of lies, on the side of the
one who makes promises and does not keep them, for the sole purpose of dragging
us into that abyss of damnation into which he chose to sink when, committing
the sin of pride, he believed he could put himself in the place of God and
decide what is and what is not, that is, what is true and what is false, what
is good and what is evil, what is beautiful and what is ugly. And in fact, the
infernal world we are rushing headlong into today is composed of lies, malice,
and ugliness. Nor could it be otherwise.
It is not by chance that Satan is called
the prince of this world: he is not king; his power is ephemeral and permitted
by God only until the time comes to end the period of trial and the moment of
judgment comes.
It is no different for Satan’s servants.
Even if their power seems to overwhelm us, even if the means at their disposal
seem unlimited and overwhelming, their end is inexorably approaching as Christ
takes back His universal kingdom.
Oportet
illum regnare, it is necessary that this happens, it is in the order willed
by God, and no one, not even all of hell combined, can prolong the apparent
triumph of evil by a single instant.
Only two days ago we were contemplating the
mysteries of the Passion and death of the Lord, after the maneuvers of the
Sanhedrin, the uproar of the crowd, and the tortures of the executioners. Along
with Joseph of Arimathea and the pious women we accompanied the lifeless body
of Jesus towards the sepulcher. We remained in prayer in the bare silence of
our churches.
But “Consummatum
est” does not mean “everything is lost,” but rather, “everything has come
to its fulfillment,” that is, “the work of the redemption has been
accomplished.”
Χριστὸς
ἀνέστη is the Greek Easter greeting: “Christ is
Risen.” To which the response is given: Ἀληθῶς ἀνέστη
– Truly He is Risen – Surrexit
Dominus vere. That ἀληθῶς, that vere, contains the reality of the
resurrection of the Savior, the truth of that historical event in
which the mercy of the Man-God has repaired the sin of Adam caused by the lie
of Satan, who continued to lie when he accused Christ with false witnesses, and
who still lies today, trying to frustrate the fruits of the redemption.
Today, after the solemn notes of the Exsultet have announced the glory
of the resurrection, let us celebrate the triumph of Christ over death and sin,
His victory over Satan.
Let us also celebrate the victory of the
Church and Christian civilization over earthly enemies, because the fate of the
mystical body was decreed in the moment in which its divine head nailed the
ancient serpent to the Cross. Mors
et vita duello conflixere mirando: Dux vitæ mortuus, regnat vivus.
Carlo Maria Viganò, Archbishop
April 9, 2023
THE PARABLE OF THE SCRIBE:
Introduction:
DOGMA is revealed doctrine that has been formally defined by the Church
and proposed to all the faithful as a formal object of “divine and Catholic
faith”. The material and instrumental cause of DOGMA is the perennial
Magisterium of the Church engaged by the Pope. The formal and final cause of
DOGMA is God. DOGMA is irreformable in both its matter and form. The form is
the truth revealed and the matter are the words chosen by God to reveal the
truth. Divine revelation constitutes the rule of faith. The remote rule of
faith are Scripture and Tradition. The proximate rule of faith is DOGMA.
"The
scribe instructed in the kingdom of heaven is like to a man that is a
householder, who bringeth forth out of his treasure new things and old."
Outside the Catholic Church there can be no proper understanding of the
Doctrine of Jesus Christ.
To heretics who attack the Catholic Church,
I answer: The obligation to believe what God says is a natural duty, it is a
natural law, dictated by the common sense of reason which the Creator has
deposited in every human soul. The Church only enforces this law, which existed
before she herself existed, because from all eternity it was a truth that the
creature is bound to believe the word of the Creator. If the Church allows
no denial, no doubt, no alteration or misconstruction of any of her DOGMAS, it
is because the veracity of the Son of God, who has revealed these truths, is
attacked when any of His doctrines is denied or doubted. These DOGMAS are
so many fixed stars in the firmament of holy Church. They cannot be reached by
the perversity and frivolity of man. He may close his eyes against them and
deny their existence; he may misrepresent them and look at them through glasses
stained the color of every prejudice; but he cannot do away with them
altogether, nor change in any way their natural brightness and brilliancy. Like
the stars that deck the vault of heaven, they are to give light, not to receive
light from human reason. They are the word of God, and what God says is truth,
that cannot be made untruth. The mind that receives truth is enlightened
thereby; the mind that denies or misrepresents it is darkened and corrupted.
Besides, every DOGMA of faith is to the
Catholic cultivated mind not only a new increase of knowledge, but also an
incontrovertible principle from which it is able to draw conclusions and derive
other truths. They present an endless field for investigation, so that the
beloved Apostle St. John could write at the end of his Gospel, without fear of
exaggeration: “But there are also many other things which Jesus did : which if
they were written every one, the world itself, I think, would not be able to
contain the books that should be written.”
The Catholic Church, by enforcing firm
belief in her DOGMAS—which are not her inventions, but were given by Jesus
Christ—places them as a bar before the human mind to prevent it from going
astray and to attach it to the truth; but it does not prevent the mind from
exercising its functions when it has secured the treasure of divine truth, and
a “scribe thus instructed in the kingdom of heaven is truly like a man that is
a householder, who bringeth forth out of his treasure new things and old.” He
may bring forth new illustrations, new arguments and proofs; he may show new
applications of the same truths, according to times and circumstances; he may
show new links which connect the mysteries of religion with each other or with
the natural sciences— as there can be no discord between the true faith and
true science; God, being the author of both, cannot contradict Himself and
teach something by revelation as true which He teaches by the true light of
reason as false. In all, these cases the householder “brings forth from his
treasure new things and old.” They are new inasmuch as they are the result of
new investigations; and old because they are contained in the old articles of
faith and doctrine as legitimate deductions from their old principles.
And now, if a single individual, a scribe
instructed in the kingdom of heaven, be such a householder, how much more the
holy Church of Jesus Christ, headed by the successor of St. Peter! Long before
our Saviour had actually given to St. Peter the supreme charge of his Church
St. Peter asked Jesus regarding this parabel: “Lord, dost thou speak this
parable to us (the apostles), or likewise to all?” Jesus replied to Peter:
“Who, thinkest thou, is that faithful and wise steward whom the Lord hath set
over His family, to give them their measure of wheat in due season?” (St. Luke
12:41-42).
Joseph Prachensky, S.J., The Church of the
Parables, 1880, The Parable of the Scribe
COMMENT: St. Luke (12:46-50)
continues with our the words of our Lord regarding those stewards who are
unfaithful to their calling:
“The lord of that servant will come in the day
that he hopeth not, and at the hour that he knoweth not, and shall separate
him, and shall appoint him his portion with unbelievers. And that servant who
knew the will of his lord, and prepared not himself, and did not according to
his will, shall be beaten with many stripes. But he that knew not, and did
things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes. And unto whomsoever
much is given, of him much shall be required: and to whom they have committed
much, of him they will demand the more. I am come to cast fire on the earth;
and what will I, but that it be kindled? And I have a baptism wherewith I am to
be baptized: and how am I straitened until it be accomplished?”
Our shepherds are uniformally Neo-modernist
heretics in that they deny the very essence of DOGMA and because they discard
what is old of the faith they can
bring forth nothing new except
absolute corruption. Anything deduced from absolute truth is absolutely true.
Our modern clerics induce from observations and arrive at opinions which they
dialogue with others of like mind.
“Back then everything was covered up. [Pope John Paul’s decisions must
be] interpreted with the hermeneutics of the respective time.” Pope Francis
Pope Francis’ comment to the Argentinean
newspaper, La Nacion, when asked
about the recent publication of evidence that Pope John Paul II as Archbishop
of Krakow actively covered up for several homosexual predator priests after
they sexually abusing boys and moved them to other assignments where the abuses
continued. The book, Maxima Culpa,
written by Dutch journalist Ekke Overbeek, was researched from Polish archives
for over three years. In the book he documents that he “found concrete cases of
concrete priests in the archdiocese of Krakow,” when the late pope was its
Archbishop from 1964 to 1978 where “The future pope knew of them and yet
transferred these men. That led to new victims.”
COMMENT: This is really not
surprising. There is plenty of evidence that JPII was willing to look over the
crimes of homosexual pederasts that devastated the Church during his long
pontificate such as his cover up for the serial rapist Father Marcial Maciel, founder of the
Legionaries of Christ. That only thing new is that he was doing it long before
he became pope which may have been one of the reasons he was elected. The
comment of Pope Francis is disgusting! What can be said about every Catholic
saint is that they are conformers to Jesus Christ crucified and NOT conformers
to the world. Francis thinks otherwise. Vatican II goal was to conform the
Church to the world and that is the chief characteristic of Vatican II popes,
conformity to the world. The comment by Francis portrays JPII as a victim of
historical circumstances, “Back then everything was covered up.” This is proof
that JPII was no saint in the Catholic sense. Francis’ comment does however
open a can of worms: Since “back then everything was covered up,” what else
besides pederasty by homosexual clerics was “covered up”?
“By their fruits you shall know them.”
Survey: US Latinos identifying as Catholic drops to 43%
NCR | April 13, 2023 | Aleja
Hertzler-McCain
The
number of U.S. Latinos who identify as Catholic is continuing to decline
steadily, with only about 43% now affiliating with the faith tradition, according
to a new report from the Pew Research Center released April 13.
Likewise, the percentage of religiously
unaffiliated Latinos has risen dramatically, with 30% now saying they do not
have a faith affiliation, according to the report.
Despite the decline, Catholics remain the
largest religious group among Latinos in the United States, the report says.
Latinos also remain about twice as likely as U.S. adults overall to identify as
Catholic, and considerably less likely to be Protestant, according to the report.
The percentage of U.S. Hispanics who
identify as Catholic declined from 67% in 2010 to 49% in 2018 and 43% in 2022,
while the percentage of U.S. Latinos who identify as religiously unaffiliated
increased from 10% in 2010 to 20% in 2018 and 30% in 2022, according to the
report.
Since the 2000s, U.S. births rather than
new immigration have driven U.S. Hispanic population growth. Forty-nine percent
of U.S. Latinos ages 18-29 identify as religiously unaffiliated, while 30%
identify as Catholic and 15% identify as Protestant. […..]
Clerics as FBI Informants?
April 12, 2023 | Ari Blaff
As part of its effort to identify
extremists in the Catholic Church, the FBI recruited at least one “undercover
employee” to “develop sources among the clergy and church leadership,”
Representative Jim Jordan (R., Ohio) revealed Monday.
Jordan, the chairman of the House Judiciary
Committee, issued a subpoena demanding FBI director Christopher Wray testify
and provide more information to Congress about the federal agency’s
intelligence-gathering initiative targeting Catholic Americans.
“This shocking information reinforces our
need for all responsive documents, and the Committee is issuing a subpoena to
you to compel your full cooperation,” Jordan claimed in the letter.
Pray
for your enemies, but don’t forget, they are your enemies!
COMMENT: The FBI has sought to infiltrate traditional Catholic
communities because they are concerned that these communities are 1) opposed to
open borders that destroy national identity, 2) opposed to LGBTQ agenda that
corrupts divine and natural law, 3) opposed to the willful murder of children
by abortion, and 4) anti-Semetic in the sense that they recognize and oppose
Jewish political power that promotes open borders, LGBTQ agenda, and abortion.
The FBI has become an enforcement arm of the national policy of Wokeism.
Traditional Catholics in the state of grace, grounded in the God’s revealed
Truth and the perennial philosophy, will never accept this perverse ideology
and the national government understands this. They may change their modus operandi but they will be back and
very likely with the encouragement and endorsement of the Novus Ordo
Wokesters.
Another Poll Reveals Bishops’ Utter Failure to Evangelize The Laity
Catholic Culture | April 12, 2023
75% of Catholics back same-sex
marriage.
The Public Religion Research Institute’s
American Values Survey has found that 75% of white Catholics, 75% of Hispanic
Catholics, and 76% of other Catholics of color support same-sex marriage.
Overall, 69% of Americans support same-sex marriage.
According to the survey, “10% of Americans
identify as LGBTQ, including 3% who identify as gay or lesbian, 4% who identify
as bisexual, and 2% who identify as something else.” 46% of adults who
“identify as LGBTQ” are between the ages of 18 and 29; 33% are between the ages
of 30 and 49.
[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 harshly!
·
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 perceptions from which the present “Religious Consciousness” has
evolved.
For Those
defending Catholic Tradition and the divine Worship of God
"Blessed
are they who hunger and thirst after justice for they shall be filled"
(Matt 5:6). This beatitude is the fruit of the virtue and gift of Fortitude
which in turn forms the necessary bedrock for the virtue of Justice to grow and
flourish. St. Thomas says, "The Lord wishes us to thirst after that
justice which consists in rendering.... to God first of all what is His due. He
wishes us never to be satiated on earth... but rather that our desire should
grow always... Blessed are they that have this insatiable desire; they will
receive eternal life and here below an abundance of spiritual goods in the
accomplishment of the precepts, according to the words of the Master: 'My meat
is to do the will of Him that sent Me, that I may perfect His word.'"
The first and
essential subsidiary virtue under Justice is the virtue of Religion which is
giving "to God first of all what is His due." The virtue of Religion
itself governs the virtue of Obedience. Any act of obedience that violates the
virtue of Religion is a sin and itself manifests an evident absence or serious
defects of the virtues of Justice, Fortitude, and Temperance. Those Catholics
faithful to tradition who have born the insults, calumny and ridicule of Novus
Ordites should remember that the gift of Piety corresponds to the virtue of
Justice and the fruit of this virtue and this gift is the beatitude, 'Blessed
are the meek for they shall inherit the earth'.
We are not going anywhere, we are not changing anything, and our victory
is foreordained.
It's the same old scam in new scam-skins! Preparation for
the 'S on S' in October 2023
Synod on Synodality: “The Church of God is convoked in synod.”
That is supposed to sound profound. The Synodal Church (AKA: Church of the New
Advent; Church of the New Evangelization; Church of the People of God; Church
of the Third Millennium; Novus Ordo Church; Vatican II Church; etc.) is about “communion, participation and
mission.” The vademecum sates that
“The Mission of the Church is to evangelize” but has a real problem in defining
“evangelization.” Still, exclusion is permitted to no one. “There are three
inseparable keys at the heart of Synodal Church, communion, participation and
mission” and “participation
in the Church’s missionary synodality to serve the world must be shared by all
(sic).” As Rev. James (HOMO-BOY)
Martin, S.J. said, “Part of the synodal process is rediscovering church as
community in which we all
have to be the protagonist.” So everybody gets to be the leading
character in the new drama. That is everybody excepting Catholic faithful to
Dogma and Tradition who do not know how to play "communion, participation
and mission." Traditional Catholics recognize this scam because we have seen
this stupidity before. This is nothing but a redressing of the touchy-feely
"encounter groups" foisted upon religious orders and secular groups
in the 1960s and 1970s.
This
psychological technique for mass indoctrination and control was derived directly
from the Human Potential Movement (HPM). Wikkipedia says, "The emergence
of HPM is linked to humanistic psychology. The movement is strongly influenced
by Abraham Maslow's (Jewish) theory of self-actualization as the supreme
expression of a human's life." Maslow was a member of the Frankfurt School
which tells you everything you really need to know. It was these same
psychological techniques of Maslow along with his disciple, Carl Rogers, that
the Immaculate Heart of Mary (IHM) nuns, along with other religious orders
(such as, the Jesuits) were subjected to in the 1960s which ultimately
destroyed them. Dr. William Coulson, who was a disciple of Rogers,
repented of what he had done and described the techniques in an interview with
Dr. William Mara, philosophy professor at Fordham University, published in
Latin Mass Magazine article about 25 years ago entitled: "We Overcame
Their Traditions, We Overcame Their Faith," in which he explains exactly
how it was done. The Jesuits were no exception. It was this scam that formed
the modern Jesuit Novus Ordo spirituality which gave us the likes of Pope
Francis. The HPM is antithetical to the Catholic faith. It begins assuming
either agnosticism or atheism, denies original sin, but faced with its
consequences, proposes phony programs to cure the problems of modern man.
Take
a look at the modern meaningless "synodal" cant.
KEY WORDS: Lexicography of Synodality
Discernment; Hopeful dialogue; Openness;
Empowering; Oneness; Authentic listening; Grassroots takeover; Excitement;
Humility (not to be confused with the virtue but rather describes one who goes
alone with the program); Engaged; Connection; Community; Diversity; Welcome;
Understanding; Acceptance; Affirmation; Listening with our hearts; Respect for
the laity; etc., etc.
Whenever they use real words, they employ a
foul duplicity in corrupting the meaning.
The
word “Mission,” and its cognates, occurs 48 times in document and is only
defined in vague platitudes but it does admit that the “Mission of the Church
is to Evangelize.” Unfortunately, the word “evangelization” and its cognates,
while occurring 5 times, is never defined. We must look back on the Synod of
the New Evangelization 2012 to try to get a sense for the entirely “new”
meaning of evangelization.
Synod
of Bishops: "The New Evangelization for the Transmission of the Christian
Faith" 2012 said, “The goal of evangelization today is, as always, the
transmission of the Christian faith” and that they “accomplish this task by
proclaiming and bearing witness to the Christian life through the
catechumenate, catechesis and works of charity.”
It
is true that a holy “Christian life” is the most effective and enduring of
Catholic witnesses, particularly when that witness is the life of a saint and
one given in martyrdom (witness), but the essential task of evangelization is
first and foremost “bearing witness to the Christian faith” and only then, to
“bearing witness to the Christian life.” Without the faith it is impossible to
please God, conform to the truth and obtain salvation. So what is the meaning
of “faith”? Vatican I defines faith as believing what God has revealed on the
authority of God the revealer. The richer the faith, the more virtuous the life
and the greater the witness. Evangelization, new or old, requires that
transmission of the revealed truth of God for the end of bringing others to the
life of grace through the sacraments and salvation. Why does all this become so
unintelligible with Neo-modernism since Vatican II? True evangelization is
destroyed because Neo-modernists do not possess the Catholic faith and what
they do not know, they cannot transmit to others. That is why for the
Neo-modernist evangelization no longer means "proselytism" which is
referred to by Francis as "solemn non-sense."
Get a load of this drivel:
In this sense, it is clear that the purpose of this Synod is not to
produce more documents. Rather, it is intended to inspire people to dream about
the Church we are called to be, to make people’s hopes flourish, to stimulate
trust, to bind up wounds, to weave new and deeper relationships, to learn from
one another, to build bridges, to enlighten minds, warm hearts, and restore
strength to our hands for our common mission (PD, 32). Thus the objective of
this Synodal Process is not only a series of exercises that start and stop, but
rather a journey of growing authentically towards the communion and mission
that God calls the Church to live out in the third millennium.
This journey together will call on us to renew our mentalities and our
ecclesial structures in order to live out God’s call for the Church amid the
present signs of the times. Listening to the entire People of God will help the
Church to make pastoral decisions that correspond as closely as possible to
God’s will (ITC, Syn., 68) The ultimate perspective to orient this synodal path
of the Church is to serve the dialogue of God with humanity (DV, 2) and to
journey together the kingdom of God (cf. LG, 9; RM, 20). In the end, this
Synodal Process seeks to move towards a Church that is more fruitfully at the
service of the coming of the kingdom of heaven.
Vademecum Document for the Synod on Synodality, Official Handbook for
Listening and Discernment in Local Churches, Diocesan and Bishops’ Conferences
in preparation for Synod on Synodality October 2023
So
God's will is discerned by directing the masses to endorse whatever you want to
do? Call it the new sensus fidei and
therefore the will of God? This is no more reliable than reading tea leaves or
examining the bowels of dead birds. What is uniformly true is that the
Neo-modernists cringe when you hold up examples of true Catholic evangelization
by Catholic saints like St. Peter and St. Paul recorded in the Acts of the
Apostles. Their example were faithfully followed by Ss. Augustine to the
English, Boniface to the Germans, Dominic, Francis, Hyacinth, Vincent Ferrer,
Bernadine of Siena, John Capistran, Ignatius Loyola, Francis Xavier, Peter
Claver, Peter Canisius, the North American Martyrs, etc., etc. The
Neo-modernists are not complete idiots. They can see clearly that their methods
used over the last fifty years have been an utter failure by every statistical
measurement. They pretend to have a greater vision, even claim to have the
vision of God, clinging to slogans like Pope Francis', "Time is greater
than space." Don't let immediate failures concern you for in the end we
will be proven right. Blah, blah, blah! The truth is they know exactly what they
are doing. The spirit they are following is not the Holy Ghost but the devil.
They are committed enemies of the faith. This is most evidently confirmed in
that their "living the Christian life" is rocked with scandal after
scandal. Again, the hypocrisy is evident when they claim a synodal process is
necessary to determine the will of God from the masses but when the masses are
not lining up for the next novelty, they claim to have direct knowledge of the
divine Will and then everyone is told to just shut-up and trust them because,
"time is greater than space."
Sensus fidei for the Neo-Modernist: Goal is to direct the mob and use the mob to confirm their heterodoxy!
“The Second
Vatican Council highlights that ‘all human beings are called to the new people
of God’ (LG, 13). God is truly at work in the entire people that he has
gathered together. This is why ‘the entire body of the faithful, anointed as
they are by the Holy One, cannot err in matters of belief. They manifest this
special property by means of the whole people’s supernatural discernment in
matters of faith when from the Bishops down to the last of the lay faithful,
they show universal agreement in matters of faith and morals’ (LG, 12).” Vademecum on Synodality Syndod
COMMENT: The word “universal”
is corrupted to exclude the attribute of time. A universal by definition
necessarily includes the attribute of time without which it is not a universal.
The sensus fidei that excludes time
considering only the current mass of Catholics at one specific historical
period looks only to popular trends and not Catholic truth. If every Catholic
in the Church at one given time holds a doctrine or moral position that is
contrary to the traditional teaching or practice, then it is not evidence of
the sensus fidei but rather evidence
of general apostasy and nothing more. “When the Son of man comes, will he find
faith on earth?” (Lk 18:8). The implied answer is No! He will find apostasy and
He will not call it a new sensus fidei.
Pope Francis
the Heretic: His mind denies truth, his will is set against the good.
“And it comes to my mind to
say something that may be foolish, or perhaps a heresy…”
“It is not licit to convince
them of your faith. Proselytism is the strongest venom against the ecumenical
path.”
“Do you need to convince
others to become Catholic? No, no, no!”
“This is a very grave sin
against ecumenism: proselytism. We should never proselytize the Orthodox!”
“I think that Martin
Luther’s intentions were not mistaken. Nowadays, Lutherans and Catholics, and
all Protestants, are in agreement on the doctrine of justification: on this
very important point he was not mistaken.”
“I’m a
firm believer in the principle of the slippery slope—the principle that the
logic of ideas, once accepted, will be worked out to their most extreme
consequences. Unless
rejected in principle.” Marc
Wauck
St. Dominic Painting
The
picture in the vestibule is a canvas print of a painting of St. Dominic (d.
1221) by Fra Bartolomeo Della Porta (d. 1517).
Fra Bartolomeo was considered the greatest Dominican painter after the
great Blessed Fra Angelico (d. 1455). He
was brought into the Dominican Order by Jerome Savonarola, O.P. (d. 1498) and
was one of his most ardent admirers.
Tradition relates that Fra Bartolomeo was one of the armed friars and
citizens that tried to defend the convent of San Marco when Savonarola was
captured by his enemies. He most
certainly was a witness when the Borgia Pope, Alexander VI, got his revenge by
having Savonarola burned as a “heretic.”
Fra Bartolomeo gave up painting for many years after the death of
Savonarola because, with his death, also ended the elevated principles of
artistic purpose which he brought to Florence.
Only under obedience did he once more begin to paint. One of his best known paintings is that of
Savonarola. That painting hung in the
cell of St. Catherine de Ricci (d. 1589), one of the greatest Dominican saints
who bore the stigmata for 47 years. Her
body remains incorrupt to this day. The
painting of St. Dominic emphasis the spiritual importance of silence in the
Dominican life as of essential importance to fulfill the key to the Dominican
vocation “to live, defend and propagate the faith.” The axiom, “the word of the Preacher must
flow from a soul of silence.” St.
Dominic, pray for us.
The Holy Office Letter of 1949 –
The Novel Doctrine of Salvation by
Implicit Desire
This
Heretical Letter Is the Doctrinal Foundation for Modernist Ecclesiology and
Ecumenism
“It is not always required that one be actually
incorporated as a member of the Church (for salvation), but this at least is
required: that one adhere to it in wish and desire. It is not always necessary
that this be explicit . . . but when a
man labors under invincible ignorance, God accepts even an implicit will,
called by that name because it is contained in the good disposition of soul in
which a man wills to conform his will to the will of God.”
Holy Office letter to Cardinal Richard Cushing of Boston, August 9, 1949, DS 3870
NOTE: The Holy Office letter of 1949 was never
entered into the Acta Apostolicae Sedis
and therefore it has no greater authority than a private letter from one bishop
to another. The quote provided authoritatively referenced a citation from the
encyclical of Pope Pius XII, Mystici
Corporis. The citation was
mistranslated to entirely corrupt the meaning of what Pope Pius XII said. The 1949 Letter was then published by
Cardinal Cushing of Boston, MA in 1952, one year after the death of its author,
Francesco Cardinal Marchetti-Selvaggiani. The letter was included in the 1962
edition of Denzinger, not by virtue of the authority of the letter, but rather
by the modernist agenda of its editor, Rev. Karl Rahner. This letter has come
to be the doctrinal foundation for the new Ecumenical Ecclesiology being
referenced in the decree Lumen Gentium
at Vatican II. The new Ecumenical
Ecclesiology has replaced St. Robert Bellarmine’s traditional definition that
the Catholic Church “is the society of Christian believers united in the
profession of the one Christian faith and the participation in the one
sacramental system under the government of the Roman Pontiff.” It is this new
Ecclesiology that is the underpinning for the Ecumenical transmutation of
nearly every Tradition in the Latin rite since Vatican II, the most important
of which is the traditional “received and approved” Roman rite of the
Mass. The 1949 letter is the foundation
of sand on which John Paul II’s ecumenical prayer meeting at Assisi stands.
"This sense of imminent crisis, of the
pressing need for moral reform and spiritual renovation, runs through all the
religious thought of the twelfth century.
That century which seems to us the Golden Age of medieval Catholicism -
the age of St. Anselm and St. Bernard, the age of the Crusades and the
Cathedrals, of the new religious Orders and the new schools - appeared to
contemporaries dark with the threat of the coming doom. Their attitude is summed up in the opening
lines of Bernard of Morlais' great rhythm, de
contemptu mundi:
Hora
novissima, tempora pessima sunt, vigilemus; Ecce minaciter imminet arbiter ille
supremus...
The
world is very evil; the times are waxing late; Be sober and keep vigil; the Judge
is at the gate".
Christopher Dawson, Religion and the Rise of
Western Culture
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 certian 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
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
The Sacrifice of the Cross wrought the remission of sin in general; in Holy Mass the virtue of Christ’s Blood is applied to this and that person individually. By His death and Passion Christ collected the riches which in the Mass are dealt out to us. His death is a treasury, Mass the key that unlocks it… Observe, therefore, what it really means to say or to hear Mass. To do so is equivalent to causing God, who once died for all mankind, to die over again in a mystical manner for me and you, and for each one present, just as if He suffered death for the sake of each one individually.
Paolo Segneri, SJ, 1624-1694, famous Jesuit
preacher who was made the theologian of the Paenitentiaria
by Pope Innocent XII.
That fabled (Judeo-Christian) tradition does
not exist, nor does the “Judeo-Christian ethic.” Though sharing a common origin
in the Hebrew Scriptures, the two faiths read the scriptural texts differently.
They believe in God, but view Him through different lenses. They each have a
story, but they are not the same. They each have a concept of man, but they are
not the same. They are both ethical religions, but with separate ideas of man’s
nature, salvation and destiny.
Raymond Apple, emeritus rabbi of the Great
Synagogue, Sydney, Australia. Published in Jerusalem
Post
True, Jesus has
loved us with an immense, infinite love, and He came on earth to suffer and die
so that, gathered around Him in justice and love, motivated by the same
sentiments of mutual charity, all men might live in peace and happiness.
But for the
realization of this temporal and eternal happiness, He has laid down with
supreme authority the condition that we must belong to His Flock, that we must
accept His doctrine, that we must practice virtue, and that we must accept the
teaching and guidance of Peter and his successors.
Further, whilst
Jesus was kind to sinners and to those who went astray, He did not respect
their false ideas, however sincere they might have appeared. He loved them all,
but He instructed them in order to convert them and save them. Whilst He
called to Himself in order to comfort them, those who toiled and suffered, it
was not to preach to them the jealousy of a chimerical equality. Whilst He
lifted up the lowly, it was not to instill in them the sentiment of a dignity
independent from, and rebellious against, the duty of obedience. Whilst His
heart overflowed with gentleness for the souls of good-will, He could also arm
Himself with holy indignation against the profaners of the House of God,
against the wretched men who scandalized the little ones, against the
authorities who crush the people with the weight of heavy burdens without
putting out a hand to lift them.
He was as
strong as He was gentle. He reproved, threatened, chastised, knowing, and
teaching us that fear is the beginning of wisdom, and that it is sometimes
proper for a man to cut off an offending limb to save his body.
Finally, He did not announce for future society the reign of an ideal happiness from which suffering would be banished; but, by His lessons and by His example, He traced the path of the happiness which is possible on earth and of the perfect happiness in heaven: the royal way of the Cross. These are teachings that it would be wrong to apply only to one’s personal life in order to win eternal salvation; these are eminently social teachings, and they show in Our Lord Jesus Christ something quite different from an inconsistent and impotent humanitarianism.
Pope St. Pius X, Apostolic Letter, Our Apostolic Mandate
“On earth, no mortal should
presume to reproach (redarguere) any faults to the Pontiff, because he
who has to judge (judicaturus) others, should not be judged (judicandus)
by anyone, unless he is
found deviating from the Faith.”
Gratian, the ‘Father of
Canon Law,’ Decree of Gratian,
(Pars I, D 40, c. 6)
The Judgment
of the Church against a Heretical Pope
“Further we
declare that there are two wills and principles of action, in accordance with
what is proper to each of the natures in Christ, in the way that the sixth
synod, that at (6)Constantinople, proclaimed, when it also publicly rejected Sergius, Honorius, Cyrus, Pyrrhus,
Macarius, those
uninterested in true holiness, and their like-minded followers.
“To summarize, we declare that
we defend free from any innovations all the—written and—unwritten ecclesiastical
traditions that have been entrusted to us.”
Seventh
Ecumenical Council, reaffirming the condemnation of Monothelitism and the monothelite heretics by the Sixth Ecumenical
Council, including Pope Honorius
“Further, we
accept the sixth, holy and universal synod (6 Constantinople III), which shares
the same beliefs and is in harmony with the previously mentioned synods in that
it wisely laid down that in the two natures of the one Christ there are, as a
consequence, two principles of action and the same number of wills. So, we
anathematize Theodore who was bishop of Pharan, Sergius, Pyrrhus, Paul and
Peter, the unholy prelates of the church of Constantinople, and with these, Honorius of Rome,
Cyrus of Alexandria as well as Macarius of Antioch and his disciple Stephen, who followed the false teachings
of the unholy heresiarchs Apollinarius, Eutyches and Severus and
proclaimed that the flesh of God, while being animated by a rational and
intellectual soul, was without a principle of action and without a will, they
themselves being impaired in their senses and truly without reason.” [……]
Eight
Ecumenical Council, reaffirming the condemnation of Monothelitism and the monothelite heretics by the Sixth Ecumenical
Council which included the Councils judgment and condemnation of Pope Honorius
And what have
we seen since the tyrannical imposition of the Novus Ordo?
If the
sacrifice of the Mass were ever extinguished, we would not delay falling into
the depraved condition in which peoples tainted with paganism found themselves,
and such will be the work of the Antichrist. He will seek every means of
preventing the celebration of Holy Mass so that this great counterweight may be
overthrown and God will put an end to all things, having no longer any reason
to keep them in existence. We can easily understand this, for since
Protestantism, we notice far less strength in the heart of society. Civil wars
have arisen bringing desolation in their wake, and that solely because the
intensity of the sacrifice of the Mass is reduced. This is the beginning of
what will happen when the devil and his followers will be unleashed over the
world.
Dom Gueranger
Baptism:
Necessary to become a child of God and Necessary to become a member of His Church,
Outside of which there is NO SALVATION!
“What is
Baptism, and is it necessary to all? This is the first sacrament of the New Law
and the most necessary, consisting in the external washing of the body and the
legitimate enunciation of the words in accordance with Christ’s institution. It
is a sacrament, I say, that is necessary not only for adults but also for
little ones, and is no less efficacious for them in obtaining eternal
salvation. All are born children of wrath; therefore even the little ones need
cleansing from sin, for they cannot be cleansed and be regenerated as children
of God without this sacrament. For as a general rule our Lawmaker declared,
‘unless a man is born again of water and the Holy Spirit he cannot enter the
Kingdom of God.’”
St. Peter
Canisius, Doctor of the Church, Theologian at the Council of Trent, Summa Doctrinae Christianae
“HoIy baptism,
which is the gateway to the spiritual life, holds the first place among all the
sacraments; through it we are made members of Christ and of the body of the
Church. And since death entered the universe through the first man, ‘unless we
are born again of water and the Spirit, we cannot’ as the Truth says, ‘enter
into the kingdom of heaven’ John 3:5]. The matter of this sacrament is real and
natural water.”
Pope Eugene IV,
The Council of Florence, Exultate Deo,
1439
“By one man sin
entered into the world, and by sin death... so that in them there may be washed
away by regeneration, what they have contracted by generation, ‘For unless a
man Is born again of water and the Holy Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of
God’” (John 3:5)
Council of
Trent, Session 5 on Original Sin
“If anyone
shall say that real and natural water is not necessary (de necessitate) for
baptism, and on that account should distort those words of Our Lord Jesus
Christ: ‘Unless a man is born again of water and the Holy Spirit’ [John 3:5]
into some metaphor: let him be anathema.”
Council of
Trent, Sess. 7, Canon 2 on the Sacrament of Baptism
Anti-Semitism’s “Working Definition”
The
International Holocaust Remembrance
Alliance (IHRA) (until
January 2013, known as the Task Force
for International Cooperation on Holocaust Education, Remembrance, and Research
or ITF) is an intergovernmental organization founded in 1998 which unites
governments and experts to strengthen, advance and promote Holocaust education,
research and remembrance worldwide and to uphold the commitments of the
Declaration of the Stockholm International Forum on the Holocaust. The IHRA has
34 member countries, one liaison country and seven
observer countries. (Wikipedia)
The
IHRA’s working definition for Antisemitism that has been adopted by member
countries:
“Antisemitism
is a certain perception of Jews, which may be expressed as hatred toward Jews.
Rhetorical and physical manifestations of antisemitism are directed toward
Jewish or non-Jewish individuals and/or their property, toward Jewish community
institutions and religious facilities.”
This “working definition,” although worded a little differently in light of their differing perspectives, is very close to the definition coined by Joe Sobran who said: “An anti-Semite used to mean a man who hated Jews. Now it means a man who is hated by Jews.” The IHRA’s definition it not grounded on any objective standard but solely on the subjective “perception of Jews.” You can expect this “working definition,” which has been adopted by U.S. government agencies to work its way into the United States legal code notwithstanding any legal niceties such as freedom of speech, equal protection under the law, etc. The Jewish religion is a race base belief that Jews possess a special salvific relationship with God because of their DNA irrespective of what they believe or what they do. Jesus Christ was killed by the Jews in part because he told them that this was not so. And like Jesus our Lord, the Catholic Church will necessarily fall under this definition of Anti-Semitism as well. Soon enough, the Novus Ordo Church of the New Advent will be calling faithful Catholics anti-Semites.
U.S. Politics: Jewish revolutionary, Saul Alinsky, died
6-12-1972 and will soon be celebrating his 50th year in hell. His
book, Rules for Radicals, enumerates twelve rules for effective political
organization:
·
RULE 1:
“Power is not only what you have, but what the enemy thinks you have.”
·
RULE 2:
“Never go outside the expertise of your people.”
·
RULE 3:
“Whenever possible, go outside the expertise of the enemy.”
·
RULE 4:
“Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.”
·
RULE 5:
“Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.”
·
RULE 6:
“A good tactic is one your people enjoy.”
·
RULE 7:
“A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag.”
·
RULE 8:
“Keep the pressure on. Never let up.”
·
RULE 9: “The
threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself.”
·
RULE 10:
“If you push a negative hard enough, it will push through and become a
positive.”
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RULE 11:
“The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative.”
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RULE 12:
“Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.”
The purpose of the “rules” is to impose the eight levels
of control that must be accomplished in the formation of a Godless socialist
state.
9. Healthcare — Control healthcare and you
control the people.
10. Poverty —Increase the Poverty level as high
as possible:’ poor people are easier to control and wiIl not fight back if you
are providing everything for them to live.
11. Debt — Increase the debt to an
unsustainable level. That way you are able to increase taxes, and this will
produce more poverty.
12. Gun Control— Remove the ability to defend
themselves from the government. That way you are able to create a police state.
13. Welfare — Take control of every aspect of
their lives (Food, Housing, and Income).
14. Education — Take control of what people
read and listen to — take control of what children learn in school.
15. Religion — Remove the belief in the God
from the government and schools.
16. Class Warfare – Divide the people into the
wealthy and the poor. This will cause more discontent, and it will be easier to
take (tax) the wealthy with the support of the poor.
Pope Francis: An Eschatological Overview
The massive emphasis on mercy–giving and receiving–is the key to
understanding the eschatological dimension of his pontificate
Vatican Insider | Stephen Walford | February 8, 2020
[….]This teaching on divine mercy is one
example where a beautiful convergence between authentic private revelation and
the magisterium has enabled the faithful to grasp an essential element of what
it means to live an authentic Christian life. But there is more to it than
that. In the Diary of St Faustina Kowalska, there is a little talked of, but
undeniable theme running through it: the Lord makes clear the season of divine
mercy is for the end times. St Faustina herself was told she would prepare the
world for the Lord’s second coming, while St John Paul II in 2002 referred to
the promise of Jesus to St Faustina that “a spark from Poland will prepare the
world for my final coming” as binding.
It is surely the case that Pope Francis
has–with the prompting of the Holy Spirit–taken what was in part embryonic in
the pontificate of St John Paul II, and placed mercy as the absolute key for
the future of the Church and the world. Its salvific message is plastered
across almost every page of the Holy Father’s writings in one way or another,
as the antidote to the ever increasing evil that offers only death and
destruction.
Fr Spadaro in his essay also touches upon
several teachings and attitudes that I too have long considered as of having
great importance in understanding this Pope: Francis shuns a millenarian view of the future of
humanity where some golden age of peace within history rules; his focus rests
solely on the criteria for a blessed Final Judgement as found in the
Beatitudes. The criteria, therefore is Jesus himself, since the Beatitudes are
in essence, a portrait of the Lord. Furthermore, the Pope sees
opportunities everywhere to build bridges and to invite reconciliation. No
situation or soul is beyond help or redemption in the time God allows for
conversion.
This charism of the Pope is the great dividing line between those who
understand him and those who do not. How can he sting like St John the Baptist,
yet at other times appear far too generous? In reality, he is following the
criteria of Jesus to the letter–some may say even rigidly! He condemns
hypocrisy, narcissism, self- love, and a pharisaical attitude that divides
between “them” and “us.” He continually invites, even demands help for the poor
and marginalised. His constant criticisms in Santa Marta simply warn us
that we will be judged on love, and that no defence attorney will be present if
we live now as armchair Christians with a Jonah syndrome. No, the Holy Father
cares deeply, he knows Jesus recoils at hypocrisy and spiritual apathy and
therefore in his heart, he must give the Church some tough love. What Pope
Francis is obviously aware of, is the sad reality that for even many Catholics,
Jesus’ warning concerning “love growing cold” (cf. Matt 24:12) applies now more
than ever. How many refuse to forgive, to apologise, to give of themselves
generously? How many create their own moral code, with excuses and exemptions?
How many prefer to look after their own interests no matter how much suffering
they leave in their wake? This
in reality is apostasy from the central Christian message: to love God and
neighbour. And thus charity, repentance, mercy are watered down to such an
extent that they become meaningless.
In an eschatological sense, I see Francis trying to form a Church that
is far more conformed to Jesus himself; one that is authentically evangelical;
one that has its foundations in the dirt and dust of its precious flock; one in
which love and humility are never again overshadowed by the lust for prestige,
power and worldly success. In short, this is the vision of a Church that is
being prepared as the Bride fit for her meeting with the Bridegroom.
Many Traditionalists are right though: there is a war, there is a
powerful enemy, there is an apocalyptic battle being waged, but they are being
seduced by that same enemy. The enemy is Satan, not Pope Francis, or other
Catholics who they don’t agree with. Pope Francis, as a realist, knows the
depth of this spiritual war, but he also knows wounded souls (no matter how
those wounds came about) need love and mercy. They need salvation and are not
to be seen as enemies fighting for the other side. This attitude of mercy is
entirely in line with Jesus rebuking James and John, who suggested sending down
fire from heaven on those who did not welcome the Lord (Lk 9:54).
The division being caused by those opposed to the Holy Father, does
nothing other than serve the cause of Satan in creating confusion and doubt in
the hearts of ordinary Catholics. Satan, of course, does not care too much with
“the world” –he desires far more to destroy the Lord’s work in His Church; to
suffocate the sacramental life from souls and to present preaching as
hypocritical nonsense. He despises this Pope because Francis shines a
light on his deviousness, and because the Holy Father is willing to take risks
for the sake of the lost sheep.
Pope Francis has also contributed to the
Marian Era that began in the mid nineteenth century; a period of time
prophesied by St Louis de Montfort as preparation for the second coming of
Jesus. Not only his very personal Marian devotion, but his emphasis on the
church as Mother in imitation of Mary– including the new Feast of Mary Mother
of the Church– has enabled the Church to reflect ever more the Marian dimension
in its mission to bring the salvation of her Son to all. The Pope’s protection of
Medjugorje should also be seen in this context. This Marian dimension is
essential in the years ahead because it prepares for the Triumph of the Immaculate
Heart of Mary, when divine love will proclaim the final victory; it moulds the
faithful into humble souls who imitate Mary, and who follow her command to “do
whatever He tells you” (Jn 2:5).
Of course, Pope Francis, like his
predecessors shuns idle speculation and sees a danger in spending time immersed
in apocalyptic literature especially from private revelation. What is
important, is to keep an Advent spirit of watchfulness; to continually discern
the signs of the times, but always with a vision of hope for eschatological
glory, and not some intra historical era that will never come. Faith tells us
that we can see a dawn breaking on the horizon, from the East; we can see the
signs that summer is near (Matt 24:32), but we also know that until that Day
arrives, the spiritual war will become more intense. To remain loyal to the Pope and his magisterium is
to have a sure guide for what is still to come; it is to help avoid the
pitfalls that will inevitably hurt us, but above all, it will keep us close to
Jesus Christ.
In the magisterium and prophetic voice of Pope Francis, we are told to
strip ourselves of all that hinders a full adherence to the Gospel:
“Along this journey, the cultivation of all that is good, progress in the
spiritual life and growth in love are the best counterbalance to evil. Those
who choose to remain neutral, who are satisfied with little, who renounce the
ideal of giving themselves generously to the Lord, will never hold out. Even
less if they fall into defeatism, for “if we start without confidence, we have
already lost half the battle and we bury our talents… Christian triumph is
always a cross, yet a cross which is at the same time a victorious banner,
borne with aggressive tenderness against the assaults of evil”
Even if we do not know the day or the hour,
we do know how to keep our lamps lit; we know how to prepare. A revolution of love, tenderness
and mercy is Pope Francis’ answer to the reality of the Last Judgment, from
which no one can escape, and which in a very real sense is already in progress.
If holiness is grasped with both hands, then the apocalypse holds no fears; in
fact it presents a wealth of opportunities to serve the Lord.
Maranatha is the prayer that can and should live joyfully in the hearts
of the faithful in this season of mercy. We can take it to the poor, the sick,
the lonely, announcing that their liberation is near. And even if centuries are
still to pass by, the Church will live by a new evangelical urgency that will
ensure the torch of hope burns bright until the true light comes to illuminate
a transfigured creation. Pope Francis is playing a vital part in ensuring the
Church prepares well for whatever the Lords asks it to go through in the
future. Let us pray for him and his immensely important task.
COMMENTARY on Overview of the
Eschatology of Francis:
The first problem
with the theologian Stephen
Walford, and it is a huge problem, is that he makes the pope his
proximate rule of faith and not Dogma. He therefore cannot distinguish between
the pope’s personal magisterium based upon his grace of state and the
Magisterium of the Church based upon the attribute of Infallibility that Jesus
Christ endowed His Church. Whatever the current pope says or does becomes his
rule of faith and is necessarily, in his estimation, the work of the Holy
Ghost. Beginning with this colossal error, he works to build a bridge between
the teaching of a heretical pope and the Catholic faithful.
But
putting this error aside, he brings up a question that the Catholic faithful
must be able to answer clearly with the revealed truth of God. So what is wrong with the modern
popes emphasis of divine mercy? The problem is essentially that
emphasize divine mercy in opposition to divine justice and not as a different
facet of the same jewel. Walford seems to be correct in that the popes of the
Church of the New Advent believe that we are in the last age of the Church
before the second coming of Jesus Christ. They also believe that this age is
the time of mercy (as if other ages were not) and not justice (as if other ages
were). Benedict/Ratzinger held an interview with Jacques Servais, S.J.
conducted in October of 2015 on questions of Faith and Justification. The
interview was read by the Prefect of the Pontifical Household, Archbishop Georg
Gänswein, to a subsequent Conference in November 2015 on Justification and
published in March of 2016. In this interview Benedict/Ratzinger places in
constant opposition the attributes of God’s mercy and God’s justice repeatedly
characterizing His justice as “cruelty.” He quotes in support of his theology
John Paul II who was “deeply impregnated with this impulse,” and Pope Francis
whom he praises for his “pastoral practice (that) is expressed in the fact that
he continually speaks to us of God’s mercy.” These popes all point to the
gospel description of the last judgment in which the criteria for salvation or
condemnation are the corporal works of mercy. Therefore they conclude, what one
believes is of no importance but rather what one does for his fellow man. Thus,
after dividing justice and mercy, they drive a wedge between faith and charity.
It is from this that the term “evangelization” is redefined and distinguished
from “proselytism,” heretofore they have always been considered as necessary
compliments as a cause is to its direct effect. Proselytism, the traditional
fruit of evangelization, converting others to the true faith, is condemned as
“solemn nonsense” and the new evangelization becomes only dialogue to exchange
opinions for the end of promoting corporal works of mercy.
Wisdom
is the perfect knowledge of the most important things in their right order of
reference. Discounting malice, Pope Francis has no wisdom because he has no
right order of reference. “Without faith it is impossible to please God.” (Heb
11:6) Charity, which is the friendship between God and man through grace, is
greater than Faith, which is believing what God has revealed on the authority
of God, but without Faith, Charity is impossible. No one can have the
friendship of God who does not believe His Truth. Acts of Charity are an
extension of the virtue of Charity because they are entirely grounded upon
seeing the image of God in other men. There can be no Charity without Faith,
and although Charity is greater than Faith, Faith takes precedence in time. St.
Thomas considers sins against Faith as the greatest of all sins because they
radically separate the person from God and the possibility of Charity. In the Acts
of the Apostles, the apostles began the work of evangelization by making
proselytes out of the Jews and pagans. When the Faithful of the Church grew
from these labors, the obligation for works of Charity correspondingly
increased. What did the apostles do? They established the deaconate to attend
to works of Charity so that these works of Charity would not impede the work of
evangelization to make new proselytes.
The
second coming of Jesus Christ will be characterized by the Great Apostasy from
the Faith as described by St. Paul: “Let no man deceive you by any means, for unless there come a revolt first,
and the man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition...” (2 Thess. 2:3) Jesus
said, “Will not God revenge his elect who cry to him day and night: and will he
have patience in their regard? I say to you, that he will quickly revenge them.
But yet the Son of man,
when he cometh, shall he find, think you, faith on earth?” (Luke 18:7-8)
We are now in the Great Apostasy for at no time in history has the apostasy
been so generalized and extended to the summit of Church authority.
Try
as they may, it is impossible to drive a wedge between God’s justice and God’s
mercy. God is perfect Act and infinite Simplicity. He is present wherever He
acts. There are no distinguished parts in God. Mercy is only possible in the
context of justice and vice versa, otherwise the entire Passion of Jesus Christ
becomes meaningless. Jesus does not suffer the cruelty of His passion from the
direct will of the Father but from sinful men by the Father’s permissive will.
It is not the cruelty of God but cruelty of sinful men. Jesus as the Son of Man
willingly suffers His Passion firstly gives honor and glory to the Father in
the name of mankind to the end of redeeming man from sin.
“Without
faith it is impossible to please God.” It is only through Faith that Charity
can exist without which the merits of the redemptive suffering of Christ’s
passions cannot be personally gained. “Therefore I said to you, that you shall
die in your sins. For if
you believe not that I AM he, you shall die in your sin. They said
therefore to him: Who art thou? Jesus said to them: The beginning (I AM), who
also speak unto you” (John 8:24-25).
In
the last judgment when God makes a radical public distinction between “them”
and “us,” Jesus Christ will say, “When I was thirsty and you gave me to drink”
(Matt 35:25). The faithful will ask,
“Lord, when did we see thee… thirsty and give thee to drink?” (37). Jesus will
say, “Amen I say to you, as long as you did it to one of these my least brethren [that is, ‘As many
of you as have been baptized in Christ, have put on Christ’ (Gal 3:27) when
they were ‘born again by water and the Holy Ghost’ (John 3:5),] you did it to
me.” Only the faithful can see the image of God in other and the likeness
restored by the grace of Jesus Christ in the “brethren.”
Then
He will say to those on His left condemned to hell, “Amen I say to you, as long
as you did it not to one of these least (that is, the “brethren” of Christ),
neither did you do it to me” (45). Christ dwells in the souls of the faithful
by Charity. Those condemned did not see Christ in the faithful. Those who are
condemned may have given a drink to the thirsty but without faith, they did not
see the image of God in the other,
and therefore, they did not do it for Him. They were not works of Charity but
works of human philanthropy. Works of mercy do not profit for salvation without
Faith. While Faith can exist without Charity, Charity cannot exist without
Faith in this world. Faith will pass with death but Charity will remain. That
is why the last judgment is determined by acts of mercy and not articles of
Faith because at the Last Judgment everyone will believe.
The
modern Church of the New Advent is in true apostasy which is, by definition,
the actual denial of revealed truth. They do not do works of mercy that profit
for eternal salvation because they do not have faith. Yet Walford claims, in a
remarkable inversion of divine Wisdom, that apostasy is failure in works of mercy rather
than that apostasy is the failure of faith which in turn leads to the failure
of works of mercy. The rank hypocrisy in this claim is evident in that Catholic
institutions doing works of mercy have crumbled since Vatican II when the age
of mercy supposedly got underway. And still, the popes of the Church of the New
Advent do not get it. Only by preaching the faith will acts of mercy again
abound. Jesus said to St. John the Baptist who resisted baptizing Him, “For so
it becometh us to fulfill all justice” (Matt 3:15). The Church of the New
Advent cannot have part in the mercy of God because they have no part with Him
to “fulfill all justice.” The blasphemy is this: the modern popes believe they
are more merciful than God.
They
proclaim the era of mercy in opposition to God’s “cruel” justice while
essentially removing all penitential practices during Lent while accusing traditionalist
Catholics of being “seduced by Satan” and “serving the cause of Satan” by the
“division… creating confusion and doubt
in the hearts of ordinary Catholics” when they oppose the rank heresy of
Pope Francis. The implications of this division between justice-mercy and
charity-faith overturns the Catholic dogmas on justification. The Church of the
New Advent has a Lutheran conception of justification. In the Servais interview
Benedict/Ratzinger said, “It seems to me that in the theme
of divine mercy is expressed in a new way what is meant by justification by
faith. Starting from the mercy of God, which everyone is looking for, it is
possible even today to interpret anew the fundamental nucleus of the doctrine
of justification, and have it appear again in all its relevance.”
Benedict/Ratzinger “interprets anew” by mischaracterizing the Catholic dogmatic
teaching on justification as “the conceptuality of St. Anselm” which he says “has now become for us
incomprehensible” because it necessarily includes
the justice of God. He then adds, “Only where there is mercy does cruelty end, only with mercy do evil and violence end. Pope Francis is totally in
agreement with this line. His pastoral practice is expressed in the fact that
he continually speaks to us of God’s mercy. It is mercy that moves us toward
God, while justice frightens us before Him.” What is worse, Benedict/Ratzinger
adds that God “simply cannot leave 'as is' the
mass of evil that comes from the freedom that he himself has granted. Only He,
coming to share in the world's suffering, can redeem the world.” So God becomes
responsible for the “mass of evil” in the world because He is
responsible for granting man “freedom” and is therefore compelled by justice “to share in the world's suffering” to “redeem the world”! The end of this is that God has a necessary obligation in justice for
mercy. The corollary to this is that man has an unconditional right to divine
mercy.
God
is not compelled to anything outside Himself. He cannot positively will evil.
He can and does permit evil only because He and He alone is capable of bring
good out of evil. No man can earn God's mercy and eternal salvation on their
own merits.
“Charity is man’s friendship with God based
on man’s share in the Divine Life, in the happiness of God Himself. But man
cannot naturally share in God’s own life. Man’s participation in the Divine
Life is a free supernatural gift which God gives to man. Charity then cannot be
acquired by any purely human effort. It is a gift of God infused in man’s soul
by God’s goodness and generosity. Charity, like the other theological virtues,
is a supernatural virtue infused in the will by God Himself. Who can give man a
share in the Divine Love except God Himself?”
Rev. Walter Farrell, O. P., My Way of Life, Pocket Edition of St.
Thomas
A
faithful Catholic in the state of grace is able to merit eternal life and atone
for his sins because of his union by grace with Jesus Christ in Charity. This
is what gives value to his prayers, penances, and mortifications without which
they have no value at all in obtaining a supernatural end. This union of
Charity with Christ by grace permits the faithful to not only atone for their
own sins but also for the sins of others as St. Paul said, “Who now rejoice in
my sufferings for you, and fill up those things that are wanting of the
sufferings of Christ, in my flesh, for his body, which is the church” (Col
1:24). And thus:
“The observance of Lent is the
very badge of the Christian warfare. By it, we prove ourselves not to be
enemies of the Cross of Christ. By it, we avert the scourges of divine justice.
By it we gain strength against the princes of darkness, for it shields us with
heavenly help. Should mankind grow remiss in their observance of Lent, it would
be a detriment to God’s glory, a disgrace to the Catholic religion, and a
danger to Christian souls. Neither can it be doubted, but that such negligence
would become the source of misery to the world, of public calamity, and of
private woe.”
Pope Benedict XIV, encyclical, May 30, 1741
Without
the justice of God there could be no mercy and without God’s mercy there could
be no justice. The faithful rejoice in the justice of God for by it we are made
children of God and can merit eternal life. Those who divide God's mercy from
His justice and believe that eternal life awaits them without the necessity of
Faith and penance are whistling in the wind. There will not have any part with
God in eternal life. May God in His mercy keep us in the right Faith, a burning
Charity and a penitential spirit until our last breath.
Hermeneutics of Continuity/Discontinuity
Modern Novel Opinion:
Archbishop Di Noia explains the fundamental change, the major shift, the
new concept that Traditionalists will not be able to accept immediately.
The Church’s deep commitment to
reconciliation with the Jewish People is personified today by Benedict
XVI. The Ecumenical Council wrought a fundamental change. Then John Paul II, above all
others, brought home Paul’s message that Judaism and Jews have a unique place
in salvation history. Nobody can deny that Karol Wojtyla’s Pontificate marked a
major shift in the theological understanding
of Judaism within the Catholic Church.
[....] Vatican II repudiated anti-Semitism and presented a positive
picture of Judaism. John Paul II took us further in recognizing the
significance of the Jewish People for Christianity itself. This is a new concept which we know the Traditionalists
will not be able to accept immediately. Convincing them will take time, and in
this respect we will have to be patient.
Archbishop
J. Augustine Di Noia, Adjunct Secretary for Congregation for the Doctrine of
the Faith & Vice-Prefect of Ecclesia Dei
Catholic Dogma:
Therefore I say to you, the
kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people yielding its
fruits.
Jesus
Christ, Matt. 21:43
The
Most Holy Roman Church firmly believes, professes and preaches that none of
those existing outside the Catholic Church, not only pagans, but also Jews,
heretics, and schismatics can ever be partakers of eternal life, but that they
are to go into the eternal fire which was prepared for the devil and his
angels, (Mt. 25:41) unless before death they are joined with
her; and that so important is the unity of this Ecclesiastical Body, that only
those remaining within this unity can profit from the sacraments of the Church
unto salvation, and that they alone can receive an eternal recompense for their
fasts, almsdeeds, and other works of Christian piety and duties of a Christian
soldier. No one, let his almsgiving be as great as it may, no one, even if he
pour out his blood for the Name of Christ, can be saved unless they abide
within the bosom and unity of the Catholic Church.
Council
of Florence
The most holy Roman Church firmly believes,
professes, and teaches that the Mosaic Law cannot be observed without the loss
of eternal salvation. Every one, therefore, who observes circumcision and the
Sabbath and the other requirements of the Law, the Church declares not in the
least fit to participate in eternal salvation.
Council of Florence
Now
in saying a new, he hath made the former old. And that which decayeth and
groweth old, is near its end.
St.
Paul, Heb. 8:13
Catholic Faith vs. Modernist Experience
“In
the Catholic sense, Revelation is something external, something that comes to
the soul from without, from the oral teaching of Christ and the Church, and
Faith is acceptance of that Revelation. In the Modernist sense, Revelation is
wholly internal, a psychological experience, and Faith is the souls response to
it. To the Catholic, Revelation is statement, and Faith is belief in the
statement made. To the Modernist, Revelation and Faith are experience. To the
Catholic, the content of Revelation, which is the object of Faith, is truth
addressed to the intelligence. To the Modernist, it is truth addressed to the
feelings, to the emotional faculty. That brings religion perilously near to
Matthew Arnold's definition of religion: Morality touched with emotion.”
Fr.
J. M. Bampton, S.J.
And if anyone would know, it would be Benedict!
“The
greatest persecution of the Church comes not from her enemies without, but
arises from sin within the Church.”
Pope
Benedict XVI
As we suffer under the moral
and doctrinal Novelties of Pope Francis, it is evident why he wanted the Master
of Novelty, Paul VI, to become another novel Novus Ordo saint. Montini is the man who coined the Spirit of
Vatican II in one word: NOVELTY in order to please men.
Faithful Catholics Profess:
“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. For do I now
persuade men, or God? Or do I seek to please men? If I yet pleased men, I
should not be the servant of Christ.”
St.
Paul, Galatians 1, 8-10
“Blind
that they are, and leaders of the
blind, inflated with a boastful science, they have reached that pitch of
folly where they pervert the eternal concept of truth and the true nature of
the religious sentiment; with that new system of theirs they are seen to be
under the sway of a blind and unchecked passion for novelty, thinking not at all of finding some solid
foundation of truth, but despising the holy and apostolic traditions, they
embrace other vain, futile, uncertain doctrines, condemned by the Church, on
which, in the height of their vanity, they think they can rest and maintain
truth itself.”
St. Pius X, Pascendi
“A lamentable spectacle is that presented by
the aberrations of human reason when it yields to the spirit of novelty, when against the warning of the Apostle it
seeks to know beyond what it is meant to know, and when relying too much on
itself it thinks it can find the fruit outside the Church wherein truth is
found without the slightest shadow of error.”
Pope Gregory XVI, Singulari nos, 1834, quoted by St. Pius X in Pascendi
“It is impossible to approve in Catholic
publications of a style inspired by unsound novelty which seems to deride the
piety of the faithful and dwells on the introduction of a new order of
Christian life, on new
directions of the Church, on new aspirations of the modern soul, on a new
vocation of the clergy, on a new Christian civilization.”
Leo
XIII, Jan 27, 1902, quoted by St. Pius X in Pascendi
Paul VI Professes:
“... We wish to make our own the important words employed by
the Council; those words which define its spirit, and, in a dynamical
synthesis, form the spirit of all those who refer to it, be they within or
without the Church. The word NOVELTY, simple, very dear to todays men, is much
utilized; it is theirs... That word... it was given to us as an order, as a
program... It comes to us directly from the pages of the Holy Scripture:
For, behold (says the Lord), I create new heavens and a new earth. St. Paul
echoes these words of the prophet Isaiah; then, the Apocalypse: I am making
everything new. And Jesus, our Master, was not He, himself, an innovator? You
have heard that people were told in the past ... but now I tell you...–
Repeated in the Sermon on the Mount.
“It is precisely thus that the Council has come to us. Two terms
characterize it: RENOVATION and REVISION. We are particularly keen that
this spirit of renovation–
according to the expression of the Council – be understood and experienced by
everyone. It responds to the characteristic of our time, wholly engaged
in an enormous and rapid
transformation, and generating novelties in every sector of modern life. In
fact, one cannot shy away from this spontaneous reflection: if the whole world
is changing, will not religion change as well?
Between the reality of life and Christianity, Catholicism especially,
is not there reciprocal disagreement, indifference, misunderstanding, and
hostility? The former is leaping forward; the latter would not move. How
could they go along? How could Christianity claim to have, today, any influence
upon life?
“And it is for this reason that the Church
has undertaken some reforms, especially after the Council. The Episcopate is about to
promote the renovation that corresponds to our present needs; Religious Orders
are reforming their Statutes; Catholic laity is qualified and found its role
within the life of the Church; Liturgy is proceeding with a reform in which
anyone knows the extension and importance; Christian education reviews the
methods of its pedagogy; all the canonical legislations are about to be revised.
And how many other consoling and promising novelties we shall see
appearing in the Church! They attest to Her new vitality, which shows
that the Holy Spirit animates Her continually, even in these years so crucial
to religion. The development of ecumenism, guided by Faith and Charity, itself
says what progress, almost unforeseeable, has been achieved during the course
and life of the Church. The Church looks at the future with Her heart brimming
with hope, brimming with fresh expectation in love... We can say... of the
Council: It marks the onset of a new era, of which no one can deny the new
aspects that We have indicated to you.”
Paul
VI, General Audience, July 2, 1969
Remember the “miracles” that provided evidence for the
sanctity of this Novelty Master? Two cases where the medical prognosis by
morally degenerate abortionists proved to be incorrect!
“This second miracle attributed to Pope
Paul VI concerned the healing of an unborn in the fifth month of pregnancy.
According to the Catholic News Agency the mother, from Verona in Italy, had an
illness that risked her own life and the life of her unborn and was advised to
have an abortion.
A few days after the beatification of Paul
VI by Pope Francis in October 2014, the mother prayed to the now Blessed Paul
VI at a shrine in Lombardy and the baby girl was later born in good health.
The first miracle involving Pope Paul VI
took place in California in the 1990s. It also concerned an unborn which was
found to have a serious health problem that could mean brain damage. Doctors
advised that it be aborted, but the mother entrusted her pregnancy to Paul VI.
The child was born healthy. Irish Times,
Feb 6, 2018
Hermeneutics of
Continuity/Discontinuity
Modernist Heresy
“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.”
Benedict/Ratzinger, Faith and the Future
Catholic Truth
If anyone does
not confess that the world and all things which are contained in it, both
spiritual and material, were produced, according to their whole substance, out of nothing
by God; or holds that God did not create by his will free from all necessity,
but as necessarily as he necessarily loves himself; or denies that the world
was created for the glory of God: let him be anathema
Vatican Council
I, Dogmatic Constitution
on the Catholic Faith
Modernist Heresy
“At this time the idea of salvation
history had moved to the focus of inquiry posed by Catholic theology and this
had cast new light on the notion of revelation, which neo-scholasticism had
kept too confined to the intellectual realm. Revelation now appeared no longer simply as a
communication of truths to the intellect but as a historical action of God in
which truth becomes gradually unveiled.” Benedict/Ratzinger,
Milestones (Memoirs 1927-1977), published 1998
Catholic Truth
For
the doctrine of faith which God has revealed has not been proposed, like a
philosophical invention, to be perfected by human ingenuity; but has been
delivered as a divine deposit to the Spouse of Christ, to be faithfully kept
and infallibly declared. Hence also, that meaning of the sacred dogmas is
perpetually to be retained which our holy Mother the Church has once declared;
nor is that meaning ever to be departed from, under the pretext of a deeper
comprehension of them. Vatican I
“Fourthly,
I sincerely hold that the doctrine of faith was handed down to us from the
apostles through the orthodox Fathers in exactly the same meaning and always in
the same purport. Therefore, I entirely reject the heretical misrepresentation
that dogmas evolve and change from one meaning to another different from the
one which the Church held previously. I also condemn every error according to
which, in place of the divine deposit which has been given to the spouse of
Christ to be carefully guarded by her, there is put a philosophical figment or
product of a human conscience that has gradually been developed by human effort
and will continue to develop indefinitely.”
Oath
Against Modernism
“We
see many of the Euro-Atlantic countries are actually rejecting their own roots,
including the Christian values that constitute the basis of Western
civilization. They are denying moral principles and all traditional
identities: national identity, cultural, religious--and even sexual. They are implementing policies that
equate large families with same sex partnerships, belief in God with a belief
in Satan.”
Vladimir
Putin, Davos Conference –World Economic Forum
Catholic high school student arrested after suspension for opposing
transgender ideology
'Offense is obviously defined by the offended,' 16-year-old Josh
Alexander said
FOX NEWS | Jon Brown | February 7, 2023
A Catholic high school student in Canada
was arrested Monday after being suspended for protesting against transgender
people's use of bathrooms and saying there are only two genders – and now he's
appealing to Ontario's human rights tribunal.
Josh Alexander, 16, said the leadership of
St. Joseph’s Catholic High School in Renfrew, Ontario, told him that his
continued attendance would be "detrimental to the physical and mental
well-being" of transgender students, according to the Epoch Times.
The high school junior tweeted that Ontario
police arrested and charged him after he attempted to attend class in violation
of an exclusion order following his suspension earlier this school year.
"Offense is obviously defined by the
offended," Alexander told the Epoch Times. "I expressed my
religious beliefs in class and it spiraled out of control. Not everybody’s
going to like that. That doesn’t make me a bully. It doesn’t mean I’m harassing
anybody. They express their beliefs and I express mine. Mine obviously don’t
fit the narrative."
High
school junior Josh Alexander is appealing to Ontario's human rights tribunal
after he was allegedly suspended from his Catholic school for saying there are
only two genders. (Liberty Coalition Canada)
Alexander, who described himself as a
"born-again Christian" and led student action in support of last
year's trucker convoy, reportedly has not been to school since he was first
suspended in November. He was hit with a suspension for allegedly organizing
protests at his school against biological males in girls' bathrooms and arguing
in class that God created two unchangeable genders.
"Multiple students, including trans
students, were kind of shouting me down," the student told the Epoch Times
of the classroom exchange.
Alexander said he was told by his principle
that he was allowed to return to school only if he stopped using the "dead
name," or given name, of transgender students and excluded himself from
classes with two transgender students who objected to his religious views about
gender.
[....]
Alexander's lawyer, James Kitchen, said the
school has accused his client of "bullying" transgender students.
"Obviously, he doesn’t actually bully
them as that term would be defined by … reasonable people," Kitchen told
the Epoch Times. "He’s not going to seek them out and call them names and
make fun of them. But he does express his views about what these people say and
about what they believe and about what they’re doing. And he expresses them
online, and he expresses them in the class." [....]
COMMENT:
This young 16 year-old Catholic has been expelled from a Catholic school for
simply expressing the Catholic faith as an opinion and not for insisting that
the Catholic religion should form the foundational first principles and be the
guiding light for a Catholic school. This is beyond apostasy by the Catholic
diocesan officials. It constitutes a complete turning to Satanism. It is
Antichrist.
"No matter what may
happen, since no one may justifiably command another to sin, and since no one
is permitted to obey such a command, no one may ever blame another—even an
errant pope—for his sins. Conversely, the failure of any person—even the
pope—to keep God's law or to preserve his own faith, does not excuse any other
person for his failure to do the same. Ignorance of the law or ignorance of the
Faith is never an excuse for sinning; one is bound to know when he is being
commanded to sin."
Fr. James Wathen, The Great Sacrilege
On Penance
St. Paul says:
I beseech you to offer your bodies to God as a sacrifice of mortification and
penance, but in such wise that this sacrifice may be holy and acceptable in His
sight. That it may become so, he adds, this painful sacrifice of mortification
must be reasonable, that is, made with discretion and without excess....
However, to the
effect that penance may be discreet and reasonable, conformably with the
instruction left us by the Apostle of the Gentiles, it must fulfill two
conditions, according to the rules which the Holy Fathers have prescribed for
its practice. First, it should mortify the body, but not injure the health.
Secondly, it must not hinder our fulfillment of the duties attached to our
state of life. St. Basil expresses himself clearly in his Constitutions as to
the former of these conditions; he will have penance taken in a measure
proportioned to the strength of the body. Notice that by continence the holy
Doctor here means bodily austerities. We should imitate the camel, which kneels
to receive its burden, but which, when sufficiently laden, rises to its feet,
and refuses to take more. As St. Bernard says, the body must be afflicted by
penance in such degree as to prevent its unruly turning against the spirit; but
it is not to be disabled or annihilated, so as to hinder it contributing to the
exercise of the inner virtues, which are by far the most useful. St. Gregory
the Great is of the like mind, when he says that in the use of penance we
should keep within these bounds: we should not slay the flesh, but only its
unruly passions.
Rev. John
Baptist Scaramelli, S.J., Guide to the
Spiritual Life
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
Society has
already reached a sense of being “frustrated, defeated, lost and
futureless.” The Novus Ordo Church is
the both a cause and major contributor of 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
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 was sentenced to 4 years and 9 months in
prison. Sandro Magister
March is
dedicated to the honor of St. Joseph
There are only two relics of Saint Joseph
which have been left to us. The marriage ring he gave to the Blessed Virgin is
at Perugia, in Italy. His cincture is at Joinville, in France.
Saint Joseph died before Our Lord did. I am
prepared to believe, and so may you, although the Church has not yet infallibly
so defined, that Saint Joseph’s body rose with Christ and that he is in Heaven
body and soul, crowned with glory and honor — because, next to Our Lord and Our
Lady, he is the highest of all the saints.
How do we know, in loving Christian faith,
that Saint Joseph’s body is in Heaven? Well, because he and Jesus and Mary make
up the Holy Family. Just imagine the Holy Family in Heaven, with one body
missing! When we pray for a happy death, we pray to Jesus, Mary and Joseph to
be with us in our last agony, and Mary and Jesus having bodies and being able
to be with us, and Saint Joseph alone left in the order of sheer soul!
Saint Bernardine of Siena and Saint Francis
de Sales both proclaimed their belief in the resurrection of the body of Saint
Joseph from the dead, and his ascension into Heaven along with Our Lord, Jesus
Christ. No Holy Father ever scolded them for so speaking, and Our Holy Mother
the Church canonized them despite this utterance. Fr. Leonard Feeney, S.J., taken from The Bread of Life
Virgin most faithful, pray for us! As the Passion and Death of
Jesus Christ is Recapitulated in His Church
At the time of the Passion of our Lord who, I ask you, were the
faithful ones that continued with our Lord to the end?... Weigh well the
answer: Those who remained in the company of Mary. Whence had they this great
grace? From her all-powerful intercession. As it was then, so will it be again:
and it will be well for us to think of this earnestly, seriously: not
carelessly, but with thought and prayer.
Venerable Mother Mary Potter, Foundress of the Little Company of Mary,
known as the “Blue Nuns”
Same old, same old!!!
It has recently come to our ears, not
without great pain to us, that in some parts of upper Germany, as well as in
the provinces, cities, territories, regions, and dioceses of Mainz, Koln,
Trier, Salzburg, and Bremen, many persons of both sexes, heedless of their own salvation
and forsaking the Catholic Faith, give themselves over to devils male and
female, and by their incantations, charms, and conjurings, and by other
abominable superstitions and sortileges, offences, crimes, and misdeeds, ruin
and cause to perish the offspring of women, the foal of animals, the products
of the earth, the grapes of vines, and the fruits of trees, as well as men and
women, cattle and flocks and herds and animals of every kind, vineyards also
and orchards, meadows, pastures, harvests, grains and other fruits of the
earth; that they afflict and torture with dire pains and anguish, both internal
and external, these men, women, cattle, flocks, herds, and animals, and hinder
men from begetting and women from conceiving, and prevent all consummation of
marriage; that, moreover, they deny with sacrilegious lips the Faith they
received in holy Baptism; and that, at the instigation of the enemy of mankind,
they do not fear to commit and perpetrate many other abominable offences and
crimes, at the risk of their own souls, to the insult of the divine majesty and
to the pernicious example and scandal of multitudes.
Pope Innocent VIII, Sumnis desideranter affectibus, 1484, condemnation of Witchcraft
Insight on recent developments on the ongoing Catholic Church vs. The
World
The
sexual degradation of America’s children in government schools and in the
media, the open borders, the Soros District Attorney’s privileging the criminal
class—these are not incidental parts of the Great Reset. They are essential
tactics in destroying and subjugating the middle classes by destroying their
values.
OK, so, with that we pivot to one American
Catholic bishop calling an American Catholic Cardinal/Bishop ... a heretic.
Here I quote from Lifesite News, which links to the original statement:
(Life SiteNews) — Bishop Thomas Paprocki [Springfield, IL] stepped up
his criticism of Cardinal Robert McElroy, accusing the San Diego cardinal and
other dissident prelates of “heresy” and suggesting that they have
excommunicated themselves from the Catholic Church. Writing in First Things on
Tuesday, Bishop Paprocki said that McElroy’s call to give Holy Communion to
grave sinners, including homosexuals and adulterers, meets the definition of
heresy, the penalty for which is “automatic excommunication.”
Other
bishops have also criticized McElroy in strong terms, but this is the strongest
yet.
Now,
some readers may be wondering, ‘Mark, what’s with the lack of continuity? We
started with Neocons and the Great Reset and the Dividing of America, but ...
ecclesial politics?' Actually, there is a connection.
Among
other world leaders that the Davos crowd, the globalists, were determined to
get rid of, there was Joseph Ratzinger, aka Benedict XVI (B16). If you want my
views on Ratzhger, just use the search function. That’s not where I’m going.
Whatever his faults, B16 had held fast to traditional teaching on sexual
ethics. Recall, I just said that the debasing of sexual morality and, thereby,
the destruction of the nuclear family as the fundamental institution of society
was a key goal for Soros’ Open Society and for the Cultural Marxist movement
generally. Not peripheral, not coincidental—a key goal. Add to that, B16 had
empowered a movement within the Catholic world that was spreading by leaps and
bounds—quite possibly more rapidly than lie had expected. That movement was the
movement of Catholics who were faithful to the Traditional Roman Liturgy, aka
the Latin Mass. The fact that the FBI, as we recently learned, is investigating
such Catholics should tell you how seriously the globalists took this. Readers
with a knowledge of Europe will be aware that this movement carries historical
and political overtones—all of them hostile to the goals of Davos, the Open
Society, the Great Reset.
So, what happened? B16’s Vatican got the
Russian Reset treatment, before Russia. Here’s Marco Tosatti (SWIFT WAS THE
“BEAST” OF THE APOCALYPSE?):
Few days before Pope Benedict XVI unexpectedly and inexplicably
resigned in February 2013, the Vatican Bank (IOR) had been suddenly excluded by
SWIFT (the international system of bank identification codes). By this action,
it was impossible for the Vatican to carry out any international financial
transactions, and the Church was essentially treated as if it were a terrorist
state like Iran.
This economic destruction of the Vatican had been long and well
prepared . . .
Veiled threats that were made against Moscow to exclude it from the
SWIFT network in retaliation for its so- called “annexation” of the Crimea in
2014 — causing immeasurable damage to Russia’s economy — have accelerated the
development of an alternative clearing house system called BRICS that is
controlled by China and Russia and operates in yen and rubles (and is backed by gold) rather
than US dollars, in order to evade the blackmail power that SWIFT wields
against sovereign nations.
The Belgian website Media-e (SWIFT is based in Belgium), reported on
April 5 about the SWIFT alternative being launched by Beijing and Moscow and
referred to the Vatican as an example: “When a bank or territory is excluded
from the [SWIFT] system, as the Vatican was in the days preceding the
resignation of Benedict XVI in February 2013, all financial transactions are
blocked.”
And then, as soon as the resignation of Benedict XVI was announced, the
SWIFT system was unblocked for the Vatican, without waiting for the election of
his successor.
And so we see that Benedict XVI was blackmailed by means of SWIFT,
although we do not know from where it originated. The deeper reasons underlying
this story have never been clarified, but it is clear that SWIFT intervened
directly in the affairs of the Church.
This explains unprecedented resignation, which many people have
mistaken for an act of cowardice. The Church was treated like a “terrorist”
state ... The Vatican was no longer able to pay its nunciatures or send any
financial support to its missions, and in fact the automated teller machines in
Vatican City were all shut down during the weeks preceding Benedict XVI’s
resignation. The Church of Benedict could no longer “either sell or buy” (Rev
13: 17); its economic life was in its final hours.
It was a resignation made under duress.
The result was that a known heretic was installed as “pope”, one who
had decades long ties to Klaus Schwab. In light of this, does anything that
Bergoglio has done as “pope” come as a surprise?
Rob
Dreher has a pretty thorough discussion of this event and its significance. I
encourage readers to follow the link and read it all: Adventures In Heresy.
However, for our purposes this passage gets to the heart of things:
Paprocki goes on to explain why what Cardinal McElroy wrote constitutes
formal heresy. (You can read more about what McElroy said in this blog post of
mine, titled “Cardinal Screwtape”). I don’t know how it can be denied, frankly.
(And by the way, if Cardinal McElroy is guilty of heresy, so is Luxembourg
Cardinal Jean- Claude Hollerich, who has described authoritative, magisterial
Catholic teaching on homosexuality as “false”). Hollerich is not a nobody. Not
only is he a prince of the Church, he is also the Jesuit (naturally) tapped by
Pope Francis to lead the Synod on Synodality.
The
must-read independent Catholic news site The Pillar explains why Paprocki’s
accusation is so important. It’s not just the accusation itself, as shocking as
it is, but also what brought the accusation: McElroy’s endorsing publicly
heretical things that a lot of American bishops already believe. From The
Pillar:
But consider if the issue he raises go unaddressed, and a conclave
happens — in our social media era — in which a number of cardinals accused of
heresy were participants. If you think the periodic and isolated challenges to
the validity of Benedict’s resignation were just a one-time blip on the radar,
you’re probably wrong. Broader challenges to the credibility of a conclave
could become a very live issue for the life of the Church, and for the pastoral
ministry of American bishops.
All
that might seem dramatic. Perhaps even melodramatic. After all, it was just an
essay. But an American bishop accused his brother bishop of heresy this
morning, so the fierce debates of recent years will probably seem like prologue
to what’s coming next.
Could this have been the opening shot in a
coming ecclesiastical civil war in the most fundamental institution in Western
Civilization? It could be.
Mark Wauck, faithful Catholic and retired
career FBI agent, Meaning in History, Substack
The Heresy of Ecumenism first denies Truth and then seeks
an Accommodation of Error with other Liars!
The Friends of
Francis are enemies of God
“The Church’s positions on homosexual
relationships as sinful are wrong, I believe that the sociological and
scientific foundation of this doctrine is no longer correct. It is time for a
fundamental revision of Church teaching, and the way in which Pope Francis has
spoken of homosexuality could lead to a change in doctrine…
“In our archdiocese, in Luxembourg, no one is
fired for being homosexual, or divorced and remarried. I can’t toss them out,
they would become unemployed, and how can such a thing be Christian? As for
homosexual priests, there are many of these, and it would be good if they could
talk about this with their bishop without his condemning them.”
Cardinal
Jean-Claude Hollerich of Luxembourg, interview with KDA, a German
Catholic news agency, is the leader of the Commission of the Bishops’
Conferences of the European Union and the Pope’s choice as ‘relator general’
for the October 2023 global Synod of Bishops on ‘synodality’ and the 'Synodal
Way.'
The “Degraded Slavery” of the Novus Ordo Church of the Third
Millennium
A century ago, the Catholic poet Charles Peguy made
a profound and prescient observation: “We will never know how many acts of
cowardice have been motivated by the fear of not sufficiently progressive.”….
Only the Catholic Church, basically, still condemns contraception, but few
Catholic priests dare to preach against it. That would seem “not sufficiently
progressive.” Few even remember why chastity was ever considered a virtue. It’s
not that most people have changed their minds. Most people seldom use their
minds, they merely follow fashion. We are not seeing what happens a generation
or two after a fad catches on and goes unopposed. You can call it progress. I
prefer to call it amnesia. No wonder G. K. Chesterton said that “only the
Catholic Church can save a man from the degraded slavery of being a child of
his time.”
Joe Sobran, 2007
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