.....
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 the Epiphany
St. Francis de Sales, Bishop, Confessor & Doctor
January 29, 2023
The Gospel is taken from the same chapter
of St. Matthew as that for the Third Sunday after Epiphany and gives an account
of a further miracle. Our Lord shows His
divinity by commanding the angry sea and raging wind, powerful and intractable
forces in creation. The wonderful
character of the miracle is brought out clearly by the sacred writer in the
contrast which he draws, between the fierce turmoil of the waves and the “great
calm” that followed (Gospel). Since it
is in the Church that the kingship of Christ is most fully carried out, the
Fathers saw in the howling wind of the storm a type of the devils whose pride
stirs up persecutions against God’s people, and in the troubled sea the
passions and malice of men, the great source of disobedience to authority and
fraternal strife.
On the other hand, in the Church the great
law of charity prevails, for while in the first three commandments the duty of
loving God is laid upon us, by the remaining seven, as a natural result, we are
bound to the love of our neighbor (Epistle).
Indeed God Himself is in our neighbor since in a sense, we each form a
fresh human nature for our Blessed Lord. Herein is the whole mystery of the
Epiphany. Our Lord manifests Himself as
the Son of God, and all those who acknowledge Him as such, and accept Him as
their Leader and Head, become members of His mystical body. Being one in Christ, all Christians should
love one another.
“This ship,” says St. Augustine, “was a
type of the Church,” which through the centuries shows forth the divinity of
our Lord. To His all-powerful protection
indeed, she owes the fact, that in spite of her frailty (Collect, Secret) she
has not been swallowed up by the dangers which threatened her (Collect). St. John Chrysostom remarks, “Our Lord seems
to sleep that He may oblige us to have recourse to Him, nor does He ever fail
to save those who call upon Him.”
INTROIT:
Ps.
96. Adore God, all you His angels; Sion
heard and was glad, and the daughters of Juda rejoiced.
Ps. The Lord hath reigned; let the earth rejoice;
let the many islands be glad. Glory be,
etc. Adore God, etc.
COLLECT:
O God,
who knowest us to be set in the midst of so great dangers that, by reason of
the frailty of our nature, we cannot stand, grant to us health of mind and
body, that those things which we suffer for our sins we may by Thy aid
overcome. Who livest and reignest, etc.
O God,
by whose will blessed Francis Thy Confessor and Bishop became all things unto
all men for the saving of their souls, mercifully grant that, guided by his
counsels and aided by his merits, we may be filled with the sweetness of Thy
charity, and may attain to eternal happiness.
Through our Lord, etc.
EPISTLE: Rom. 13, 8-10
Brethren, owe no man anything,
but to love one another; for he that loveth his neighbor hath fulfilled the
law. For thou shaft not commit adultery; thou shaft not kill; thou shaft not
steal; thou shaft not bear false witness; thou shaft not covet; and if there be
any other commandment, it is comprised in this word: Thou shaft love thy
neighbor as thyself. The love of our neighbor worketh no evil. Love, therefore,
is the fulfilling of the law.
What is meant by St Paul’s
words: He that loveth his neighbor, hath fulfilled the law?
St. Augustine in reference to
these words says: that he who loves his neighbor, fulfils as well the precepts
of the first as of the second tablet of the law. The reason is, that the love
of our neighbor contains and presupposes the love of God as its fountain and
foundation. The neighbor must be loved on account of God; for the neighbor
cannot be loved with true love, if we do not first love God. On this account,
the holy Evangelist St. John in his old age, always gave the exhortation:
Little children, love one another. And when asked why, he answered: Because it
is the command of the Lord, and it is enough to fulfill it. Therefore in this
love of the neighbor which comes from the love of God and is contained in it,
consists the fulfillment of the whole law (Matt. 22, 40).
GRADUAL:
Ps 10. The
Gentiles shall fear Thy name, O Lord, and all the kings of the earth Thy
glory. For the Lord hath built up Sion,
and He shall be seen in His majesty.
Alleluia,
alleluia. Ps .96. The Lord hath reigned; let the earth rejoice;
let the many islands be glad. Alleluia.
GOSPEL: Matt.
8, 23-27
At that time, when Jesus entered
into the boat, his disciples followed him. And behold, a great tempest arose in
the sea, so that the boat was covered with waves; but he was asleep. And they
came to him and awaked him, saying: Lord, save us, we perish. And Jesus saith
to them Why are ye fearful, O ye of little faith? Then rising up, he commanded
the winds and the sea, and there came a great calm. But the men wondered,
saying: What manner of man is this, for the winds and the sea obey him?
Why did Christ sleep in
the boat?
To test the faith and confidence
of His disciples; to exercise them in enduring the persecutions which they were
afterwards to endure; to teach us that we should not waver in the storms of
temptations. St. Augustine writes: “Christ slept, and because of the danger the
disciples were confused. Why? Because Christ slept. In like manner thy heart
becomes confused, thy ship unquiet, when the waves of temptation break over it.
Why? Because thy faith sleeps. Then thou shouldst awaken Christ in thy heart;
then thy faith should be awakened, thy conscience quieted, thy ship calmed.”
Why did Christ reproach
His disciples when they awaked Him and asked for help?
Because of their little faith
and trust; for if they firmly believed Him to be true God, they would
necessarily believe He could aid them sleeping as well as waking.
Nothing so displeases God as to
doubt His powerful assistance. Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and
maketh flesh (mortal man) his arm (aid), and whose heart departeth from the
Lord. Blessed be the man that trusteth in the Lord, and the Lord shall be his
confidence (Jer. 17, 5-7). God sometimes permits storms to assail us, such as
poverty, persecution, sickness, so that we may have occasion to put our
confidence in Him alone. Of this St. Bernard very beautifully says: “When the
world rages, when the wicked become furious, when the flesh turns against the
spirit, I will hope in Him. Who ever trusted in Him, and was put to shame?” We
should therefore trust in God only, and take refuge to Him, invoking Him as did
the disciples: Lord, save us, we perish; or cry out with David: Arise, why
sleepest thou, O Lord? Arise, and cast us not off to the end (Ps. 43, 23).
Why did Jesus stand up and
command the sea to be still?
To show His readiness to aid us,
and His omnipotence to which all things are subject. His disciples who saw this
miracle, wondered and said: What manner of man is this, for the winds and the
sea obey Him?
We see daily in all creatures
the wonders of the Omnipotence, the wisdom, and the goodness of God, and yet we
are not touched; we continue cold and indifferent. The reason is, that we look
upon all with the eyes of the body and not with the eyes of the soul; that is,
we do not seek to ascend by meditation to the Creator, and to judge from the
manifold beauty and usefulness of created things the goodness and the wisdom of
God. The saints rejoiced in all the works of the Lord; a flower, a little worm
of the earth would move the heart of St. Francis of Sales, and St. Francis the
Seraph, to wonderment and to the love of God; they ascended, as on a ladder,
from the contemplation of creatures to Him who gives to every thing life,
motion, and existence. If we were to follow their example, we would certainly
love God more, and more ardently desire Him; if we do not, we live like
irrational men, we who were created only to know and to love God.
ASPIRATION Grant
us, O good Jesus! in all our needs, a great confidence in Thy divine
assistance, and do not allow us to become faint-hearted; let Thy assistance
come to us in the many dangers to which we are exposed; command the turbulent
winds and waves of persecution to be still, and give peace and calmness to Thy
Church, which Thou hast redeemed with Thy precious blood, that we may serve
Thee in sanctity and justice, and arrive safely at the desired haven of eternal
happiness. Amen.
OFFERTORY:
Ps. 117. The right hand of the Lord hath exercised
power, the right hand of the Lord hath exalted me; I shall not die, but live
and shall declare the works of the Lord.
SECRET:
Grant, we beseech Thee, almighty God, that the
offering of this sacrifice may ever purify and fortify our frailty against all
evil. Through our Lord, etc.
May the pious prayer of holy Francis, Thy Bishop and Confessor and
illustrious Doctor, be not wanting to us, O Lord, but make our offerings
acceptable to Thee and ever win for us Thy mercy. Through our Lord, etc.
COMMUNION:
Luke 4. They all wondered at these things, which came from
the mouth of God.
POSTCOMMUNION:
May Thy gifts, O Lord, set us free from earthly and
sensual attractions, and ever give us new strength by heavenly
nourishment. Through our Lord, etc.
May blessed Francis, Thy Bishop, Confessor and
illustrious Doctor, intercede for us, O Lord, that this Thy sacrifice may
obtain for us salvation. Through our Lord, etc.
Lord,
save us, we perish. And Jesus saith to them Why are ye fearful, O ye of little
faith.
PROPER OF THE SAINTS FOR THE
WEEK OF JANUARY 29th:
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4th Sunday after
Epiphany
St. Francis de Sales,
BpC
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Confessions 8:00 AM; Rosary of Reparation 8:30 AM; Mass for the members of
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St. Martina, VM
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St. John Bosco, C
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St. Ignatius, BpM
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of Reparation before Mass
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Purification of the
Blessed Virgin Mary
Our Lady of Good
Success
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St. Blaise, BpM
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St. Andrew Corsini,
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St. Catherine d
Ricci, V
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St. Agatha, VM
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Were there
anything better or fairer on earth than gentleness, Jesus Christ would have
taught it to us; and yet He has given us only two lessons to learn of Him -
meekness and humility of heart.
St. Francis de
Sales
Sent to “preach the word of God to the Calvinists of Chablais, he
brought back sixty thousand to the Catholic Faith” (Breviary). Having become the father of the Church at
Geneva and founder of the Order of the Visitation, he shed over this double
family (Communion) the rays of his apostolic zeal and of his gently holiness.
“May your light shine before men, so that seeing your works they may
glorify your Father who is in heaven” (Gospel).
It is especially God’s goodness which this saint revealed. “If we must fall into some excess,” St.
Francis would say, “let it be on the side of gentleness.”
“I
wish to love him so much, this dear neighbour, I wish to love him so much! It has pleased God so to make my heart! Oh! When shall we be impregnated with gentleness
and in charity towards our neighbour?”
St.
Francis de Sales died at Lyons in 1622.
Let
us remember this saint’s two sayings: “You can catch more flies with a spoonful
of honey than with a hundred barrels of vinegar.” “What is good makes no noise, noise does no
good.”
A truly admirable book,
which has as many admirers of the sweetness of its author as it has
readers. I have carefully arranged that
it shall be read throughout our Society, as the universal remedy for all feeble
ones, the good of slothful ones, the stimulus of love, and the ladder of those
who are tending to perfection. Oh! that all would study it as it deserves!
There should be no one to escape its heat.
St. Vincent de Paul,
Comments on the book, Treatise on the Love of God by St. Francis de
Sales
God loves with
intensely tender love those of us who are happy enough to abandon ourselves
entirely to his fatherly care, letting ourselves be governed by his divine
providence without wasting time by considering if the effects of this
providence will be useful, profitable, or harmful for us. We can be assured
that from all that has been sent to us from his fatherly and lovable heart, God
will draw goodness and value, provided that we have placed all our confidence
in him and that we say willingly: “I place my spirit,” -- my soul, my body, and
all that I am -- “into your blessed hands” to do with as you wish.
I recommend to you holy
simplicity. Look straight in front of you and not at those dangers you see in
the distance. As you say, to you they look like armies, but they are only
willow branches; and while you are looking at them you may take a false step.
Let us be firmly resolved to serve God with our whole heart and life. Beyond
that, let us have no care
about tomorrow. Let us think only of living today well, and when tomorrow
comes, it also will be today and we can think about it then. In all this we
must trust and be resigned to God’s providence. We must make provision for
enough manna for the day, and no more. Let us not doubt that God will provide
more for us tomorrow, and the day after tomorrow, and all the days of our
pilgrimage.
Let’s not waste time in
willing and wishing for things, but let God arrange them. We should “cast all
our care upon him, since he cares for us,” as the apostle Peter says. And note
that he says: “all our care,” that is, all our concern about what comes to us
from the events of life as well as what comes to us from what we want or don’t
want. “He will take care” of the success of these things and he wishes for us
whatever is best.
St. Francis de Sales on
the Providence of God
Be patient with everyone,
but above all with yourself. I mean do not be disheartened by your imperfections,
but always rise up with fresh courage. How are we to be patient in dealing with
our neighbors’ faults if we are impatient in dealing with our own? He who is
fretted with his own failings will not correct them. All profitable correction
comes from a calm, peaceful mind.
St. Francis de Sales
Ignatius stands near to
Peter, the Feast of whose Chair we kept a few days since; for the Prince of the
Apostles made him his second successor in his first See of Antioch. From so honoured a position Ignatius derived
that courage which made him resist a powerful Emperor even to his face, defy
the wild beasts of the amphitheatre, and triumph by a glorious martyrdom. As it were to show the supremacy of the See
of Rome, Divine Providence willed that he, with his chains upon him, should go
to see Peter, and finish his course in the Holy City, and thus mingle
his blood with that of the Apostles.
Dom Gueranger, The Liturgical Year, Feast of St. Ignatius of Antioch
Feast of the Purification
Take courage, O Zorobabel,
saith the Lord; and take courage, O Jesus, the son of Josedec, the High Priest;
and take courage, all ye people of the land; for thus saith the Lord of Hosts:
Yet one little while, and I will move the heaven, and the earth, and the sea,
and the dry land. And I will move all
nations; and the Desired of all nations shall come; and I will fill this House
with glory. Great shall be the glory of
this House, more than of the first; and in this place I will give Peace, saith
the Lord of hosts. Aggeus 2, 5-10
Thus saith the Lord
God: Behold I send my Angel, and he shall prepare the way before my face. And presently the Lord whom you seek, and the
Angel of the Testament whom you desire, shall come to his Temple. Behold he cometh, saith the Lord of hosts:
and who shall be able to think of the day of his coming? And who shall stand to
see him? For he is like a refining fire, and like the fuller’s herb: and he
shall sit refining and cleansing the silver, and he shall purity the sons of
Levi, and shall refine them as gold and as silver, and they shall offer
sacrifices to the Lord in justice. Malachy, 3
O Lord, Thou dost
dismiss Thy servant, O Lord, according to Thy word in Peace, because my eyes
have seen Thy Salvation, which Thou hast prepared before the face of all
peoples- a Light to the revelation of the Gentiles, and the glory of Thy people
Israel. St. Luke 2, 29
“First so that
men in the future might realize how powerful I am in placating Divine Justice
and obtaining mercy and pardon for every sinner who comes to me with a contrite
heart. For I am the Mother of Mercy and in me there is only goodness and love.
When tribulations of spirit and sufferings of the body oppress them and they
seem to be drowning in this bottomless sea let them gaze at my holy image and I
will always be there ready to listen to their cries and soothe their pain. Tell
them that they should always run to their Mother with confidence and
love...”
Blessed Virgin
Mary to Mother Mariana, Quito, Ecuador, February 2, 1610
“…. I make it known to you that
from the end of the 19th century and shortly after the middle of the 20th
century…. the passions will erupt and there will be a total corruption of
customs (morals)….
“They will focus principally on
the children in order to sustain this general corruption. Woe to the children
of these times! It will be difficult to receive the Sacrament of Baptism, and
also that of Confirmation…
“As for the Sacrament of
Matrimony… it will be attacked and deeply profaned… The Catholic spirit will
rapidly decay; the precious light of the Faith will gradually be extinguished…
Added to this will be the effects of secular education, which will be one
reason for the dearth of priestly and religious vocations.
“The Sacrament of Holy Orders
will be ridiculed, oppressed, and despised… The Devil will try to persecute the
ministers of the Lord in every possible way; he will labor with cruel and
subtle astuteness to deviate them from the spirit of their vocation and will corrupt
many of them. These depraved priests, who will scandalize the Christian people,
will make the hatred of bad Catholics and the enemies of the Roman Catholic and
Apostolic Church fall upon all priests…
“Further, in these unhappy
times, there will be unbridled luxury, which will ensnare the rest into sin and
conquer innumerable frivolous souls, who will be lost. Innocence will almost no
longer be found in children, nor modesty in women. In this supreme moment of
need of the Church, the one who should speak will fall silent.”
Blessed Virgin Mary to Mother
Mariana
Prophecy for Our
Times - when the Church does not have a “Prelate and Father to watch over them
with paternal love, gentleness, strength, and prudence.”
In
order to free men from bondage to these heresies, those whom the merciful
love of My Most Holy Son will destine for that restoration will need
great strength of will, constancy, valor and confidence in God. To
test this faith and confidence of the just, there will be occasions in
which everything will seem to be lost and paralyzed. This will be,
then, the happy beginning of the complete restoration. […]
The
spirit of impurity that will saturate the atmosphere in those times.
Like a filthy ocean, it will inundate the streets, squares and public
places with an astonishing liberty. There will be almost no
virgin souls in the world. […]
How
the Church will suffer on that occasion the dark night of the lack of a Prelate
and Father to watch over them with paternal love, gentleness,
strength, and prudence. Many priests will lose their spirit, placing
their souls in great danger. Pray insistently without tiring and weep with
bitter tears in the secrecy of your heart, imploring our
Celestial Father that, for love of the Eucharistic Heart of my Most
Holy Son and His Precious Blood shed with such generosity and by the
profound bitterness and sufferings of His cruel Passion and Death, He
might take pity on His Ministers and quickly bring to an end those
ominous times, sending to this Church the Prelate that will restore the
spirit of its Priests.
Our
Lady of Good Success, to Blessed Mother Mariana, February 1634
Should
the title “Our Lady of Good Success” be changed?
There is a current effort
promoted by the SSPX to change the name of our Lady of Good Success to Our Lady
of the Good Event. They may be correct in that “event” is a better translation
of the word, “suceso,” and not, as has been done, as “success.” But here is the
problem. The Blessed Virgin was aware of the translation that Providence would
direct regarding this apparition and its message. The title of Good Success has
been used for a very long time in many different languages. It has established
a recognized tradition associated with a specific message. It is this tradition
that the SSPX now seeks to overthrow because they always know better than God’s
Providence.
Compare this to Our Lady
of Guadalupe in Mexico. St. Juan Diego did not use this name when he described
to Bishop Don Juan de Zumarraga the title used by the Blessed Virgin who had
appeared and spoken to him. Our Lady of Guadalupe was the most important Marian
shrine in the medieval kingdom of Castile where the monastery possesses a
statue reportedly carved by St. Luke the Evangelist which was miraculously
recovered at the direction of the Blessed Virgin Mary. This title, Our Lady of
Guadalupe, familiar to the Spanish, was mistakenly understood because it is
phonetically a close approximation to the words spoken by the Blessed Virgin in
the native Nahuatl to St. Juan and used by him to report the vision to the
Spanish bishop. Those familiar with the native Aztec language believe that the
word “Guadalupe” is phonetically similar to what should be more accurately translated
as ‘Our Lady Who Crushes the Serpent’s Head’. Does the SSPX suggest that the
title of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico City be changed?
Now when the SSPX takes
it upon themselves to change the title of our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico City
to something they would regard as more accurate and fitting, then perhaps we
will give some consideration to their argument to change the title of our Lady
of Good Success because then, it would be evident that their argument was
grounded upon a theological principle and not on some arrogant ideology whose
end would muddle the message.
The SSPX has proven
themselves impotent in the defense of Catholic tradition because they regard
Dogma as only a human approximation of truth and not the infallible word of God
that constitutes the formal object of divine and Catholic faith. For them, just
like the neo-Modernists with whom they have been engaged in twenty-five years
of “doctrinal discussions”, everything including truth must evolve. They just
want it to evolve only according to their own discernments and sentiments.
Fight, therefore, with
great determination. Do not let the weakness of your nature be an excuse. If
your strength fails you, ask more from God. He will not refuse your request.
Consider this------if the
fury of your enemies is great, and their numbers overwhelming, the love which
God holds for you is infinitely greater. The Angel who protects you and the
Saints who intercede for you are more numerous… All He asks of you is that you
defend yourself courageously, and that, despite any wounds you may receive, you
never lay down your arms or leave the battleground.
You must not shirk your
duty. This war is unavoidable, and you must either fight or die. The obstinacy
of your enemies is so fierce that peace and arbitration with them is utterly
impossible.
Dom Lorenzo Scupoli, The Spiritual Combat
ON THE PROVIDENCE OF GOD
But he was asleep (Matt 8,
24).
It
is an article of faith in the holy Catholic Church that God has not only created
the world, but that He sustains and governs it; this preservation and ruling of
the whole world and of each individual creature is called Providence. There are
people who think that God is too great a Lord to busy Himself about the care of
this world, that to do so is beneath His majesty; it was enough for Him to
create the world, for the rest, He leaves it to itself or to fate, enjoys His
own happiness, and, as it were, sleeps in regard to us. Thus think some, but
only the ignorant and impious. Were He as these imagine Him, He would not or
could not have aught to do with creation. If He could not, then He is neither
all-wise nor almighty, if He would not, then He is not good; and if He knows
nothing of the world, then He is not omniscient.
If we once believe that God
created the world, (and what rational man can doubt it?) then we must also
believe He rules and sustains it. Can any work of art, however well constructed
and arranged, subsist without some one to take charge of and watch aver the
same? Would not the greatest of all master-pieces, the world, therefore come to
the greatest confusion and fall back into its original nothingness, if God, who
created it from nothing, did not take care of its further order and existence?
It is indeed true that the method of Divine Providence with which God controls
all things is so mysterious that, when considering some events, one is
persuaded to admit a necessary fate, an accident, the course of nature, the ill
will of the devil or man, as the fundamental cause. Yet in all this the
providence of God is not denied, for nothing does or can happen accidentally,
not the smallest thing occurs without the knowledge, permission, or direction
of God. Not one sparrow shall fall on the ground without your Father. But the
very hairs of your head are all numbered (Matt. 10, 29-30). Chance, fate, and
luck are but the ideas of insane or wicked men, which even the more rational
heathens have rejected, and the course of nature is but the constant,
uninterrupted, all-wise and bountiful preservation and government of creation
through God. The perverted will of men or of the devil is but the instrument
which God in His all-wise intention, uses to effect the good, for He knows how
to produce good from evil, and, therefore, as St. Augustine says, “permits the
evil that the good may not be left undone.” If we peruse the history of our
first parents, of Abraham, of Joseph in Egypt, of Moses, of the people of
Israel, of Job, Ruth, David, Tobias, Esther, Judith and others, we will easily see
everywhere the plainest signs of the wisest Providence, the best and most
careful, absolute power, by virtue of which God knows how to direct all things
according to His desire, and for the good of His chosen ones. The gospel of
this day furnishes us an instance of this? Why did Christ go into the boat? Why
did a storm arise? Why was He asleep? Did all this occur by accident? No, it
came about designedly by the ordinance of Christ that His omnipotence might be
seen, and the faith and confidence of His disciples be strengthened.
Thus it is certain that God
foresees, directs, and governs all; as Scripture, reason, and daily experience
prove. Would we but pay more attention to many events of our lives, we would
certainly notice the providence of God, and give ourselves up to His guidance
and dispensations. The Lord ruleth me, and I shall want nothing, says David
(Ps. 22, 1). And we also, we shall want nothing if we resign ourselves to God’s
will, and are contented with His dispensations in our regard; while, on the
contrary, if we oppose His will, we shall fall into misfortune and error. God
must rule over us with goodness, or with sternness, He is no slumbering God.
Behold! He shall neither slumber nor sleep, that keepeth Israel (Ps. 120, 4).
Let no man deceive
himself. Both the things which are in heaven, and the glorious angels, and
rulers, both visible and invisible, if they believe not in the blood of Christ,
shall, in consequence, incur condemnation. “He that is able to receive it, let
him receive it.” Let not [high] place puff any one up: for that which is worth
all is a faith and love, to which nothing is to be preferred. But consider
those who are of a different opinion with respect to the grace of Christ which
has come unto us, how opposed they are to the will of God. They have no regard
for love; no care for the widow, or the orphan, or the oppressed; of the bond,
or of the free; of the hungry, or of the thirsty. They abstain from the
Eucharist and from prayer, because they confess not the Eucharist to be the
flesh of our Saviour Jesus Christ, which suffered for our sins, and which the
Father, of His goodness, raised up again. Those, therefore, who speak against
this gift of God, incur death in the midst of their disputes.
St. Ignatius of
Antioch, Apostolic Father, Epistle to the Church in Smyrna
O eternal God, I know
that Your arm is powerful and strong, that it will deliver the Church and Your
people, rescue them from the hands of the demon, and put an end to
persecution. I know that the Wisdom of
Your Son, who is one with You, can illumine our intellects and scatter the
clouds which hover around Your dear Spouse, the Church. Then, eternal Father, I beg and implore Your
power, the Wisdom of Your only-begotten Son and the clemency of the Holy Ghost,
abyss and fire of charity, to show mercy to the world and restore the warmth of
charity so that peace and union may reign in the holy Church. Alas, I do not want to wait any longer: I
pray that Your infinite goodness may constrain You not to close the eye of Your
mercy on Your holy Spouse, O sweet Jesus, Jesus-love.
St. Catherine of Siena,
her prayer for the Church.
Holy Scripture
is the universal depository of medicine for the cure of souls. From it every
one may select the remedy which is salutary and appropriate for his own
disease.
St. Basil the
Great
JESUS
CALMS THE TEMPEST FOURTH SUNDAY
AFTER THE EPIPHANY
PRESENCE of GOD ‑ O Lord, I adore You in the little boat of my
soul. Since You are with me, I shall not fear.
MEDITATION:
1. In today’s liturgy, especially
the Gospel (Mt 8, 23‑27), Jesus appears in our midst as the ruler
of the elements, the conqueror of all tempests. “And behold a great tempest
arose in the sea, so that the boat was covered with waves.” Let us think of all
the persecutions which have beaten against Peter’s barque, the Church, down
through the ages; or we can think of the trials which God still permits
individual souls to undergo. Whatever happens, the spirit of faith tells us
that every struggle and tempest is willed, or at least permitted by God:
“Everything is grace” (T.C.J. NV); everything is the result of His
infinite love. God is not a tyrant who crushes us, but a Father, who tests us
because He loves us. If He permits sorrow, interior or exterior trials,
personal or public vicissitudes, it is only to draw out of them some greater
good. Virtue and goodness are strengthened in time of difficulty; the efforts
made in bearing trials tend to make us surpass what we would have done had we
enjoyed perfect calm.
Jesus was sleeping peacefully in the stern of the boat when the
terrified Apostles awakened Him: “Lord, save us, we perish!” He answered them
reproachfully, “Why are you fearful, O ye of little faith?”
If
we are disturbed and upset by trials, it means that we lack faith. Even when
God conceals Himself, when everything seems to fail us and we feel terribly
alone, we can be absolutely certain that God will never abandon us if we do not
first abandon Him. Instead of becoming bitter or falling into despair, it is
the moment to intensify our faith, to make strong acts of faith. St. Therese of
the Child Jesus used to say, “I count on Him. Suffering may go to its limit,
but I am sure He will never abandon me”(St).
2. The
Apostles were saved only when they called upon Jesus. As long as they labored
and struggled alone, they had no success. Many times we fail to surmount
interior difficulties because we work alone. God wants us to experience our own
insufficiency; therefore, He lets us struggle until we have recourse to Him
with full confidence. Certainly God wants our efforts, but He does not want us
to place all our hope in them. This accounts for the small progress so many
make on the road to sanctity - too much reliance on their own resources, too
little on God’s help. We must be firmly convinced that “our sufficiency is from
God” (2 Cor 3,5). We must have less confidence in ourselves and more in
God. Jesus can do all things, and confidence works miracles. “We receive from
God as much as we hope for” (J. C. DN
II, 21,8).
There are other kinds of tempests, too, such as those provoked by the
difficulties we sometimes experience in our relations with our neighbor. St.
Paul in the Epistle (Rom 13, 8‑10) gives us the remedy: “Owe no
man anything, but to love one another.” Love conquers all. Our love for God
overcomes our interior storms; our love for our neighbor, in whom we love
Christ, overcomes the tempests which arise from dissensions, misunderstandings,
and clashes of temperaments. If from certain people we receive only pain and
trouble, let us follow the precious advice of St. John of the Cross: “Where
there is no love, put love, and you will find love” (L, 22).
COLLOQUY:
“O
my Lord, how true a friend You are, and how powerful! For You can do all You
will and never do You cease to love! Let all things praise You, Lord of the
world! Oh, if someone would but proclaim throughout the world how faithful You
are to Your friends! All things fail, but You, Lord of them all, never fail.
How little is the suffering that You allow to those who love You! O my Lord,
how delicately and skillfully and tenderly do You deal with them! Oh, happy are
they who have never loved anyone save You! You seem, Lord, to give severe
trials to those who love You, but only that in the excess of their trials they
may learn the greater excess of Your love. O my God, had I but understanding
and learning to find new words with which to exalt Your works as my soul knows
them! These, my Lord, I lack, but if You forsake me not. I shall never fail
You. Let all learned men rise up against me, let all created things persecute
me, let the devils torment me; but You, Lord, do not fail me; for I have
already experienced the benefits which come to him who trusts only in You!”
(T.J. Life, 25).
Take away from me, O Lord, all trust in my own strength. Make me see
that I can do nothing without You. Show it to me in a practical way, even if it
causes me sorrow and humiliation. O Lord, I no longer desire to rely on my own
strength; in You alone do I place all my trust. With Your help I shall continue
to strive to practice virtue and to advance in Your ways, but with my eyes
always fixed on You, O divine Sun, who alone can make my feeble efforts bring
forth fruits of virtue! When storms arise, I will take refuge in You; I will
call upon You with all the strength of my heart and with all my faith, certain
that You will give me that peace and that victory which I would seek in vain
apart from You.
As in the order of nature
a child must have a father and a mother, so likewise in the order of grace, a
true child of the Church must have God for his Father and Mary for his Mother;
and if anyone should glory in having God for his Father and yet has not the
love of a true child for Mary, he is a deceiver, and the only father he has is
the devil.
St. Louis de Montfort, The Secret of Mary
Vatican II and
the Leap of Faith Facing the Hermeneutics of Continuity
1. ON CATHOLIC UNITY
Vatican II pastoral opinion:
And
we now ask: What does it mean to restore the unity of all Christians?... This
unity, we are convinced, indeed subsists in the Catholic Church, without
the possibility of ever being lost (Unitatis Redintegratio) the Church
in fact has not totally disappeared from the world. On the other hand, this
unity does not mean what could be called ecumenism of the return: that is,
to deny and to reject one’s own faith history. Absolutely not!
Pope Benedict XVI, addressing Protestants
at World Youth Day, August 19, 2005
Catholic Doctrine:
… the union of Christians can only be
promoted by promoting the return to the one true Church of Christ of
those who are separated from it… Pope Pius XI, Mortalium Animos
2. ON RELIGIOUS LIBERTY
Vatican II pastoral opinion:
The
Council further declares that the right to religious freedom has its foundation
in the very dignity of the human person... This right to religious freedom is
to be recognized in the constitutional law whereby society is governed. Thus it
is to become a civil right. Declaration on Religious Liberty, Dignitatis
Humanae
Catholic Doctrine:
And from this wholly false idea of social organization they do not fear to
foster that erroneous opinion, especially fatal to the Catholic Church
and the salvation of souls, called by our predecessor, Gregory XVI, insanity,
namely that the liberty of conscience and worship is the proper right of every
man, and should be proclaimed by law in every correctly established society...
Each and every doctrine individually mentioned in this letter, by Our Apostolic
authority We reject, proscribe and condemn; and We wish and command that
they be considered as absolutely rejected by all the sons of the Church. Pope Pius IX, Quanta Cura
3. ON SALVATION
Vatican II pastoral opinion:
The separated churches and communities
as such, though we believe they suffer from the defects already mentioned, have
been by no means deprived of significance and importance in the mystery of
salvation. For the Spirit of Christ has not refrained from using them as
means of salvation which derive their efficacy from the very fullness of
grace and truth entrusted to the Catholic Church. Decree on Ecumenism, Unitatis
Redintegratio
Catholic Doctrine:
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... Pope Eugene IV, Council
of Florence
4. ON ACCOMODATION OF CATHOLIC TRUTH
TO THE WORLD
Vatican II pastoral opinion:
May the faithful, therefore,
live in very close union with the men of their time. Let them strive to
understand perfectly their way of thinking and feeling as expressed in their
culture. Let them blend modern science and its theories and the understanding
of the most recent discoveries with Christian morality and doctrine.... Thus
their religious practice and morality can keep pace with their scientific
knowledge and with an ever - advancing technology... Decree on the Church in
the Modern World, Gaudium
et Spes
Catholic Doctrine:
The Roman pontiff can and must reconcile
himself with human progress, with liberalism and with modern and human culture.
– condemned. Blessed Pope Pius IX, Syllabus of Errors
5. ON RELATIONS WITH FALSE RELIGIONS
Vatican II pastoral opinion:
Upon the Moslems, too, the Church looks with
esteem...They adore the one God...though they do not acknowledge Jesus as God
they revere Him as a prophet.... In addition they await the day of judgment
when God will give each man his due.... and give worship to God especially
through prayer, almsgiving and fasting. Decree on the Relation
of the Church to Non-Christian Religions, Nostra Aetate
Catholic
Doctrine:
...that false
opinion which considers all religions more or less good and praiseworthy... Not
only are those who hold this opinion in error and deceived, but also in
distorting the idea of true religion they reject it, and little by little, turn
aside to naturalism and atheism...from which it clearly follows that one who
supports those who hold on these theories and attempt to realize them, is
altogether abandoning the divinely revealed religion.Pope
Pius XI, Mortalium Animos
In our time more than ever before, the
greatest asset of those disposed toward evil is the cowardice and weakness of
good men, and all the vigor of Satan’s reign is due to the easy going weakness
of Catholics. Oh! If I might ask the
Divine Redeemer, as the Prophet Zachary did in spirit: “What are those wounds
in the midst of Thy hands” (Zach. 13:6)? The answer would not be doubtful: “…
With these I was wounded in the house of them that loved Me” (Zach. 13:6). I was wounded by My friends, who did nothing
to defend Me, and who, on every occasion, made themselves the accomplices of My
adversaries. And this reproach can be
leveled at the weak and timid Catholics of all countries.
St. Pius X, December 13, 1908, beatification
of St. Joan of Arc
In May 1550 Bishop Ridley of London ordered the
abolition of altars everywhere in his diocese.
This was not formally extended to the whole country by the Privy Council
till November, but altars were coming down all over the country by then, as the
now Protestant episcopate and their officials brought pressure to bear. The pressure was applied with extraordinary
minuteness, and not just on the question of altars or the celebration of
Communion. Bishop Hooper of Gloucester
expected his clergy to police even the prayers and words of encouragement used
by midwives at childbirth, lest any saint should be invoked. He set on foot enquiries about any clergy
using preambles to parishioners’ wills which mentioned the saints. He demanded to know if any reverenced the
Sacrament while it was being carried to the sick, or whether anyone showed
particular respect or honour to the oils that the dying asked to be
anointed.
Eamon Duffy, The Stripping of the Altars,
recounting the heretical bishops destroying the Faith in England
“Forget all that is past,
and imagine each day you do but begin.”
St. Augustine
When I consider the words which
Jesus Christ addressed to His heavenly Father in prayer, saying that He did not
pray for the world,” I pray not for the world” [John xviii, 9]-----and again
that, when praying for His disciples that His prayer might be more efficacious,
He emphasized the fact that they were not followers of the world, “They are in
the world, but they are not of the world”-----I confess that no words of our
Saviour in the whole Gospel terrify me more than these. For I perceive that it
is necessary for me to separate myself from the world, so that Jesus Christ may
intercede for me. And if I am a lover of the world, I shall be excommunicated
by Jesus Christ and shall have no part in His intercessions and prayers. These
are the words of Christ Himself: “I pray not for the world, but for those who
are not of the world.”
Let us really understand these
words: that Jesus Christ excludes us from His kingdom if we belong to the
world, that is to say if we wish to follow the maxims of the world which are
nothing but vanity and deceit and fill man with pride; the maxims of the world
which the prophet says “turn aside the way of the humble.” [Amos ii, 7]
Meanwhile Jesus Christ is our advocate with the Father in so far as, renewing
our Baptismal vow, we renounce the world and accept the maxims of the Gospel
which are true and tend to make man humble. To serve both God and the world is
impossible, because we could never please both----- “he will hold to the one
and despise the other.” [Luke xvi, 13]
To pretend to serve God and the world is the same as to imagine that we can be
both humble and proud at the same time. Vain dream!
Fr. Cajetan Mary da Bergamo, Humility of Heart
Whosoever committeth sin, is the servant of sin (Jn. 8,
34).
No man can serve two masters. For either he will hate the one, and love the
other : or he will sustain the one, and despise the other (Mt. 6, 24).
He that is not with me, is against me: and he that
gathereth not with me, scattereth (Mt. 12, 30).
If any man will come
after Me, let him deny himself (Mt. 16, 24).
Sacred Scripture is the art of
arts, the science of sciences: it is the Pandora of Wisdom. In our own time,
St. Theresa, a woman endowed with the spirit of prophecy, and renowned
throughout all Spain for the glory of her miracles, and the sanctity of her
life, was taught by God that all the troubles of the Church, all the evils in
the world, flow from this source, that men do not, by clear and sound
knowledge, and serious consideration, penetrate into the verities of Sacred
Scripture.
Rev. Cornelius de Lapide taken
from Rev. Francisco de Ribera, Life of
St. Teresa
The Second Vatican Council has not been treated as a
part of the entire living Tradition of the Church, but as an end of Tradition, a
new start from zero. The truth is that this particular Council defined no dogma
at all, and deliberately chose to remain on a modest level, as a merely
pastoral council; and yet many treat it as though it had made itself into a
sort of superdogma which takes away the importance of all the rest.
Pope Benedict XVI, as Cardinal Ratzinger, addressing
the bishops of Chile
St. Philip Neri was reaching the summit of his renown, and filling the capital
of the Christian world with the good odour of his virtues and his apostolic
zeal. As is well known, having been born in Florence and brought up under the
influence of the San Marco friars, he had the greatest esteem and affection for
the Domincan Order; and hence, in Rome, kept up a close intercourse with the Minerva. It was through this priory, and
the constant visiting between the Roman fathers and their brethren both
Florence and Prato, and especially through Fra Angelo da Diacceto, a friend of
both, that St Philip and St. Catherine de’ Ricci had early learnt to know and
to appreciate one another. To all his wonderful virtues and holy deeds, Philip
Neri added a further title to her respect and affection, in Catherine’s eyes,
by his ardent devotion to Fra Girolamo Savonarola. From his childhood he had
religiously preserved the memory of this great servant of God. He venerated his
relics (ashes from his place of execution), kept his picture in his cell, and
invoked him with affection as a father and a powerful protector in heaven. Pope
Benedict XIV reports a vision of St. Philip’s in connection with this devotion
of his, which seemed to give it divine sanction. He says that when a great
assembly of theologians, under Pope Paul IV, was debating the question
condemning certain doctrines of Savonarola, Philip being in ecstasy before the
blessed Sacrament at the Minirva
surrounded by Dominican fathers saw and heard the conclusion of the debate and
the announcement of victory for Fra Girolamo’s friends; which was confirmed
shortly afterwards by an official message from the Vatican.
Fr. F. M. Capes, O.P., Life of
St. Catherine de’ Ricci, Both St. Catherine and St. Philip kept a picture
of Fra Girolamo Savonarola in their cells. Both attributed many miracles to the
intercession of Fra Girolamo Savonarola
“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
St.
Paul, in the black catalog he gives of the works of the flesh, reckons sects,
or, as the Protestant translation has it, heresies, as one of them; and,
classing this with idolatry, witchcraft, and dissensions, he concludes,
in these words,---”Of which I foretell you, as I have foretold to you, that
they who do such things shall not obtain the kingdom of God.” [Gal. 5: 20]
Now over 500 years of
the Luther’s Revolt
One day she was carried in spirit to Germany,
where she saw that grand country devastated by Luther’s heresy, under the
appearance of vast tracts of land filled with enormous serpents, and with
imaginary terrible beasts, all engaged in tearing the land into bits, which
they separated from the mother-country, as limbs might be torn piecemeal from a
body. Another time the Spirit of God caused her to go successively to all the
spots in Europe that the great heresy had attacked secretly. When she reached
the towns of Italy, and beheld the wide spread of contagion amongst them, she
sent forth a cry of horror and surprise: “O my God, if all those who are
heretics at heart were to profess their errors publicly, the number of faithful
would indeed be small!” The convent archives tell us that holy Church often
appeared to her, covered symbolically with horrible, disfiguring wounds; and
that she would then cry out, with sobs
and tears: “Ah, my divine Spouse, I recommend Thy whole Church and Thy mercy!
Oh, how many Judases are profaning and betraying her! Why, why should we keep
silence any longer? Why not tell the truth aloud? O Lord, Lord, renew this poor
Church, which belongs to Thee, but in which Thou canst now behold no form of a
Church!”
Fr. F. M.
Capes, O.P., St. Catherine de Ricci, Her Life, Her Letters, Her Community
St. Catherine
de Ricci, 1522 to 1590; Dominican stigmatist
All
Are Called to be Co-Redeemers with Christ
God has
entrusted to each one of us a share in the great redemptive work of Jesus. As consecrated souls, we are especially called
to cooperate in Christ’s work. First of
all, we must cooperate with grace, so that the fruits of the redemption can be
fully applied to our souls. This is the
work of our own personal sanctification.
It is not limited to this one aspect, however. We are called to sanctify ourselves in order
to be able to bring others to sanctity.
Each one of us has a mission to fulfill for the good of others and for
their sanctification. We must
collaborate with Christ in extending the fruits of the Redemption to as many
souls as possible. This work is
entrusted to us by the heavenly Father, and we must apply ourselves to it with
the interior disposition of Christ: a total, generous, exclusive dedication, a
dedication capable of making even the greatest sacrifices. All actions are of value only insofar as they
help toward the accomplishment of this work.
Anything that does not contribute to our own sanctification or to the
sanctification of other is useless, a waste of time, and should be courageously
eliminated.
Fr. Gabriel
of St. Mary Magdalen, O.C.D., Divine
Intimacy
Qualities
of a Spiritual Director
St. Bernard
says that the whole task and burthen of a Spiritual Superior lies in the patient
endurance of the failings of those under his care; for it is not a task, or
grievance, but rather a relief and a delight, to afford direction to virtuous,
highly. gifted, noble souls. But in this very bearing with their weaknesses the
cure of faint-hearted souls must mainly be sought. Let the Director, then,
reflect that he is the Father of these timid, melancholy, ill-mannered,
querulous people. It is his duty to comfort and exhort them lovingly, and to
temper his reproof s with mildness.
It is not,
however, enough to say, that a Director should look on himself as a Father. I
ought to have said, with St Bernard, that he must feel in his heart that he is
the Mother of his penitents. Laying aside, therefore, all severity, harshness,
and rigour, he must bear in his bosom a mother’s tenderness, and treat his
spiritual children with all the fondness of a mother’s love. “Learn,” says the
Saint (Bernard) to Superiors—“ learn to be not the masters, but the mothers, of
the souls entrusted to your care. Engage them to love you more than fear you;
and if at times you have need to employ severity, be yours the sternness of a
Father, never that of a tyrant. Your breast should be full of the milk of
kindness, not swelling with the bitterness of disdain. Why make the yoke of
their subjection press heavy upon them, when it is your duty to lighten it by
taking their burdens upon your own shoulders? And why must your spiritual
children fly from you, when they ought to run to you as to their mother’s arms?
If you be spiritual men, instruct them with all gentleness, reprove them with
all charity, bearing in mind that even you yourselves may fall into the like
infirmities.” Beautiful words, well worthy not only to be once read, but to be
pondered most diligently at our leisure.
Directors
should remark nevertheless that in dealing with women they ought not to make
display of this spiritual love, but should keep it locked up in their hearts,
lest otherwise a strong attachment might grow up on either side. It will
suffice that Confessors show women the kindness to which they are entitled,
exactly as prudent mothers do, who, in order not to spoil their children, take
care not to let them see all the affection which they cherish in their hems.
Rev. John
Baptist Scaramelli, S.J., Guide to the Spiritual Life
“Liberalism is the belief that any part of God's creation
is not subject to His to domain.”
Fr. Denis Fahey
ON
THE SPIRITUAL LIFE: One more thing; every good house holder needs to be a good
gun totting whip-cracker!
If a King were to learn for certain that within the limits of his realm
his foes were lurking, hidden among the woods and thickets, he certainly would
not fail to pursue them vigorously. And when he had found them, think you that
he would let them remain there at large? Undoubtedly not. After having tracked
them out with the greatest diligence, when they were at length discovered, he
would put them all to the sword, and make a wholesale slaughter of them. Now,
remember that you have within you an enemy whom you may overcome and subdue,
but whom you cannot exterminate; whether you will it or not, this enemy will
ever be living within you, and will ever carry on an implacable war against
you. Who, then, is this great, undying enemy, or rather, who are these many
enemies who can only die when you die yourself? I answer: your own passions,
your own vices, and the weaknesses which your passions and vices beget. Seek
them out, then, every day by the Examination of Conscience; and having, through
a diligent search, discovered them, slay them with the sword of a true sorrow;
hew them down by the earnestness of your resolve; so that they may be left on
the field, not indeed dead, as that cannot be, but so wounded and disabled that
they may no longer be able to hinder your progress in the way of
perfection. St. Bernard of Clarivaux
Remember
the Poor Souls
PRAYER TO FREE
1000 SOULS FROM PURGATORY:
Our Lord told St. Gertrude the Great that the following prayer would
release 1,000
Souls from Purgatory each time it is said. The prayer was later extended to
include living sinners as well.
ETERNAL FATHER, I OFFER THEE
THE MOST PRECIOUS BLOOD OF THY DIVINE SON,
JESUS, IN UNION WITH THE MASSES SAID THROUGHOUT THE WORLD TODAY, FOR ALL THE
HOLY SOULS IN PURGATORY, FOR SINNERS EVERYWHERE, FOR SINNERS IN THE UNIVERSAL
CHURCH, THOSE IN MY OWN HOME AND WITHIN MY FAMILY. AMEN
Heroic Act of Charity to Benefit the Poor Souls
O Holy and Adorable Trinity, desiring to co-operate in the deliverance of the
Souls in Purgatory, and to testify my devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary, I
cede and renounce in behalf of those Holy Souls all the satisfactory part of my
works, and all the suffrages which may be given to me after my death,
consigning them entirely into the hands of the most Blessed Virgin, that she
may apply them according to her good pleasure to those Souls of the faithful
departed whom she desires to deliver from their sufferings. Deign, O my God, to
accept and bless this offering which I make to Thee at this moment. Amen
COMMENT: Below is Abp. Viganò’s latest public
letter and it is the best appraisal of the Vatican II church and its man-made
Bugnini liturgical worship published since the council! A lot of conservative
Catholics are not going to like hearing the truth but for the faithful it is
grounds for rejoicing to hear a Catholic bishop defend the faith and the true
worship of God.
Abp. Viganò:
The Latin Mass and Novus Ordo cannot coexist, this is a ‘battle between Christ
and Satan’
I would not be
'surprised' if those 'abusing apostolic authority' soon 'prohibit' the Latin
Mass 'altogether.'
“THE ONE
THREAD BY WHICH THE COUNCIL HANGS”
A response to
Reid, Cavadini, Healy, and Weinandy.
Et brachia ex eo stabunt,
et polluent sanctuarium
fortitudinis,
et auferent juge sacrificium:
et dabunt abominationem in
desolationem.
And arms shall stand on his part,
and they shall defile the sanctuary of
strength,
and they shall take away the continual
sacrifice:
and they shall place there the abomination
unto desolation.
Dan 11: 31
I have followed with interest the ongoing debate about Traditionis Custodes and Father Reid’s
comment here (here) in
which he refutes Cavadini, Healy, and Weinandy, without however reaching a
solution to the problems identified. With this contribution, I would like to
indicate a possible way out of the present crisis.
Vatican II, not being a dogmatic Council, did not intend to define any
doctrinal truth, limiting itself to reaffirming indirectly – and in an often
equivocal form – doctrines previously defined clearly and unequivocally by the
infallible authority of the Magisterium. It was unduly and forcibly considered as
“the” Council, the “superdogma” of the new “conciliar church,” to the point of
defining the Church in relation to that event. In the conciliar texts there is
no explicit mention of what was later done in the liturgical sphere, passing it
off as the fulfillment of the Constitution Sacrosanctum
Concilium. On the other hand, there are many critical issues with the
so-called “reform,” which represents a betrayal of the will of the Council
Fathers and of the pre-conciliar liturgical heritage.
We should rather ask ourselves what value to give to an act that is not
what it wants to seem: that is, if we can morally consider as “Council” an act
that, beyond its official premises – that is, in the preparatory schemes
formulated at length and in detail by the Holy Office – showed itself to be
subversive in its unmentionable intentions and malicious in the means to be
employed by those who, as it turned out, intended to use it for a purpose
totally opposite to what the Church instituted the Ecumenical Councils for. This
premise is indispensable in order to be able to evaluate objectively also the
other events and acts of governance of the Church that derive from it or that
refer to it.
Allow me to explain. We know that a law is promulgated on the basis of
a mens, that is, of a very precise
purpose, which cannot be separated from the entire legal system in which it is
born. These at least are the foundations of that Law which the wisdom of the
Church acquired from the Roman Empire. The legislator promulgates a law with a
purpose and formulates it in such a way that it is applicable only for that specific purpose; he will
therefore avoid any element that could make the law equivocal with respect to
its addressee, its purpose, or its result. The convocation of an ecumenical
Council has as its purpose the solemn convocation of the Bishops of the Church,
under the authority of the Roman Pontiff, to define particular aspects of
doctrine, morals, liturgy or ecclesiastical discipline. But what each Council
defines must in any case fall within the scope of Tradition and cannot in any
way contradict the immutable Magisterium, because if it did so it would go
against the purpose that legitimizes authority in the Church. The same applies
to the pope, who has full, immediate and direct power over the whole Church
only within the confines of his mandate: to strengthen his brothers and sisters
in the Faith, to feed the lambs and sheep of the flock that the Lord has
entrusted to him.
In the history of the Church, until Vatican II, it has never happened
that a Council could de facto cancel
the Councils that preceded it, nor that a “pastoral” Council – a ἅπαξ of Vatican II
– could have more authority than twenty dogmatic Councils. Yet it happened,
amidst the silence of the majority of the episcopate and with the approval of
five roman pontiffs, from John XXIII to Benedict XVI. In these fifty years of
permanent revolution, no pope has ever questioned the “magisterium” of Vatican
II, nor has he dared to condemn its heretical theses or clarify its equivocal
ones. On the contrary, all the popes since Paul VI have made Vatican II and its
implementation the programmatic fulcrum of their pontificates, subordinating
and binding their apostolic authority to the conciliar diktats. They have distinguished themselves through a clear
distancing from their predecessors and a marked self-referentiality from
Roncalli to Bergoglio: their “magisterium” begins with Vatican II and ends
there, and the successors proclaim their immediate predecessors as saints for
the sole fact of having convoked, concluded, or applied the Council.
Theological language has also adapted to the ambiguity of the conciliar texts,
going so far as to adopt as defined doctrines things that before the Council
were considered heretical: we may think of the secularism of the State, today
taken for granted and praiseworthy; the irenic ecumenism of Assisi and Astana;
or the parliamentarism of the Commissions, the Synod of Bishops, and the
“synodal path” of the German Church.
All this stems from a postulate that almost everyone takes for granted:
that Vatican II can claim the authority of an ecumenical council, before which
the faithful are supposed to suspend all judgment and humbly bow their heads to
the will of Christ, infallibly expressed by the Sacred Pastors, even if in a
“pastoral” and not dogmatic form. But this is not the case, because the Sacred
Pastors may be being deceived by a colossal conspiracy that has as its purpose
the subversive use of a Council.
What happened on the global level with Vatican II took place locally
with the Synod of Pistoia, in 1786, where the authority of Bishop Scipione de’
Ricci – which he was able to legitimately exercise by convoking a diocesan
Synod – was declared null and void by Pius VI for having used it in fraudem legis, that is, against the ratio which presides over and directs every law of the Church:
because authority in the Church belongs to Our Lord, who is its Head, who
grants it in vicarious form to Peter and his legitimate Successors only within the framework of Sacred
Tradition. It is therefore not an impudent hypothesis to suppose that a
gathering of heretics could have organized a real coup d’état in the ecclesial
body, in order to impose that revolution that with similar methods was organized
by Freemasonry, in 1789, against the monarchy of France, and that the modernist
Cardinal Suenens praised as having been realized at the Council. Nor is this in
conflict with the certainty of Christ’s divine assistance to His Church: non prævalebunt does not promise us the
absence of conflicts, persecutions, apostasies; it assures us that in the
furious battle of the gates of hell
against the Bride of the Lamb, they will not succeed in destroying the Church
of Christ. The Church will not be defeated as long as she remains as Her
Eternal Pontiff commanded her to be. Moreover, the special assistance of the
Holy Spirit upon papal infallibility is not in question when the pope has no
intention of using it, as in the case of the approval of the acts of a pastoral
Council. From a theoretical point of view, therefore, the subversive and malicious use of a Council is possible; also because
the pseudochristi and pseudoprophetæ
of which Sacred Scripture speaks (Mk 13:22) could deceive even the elect
themselves, including most of the Council Fathers, and with them a multitude of
clerics and faithful.
If, therefore, Vatican II was, as is evident, an instrument whose
authority and authoritativeness was fraudulently
used to impose heterodox doctrines and protestantized rites, we can hope
that sooner or later the return to the Throne of a holy and orthodox pontiff
will cure this situation by declaring it illegitimate, invalid, and null, like
the Conciliabolo of Pistoia. And if the reformed liturgy expresses those doctrinal
errors and that ecclesiological approach that Vatican II contained in nuce, errors whose authors intended
to make manifest in their devastating scope only after their promulgation, no
“pastoral” reason – as Dom Alcuin Reid would like to maintain – can ever
justify any maintenance of that spurious, equivocal, favens hæresim rite, so utterly disastrous in its effects on God’s
holy people. The Novus Ordo therefore
does not deserve any amendment, any “reform of the reform,” but only
suppression and abrogation, as a consequence of its irremediable heterogeneity
with respect to the Catholic Liturgy, to the Roman Rite of which it would
presumptuously claim to be the only expression, and to the immutable doctrine
of the Church. “The lie must be refuted, as Saint Paul insists, but those who
are entangled in its traps must be saved, not lost,” writes Dom Alcuin: but not
to the detriment of revealed Truth and of the honor due to the Most Holy
Trinity in the supreme act of worship; because in giving excessive weight to
pastorality we end up putting man at the center of sacred action, when he
should instead place God there and prostrate himself before Him in adoring
silence.
And even if this may arouse astonishment in the proponents of the hermeneutic of continuity conceived by
Benedict XVI, I believe that Bergoglio is for once perfectly right to consider
the Tridentine Mass as an intolerable threat to Vatican II, since that Mass is
so Catholic as to disavow any attempt at peaceful coexistence between the two
forms of the same Roman Rite. Indeed, it is an absurdity to be able to conceive
of an ordinary Montinian form and an extraordinary Tridentine form for a Rite
that, as such, must represent the only voice of the Roman Church – una voce
dicentes – with the very limited exception of the venerable rites of antiquity
such as the Ambrosian Rite, the Lyonese Rite, the Mozarabic Rite, and the
minimal variations of the Dominican Rite and similar rites. I repeat: the
author of Traditionis Custodes knows
very well that the Novus Ordo is the
cultic expression of another religion – that of the “conciliar Church” – with
respect to the religion of the Catholic Church of which the Mass of Saint Pius
V is a perfect prayerful translation. In Bergoglio there is no desire to settle
the disagreement between the lineage of Tradition and the lineage of Vatican
II. On the contrary, the idea of provoking a rupture is functional to the
exclusion of traditional Catholics, whether clerics or laity, from the
“conciliar church” that has replaced the Catholic Church and that barely (and
reluctantly) keeps its name. The schism desired by Santa Marta is not that of
the heretical synodal path of the
German Dioceses, but that of traditional Catholics exasperated by Bergoglian
provocations, by the scandals of her Court, by her intemperate and divisive
declarations (here and here). To
obtain this, Bergoglio will not hesitate to carry to their extreme consequences
the principles laid down by Vatican II, to which he unconditionally adheres: to
consider the Novus Ordo as the only
form of the post-conciliar Roman Rite, and to consistently abrogate any
celebration in the ancient Roman Rite as completely alien to the dogmatic
structure of the Council.
And it is very true, beyond any possible refutation, that there is no
possibility of reconciliation between two heterogeneous, indeed opposed,
ecclesiological visions. Either one survives and the other succumbs, or one
succumbs and the other survives. The chimera of a coexistence between Vetus and Novus Ordo is impossible,
artificial, and deceitful: because what the celebrant does perfectly in the
Apostolic Mass leads him naturally and infallibly to do what the Church wants;
while what the president of the assembly does in the Reformed Mass is almost
always affected by the variations authorized by the rite itself, even if in it
the Holy Sacrifice is validly realized. And it is precisely in this that the
conciliar matrix of the new Mass consists: its fluidity, its ability to adapt
to the needs of the most disparate “assemblies,” to be celebrated both by a
priest who believes in transubstantiation and manifests it with the prescribed
genuflections and by one who believes only in transignification and gives
Communion to the faithful in their hands.
I would not be surprised, therefore, if, in the very near future, those
who are abusing apostolic authority in order to demolish the Holy Church and
provoke the mass exodus of “pre-conciliar” Catholics do not hesitate not only
to limit the celebration of the ancient Mass, but also to prohibit it altogether,
because in that prohibition the sectarian hatred against the True, the Good,
and the Beautiful is summarized, which animated the conspiracy of the
Modernists since the first Session of their idol, Vatican II. Let us not forget
that, consistent with this fanatical and tyrannical approach, the Tridentine
Mass was casually abrogated with the promulgation of the Missale Romanum of Paul VI, and that those who continued to
celebrate it were literally persecuted, ostracized, made to die with broken hearts,
and buried with funerals in the new rite, as if to seal a miserable victory
over a past to be definitively forgotten. And in those days no one was
interested in the pastoral motivations to derogate from the harshness of canon
law, just as today no one is concerned with the pastoral motivations that could
induce many bishops to grant that celebration in the ancient rite to which
clerics and faithful show particular attachment.
Benedict XVI’s conciliatory attempt, praiseworthy in its temporary
effects of liberalization of the Usus
Antiquior, was destined to fail precisely because it arose from the
illusion of being able to apply the synthesis of Summorum Pontificum to the Tridentine thesis and the antithesis of
Bugnini: that philosophical vision influenced by Hegelian thought could not be
successful because of the very nature of the Church (and of the Mass), which is
either Catholic or not. And which cannot be at the same time firmly anchored to
Tradition and also jolted by the waves of the secularized mentality.
For this reason, I am greatly dismayed to read that the Apostolic Mass
is considered by Dom Reid as the “expression of that legitimate plurality that
is a part of the Church of Christ,” because the plurality of voices is
legitimately expressed in an overall symphonic unity, not in the simultaneous
presence of harmony and screeching noise. There is a misunderstanding here that
must be clarified as soon as possible, and which in all probability will be
healed not so much by the timid and composed dissent of those who ask for
tolerance for themselves while giving the same tolerance to those who hold
diametrically opposed principles, but rather by the intolerant and vexatious
action of those who believe they can impose their own will in opposition to the
will of Christ the Head of the Church, presuming to be able to govern the
Mystical Body like a multinational corporation, as Cardinal Müller correctly
pointed out in his recent speech.
And yet, on closer inspection, what is happening today and what will
happen in the near future is nothing other than the logical consequence of the
premises established in the past, the next step in a long series of more or
less slow steps, each of which many have been silent about and have been
blackmailed into accepting. Because those who celebrate the Tridentine Mass
habitually but continue to celebrate the Novus
Ordo from time to time – and I am not talking about priests subject to
blackmail but those who were able to decide for themselves or had the freedom
to choose – have already yielded in their principles, accepting to be able to
equally celebrate either one, as if they were both equivalent, as if –
precisely – one was the extraordinary form and the other the ordinary form of
the same Rite. And is not this what has transpired, with similar methods, in
the civil sphere, with the imposition of restrictions and the violation of
fundamental rights, accepted in silence by the majority of the population,
terrorized by the threat of a pandemic? Also in those circumstances, with
different motivations but with similar purposes, citizens have been
blackmailed: “Either get vaccinated or you cannot work, travel, or go to
restaurants.” And how many, although knowing that this was an abuse of
authority, have obeyed? Do you think that the systems of manipulation of
consensus are very different, when those who adopt them come from the same
enemy ranks and are led by the same Serpent? Do you think that the Great Reset
plan devised by Klaus Schwab’s World Economic Forum has different purposes than
those set by the Bergoglian sect? The blackmail will not be about health, but
rather doctrinal: one will be asked to accept only Vatican II and the Novus Ordo Missae in order to be able to
have rights in the conciliar church; the traditionalists will be branded as
fanatics just like those who are called “no-vax.”
If Rome were to proscribe the celebration of the ancient Mass in all
the churches of the world, those who believed that they could serve two masters
– the Church of Christ and the conciliar church – will discover that they have
been deceived, just as happened to the conciliar Fathers before them. At that
point they will have to make the choice that they deluded themselves into
believing that they could avoid: a choice which will force them either to
disobey an illicit order in order to obey the Lord, or else to bow their head
to the will of the tyrant while failing in their duties as ministers of God.
Let them reflect, in their examination of conscience, about how many have
avoided supporting the few, very few of their brother priests who have been
faithful to their own Priesthood even though they have been singled out as
disobedient or inflexible simply because they foresaw the deception and the
blackmail.
Here it is not a question of “dressing up” the Montinian Mass like the
Ancient Mass, trying to use vestments and Gregorian chant to hide the
pharisaical hypocrisy that conceived it; it is not a question of cutting out
the Prex eucharistica II or
celebrating ad orientem: the battle must
be fought over the ontological difference between the theocentric vision of the
Tridentine Mass and the anthropocentric vision of its conciliar
counterfeit.
This is nothing other than the battle between Christ and satan. A
battle for the Mass, which is the heart of our Faith, the throne onto which the
Divine Eucharistic King descends, the Calvary on which the immolation of the
Immaculate Lamb is renewed in an unbloody form. It is not a supper, not a
concert, not a show to display eccentricities or a pulpit for heresiarchs, and
it not a podium for holding rallies.
It is a battle that will be strengthened spiritually in the
clandestinity of priests who are faithful to Christ, who are considered to be
excommunicated and schismatics, while inside the churches, along with the
reformed rite, infidelity, error, and hypocrisy will triumph. And also the
absence: the absence of God, the absence of holy priests, the absence of good
faithful souls. The absence – as I said in my sermon for the Chair of Saint
Peter in Rome (here) – of the unity between the Chair (Cathedra) and the Altar, between the
sacred authority of the Shepherds and their very reason for being, following
the model of Christ, ready to be the first themselves to ascend Golgotha, to
sacrifice themselves for the flock. Whoever rejects this mystical vision of his
own Priesthood ends up by exercising his authority without the ratification
that comes only from the Altar, the Sacrifice, and the Cross: from Christ
Himself who reigns from that Cross over both spiritual and temporal sovereigns
as King and High Priest.
If this is what Bergoglio wants in order to assert his overwhelming
power amidst the clamorous silence of the Sacred College and the episcopate,
may he know that he will face firm and decisive opposition from many good souls
who are willing to fight for love of the Lord and for the salvation of their
own souls, who, at a moment that is so dreadful for the fate of the Church and
the world, are determined not to give in to those who wish to cancel the
perennial Sacrifice, as if to facilitate the rise of the Antichrist to the
leadership of the New World Order. We will soon understand the meaning of the
terrible words of the Gospel (Mt 24:15), in which the Lord speaks of the
abomination of desolation in the temple: the abominable horror of seeing the
treasure of the Mass proscribed, our altars stripped, our churches closed, and
our liturgical ceremonies forced into clandestinity. This is the abomination of
desolation: the end of the Apostolic Mass.
When the 13-years old Agnes was led to her Martyrdom on January 21,
304, many among the faithful and priests had apostasized the Faith under the
persecution of Diocletian. Should we fear the ostracism of the conciliar sect,
when a girl has given us such an example of fidelity and fortitude before the
executioner? Her heroic fidelity was praised by Saint Ambrose and Saint
Damasus. Let us ensure that we, unworthy though we may be, will be able to
merit the future praise of the Church while we prepare ourselves for those
trials in which we testify that we belong to Christ.
+ Carlo Maria Viganò, Archbishop
21 January 2023
Unconfirmed
unedited version from our Vatican insider sources:
Pope Francis
the CEO of the HOMOLOBBY, apologizing to the people of when another of his
homopriests caught in the crime of pederasty. January 2022 | Chile
"I am one with my brother (homo) bishops, for it is right to ask
for forgiveness (whenever our internal system of abuse and cover-up breaks
down) and make every effort to support the victims (by paying generous bribes
to their impoverished relatives to hush up everything as quickly as possible),
even as we commit ourselves to ensuring that such things (as these careless
slip-ups) do not happen again."
Pope Francis
says homosexuality is ‘not a crime’ in interview with the Associated Press
Pope Francis
appears to contradict the teaching of saints and Church Fathers in his latest
comments regarding homosexuality.
LifeSiteNews | VATICAN CITY | January 25, 2023 — In a new interview
conducted with the Associated Press, Pope Francis has once 
again issued brief, confusing comments on
the issue of homosexuality, which seem to firmly contradict the Catholic
Church’s teaching through the centuries.
“Being homosexual
is not a crime,” the Pontiff said, “but it’s a sin.”
He made the remarks in a sit down interview he gave to
the Associated Press (AP) on Tuesday, which was published just before
the weekly general audience on Wednesday, January 25.
The AP wrote that
Francis acknowledged some Catholic bishops “support laws that criminalize
homosexuality or discriminate against the LGBTQ community,” but the Pope
reportedly styled such positions as stemming from cultural backgrounds.
“Bishops in
particular need to undergo a process of change to recognize the dignity of
everyone,” the AP wrote, paraphrasing Francis’ comments.
“These bishops
have to have a process of conversion,” Francis declared, calling for
“tenderness, please, as God has for each one of us.”
Going further, the
86-year-old Pope called any laws which criminalize homosexuality “unjust,”
adding that the Catholic Church must be involved in ending such laws. “It must
do this. It must do this,” he stated.
“Being homosexual
is not a crime,” Francis stated, before continuing: “It’s not a crime. Yes, but
it’s a sin. Fine, but first let’s distinguish between a sin and a crime.”
Immediately
following this, Francis added that “it’s also a sin to lack charity with one
another.”
Expanding on his
comments on LGBT-identifying individuals, Francis declared that “we are all
children of God, and God loves us as we are and for the strength that each of
us fights for our dignity.”
Francis’ comments were perhaps predictably praised by notorious LGBT
advocate Father James Martin S.J., who called the interview “An immense step
forward.”
His opinion was not universally shared, however. In a statement
provided to LifeSite, a Dominican theologian commented that “while not all sins
should be made into crimes, Christian nations have generally treated homosexual
activity as something harmful to society, which therefore needed to be declared
illegal.”
“Recent experience shows the wisdom of this, since the repeal of laws
against such activity has led everywhere to a general confusion and decline of
sexual morality, and even to the scarcely credible situation of people being
uncertain about the nature of men and women,” the theologian added.
However, the Holy Father’s statements – while brief in the AP’s report
– come into conflict with certain key points of Catholic teaching. The
Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith’s 1975 document, Persona
Humana, reads: “There can be no true promotion of man’s dignity unless the
essential order of his nature is respected.”
Under Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger in 1986, the CDF then issued a document
instructing bishops on the pastoral care of homosexual persons. The CDF
admonished bishops to ensure they, and any “pastoral programme” in the
diocese, are “clearly stating that homosexual activity is immoral.”
Such an authentic pastoral approach would “assist homosexual persons at
all levels of the spiritual life: through the sacraments, and in particular
through the frequent and sincere use of the sacrament of Reconciliation,
through prayer, witness, counsel and individual care,” stated the CDF.
The instruction added:
But we wish to make it clear that departure from the Church’s teaching,
or silence about it, in an effort to provide pastoral care is neither caring
nor pastoral. Only what is true can ultimately be pastoral. The neglect of the
Church’s position prevents homosexual men and women from receiving the care
they need and deserve.
Therefore special concern and pastoral attention should be directed
toward those who have this condition, lest they be led to believe that the
living out of this orientation in homosexual activity is a morally acceptable
option. It is not.
The saints and Fathers of the Church are also equally explicit in their
call for public action to be taken against acts of homosexuality, no matter
whether the acts themselves were private.
The saints’ writings, though often misquoted by modern society, do not
call for punishment for the mere temptation of homosexuality which one might
experience, but rather for homosexual actions. This forms the basis for what
the CDF wrote in 1986: namely, that a homosexual inclination is not a sin in
itself, but is nevertheless “a more or less strong tendency ordered toward an
intrinsic moral evil; and thus the inclination itself must be seen as an
objective disorder.”
In his Summa Theologiae, St. Thomas Aquinas writes that acts of
homosexuality are among the most weighty, and thus the worst kind of all the
sins of lust. Styling it the “unnatural vice,” St. Thomas writes:
Therefore, since by the unnatural vices man transgresses that which has
been determined by nature with regard to the use of venereal actions, it
follows that in this matter this sin is gravest of all.
The saint adds that homosexual acts are a violation of natural reason,
while other immoral, sexual actions “imply a transgression merely of that which
is determined by right reason.”
Aquinas drew from St. Augustine’s “Confessions,” (Bk. 3, Ch. 8),
highlighting that through Augustine the Church had defended the state’s right
to punish homosexual acts. Aquinas quotes St. Augustine thus:
Those foul offenses that are against nature should be everywhere and at
all times detested and punished, such as were those of the people of Sodom,
which should all nations commit, they should all stand guilty of the same
crime, by the law of God which hath not so made men that they should so abuse
one another. For even that very intercourse which should be between God and us
is violated, when that same nature, of which He is the Author, is polluted by
the perversity of lust.
So also did St. Peter Damian, in his Liber Gomorrhianus addressed to Pope Leo IX, advocate for
public punishment for acts of homosexuality. He wrote that, regarding clerics,
any monk who practices such acts “should be removed in all ways from his
office.”
The saint’s forthright text continues:
Just as Saint Basil establishes that those who incur sins… should be
subjected not only to a hard penance but a public one, and Pope Siricius
prohibits penitents from entering clerical orders, one can clearly deduce that
he who corrupts himself with a man through the ignominious squalor of a filthy
union does not deserve to exercise ecclesiastical functions, since those who
were formerly given to vices… become unfit to administer the Sacraments.
St. Peter Damian himself drew from the Early Church Father St. Basil of
Caesarea, who also outlined retributions for homosexual acts. St. Basil
stipulated that:
Any cleric or monk who abused adolescents or children or is caught
kissing or committing some turpitude, let him be whipped in public, deprived of
his crown [the tonsure] and, after having his head shaved, let his face be
covered with spittle; and bound in iron chains, condemned to six months in
prison, reduced to eating rye bread once a day in the evening three times per
week. After these six months living in a separate cell under the custody of a
wise elder with great spiritual experience, let him be subjected to prayers,
vigils and manual work, always under the guard of two spiritual brothers,
without being allowed to have any relationship… with young people.
Another Early Church Father and contemporary of St. Basil, St. John
Chrysostom, echoed this call for some earthly punishment for such actions. In
his commentary on St. Paul’s Epistle to the Romans, St. John writes about
homosexuals:
So, I say to you that they are even worse than murderers, and that it
would be better to die than to live in such dishonor. A murderer only separates
the soul from the body, whereas these destroy the soul inside the body.
In his first letter to the Corinthians, St. Paul states that homosexual
actions are sinful, explaining that “neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor
adulterers” will “inherit the kingdom of God,” but rather, according to his
letter to the Romans, those who practice homosexuality will receive “in their
own persons the due penalty for their error.”
“I consider it my duty to warn Christian
society against those Jews who intoxicate our people in the tavern and destroy
them with usury; against those who maintain houses of debauchery in the towns;
who trade in live goods [i.e. selling women into prostitution], who poison our
young people with pornographic prints and periodicals.”
Blessed Josef Sebastian Pelczar,
(1842-1924), Archbishop of Przemysna in Poland and co-founder of the Sister
Servants of the Sacred of Jesus. Quotation from B. A. Porter: Faith and the Fatherland: Catholicism,
Modernity and Poland
‘Gay clubs’ run in seminaries, says
Pope Benedict in posthumous attack on Francis
New book by the late pontiff makes
extraordinary claims about the Catholic Church under his progressive successor
The Telegraph | Nick Squires | January 23, 2023
Gay “clubs”
operate openly in Catholic seminaries, the institutions that prepare men for the
priesthood, the late Pope Benedict XVI has claimed in a posthumously published
book scathing of Pope Francis’ progressive agenda.
In a blistering attack on the state of
the Catholic Church under his successor’s papacy, Benedict, who died on Dec 31
at the age of 95, said that the vocational training of the next generation of
priests is on the verge of “collapse”.
He claimed that some bishops allow
trainee priests to watch pornographic films as an outlet for their sexual
urges.
Benedict gave instructions that the book,
What Christianity Is, should be published after his death.
It is one of a handful of recent books by
conservative Vatican figures which have poured scorn on the decade-old papacy
of Francis, who was elected after his predecessor’s historic resignation in
2013.
The outpouring of new books contributes
to “impressions of a mounting civil war in the Church following the death of
Benedict XVI”, according to John Allen, a leading Vatican analyst who writes
for Crux, the Catholic news outlet.
The existence of “homosexual clubs” is
particularly prevalent in the US, Benedict said in his book, adding: “In
several seminaries, homosexual clubs operate more or less openly.”
He cited the example of an American
bishop who allegedly allowed his seminarians, or trainee priests, to watch porn
films “presumably with the intention of rendering them capable of resisting
behaviours contrary to the faith”.
Benedict, whose conservative position on
doctrinal matters contrasted with Francis’ more compassionate approach,
complained that his previous books were regarded as dangerously traditionalist
by some elements of the Church.
“In not a few seminaries, students caught
reading my books are considered unworthy for the priesthood. My books are
concealed as dangerous literature and are read only in hiding.”
Despite their many differences, Pope
Francis also warned recently that priests and even nuns regularly watch porn.
He made the remarks in October, saying
that indulging in porn is a danger to the soul and a way of succumbing to the
malign influence of “the devil”.
COMMENT: This posthumous
confession is a little late if the intention is to obtain forgiveness of sins.
What he complains about is common knowledge. Did Benedict/Ratzinger forget that
he not only gave the Church Francis the Homo, he is largely responsible for
Francis’ Vatican II formation? Nothing cited in this article was not long ago
an established practice under John Paul II and Benedict/Ratzinger’s watch. The only thing this publication changes is
the Novus Ordo canonization date of Benedict/Ratzinger. His last ‘miracle’ may
just have dried up.
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Mufide Rende requests our prayers
for the spiritual and physical welfare of the Rende Family,
The welfare of the Sal Massinio family is the
petition of the Drew’s,
The Vargas’ request our prayers
for the spiritual welfare of their son, Nicholas,
Monica Bandlow petitions prayers
for Kathy Simons, Regina Quinn, James
Mulgrew, Ruth Beaucheane, John Kopczynski, Roger & Mandy Owen 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 and Julia McDonald, for the recovery of their health,
For the spiritual welfare of Mark Roberts, a Catholic faithful to tradition,
Philip Thees asks our prayers for the recovery of Bridget McGuigan, recent hand
injury,
Joe Sentmanet request prayers for
Scott Nettles, Richard Giles, and Claude Harmon who are gravely
ill and in need of conversion,
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 Sonia 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, 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 & Tracy
Sentmanat family, Keith & Robert Drew, Christy Koziol & her children,
Fred Nesbit and Michael Nesbit
families, and Gene Peters Family, the John Manidis Family, the Sal Messinio
Family, Michael Proctor Family,
Ryan Boyle grandmother, Jane Boyle, who is failing
health,
Mel
Gibson and his family, please remember in our prayers,
Rev. Timothy A. Hopkins 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 and Kathleen Gorry.
Pray for the Repose of the Souls:
Joyce Paglia,
died January
21, and Anthony Paglia, died January
28, who were responsible for the beautiful statuary in our chapel,
Robert Arch
Ward, a friend
of Monica Bandlow, died January 10,
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 fried 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,
Monica Bandlow request our prayers for 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, and Willaim
Price, Jr. who died December,
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,
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.
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and guard your soul diligently.” (Deut 4:9)
“It
is a sin to believe there is salvation outside the Catholic Church!”
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The following is Archbishop Carlo Maria
Viganò’s 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
By his teaching on the
impossibility of continency either in celibacy or In marriage, he paves the way
to the sanction of a bigamic marriage, at least In the case of the Landgrave
Philip von Hessen. In union with Melanchton and Bucer, Luther acts the
spiritual adviser, with counsel pertinent to the matter in hand. On account of
the sensation caused by the bigamic marriage, the Landgrave Is recommended to
deny it, but secretly he may keep the trull—”Metze”—as a “conjugal concubine.”
In principle, Luther had already enunciated these tenets after his interior
apostasy from the Church. They only prove his bent and readiness with regard to
lying, cunning, and deception.
Rev. Heinrich Denifle, O.P., Luther and Lutherdom
I firmlly admit and accept the Apostolic
and Ecclesiastical Traditinos and all the other observances and constitutions
of the Church.... I also accept and admit the received and approved rites of
the Catholic Church in the solemn administratin of all the Sacraments.
Tridentine Profession of Faith
Dogmas
are not Precepts – They are Divinely Revealed Truths
The dogmas of the Faith are to be held only according to their
practical sense; that is to say, as preceptive norms of conduct and not as
norms of believing, Condemned Proposition.
St. Pius X, Lamentabili Sane
Why
is John Henry Cardinal Newman regarded by Modernists as their Spiritual Father?
– Because he was! So why do
“Conservative Catholics” admire Newman?
Because he explained how dogma can be discarded.
“Dr. Newman is the most dangerous man in England. And you will see that
he will make use of the laity against your Grace. You must not be afraid of
him. It will require much prudence, but you must be firm, as the Holy father
sill places his confidence in you; but if you yield and do not fight the battle
of the Holy See against the detestable spirit growing up in England, he will
begin to regret Cardinal Wiseman, who knew how to keep the laity in order.”
Msgr. George Talbot, Papal Chamberlain, Letter to Cardinal Henry Edward
Manning, after Pope Pius IX suppressed a plan for Dr. John Henry Newman going
to Oxford to establish an inter-faith oratory.
An English Catholicism, of which Newman is the highest type, 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.
Cardinal Henry Edward Manning, on Dr. John Henry Cardinal Newman
Another influential writer during the last century was Lord Acton (Sir
John Dalberg), who was famous for his critical historicism and also renowned
for his friendship with (Rev. Johann von) Dollinger (a Munich priest and
professor at the University, excommunicated for rejecting the dogma of papal
infallibility). Acton was almost excommunicated, as Dollinger was, but managed
to maintain the appearance of orthodoxy and remain in the Church. As liberal as
Lord Acton was, and although he sided with Newman in fighting the dogma of
Infallibility, he came to the same conclusion as (Cardianl Henry Edward)
Manning regarding Newman’s heterodox position. In a letter written by Acton a
few weeks before Manning’s death, after mentioning the ‘personal aversion to
Manning’ displayed by Newman he said, “Many will wonder how anybody who saw
much of him (Newman) could remain a Catholic — assuming that Newman really was
one.” Acton, although an ally of Newman in editing the liberal journal The
Rambler, was not baffled by Newman’s prosaic tact. Acton went much further than
Manning in his strictures on his old ally. He described Newman as “a sophist,
the manipulator and not the servant of truth.” When men of diametrically
opposed beliefs, as Acton and Manning, agree in their judgment of another man
whom they so well knew, the assumption that they are not both in error is not
unreasonable.
John Edward Courtenay Bodley, On Cardinal John Henry Newman
DOGMA IS THE PROXIMATE RULE OF FAITH; DOGMA is revealed
doctrine formally defined by the Church. The pope is the necessary but
insufficient means by which DOGMA is declared.
Hence, the distinction is made betewen
the Remote and the Proximate Rule of Faith.
The remote Rule of Faith is the Objective Deposit, [Scripture and
Tradition], It contains revealed truths which - for some reason or other - were
forgotten, obscure, or not sufficiently understood. Hence, they were broght into discussion, or
denied without injury to the Faith until they became clear or were defined by
the Church. The Proximate Rule of Faith
is the teaching of the Church sufficiently proposed and manifestly promulgated
to the Faithful, [DOGMA]. If this
Proximate Rule of Faith proclaims anything as belonging to the Remote Rule
of Faith, it can no longer be challenged
without shipwreck of the Faith. For
unity of faith is whole and entire only while there is no dissent with the
Proximate Rule of Faith. On this point
Gregory of Valentia declares: "The Church has from darkness brought to
light wth her infallible authority some doctrines which, through human
negligence or malice or perversity of mind, remained concealed. And mayhap there are some still hidden in the
Church." Msgr. George Agius, D.D.,
J.C.D., Tradition and the Church
Worth
Repeating: The SCHISM is already HERE!
COMMENT: This
book in the article below provides an interpretation of Chapter 8 of Amoria Laetitia. It is addressed to bishops with a “merciful
heart” and offers an interpretation that is consistent with the interpretation
approved in the private letter sent by Pope Francis to the bishops of Argentina
as well as with the interpretation of Cardinal Schornborn who Pope Francis has
publically identified as its ‘official interpretor.’ These bishops say that the proper
understanding and application is that any Catholic living in public adultery
based upon their own private judgment in the internal forum can declare
themselves worthy to receive Holy Communion and absolution in the sacrament of
Penance and therefore cannot be denied these sacraments. It is given semi-official approval by its
publication in L’Osservatore Romano.
Now in the Novus
Ordo which may be nothing more than a memorial meal as initially defined by
Pope Paul VI, perhaps giving the Novus Ordo communion wafer to a person in
objective mortal sin is not a real problem.
But what is certainly a grave sin it that these persons can expect to be
absolved by a confessor in the sacrament of Penance without confessing or
repentance of mortal sin. Pope Francis
and his CDF puppet, Cardinal Muller, will not be answering the Dubia in any
official capacity. This does not
represent a change in the Church’s teaching.
It represents the active effort of a Francis and his minions to destroy
the Catholic doctrine and morality. As
we announced during the synod, the schism has long been present. It is more evident each passing day and every
Catholic will have to pick sides. God
cannot let an open attack upon the sacrament of marriage go unpunished. Their hypocrisy is oozing from every
pore. Imagine if a Catholic with
“humility, discretion and love for the Church and her teaching, in a sincere
search for God’s will and a desire to make a more perfect response to it”
arrives at traditional Catholicism, what kind of response can be expect from
the local bishop and Rome? If you want
to know read our OPEN LETTERS!
If, as a result of the process
of discernment, undertaken with “humility, discretion and love for the Church
and her teaching, in a sincere search for God’s will and a desire to make a
more perfect response to it” (Amoris Laetitia 300), a separated or divorced
person who is living in a new relationship manages, with an informed and
enlightened conscience, to acknowledge and believe that he or she are at peace
with God, he or she cannot be precluded from participating in the sacraments of
Reconciliation and the Eucharist (see AL, notes 336 and 351).
Bishops Charles J Scicluna and
Mario Grech, Guide for the Interpretation
of Chapter 8 of Amoris Laetitia: An Invitatiion to the Bishops of Merciful
Hearts. This received semi-official
approbation by being featured in the publication, L’Osservatore Romano, 1-2017
When I consider the words which
Jesus Christ addressed to His heavenly Father in prayer, saying that He did not
pray for the world,” I pray not for the world” [John xviii, 9]-----and again
that, when praying for His disciples that His prayer might be more efficacious,
He emphasized the fact that they were not followers of the world, “They are in
the world, but they are not of the world”-----I confess that no words of our
Saviour in the whole Gospel terrify me more than these. For I perceive that it
is necessary for me to separate myself from the world, so that Jesus Christ may
intercede for me. And if I am a lover of the world, I shall be excommunicated
by Jesus Christ and shall have no part in His intercessions and prayers. These
are the words of Christ Himself: “I pray not for the world, but for those who
are not of the world.”
Let us really understand these
words: that Jesus Christ excludes us from His kingdom if we belong to the
world, that is to say if we wish to follow the maxims of the world which are
nothing but vanity and deceit and fill man with pride; the maxims of the world
which the prophet says “turn aside the way of the humble.” [Amos ii, 7]
Meanwhile Jesus Christ is our advocate with the Father in so far as, renewing
our Baptismal vow, we renounce the world and accept the maxims of the Gospel
which are true and tend to make man humble. To serve both God and the world is
impossible, because we could never please both-----”he will hold to the one and
despise the other.” [Luke xvi, 13]
To pretend to serve God and the world is the same as to imagine that we can be
both humble and proud at the same time. Vain dream!
Fr. Cajetan Mary da Bergamo, Humility of Heart
ON THE FEWNESS
OF THOSE WHO FIND SALVATION
·
“Only a few will be
saved; only few will go to Heaven. The
greater part of mankind will be lost forever.”
St. John Neumann
·
“There are a select
few who are saved.”
St. Thomas Aquinas
·
“The number of the
Elect is so small - so small - that, were we to know how small it is, we would
faint away with grief. One here and
there, scattered up and down the world!”
St. Louis Marie de Montfort
·
“I tremble when I see
how many souls are lost these days. They
fall into Hell like leaves from the trees at the approach of winter.”
St. John Mary Vianney
·
“So vast a number of
miserable souls perish, and so comparatively few are saved!”
St. Philip Neri
·
“How narrow is the
gate and how strait the way that leads to life, and few there are who find
it.”
Jesus Christ, Mt. 7, 13-14
“Perhaps for
the first time that there are magisterial decisions which cannot be the final
word on a given matter as such but, despite the permanent value of their
principles, are chiefly also a signal for pastoral prudence, a sort of
provisional policy.”
Cardinal
Ratzinger, as head of CDF, The
Nature and Mission of Theology
COMMENT: The Magisterium of the Church is one thing. It is the teaching authority
of the Church conferred upon her by her founder, Jesus Christ, so that His
Church could teach authoritatively and infallibly in the name of God. Only the
pope in the office of the papacy stands in potentia to this power but when any pope throughout the history of the Church
engages this power in actu, he is
engaging one and the same thing as every other pope who preceded him.
“Magisterial decisions” are therefore the “final word on a given matter”
because they are the word of God. Benedict/Ratzinger denies this Catholic
truth. He claims that there exists “permanent value of … principles” and human
“provisional policy” in magisterial judgments. He is affirming the heresy of
Neo-modernism that postulates that in a given dogma there exists a disjunction
between the form and matter. The former is the truth from God and the latter is
a human approximation of that truth that must constantly change in a continuous
refinement to distill away the human accretions from the divine truth. Thus for
the Neo-modernist truth lies in a subjective process and has objective value
only for the historian. The definition of heresy is the denial of a
“magisterial decision”. The dogma of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed
Virgin Mary ends theological debate on the question. Those who hold that the
dogma is “a sort of provisional policy” are heretics and the possibility of
salvation absent any repentance is impossible.
Catholic
Dogma: Only the sacrament of Baptism received by those who hold the true faith
can make men “children of God” and members of His Church!
“In this
crowd, in this range of religious, there is only one certainty we have for all:
we are all children of God. I hope you will spread my prayer request for this month:
That sincere dialogue among men and women of different faiths may produce the
fruits of peace and justice. I have confidence in your prayers.”
Pope Francis
the Indifferent, Prayer intention for January 2016
COMMENT: The entire Vatican II ecumenical dialogue process with Jewry is
based upon two erroneous
presuppositions. The first is that Jews today believe and practice the
religion of Abraham and Moses. They do not. And everyone knows it yet the
Modernists in Rome pretend otherwise. The Jewish religion is governed by the
traditions codified in the Talmud and not the Old Testament scripture. There is
no “spiritual patrimony common to Christians and Jews” and it is utterly false
and deceptive to claim that, “Christianity has its roots in Judaism; (and Judaism)
constitutes the nucleus of (Christian) identity.” The reason that the Catholic
Modernists and Jews “share a spirit of friendship and esteem”, even
camaraderie, is because the “common patrimony” they both share is a mutual
rejection of Jesus Christ. This friendship is evidence of their apostasy. The second erroneous
presupposition is that the Jews, because they are Jews, have their own
operative covenant with God whereby they obtain salvation. Again, they do not.
God is not impressed by “Jewish DNA”. As Jesus Christ said, “And think not to
say within yourselves, ‘We have Abraham for our father’. For I tell you that
God is able of these stones to raise up children to Abraham” (Matthew 3:9).
St. Paul said of the Jews of his day that they are they, “Who both
killed the Lord Jesus, and the prophets, and have persecuted us, and please not
God, and are adversaries to all men” (1Thess 2:15). The relationship between
those who “killed the prophets” and those who “killed the Lord Jesus” is not a
literal but a spiritual one. The analogous imputation is clear. There exists
today and historically a spiritual relationship between the Jews who literally
“killed the Lord Jesus” and their descendants who follow them in their
rejection of Jesus as the true and only Messias and persecute Him in His
Church, the Mystical Body of Christ.
Modernists Rome denies that Jews must accept Jesus Christ and be
members of His Church to obtain salvation. They deny what St. Peter, explaining
the miraculous cure of a cripple, affirmed to the Jewish high priest in the
Temple that, “by the name
of our Lord Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God hath raised
from the dead, even by him this man standeth here before you whole. This is the
stone which was rejected by you the builders, which is become the head of the
corner. Neither
is there salvation in any other. For there is no other name under heaven given
to men, whereby we must be saved" (Acts 4:10-12). Or as St. John simply
said, “He that hath the Son, hath life.
He that hath not the Son, hath not life” (1 John 5:12). The Modernists believe the absurd
Jewish racial theory that Jews, because of “Jewish DNA”, irrespective of what
they believe or of what they do, are still in a salvific relationship with God without
Jesus Christ. The attribution of historical “persecution” of Jews is likewise
adapted to the Jewish racial theory and thus historical opposition to Jews is
always seen as being motivated by racial hatred and not what in fact Jews have
historically done. Catholics, according to their estimation in a clear example
of Jewish racial projection, are therefore racists guilty for “a two millennium rift during
which the ‘teaching of contempt’ by many Christian clergy on all levels planted
the seeds of hatred that nourished repeated persecutions, pogroms, and helped
create a climate that led to the unfathomable crimes of the Shoah.”
Modern Jewish messianic theology holds that the Jews as a people
constitute a collective Messias, the Holocaust is their passion, and the establishment
of the State of Israel their resurrection. They believe in fact that the
collective Jewish Messias will one day rule the world from Jerusalem. The Jews
have followed many false Messiasse since their rejection of Jesus Christ and
every one of these has invariably led to ruin. This false Messias will be no
different and perhaps, much worse.
Anti-Semitism is the hatred of Jews because of their race. This is
a sin. There is no greater manifestation of anti-Semitism, and thus no greater
sin, than refusing to tell a Jew, because and only because he is a Jew, that
that there is no hope of salvation outside of Jesus Christ and His Church. This
racial theory of salvation is a door that will necessarily lead to abject ruin.
When
burdened with a worthless bishop, Catholics could only blame themselves!
“Let no bishop be given to a community against its will; the consent
and desire of the clergy, people, and nobility is required.”
Pope St. Celestine I (422-432)
Synod on
Synodality: Welcome to the ‘Big Top’
The Catholic
Church must free itself from this ‘toxic nightmare’
By Cardinal
George Pell
The Catholic Synod of Bishops is now busy constructing what they think
of as ‘God’s dream’ of synodality. Unfortunately this divine dream has
developed into a toxic nightmare despite the bishops’ professed good
intentions.
They have produced a 45-page booklet which presents its account of the
discussions of the first stage of ‘listening and discernment’, held in many
parts of the world, and it is one of the most incoherent documents ever sent
out from Rome.
While we thank God that
Catholic numbers around the globe, especially in Africa and Asia are
increasing, the picture is radically different in Latin America with losses to
the Protestants as well as the secularists.
With no sense of irony, the document is entitled ‘Enlarge the
Space of Your Tent’, and the aim of doing so is to accommodate, not the newly
baptised —those who have answered the call to repent and believe — but anyone
who might be interested enough to listen. Participants are urged to be
welcoming and radically inclusive: ‘No one is excluded’.
What is one to make of this
potpourri, this outpouring of New Age good will?
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).
The first task for everyone and especially the teachers, is to listen
in the Spirit. According to this recent update of the good
news, ‘synodality’ as a way of being for the Church is not to be defined, but
just to be lived. It
revolves around five creative tensions, starting from radical inclusion and
moving towards mission in a participatory style, practicing ‘co-responsibility
with other believers and people of good will’. Difficulties are
acknowledged, such as war, genocide and the gap between clergy and laity, but
all can be sustained, say the Bishops, by a lively spirituality.
The image of the Church as an expanding tent with the Lord at its
centre comes from Isaiah, and the point of it is to emphasise that this
expanding tent is a place where people are heard and not judged, not excluded.
So we read that the people of God need new strategies; not quarrels and
clashes but dialogue, where the distinction between believers and
unbelievers is rejected. The people of God must actually listen, it insists, to
the cry of the poor and of the earth.
Because of differences of opinion on abortion, contraception, the
ordination of women to the priesthood and homosexual activity, some felt that
no definitive positions on these issues can be established or proposed. This is
also true of polygamy, and divorce and remarriage.
However the document is clear
on the special problem of the inferior position of women and the dangers of
clericalism, although the positive contribution of many priests is
acknowledged.
What is one to make of this potpourri, this outpouring of New Age good will? It
is not a summary of Catholic faith or New Testament teaching. It is incomplete,
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. The Old Testament is ignored, patriarchy rejected
and the Mosaic Law, including the Ten Commandments, is not acknowledged.
Two points can be made
initially. The two final synods in Rome in 2023 and ’24 will need to
clarify their teaching on moral matters, as the Relator (chief writer and manager) Cardinal
Jean-Claude Hollerich has publicly rejected the basic teachings of the Church
on sexuality, on the grounds that they contradict modern science.
In normal times this would have meant that his continuing as Relator was
inappropriate, indeed impossible.
The synods have to choose
whether they are servants and defenders of the apostolic tradition on faith and
morals, or whether their discernment compels them to assert their sovereignty
over Catholic teaching. They must decide whether basic teachings on things
like priesthood and morality can be parked in a pluralist limbo where some
choose to redefine sins downwards and most agree to differ respectfully.
Outside the synod,
discipline is loosening – especially in Northern Europe, where a few bishops
have not been rebuked, even after asserting a bishop’s right to dissent; a de
facto pluralism already exists more widely in some parishes and religious
orders on things like blessing homosexual activity.
Diocesan bishops are the
successors of the apostles, the chief teacher in each diocese and the focus of
local unity for their people and of universal unity around the Pope, the
successor of Peter. Since the time of St Irenaeus of Lyon, the bishop is also
the guarantor of continuing fidelity to Christ’s teaching, the
apostolic tradition. They are governors and sometimes judges, as well as
teachers and sacramental celebrants, and are not just wall flowers or
rubber stamps.
‘Enlarge the Tent’ is alive to
the failings of bishops, who sometimes do not listen, have autocratic
tendencies and can be clericalist and individualist. There are signs of hope,
of effective leadership and cooperation, but the document opines that pyramid
models of authority should be destroyed and the only genuine authority comes
from love and service. Baptismal dignity is to be emphasised, not ministerial
ordination and governance styles should be less hierarchical and more circular
and participative.
The main actors in all Catholic
synods (and councils) and in all Orthodox synods have been the bishops. In a
gentle, cooperative way this should be asserted and put into practice at the
continental synods so that pastoral initiatives remain within the limits of
sound doctrine. Bishops are not there simply to validate due process and offer
a ‘nihil obstat’ to what they have observed.
None of the synod’s
participants, lay, religious, priest or bishop are well served by the synod ruling that voting is
not allowed and propositions cannot be proposed. To pass on only the
organising committee’s views to the Holy Father for him to do as he decides is
an abuse of synodality, a sidelining of the bishops, which is unjustified by
scripture or tradition. It is not due process and is liable to manipulation.
By an enormous margin,
regularly worshipping Catholics everywhere do not endorse the present synod
findings. Neither is there much enthusiasm at senior Church levels. Continued
meetings of this sort deepen divisions and a knowing few can exploit the muddle
and good will. The
ex-Anglicans among us are right to identify 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 as well as the displacement of Christian notions of forgiveness, sin,
sacrifice, healing, redemption. Why the silence on the afterlife of reward or
punishment, on the four last things; death and judgement, heaven and hell?
So far 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.
Working documents are not part
of the magisterium. They are one basis for discussion; to be judged by the
whole people of God and especially by the bishops with and under the Pope. This
working document needs radical changes. The bishops must realise that
there is work to be done, in God’s name, sooner rather than later.
Cardinal George Pell, written
shortly before he died suddenly after undergoing hip arthroplasty at Salvator
Mundi Hospital in Rome, often referred as the ‘pope’s hospital’.
The
Most Holy Virgin in these last times in which we live has given a new
efficacy to the recitation of the Rosary, to such an extent that there is no
problem, no matter how difficult it is, whether temporal, or above all,
spiritual, in the personal life of each one of us, of our families, of the
families of the world or of religious communities, or even of the life of
peoples and nations that cannot be solved by the Rosary. There is no problem, I
tell you, no matter how difficult it is, that we cannot resolve by the prayer
of the Rosary! With the Holy Rosary we will save ourselves. We will sanctify
ourselves. We will console our Lord and obtain the salvation of many souls.
Sr. Lucy of Fatima to Fr. Fuentes
The decadence which exists in the
world is without any doubt the consequence of the lack of the spirit of prayer.
Foreseeing this disorientation, the Blessed Virgin recommended recitation of the
Rosary with such insistence, and since the Rosary is, after the Eucharistic
liturgy, the prayer most apt for preserving faith in souls, the devil has
unchained his struggle against it . . . The Rosary is the most powerful
weapon for defending ourselves on the field of battle.
Sr. Lucy of Fatima to Dom Umberto
Pasqual
“I have always
something to repent for after having talked, but have never been sorry for
having been silent.”
St. Arsenius,
a Desert Father, d. 445 at 95 years of age
The
Eucharist is sustenance rather than a remedy. Food does not reduce fever or
drive out humours; it maintains and improves the health. The remedy for our
sins and defects is in the Sacrament of Penance, in acts of contrition and
expiatory works. Quite other is the effect of the Eucharist: it nourishes, it
sustains, it strengthens, it develops the good qualities which it encounters;
it augments faith, hope, and love; the more strongly these virtues are
implanted in the soul, the more growth and the more life will it derive from
the Sacred Food.
Abbe
A. Saudreau, director of the mother-house of the Good Shepherd at Angers, The Way that Leads to God
Where
is the United States headed? An immoral people cannot be free. Therefore, the
deep state promotes immorality because they do not want a free people!
“The domestic spying, impeachment, and election irregularities of the
Trump presidency matter because of what they tell us about the managerial
system. All the public talk of democracy is for show; the whole point of the bureaucracy
and the party system is to prevent any popular, democratic movement that would
threaten the ruling class’ privileges. As President Trump put it, ‘They
don’t hate you because they hate me. They hate me because they hate
you’.”
Christopher Roach, Political Commentary
THIS
ARTICLE OFFERS INSIGHT INTO THE FUDAMENTAL DOCTRINAL CORRUPTION OF THE POPE
FRANCIS’ VATICAN
Pope Francis
and Infallibility
Vatican
Insider | Paolo Scarafoni and Filomena Rizzo | 11 November 2020
The infallibility of the Pope was
proclaimed as a dogma 150 years ago in Vatican Council I. We know well problems and
difficulties that it has generated within the Church and the Christian world
and the political crises in relations with States, threatened in sovereignty;
but little thought has been given, even in theology, to the innovative scope.
Beyond that historical moment, from an anthropological
point of view, the real novelty of this dogma was universality. The real
awareness of being able to challenge the totality of humanity today is called
“globalization”. Something
unthinkable until then, that the Catholic Church first had the courage to
propose around the figure of the Pope. We are faced with a prophecy of what
will be an irreversible journey of humanity: a global world where everything is
connected. The great powers of the world will try to imitate this path, in the
political, military, economic, financial, cultural field, also living the same
limits and the same difficulties experienced in the Church.
At that time the two great limits of the interpretation
of infallibility and universality were: the claim of the dominion of all minds
with the submission of all men; and the attainment of the univocity of the
expressions of faith. Universality as uniformity, demanding the renunciation of
freedom and cultural diversity. The Pope was seen as an absolute monarch.
The other powers of the world have
moved and still move along the same line: to achieve universal domination and
to standardize the life
and mentality of all men, making us believe that universality is not possible
without imposing these two limits. Such premises have been made to pass
as the only condition for world development. Today, we all experience it in the
digital world, which asks us to abdicate our privacy, to allow ourselves to be
tracked everywhere, and to be influenced in the choices of almost all aspects
of our lives.
A second providential moment of
experience of universality
was the Second Vatican Council, which perhaps could never have been realized
without the beautiful awareness of John XXIII, who willingly called himself
“the pope of all”: “The whole world is my family. This sense of
universal belonging must give tone and vivacity to my mind, to my heart, to my
actions” (Il Giornale dell’Anima 29 November - 5 December 1959).
The presence in Rome of the
bishops of all the peoples of the world, of the delegated observers of the
Orthodox Churches and of the other Christian confessions, the guests of the
secretariat of Christian unity, the contribution of the experts, especially the
laity, the auditors and the parish priests, have illuminated even more the path
of universality and consequently of infallibility. In that interweaving of
relationships and knowledge it was immediately evident to everyone that
infallibility and universality could not mean renunciation of freedom and
elimination of diversity for uniformity. On the contrary, the Council was lived
as collegiality, freedom, and appreciation of the many Christian traditions in
the various cultures, also inevitably creating frictions and difficult moments.
An experience of the Church that has radiated so many hopes to all humanity.
The Council in fact largely modified the guidelines of
the previous papal magisterium. The events channeled the exercise of infallibility into
collegiality. The Pope gave his support to the change, and his figure was
further valued, not mortified, as many feared. Collegiality is not
understood only as the feeling of living bishops, but also as a patrimony left
by all those who preceded them.
The epochal change that we live
today, accentuated by the pandemic, where everything is connected, refines even
more like gold the service of infallibility as a journey in the truth: the
infallibility of the people of God, the sensus fidei, shines out, to which
recourse has already been made in the proclamation of the two Marian dogmas
(Immaculate Conception and Assumption of Mary into Heaven). Pope Francis identifies in the
sense of the faith of the people of God the element of balance and discernment
between the controversies of pastors. He is insisting precisely on this point:
it is time to learn to walk by referring to the people of God. It is a
matter of teaching having listened and learned from the people that is the
source, especially in difficulties: it is capable of “rising up” together also
in faith. It is the path of synodality, which accompanies collegiality and the
Petrine ministry. Many people find it impossible to take this route from a
practical point of view and prefer paths already known.
It is the work of the Holy Spirit, but success is not
taken for granted. History has already experienced it. Some prelates,
from what can be seen in the media, try to bring the Church back to the
post-Tridentine climate, creating tensions in view of the upcoming papal
election. It was at the time of the Council of Trent that the succession to the
papal throne was decided by casting suspicion on the candidate.
For the first time in a conclave
(1549-1550) the charge of heresy was launched against the English cardinal
Reginald Pole, which reflected the divisions in the Church in the face of
Protestantism. He was a great defender of the papacy, moderate and mediator,
and personally paid for the commitment to the unity of the Church in England.
In his book De Summo Pontifice, written a few years before, he presented the
role of the successor of Peter as an imitator of Christ, and formulated
“infallibility” as a guarantee of freedom before the power of States. Probably
with his election the face and history of the Church would have had a turning
point.
Precisely on the infallibility
maneuver those who oppose Pope Francis. But now it is no longer synonymous with
power, but of service in love to all humanity for a truly universal Church of
Christ.
* Fr. Paolo Scarafoni and Filomena
Rizzo teach theology together in Italy and Africa, in Addis Ababa. They are
authors of books and articles of theology.
COMMENT: What colossal tripe is this Vatican Insider
(therefore, authorized by Pope Francis) publication offering an apologetic for
the ‘Great Reset’, the new world order globalization, as a work of the Holy
Spirit, while identifying its enemies as those who would endorse a return “to
the post-Tridentine climate, creating tensions in view of the upcoming papal
election” by accusations of “heresy” against the new pope.
The authors
are the kind of people that Francis the Apostate surrounds himself with and
therefore parrot his thinking. This article is grounded upon thoroughly
non-Catholic presuppositions. It is the stuff from which fables lacking any
foundation are constructed. The corrupted world has infected the Church with
its habit of mistaking fantasy for imagination. While imagination is the
disciplined power to innovative vision within the possibilities of the real,
fantasy is mental sloth fermented in a soup of moral degradation to escape from
any and every challenge, burden or suffering. It is a refusal to carry the
cross.
The authors argue
that the declaration of infallibility was a type of “prophecy” that, with
“courage,” proposed an “irreversible journey of humanity” toward a “global
world where everything is connected.”
“From an anthropological point of view,” (anthropology being comparative
sociology from a historical perspective), all human endeavors became universal
in scope directed by the “great powers of the world”: Politics became oriented
to a one world authority, military to a one world police state, finance to a
one world bank, economics to a one world control of exchange, religion to a one
world church, etc., etc. The Jewish Satanist, Karl Marx, would appreciate this
argument.
They
continue. Vatican II providentially “channeled the exercise of infallibility
into collegiality” and universality brings any and every form
aberro-catholicism under the tent, so no one should be worried about a one
world abuse of authority or imposition of strict conformity. John XXIII claimed to be “the pope of all”:
“The whole world is my family. This sense of universal belonging must give tone
and vivacity to my mind, to my heart, to my actions.” Therefore, the authors
conclude, “it was immediately evident to everyone that infallibility and
universality could not mean renunciation of freedom and elimination of
diversity for uniformity.” The new world order is certainly our friend!
Without any
sense of shame or danger these dreamers affirm that this new modernist gospel
“is the work of the Holy Spirit, but success (for its implementation) is not
taken for granted.” After all, the new world order has already called for
universal access to abortion and reduction of the world population to 500
million that would eliminate 5.5 billion people. This is a demonic program and
to attribute this evil to the Holy Ghost is a sin that “shall not be
forgiven... neither in this world, nor in the world to come” (Matt 12:32).
Setting
aside for the moment “the upcoming papal election,” an examination of the
ideological presuppositions can be instructive. The pope is held as the rule of
faith in that he personally discerns and exemplifies the sensus fidei by the direct guidance of the Holy Ghost through the
process of collegial synodality. He discerns the shifting winds and infallibly
guides the Church in a new direction and everyone is called upon to follow him
wherever he goes. Catholic ‘faithful’
are those who follow the pope. Those Catholics who want to keep the faith and
return to a “post-Tridentine” climate where dogma is taken as revealed truth do
not possess the sensus fidei and are
its enemies. Collegiality and synodality are really just for appearance sake.
The pope ends up doing whatever he “discerns” as was evident in the previous
carefully scripted synods of Pope Francis.
The authors
claim that the “innovative scope” of the dogma of papal infallibility, the
“real novelty of this dogma was universality.” The problem is that if anything
has “universality,” it cannot at the same time have the quality of
“novelty.” A true universal is a stable
form in the mind of God “with whom there is no change, nor shadow of
alteration” (James 1:17). A universal truth is always and everywhere for
everyone without exception true. A dogma is a universal, therefore it is not a
“novelty” nor is it proper to talk about its “innovative scope” because it is
by definition already a truth revealed by God.
Only in a subjective sense can such attributes be considered, such as,
the authors of this article may have just discovered a universal truth but this
discovery has no bearing on the truth itself. Furthermore, the pope is not
infallible per se. It is the Church
that is infallible per se. The pope
occupies the office that stands in
potentia to the Church’s divine attribute of infallibility. For dogmatically
defined ends while employing dogmatically defined means, the pope
can engage the Church’s attribute of infallibility in actu, but attribute remains always a power of the Church essentially and a power of the pope only
accidentally.
Therefore,
every dogma is an article of divine revelation that is formally and infallibly
defined by the Magisterium of the Church and proposed to the faithful as a
formal object of divine and Catholic faith. The Magisterium of the Church is
the power conferred by Jesus Christ upon His Church to teach in the name of God
without the possibility of error. The Magisterium is grounded upon two of the
attributes of the Church: infallibility and authority (the third being
indefectibility). These are properly attributes of God and God alone. They are
attributes of the Church only because the Church is a divine institution. The
Church is the Mystical Body of Jesus Christ composed of those who are baptized,
profess the Catholic faith, and are subjects of the Roman pontiff. The pope is
the necessary but insufficient instrumental cause of dogma because to him alone
belongs the power to engage the Church’s attribute of infallibility and to
authoritatively impose on all the faithful the formal object of divine and
Catholic faith. God is the formal and final cause of dogma.
The
attributes of infallibility and authority that Jesus Christ endowed His Church
have been known by every faithful Catholic since the time of the Apostles.
Historically, divine revelation is only formally defined where there is a
crisis of faith regarding a particular revealed truth. The truth is one while
error is manifold. The truth of papal infallibility can be corrupted by either
denying its existence (such as by, the rationalists, liberals, materialists,
etc.) or by excess in claiming that the pope personally possesses the
attributes of the Church making him personally infallible in all he says and
does (such as by conservative Catholics today who make the pope their proximate
rule of faith). The pope is only infallible accidentally. This latter error
takes the attributes of God and attributes them to the pope essentially. This
is idolatry.
The very
definitions of universality and dogma are corrupted in this article. Dogma as
the proximate rule of faith for every Catholic is replaced by the person of the
pope. From this idolatry, the faith itself becomes subject to the whims of the
pope and whatever he does is claimed to be the work of the Holy Spirit and an
expression of the sensus fidei. So
what do the authors mean by “Some prelates, from what can be seen in the media,
try to bring the Church back to the post-Tridentine climate, creating tensions
in view of the upcoming papal election”?
Apparently,
there is already a planned “upcoming papal election” when Francis perhaps
resigns and there is concern that clerics who look to dogma as their proximate
rule of faith will accuse the next pre-selected candidate of being a heretic.
The “post-Tridentine” Catholics will claim that it is the dogma that is
“infallible” and their reply will be, “Precisely on the infallibility maneuver
those who oppose Pope Francis. But now (infallibility) is no longer synonymous
with power, but of service in love to all humanity for a truly universal Church
of Christ.”
Infallibility
is in fact “synonymous with power” because infallibility is an attribute of the
All-powerful God. Those who are confused on this truth do not possess it. They
do not possess the Catholic faith. The definition of heresy is the denial of a
dogma. Neo-Modernists and Modernists deny dogma in its very essence. For them,
heresy is the failure to follow current papal ideology. “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” (Gal 1:8-9).
Ugly future for a
country that prizes homosexual perversion!
“Population
collapse is potentially the greatest risk to the future of civilization.”
Elon
Musk, Billionaire
“Consider
the moral and ideological baggage that sub-(population) replacement fertility
regimen is likely to drag along with it. Pessimism, hesitance, dependence,
self-indulgence, resentment, and division: do we really think there will be less
of these in a 1.5 child America? ..... Further, would a 1.5-child America
really be willing to make incessant patriotic sacrifices to defend itself and
its allies, or to preserve the post-war liberal economic and political order
upon which our prosperity and security so greatly depend?”
Dr.
Nicholas Eberstadt, The De-Population
Bomb, political economist and demographer on the implosion of U.S.
population
Traditional
Catholics are largely immune from “Official Propaganda” and thus, are “awkward to
manage” causing “administrative problems”!
“But the utility of intelligence is admitted only theoretically, not
practically; it is not desired that ordinary people should think for
themselves, because it is felt that people who think for themselves are awkward
to manage and cause administrative problems.”
Bertrand Russell, British atheist, mathematician, philosopher, logician
and public intellectual. Lecture: Free Thought and Official Propaganda
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
“Not to resist
an error is
to approve of it — not
to defend a
truth is to
reject it.”
St. Augustine
Is
Pope Francis a Member of the Church he governs?
From this definition it can be
easily gathered what men belong to the Church and what men do not. For there
are three parts of this definition: the profession of the true Faith, the
communion of the Sacraments, and the subjection to the legitimate Pastor, the
Roman Pontiff.
By reason of the first part are excluded all infidels, as much those who have
never been in the Church, like the Jews, Turks and Pagans; as those who have
been and have fallen away, like heretics and apostates.
By reason of the second, are excluded catechumens and excommunicates, because
the former are not to be admitted to the communion of the sacraments, the
latter have been cut off from it.
By reason of the third, are excluded schismatics, who have faith and the
sacraments, but are not subject to the lawful pastor, and therefore they
profess the Faith outside, and receive the Sacraments outside. However, all
others are included, even if they be reprobate, sinful and wicked.
St. Robert Bellarmine
Queers Always Hang Together
“Sodomy Is a Gift from God…. Those who oppose sodomy should be debarred
from church seminaries.”
Rev. Timothy Radcliffe, O.P., Pope Francis’ appointment to the
Pontifical Council of Justice
Sanctity
is union with the will of God. The more perfect the union, the greater the
sanctity. Sin is turning away from the will of God. The more serious the sin,
the greater the separation from God. Modern Evangelization fails because it is
not holy, because it has turned away from the will of God! It is separated from
God in both Faith and Charity!
I should say that no people has ever been converted to Christianity by
a learned apologetic or by mysticism, important as these things are. The great
examples of Christian evangelization are St. Paul’s apostolate in Asia Minor
and Greece, St. Francis Xavier and his successors in Japan, and perhaps St.
Patrick in Ireland. In all these cases it is a very simple type of evangelism,
joined with miracles and works of mercy…. It is of course simply a question of
spiritual dynamism: Where there is direct spiritual communication through a
saint or an evangelist, you always find results, but where it is a matter of
routine organizations and activities, you do not.
Christopher Dawson, Catholic Historian, Letter to his friend, John
Mulloy, 1956
Trustful
Surrender to God’s Merciful Providence!
But you, who do you think
you, a human being, are to answer back to God? Something that was made, can it
say to its maker, why did you make me this shape? A potter surely has the right
over his clay to make out of the same lump either a pot for special use or one
for ordinary use (Romans 9:20-21). Accuse God of greater calumny by asking
Him why He said, when Esau and Jacob were still in their mother’s womb: “I
loved Jacob but I hated Esau….” It is true that neither fertile Britain,
nor the people of Scotland, nor any of the barbarian nations as far as the ocean
knew anything about Moses and His prophets. Why was it necessary that He come
at the end of those times when numerous multitudes of people had already
perished? Writing to the Romans, the blessed Apostle (St. Paul) cautiously airs
this question but he cannot answer it and leaves it to God’s knowledge. So,
you should also deign to accept that there may be no answer to what you ask. To
God be the power and He does not need you as His advocate.
St. Jerome
“One God, One Faith, One Baptism”
For, in truth, when
released from these corporeal chains, “we shall see God as He is” (1 John 3:2),
we shall understand perfectly by how close and beautiful a bond divine mercy
and justice are united; but, as long as we are on earth, weighed down by
this mortal mass which blunts the soul, let us hold most firmly that, in
accordance with Catholic teaching, there is “one God, one faith, one
baptism” [Eph. 4:5]; it is unlawful to proceed further in inquiry.
Pope Pius IX, Singulari Quadam
Remedial
Catechism 101: Pope Francis identifies a Pagan as a Christian “who doesn’t want
to serve.”
It is an ugly thing when you see a Christian who doesn’t want to humble
himself, who doesn’t want to serve, a Christian who struts about everywhere:
it’s ugly, eh? That is not a Christian: that’s a pagan!
Pope Francis, General Audience, Vatican Radio, 12-18-13
Holy 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,” Nov. 22,
1439
January is Dedicated to the Holy Name of Jesus
WHAT DOES THE
NAME OF JESUS MEAN?
The name Jesus comes
from the Greek Iesous which was derived from the Aramaic, Yeshu. It means
“Yaweh is salvation.” The name was not unique, even in biblical times, and
today it is common in Arabic-speaking East and in Spanish-speaking countries.
From apostolic times the name has been treated with the greatest respect, as
honor is due the name which represents Our Lord, himself.
The Holy Name of
Jesus is, first of all, an all-powerful prayer. Our Lord Himself solemnly
promises that whatever we ask the Father in His Name we shall receive. God
never fails to keep His word.
When, therefore, we
say, “Jesus,” let us ask God for all we need with absolute confidence of being
heard. For this reason, the Church ends her prayer with the words,
“through Jesus Christ,” which gives the prayer a new and Divine efficacy.
But the Holy Name
is something still greater.
Each time we say,
“Jesus,” we give God infinite joy and glory, for we offer Him all the infinite
merits of the Passion and Death of Jesus Christ. St. Paul tells us that
Jesus merited the Name Jesus by His Passion and Death.
Each time we say
“Jesus,” let us clearly wish to offer God all the Masses being said all over
the world for all our intentions. We thus share in these thousands of Masses.
Each time we say
“Jesus,” we gain indulgences for the Holy Souls in Purgatory, thus relieving
and liberating very many of these holy souls from their awful pains. Thus they
may be our best friends and pray for us-----they
cannot pray for themselves, however.
Each time we say
“Jesus,” it is an act of perfect love, for we offer to God the infinite love of
Jesus.
The Holy Name of
Jesus saves us from innumerable evils and delivers us especially from the power
of the devil, who is constantly seeking to do us harm.
The Holy Name of
Jesus gradually fills our souls with a peace and joy we never had before.
The Holy Name
of Jesus gives us strength that our sufferings become light and easy to bear. And just as this
one Church cannot err in faith or morals, since it is guided by the Holy Ghost;
so, on the contrary, all other societies arrogating to themselves the name of church,
must necessarily, be guided by the spirit of the devil, be sunk in the most
pernicious errors, both doctrinal and moral.
Catechism of the
Council of Trent
Act of Reparation to the Holy Name of Jesus
This Feast of the Holy Name
of Jesus is associated with the Feast of the Circumcision, for it is when a
child was circumcised that he received a name and was accepted as a son of
Abraham and a full member of his family.
So honored is His Holy Name that devout Catholics bow their heads (men
removing their hats) at the sound of “Jesus” both inside and outside of the
liturgy. To protect the sacredness and honor due the Holy Name, when hearing
the Name of the Lord taken in vain, it is right to pray, “Sit nomen Dómini
benedíctum!” (“Blessed be the Name of the Lord”), to which the reply, if
overheard, is “Ex hoc nunc, et usque in sæculum!” (“from this time forth for
evermore!”).
PRAYER TO
JESUS IN DIFFICULTIES
O Jesus! Consolation of the afflicted! Thy name is indeed poured out
like oil; for Thou dost illumine those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of
death; Thou dost disperse the blindness of the soul and dost cure its ills;
Thou givest food and drink to those who hunger and thirst after justice. Be
also, O Jesus! my Savior, the physician of my soul, the healer of its wounds.
O Jesus! Succor of those who are in need, be my protector in temptations! O
Jesus! Father of the poor, do Thou nourish me! O Jesus! joy of the angels, do
Thou comfort me! O Jesus! my only hope and refuge, be my helper in the hour of
death, for there is given us no other name beneath the sun by which we may be
saved, but Thy most blessed name Jesus!
·
No doctrine is understood to be infallibly defined unless it is clearly
established as such. Canon 749 § 3
·
All that is contained in the written word of God or in tradition, that
is in the one deposit of faith entrusted to the Church and also proposed as divinely
revealed either by the solemn magisterium of the Church or by its ordinary and
universal magisterium, must be believed with divine and catholic faith... Canon
750
“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.
KEEP DOGMA AS
YOUR PROXIMATE RULE OF FAITY AND YOU WILL KEEP YOUR BALANCE
This is the thrilling romance of Orthodoxy. People have fallen into a
foolish habit of speaking of orthodoxy as something heavy, humdrum, and safe.
There never was anything so perilous or so exciting as orthodoxy. It was
sanity: and to be sane is more dramatic than to be mad. It was the equilibrium
of a man behind madly rushing horses, seeming to stoop this way and to sway
that, yet in every attitude having the grace of statuary and the accuracy of
arithmetic. The Church in its early days went fierce and fast with any
warhorse; yet it is utterly unhistoric to say that she merely went mad along
one idea, like a vulgar fanaticism. She swerved to left and right, so as
exactly to avoid enormous obstacles. She left on one hand the huge bulk of
Arianism, buttressed by all the worldly powers to make Christianity too
worldly. The next instant she was swerving to avoid an orientalism, which would
have made it too unworldly. The orthodox Church never took the tame course or
accepted the conventions; the orthodox Church was never respectable. It would
have been easier to have accepted the earthly power of the Arians. It would
have been easy, in the Calvinistic seventeenth century, to fall into the
bottomless pit of predestination. It is easy to be a madman: it is easy to be a
heretic. It is always easy to let the age have its head; the difficult thing is
to keep one’s own. It is always easy to be a modernist; as it is easy to be a
snob. To have fallen into any of those open traps of error and exaggeration
which fashion after fashion and sect after sect set along the historic path of
Christendom that would indeed have been simple. It is always simple to fall;
there are an infinity of angles at which one falls, only one at which one
stands. To have fallen into any one of the fads from Gnosticism to Christian
Science would indeed have been obvious and tame. But to have avoided them all
has been one whirling adventure; and in my vision the heavenly chariot flies
thundering through the ages, the dull heresies sprawling and prostrate, the
wild truth reeling but erect.
G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy
Vulgar Francis Surprises Seminarians
en.news | December 15, 2022
GerminansGerminabit.Blogspot.com found out
what happened at Francis’ December 10 audience for the seminarians of
Barcelona.
·
After the
meeting, Vatican.va published Francis’ beautiful speech where he emphasised
perseverant prayer, the priestly rosary of Bishop Saint Manuel Gonzalez, and
told the seminarians to lose themselves in the tabernacle in moments of pain.
·
In
reality, Francis refused to read this speech, not written by him, but called it
“boring” and asked the seminarians to quiz him instead.
·
He told the
seminarians that a priest in confession must “forgive everything” [paedophilia?
racism?] and give absolution even if the penitent has no intention to make
amends.
·
A prudent
priest who refuses absolution when necessary is for Francis a vehicle for an “evil,”
“unjust” and “moralistic” judgement.
·
Francis
said that there are priests who have fallen into grave sins BUT are "with
the people" (Francis named homosexuals and transvestites).
·
He
repeated that the seminarians should not be “rigid” and “clerical,” that they
would not be good priests “just because they dress up as priests,” and that
their life should not consist of climbing.
·
Francis
used a language which some seminarians described as “vulgar” which surprised
the seminarians.
Pope warns Vatican staff an 'elegant demon' lurks among them
· Pope Francis warned staff in
Christmas speech to be wary of 'elegant demon'
· He traditionally uses annual
speech to rebuke bureaucrats to help them repent
· Aimed to address conservative
Catholic critics who are his biggest opponents
DailyMail | 22
December 2022 | Madeleine Ross
The
Pope told Vatican staff to beware the 'elegant demon' that lurks in
self-righteous Catholics in his traditional Christmas speech.
Francis
used his annual Christmas greeting to the Roman Curia to again put the
cardinals, bishops and priests who work in the Holy See on notice that they are
particularly vulnerable to evil.
Pope
Francis has long used the annual speech as a chance to rebuke bureaucrats in an
examination of conscience to help them repent before Christmas.
Francis
told attendees that by living in the heart of the Catholic Church, 'we could
easily fall into the temptation of thinking we are safe, better than others, no
longer in need of conversion.'
'Yet we are in greater danger than all
others, because we are beset by the 'elegant demon', who does not make a loud
entrance, but comes with flowers in his hand,' Francis told the churchmen in
the Hall of Blessings of the Apostolic Palace.
But
the speech was relatively gentle compared to previous Jesuit-style
examinations.
Pope
Francis' most blistering critique came in 2014, when he listed the '15
ailments of the Curia' that some suffered, including the 'terrorism of gossip',
'spiritual Alzheimer's' and of living 'hypocritical' double lives.
The
following year, Francis offered an antidote to the sins by listing the
'catalogue of virtues' he hoped they would instead follow, including honesty,
humility and sobriety.
Francis appeared to also want to take
broader aim in this year's speech at arch-conservatives and traditionalists who
have become his biggest o
Francis blasted their way of living the
faith, insisting that being Catholic doesn't mean following a never-changing
set of strict rules but is rather a 'process of understanding Christ´s message
that never ends, but constantly challenges us'.
'True heresy consists not only in
preaching another gospel, as Saint Paul told us, but also in ceasing to
translate its message into today's languages and ways of thinking,' Francis
said.
Traditionalist
Catholics have denounced Francis' emphasis on mercy (sic) and openness to
doctrinal wiggle room on issues such as sacraments for divorced and civilly
remarried Catholics.
Some have even gone so far as
to accuse him of heresy for some of his gestures and preaching, including
allowing 'pagan' statues in the Vatican.
Francis dedicated the bulk of his
speech this year to the need to be vigilant about the work of the devil,
picking up a theme he recently discussed during his weekly catechism lessons
with the general public.
He
told the Vatican bureaucrats it's not enough to merely condemn evil or root it
out, since it often comes back in different guises, stronger than before.
Francis
used the term 'we' repeatedly, suggesting he includes himself among those in
the Vatican who must remain mindful of the devil in their midst.
'Before,
it appeared rough and violent, now it shows up as elegant and refined,' he
warned.
'We
need to realize that and once again to unmask it. That is how these elegant
demons are: they enter smoothly, without our even being conscious of them.'
Francis told the story of a 17th
century convent where the superior, Mother Angelica, had charismatically
reformed herself and her monastery after evil crept in, but the devil came back
in the form of a rigid faith.
'They had cast out the demon, but he
had returned seven times stronger, and under the guise of austerity and rigor,
he had introduced rigidity and the presumption that they were better than
others,' Francis said.
Some
of Francis' critics themselves were in the audience along with his
supporters.
COMMENT: Another “merry Christmas” message to faithful
Catholics from Pope Francis the Vandal. It is wondrous how a secular ideology
can fill an empty head. Catholics faithful to tradition are grounded upon
Catholic scholastic philosophy with a metaphysics that fully recognizes the
hierarchy of substantial reality rising from a formless matter that is pure
potential to the matterless form of God which is pure actuality. We know what
of substantial reality that is permanent and we know what of substantial
reality that can and does undergo change. Pope Francis’ progressive secular
ideology, which is about a hundred years out-of-date by worldly estimations,
denies all permanence; it even specifically denies substantial reality itself
which Pius XII warned against (Humani generis) and Benedict XVI openly
professed. This dated ideology is primarily materialistic and not only
presupposes constant material change but believes without a shred of evidence
that this necessary progressive change is always for the better. In the late
1960s Pope Paul VI said that after Vatican II the “smoke of Satan” had entered
the Church initiating a state of “self-demolition”. After more than fifty years
of ‘progressive self-demolition’ Francis, standing in the midst of the
wreckage, places his ideology over reality every time. He just pipes his jingle
that “time is greater than space” and long awaited springtime of Vatican II is
just over the horizon. What in the world makes the arrogant Francis believe
that the “process of
understanding Christ´s message that never ends, but constantly challenges us'
is better comprehended by himself than all his pre-Vatican II predecessors and
Catholics faithful to tradition today? The necessary constant “change” that
Catholics faithful to tradition perfectly understand concerns the constant
renewal of the inner man in putting on Christ and living their Baptismal vows
more perfectly. This is the change that Francis cannot comprehend. Faithful
Catholics keep their Catholic traditions because they know that these
traditions perfectly image the unchangeable truths revealed by God. They know
that these traditions are not the work of man but are the work of God. They
know that these images are what makes the faith known and communicable to
others. That is why these traditions have been the subject of dogma and
incorporated into the Tridentine profession of faith that was directly
reaffirmed at Vatican I. Francis says, 'True heresy consists not only in preaching another
gospel, as Saint Paul told us, but also in ceasing to translate its message
into today's languages and ways of thinking. St. Paul said nothing of
the sort. The moral and canonical definition of heresy is the failure to keep
dogma as the rule of faith. In fact, it is the heresy of Neo-modernism that
teaches that Catholic dogma is composed of divine and human components, the
latter being insufficient in expressing the revealed truths of God therefore must
constantly undergo change to better express the revealed truth. It is the error
of Semanticists who
hold that since the world is always changing, the words (and images) that
express reality must always necessarily change. This is the heresy of Pope Francis.
It is this heresy that formed the overall purpose of the pastoral council
Vatican II as John XXIII announced at its opening ceremony. It is the one
unifying principle of all post-conciliar popes. When this heresy is formally
condemned the Vatican II ship will sink to the bottom of the sea never to rise
again.
The SSPX hierarchy was regularized sub rosa in 2012. This little secret is not shared with their
clerical members nor the faithful who support their chapels but the comment
below actually constitutes additional prima
facie evidence of this fact. The SSPX has compromised on critical issues of
Catholic doctrine and liturgy and therefore cannot defend Catholic faith. There
purpose is now to function as a long term remedial re-education camp for recalcitrant
traditional Catholics and in this, there is no "reason" to
"rejoice".
"For forty years, enemies of Tradition
have advanced a canonical claim of schism against the Bishops and Priests of
the Society of Saint Pius X and the faithful who support them.
"However, the pontificate of Pope
Francis has frustrated these canonical claims; the Holy Father has granted the
Superior General of the Society the permission to ordain priests, named Bishop
Fellay a canonical minister of the second instance, granted global faculties
for hearing confessions and ordered the bishops of the world to witness
marriages in SSPX chapels (or otherwise delegate faculties, as most have done).
"Consequently, the criticism of the Society
has shifted from canonical to moral grounds. On the one hand, friends of
Tradition and supporters of the work of the saintly Archbishop Lefebvre have
reason to rejoice; the shifting strategies seem an implicit acknowledgement
that the four-decade long campaign against the SSPX has been definitively
resolved."
Jeff Cassman, supporter of the SSPX
article, Anti-SSPX Critics do not Follow
the Holy See
United
States Use of Nuclear Weapons Policy is a Godless Trashing of Catholic Just War
Standards!
“The United States (already) has a theory of a ‘preventive
strike’…Now they are developing a system for a ‘disarming strike’. What does
that mean? It means striking at control centers with modern high-tech (nuclear)
weapons to destroy the opponent’s ability to counterattack.”
President Vladimir Putin
“The Biden administration’s unclassified Nuclear Posture Review
(NPR) is, at heart, a terrifying document. It not only keeps the world on a
path of increasing nuclear risk, in many ways it increases that risk. The only
viable U.S. response is to rebuild the entire U.S. nuclear arsenal, maintain an
array of dangerous Cold War-era nuclear policies, and threaten the first use of
nuclear weapons in a variety of scenarios.”
Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS), commenting on the Biden
Administration Nuclear Posture Review that adopts a nuclear policy that, as a
Biden representative said, “establishes a strategy that relies on nuclear
weapons to deter all forms of strategic attack. This includes nuclear
employment of any scale, and it includes high-consequence attacks of a
strategic nature that use non-nuclear means.”
"You
that love the Lord, hate evil: the Lord preserveth the souls of his saints, he
will deliver them out of the hand of the sinner." Psalm 96:10
From those who
are Planning Nuclear Preemptive strike against everyone else President Biden
hates:
'Newspeak';
Even perverts must adopt the language of the good in the defense of their
perversity.
Because they (sic) support LGBQT children and families, we have to
speak out, we must stop the hate and violence like we just saw in Colorado
Springs (where a shooter who identifies as "nonbinary" and uses the
they/them pronouns recently killed innocent people), where a place of
acceptance and celebration was targeted for violence and terror. We need to
challenge hundreds of callous and cynical laws introduced in states targeting
trans-gender children, terrifying families and criminalizing doctors who give
children the care they need. We have to protect these children so that they
know they are loved and we will stand up for them and say I can speek for
themselves (sic). Folks, racism, antisemitism, homophobia, transphobia, they
are all connected. But the antidote to hate is love. This law and the love it
defends will strike a blow against hate in all its forms and that is why law
matters to every single American no matter who you are or who you love. This
should not be about conservative or liberalism, red or blue. No this is about
realizing the promises of the Declaration of Independence. The promises rooted
in the sacred and secular beliefs. A promise that we are all created equal.
President Joe Biden, December 13, 2022, bill signing ceremony for
"Respect for Marriage Act"
Death,
Judgment, Heaven and Hell
In the divine judgment, the examination of the case is instantaneous,
because it needs neither the testimony of witnesses, for or against, nor the
least discussion. God knows by immediate intuition, and at the moment of
separation, the soul knows itself without medium. It is enlightened, decisively
and inevitably, on all its merits and demerits. It sees its state without
possibility of error, sees all that it has thought, desired, said, and done,
both in good and in evil. It sees all the good it has omitted. Memory and
conscience penetrate its entire moral and spiritual life, even to the minutest
details. Only then can it see clearly all that was involved in its particular
vocation, for instance, that of a mother, of a father, of an apostle.
Secondly, the pronouncement of the sentence is also instantaneous. It
does not come by a voice to be heard by the ear, but in a manner entirely
spiritual. Intellectual illumination awakes all acquired ideas, gives
additional infused ideas, whereby the soul sees its entire past in a glance.
The soul sees how God judges, and conscience makes this judgment definitive.
All this takes place at the first instant of separation. When it is true to say
of a person that he is dead, it is also true to say that he is judged.
Thirdly, the execution of the sentence is also immediate. There is
nothing to retard it. On the part of God, omnipotence accomplishes at once the
order of divine justice, and on the part of the soul merit and demerit are, as
St. Thomas says, like lightness and heaviness in bodies. Where there are no
obstacles, heavy bodies fall, light bodies rise. Thus separated souls go
without delay, either to the recompense due to their merit (unless perhaps they
have to undergo a temporary punishment in purgatory), or to the eternal
punishment due to their demerits. Charity, like a living flame, ascends on
high, whereas hate always descends.
Fr. Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange, Life
Everlasting
The
pope is NOT the proximate 'rule of faith' nor is he the "master of the
evolution of the catechism".
As for homosexuality, it was described in
1992 as "intrinsically disordered" acts that reflected an era. Thirty
years later, we must undoubtedly return to it (the subject of sodomy) with
greater respect. It is the pope who is master of the evolution of the
catechism.
Archbishop Laurent Ulrich, Pope Francis'
newly appointed bishop of Paris
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?
Pope Francis Declares: ‘Pro-Life Christians Have No Humanity’
By Shoebat | November 15, 2022
Pope Francis recently stated that he
nominated Mariana Mazzucato, a pro-choice professor, to the Pontifical Academy of
Life, to “bring some humanity” to the Academy, implying that the pro-Life
Christians have no humanity. As we read in wPolityce:
“While returning to Rome from an apostolic pilgrimage in Bahrain, journalists
on board the plane asked Francis about the matter that has outraged many
Catholics around the world. It is about the recent nomination to the Pontifical
Academy of Life of atheist and avowed supporter of abortion, Mariana Mazzucato.
Francis replied that it was his personal decision because he wanted to ‘bring
some humanity’ to the Academy.”
In truth and with anger, I find it a
daunting task to see how people could take the Vatican in a serious manner.
With the thousands of sexual predators who call themselves priests, to the Pope
calling for gay “civil unions”, to the appointing of a pro-choice professor to
an academy meant to be against abortion, it would not be a far-fetched thing to
say that the fox is ruling the hen house, and the hens have all been
slaughtered, and all that is left are foxes dressed as hens.
Its official, for the first time in
Catholic history, a pope has come out in support of homosexual “civil unions”
which is really just secular marriage under a state. During an interview for a
documentary which premiered at the Rome Film Festival, Francis stated:
“Homosexual people have the right to be in a family. They are children
of God… You can’t kick someone out of a family, nor make their life miserable
for this. What we have to have is a civil union law; that way they are legally
covered.”
Of course, the priests who are acolytes of
Sodom are praising Pope Francis for this, with priests of Sodom like Fr. James
Martin saying: “The pope’s speaking positively about civil unions also sends
a strong message to places where the church has opposed such laws”. This is
coming from a priest who for years has been pushing for the idea of ‘building
bridges’ between the Church and Sodom. Well, its obvious that that bridge has
been built… and that it has been crossed. […..]
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
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).
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
For Catholics, Advent is the Penitential Season of
preparation for the celebration during the seasons of Christmas and
Epiphany. For the modern world, Advent
is a season of celebration followed by a state of drunken stupor, depression
and spiritual desolation during Christmas and Epiphany.
IF
our holy mother the Church spends the time of Advent in this solemn preparation
for the threefold coming of Jesus Christ; if, after the example of the prudent
virgins, she keeps her lamp lit ready for the coming of the Bridegroom; we,
being her members and her children, ought to enter into her spirit, and apply
to ourselves this warning of our Saviour: “Let your loins be girt, and lamps
burning in your hands, and ye yourselves be like unto men who wait for their
Lord !” The Church and we have, in reality, the same hopes. Each one of us is,
on the part of God, an object of mercy and care, as is the Church herself. If
she is the temple of God, it is because she is built of living stones; if she
is the bride, it is because she consists of all the souls which are invited to
eternal union with God. If it is written that the Saviour hath purchased the
Church with His own Blood, may not each one of us say of himself those words of
St. Paul, “Christ hath loved me, and hath delivered Himself up for me”? Our
destiny being the same, then, as that of the Church, we should endeavour during
Advent, to enter into the spirit of preparation, which is, as we have seen,
that of the Church herself.
And firstly, it is our duty to join with the saints of the old Law in
asking for the Messias, and thus pay the debt which the whole human race owes
to the divine mercy. In order to fulfill this duty with fervour, let us go back
in thought to those four thousand years, represented by the four weeks of
Advent, and reflect on the darkness and crime which filled the world before our
Saviour’s coming. Let our hearts be filled with lively gratitude towards Him
who saved His creature man from death, and who came down from heaven that He
might know our miseries by himself experiencing them, yes, all of them
excepting sin. Let us cry to Him with confidence from the depths of our misery;
for, notwithstanding His having saved the work of His hands, He still wishes us
to beseech Him to save us. Let therefore our desires and our confidence have
their free utterance in the ardent supplications of the ancient prophets, which
the Church puts on our lips during these days of expectation; let us give our
closest attention to the sentiments which they express.
This first duty complied with, we must next turn our minds to the coming
which our Saviour wishes to accomplish in our own hearts. It is, as we have
seen, a coming full of sweetness and mystery, and consequence of the first; for
the good Shepherd comes not only to visit the flock in general, but He extends
His solicitude to each one of the sheep, even to the hundredth which is lost.
Now, in order to appreciate the whole of this ineffable mystery, we must
remember that, since we can be pleasing to our heavenly Father only inasmuch as
He sees within us His Son Jesus Christ, this amiable Saviour deigns to come
into each one of us, and transform us, if we will but consent, into Himself, so
that henceforth we may live, not we, but He in us. This is, in reality, the one
grand aim of the Christian religion, to make man divine through Jesus Christ:
it is the task which God has given to His Church to do, and she says to the
faithful what St. Paul said to his Galatians: “My little children, of whom I am
in labour again, until Christ be formed within you!”
Dom Gueranger, The Liturgical Year, excerpt from Practice During Advent
“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
Book on Pope Francis the Humbler than Thou
Father (Peter Hans) Kolvenbach (superior
general of the Jesuits from 1983 to 2008) accused Bergoglio of a series of defects,
ranging from habitual use of vulgar language to deviousness, disobedience
concealed under a mask of humility, and lack of psychological balance; with a
view to his suitability as a future bishop, the report pointed out that he had
been a divisive figure as Provincial of his own order. It is not surprising
that, on being elected Pope, Francis made efforts to get his hands on the
existing copies of the document, and the original filed in the official Jesuit
archives in Rome has disappeared.
Marcantonio Colonna, The Dictator Pope
“Family Ties” within the Homosexual Lobby
Notorious
homosexual Cardinal Terrance (“Blanche,
'call-me-Uncle Teddy'“) McCarrick was ordained by the notorious
homosexual Cardinal Francis (“Franny”) Spellman of New York who also ordained
the notorious homosexual Cardinal Terence (“Cookie”) Cooke who took the
notorious homosexual McCarrick as his “personal secretary” and consecrated
McCarrick an auxiliary bishop. Cardinal
Donald (Whirly Girl) Wuerl was ordained by the notorious homosexual Bishop
Francis Fredrick Reh of Charleston, SC who was consecrated a bishop by the
notorious homosexual Spellman. Wuerl
became the “private secretary” to the notorious homosexual Cardinal John Wright
who was Prefect for the Congregation of the Clergy and represented Wright at
the conclave that elected John Paul II who consecrated Wuerl a bishop and made
McCarrick a cardinal. It was
Benedict/Ratzinger, formally head of the CDF responsible for cleaning up the
Homosexual Lobby, who made Wuerl a cardinal. The homosexual Wuerl ultimately
followed in the line of the homosexual Wright as Archbishop of Pittsburg and
was himself followed the homosexual McCarrick in Washington. The Pennsylvania Grand Jury report, 900 plus
pages citing Wuerl's name more than 200 times,
charges that Wuerl as Archbishop of Pittsburgh for eighteen years
repeatedly covered for the Homosexual Lobby.
The mansion that housed Wuerl and the
local branch of the Homosexual Lobby in the Diocese of Pittsburgh was obtained
by his homosexual predecessor Cardinal Wright and was appraised twenty years
ago for $1.5 million. It was sold after Wuerl's departure. The Jacobethan Revival house along Fifth
Avenue, at 9,842 square feet (914.4 m2) with 39 rooms including
11 bedrooms, six full baths, and a half-bath is one of the largest homes in the
Shadyside neighborhood of Pittsburgh. It housed an extensive collection of
antiques, Oriental rugs and art during Wuerl's residency.
Just as Wuerl had covered up for the
Homosexual Lobby in Pittsburgh, he did the same for McCarrick in Washington
claiming to know nothing about McCarrick's perversion. McCarrick was Cardinal Archbishop of
Washington 2001 to 2006. Homosexual
McCarrick's “personal secretary” was the current Archdiocesan Vicar General
Monsignor Charles Antonicelli who subsequently became the “personal secretary”
to Homosexual Cardinal Wuerl. When
Antonicelli was McCarrick's “personal secretary” in Washington, the Dioceses of
Trenton, Metuchen, and Newark in 2004 and 2006 paid settlements for $100,000
and $80,000 to two men who had been abused by McCarrick while they were in
the seminary as well as after they had become priests. It is, believe it or not, Antonicelli who now
claims that he and Wuerl knew nothing about the homosexual escapades of
McCarrick.
Compiled
from information from Randy Engel, Rite of Sodomy, published in 2006, and
recent articles from LifeSiteNews and WikiPedia
Those
who contribute partake of the sin!
The United
States Conference of Catholic Bishops' Catholic Campaign for Human Development
contributed $17 million (or 30.4% of its budget) to groups supporting abortion,
Marxism, and the LGBT ideology and social agenda.
Lepanto
Institute, November 14, 2022
The “received and
approved rites of the Catholic Church, accustomed to be used in the
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
Hermeneutics of Continuity/Discontinuity
Jesus Christ: “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.” (Matt.
28:19)
Pope Francis the Adjudicator:
“Never, never bring the gospel by proselytizing. If someone says they
are a disciple of Jesus and comes to you with proselytism, they are not a
disciple of Jesus. In front of an unbeliever, the last thing I have to do is
try to convince him. Never! The last thing I have to do is speak.” (Pope
Francis addressing students at Rome’s classical secondary school, Pilo
Albertelli, 2020)
Latae sententiae crimes in
the external forum require a determination of guilt!
“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
When the
Church is restored, Neo-Modernism condemned, it will not be just Vatican II
that is trashed but the utter uprooting of its foundations laid by Pius XII!
In the hope of making the seemingly incredible not only credible but obvious,
this study will ignore the Second Vatican Council as a cause and treat it as an
effect, the inevitable effect of a dedicated, single minded line of actions
begun decades before. John XXIII called the bishops of the world to assemble;
His summons will be seen not so much as a call for consultations as a demand
for signatures. With many of the transformations already in place and many of
the others well worked out on paper, John’s welcome to the long, slow
procession of high-mitered prelates on that October morning in 1962 will be
seen as the fulfillment of an extended, persistent undertaking.
In perspective, the Council appears to have been a bringing of the
hierarchy to Rome in order to show them
what was already happening, to give them the satisfaction of a very limited
amount of participation and then to exert strong moral pressure on them to put
their names to each and every document emerging from the skillfully managed
deliberations. Signatures were of the greatest importance, giving as they would,
credibility to the transformations, thus making it easier for the bishops to
face their flocks when they returned with a bag full of novelties. [….]
Probably no pope in history has been as misunderstood (as Pope Pius
XII). He has been revered and scorned, loved and hated for all the things he
never did and never was. No pope in history did as much to change the Church;
yet, Catholic conservatives look on him as the last firm pillar of orthodoxy.
No pope in history ever did as much for the Jews; yet Jewish writers continue
to accuse him of indifference to their fate. No pope did as much to oblige the
Marxists; yet he is hailed in the West as an anti-Communist hero of the Cold
War. In his long years as Vatican diplomat when he pioneered what has bome to be
called Ostpolitik, in his decade as Secretary of State to Pius XI, in his
nearly twenty years as Supreme Pontiff to followed in extension through the
pontificate of his protégé and chosen heir, Giovanni Battista Montini (Paul
VI), the work of Pius XII spanned nearly a century.
Mary Ball Martinez, The
Undermining of the Catholic Church
Hermeneutics
of Continuity/Discontinuity
Jesus Christ:
“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.” (Matt. 28:19)
Pope Francis
the Adjudicator on the Word of God:
“Never, never bring the gospel by proselytizing. If someone says they
are a disciple of Jesus and comes to you with proselytism, they are not a
disciple of Jesus. In front of an unbeliever, the last thing I have to do is
try to convince him. Never! The last thing I have to do is speak.” (Pope
Francis addressing students at Rome’s classical secondary school, Pilo Albertelli,
2020)
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,
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.”
There
is no difference between this example of Jewish “truth” and Novus Ordo theology
and praxis?
Lying is now a
“heightened version of reality” because it may be “true in a higher
metaphysical sense”!?
. . . . What anti-Semites keep insisting are
“fake Holocaust stories” need to be seen in a more positive light as “the truth
of imagination,” to quote the famous phrase of the poet John Keats. If
something is perceived as true by the mind, though strictly speaking it may not have happened, and if that
event is subsequently seen as a living truth in the minds of millions of other
good people who have been exposed to that same heightened version of reality,
then it must on no account be dismissed as a “lie” ( . . . ) All
such stories are true in a higher metaphysical sense, and to deny them is a
sacrilege ( . . . ) We have a sacred obligation to the six
million who died under the tyranny of the evil Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler to
remember the dead and dismiss with contempt all attempts to deny the Holocaust
by referring to “fake Holocaust stories.” I repeat: there is
no such thing as a fake Holocaust story. Every Holocaust story is true, 100 per
cent true, whether it happened or not. ( . . . ) In
the sublime words of Elie Wiesel: “In literature, certain things are true
though they didn’t happen, while others are not true, even if they did happen.”
Seymour Zak, defending “fake Holocaust stories” after Herman
Rosenblat’s holocaust story, An Angel at
the Fence, was publically exposed as a pure fabrication. Hollywood was unmoved. The film production based upon the book
proceeded as planned.
“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
Is Fr. Sheehy the last Catholic Priest in Ireland?
Irish priest insists deputy PM will go to hell
Father Sean Sheehy has been condemned by his own bishop for giving a
homily against abortion, homosexuality, and transgenderism
RT | World News | 3 Nov, 2022
An Irish Catholic priest has refused to
back down after he was censured by his own bishop for condemning the “mortal sins” of abortion
and homosexuality. The priest maintains that his views are in line with the
Church’s teachings, and that Ireland’s deputy prime minister, Leo Varadkar,
will burn in hell for being gay.
Father Sean Sheehy, a resident of Listowel
in County Kerry, came out of retirement on Sunday to fill in for a local priest
currently on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. Churchgoers were shocked, with
several dozen walking out of mass, when Sheehy took to the pulpit to denounce
the “rampant” sin in Irish society.
“What is so sad today is you rarely hear about sin, but it’s rampant,”
he declared.
“We see it, for example, in the legislation of our governments,”
Sheehy continued. “We see
it in the promotion of abortion. We see it in the example of this lunatic
approach of transgenderism. We see it, for example, in the promotion of sex
between two men and two women.”
“That is sinful, that is mortal sin,” he continued, adding that “sin leads to hell.”
Once a staunchly Catholic society, Ireland
legalized gay marriage in 2015 and lifted its constitutional ban on abortion in
2018. Both decisions were made following popular referendums.
Bishop Ray Browne of Kerry later apologized
“to all who were offended”
by Sheehy’s fiery homily. In a statement published on the diocesan website,
Browne said that Sheehy’s views “do not represent the Christian position.” Browne later told
Radio Kerry that Sheehy had been banned from giving mass in the diocese.
In an interview with the same radio station
on Tuesday, Sheehy insisted that he did nothing wrong, and that his views on
sin were in line with the Catechism of the Catholic Church. Speaking to RTE
Radio on Wednesday, Sheehy said that gay politicians like Varadkar would “absolutely” go to hell
if they didn’t repent.
Irish Foreign Minister Simon Coveney called
on Sheehy to retract his remarks, while a spokesperson for Varadkar said that
although the deputy PM “profoundly
disagrees with Father Sheehy's views” he “respects his right to express his
religious beliefs freely.”
The Catechism of the Catholic Church, which
summarizes the Church’s main beliefs, describes homosexual acts as “acts of grave depravity”
that run “contrary to the
natural law.”
“And we saw in an immense light that is God: ‘something similar
to how people appear in a mirror when they pass in front of it’ a Bishop
dressed in White – ‘we had the impression that it was the Holy Father.’ Other
Bishops, Priests, men and women Religious going up a steep mountain, at the top
of which there was a big Cross of rough-hewn trunks as of a cork-tree with the
bark; before reaching there the Holy Father passed through a big city half in
ruins and half trembling with halting step, afflicted with pain and sorrow, he
prayed for the souls of the corpses he met on his way.”
Sister Lucia of Fatima, the Third Secret, as she transcribed it.
COMMENT
ON THE MODERN MIND DEVOID OF GOD’S GRACE
“But
instead of a mind, universal literacy has given [the common man] a rubber
stamp, a rubber stamp inked with advertising slogans, with editorials, with
published scientific data, with the trivialities of tabloids and the
profundities of history, but quite innocent of original thought. Each man's
rubber stamp is the twin of millions of others, so that when these millions are
exposed to the same stimuli, all receive identical imprints. [...] The amazing
readiness with which large masses accept this process is probably accounted for
by the fact that no attempt is made to convince them that black is white.
Instead, their preconceived hazy ideas that a certain gray is almost black or
almost white are brought into sharper focus. Their prejudices, notions, and
convictions are used as a starting point, with the result that they are drawn
by a thread into passionate adherence to a given mental picture.”
Edward
Bernays, from his book, The Minority
Rules, 1927. Bernays was a Jewish double nephew of Sigmund Freud and a pioneer
in public relations and propaganda. He was called "the father of public
relations" in his obituary. Bernays was named one of the 100 most
influential Americans of the 20th century by Life Magazine. He was the subject
of a full-length biography called The Father of Spin (1999) and later an
award-winning 2002 documentary for the BBC called The Century of the Self. (Wiki)
The world is governed by very different personages to what is imagined
by those who are not behind the scenes....
That mighty revolution which is at the moment preparing in Germany, and
which will be, in fact, a second and greater Reformation, and of which so
little is yet known in England, is developing entirely under the auspices of
the Jews. [.....]
One can trace Jewish influence in the last revolutionary explosions in
Europe (1848). An insurrection has taken place against traditions, religion and
property, the destruction of the semitic principle, the extirpation of the
Jewish religion, either under its Mosaic or Christian form, the natural
equality of men and the annulment of property are proclaimed by the secret
societies which form the provisional government, and men of Jewish race are
found at the head of each of them. The People of God cooperate with atheists,
the most ardent accumulators of property link themselves with communists. The
select and chosen race walks hand in hand with the scum of the lower castes of
Europe. And all this because they wish to destroy this Christianity which owes
them its very name and whose tyranny they can no longer bear.
Benjamin Disraeli, Jewish Prime Minister of Great Britain, from Vicomte
Leon De Poncins, The Secret Powers behind
Revolution, Freemasonry and Judaism, 1929
And, lastly, to sum all up in a word. As the Incarnation is God’s Book
of Life, the knowledge of his Sacred Heart is the interpretation and the
unfolding of that Book. The whole mystery of God and of man, and the relations
of God and man in grace and in glory, are all written in the Sacred Heart. They
that know the Sacred Heart know God; they that love the Sacred Heart love God;
and they that are made like to the Sacred Heart are made like to God. It is the
compendium of the whole science of God, of the whole way of salvation, of the
whole gospel of eternal life.
Cardinal Henry Edward Manning, The
Sacred Heart, God's Way of Love
Religious Liberty from Vatican II has its root in the
Americanist Heresy
On
every side the dread phantom of war holds sway: there is scarce room for
another thought in the minds of men. The combatants are the greatest and
wealthiest nations of the earth; what wonder, then, if, well provided with the
most awful weapons modern military science has devised, they strive to destroy
one another with refinements of horror. There is no limit to the measure of
ruin and of slaughter; day by day the earth is drenched with newly-shed blood,
and is covered with the bodies of the wounded and of the slain. Who would
imagine as we see them thus filled with hatred of one another, that they are
all of one common stock, all of the same nature, all members of the same human
society? ....We implore those in whose hands are placed the fortunes of nations
to hearken to Our voice. Surely there are other ways and means whereby violated
rights can be rectified. Let them be tried honestly and with good will, and let
arms meanwhile be laid aside.
Benedict
XV, Ad beatissimi apostolorum,
November 1, 1914
“We
consider the establishment of our country’s independence, the shaping of its
liberties and laws, as a work of special Providence, its framers ‘building
better than they knew,’ the Almighty’s hand guiding them. We believe that our
country’s heroes were the instruments of the God of nations in establishing
this home of freedom; to both the Almighty and to His instruments in the work
we look with grateful reverence. And to maintain the inheritance of freedom
which they have left us, should it ever–which God forbid—be imperiled, our
Catholic citizens will be found to stand forward as one man, ready to pledge
anew ‘their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor.’”
Archbishop
(soon to be Cardinal) James Gibbons, addressing the American bishops at the
Third Plenary Council of Baltimore, 1884 attended by 14 archbishops and 61
bishops.
Moved
to the very depths of our hearts by the stirring appeal of the President of the
United States, and by the action of our national Congress, we accept
whole-heartedly and unreservedly the decree of that legislative authority
proclaiming this country to be in a state of war. Inspired neither by hate nor
fear, but by the holy sentiments of truest patriotic fervor and zeal, we stand
ready, we and all the flock committed to our keeping, to cooperate in every way
possible with our President and our national government, to the end that the
great and holy cause of liberty may triumph and that our beloved country may
emerge from this hour of test stronger and nobler than ever. Our people, as
ever, will rise as one man to serve the nation.
Pledge
of U.S. Catholic Archbishops, April 18, 1917; sent to President Woodrow Wilson
by Cardinal James Gibbons, Archbishop of Baltimore, the leading Catholic
prelate in the United States.
“The
primary duty of a citizen is loyalty to country. It is exhibited by an absolute
and unreserved obedience to his country’s call.”
Cardinal
James Gibbons, Archbishop of Baltimore (1877-1921), April 1917 in support of
the U.S. declaration of war against Germany and Austria-Hungary. The Balfour
Declaration agreement committed the British to deliver Palestine into Jewish
hands in return for the Jews bringing the United States into WWI in support of
the British. Cardinal James Gibbons was the chief propagator of the heresy of
Americanism which became settled Novus Ordo doctrine after Vatican II (religious
liberty) primarily by the work of Fr. John Courtney Murray who greatly admired
Cardinal Gibbons. Gibbons did his best to align American Catholics with Jewish
interests to bring the United States into the Great War. In doing so Gibbons
worked directly to undermine the peace plans of Pope Benedict XV. Pope Benedict
devised a generous peace plan and contacted Cardinal Gibbons to do what he
could to influence the United States government to back his offer of a
negotiated peace. Gibbons did nothing of the sort. While giving lip service to
the Pope's peace plan six months too late, he in fact never contacted President
Wilson or any official of the government to even mention Pope Benedict's peace
plan. Gibbons was too busy building the National Catholic War Council (NCWC)
and supporting the call of universal military service. The purpose of the NCWC
as Gibbons said in a letter to all American bishops was to form “the mental and
moral preparation of our people for the war.”
To
Congar's credit, he at least told the truth about what he helped destroy!
It cannot be denied that the
Declaration on Religious Liberty does say materially something else than the
Syllabus of 1864; it even says just about the opposite of Propositions 15 and 77 to 79 of this
document..... I collaborated on the final paragraphs which left me less
satisfied. It involved demonstrating
that the theme of religious liberty was already contained in Scripture. Now, it
isn't there.
Cardinal Yves Marie Joseph Congar, O.P., forbidden to teach by the
Church and whose books were suppressed in the early 1950s, made a peritus at
Vatican II by Novus Ordo St. John XXIII, and is considered by many to have been
the most influential of all the periti. He was raised to the cardinalate by
Novus Ordo St. John Paul II. He rejected the dogmatic teaching of Trent which
his teacher and mentor, Fr. Marie-Dominique
Chenu, O.P., derisively called “Baroque
theology”.
Excerpts from the Diary of Msgr. Joseph Fenton:
·
“He [Cardinal
Ottaviani] remarked that we were on the eve of the Council, and that no one
knew who the Council’s theologians were to be.” (Sept. 28, 1962)
·
“It is a
crime that we did not take the Anti-Modernist Oath. Poor O[ttaviani] must have
failed to have our own profession passed by the central commission. It
contained his condemnation of [Fr. John Courtney] Murray [the Americanist
heretic who structured the Council teaching on Religious Liberty].” (Oct. 9,
1962)
·
“I had
always thought that this council was dangerous. It was started for no
sufficient reason. There was too much talk about what it was supposed to
accomplish. Now I am afraid that real trouble is on the way.” (Oct. 13,
1962)
·
“I
started to read the material on the Liturgy, and I was shocked at the bad
theology. They actually have been stupid enough [to say] that the Church
is ‘simul humanam et divininam, visibilem et invisibilem’ [at the same
time human and divine, visible and invisible]. And they speak of the Church
working ‘quousque unum ovile fiat et unus pastor’ [until there be one fold
and one shepherd], as if that condition were not already achieved.” (Oct. 19,
1962)
·
“I do not
think that any little work on our part is going to bring good to the Church. We
should, I believe, face the facts. Since the death of [Pope] St. Pius X the
Church has been directed by weak and liberal popes, who have flooded the
hierarchy with unworthy and stupid men. This present conciliar set-up makes
this all the more apparent. [Fr.] Ed Hanahoe, the only intelligent and
faithful member of [Cardinal] Bea’s secretariat has been left off the list of
the periti. Such idiots as [Mgr. John
S.] Quinn and the sneak [Fr. Frederick] McManus have been put on. [Fr. George]
Tavard is there as an American, God help us. From surface appearance it
would seem that the Lord Christ is abandoning His Church. The thoughts of many
are being revealed. As one priest used to say, to excuse his own
liberalism, which, in the bottom of his heart he knew was wrong, ‘for the
last few decades the tendency in Rome has been to favor the
liberals.’ That is the policy now. We can only do what we can to
overt an ever more complete disloyalty to Christ.” (Oct. 19, 1962)
·
“[Fr.] Ed
Hanahoe gave me two books on Modernism. In one of them I found evidence that
the teaching in the first chapter of the new schema on the Church [that became
the Vatican II dogmatic constitution Lumen
Gentium] and the language are those of [the excommunicated Modernist Fr.
George Tyrrell [who died outside the Catholic Church and was denied
ecclesiastical burial]. May God preserve His Church from that chapter. If it
passes, it will be a great evil. I must pray and act.” (Sept. 24, 1963)
If the damned
were asked 'Why are you in hell?', they would answer: 'For having resisted the
Holy Ghost.' If the Saints were asked:
'Why are you in heaven?', they would answer: 'For having listened to the Holy
Ghost.'
St. John Mary
Vianney, Cure d'Ars
Paul VI declared Novus Ordo Saint. So just what is a
“Novus Ordo Saint”?
A Novus Ordo Saint is a man-made saint.
Contrasted with Catholic saints who are God-made saints. In virtue of their
union with God they are sanctified, and therefore, Catholic Saints exhibit
heroic virtue in their lives. God confirms their sanctity by working miracles
through their intercession and thus, a cult of veneration (dulia) develops and
spreads throughout the Church. The Church recognizes God's evidence that they
are saints and declares this fact to the universal Church. Contrary to this,
Novus Ordo Saints are man-made saints and their elevation to the title of
sainthood is for the purpose of promoting the human ideology exemplified in
their lives. There is no real cult of veneration (dulia) among the faithful to
Novus Ordo Saints. Since God does not work true miracles through the
intercession of man-made saints, only man-made miracles are required for the
beatification of man-made Novus Ordo Saints. Finally, the Novus Ordo
beatification process does have a promotor fidei, the so-called
“devil’s advocate,” although his role has been change as the promotor ideologiae. The greatest
difference between Catholic Saints and Novus Ordo Saints is that the former are
in heaven and the latter, very well may not be.
The day when society, forgetting her (the Church’s) doctrinal
decisions, has asked the press and the tribune, newspapers and assemblies, what
is truth and what is error, on that day error and truth are confounded in all
intellects, society enters on the regions of shadows, and falls under the empire
of fictions….. The doctrinal intolerance of the Church has saved the world from
chaos. Her doctrinal intolerance has placed beyond question political,
domestic, social, and religious truths, - primitive and holy truths, which are
not subject to discussion, because they are the foundation of all discussions;
truths which cannot be called into doubt for a moment without the understanding
on that moment oscillating, lost between truth and error, and the clear mirror
of human reason becoming soiled and obscured… Doubt perpetually comes from
doubt, and skepticism from skepticism, as truth from faith, and science from
truth.
Donoso Cortes, Essays
The
necessary first act of liturgical corruption is the 'Dialogue Mass' whose end is
to destroy liturgical recollection and contemplation!
In recollection and contemplation - kindred but not identical attitudes
- we encounter two more basic constituents of religious life. Recollection is a
condition of all truly wakeful and deep modes of living, and hence
indispensable for our transformation in Christ.
Contemplation,
again, is the source that feeds all
life in Christ, and at the same time, the end
in which that life finds its fulfillment.
Dietrich Von Hildebrand, Transformation
in Christ
“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
The Ideology of Pope Francis whose "utopian
future" requires the evolution of Dogmatic Truth
“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
Modernists
and Neo-modernists "corrupt the origin and nature of dogma"!
Thus, We have reached one of the principal points
in the Modernists' system, namely the origin and the nature of dogma.
For they place the origin of dogma in those primitive and simple formulae,
which, under a certain aspect, are necessary to faith; for revelation, to be
truly such, requires the clear manifestation of God in the consciousness. But
dogma itself they apparently hold, is contained in the secondary formulae.
To ascertain the nature
of dogma, we must first find the relation which exists between the religious
formulas and the religious sentiment. This will be readily perceived by him who
realises that these formulas have no other purpose than to furnish the believer
with a means of giving an account of his faith to himself. These formulas therefore stand
midway between the believer and his faith; in their relation to the faith, they
are the inadequate expression of its object, and are usually called symbols; in
their relation to the believer, they are mere instruments.
Hence it is quite impossible to maintain that they
express absolute truth: for, in so far as they are symbols, they are the images
of truth, and so must be adapted to the religious sentiment in its relation to
man; and as instruments, they are the vehicles of truth, and must therefore in
their turn be adapted to man in his relation to the religious sentiment.
But the object of the religious sentiment, since it embraces that absolute,
possesses an infinite variety of aspects of which now one, now another, may
present itself. In like manner, he who believes may pass through different
phases. Consequently, the
formulae too, which we call dogmas, must be subject to these vicissitudes, and
are, therefore, liable to change. Thus the way is open to the intrinsic
evolution of dogma. An immense collection of sophisms this, that ruins and
destroys all religion. Dogma is not only able, but ought to evolve and to be
changed. This is strongly affirmed by the Modernists, and as clearly flows from
their principles. For amongst the chief points of their teaching is this
which they deduce from the principle of vital immanence; that religious
formulas, to be really religious and not merely theological speculations, ought
to be living and to live the life of the religious sentiment. This is not to be
understood in the sense that these formulas, especially if merely imaginative,
were to be made for the religious sentiment; it has no more to do with their
origin than with number or quality; what is necessary is that the religious
sentiment, with some modification when necessary, should vitally assimilate
them. In other words, it
is necessary that the primitive formula be accepted and sanctioned by the
heart; and similarly the subsequent work from which spring the secondary
formulas must proceed under the guidance of the heart. Hence it comes that
these formulas, to be living, should be, and should remain, adapted to the
faith and to him who believes. Wherefore if for any reason this adaptation
should cease to exist, they lose their first meaning and accordingly must be
changed. And since the character and lot of dogmatic formulas is so precarious,
there is no room for surprise that Modernists regard them so lightly and in
such open disrespect. And so they audaciously charge the Church both with
taking the wrong road from inability to distinguish the religious and moral
sense of formulas from their surface meaning, and with clinging tenaciously and
vainly to meaningless formulas whilst religion is allowed to go to ruin. 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.
....... To finish with
this whole question of faith and its shoots, it remains to be seen, Venerable
Brethren, what the Modernists have to say about their development. First of all
they lay down the general principle that in a living religion everything is
subject to change, and must change, and in this way they pass to what may be
said to be, among the chief of their doctrines, that of Evolution. To the laws
of evolution everything is subject - dogma, Church, worship, the Books we
revere as sacred, even faith itself, and the penalty of disobedience is
death.
St. Pius X, Pascendi
CATHOLIC PROPHECY
May 13, 1820: I saw also the relationship between
the two popes. . . I saw how baleful would be the consequences of this false
church. I saw it increase in size; heretics of every kind came into the city
(of Rome). The local clergy grew lukewarm, and I saw a great darkness. . .
Then, the vision seemed to extend on every side. Whole Catholic communities
were being oppressed, harassed, confined, and deprived of their freedom. I saw
many churches close down, great miseries everywhere, wars and bloodshed. A wild
and ignorant mob took to violent action. But it did not last long.
Once more I saw that the Church of Peter
was undermined by a plan evolved by the secret sect, while storms were damaging
it. But I saw also that help was coming when distress had reached its peak. I
saw again the Blessed Virgin ascend on the Church and spread her mantle [over
it]. I saw a Pope who was at once gentle, and very firm. . . I saw a great
renewal, and the Church rose high in the sky.
Sept. 12, 1820: 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 again the strange big church that was
being built there (in Rome). There was nothing holy in it. I saw this just as I
saw a movement led by Ecclesiastics to which contributed angels, saints and
other Christians. But there (in the strange big church) all the work was being
done mechanically (i.e. according to set rules and formulae). Everything was
being done according to human reason. . .
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
nor a single saint helping in the work. But far away in the background, I saw
the seat of a cruel people armed with spears, and I saw a laughing figure which
said: “Do build it as solid as you can; we will pull it to the ground.”
Blessed Anna Katherina Emmerich, Catholic
Prophecy by Ives DuPont
Moreover, one baptism regenerating all
baptized in Christ, just as “one God and one faith”, is to be faithfully
confessed by all, which, celebrated in water in the name of the Father and of
the Son and of the Holy Spirit, we believe to be the perfect remedy for
salvation for both adults and children…... one is the universal Church….
Outside of which absolutely no one is saved, one is the Lord, one is the faith
and one is the baptism of all.
Pope Clement V, Council of Vienne,
1311-1312
Holy 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, Exultate Deo,
Council of Florence
Dogma is the Proximate Rule of
Faith for all the faithful including the Pope!
Infallibility is essentially and necessarily an attribute of the Church; Infallibility is only secondarily and accidentally an attribute of the pope which he alone can enter into
under dogmatically specified conditions for dogmatically specified ends! God is
the Formal and Final cause of Dogma. The pope is the simply the necessary
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
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
Why
do Jewish leaders overwhelmingly support homosexual “marriage” for the U.S.
(and Europe) and not for Israel? Is this what is meant by “hostility” and “innate fury”?
On May 21, 2013, Vice President
Joseph Biden “praised Jewish leaders in the media... crediting them with
helping change American attitudes on gay marriage.” In a speech at a Democratic National
Convention reception celebrating Jewish Heritage Month, Biden claimed that the
Jews were responsible for changing peoples' attitudes on gay marriage: “It
wasn't anything we legislatively did. It
was ‘Will and Grace,’” said Biden, referring to an NBC sitcom that went off the
air nine years ago. “It was the social
media. Literally. That's what changed peoples’ attitudes. That’s why I was so certain that the vast
majority of people would embrace and rapidly embrace” gay marriage..... I bet
you 85 percent of those changes, whether it’s in Hollywood or social media, are
a consequence of Jewish leaders in the industry... The influence is immense,
the influence is immense. And, I might
add, it is all to the good.”
The liberal Jewish magazine Tikkun agreed with Vice President
Biden's assessment: gay marriage was a Jewish creation. As Amy Dean put it: “In a few short years,
same-sex marriage went from being an untouchable political hot potato to a
broadly accepted civil right in eighteen states and the District of
Columbia. Jews, and their social justice
organizations, helped make that happen. [.....] The victories in the states
around marriage equality owed much to local and national Jewish social justice
groups who looked beyond the political consensus of the time. Even five years ago, many of these groups
stood behind same-sex couples who wished to marry. National Jewish social justice organizations
such as the National Council of Jewish Women, the Religious Action Center of
reform Judaism, and Bend the Arc (on whose board I currently serve as
co-chair), helped to galvanize the American Jewish community to support
pro-marriage equality bills in the states.
In fact, Jews can claim a fair share of the credit for bringing
Americans to a tipping point of accepting marriage equality.”
E. Michael Jones, Why we Lost the Culture Wars
Jews
have 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
The Novus Ordo
Memorial Meal begets the non-sacrificial Priesthood
The priest must be in his own way a victim. Why? Because Christ in
offering himself during the sacrifice of the Mass offers also his entire Mystical
Body, and especially his minister who is celebrating Mass. Therefore every
priest has his own individual vocation to be a victim in order to become like
to Christ. The truth of this becomes even more evident if we consider the
opposite error. Take the case of a priest who shares in the priesthood of
Christ by virtue of his ordination and yet refuses to share in his state of
victim. Such a priest is refusing the obligation laid on all the faithful of
taking up the cross; and this obligation presses all the more urgently upon a
priest in view of the fact that he is intended to be another Christ amongst the
faithful.
Fr. Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange, The
Priest in Union with Christ
Same old, same old…
“Have a care never to let the people
slumber outside the influence of agitation. Surround them constantly with
noise, emotions, surprises, lies, and merry-makings. Let everything be
disorder: a country is not revolutionized in the midst of clam, morality, and
truth; in order to draw it towards us we must make it crazy.”
Giuseppe Mazzini, 1848, “spearhead of the
Italian revolutionary movement” (Wikipedia), former Grand Master of the Grand Orient of Italy, and father of democratic
republicanism in Europe, L’Italie rouge, p. 72
“Fear nothing, God is
with us.”
Countess de Spaur, (wife of the Count de Spaur, the Bavarian
Ambassador to Rome): “Most Holy Father, pardon your unworthy servant if
necessity has obliged her to sit at your side, an honour she does not deserve.”
Pope Pius IX: “This day you are an instrument of Providence
in carrying out its mysterious designs. Fear nothing, God is with us.”
Exchange
with Pope Pius IX, under disguise at night, upon entering the carriage of the
Countess helping him to escape from Rome under revolutionary control to the
city of Gaeta, November 24, 1848.
Pope Francis marks 60th anniversary of Vatican II opening by pleading
for the church to overcome polarization
National Catholic Reporter | Rome | October 11, 2022 | Christopher
White
Pope Francis on Oct. 11 marked the opening
of the 60th anniversary of the Second Vatican Council — a three-year period
that launched landmark reforms in the Catholic Church's relationship to the
world around it and the church's own liturgy and practices — by pleading for
the church to "overcome
all polarization and preserve our communion."
In a Mass in St. Peter's Basilica, which
served as the council's chambers during the 1962-1965 meetings, Francis said
the council, which was inaugurated by Pope St. John XXIII, was "one great
response" to the question "Do you love me?" posed by Christ to
his disciples.
"To rekindle her love for the Lord,
the church, for the first time in her history, devoted a council to examining
herself and reflect on her nature and mission," said Francis. "She
saw herself once more as a mystery of grace generated by love; she saw herself
anew as the people of God, the body of Christ, the living temple of the Holy
Spirit!"
Yet while the ecumenical council revisited
many areas of Catholic doctrine, reassessed its relationship with other
Christian communities and religions, revised Catholic liturgy to allow for the
vernacular, and reconfigured church structures to allow for greater
participation of the laity, in the 60 years that have followed, it also proved
to be a flashpoint among various ecclesial circles.
During the 60th anniversary Mass, Francis
lamented that those changes had sometimes led to deep divisions within the
church.
"How often, in the wake of the
council, did Christians prefer to choose sides in the church, not realizing
that they were breaking their mother's heart! How many times did they prefer to
cheer on their own party rather than being servants of all? To be progressive
or conservative rather than being brothers and sisters?" he asked.
"To be on the 'right' or 'left,'
rather than with Jesus? To present themselves as 'guardians of the truth' or
'pioneers of innovation' rather than seeing themselves as humble and grateful
children of holy mother church?" he continued. "That is not how the
Lord wants us to be. We are his sheep, his flock, and we can only be so
together and as one."
While the work of the council and the years
that followed radically altered the Catholic Church's relationship with the
rest of the world and realigned itself with a more open posture to it, in
marking its anniversary, Francis also warned against the temptation of
"worldliness."
"Let us be careful: Both the
'progressivism' that lines up behind the world and the 'traditionalism' that
longs for a bygone world are not evidence of love, but of infidelity," he
cautioned. "They are
forms of a Pelagian selfishness that puts our own tastes and plans above the
love that pleases God, the simple, humble and faithful love that Jesus asked of
Peter."
Throughout his homily, Francis revisited many
of the central themes from his own nearly decadelong papacy, especially his
call for a church committed to evangelization and prioritizing the needs of the
poor.
"You are not here to shepherd
yourselves," the pope said to the hundreds of clergy present in St.
Peter's, "but others — all others — with love. And if it is fitting to show a particular concern,
it should be for those whom God loves most: the poor and the outcast.
The church is meant to be, as Pope John put it, 'the church of all, and particularly
the church of the poor.' "
The council, the pope said, calls for a
church that is "madly in love with its Lord and with all the men and women
whom he loves" and "that is rich in Jesus and poor in assets"
and "a church that is free and freeing."
"A church in love with Jesus has no
time for quarrels, gossip and disputes," the pope added. "May God
free us from being critical and intolerant, harsh and angry! This is not a
matter of style but of love. For those who love, as the Apostle Paul teaches,
do everything without murmuring."
In recent years, Francis has dedicated particular attention to
continued liturgical reforms in the church, arguing that they are necessary for
the embrace of the reforms of the council, which he has said are
"irreversible." More recently, some of the pope's top advisers
have expressed concern that some of the resistance to the Francis papacy is
rooted in resistance to Vatican II.
During the Mass, the pope once more
reiterated his support for the reforms of Vatican II.
"How timely the council remains!" he said. "It helps us
reject the temptation to enclose ourselves within the confines of our own
comforts and convictions."
As the pope concluded his homily, he again
issued a clarion call for church unity.
"You who desire that we be a united
flock, save us from the forms of polarization that are the devil's
handiwork," he said. "And we, your church, with Peter and like Peter,
now say to you: 'Lord, you know everything; you know that we love you.'
"
COMMENT: Does Francis the
Ideologue really believe his own rubbish? “Forms of Pelagian selfishness”? Does
Francis own a dictionary of Catholic dogmatic theology? Pelagianism, among
other things, denies Original Sin and professes that man can obtain salvation
and the beatific vision through natural virtue alone. It denies the necessity
of the sacraments and divine grace for salvation. The modern Novus Ordo Church
believes and teaches that the one and only thing necessary to obtain salvation
is to believe in a “god who rewards and punishes.” This is nothing more than
the necessary general fundamental philosophical ground that permits a person to
be open to the Gospel message and receive the grace of God. In and of itself,
it is not salvific! The Novus Ordo Church believes that any “good-willed” Jew,
Hindu, Moslem, Protestant, pagan, etc., etc. can obtain salvation by virtue of
his own “good-will.” The Novus Ordo Church is Pelagian. And Pelagianism is just
one part of the heresy of Modernism which as St. Pius X said, “is the synthesis
of all heresies.” “Forms of Pelagian selfishness” is just more ideological
posturing by Francis to smear his enemies with an appearance of erudition and
intellectual rigor. Anyone who does not do as Francis commands is a “selfish
Pelagian” who does not love God. Setting aside this stupidity, this little
diatribe does make one thing clear: After 60 years the Vatican II Council has
only produced schism in the Church. Jesus Christ said, “If you love Me, keep My
commandments.” Francis and his Progressive Catholic buddies do not keep the
commandments and they unceasingly make war against Catholics faithful to
tradition that do. They do not keep the commandments; they do not love God.
“Pope appoints pro-abortion World Economic Forum speaker to Pontifical
Academy for Life”
LifeSiteNews | October 18, 2022
"The
Pontifical Academy for Life on Saturday announced Pope Francis’ appointment of
pro-abortion, World Economic Forum-linked economist Mariana Mazzucato as one of
its new 'Ordinary Academicians.'
Mazzucato, a self-described 'atheist' and
professor of economics at University College London (UCL), was first announced
as one of the PAL’s new appointees in an October 15 press release...
While the PAL says this appointment is part
of its larger goal of fostering an 'ethical' and 'Gospel-based' reflection to
'promote human life always and everywhere,' in addition to being a speaker at
the WEF – the globalist group behind the socialist, anti-Christian 'Great
Reset' agenda – Mazzucato is also enthusiastically pro-abortion, in direct
contradiction to the infallible and unchangeable teaching of the Catholic
Church.
In June, following the United States
Supreme Court’s overturning of the landmark 1973 pro-abortion Roe v. Wade
decision, Mazzucato tweeted 'So good!' in response to a pro-abortion
commentator making anti-Christian statements disparaging the Bible while
condemning the court’s pro-life ruling.
In 2016, Mazzucato also tweeted favorably about Pope Francis’ support of the
so-called 'climate change' agenda, saying, 'As an atheist, never thought I would love a Pope this
much.'
Appointing people who hold positions in
direct opposition to the Catholic faith has become a trend in the Vatican
during Francis’ pontificate.
Last year, Francis appointed pro-abortion population control activist
Jeffrey Sachs to the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, and in 2017,
appointed a pro-abortion Anglican minister to the PAL.
Outside of his appointments of
non-Catholics to official positions in Rome, Francis also has a history of
appointing heterodox prelates to high-ranking positions of authority within the
Church’s clerical hierarchy.
In September, Francis appointed pro-LGBT
Portuguese Cardinal José Tolentino de Mendonça as Prefect of the Dicastery for
Culture and Education, just months after his June decision to promote a
collection of pro-LGBT and anti-Latin Mass cardinals to the Congregation for
Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments."
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
“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.
“One just soul can attain pardon for a thousand sinners.”
St Margaret Mary Alacoque
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.
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
Jews contextualize murder
of children: It’s our “religious tradition”
Jewish women sue over Kentucky abortion laws, citing religious freedom
Washington Post | Yonat Shimron | October 10, 2022
Three Jewish women in Kentucky have filed a
lawsuit arguing that a set of state laws that ban most abortions violate
their religious rights.
The lawsuit, filed in Jefferson Circuit
Court in Louisville, is the third such suit brought by Jewish organizations or
individuals since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the right to an abortion in
its ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. In all three
suits — the first in Flordia, the second in Indiana — the Jewish plaintiffs
claim their state is infringing on their religious freedom by imposing a
Christian understanding of when life begins.
Under current Kentucky laws, life begins at
the moment of fertilization. Another law bans abortion after six weeks when
cardiac activity is first detected.
Clerics sue over Florida abortion law, saying it violates religious
freedom.
Abortion will be on the ballot next month
when Kentuckians decide the fate of a proposed constitutional
amendment that would eliminate the right to abortion in the state.
“There are a whole patchwork of laws,
passed over the last 20 years,” said Ben Potash, one of the lawyers who filed
the complaint. “They’re internally inconsistent and, put together, very vague.”
Most Jews believe abortion is allowed and,
in some cases, even required.
“Judaism has never defined life beginning
at conception,” the Kentucky suit says, adding that “millenia of commentary
from Jewish scholars has reaffirmed Judaism’s commitment to reproductive
rights.”
The Satanic Temple takes aim at Idaho, Indiana abortion bans.
The women are not the first to challenge
Kentucky’s abortion bans. The American Civil Liberties Union and Planned Parenthood
sued the state shortly after the Dobbs ruling was handed down.
What’s distinct about the latest suit is
that all three of the Jewish women require in vitro fertilization to become
pregnant but are afraid of beginning the procedure without greater clarity
about what the law will permit them to do with excess frozen embryos. The suit
claims the women must spend exorbitant fees to keep their embryos frozen
indefinitely, and they are unsure whether they will face felony charges if they
dispose of them.
Further, because pregnancies resulting from
infertility treatments have a higher rate of stillbirth, the women foresee the
possibility of not wanting to carry their IVF pregnancies to term if the fetus
is not viable.
The law “does not impose clear standards,
rules, or regulations regarding the potential experiences of potential birth
givers with regards to their access to reproductive technology,” their suit
says.
In this sense, the Kentucky suit is about
women who want to give birth, not women who want to abort, said Sheila Katz,
CEO of the National Council of Jewish Women, which is supporting and advising
plaintiffs in all three states where the abortion restrictions are being
challenged in court.
“It’s a scary time to be pregnant,” Katz
said. “The state is telling them their life is not as valuable as the fetus.
These women are saying, ‘A, that’s against our religious tradition, and B, you
owe us with being less vague about what this will look like so we can start our
families.’ ”
In June, a Jewish congregation in Florida
filed suit arguing the state’s 15-week abortion ban — signed into law by Gov.
Ron DeSantis (R) — prohibits Jewish women practicing their faith free of
government intrusion. In September, a group called Hoosier Jews for Choice
sued, claiming, among other things, that the Indiana law banning
abortion violated the state’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act.
Month before midterms, abortion in focus as GOP backs Herschel Wakler.
The women in Kentucky claim the abortion
ban similarly violates their state’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act. That
law states that government “shall not substantially burden a person’s freedom
of religion” unless it proves a compelling interest and uses “the least
restrictive means” to do so.
“If you’re Jewish, you’re having a very
narrowly defined idea of when life begins imposed on you that is incongruent
with our religious beliefs of when life begins,” said Lisa Sobel, 38, one of
the women in the lawsuit.
She said she met the other plaintiffs,
Jessica Kalb and Sarah Barton, through Louisville’s Jewish community. They
learned that all three require IVF treatments to have children.
“When Dobbs came down,” Sobel
said, “we didn’t know what to do.”
“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
ligh