Schism in the Catholic Church – Padre Santiago Martin, F.M.
One can easily find this article on the Web in
Italian (such as:
http://www.cooperatoresveritatis.net/it/don-camillo-martin-scisma).
I have translated this article into English to help people realize
the gravity of the situation. Very few
Catholics today realize the great devastation that will be caused if
it becomes widely accepted, or even officially approved, what
Cardinal Kasper proposes, as well as
many bishops and cardinals in agreement with Cardinal Kasper who have
been promoted in the last three years, such as the new General
Secretary of the Italian Episcopal Conference, Monsignor Nunzio
Galantino, and the new Archdiocese of
Chicago, Monsignor Blase Cupich. Cardinal Burke who stanchly
explained that you cannot change Church Doctrine, the Truth, Who is
Christ, was demoted.
Our Lady of Akita,
Japan (1973), told us: “The work of the devil will infiltrate even
the Church in such a way that one will see CARDINALS
OPPOSING CARDINALS, bishops against
other bishops. The priests who venerate Me will be scorned and
opposed by their conferees… churches and altars sacked, the
Church will be full of those who accept compromise …”
To read some of my comments, visit:
Have we truly arrived to a SCHISM?
Father Joseph Dwight
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Have we
truly arrived to a SCHISM?
Transcription
of the summary of the conference of Padre Santiago Martin, F.M.,
entitled "Love, Truth and Mercy", in May of 2014.
I want to address, in the meditation this
afternoon, a question that worries me extraordinarily. I am so
worried that I think there is at stake - as has never been in two
thousand years - the future of the Catholic Church. I
see on the horizon the real possibility of a schism with grave
consequences.
Of course, my opinion would not have greater value if there was unity
with the opinions of people much more important than me.
The use that is being made of the concept of
Mercy, is a use that is absolutely
demagogic, therefore false and dangerous. The concept of Mercy,
misunderstood, separated from the
concept of Truth - thus from the concept of love
- can be harmful, tremendously harmful. Also for the person for whom
mercy is theoretically being asked as a benefit.
I confide, we are praying very much so that this does not happen, but
already people are openly talking about a schism as a real
possibility.
I think there are times in life when there is need
to have the courage to speak. And to speak frankly, honestly, because
- as we say in Spanish - "He who
warns is not a traitor."
So that certain things do not happen - but there
are many, many possibilities that it will happen - it is the decisive
hour to talking. Others are doing this, I repeat, elsewhere: from the
theological aspect, patristic, dogmatic, canonical. And I would like
to confront it, this afternoon, from the
spiritual perspective.
The New Testament is not the only Testament. The Revelation of
Christ, the NT, is a revelation that completes another revelation. To
forget this is to remove the foundations from the building,
provoking, therefore, ruin.
God is love, yes, but first of all He did not
teach that He is love. First of all, He
taught us that He is the Almighty, who is the Lord, who is the Judge.
A loving judge, a Father Judge, a merciful judge, but a judge.
To despise the concept of God as a judge,
to treat the Judge as if He were a criminal: we have arrived to this!
Jesus affirms that He is the way and takes on the Decalogue as
something that you can not suppress. No one can do this!
And so, to despise morality as is being done
right now, saying - as many say - that
Christianity is not a moralism - and by this they mean that you can
be a Christian at the margin of ethical behavior - is
to translate Christianity into sentimentalism.
I have a sentimental relationship with God,
more or less effusive, I should say not sentimental, but
sentimentalist o , "sensibiloide". According to which I do
what I want with my life and I pretend that God is pleased with me.
To affirm that Mercy should be applied to the
margin of Truth or against It, now that
is against the teachings of Christ. And He is the truth!
Moreover to affirm that the Truth does NOT
exist or is unattainable, or is relative, or that there does not
exist absolute truth, or no objective truth,
is not only to deny two thousand years of Christian thought - based
on what I'm saying, from a definition of God given by He himself -
but it is also to deny millions of years of thought of humanity
itself. This means to go backwards culturally to a time before
Socrates. It takes a lot of courage - or a lot of ignorance - to dare
to say this.
To remove the truth from the discussion of love
is indirectly a demagogic falsification of love itself,
ending up doing harm to the person.
The Lord DOES NOT USE BY CHANCE this definition
in this order - since it is the order
in which one must put it into practice - "I am the Way, the
Truth and the Life." One cannot arrive to the Life except
through the Truth along a Way. And this the Church has always
understood.
When we take in this concept of Mercy in the Old and in the New
Testaments, we realize that the Mercy of God, being infinite, is
limited. Not limited from God’s side, but from the human side.
In addition, this forgiveness of God, this
Divine Mercy, can be understood only as a gift, NOT AS A RIGHT.
This is another point where there is being made demagogic confusion.
"I have rights ..." ... Rights to that? To the
Eucharist? The Eucharist is a gift. "I have rights ..." ...
Rights to what? To the priesthood? The priesthood is a gift.
The man's approach to God can not be an approach
of rights. It must be solely an approach of gratitude.
I do not have rights!
Divine Mercy is always one millimeter from my
skin. Always. But in order to gain entry, to be able to go beyond
this millimeter, I must cry out:
"FORGIVE ME!". I must open
the door of repentance. "Forgive me!". And I have to keep
the door open with the purpose of amendment and to sin no more.
So this Divine Mercy - that came from the Heart of
God - arrives to me. And I experience it as something wonderful, but
which I do not merit. A gift to which I have no right. And I give, as
a response to this Divine Mercy, my thanks. A
THANKSGIVING which must be of works, not only of feeling.
The FIRST ACT OF MERCY from God’s side for us
is to tell us the TRUTH. We have
reached a point in which we consider as mercy lies and deception. And
we think we are merciful to people, when we deceive and lie to them.
"I have to give you bad news and good news:
you're sick, but there is a remedy." Jesus says this. Instead
we say: "No, you cannot give me
this bad news. You can tell me that I'm healthy."
Forgive me, but if I
tell you that you are healthy and not sick, you will not cure
yourself, the sickness will grow, so
you will not be able to recover your health - happiness - either here
nor in the hereafter.
You will be able to receive the Body and Blood of
the Lord if you are ethically prepared
- "I am the Way" - if you are dogmatically
prepared - "I am the Truth" -
if you accept the teachings of the
Church and if you are in the Grace of God
- "I am the life". This has been the tradition of two
thousand years! For this reason the Church can not admit to
Communion, for example, the Protestants.
Let us apply this to specific cases. We are
talking about the "divorced and remarried"
which, without having obtained the nullity of marriage, can receive
Communion. However, there is being proposed a problem that, in the
first place, is not the problem of the family; there is being
proposed, in the context of the synod on the family, so much so that
Cardinal Kasper
- the one to whom Pope Francis commissioned to speak to a consistory
of bishops in preparation for the synod – even came to say: "If
you do not allow to divorced and remarried to receive Communion -
these are his words - it is useless to bring to fruition the synod,
because it would be a great defection".
In addition, to address such an issue in an
isolate way, means to fall into a shameful trap, that one must know
because you can not think that the one
who promotes it is ignorant of this.
To open the door of the Holy Communion to the
margins of two points said earlier – to be in the Grace of God, and
to accept the Dogma, that is, on the edge of the Way and of the
Truth, to pretend to arrive to the Life; which is union with God,
without passing by the Way and the Truth
– to accept that in this particular case is to open the door to all
other cases.
He is presents himself as merciful the one who
accepts the request of that particular person who wants to receive
the Eucharist, but this person is not in
the proper conditions. He tells the
person: "Yes, receive it". But
who are you to say this? When Christ
himself sets the conditions. Who is he? Is he Christ? More than
Christ? Are you the master of the message? Have you dismissed Christ
as the founder of Christianity, to put yourself in his place?
One has to invent, we need to be innovative, to
solve the problem. One invents, one makes innovations that are
necessary, but never by way of going
against the Word of God, against the doctrine of the Church of two
thousand years.
This will generate, I repeat, HARM TO THE
PERSON who will be deceived - it will
hide God's Word - who will eat and drink unworthily the Body and
Blood of Christ; this person will be made to eat
his own condemnation. Concealing the
truth to this person, will not do good to this person, because
receiving Communion in this state will not do him good, but
will hurt him.
In addition, ONE SERIOUSLY DAMAGES THE
COMMUNITY, which will clearly go toward
a division, a schism. It is necessary to warn about this. I repeat:
"He who warns is not a traitor." And it's time to say it,
before it's too late. Before you commit to many things that will say
to many, and rightly so, you're going against the Word of God,
against the two thousand year old teaching of the Church.
I feel the duty, in my conscience, to speak very clearly. I
think many of us are doing it - I do not know if it is helping - but
this is the time to say it.
No one, absolutely no one, in the Catholic Church, can say: "You
heard that Jesus said, but I tell you", because only Jesus is
the Son of God. And no one in the Catholic Church, is God or above
God. Above Jesus Christ, in the Catholic Church, there is no one!
If someone claims to be more than God, Jesus
Christ, he is automatically out of the Catholic Church.
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