Is
the Pope Catholic? - The Greatest Schism in Catholic Church History!
Dear
friends,
As always as I have wrote in the last couple of
“Spiritual Food”s, it is very important in these times of great
confusion, when even Catholic bishops are no longer in agreement
about the fundamentals of our faith and morals, to not only pray much
and to study the Catechism of the Catholic Church for adults (CCC),
but to keep our eyes open so as not to
fall into the beautiful lies of Satan presented as if they were the
Truth!!!
It
is difficult to persevere in prayer but also very difficult to
persevere in study, in a world and in a Church full of confusion,
while seeking to uncover the beautiful lies of “the father of lies”
(Jn 8:44) presented as if they were the Truth, which in the end
poisons us in a mortal and even an eternal way. Another fundamental
reason for which many do not want to seek the Truth and reality as
God has given it to us is because there is the risk that we might
have to change our life and suffer. Thus the great majority of
so-called “Catholics” have gently slid into the much easier
philosophy of life: “Ignorance is Bliss”!!! But it is not so
blissful after death when we will be faced with the Truth that we
sought to avoid during this short life!
Perhaps non Catholics and non Christians realize
better than Catholics (priests and bishops!?!) that something is not
right. Much of this can be explained by the fact that the first
target of Satan is to destroy the Body of Christ, the Catholic
Church, and thus Catholics, especially
priests and bishops, have been subtly targeted more than anyone else
in the greatest brainwashing job in the history of the world!
I think the title of this article was first used by:
“Is
the Pope Catholic?” suddenly a serious question
“TOP CATHOLIC PHILOSOPHER: AMORIS
LAETITIA WILL “SPLIT THE
CHURCH”
“
Today, 28 April, an important exclusive
interview with a well-known Catholic philosopher has been published
in Germany. The important statements of Professor Robert Spaemann
might well indicate that the wind is turning now against the “Francis
Revolution”. Spaemann – who is a
personal friend of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI
– says about Amoris Laetitia
…”
(http://www.onepeterfive.com/catholic-philosopher-amoris-laetitia-will-split-the-church/)
Voice of the Family calls on Pope Francis to
withdraw Amoris Laetitia
Somehow, down deep inside each person, even non
Catholics realize some fundamental truths put there by God. Somehow
non Catholics realize that the Church is not the Author of the Truth
but the handmaid of the Truth and therefore cannot change the truth
of God! Many people are used to seeing
other churches change the laws according to what the majority wants,
and then they conclude, this is what God wants!?!
The majority want to believe in a happy future, even after death, but
without the cross of Christ in this short life!
How
many priests and bishops have abandoned the PRINCIPLE MISSION of the
one true Church, the Catholic Church? The first words written by
Pope John Paul II at the beginning of the Catechism of the Catholic
Church are: “Guarding the deposit of faith is the mission which the
Lord entrusted to His Church, and which she fulfills in every
age…”!!!
It is very important to maintain humility
before God and before His Truths which
have been infallibly explained in the documents of the Magisterium of
the Church. Satan will try to push us off the Bark of Peter, the
Church, on the left toward liberalism or to the right as some
Catholics have done who rejected the Second Vatican Council, leaving
the Church as schismatic traditionalists. The problem was the
organized misinterpretation of the documents, not the actual
documents of the Second Vatican Council, in particular organized by
the secular feminist movement.
See below in the Appendix: FEMINISM
– HELEN HULL HITCHCOCK.
“As Catholics we have been terribly quiet all
these years. After Vatican Council,
those beautiful documents, inspired by the Holy Spirit, they’re so
beautiful when you read those documents, it’s like reading
Scripture. But they were misrepresented and mis-portrayed and
misinterpreted all these years. And every excuse, like this mime (Way
of the Cross, with a woman in the part of Jesus!) has been blamed on
the Vatican documents; they have even been reworded. And all these
years from the time they took Our Lady to the time they took out the
tabernacle, to the time they took out the Stations, to the time they
took out all devotions. To the time at this point they have changed
our churches, they have closed them. And now we are not even allowed
… the awesome Presence comes down into this one little host. Some
lounge, some sit, some stand. I’m tired of your enneagrams, I’m
tired of your witchcraft. I'm tired. I'm
tired of being pushed in corners. I'm
tired of your inclusive language that refuses to admit that the Son
of God is a Man. I'm tired of your tricks. I'm tired of your deceits.
I'm tired of you constantly just making a crack and the first thing
you know there's a hole and all of us fall into it. No. This was
deliberate. This was a group that was told what to do and how to do
it.
I
am so tired of your liberal Church in America. And everything
you've ever done has gone in silence. Nothing, nothing you've done
from your witchcraft to your anagrams to your centering prayer to all
this earth spirituality… No, this is not an accident. We've
swallowed this now for thirty years. I'm tired of it. We've swallowed
enough of your idea of God and you really have no God.
You
spread your errors to children. And our children don't even know
the Eucharist anymore. They don't understand that it is the Blessed
Sacrament. That it's the Body and Blood, Soul and Divinity of Jesus.
Your Catechisms are so watered down that they say nothing but 'love
your neighbor'. No, you've got to love God first… I don't like your
Church. You have nothing to offer. You do nothing but destroy…”
Mother Angelica used to say: “If
you aren’t a thorn in somebody’s side, you aren’t doing
Christianity right.” But now in the
feminized “Church of the Nice”, few priests and bishops have the
courage to do as Mother Angelica, or as Saint John the Baptist, or as
Saint Peter, and as all of the saints, to risk not being “politically
correct” for the Kingdom of God and for the salvation of souls! It
is difficult, but absolutely necessary, to maintain humility
even while offering fraternal correction for the true good of souls
and for the true good of the Church. It is very important to remember
first of all that Christ died for my sins, which very easily we
forget or we consider them as nothing! One must be truly motivated
only for the glory of God and for the salvation of souls and not for
ones own honor and glory; the Truth does not belong to us, we are not
the authors of the Truth. It is Jesus Who suffered far more than any
of us on the cross due to the rejection of Truth, Who suffered for
these offenses to His Father and for the great damage done to
immortal souls. Mother Angelica told us that fraternal correction is
more likely accepted when the person feels loved by the one giving
the fraternal correction.
Certainly it is not easy to keep our eyes open to
the possibility of the arrival of the false prophet, the false pope,
even while considering the prophecies of Saint Francis of Assisi,
Blessed Catherine Emmerich, Saint Hildegard (doctor of the Church),
Bruno Cornacchiola (Book:
Il Veggente, by Saverio Gaeta) and others regarding the false pope. I
hope my writings have helped to maintain equilibrium and balance in
this period of the “great tribulation”
(Mt 24:21), while keeping our eyes open with much prayer and study so
as not to slide to the right or to the left or fall into the very
numerous traps of Satan, his beautiful lies presented as if they were
the Truth. When I am tempted to criticize a priest who treats me
badly because I am concerned about the
great danger to souls in this period of time,
among other examples, I like to recall the attitude of the Good Thief
on the cross who, while recognizing his
own sins, said to the other thief: “We
indeed justly; for we are receiving the due reward of our deeds; but
his man has done nothing wrong.” And he said, “Jesus, remember me
when you come in your kingly power” (Lk 23:40-42). When Saint
Francis of Assisi saw a public sinner in Assisi, he said: “There
goes Francis if it were not for the grace of God”! The Truth does
not belong to those on the left of the spectrum nor on the right of
the spectrum; the Truth does not belong to any human being; the Truth
is Jesus (Jn 14:6). Every good thought or inspiration come from God
(2Cor 3:5; Phil 2:13). We should defend the Truth, but with the
proper attitude of who we are and Who God is!
It’s not our job to judge anyone about their
hidden motives that only God sees. It’s our job to tell, to
proclaim the fullness. The Church does
teach that once people have experienced the blessings of being
Catholics and then choose to leave, they are in schism and they are
putting their soul in jeopardy. So our job is not to judge them but
to call them home to the Catholic Church. Those outside the Church
who have never experienced the blessings, the Church teaches that by
God’s mercy, through the actual Church in the blessings of Christ,
they can in fact be saved, but that’s up to God. We can’t say
they are; we can’t say, because they are good Presbyterians
therefore they are saved. This is up to God’s mercy. Our job is to
tell and not judge; our job is to plant the seed but the conversion
is between each person and the Holy Spirit. And where we get caught
up in “outside the Catholic Church
there is no salvation”, we often use
that to cudgel and uncharitably judge. That’s not our job. But we
also must not be complacent in not eagerly offering the great
treasures in the Catholic Church which offers the fullness of the
Truth and the fullness of the means of sanctification, in a world
today full of confusion and temptations presented as if they were the
best thing to do and politically correct.
You might also find helpful to read some the
questions and answers of my final exam in Ecclesiology that I took at
the Angelicum in Rome (1986):
“
Archbishop Fulton Sheen said: “The
truth is the truth even if no one believes it; error is error even if
everyone believes it.” Many Catholics actually believe today, in
our climate of relativism, that the truth is established by the
majority of people or perhaps by the priests, bishops or the pope;
few Catholics realize today that God not only establishes the Truth,
but God is the Truth (Jn 14:6), Who is immutable! In this period
before the second coming of Jesus Christ, “that day will not come,
unless THE REBELLION (APOSTASY) COMES
FIRST” (2Thess 2:3); this indicates
that the majority, if not the great majority of Catholics at all
levels in the Church will follow the very attractive “apostasy”
which will seem the best way, the right way, the most merciful way,
the most loving way, the most ecumenical way, the most merciful way,
presented by “angels of light” (2Cor 11:14), who give their
approval and blessing without any exhortation to “promise with the
help of thy grace to sin no more and to avoid the near occasions of
sin” (Act of Contrition)! Christianity without the cross of Christ!
These are the liberals who in the past left the Church on the “port
side” (left side) of the Bark of Peter, while there are many who
leave the Bark of Peter on the “starboard side”, (the right side)
of the Bark of Peter, the schismatic traditionalists, by putting
themselves above the teachings of the Magisterium of the Church,
above the Truth which cannot change since it is part of the Divinely
Revealed Truth…” Visit: “The Great Difficulty In Overcoming
Pharisaism The Difference Between Schismatic Traditionalism and the
False Pope Prophecies”
(http://schis-trad.blogspot.it/2016/05/overcoming-pharisaism.html).
“
Saint Thomas Aquinas tells us that virtue
lies in the middle between the two extremes
which is usually the more difficult path requiring much patience,
discernment and humility. On various occasions Jesus used very strong
words for those who have taken the easier path…” (“The Hidden
Broad Road to Perdition”;
http://spir-food.blogspot.it/2015/05/road-perdition.html).
Regarding the fundamental need of humility, one
reads often in the diary of Saint Veronica Giuliani, who Padre Pio
called his spiritual mother and teacher, the call to offer to her
Spouse a supplement of voluntary suffering, to
atone first
of all for her sins – as she loved to
repeat – and then for sinners.
I have been following the signs of the times
since 1975. It has been a rather wild
ride beginning by following my parents into a
false apparition at Necedah, Wisconsin
(http://necedah-cult.blogspot.com).
Later I had another experience with the
Oblates of the Virgin Mary with a false
mystic, Padre Gino Burresi
(http://nelsegnodizarri.over-blog.org/article-rev-joseph-dwight-oblates-of-the-virgin-mary-73944398.html;
“The Great
Responsibility of Religious Leaders”;
http://josephdwight.wordpress.com/2014/08/07/great-responsibility/).
In those confusing years after the Second
Vatican Council when many priests left the priesthood, it seemed up
for grabs the doctrines and the liturgical ceremonies of the Catholic
Church. I have since discovered how the forces of evil were rather
well organized right after the council
to interpret the documents of the council in a false way
so as to change the true teachings of the Church in the Catholic
universities and seminaries so as to lead, in a subtle and prideful
way, many Catholics, priests and seminarians away from the true
teachings of the Church.
During the International Spiritual Exercises, at
Collevalenza – Sanctuary of Merciful Love (Madre Speranza), June
22-28, 2008, Father Michael Gaughran offered to over 200 priests and
to over 10 bishops of the Marian Movement of Priests these words in a
meditation, with the title of the meditation, “The
Church, The Movement and the current times”:
“[It Is An Attack On The Truth Of God.]
It grew gradually. It is enough to think of a
subtle change that happened around the time of the Second Vatican
Council. With the arrival of the “experts” there developed the
fashion of theologians (Note 1), regardless of whether or not they
deserved the name; the fact that they had published a book, in
general that was enough. This continues and, with this, THE
CENTER THAT GUIDES THE CHURCH in the minds of many, has shifted from
where God had placed it, in the hierarchy, the Pope and the bishops
in union with him, and became the various opinions of all sorts of
writers. [The students collected the
books.] So, this has had an impact not only on the priests, but also
on seminarians in many universities. This is the first part of the
attack: the attack on the truth of God, the foundation of the Church”
(http://wordbelife.blogspot.it/2014/11/spiritual-food-1411.html).
Satan has a lot of patience to lead us slowly,
progressively, into error, into relativism,
so that we do not realize the real devastation of his hidden poison,
the damage to immortal souls. But as I indicated in “Spiritual Food
1603” (“Have we truly arrived to a SCHISM?”;
http://spir-food.blogspot.it/2016/03/catholic-schism.html),
Satan knows his time is running out; the prophecies of the saints
indicate his time of power will end around the centenary of the great
miracle of Fatima, Portugal on October 13, 1917. If this turns out to
be true, Satan only has about 18 months to do all he can to destroy
the Catholic Church and to lead as many souls to hell as he can. Thus
we might see in these next 18 months the completion of what has not
yet taken place of the “great tribulation” (Mt 24:21).
Anyone who has tried to follow the signs of the
times realize that the false prophet,
the second beast of the Book of
Revelation (Rev 13:11,15; 16:13; 19:20;
20:10) will end up deceiving a great
number of people. It might seem
exaggerated that people would arrive even to the point of adoring the
Antichrist as we read in chapter 13 of the Book of Revelation. But
each time a person accepts even a small lie of the devil, there is
always an increase of spiritual blindness and pride; if this person
does not repent with a good sincere confession and with sincere
prayer, he or she will continue to accept more and more of the
beautiful and easier lies of the “father of lies” (Jn 8:44).
THE
STRATEGY OF THE SERPENT!
When
I meet the many people who have a very difficult time imagining the
gravity of the situation today, among other things, I sometimes tell
them that to discover the horrible traps of the serpent, who
disguises himself “as an angel of light” (2Cor 11:14), it might
help to try to think like a serpent!
It is very important in these times, when Satan
has more power to deceive due to very little prayer and more sin than
every before, to be not just “innocent as
doves” but especially “wise as serpents” (Mt 10:16) so as to
have the perception of the hidden and well disguised deceptions of
the serpent. Would not the false pope want to give the impression
that he is very holy and in union with the Church, with the saints of
the past and with the recent popes? Thus would it not be to his
advantage to canonize recent popes so
that when he approves the heretical proposals of Cardinal Kasper that
people will think that Pope John Paul II and Pope John XXIII and Pope
Paul VI are in agreement with the false pope?
Would the false pope not want to change the
doctrines of the Church while giving the
impression that the doctrines are not changed? That
is, would not Satan want us to think that we are OK, and thus we do
not feel we need to seek to discover what God might want and then
change our lives accordingly, until it
is too late for all eternity??? To
change the words of Christ regarding adultery is a very powerful
poison that few priests and bishops realize the consequence to the
immortal souls and to all of society!
When the Auxiliary bishop of Perugia (in agreement
with the Cardinal) told me on October 13, 2015 that my parish would
be taken away from me, I said to the
Auxiliary bishop that we would arrive to the point that it would be
approved, in the Catholic Church, sex outside of marriage.
He said no it would not happen, but I said to him that when it does,
“I hope you then open up your eyes”! This Auxiliary bishop
received his seminarian training at Assisi, Italy, where the
teachings were already modified in a subtle enticing way to put aside
or disregard the documents of the Church as outdated and not modern
for people today. There was not offered courses on logic and other
fundamental courses that were normal before the Second Vatican
Council which I received from the Dominican fathers at the Angelicum
in Rome, 1983-1989. I think my BA degree in mathematics from UCLA
(1974) helped me to think logically also, even though there are a
great number of atheistic mathematicians and scientists. Thus this
Auxiliary bishop does not see the fundamental error of what Cardinal
Kasper promotes, which was explained well in the article I translated
last month, “Schism in the Catholic Church – Padre Santiago
Martin, F.M.”
(http://spir-food.blogspot.it/2016/03/catholic-schism-santiago-martin.html).
But even more important on this path toward more and more spiritual
and theological blindness was the subtle encouragement, in many ways,
of the seminarian professors, to put the
emphases on activism in the parish at the expense of spending time
everyday in humble adoration before the Blessed Sacrament and praying
the daily Rosary (“The Hidden Broad
Road to Perdition”;
http://spir-food.blogspot.it/2015/05/road-perdition.html).
Because to understand the grave error of what Cardinal Kasper
promotes is not so much a matter of intelligence and study (although
study is very important to distinguish between the false and the
true) but above all a matter of grace and guidance from above to not
gently and slowly slide into modernism and subjectivism and
relativism, making ourselves the arbiters of right and wrong, instead
of humbly submitting to Divine Revelation explained infallibly by the
Magisterium of the Church. “Woe to those who call evil good and
good evil” (Is 5:20).
I get the feeling from my auxiliary bishop and
many others brainwashed in the “new theology” that they feel that
it is inevitable to move forward to a modern church for today, and
that it is inevitable to have fuddy-duddies, those out of touch,
boneheaded dummies like me that must be put aside in one way or
another, as part of the course to arrive to "the
golden age of peace." (“The
Masonic Plan For The Destruction Of The Catholic Church”;
http://spir-food.blogspot.it/2013/11/masonic-plan.html).
Is this not the same attitude that the followers of Hitler had, to
feel important in the Third Reich? I am amazed that we are truly
already substantially under the control of the New World Order and of
the One World Religion, but until the great suffering arrives, very
few even care to wake up and smell the coffee!
Saint Michael the Archangel at Garabandal
(Spain, 1965) said: “Many Cardinals, many Bishops and many Priests
are on the road to perdition and with them they are bringing many
souls”! Three years later there was
the great rebellion in the Catholic Church at all levels against Pope
Paul’s encyclical, Humanae Vitae, reaffirming the Church’s
constant teaching on the grave sin and danger of separating the
unitive sexual act in marriage from the responsibility of
procreation. When I mentioned Humanae Vitae to the auxiliary bishop,
he wanted to downplay its importance, but I told him there are many
theologians who clearly explain that in this encyclical one is not
dealing with venial sin. (Visit: “An
Open Letter To A Fellow Priest”;
http://testimony-polo.blogspot.com/2009/11/open-letter-to-fellow-priest.html).
Ignoring the Church’s teaching, Catholics
have quickly slid into the contraceptive mentality,
and then abortion, and now euthanasia. So many no longer have the
eyes of faith to see Jesus in “the least
of these my brethren” (Mt 25:40). Catholics no longer see the
“divine Prisoner” in the Most Blessed Sacrament, the Eucharist.
“You shall worship the Lord your God and Him only shall you serve”
(Ex 20:2-5; Deut 5:6-9; CCC 2084). “Worship
God” (Rev 22:9)!
Our Lady revealed to Don
Stefano Gobbi (January 28, 1979):
“Various signs indicate to you that the time of
purification has come for the Church: the first of these is the
confusion which reigns there. This in fact is the time of its
greatest confusion.
CONFUSION is spreading within the Church,
where everything in the field of dogma, liturgy and discipline is
being subverted.
These
include truths revealed by my Son and which the Church has defined
once and for all, through her divine and infallible authority.
These
truths are unchangeable, as the very truth of God is
unchangeable. Many of these form part of real mysteries in the strict
sense of the word, because they are not and never can be understood
by human intelligence.
Man
must accept them with humility, by an act of pure faith and firm
trust in God who has revealed them and proposed them to men of all
times, through the Magisterium of the Church.
But
now there is spread abroad a most dangerous tendency of wanting
to penetrate and understand everything even mysteries to such a point
that only that part of the truth is accepted which can be understood
by human intelligence. There is a desire to unveil the very mystery
of God.
Any
truth which is not understood by reason is rejected. There is an
inclination to propose all revealed truth in a new and rationalistic
way, under the illusion of making it acceptable to all.
Thus
truth is being corrupted with error. Error is being spread in a
most dangerous way, namely, as a new and modern way of understanding
the truth, and it ends by subverting the very truths which are the
foundation of the Catholic faith.
They
are not denied openly, but they are accepted in such an equivocal
way that doctrine is most seriously compromised by error in an
unprecedented manner.
As a result, talk and
discussion go on and on; but there is
no longer any belief, and the darkness of error spreads…
You (priests) must be, purely and simply, the
living Gospel. Then you must proclaim to all, with strength and
courage, the Gospel which you live.
Your words will have the power of the Holy Spirit who will fill you
and the light of the wisdom given you by your heavenly Mother.
For
this, the more the confusion, having entered inside of the Church,
the greater the suffering of her purification will increase, the more
She, by means of you (faithful priests), will experience the comfort
and help of my maternal action.
As I wrote last month in “Spiritual Food 1603”
(http://spir-food.blogspot.it/2016/03/catholic-schism.html):
“Very few Catholics today realize the
great devastation that will be caused if it becomes widely accepted,
and now officially approved by way of ambiguity (“fall silent” –
Our Lady of Good Success, 1610),
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.” The ones in charge have given the microphone
with the loud speakers, and the mass media, to those who want to
change the Ten Commandments of God, infallibly explained by the
Magisterium of the Church, so as to offer what the great majority of
the people want, a Christianity without the cross with the empty
promise that everyone automatically goes to heaven afterwards, if
they still even believe in life after death!?!
Thus up to this point there
has continually increased the CONFUSION in the Catholic Church as
never before especially in the last
three years as Cardinal Burke has often pointed out (“Have we truly
arrived to a SCHISM?”;
http://spir-food.blogspot.it/2016/03/catholic-schism.html).
But there has been no official statement, signed by the Pope to
confirm and approve officially what Cardinal Kasper and the bishops
who have been promoted in the last three years until
now with the post-synodal Apostolic Exhortation,
Amoris Laetitia,
which was signed on March 19, 2016, and published April 8, 2016. Why
would a true, canonically elected Pope in the two synods on the
family, let things go as if the Truth, expressed in the doctrines of
the Church, was up for grabs? Why did Cardinal Burke say: “At this
very critical moment, there is a strong sense that the Church is like
a ship without a rudder”? (“The Woman Clothed With The Sun In
Search Of The Little Ones”;
http://spir-food.blogspot.it/2016/02/children-of-woman.html).
For this reason, this my monthly article is late
(in fact for the first time I did not publish last month), because
of the gravity of the situation and the
need to offer some of the underlying issues at stake here. Thus this
article is a little long due to the importance of the topic and the
need to clearly explain some of the serious deviations from the
constant fundamental teachings of the Church. Please consider this
article of May as two articles together, those of April and May! I
have put some of the references and explanations in the Appendix so
as to shorten the main article.
One of the fundamental strategies of the “angel
of light” (2Cor 11:14) is to not only
disguise his deadly lies but to cover
over the truth, which among other
things, means to be ambiguous and to offer many distractions so that
it is more difficult to find the truth covered over with
sophisticated and well thought out confusion which helps to take our
attention away from the real hidden dangers to our immortal souls.
Thus it takes real perseverance to not
become exhausted in this continual
struggle to uncover the diamonds in the midst of countless false
truths continually piled on top of the real Truth which sets us truly
free (Jn 8:32). Consider the struggle of Saint Athanasius and so many
other saints who went through the same struggle amidst great
persecution to not loose the Truth, Who is Jesus Christ (Jn 14:6). In
this period of the “great tribulation” (Mt 24:21), this
struggle for the Truth is more difficult than ever before amidst
subtle and even new types of refined camouflages and persecution!
This is also one of the reasons for the length of this article, to
uncover the many ambiguities and distractions from the Truth, in
particular in the document Amoris
Laetitia.
I
must admit that I am not a professional writer. I received my BA
degree in mathematics and science from UCLA in 1974, not in English
nor in History nor in other liberal arts (not that these disciplines
are bad in themselves). I was ordained a priest in Italy on August
31, 1996. But at least in the 60’s and 70’s and 80’s there was
much less influence of the secular humanists (who have undermined
reason and logic) in the mathematics department; two plus two are
still four! Virtue is still virtue, sin is still sin, heaven and hell
still exist according to the Creator of the universe even though
these culture destroyers have convinced us otherwise!
“Knowing
that in these situations the person is already prejudged with little
opportunity to defend himself, I offered my answer written, since I
knew 4 days earlier of this meeting. Here is my letter to the bishop:
…”
But
my main motive for writing most of my articles is to warn the sheep
of the very intelligent and sly and underhanded wolf who offers
powerful poison in his beautiful lies presented as if they were the
truth! Few pastors today have the courage to be “politically wrong”
for the benefit of the sheep!
How often do we find in the writings of Saint Paul
the great importance for pastors to
protect the sheep from these hidden but deadly lies of “the father
of lies” spread about by Satan’s
very numerous followers disguised as “lambs”? “And his gifts
were that some should be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists,
some pastors and teachers, for the equipment of the saints.… so
that we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried
about with every wind of doctrine, by the cunning of men, by their
craftiness in deceitful wiles” (Eph 4:11-14)! If priest and bishops
do not offer their “gifts” for the people of God, who
will protect us from being “tossed to
and fro and carried about withy every wind of doctrine…”?
A FUNDAMENTAL STRATEGY utilized to maneuver
toward a dictatorship or to undermine the observance of God’s
saving laws is “three steps forward, two steps back”,
until all power is obtained - then there will no longer be two steps
back! Regarding the last two synods on the family, some of the steps
forward of those who want to attack and profane the Sacrament of
Matrimony has been to commission Cardinal Kasper to speak to a
consistory of bishops in preparation for the synod, to promote many
bishops, cardinals and priests, in a rather hidden way, who want to
change the Ten Commandments to please the people, to offer a
Christianity without the cross, to allow in a sly hidden way, sex
outside of the Sacrament of Marriage, so as to open the flood gates
of the easy slippery slope downward!
“
In his first reaction to Amoris
Laetitia, Cardinal Raymond Burke, the
patron of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta and the former
prefect of the Apostolic Signatura, wrote that although the
exhortation is “a non-magisterial document,” it must be
interpreted through the lens of magisterial Catholic doctrine.
Cardinal Burke has not yet offered his appraisal of the document
itself, however.”
(http://biblefalseprophet.com/2016/04/26/cardinals-muller-and-sarah-are-quiet-about-amoris-laetitia/).
Christ said that we will know the tree by its
fruits, NOT BY ITS LEAVES, that is not
by the nice beautiful words and rhetoric (Lk
6:44; Mt 7:16-18). We are already seeing Amoris
Laetitia interpreted all over the world
contrary to the constant teaching of the Magisterium of the Church
for 2000 years! It truly seems that the
real effects
(hidden goal???) of Amoris
Laetitia are the opening the
flood gates of the easy slippery slope downward!!?!
WHERE IS THE VOICE OF THE SUPREME PONTIFF
in this gentle, hidden slide away from the uncomfortable but saving
laws of God. Where are the pastors of the sheep to warn us about the
emptiness and falseness and great dangers of a Christianity without
the cross of Christ? “In this supreme
moment of need for the Church, the ONE who should speak will fall
silent.” (Our
Lady of Good Success; Quito, Ecuador; January 20, 1610) (“The False
Pope Will Fall Silent”;
http://spir-food.blogspot.it/2015/09/the-false-pope-will-fall-silent.html).
Christ called Saint John the Baptist the greatest
prophet born of a woman, and what did Saint John the Baptist say? “It
is not lawful for you to have your brother’s wife” (Mk 6:18). How
many priests and bishops today have the guts to be a prophet like
Saint John the Baptist? What was one of the main reasons why Christ
came to earth? Was it not to offer us
the possibility of freeing us from that which does us the most harm,
our sins, as we say in every Mass:
“Lamb of God Who takes away the sins of the world…” But we must
qualified this statement: sins according to God, not sins according
to the world today. What did the first Pope of the Church, Saint
Peter, say on the first day of the Church, after hiding many days in
the cenacle before Pentecost? “You have crucified Christ” (Acts
4:10) by your mortal sins! If we have lost the sense of sin, we no
longer need Christ, and thus the redemption is rendered useless if a
person feels he does not need forgiveness. Do the very numerous
priests and bishops, who no longer speak about that which does us the
most harm, mortal sin, and its consequences here on earth and after
death, do they really believe that God
gave us the Ten Commandments for our true good or for our evil?
Do we trust Jesus with the cross, or do we trust ourselves without
the cross, by changing Gods’ Commandments according to our desires
and intelligence? The last words Christ gave us before ascending to
heaven, after opening up “their minds to understand the
scriptures”, which is precisely what is being denied today in the
Church, were: “Thus it is written, that the Christ
should SUFFER and on the third day rise
from the dead, and that REPENTANCE
and forgiveness of sins should be preached in his name to all
nations…” (Lk 24:45-47)!
Where is the courage of the priests and bishops
today? Few priests and bishops today have the guts to help people
identify and cure that which does the most harm, mortal sins, while
priests offer secondary love of
neighbor, which in the end is false love, like camouflaging the real
sickness of the souls, the greatest
harm and evil, sin. It is really like a pastor giving little kisses
of secondary love, similar to the kiss of Judas Iscariot to Jesus for
secondary motives hoping to free Israel from the Romans; this is a
true betrayal as is also Liberation Theology, which continues in the
Church today despite the condemnations of past Popes. When a pastor
does this it is truly a betrayal of God and of the people because the
pastor not only does not do his job of being the spiritual doctor of
souls for their eternal salvation, but this
pastor lulls the people to sleep
spiritually because they think they are
OK living in mortal sin since the pastor never talks about mortal
sins and he gives them little kisses of reassurance of secondary
love. We priests have been deceived, and we are deceiving the people!
When I said to a priest that recent Popes, up the “Pope Francis”,
have said that the greatest sin today is that there is no sin, we
have lost the sense of sin, he tried to defend his apparent lack of
talking about sin by saying that it depends on how you present sin.
But the problem is that the great majority of priests and bishops
today do not talk about sin at all! People now do not see the
secondary, invisible, effects of sin, and thus become more and more
insensitive like brut animals. The more a Christian sincerely prays
and follows Christ, the more this Christian is sensitive to the
suffering of Christ Who identifies Himself with “the least of these
my brethren” (Mt 25:40). I am amazed how “Pope Francis” speaks
about helping the poor, while he facilitates the lose of the sense of
sin in many ways! (“The Hidden Broad Road to Perdition”;
http://spir-food.blogspot.it/2015/05/road-perdition.html),
“Why is Cardinal Kasper doing a victory lap
ahead of the apostolic exhortation?
“Post-synodal document to be published after
Easter. It will be revolutionary, Kasper says
It is worth quoting a statement made by the
theologian cardinal Walter Kasper, who gave the speech to the
Consistory on February 2014, which marked the start of the renewal
process: “The document will mark the
start of the GREATEST REVOLUTION experienced by the Church in 1500
years.”
Very few priest and bishops realize the great
devastation that will be caused to immortal souls by convincing
Catholics that the Church is the Author of Truth instead of God.
The Church is the handmaid of the Truth, not the Author of the Truth.
Obviously this devastating change will not be presented openly in a
clear way, but rather in an ambiguous
way. When for the first time the false
pope signs an official document of the Church, contradicting a
fundamental doctrine of the Church, contradicting even in an
underhanded and ambiguous way, that it is no longer objectively a
mortal sin to have sex outside of a valid marriage, and the great
majority are maneuvered to go along with this, then the door will be
open to convince Catholics, with the false pope, to believe that the
Church can change any other fundamental revealed truth explained
through the centuries by the Holy Spirit to Christ’s Body, the
Church. Certainly this change will be promoted with beautiful words:
“love” and “mercy” and cunning ambiguity. The words and
documents of all the past popes and saints, which are in
contradiction to this illicit change, will be pushed aside in the
name of (false) love and (false) mercy. Very few priests or bishops
will have the courage to struggle against "the
most profound difficulty of our time”, relativism, so as to
offer the true good to the sheep as did Cardinal Ratzinger. Writing
about the pastoral care for homosexuals and
divorced and remarried, Cardinal Ratzinger wrote: “Only
what is TRUE can ultimately be pastoral”.
In his homily at the Mass preceding the conclave
that quickly elected him Pope Benedict XVI, then Cardinal Ratzinger
said: “Today, having a clear faith based on the Creed of the Church
is often labeled as fundamentalism.
Whereas relativism, that is, letting oneself be "tossed here and
there, carried about by every wind of doctrine", seems the only
attitude that can cope with modern times. WE
ARE BUILDING A DICTATORSHIP OF RELATIVISM
that does not recognize anything as definitive and whose ultimate
goal consists solely of one's own ego and desires.”
Talking
about the two extremes meeting, I find it rather interesting that
very recently Bishop Fellay and “Pope Francis” seem to be coming
together!?! Pope Benedict opened up dialogue with the SSPX and
even bent over backwards to receive them into the Catholic Church,
allowing them to maintain their liturgical rites, but Pope Benedict
would not receive them into the Church if they were not willing to
accept the documents of the Second Vatican Council. Pope Benedict
took this discernment process out of the Congregation for Divine
Worship and gave it to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the
Faith, because the real problem was not so much a liturgical issue
but a doctrinal issue.
In the New World Religion, as Archbishop Fulton
Sheen (and Cardinal Biffi) pointed out years ago: “The
false church will be worldly, ecumenical (false), and global. It will
be a loose federation of churches, religions forming some type of
global association, a world parliament of churches. It will be
emptied of all divine content
and will be the mystical body of the antichrist.” Thus we see now
that Bishop Fellay is coming together with “Pope Francis” because
“Pope Francis” has indicated that the
doctrinal issues are not so important!!!
Let us put aside the uncomfortable truth, Who is Jesus Christ, so as
to be all together in a world wide brotherly fraternity of “peace
and love”!?! But Christ came for division
(Lk 12:49-53), between those with the Truth, and those not with the
Truth, Who is Jesus Christ (Jn 14:6)!
“SSPX’s Bishop Fellay: Little by Little Rome
Is Giving Us All We Need for Reconciliation”
“But the French-Swiss SSPX leader has learned
how to communicate with this Pope, by acknowledging that Francis
often seems to view doctrine as an obstacle to leading people to
Jesus. For the Pope, Bishop Fellay said, “what is important is
life, it’s the person, and so he tries to look at the person, and
there, if I may say, he’s very human”…
Certainly he doesn’t agree with us on these
points on the Council which we are attacking. Definitely he doesn’t.
But for him, as the doctrine is not so
important — it is man, the people,
who are important — there we have given enough proof that we are
Catholics.”
“THE DOCTRINE IS NOT SO IMPORTANT!”:
"I have never understood the expression
'nonnegotiable values,'” he said in
his latest interview. And in a book, his closest collaborator
explains why Pope Francis is carefully avoiding a head-on collision
with the dominant culture” (ROME, March 10, 2014;
http://chiesa.espresso.repubblica.it/articolo/1350737?eng=y).
For “Pope Francis”, and so many priests and bishops today, there
are no more inherently sinful acts, intrinsic evils, contrary to the
words of Christ explained by the Catholic Church for 2000 years!
Fellay said: “Francis often seems to view doctrine as an obstacle
to leading people to Jesus”! This means that “Pope Francis”
seems to view Truth as an obstacle to leading people to Jesus, even
though Jesus is the Truth!?! The author of this article says, “Pope
Francis is carefully avoiding a head-on collision with the dominant
culture”, implying that those who hold to nonnegotiable values have
a problem, so “Pope Francis” must covertly bring the Church and
the world around to discarding nonnegotiable values, the absolute
Truth, Who is Jesus Christ!
“The false prophet, the false pope, will seek
to form a One World Religion, by way of
false ecumenism, which will result in the REDUCTION TO THE LOWEST
COMMON DENOMINATOR. Pope Francis is seeking to lead many protestant
pastors toward Rome, through some type of “ecumenism”, such as
Pastor Kenneth Copeland, Pastor Tony Palmer, and many other important
protestant pastors.” And now “Pope Francis” is seeking to lead
the SSPX toward Rome. As Our Lady of La Salette told us: “Rome
will become the seat of the Antichrist”!
“There are some who are disturbing you and want
to distort the gospel of Christ. But even if we, or an angel from
heaven, should preach to you a gospel
contrary to what we have preached to you, he is to be accursed!
As we have said before, so I say again now, if any man is preaching
to you a gospel contrary to what you received, he is to be
accursed!” (Gal 1:7-9; 1Cor 15:1-2).
How many times in Sacred Scripture we find the
great majority of people abandon God and His saving laws but God
raises up the very few as a witness to all the others. After
Mattathias was offered “silver and gold and many gifts” so as to
“enforce the apostasy” and to make sacrifices to the pagan gods,
“Mattathias answered and said in a loud voice: “Even if all the
nations that live under the rule of the king obey him, and have
chosen to do his commandments, departing each one from the religion
of his fathers, yet I and my sons and my
brothers will live by the covenant of our fathers.
Far be it from us to desert the law and the ordinances. We will not
obey the king’s words by turning aside from our religion to the
right hand or to the left” (1Mac 2:15-22).
We need to listen to the last words Mattathias
especially today! “Now the days drew near for Mattathias to die,
and he said to his sons: “Arrogance
and reproach have now become strong; it
is a time of ruin and furious anger. Now, my children, show zeal for
the law, and give your lives for the covenant of our fathers.
Remember the deeds of the fathers, which they did in their
generations; and receive great honor and an everlasting name. Was not
Abraham found faithful when tested, and it was reckoned to him as
righteousness? Joseph in the time of his distress kept the
commandment, and became lord of Egypt… Do
not fear the words of a sinner, for his
splendor, will turn into dung and worms. Today he will be exalted,
but tomorrow he will not be found, because he has returned to the
dust, and his plans will perish. My children, be courageous and grow
strong in the law, for by it you will gain honor” (1Mac 2:49-64).
The Truth, Who is Jesus (Jn 14:6), does not change
with the world or with the times!
“Christ said “I am the truth”; He
did NOT say, “I am the custom”.”
– St. Toribio.
“Heaven
and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away” (Mk
31:31).
May 13, 1820: “I
SAW ALSO THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE TWO POPES. . . I
SAW HOW BALEFUL (harmful) 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… 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
think one of the principle powers that Christ conceded to Satan for
100 years beginning about the time of the apparitions at Fatima,
revealed during the vision of Pope Leo XIII on October 13, 1884, was
to allow Satan to sustain his followers so that they would not burn
out with sex and drugs so that they could promote the same life style
to many others, to prepare and lead the world to adore the
Antichrist.
On
the Internet one can find a sentence that Don Stefano Gobbi said
privately:
“Father Gobbi told us pray for the next pope but
don’t listen to him”.
Our
Lady revealed to Don Stefano Gobbi:
“The black beast like a leopard indicates
Freemasonry; the beast with the two horns like a lamb indicates
Freemasonry infiltrated into the interior of the Church, that is to
say, ecclesiastical Masonry, which has spread especially among the
members of the hierarchy. This Masonic infiltration, in the interior
of the Church, was already foretold to you by me at Fatima, when I
announced to you that Satan would
enter in even to the summit of the Church.
If the task of Masonry is to lead souls to perdition, bringing them
to the worship of false divinities, the task of ecclesiastical
Masonry on the other hand is that of destroying Christ and his
Church, building a new idol, namely a false christ and a false
church.” (June 13, 1989; see also:
January 1, 1979; September 6, 1986; August 15, 1988).
The few bishops and priests who remain loyal to
the Truth, Who is Christ (Jn 14:6), will
be greatly persecuted for not having “love” and “mercy”
for those NOT
willing to “avoid the near occasion of sin” as was always said in
the “Act of Contrition”. The situation will quickly deteriorate
down the slippery slope while opening up the door to change any and
all of the saving Commandments of God and even the essential parts of
the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass with the excuse to be able to
celebrate the Mass all together with our Protestant brothers and
everyone else, in one big world wide brotherhood in the New World
Religion.
A Mass of the Roman Rite is NOT invalid:
1) WHEN the celebrant of the Mass is not a validly ordained priest,
2) WHEN the priest does not have the proper intention, 3) WHEN wheat
bread or grape wine is not used, 4) or WHEN the words “This is my
Body” or “This is … my Blood” are not said by the Priest
during the consecration of the Mass.
(http://www.cuf.org/faithfacts/details_view.asp?ffID=188).
The key phrases which confect the Eucharist are
"This is My Body" and "This
is ... My Blood," which when said
by a priest with the proper intention and matter, truly show the
priest acts in the Person of Christ. The other parts of the
Eucharistic prayer are, according to St. Ambrose (also quoted in
Summa Theologica), essentially preparatory; "by
all the other words spoken, praise is rendered to God, prayer is put
up for the people, for kings, for others, but when the time comes for
perfecting the Sacrament, the priest no longer uses his own words but
the words of Christ." St.
Thomas Aquinas also explains this requirement in great detail
in Summa Theologica (Third Part, Question 78, Articles 1 through 6).
Changing the words of the preparatory parts of the Eucharistic prayer
is illicit and gravely sinful for the priest, but would not
invalidate the Eucharist as long as "This is My Body" and
"This is ... My Blood" are said.
THE
CATECHISM OF THE COUNCIL OF TRENT (or The Catechism for Parish
Priests) states very precisely that “the form consists of these
words: This is My Body and This is ... My Blood”.
“The essential signs of the Eucharistic
sacrament are wheat bread and grape wine, on which the blessing of
the Holy Spirit is invoked and the priest pronounces the words of
consecration spoken by Jesus during the Last Supper: “This is my
body which will be given up for you.... This is the cup of my
blood....”.” (CCC
1412).
How many priests and bishops today will be able to
detect, in an ambiguous document of more than 250 pages, the very
subtle, powerful and deadly POISON of
at least greatly enhancing or truly changing fundamentally the
practice and subsequently the doctrines of the Catholic Church, after
being led into relativism and putting aside or ignoring the doctrines
of the Church even from their Catholic university and seminary
training?
When I offered the synthesis of a conference given
by Padre Santiago Martin, F.M., entitled “Love, Truth and Mercy”,
May 2014 (“Schism in the Catholic Church – Padre Santiago Martin,
F.M.”;
http://spir-food.blogspot.it/2016/03/catholic-schism-santiago-martin.html),
to a few priests in my diocese, referring to what Cardinal Kasper
proposes, several priests said it is
just a matter of INTERPRETATION, as if
heresy no longer exists. In relativism everything is accepted except
the absolute Truth from God! Is this not putting man before God as
the arbiter of right and wrong, of the true and of the false, just as
Adam and Eve did (Gen 3:4-5) and many of the modern philosophers did?
In most seminaries and Catholic universities today, many of the
fundamental authentic teachings of the Catholic Church are rarely
presented, and when they are presented they are presented along side
of many modern philosophies and false teachings as if they are all
the same and the young seminarian or student can choose which
philosophy or theology he likes as if there is no right or wrong but
only according to ones personal taste and choice. I studied
philosophy and theology at the Angelicum in Rome from 1983 to 1989;
at least the Dominican Fathers had the courage to stand up against
this very strong relativistic current by putting Thomism as the basis
before looking at other modern philosophies and heterodox theologies.
“Woe to those who call evil good and good evil” (Is 5:20)!
The pastor in the nearby parish where I left after
he threatened me because he did not like my homilies (“The Hidden
Broad Road to Perdition”;
http://spir-food.blogspot.it/2015/05/road-perdition.html),
continued to badger me to come back into the fold, into the mentality
of today in which love means to offer to the people what they want,
without any reference to the law of love according to God. A
catechist of this parish described to me how this pastor, along with
another nearby pastor in the zone, had openly indicated that we do
not have to worry about the Ten Commandments and
that individual confession is not really necessary. This catechist
also told me recently that right after the publication of Amoris
Laetitia these two priests told the
catechists of the zone that the divorced and remarried without an
annulment can now receive Communion and those who object are lacking
in charity and mercy. This same interpretation of Amoris
Laetitia is already being given to all
the priests in my diocese of Perugia, Italy at the monthly formation
meetings. It is amazing to me how it all seems programmed with a
certain communication among at least the majority of bishops and
priests about these changes even though I was not informed before
hand of these changes; so many priests seem to already know what to
do. This catechist told me that several other catechists realized
that something was wrong but by now they were all afraid to speak up
before two priests who already knew how to pick out phrases of Amoris
Laetitia that suited the program of
admitting everyone to the sacraments and downplaying the Ten
Commandments and the need to confess sins, that for so many by now,
do not even exist!
To promote a concealed agenda,
is it not a very good strategy to offer many words, along with
ambiguities, to those people who might object to this hidden agenda,
while opening the door to this hidden agenda and then promoting this
hidden agenda in a covert way, so as to
cause as little reaction and opposition as possible?
When the two bishops of my diocese discovered that I had written many
articles, with many references to the teachings of the Magisterium of
the Church, they took my parish away but they did not want to sit
down and seek the Truth or a solution together since for them the CCC
is outdated and Father Joseph does not think like the great majority
today who have been coerced or forced into thinking that we need a
modern Church for modern times and thus the doctrines of the Church
must be modified or eliminated according to their ideals and
enlightenment that they believe to have in their intelligent minds.
The great majority of the people in the
parishes today want a Christianity without the cross.
If you explain simply and clearly that if one ignores the Ten
Commandments you greatly harm yourselves now and after death, many
people who come to Sunday Mass today are not happy with such a
pastor. When I stood up against the selling of pornography in this
nearby parish, the Pastor took the side
of the sellers of pornography
(http://wordbelife.blogspot.it/2013/04/james-59.html).
When I offered a copy of the article, “Schism in
the Catholic Church – Padre Santiago Martin, F.M.”, this pastor
of a nearby parish said that Cardinal Kasper is only one cardinal,
and he did not want to know any details or information. For this
pastor, typical of so many priests today (“Ignorance is bliss!”),
there is no problem, let us just have some wine and pasta and be
merry, in the cult of man, where the Truth (Jesus Christ – Jn 14:6)
is gently pushed aside and ignored, or worse yet used for our human
purposes as so many priests and bishops do today with Liberation
Theology. This pastor does NOT want
division caused by the Truth. But
Christ came for division (Lk 12:49-53) between those who follow and
live the Truth and those who do not follow and do not live the Truth.
This reminds me of a man who cannot stand his mother-in-law and puts
her in the back bedroom and ignores her as much as possible, hoping
that she will not live long. But when this pastor dies, this pastor
who put aside the Truth to be politically correct in the cult of man,
it will not be God who sends him to hell, but this
pastor will NOT want to be with the Truth in heaven,
and he will willingly throw himself in the only other eternal place
where there is not the Truth (Jn 3:17-21; 12:44-50) but the “father
of lies”. Jesus explained to Saint Catherine of Genova, who was
willing to suffer greatly to bring all those in hell to heaven, that
those in hell would suffer more in heaven than in hell because they
do not want to be with God, Who is the Truth! “The chief punishment
of hell is eternal separation from God” (CCC 1035). Here on earth,
whether we believe it or not, we are all surrounded by God, those in
the friendship of God (in the state of grace) and those not in the
friendship of God (not in the state of grace), otherwise earth would
already be hell. At death, God, Who is love and thus respects our
choice, our free will, confirms our choice for all eternity.
I
am very grieved for the souls entrusted to such pastors who do not
preach or live the saving truths in the Catechism of the Catholic
Church for adults. If the pastors do not want to spend eternity
with the Truth, Who is God, so be it. But to use their position as
pastors to lead the souls entrusted to them in the same direction is
extremely abhorrent.
In hell there is a forced unity,
without the Truth, under the malevolent dictatorship of Satan. In
heaven there is the freely chosen the unity of love that Christ
prayed for at the last supper discourse (John 17), “that all might
be one”!
Behold false ecumenism, to put aside Christ,
the Truth, to be together in a false,
superficial unity. Cardinal Biffi at the
Annual Lenten Retreat for the Pope and the top members of the Vatican
(Feb. 27, 2007), quoted Vladimir Soloviev, a Russian philosopher, who
died in the year 1900 with great acumen, and who had prophesied the
tragedies of the 20th century. In the “Tale of the Antichrist”,
recalled the cardinal, “The
antichrist presents himself as pacifist,
ecologist and ecumenist. He will
convoke an ecumenical council and will seek the consensus of all the
Christian confessions, granting something to each one. The masses
will follow him, with the exception of small groups of Catholics,
Orthodox and Protestants who will resist and will say to the
Antichrist: ‘You give us everything,
except what interests us, JESUS CHRIST’.”
For Cardinal Biffi, this narrative is a warning: ‘Today, in fact,
we run the risk of having a Christianity which puts aside Jesus with
his cross and resurrection’.” (“The
FALSE POPE - Saint Hildegard;
http://spir-food.blogspot.it/2013/02/resignation-of-pope-benedict.html).
"This
“paradigm shift” - a new way of thinking about God and the world
- is a massive shift in thinking from God’s absolute truth to man’s
relativism.”
“The destructive tidal wave that is following
this shift is sweeping people away from the faith and into the New
Spirituality that transcends religious barriers."
"Yet
in the midst of all this, only a relatively few number of people in
the Church have been diligently trying to warn the Body of Christ,
and local churches continue to transform into the image of the world.
Claiming that warnings and exhortations are too “negative” and
“judgmental,” local churches often choose to malign and
marginalize those attempting to warn them, and the warnings go
unheeded."
"God’s
Truth has been one of the casualties in the new way of thinking, and
many people are simply unaware or don’t remember what God’s Word
actually says. This lack of knowledge facilitates the spread of
deception. The Holy Scriptures were written by God for all people,
not just for theologians and pastors."
A great number of leaders in the Focolare
Movement, as well as in the whole Church, are “Sacrificing Truth on
the Altar of Unity”!
“But IF
we walk in the light, as He is in the light, we have fellowship with
one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin”
(1Jn 1:7). If we do NOT walk in the
light, if we do NOT put love of God first,
we do not have true fellowship with one another, it is false love!!!
Also the real essence of sin is perverted since it is not based first
of all on offending God, and thus in the end, one stops going to
confession, and thus the blood of Jesus does not cleanse us from our
sins! In this way the redemption is rendered null and void!
The Servant of God, ARCHBISHOP FULTON SHEEN, said:
“The False Prophet will have a religion
without a cross. A religion without a world to come. A religion to
destroy religions. There will be a counterfeit church. Christ’s
Church will be one. And the False Prophet will create the other. The
false church will be worldly, ecumenical (false), and global. It will
be a loose federation of churches, religions forming some type of
global association, a world parliament of churches. It will be
emptied of all divine content and will be the mystical body of the
antichrist. The Mystical Body on earth today will have its Judas
Iscariot and he will be the false prophet. SATAN
WILL RECRUIT HIM FROM AMONG OUR BISHOPS.”
“Pope Francis” stopped the beatification
process of the Servant of God, Archbishop Fulton Sheen!
As Our Lady of La Salette told us: “Rome
will become the seat of the Antichrist”!
“
You give us everything, except what
interests us, JESUS CHRIST!” This is
why the emphasis now is on HUMANISM,
while giving lip service to “Jesus Christ”, in such a way as to
use Jesus Christ, or at least to use the subjective feelings or
nostalgia of an “outdated religion” at the service of the cult of
man, behind which hides Satan who slowly shifts the emphasis and the
glory to himself. The name Jesus Christ is used at meetings but very
few people realize the subtle well-thought-out shift away from Jesus
Christ. This is why at the beginning of public addresses “Pope
Francis” does not greet the people as the Popes of the past have
always done with “Praise be Jesus Christ”, but with “Good
Evening”, or “Good Morning”. Would not the false prophet, in
order to get more sympathy and followers end his talks with: “Please
pray for me”! Many women say to me: “Oh, how sweet! “Pope
Francis” is a saint”!?! The talk of “Pope Francis” and the
subject of the 5th National Ecclesial Congress for the Church in
Italy was “A New Humanism
in Jesus Christ”
(https://zenit.org/articles/text-of-pope-s-address-in-florence-on-humanism/).
Recently, the day before the
publication of the post-synodal Apostolic Exhortation, Amoris
Laetitia, April 7, 2016, my cardinal
of the diocese of Perugia, Cardinal Bassetti, called a special clergy
retreat of the priest of the diocese. During the morning session Don
Gianni Fazzini, of the “Center for new styles of life” (“Centro
nuovi stili di vita”) of the Patriarch of Venice, explained
chapters V and VI of “Laudato Si”. Put
simply, his talk was basically the promotion of the theology of
liberation. Not once did Don Gianni
mention the need of Jesus or Mary or the Eucharist to arrive at this
liberation, a liberation in particular on the economic, ecological
level. At a certain point Don Gianni said, with a smile, that Pope
Francis cannot use the phrase “theology of liberation” openly.
The final concluding phrase that Don Gianni left us priests of the
diocese of Perugia was: “I wish for you to be pastors who walk with
your people toward a walk of
liberation”.
During
the second session Padre Krzyzstof Pawlik OFM cap., judicial vicar of
the inter-diocesan tribunal, presented the new procedures concerning
the proceedings of nullity of marriage according to the Apostolic
Letter “Mitis Iudex”.
On February 11, 2016, at the clergy retreat for the priests of the
diocese of Perugia, Fr. Marco Presciutti, vicar for pastoral works of
the diocese of Fano-Fossombrone, also lectured on “Laudato Si”,
during which time Cardinal Bassetti praised Fr. Leonardo Boff and Fr.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, SJ.
“Pope Francis” talks about loving the poor,
which is important, but if the priorities are not kept straight, that
true love seeks eternal happiness before temporal happiness,
he ends up leading people to their destruction by ignoring the only
thing that will keep the poor and anyone else out of heaven, mortal
sin, explained very well in the Catechism of the Catholic Church for
adults (CCC). Is this not what Judas Iscariot did, seeking to use
Jesus for what Judas felt was important, to free the Jews from the
Romans, to free us from an economic oppressor as “Laudato Si” was
explained to the priests of the dioceses of Perugia.
“
During his Mass on Thursday (May 19, 2016),
Pope Francis preached a warning to the rich who oppress the poor,
focusing on employers who accumulate wealth by misusing those who
work for them… This is starving the people with their work for my
own profit! Living on the blood of the people. And
this is a mortal sin. This is a mortal sin.
It requires a great deal of penance, a great deal of restitution, in
order to be converted from this sin”
(http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/exploiting-workers-is-a-form-of-trafficking-pope-francis-says-13169/).
“This is a mortal sin”! Surely it is a sin to
exploit workers in this way. But if one does not believe in life
after death, and the only thing that counts is this short life, then
one talks like this, ignoring that which does most harm to the
immortal soul, mortal sin, sex outside of marriage. To call this
exploitation a mortal sin tells people that the Pope believes sin
exists, but only sins against the cult
of man but not against the cult of God, not against the laws of God.
In the document Amoris Laetitia,
there is NOT MENTIONED even once the word, “mortal sin” or
“adultery”.
The fundamental root of the decay of society is
the decay of the family. There is
promoted false mercy of forgiveness for adultery without helping
people to understand the deadly poison of adultery which leads to the
destruction of the family which is at the root of poverty. There
is a hidden contradiction here from
“the father of lies” to lead us to our destruction and the
destruction of the family while using nice pious words that appeal to
the public and cover over the real problem and poison! This is what
many politicians do, talking about certain problems which appeal to
the public without offering the real solutions which takes sacrifice
from each citizen, and to live the Ten Commandments! But if a
politician offers the true solution to make personal sacrifices for
the common good, today, this politician will not ever be elected. The
citizens prefer empty promises without the obligation to make
sacrifices for others. In the end, the common good crashes. We
deserve what is happening and what will happen!
“Even the Church, which lives and suffers in
this continent, is threatened with an interior division caused by
dissension from the Pope and by opposition to his Magisterium on the
part of some bishops, theologians, priests and lay persons. Above
all, my Adversary has sought to strike her with the subtle
snare of liberation theology, which is a true betrayal of Christ and
his Gospel. For this reason my
Heart is again pierced today by the sword of sorrow”
(Our Lady to Don Stefano Gobbi, February 27, 1992).
“In this country, where my Adversary has
succeeded in seducing very many of my children with the
dangerous error of liberation theology,
I am forming my cohort with all my poor and little children” (Our
Lady to Don Stefano Gobbi, Ilobasco (El Salvador); February 13,
1994).
I did not realize that liberation theology was so diffused among
priests and bishops in the Church today! About six years ago when
an important priest of my diocese praised this error of socialism, I
said to him: “What about Pope Leo XIII’s encyclical “Rerum
Novarum”, or Pope John Paul II’s encyclical “Centesimus
Annus”?” He looked at me as if I were very ignorant and not
enlightened!
‘You give us everything, except what
interests us, JESUS CHRIST’!
His Eminence Cardinal Gualtiero Bassetti,
the President of the Episcopal Conference, who was made a cardinal by
Pope Francis even though the diocese of Perugia was never a diocese
of a cardinal, was awarded the XXII “Rotary
Award of Umbria” on May 14, 2015 in the
Cathedral of Perugia. A couple of friends
of mine who live in Perugia told me that the cathedral of Perugia on
that day (May 14, 2015) was full of Freemasons! A similar award was
given by the Rotary club in Buenos Aires in 1999 to Cardinal
Bergoglio. “The Rotary is of the Masonic inspiration in that it
carries forth the Masonic ideals and has ties with the Freemasonry.
This is the reason for which Rotary is known as – together with
other clubs such as for example the Lions Club International –
“White Masonry” (“The Woman Clothed With The Sun In Search Of
The Little Ones”;
http://spir-food.blogspot.it/2016/02/children-of-woman.html).
The false prophet, the false pope, will seek to
form a One World Religion, by way of
false ecumenism, which will result in reductionism to the lowest
common denominator, forfeiting our most precious means of
sanctification and the fullness of truth, as Catholics, in the name
of (false) “love” and (false) “mercy” and (false)
“ecumenism”!?! It is precisely now that the world needs, more
than every before, these “means of sanctification”, found in the
Church founded by Jesus Christ. It is precisely now, when Satan has
succeeded in spreading more than ever before his beautiful lies as if
they were the truth, that we need the infallible guidance of the
Magisterium of the Church! Today very few Catholics, above all very
few priests and bishops, realize that the most deadly poison of Satan
are the beautiful lies that do the most harm to immortal souls! In
this way one goes ever more toward mediocrity
seeking to receive and to please everyone, with compromise after
compromise, to the point of loosing just about all the true values of
Jesus Christ as well as the authentic sources of grace through Jesus
Christ. The founder of Christendom College (USA), Dr. Warren Carroll,
wrote that ecumenism is important but properly understood is “not
an ecumenism in which you would abandon convictions in truth which
would be superficial and meaningless
agreements, but developing an ecumenism
built solidly on real conviction and truth.”
Although
the “mercy of God endures forever” (Ps 136), Jesus never offered
compromises even when there was the risk of loosing many followers.
When many of His disciples left Him regarding the truth about the
Eucharist, He did not offer compromises with the Truth, but was even
willing to loose his Apostles: “Will you also go away?” (Jn
6:67)! Those who do not follow the Truth, Who is Jesus (Jn 14:6), are
interested first of all in the quantity of followers, “to go to the
peripheries” instead of first finding a great union with God on
Mount Tabor (Moses), in the desert (Saint Anthony Abate), at Subiaco
(Saint Benedict), at Laverna (Saint Francis of Assisi); they are not
interested in the true spiritual quality of those willing to
sacrifice and suffer everything to follow the Truth! These false
Christians, who use religion for their own motives, are happy with
mediocrity and seek to lead others with them down the path of
mediocrity, and ultimately, the lose of the Truth, the faith and
salvation!
At Assisi, Italy, on November 29-30, 2013,
there is organized a congress for priests and lay people.
The title of the congress is “Taking Care of Humanity – Going
toward the existential periphery” (Custodire l’umanità – Verso
le periferie esistenziali). But if we do not have the Eucharist or we
do not spend time before the Divine Sun, the Divine Fire, with the
help of the Mother of the divine Son, what do we really end up giving
to others? The saints tell us that only that which overflows from our
union with Jesus do we give to others! “One word from a soul united
to God effects more good in souls than eloquent discussions and
sermons from an imperfect soul” (Diary, 1595). “It is useless for
you to worry about the souls entrusted to you, to reprove them or to
try to make them a little more spiritually inclined. You will only
succeed in as far as you yourself are spiritual. It is only through
the overflow of your own piety that you can put it into their hearts.
If you yourself are not what you ought to be, if you are not closely
united with Jesus, your words will reach their ears but will not
enter into their hearts, and so your effort will not be fruitful. Do
you see how good it is to be united to Jesus? That is the only true
happiness on earth” (“A Manuscript On Purgatory”;
http://purgatory-manu.blogspot.com).
See below in the Appendix: A
RESTRUCTURED CHURCH WITH FAR FEWER MEMBERS
Many bishops have given their Imprimatur to the
book containing the messages of Our Lady revealed through Don Stefano
Gobbi (http://our-lady-priests.blogspot.it/).
On September 6, 1986, Our Lady told Don Gobbi:
“These are the times, foretold by me, when
cardinals will be set against cardinals, bishops against bishops
(Akita, Japan; October 13, 1973) and
priests against priests, and the flock of Christ will be torn to
pieces by rapacious wolves, who have found their way in under the
clothing of defenseless and meek lambs. Among them there are even
some who occupy posts of great responsibility, and by means of them,
Satan has succeeded in entering and in operating at the very summit
of the Church.”
As children, the first question in the Baltimore
Catechism was: “Who created you?”.
The second question was: “Why did God create you?”. We memorized
the answer: “God made me to know Him, to love Him, and to serve Him
in this world, and to be happy with Him forever in heaven”. Our
mortal enemy has slowly reversed this so that the
great majority of Catholics today believe and live as if the parish,
the pastor, religion and even God exist to serve me, myself and I,
the new trinity. I am now at the center
of the universe, not God!
At our clergy retreat of April 7, 2016, there was
also highly promoted an exhibition “Abraham, the birth of me”
(“Abramo, la nascita dell’io”, di I. Carbajosa). It seems to me
that the Church, up until now, has always explained as the first
priority the manifestation of God to Abraham, not
the birth of Abraham’s ego. What is
being promoted here, Christian humanism or secular humanism, the cult
of man or the cult of God?!?
(http://abramo.diocesi.perugia.it/mostra-perugia/).
Just as in the parishes, so too at the diocesan level, the Catholic
religion is now a cultural religion, no longer a religion that exists
to help us discover and then do the holy will of God! Even
the Nazis prided themselves of being of a higher culture, collecting
art, while killing millions of people who the Nazis did not consider
worth anything, just as is done today
with the unwanted babies in the womb and old people who can no longer
contribute to society. Churches were embellished in the past to honor
God and to draw attention to the infinite God in the Eucharist.
Today, in Italy, most people enter the churches to see the beautiful
art but have no idea that the second Person of the Most Holy Trinity
is present Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity in the tabernacle! A girl
who I dated in college, threw out her Catholic faith to marry a
protestant; she chose man instead of God (in the Eucharist)!
It is true that Jesus is very demanding, but
unlike any creature, Jesus can offer eternal life!
For many pastors the first priority in their heart is the parish not
the uncomfortable Truth, Who is Christ crucified on the cross. For
many lay people, their family or even a small prayer group is more
important than the uncomfortable Truth, explained by the Church and
summarize in the Catechism of the Catholic Church for adults (CCC).
The parishioners do not want to hear about mortal sin and its
consequences and the need to change ones life and suffer, and people
do not want to loose their friends and so are silent about what God
might want in their lives. “Whoever denies me before men, I also
will deny before my Father who is in heaven” (Mt 10:33)! “He who
loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and he who
loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me…” (Mt
10:37). “If any one come to me and does not hate his own father and
mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even
his own life, he cannot be my disciple” (Lk 14:26).
A related well-orchestrated SHIFT has been from
the recognition of personal and social sin, to false mercy with no
obligation to change ones life, to lead up to the greatest schism in
the history of the Catholic Church. At
the Angelus on the Fifth Sunday of Lent, with the Gospel of the
adulteress (Jn 8:1-11), Pope Francis did not mention the traditional
theme (cf. “Messale dell’Assemblea Cristiana; Centro Catechistico
Salesiano; Editori: ELLE DI CI) that has been given to this Gospel
passage: “Go and sin no more”! (“Angelus
Domini 2016.03.13”; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPNMk1N5ypc;
https://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/angelus/2016/documents/papa-francesco_angelus_20160313.html).
This would be like parents telling their
children only about mercy, without
telling them the importance of “go and sin no more”! It is
amazing how few priests and bishops see the deception and the very
grave consequences of this silence about that which does the most
harm to a person, with an immortal soul, sin according to the Creator
of human beings. And then among those who have struggled to keep
their eyes open in a Church where “the father of lies” has sown
so many beautiful lies and confusion, few are willing to take the
risk to speak out in this time of great need for the eternal
salvation of souls, and thus choose to make many small compromises,
one after another, without asking themselves if this is truly the
best for the souls entrusted to them according to the divine
revelation of Our Father in Heaven, the Creator of each and every
person with an immortal soul!!!
We have heard this same subtle strategy of
putting aside the revealed truth of God in many ways,
such as not baptizing babies until they are old enough to decide
which religion they want. It is interesting that one of the recent
objectives of the Freemasonry is: “Abolition of baptism to minors
or to people in any case not consenting” (“The Future Objectives
of the Freemasonry”;
http://god-politics.blogspot.it/2016/03/future-objectives-freemasonry.html).
It is not easy to continually remain alert to the hidden and
well-camouflaged strategies of our mortal enemy. But if the
pastors of the flock, who have studied philosophy and theology, do
not do this essential work of continually stripping off the mask of
the deadly wolf, who will do this very important work? This is also
why the very sly wolf has worked hard to change the seminary and
Catholic university courses in philosophy and theology so that the
new priests no longer have the preparation to even recognize the
powerful and very deadly poisons offered to immortal souls today.
I said to this older priest, that for 2000 years
the Church has always understood from divine revelation that it does
great harm and is a sin to have sex outside of marriage; are you
saying that from now on it is OK to have sex outside of marriage?!?
He replied, well no; let us wait for what Pope Francis says about
this. There is a real “disconnect”
(logic) with a great number of priests, bishops and laypeople who
have slid into the easier and more gratifying relativism in which
each person can decide fundamental truths and morals according to
their own private judgment without
making any reference to objective truth found outside of their little
heads; God revealed to us the Truth for
the true good of mankind.
How
many people today believe or say: “I’m OK”! I say to them:
“According to who, you or God?” Many have taken steps further
down the destructive path of relativism by saying: “I’m OK
according to God”, because they have equated their ideas and
conviction as if they are the same as God’s!
It seems in these very common situations today,
one cannot apply St. Thomas’s principle
of contradiction in that a thing cannot
be and not be at the same time. The relativistic priests and bishops
that I know do not want to listen to or read or refute my articles,
which have many references to the teachings of the Church, even
though at the same time they go against the teachings of the Church
in many fundamental areas of faith and morals; they consider Father
Joseph Dwight as being old fashion and not with the times. Lucifer
believed he was God even though he knew he was not God, and so he
became Satan, “the father of lies” (Jn 8:44)! When we refuse the
uncomfortable crucified Truth on the cross and thus fall from the
grace of God, we loose all bearings with the reality created by the
Creator. So many Catholics today have thrown out the Rock, the
Magisterium of the Church, and have ended up in the false freedom of
quick sand. This older priest, who typifies so many priests today,
says things will not change (as some spokesmen for the Vatican have
said recently), and then does not see the inherent contradictions in
what so many bishops, like Cardinal Kasper, say.
Fr. Larry Richards explains “Speak
the TRUTH in love” (Eph 4:15); love
and judging, they’re not antagonistic, they’re two sides of the
same coin.
See below in the Appendix: FR.
LARRY RICHARDS - UNCONDITIONAL LOVE
The
great majority of the children of the sexual revolution did not
receive true Christian sacrificial love from their parents, who
no longer saw children in the Biblical sense, as a blessing or a
“gift from God” (Ps 128:3; Jn 16:21; Mt 18:1-3,10; Prov 17:6) but
rather as burdens or as obstacles to their pleasure when “the pill”
did not work. In the sixties we would hear slogans, “peace and
love”, but without any understanding or reference to sacrificing
oneself for the other as Christ taught us on the cross. Now this
false “love” and false “peace” are in full bloom in the world
and in the Church. Even many children with good parents, rebelled as
if to say to their parents, love me less or stop loving me so I don’t
have to feel guilty for not corresponding to your love. This is
equivalent to saying: “Go away God!”, but not like Saint Peter
who later repented (Lk 5:8-11). “For every one who does evil hates
the light, and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be
exposed. But he who does what is true comes to the light, that it may
be clearly seen that his deeds have been wrought in God” (Jn
3:20-21).
When parishioners express their rebellion against
me as the pastor, sometimes I respond
that I did not write the Ten Commandments! If
Father Joe does not seek to discover and to live the Ten
Commandments, even in the great confusion in the Church today, Father
Joe will go directly to hell for all eternity! Perhaps the fathers of
the families should say something similar to their children who have
learned from the TV to rebel against all authority, who then
afterwards end up being slaves to the prince of the world, Satan (Jn
12:31; 14:30)! Everyone is free to make their choice, to be with God
or to not be with God for eternity!
“The Sexual Revolution and Its Victims, by Dr.
Jennifer Roback Morse”
“The Sexual Revolution and Its Victims:
Thirty-Five Prophetic Articles Spanning Two Decades”
““Dr. J” and Her Amazingly Accurate
Predictions of the Sexual Revolution’s Fall-Out”
Contrast
this selfish attitude with the attitude and knowledge of the saints
and angels: “If the angels were capable of envy, they would
envy us for two things: one is the receiving of Holy Communion, and
the other is suffering” (Diary of St. Faustina, no. 1804)! The
greatest way to love someone is to suffer for someone. The angels,
who see how much God loves them, want to correspond more with His
love but are unable since they do not have a body to be able to
suffer for God as we can. How many Catholics do not go to Sunday Mass
to receive Jesus in their heart and do not want to suffer with
Jesus?!?
After they stoned Paul… supposing that he was
dead; Paul rose up to continue to preach the gospel, to explain to
all of us: “Through many tribulations
we must enter the kingdom of God”
(Acts 14:19-22).
We find this blatant contradiction in the very
words of Cardinal Kasper:
Padre
Santiago Martin writes:
“
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".”
(“Schism in the Catholic Church – Padre Santiago Martin, F.M.”;
http://spir-food.blogspot.it/2016/03/catholic-schism-santiago-martin.html).
This fundamental contradiction in truth is
worse than the Tower of Babel (Gen
11:1-9) because at the time of the first Tower of Babel one could at
least communicate slowly with a dictionary. But without the
fundamentals of Truth from God accepted and in common among priests
and bishops of the same Catholic Church, it is impossible to arrive
at any conclusion without this basis of divine Truth upon which to
build and to go forward together. Thus more and more in the Catholic
Church, we see the words of Pope Benedict
XVI fulfilled: “Today, having a clear faith based on the Creed of
the Church is often labeled as
fundamentalism. Whereas relativism,
that is, letting oneself be "tossed here and there, carried
about by every wind of doctrine", seems the only attitude that
can cope with modern times. WE ARE
BUILDING A DICTATORSHIP OF RELATIVISM
that does not recognize anything as definitive and whose ultimate
goal consists solely of one's own ego and desires” (“Who
Decides The Truth?”;
http://spir-food.blogspot.it/2014/06/who-decides-truth.html).
Without the base of God’s Truth, we go quickly to “Might
makes Right”!
So
many priests and bishops for many years have chosen only what they
like and what people want, without looking at Christ and his
saving laws; they have taken many steps of ignoring and loosing
Christ, Who is the Truth (Jn 14:6), which is accompanied by more and
more spiritual blindness and “what I like or approve”, with no
true reference to the Magisterium of the Church.
Under the dictatorship of relativism, all is OK
except the absolute Truth of God. Thus
in the Synod of 2014, the African bishops who realized the great gift
of the teachings of the Church on marriage were marginalized and the
book written by five Cardinals, “Remaining in the Truth of Christ”,
in defense of marriage, was not allowed into last October’s Synod
of Bishops! (“The False Pope Will Fall Silent”;
http://spir-food.blogspot.it/2015/09/the-false-pope-will-fall-silent.html).
Amidst this confusion, few priests and bishops will recognize the
powerful poison of the disguised deception in the ambiguous and long
document, the Post-Synodal Exhortation, Amoris
Laetitia. Most of the few who do
realize that something is not right with this document will
NOT have the courage to go against the great majority manipulated by
the mass media; they will not have the
courage to risk loosing their positions, titles, monetary income,
along with the real possibility of persecution, even death.
“
This widespread lack of good wholesome fathers
is at the root of the feminized “Church
of the Nice” that we have today as
well as the increase of homosexuality and the slide into false
ecumenism which will lead to the One
World Church as a preparation for the advent of the Antichrist”
(“Have we truly arrived to a
SCHISM?”;
http://spir-food.blogspot.it/2016/03/catholic-schism.html).
See below in the Appendix: FEMINISM
– HELEN HULL HITCHCOCK.
The winning card of Satan today is to tell
everyone of this unconditional mercy, without explaining the absolute
necessity of changing ones life, to “go
and sin no more”, as we say in the Act of Contrition. It is like
the parents of a family telling their children: “do whatever you
like because your parents love you and offer unconditional mercy.”
This is false mercy and false love which leads to the destruction of
the children. The strategy of Satan is to eliminate the voice of
those who particularly have the vocation to offer also conditional
love for the true good of the souls entrusted to them, to eliminate
mature fathers of the families, mature pastors of the parishes and of
the diocese. Satan wants to render men: “THEY
ARE ALL DUMB DOGS, THEY CANNOT BARK’
(Is 56:10), as Pope St. Gregory the Great tells us (Pope St. Gregory
the Great; Office of Readings; Sunday, Week 27 of OT). Pastors no
longer preach about sin, while the wolf gently leads the sheep to his
kingdom of subtle deception of false love, false mercy and misguided
compassion.
Those who will remain faithful to God’s saving laws will be
considered evil and cruel and will be less and less tolerated as
we have seen throughout human history.
God
revealed to Saint Francis of Assisi these prophecies:
6. “Those who in spiritual fervor will embrace
piety with charity and zeal for the truth, will
suffer persecutions and insults as if they were schismatics and
disobedient. Because their persecutors,
urged on by the evil spirits, will say that in this way they render a
great honor to God in killing and removing from the face of the earth
such pestilent men. But the Lord will be the refuge of the afflicted
and He will save them, because they hoped in Him. And then in order
to respect their Head, they will act according to the Faith and they
will chose to obey God rather than men, gaining for themselves
eternal life; they will fear nothing, and they will prefer to die
rather than consent to error and perfidy.”
(http://spir-food.blogspot.it/2013/11/prophecy-st-francis.html).
The message of Pope Francis at his Mass at Casa
Santa Marta was “Those who exclude create conflict”
(Nov. 5, 2015; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9XELtpveSA)!
If this message is not explained in the context of the whole of
divine revelation and of the whole of Sacred Scripture, those who
create conflict because they offer the saving truth of Jesus Christ
will be considered “enemies of ecumenism, enemies of fraternity,
enemies of reconciled humanity. “I came to cast fire upon the
earth; and would that it were already kindled! I have a baptism to be
baptized with; and how I am constrained until it is accomplished! Do
you think that I have come to give peace on earth? No, I tell you,
but rather division; for henceforth in one house there will be five
divided, three against two and two against three; they will be
divided, father against son and son against father, mother against
daughter and daughter against her mother, mother-in-law against her
daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law."
(Lk 12:49-53). How soon will this phrase of Pope Francis become:
“Those who exclude those, who are
living in sin, from Holy Communion in the Catholic Church, create
conflict”? Would not a true pope
simply explain that Christ excludes sin but not the sinner, that
Christ loves the sinner but hates the sin? What is the message that
the general public is receiving from “Pope Francis”? That those
who hate sin create conflict and are bigots?!?
“
A half-truth deceives the recipient
by presenting something believable and using those aspects of the
statement that can be shown to be true as good reason to believe the
statement is true in its entirety, or that the statement represents
the whole truth. A person deceived by a half-truth considers the
proposition to be knowledge and acts accordingly”
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half-truth).
Jesus
was not politically correct and thus offended many people and
thus in the end Jesus was crucified! The prophets of the Old
Testament were not politically correct and thus offended many people
and thus in the end most of the prophets of the Old Testament were
killed.
The great rebellion against the crucified
Truth! When people in the parishes,
where I go to, complain about the preaching of the full Gospel, not
just the easy parts but also the uncomfortable Truth on the cross, I
tell them that if I do not preach the Gospel according to the
Catechism of the Catholic Church for adults, Father Joe will go to
hell, and I will not go to hell for
anyone! I suppose I was not politically
correct when I said this, and in the end since my two bishops do not
want preached the whole Gospel, but only the part that the people
want, they took my parish away on October 13, 2015.
At this same meeting on
October 13, 2015, when I said to this
bishop that if you put the people who
even come to Sunday Mass regularly, before the Catechism of the
Catholic Church for adults, the majority of them are objectively in
mortal sin. The bishop replied you
cannot know that. It seems here the bishop does not distinguish
between objective guilt and subjective guilt. Subjective guilt only
God knows, but objective guilt, that which we can see and observe, we
must judge so as to not follow those who give scandal, even a priest
or bishop! But if few priests of bishops today speak about sin, how
can the people know what sin is according to the Catechism of the
Catholic Church and not according to their subjective heads formed by
the TV and mass media? Behold the disappearance of the very important
sacrament of Reconciliation! But what is even worse is that this
auxiliary bishop gave no indication of being concerned about the
great danger of souls not knowing what sin is as well as the great
need of offering the solution to the parishioners for the benefit of
their eternal souls!
The Servant of God, Archbishop Fulton Sheen, in
his talk entitled, “The Kiss That
Blistered”, explains the “Myth of
co-existence” with the Communists, to be later destroyed “with a
kiss”, as did Judas Iscariot.
Cardinal Kasper said that the Post-synodal
document “will
mark the start of the GREATEST REVOLUTION experienced by the Church
in 1500 years.” Many
modern philosophers led us into the “COPERNICAN REVOLUTION” of
not seeking anymore reality and the truth outside of ourselves by way
of our five senses but inside of ourselves, as if each one of us
“will be like God” (Gen 3:4-5) (“Who
Decides The Truth?”;
http://spir-food.blogspot.it/2014/06/who-decides-truth.html).
After this Copernican revolution on the philosophical level, it is
now officially confirmed with this post-synodal
apostolic exhortation, Amoris Laetitia,
the developing Copernican revolution
on the theological level, on the level of faith and morals. We
will finally be free of God’s Commandments!?!
Everything will be turned upside down, so that “the father of lies”
(Jn 8:44) will make us free today, but we are no longer told of the
great slavery tomorrow and for all eternity! No longer do we believe
that the uncomfortable crucified Truth on the cross “will make us
free” (Jn 8:32) today as well as tomorrow and for all eternity! In
the USA you cannot put up a Christmas Nativity scene or the Ten
Commandments in public, but a monument of Satan is OK!
Considering what I have wrote above, with many
references to my past articles, in our ongoing efforts to unmask the
wolf disguised “as an angel of light” (2Cor 11:14), and our
search for the truth in a Church full of “CARDINALS
OPPOSING CARDINALS, bishops against
other bishops... the Church will be full
of those who accept compromise …”
(Our Lady of Akita,
Japan (1973), I will only briefly indicate some of these ambiguities
and deceptions in this post-synodal
apostolic exhortation, Amoris Laetitia.
The great majority of the Catholics by now have
been led to believe that the Truth is established by the consensus of
the majority of the people or by a group of bishops, but no longer by
God Who is the Truth (Jn 14:6). Thus I
will give a few indications here of those who understand that God is
the immutable Truth, and also some of the misguided reactions to
Amoris Laetitia,
with comments indicating some of the reactions of people who no
longer understand or believe that the Church is the handmaid of the
Truth and not the Author of the Truth. For those of you who have
maintained the true faith in a world and Church full of confusion
sown by the enemy, I hope this will help us to realize better how we
are being manipulated, in a very covert, subtle and gentle way toward
relativism, by a world under the control of the fundamental
organization of Satan today, Freemasonry, as Our Lady of Good Success
warned us more than four hundred years ago: “FREEMASONRY,
which will then be in power…”
(http://spir-food.blogspot.it/2015/09/the-false-pope-will-fall-silent.html).
“
Pope Francis”, has often used in the past
publications such as the “La
Repubblica” (in Italy) to spread and
facilitate more quickly and broadly to the general public and to
Catholics the slide into relativism, while he has avoided, up until
now, making an official statement, even though the fundamental
communication
of relativism in Amoris
Laetitia is
well camouflaged (“Letter to
fellow Priests”;
http://spir-food.blogspot.it/2014/12/letter-to-fellow-priests.html).
I will use a very recent article of the “La
Repubblica” (April 8, 2016) written to praise and promote Amoris
Laetitia, to
simply indicate what is going on, as well as what is being promoted
in the highly controlled mass media all over the world. Today “Pope
Francis” is the idol of the secular mass media; the mass media up
until three years ago has always been against the Popes and the
Catholic Church in more or less subtle ways. One
only has to reverse what is praised and promoted in this article,
and who is ridiculed and condemned in this article, to understand
what is going on regarding the immutable Truths of God explained by
the authentic teachings of the Catholic Church, in contrast with the
secular anti-God mass media.
The Italian newspaper, “La Repubblica”,
put on their front page Pope Francis’
letter in response to two open letters
published in previous months by Eugenio Scalfari, the founder of “La
Repubblica” and an avowed atheist (September 11, 2013). On the same
front page was written an article with the title: “The Truth Is
Never Absolute”!
(http://www.ilpost.it/2013/09/11/le-prime-pagine-di-oggi-835/repubblica-574/)...
Then one considers the greater part of
the Catholics are convinced that what the Pope says is infallible,
the game is done. Even if one protests
that a letter to Scalfari or an interview to whoever, might be less
than the opinion of a private doctor, in the era of media technology,
the effect that will be produced will be much greater than any solemn
pronouncement. In fact, the more the gesture or the talk is formally
small and insignificant, the more it will have an effect and will be
considered as unassailable and beyond criticism.” (“Letter to
fellow Priests”;
http://spir-food.blogspot.it/2014/12/letter-to-fellow-priests.html).
See below in the Appendix: LA
REPUBBLICA – SPOKESMAN OF THE MESSAGES OF “POPE FRANCIS” TO THE
WORLD
Immediately
after the Synod on the Family in October 2015, the mass media here in
Italy began telling us that divorced and remarried couples can
receive Holy Communion.
“Bombshell: Pope to His Favorite Journalist:
"All the Divorced who ask will be admitted [to Communion]"
(November
2015; Eugenio Scalfari, is the founder of the popular magazine “La
Repubblica” in Italy, and has declared himself an atheist)
At the presentation of Amoris
Laetitia at the press conference on
April 8, 2016, Card. Christopf Schonborn, O.P said it is not a break
with the past but there is innovation, a development of doctrine, a
linguistic change, and different exposition, no
longer with the distinction between those in regular or irregular
situations, but we are all one people.
Right after the press conference, on Vatican
television, Stefania Falasca; editorialist for the Avvenire,
said: “There is no longer a difference
between people in regular or irregular situations”
(my comment: as if there is no more sin). She said that we all need
the love of God, of His mercy, of His pardon (my comment: but without
any obligation to do and live our Christian faith summarized well in
the Act of Contrition: “I promise with the help of thy grace to sin
no more and to avoid the near occasion of sin”!!!). She said that
“Pope Francis wanted to give a global vision without falling into
casuistry or going down into the particulars, as if this would be a
trap to avoid, to leave these things to the discernment of the
confessors in the individual cases” (my comment: how can a
confessor determine if the first matrimony is valid or not and thus
if it is “joined by God” which “no man can put asunder” (Mt
19:6)???). She explained that this is why
footnote, no. 351, was not in the main document but put in as a
footnote, like in parenthesis, because it is not an important point,
to no longer put an emphasis of these unimportant distinctions!
She went on to say that considering the
discernment of conscience, “people can
no longer be labeled as being in mortal sin.
She said that there is now the primacy of the conscience (my comment:
as if there is no longer the objective law of God to conform to or to
form one’s conscience accordingly!!!). She said this document,
Amoris Laetitia
is a step forward in understanding the sacramental mystery of
matrimony!”
What a smooth way of putting aside the
distinction between sin or no sin,
between being in the state of grace or not being in the state of
grace, between being in mortal sin or not being in mortal sin,
between separation from God or united with God, between eternity with
God or eternity not with God! We are all now one big happy family
without any more of these distinctions of “casuistry” or of the
“rigid” or of the “rigorists”. No more sin! We are free from
our parents rules and regulations. We
are finally free from God’s laws!
What a beautiful deception of “the father of lies” (Jn 8:44)!!!
We have lost God’s prospective, God’s point of view, and we are
left now with only man’s point of view, man’s prospective, the
world’s prospective, in the cult of man! The prince (the ruler) of
the world is Satan (Jn 12:31; 14:30). It comes to mind an image of
people, without thinking, going up to offer sacrifice to the image of
gold made by king Nebuchadnezar (Dan, chapter 3)!
Good parents suffer when the child chooses what
does harm to the child. The parents
suffer also due to the broken relationship with the child. But if the
child has become spoiled and egotistical, the child does not consider
the suffering of the parents but sees only from his own egotistical,
blind, point of view. So he no longer
sees the tears of his mother who suffers due to his free choice of
sin. He is looking only at self, and
self justification, with the help of the world and, now more than
ever before, with the help of the highest ranking prelates in the
Catholic Church, in the name of (false) love and (false) mercy!
The very numerous followers of “the father of
lies”, who have taken over the motors
of the culture – the schools, the mass media, the religious
institutions - have prepared us well to throw out the old time
religion (E.g., “37.
The Astounding Impact of the Ruthless Manipulation of Militant Gay
Activists!”; http://markbeast.blogspot.com),
which is for our true good (because the Truth does not change), and
to look at those who say God loves the sinner but hates the sin, as
if they are bigots. All those who
espouse the false liberty of “the father of lies” are politically
correct, but those who say God’s rules are for our own true good
and the good of society, are labeled as bigots. Are the rules of good
parents for the good of the children or for the evil of the children?
Secular
feminism, having effectively put aside the father in the family,
has fostered spoiled egotistical children, who are not willing to
sacrifice self for others as a good father does; these children are
now adults and in positions of power and do not want the rules of God
the Father.
It has been very well orchestrated,
by the very numerous followers of the “father of lies”, to
finally accept, or worse yet not even care, about that which does us
the most harm, sin, especially grave mortal sin. This is the
fundamental effect and real fruits of an officialòu signed document
of the Catholic Church, Amoris Laetitia!
Why did Jesus come to earth? Why did Jesus die on the cross such a
horrible death? For recreation or to have fun?!? So few Catholics
meditate on the passion of Christ in the Way of the Cross, which
Padre Pio said is the prayer most pleasing to God after the Holy
SACRIFICE
of the Mass. By meditating often on how much Christ suffered for each
of us, we slowly begin to not only realize how much Christ loves each
of us but also how horrible sin is from the point of view of the
Truth, from the point of view of God, the Creator of the universe and
of each human being.
An article of LifeSiteNews,
April 8, 2016, briefly cites the “Wildly
divergent reactions to Pope’s exhortation: a study on the results
of ambiguity”:
“Particularly on the central question of
admittance to Holy Communion of divorced and remarried Catholics, the
document has left the question so open as to cause profound
confusion.”
“The varied reactions demonstrate a reading with
wide divergence of opinion is possible. Of all the many posts I’ve
read, and I’ll be summarizing below, one was most interesting to
highlight – that of Robert Royal,
the editor-in-chief of The Catholic Thing, and president of the Faith
& Reason Institute in Washington, D.C.
Royal
proposes a hypothetical situation which puts the most likely
eventual outcome of the ambiguous exhortation in sharp focus:
Here’s a hypothetical that may soon be a test
case: suppose that, taking cues from the overall tendency of Amoris
Laetitia, the German bishops follow
their avowed inclinations and allow Communion for the divorced and
remarried. The Polish bishops, adamantly orthodox and finding nothing
in the text that explicitly requires changing millennia-old teaching,
choose instead to read it as only encouraging greater pastoral
counseling with the ultimate goal of leading people to change their
lives and follow Christ’s words on marriage.
Both readings may be possible, but the
consequences, in this instance and others, are impossible. On one
side of a border between two countries, Communion for the divorced
and remarried would now become a sign of a new outpouring of God’s
mercy and forgiveness. On the other side, giving Communion to someone
in “irregular” circumstances remains infidelity to Christ’s
words and, potentially, a sacrilege. In concrete terms, around the
globe, what looms ahead is chaos and
conflict, not Catholicity. A new Iron
Curtain may descend between Western Catholicism and the Church in the
rest of the world – to say nothing of civil wars within “developed”
countries…”
Antonio Socci writes:
“
World Over - 2016-04-14 – Pope Francis’
Apostolic Exhortation on the Family with Raymond Arroyo”
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5Avd7bCiV0),
“FR GERALD MURRAY and ROBERT ROYAL...the Papal Posse...join us to
discuss Pope Francis' recently released Apostolic Exhortation, AMORIS
LAETITIA (The Joy of Love)”.
On EWTN’s April 14, World Over Live program
hosted by Raymond Arroyo, canon law expert Fr. Gerald Murray and
Robert Royal, Catholic author and president of the "Faith and
Reason Institute", presented a very
frank, respectful analysis of the problematic aspects of Pope
Francis’ controversial Apostolic Exhortation, Amoris
Laetitia (The Joy of Love).
Carefully and methodically responding to Arroyo’s probing
questions, the panelists gave support for the deep concerns and alarm
of many Catholics regarding particular “problematic” parts of the
Exhortation.
Arroyo’s
questioning touched on a number of delicate issues for the two
panelists regarding Pope Francis’ Exhortation. The difficulty of
the challenge to provide honest answers to Arroyo's questions
regarding the head of the Catholic Church was apparent in the faces
of Royal and Murray throughout the 35-minute dialogue. Fr. Murray
appeared especially pained to have to explain the obvious serious
flaws and real dangers for the Church in various parts of the
exhortation which he indicates need to be addressed and corrected by
the Holy Father.
One notable part of the lengthy discussion occurs
near the beginning of the dialogue. Arroyo displays the slide below
containing text (Amoris Laetitia,
paragraph no. 3) from Francis' Exhortation that appears to indicate
the Holy Father is suggesting that there can be varied theological
understanding and application of Church teaching according to local
cultural realities. The EWTN host asks Fr. Murray for his thoughts on
the quotation.
Fr.
Murray responds, "I think this is a dangerous statement
precisely because we're talking about the universal law of the Church
regarding the administration of the sacraments and to say that
enculturation would mean that in Germany the sacramental discipline
would be different than in neighboring Poland or in a country in
Africa, that’s very disturbing." He continues further to
expand on the reasons for his great concern.
See
the appendix below for the full transcribed text:
“WORLD
OVER - 2016-04-14 – POPE FRANCIS’ APOSTOLIC EXHORTATION ON THE
FAMILY WITH RAYMOND ARROYO”
“For although there are many different
languages in the world, even so the strength of tradition is one and
the same. The Church founded in Germany
believes exactly the same and hands on exactly the same as do the
Spanish and Celtic Churches, and the ones in the East, those in Egypt
and Libya and Jerusalem, the centre of the world. As the sun, which
is God’s creature, is the same throughout the whole world, so the
preaching of the truth shines in all places and enlightens all men
who wish to come to the knowledge of the truth.” (Office of
Readings, the Second Reading, “The
preaching of the truth”, St. Irenaeus,
Against the Heresies; April 25).
The
recent popes before “Pope Francis” have told us that the greatest
sin today is that there is no more sin, we have lost the sense of
sin. Now we are hearing the exact opposite message! People tell
me why go to confession to confess the same sin? This is the
fundamental test for each of us to persevere in sincere prayer and
living our prayer so as to trust more and more in God and less and
less in ourselves. By persevering, we succeed more and more in doing
what we learned as children, the words of the Act of Contrition: “I
firmly resolve with the help of Thy grace to sin no more and to avoid
the near occasions of sin.” People who stop praying end up saying
what’s the use to continue to confess my sins? People who persevere
in praying continue to make this promise, sincerely, as they grow in
humility and trust in God, not in themselves.
Notwithstanding her good intentions, Saint
Faustina was sad because she
continually fell into the same defects. But
Jesus did NOT say, don’t worry about
it, or did not indicate that it is OK to continue to commit those
sins. But rather Jesus said: “You
see, My child, what you are of yourself. The cause of your falls is
that you rely too much upon yourself and too little on Me” (Diary,
1488).
God
gives sufficient grace, but grace does not mean that God takes away
the suffering as we want, and that all of a sudden it becomes
easy. As the saints tell us "Love makes labor light. Love alone
gives value to all things” (St. Teresa of Avila), because we are in
love with Jesus crucified. A boy and a girl engaged with each other
do not even consider the difficulties of the trials of their
courtship because they are in love with each other and their thoughts
are on the other person, not self.
A great number of people today do NOT want to
put themselves under the criteria of God as what is best for us.
Pride and lack of trust in God is at the root. Today everyone,
including “Pope Francis” is offering us excuses, reasons, and
justifications to not seek or accept the guidance of God for what is
best for us, which is to overcome sin according to God’s criteria
of sin. Justified with nice words, this is a fundamental step away
from God, a fundamental turning away from God and toward self as to
who is the criteria for what is best for us, to trust more and more
in self and less and less in God. This leaves us prey to the powerful
influence of the prince of this world, Satan. (Jn 12:31; 14:30)
One
can find various example in the Gospels of even the disciples of
Jesus wanting to give up.
When the disciples “were amazed at His words”,
and even “exceedingly astonished”, Christ
did not offer false and empty and destructive compromises as so many
leaders in the Church today are
offering to the gullible “Christians”, but rather said: “With
men it is impossible, but not with God; for all things are possible
with God” (Mt 19:26; Mk 9: 23; 10:23-27; Lk 18:27).
Jesus did not offer compromises
even when many of His disciples left Him due to His teaching on the
Eucharist (John chapter 6). Let us kneel
in adoration before the Most Blessed Sacrament with the help of Mary,
praying her Holy Rosary!
Christ
always leads us higher, without compromise, while offering us
mercy. The very numerous followers of “the father of lies” do the
exactly the opposite by offering false mercy and false love with
compromises, while judging and condemning as “rigid” those who
remain faithful to Christ’s teachings explained by the Magisterium
of the Church. Familiaris Consortio, 33: “I therefore repeat: "To
diminish in no way the saving teaching of Christ constitutes an
eminent form of charity for souls." (Pope Paul VI, “Humanae
Vitae”, 29).”
Amoris Laetitia
enhances the slide down into compromise
and basically opens the door to the sacraments to everyone without
the obligation to change ones life according to God’s laws
explained by the Church, while at the same time the document remains
ambiguous enough that it is difficult for those who are faithful to
the unchanging Truths of God, explained by the Magisterium of the
Church, to object or refute the exhortation. “Satan disguises
himself as an angel of light” (2Cor 11:14). Today there are a great
number of sacrilegious receptions of Holy Communion!
We
are living in a world that since the invention of “the pill”
(1960), the marriage act has been almost completely separated from
the responsibility of procreation. Like they say, “the horse is
out of the barn”, and thus it is very difficult to get the horse
back into the barn. To not observe “Humanae Vitae” remains a
grave sin, mortal, even though most Catholics could care less, and
take Holy Communion all the same. But when the disciples had a very
difficult time in accepting the words of Christ, Christ did not offer
compromises, nor did Christ lower the bar, or did Christ change the
Ten Commandments to accommodate what people wanted?
“When our Lord said, “What therefore God has
joined together, let no man put asunder”
(Mt 19:6), the disciples said to Jesus: “If such is the case of a
man with his wife, it is not expedient to marry” (Mt 19:10). The
disciples knew what Jesus was saying. THIS IS HARD!
According to Amoris Laetitia,
Jesus would certainly be considered “rigid”!!! Do
you know what the divorce rate was in the USA in 1960? Five percent!
Were human beings different then? What was it that made 95% of the
marriages stay together until death? Now you look at it and you say
who could possibly expect today to stay together until death!?! Even
though many who stayed together years ago would have divorced if they
lived today, those who stayed together years ago, when the spouse
died, they sobbed like babies. So the Church basically says yes, we
recognize that those terrible things happen. But
unfortunately when you open the door to divorce, EVERYBODY WANTS TO
RUN THROUGH IT!
“Beware of false prophets, who come to you in
sheep’s clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves. You
will know them by their fruits” (Mt
7:15-20). Jesus did not say by their leaves, which would be by their
nice words, but “by their fruits”!
The overall effect, “the fruits” of Amoris
Laetitia is to offer the coup de
grace to the existence of sin, and the Ten Commandments; we are
finally free from these imposed rules!?! So we no longer need a
Savior for our sins, sins that we no longer believe even exist. In
this same hidden strategy, we no longer need not only the sacrament
of Reconciliation but we no longer needed the sacrifice of Christ on
Calvary and thus the Holy Mass is superfluous, and all the rest of
the true Catholic religion. Visit “The Subtle and Powerful Attack
on the Eucharist”
(http://spir-food.blogspot.it/2015/11/attack-on-eucharist.html),
“The Progressive Protestantization of the Catholic Mass”
(http://spir-food.blogspot.it/2015/11/protestantization-mass.html).
In a world that has lost the faith in its Creator, those who want to
get to heaven must make to jump of faith and trust in God, even
though from our point of view it might seem impossible. “With men
it is impossible, but not with God; for all things are possible with
God” (Mt 19:26; Mk 10:23-27; Lk 18:27).
The title of this exhortation is “Amoris
Laetitia”, which means “Love Joy”.
It offers “love” as “joy” but
without sacrifice, and thus is false
love which leads to our destruction. Without sacrifice, one for the
other, without sacrifice according to God Who created all of us, we
end up taking advantage of one other, like mutual masturbation, which
in the end is self destructive instead of building up one another as
Christ taught us by his example in His passion and death on the
cross. True marriage, according to God’s creation and explained in
His divine revelation, entails sacrifice one for the other which can
only be accomplished by following the rules of the One who created
us, God! The title of this exhortation
should have been “Love Sacrifice”, “AMORIS SACRIFICIUM”!!!
“Pope Francis” continues the year of mercy
with “Dry the Tears”!
But again, it is to dry the tears of the difficulties of life WITHOUT
turning to Christ crucified as the solution.
“Dry the Tears” is rather putting aside the cross, putting aside
the Ten Commandments, so as to feel better for a little while, but
tomorrow there will be the consequences of not following the laws
that guide our human existence, given to us by our Creator Who loves
us. It is false love which sounds nice, but is not based on the
reality created by our Creator and thus leads to our destruction.
“Satan disguises himself as an angel of light” (2Cor 11:14)!
Where are the true fathers and pastors, ready
to give their lives for their children and souls entrusted to them,
to warn us of this DEVASTATING POISON THAT IS SUGAR COATED?!?
Those who do not go along with this false love and false mercy will
be more and more persecuted, just as Christ was more and more
persecuted by the Jews up to His death on the cross! The
ones who truly need the drying of the tears are the good parents and
the good pastors and the Good Shepherd on the cross who suffer for
others. Precisely for this reason the
true saints speak often of making reparation to the Sacred Heart of
Jesus and to the Immaculate Heart of Mary! The ones who have freely
chosen to not love others and thus to not suffer for others and have
not lived up to their responsibilities of responding to the love
given to them (no gratitude) and do not want to dry the tears of the
ones who have made many sacrifices for them, are now living the
consequences of their irresponsibility and do not want to take their
eyes off of themselves and see the sorrow they have caused to others.
Yes these irresponsible people want their tears dried, but
if they do not learn to love God and neighbor instead of themselves
there will be more tears without the consolation of God.
So many people have not received the guidance and the encouragement
from religious leaders to convert themselves to true love and
sacrifice for others, by meditating on Christ crucified and asking
the help of Jesus and Mary in diligent prayer. It
is an injustice to give free fish to people in the third world
countries instead of teaching them how to fish;
so too to dry the tears of the deceived people without showing them
the way out of their egotistical deception is an even greater
injustice! Today, more than ever, one could rewrite the phrase of
Saint Paul: “False love disguises
itself as an angel of light” (2Cor
11:14), which misleads a very great number of immortal souls toward
destruction!
Egotistical children want what they want today
regardless of the consequences for themselves or for others.
They do not care if tomorrow their parents, or someone else, will
have to pay a heavy price of suffering for their irresponsibility.
This irresponsibility has always been promoted by “the father of
lies” and now we have reached the climax of total irresponsibility!
Where does the buck stop? The buck stops with the one who is willing
to pay the price for the acts of irresponsibility; that One is Christ
crucified and the few true Christians who embrace the sacrifices of
life with the help of Jesus with much prayer. This
is exactly the solution that Our Lady of Fatima proposed to us 99
years ago, prayer and sacrifice. It all
goes back to true love which is perfectly exemplified in the greatest
act of love in the history of mankind, Christ crucified with His
mother Mary at the foot of the cross! The
TRUE “Francis”, is the one of
Assisi more than 800 years ago, who did not offer false love or false
mercy or misguided compassion or false ecumenism. The
TRUE “Francis” bore the sufferings
of Christ in his body, and said: “Love
is not loved”, Christ crucified is
not loved!!!
“SUFFERING IS THE GREATEST TREASURE ON EARTH; it
purifies the soul. In suffering we learn who is our true friend. True
love is measured by the thermometer of suffering…” (Diary
of St. Faustina, no. 342).
“If the angels were capable of envy,
they would envy us for two things: one is the receiving of Holy
Communion, and the other is suffering” (Diary, no. 1804)!
“Throughout the two “synods on the family”
held in Rome in October 2014 and October 2015 there
was intense pressure for the Church to change her immutable teaching
on homosexuality and homosexual unions.
This pressure came not only from “LGBT” activists but also from
those responsible for preparing the official synodal documents.
“We need to acknowledge the great variety of
family situations that can offer a certain stability, but de facto or
same-sex unions, for example, may not simply be equated with
marriage” (Amoris Laetitia,
no. 52).
This
implies:
(i)
that “same-sex unions” are one of the “great variety of family
situations”
(ii)
that “same-sex unions” offer a “certain stability” and
(iii)
that “same-sex unions” can be “equated” with marriage on some
level, if not “simply”.
It is interesting that Obama stayed away from
the topic of homosexuality before elections in November 2008
because he knew how most Americans felt in 2008 about homosexuality.
Since then Obama has promoted the culture of death with all the power
and money of the USA all over the world. (“Catholic
Prophecy Today”; http://markbeast.blogspot.com).
It seems “Pope Francis” is using the same strategy. “Despite
short shrift in ‘Amoris’, Francis sees mercy for gays too”
(http://nospincatholicism.com/tag/amoris-laetitia/).
“Cardinal Danneels
Admits to Being Part of 'Mafia' Club Opposed to Benedict XVI”
“New authorized biography also reveals papal
delegate at upcoming synod wrote letter to Belgium government
supporting same-sex "marriage"
legislation because it ended discrimination against LGBT groups.”
He
once said same-sex “marriage” was a “positive development”.
The cardinal also wrote a letter to Belgian Prime Minister Guy
Verhofstadt praising him for “the approval of a legal statute for a
stable relationship between partners of the same sex.”
Verhofstadt’s government introduced same sex-‘marriage’ into
Belgium in 2003.
The
Vatican listed Danneels second in importance out of 45 delegates
personally chosen by Pope Francis to participate in the upcoming
meeting.”
Was not this fundamental strategy of enhancing the
slide downward predicted by Our Lady
more than 400 years ago?
“
Thus 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 morals… As for the Sacrament of Matrimony, which
symbolizes the union of Christ with His Church, it will be attacked
and deeply profaned. FREEMASONRY, which
will then be in power, will enact
iniquitous laws with the aim of doing away with this Sacrament,
making it easy for everyone to live in sin and encouraging
procreation of illegitimate children born without the blessing of the
Church… In this supreme moment of need
for the Church, the ONE who should speak will fall silent.”
(Our Lady of Good Success in Quito,
Ecuador, on January 20, 1610; “The False Pope Will Fall Silent”;
http://spir-food.blogspot.it/2015/09/the-false-pope-will-fall-silent.html).
Those who are not following Christ in their
hearts, and are thus not in the state of grace, believe “the father
of lies” (Jn 8:44). Considering “the
greatest revolution” according to
Cardinal Kasper, there comes to mind directive no. 33 of
the Grand Master of the Masons to the Catholic Bishops, effective
since 1962:
“
33. Order all
the subjects of the Pope to fight in holy crusade to extend the
one-world religion. Satan knows where one finds all the lost gold.
Conquer the world without pity! All this will bring to humanity all
that it has always craved: "the
golden age of peace”." (“The
Masonic Plan For The Destruction Of The Catholic Church”;
http://spir-food.blogspot.it/2013/11/masonic-plan.html).
If
their strategy was revealed openly very few would take these steps
toward their OWN destruction. If we could see Satan for one
moment we would die of fright immediately (Diary of St. Faustina, no.
741). Thus the deadly poison of Satan must be hidden and
sugar-coated. How important it is to open our eyes not only with
prayer but also with diligent study to strip off this sugar-coating
so as not to be poisoned now and for all eternity.
“The Pope, has been so ignored, disobeyed and
despised in the last 50 years not only by the left side of the
spectrum (ignore or disobey) but also by the right side of the
spectrum (prideful rebellion). I think that this vacancy (while
a “Judas” (Iscariot) will be in control of the Vatican)
will be a great just punishment not only for the whole Church but for
the whole world. The world which is intrinsically connected with all
of creation, goes forward or backward depending on the behavior and
choices of those who have received much more graces and
responsibility from God in this “cosmic battle” (as Pope John
Paul II put it), the lay Catholics, the priests and the bishops of
the One True Church, the Catholic Church! Pope Paul VI was so
devastated by the reaction to Humanae Vitae that he said, referring
to the situation in the Church, “FROM SOME CREVICE, THE SMOKE OF
SATAN HAS ENTERED THE TEMPLE OF GOD”
(June 29, 1972); Pope Paul VI did not write another encyclical after
Humanae Vitae (1968)!
2. The power of the demons will be greater than
usual, the immaculate purity of our religious community and of
others, will withered to the point that very
few Christians will want to obey the true Sovereign Pontiff and the
Roman Church with a sincere heart and
perfect charity. At the decisive moment of this crisis, a
personage not canonically elected,
raised to the Pontificate, will
endeavor to administer shrewdly to many the mortal poison of his
error.
7. Some preachers will keep silent about the truth
and, denying the truth, they will trample upon the truth. The
sanctity of life will be held in derision by those who only profess
it outwardly, and for this reason Our
Lord Jesus Christ will send them not a worthy Pastor, but a
destroyer.”
It is understandable for good Catholics to have
a very difficult time considering the
possibility that God allowed a false pope to take over the Vatican.
This has never happened in the history of the Church. Did not Christ
tell us that “the gates of hell would not prevail” (Mt 16:18)? So
many times in the messages of Our Lady to Don Stefano Gobbi we are
told to obey the Pope! But as indicated by the prophecy of Saint
Francis of Assisi, WE DESERVE what the
great majority of the Catholics want, a Pastor who will take away
these outdated restrictions called the “Ten Commandments” and
finally liberate us from these scruples of sin!
The
great majority will welcome this false prophet who will finally
update the church with the sexual revolution, total freedom, which we
believe will not lead to our destruction. Most people today only
care about today as if tomorrow and eternity do not exist. No more
responsibility for tomorrow or for the consequences for our actions
on others! “Ignorance is bliss!” Some sincerely concerned people
say it is wrong to consider the possibility of a false pope, to keep
our eyes open. But when this false pope arrives, this false pope will
lead a great number of people away from God and even to the point of
adoring the first beast, the antichrist. “Then I saw another beast
which rose out of the earth; it had two horns like a lamb and I spoke
like a dragon. It exercises all the authority of the first beast in
its presence, and makes the earth and its inhabitants worship the
first beast, whose mortal wound was healed…” (Rev 13:11-12). But
we must always remember that even though the word “beast” is used
in this passage, “Satan disguises himself as an angel of light”
(2Cor 11:14)!
“When God wants to chastise humanity, He does
not give to the Church the Pope of which it needs, but
leaves to the Church the Pope that it merits”
(Archbishop Fulton Sheen).
Normally those who have authority are supposed
to do their job and take care of us.
After years of great rebellion against God’s lawful authority, the
Magisterium of the Church, God has given us what we want. It is
interesting that even thieves rely on authority because if just about
everyone becomes thieves, and then everything collapses, there will
no longer be money and property to steal from those who have worked
to produce these good. Now the Truth which was handed on to us by the
sweat and sufferings of our ancestors has been thrown out and we no
longer even have a Pope who is ready to give his life for the sheep,
in fact, he is the Wolf dressed “like a lamb” (Rev 13:11)! Now
the Truth which truly will make us free (Jn
8:32; Jer 6:16) has to be rediscovered, not
in the sense that the Truth is not already proclaimed at least in
writing, but we must go back and find and read those truths expressed
in the ages of the Body of Christ, the Church. Now this job will not
be done by those who have the greater vocation at the top, but by
those with the lesser vocation who have superiors who have abandoned
the Truth which truly sets us free (Jn 8:32). The controllers of the
mass media have taken away the public voice of the few good bishops
who have not abandoned the immutable Truth! We
must be very docile in the hands of the Queen of heaven and earth who
will prepare the world for the second coming of her divine Son
and crush the head of the serpent (Gen 3:15) (“True
Devotion To Mary”;
http://www.montfort.org/content/uploads/pdf/PDF_EN_26_1.pdf).
We have been led into trusting much more our feelings and sentiments
instead of the objective Truth explained to us by the Church for 2000
years. As said earlier, the main strategy of Satan is to sow
confusion and to hide the Truth, Who is Christ. Even Hitler burned
books and killed professors who might help people discover the
insidious lies of the Third Reich. Now the strategy is to fill the
mass media, including the Internet, with misleading beautiful lies.
SIN HAS ATTACKED THE “HIERARCHY
OF VALUES”. Man wants to be
God. Man’s body revolts against his soul, and the soul capitulates
and rejects the primacy of the spirit. Thus bodily feelings dominate
the mind, and both dominate the spirit. Morality become topsy-turvy,
confused and relativistic. The natural law of God is rejected.
Unnatural relationships become fashionable and claim the same rights
as natural relationships. Divine revelation and law are rejected; our
civilization declines and falls.
We
can no longer trust the supposed Pope, but it will be very
difficult to seek Truth, not in our feelings and sentiments in which
we are habituated, but in the constant teachings of the Church
summarized in the Catechism of the Catholic Church for adults.
Our
Lady revealed to Don Stefano Gobbi:
"In this period of history, Freemasonry,
assisted by the ecclesiastical Freemasonry, will succeed in its great
aim: to construct an idol to be put in the place of Christ and of his
Church. A false christ and a false church. Consequently, the statue
built in honor of the first beast, to be adored by all the
inhabitants of the earth and which will sign with its mark all those
who will want to buy or sell, is that of the Antichrist ... (Rev ch.
13). Almost all will follow the false
christ and the false church . Then it
will be opened the door to the appearance of man or of the person of
the Antichrist!" (June 17, 1989).
“First
of all, it is necessary that my Enemy has the impression of having
conquered everything, of having everything now in his hands. This is
why he will be permitted to penetrate even into the interior of my
Church, and he will succeed in plunging the sanctuary of God into
darkness. He will reap the greatest number of victims from among the
ministers of the sanctuary. THIS WILL IN FACT BE A TIME OF GREAT
FALLS ON THE PART OF MY BELOVED SONS, MY PRIESTS. (October 18, 1975).
On
the other hand, the few priests and bishops who remain faithful to
the Truth, Who is God, will be the principle instruments in the hands
of Our Lady as revealed to Don Stefano Gobbi:
“In fact at the very moment when Satan will be
enthroned as lord of the world and will think himself now the sure
victor, I myself will snatch the prey from his hands. In
a trice he will find himself empty-handed, and in the end the victory
will be exclusively my Son’s and mine.
This will be THE TRIUMPH OF MY IMMACULATE HEART IN THE WORLD. If all
the priests of my Movement only knew with what care they have been
chosen and molded by me to prepare them for this great task! Every
detail of their life – even the most insignificant – has a
precise and profound meaning. Therefore let each one become
accustomed to read with me in the stupendous book of their own
existence. I will give them the gift of wisdom of heart, and they
will understand with me the reason for all that concerns them: the
reason for much of their lack of understanding, the reason for their
sufferings, the reason for those times when they were abandoned, and
even the reason for their falls. Oh, how many moments of darkness and
of agony they must have had to experience in their lives, these
beloved sons of mine! … I HAVE NEED OF YOU AND OF YOUR PRAYER TO
REALIZE THE GREAT PLAN OF THE TRIUMPH OF MY IMMACULATE HEART”
(December 19, 1973).
“Behold: when everything will have come tumbling
down, all that will remain will be the strength of their tears that
will compel me to intervene in an amazing and terrible way. AND
MY TRIUMPH WILL BEGIN WITH THESE BELOVED SONS, MY PRIESTS
“ (February 23, 1974).
I do not think it was by chance that God
revealed these prophecies in detail about the false pope to Saint
“FRANCIS” of Assisi. Saint Francis
of Assisi offered us a Christian ecology, a true environmentalism,
not a false ecology, not a false environmentalism (Laudato Si). Saint
Francis offered us a Christian ecumenism in loving all while
respecting the beliefs and free will of each person and of each
religious group, but Saint Francis, as all the true saints maintained
his own belief in the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church
founded by Jesus Christ; not everyone has received the grace to
realize that the Catholic Church is the One true Church. The saints
had true love, with the proper priorities - first God, Who is the
Truth, and then neighbor. The saints did not offer this false love
and false mercy and false ecumenism, which results in reductionism to
the lowest common denominator, forfeiting our most precious means of
sanctification and the fullness of truth, as Catholics.
“The Truth will make you free” (Jn 8:32),
but it must be the Truth of God, not
the false “truth” offered to us by the very numerous puppets of
Satan. The Catechism of the Catholic Church for adults, published in
1992, was a great gift to the Church, for those who are willing to
take the risk to seek the uncomfortable truth and to change their
lives accordingly. There is always hope
as long as we are alive on this earth,
if we are willing to return like the prodigal’s son and say:
“Father I have sinned against heaven and before you; I am no longer
worthy to be called your son” (Lk 15:21). And then with diligent
prayer to persevere in seeking and doing God’s holy will, not ours
or that of the world or of the devil.
Truly what Saint Paul and the prophet Daniel prophesied many years
ago are for us today:
"God shall send
them strong delusion, that they should
believe a lie: that they all might be damned who believed not the
truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness." (2Thess 2:11-12).
“I heard, but I did not understand. Then I said,
“O my lord, what shall be the issue of these things?” He said,
“Go your way, Daniel, for the words are shut up and sealed until
the time of the end. Many shall purify themselves, and make
themselves white, and be refined; but the wicked shall do wickedly;
and none of the wicked shall understand;
but those who are wise shall understand” (Dan 12:8-10).
Dear friends, it is not secret that we are living
in extraordinary and very difficult times. The first beast of the
Book of Revelations will be a political leader as the head of the New
World Order. The second beast will be a
religious leader as the head of the One World Religion,
to eventually lead people to adore the first beast (Rev ch. 13).
What was the real reason and goal and
perpetrators of September 11, 2001?
What were the real effects or fruits of 9-11? After 9-11 why are USA
military police doing joint drills with Russian and Chinese military
police? From where did Isis, all of a
sudden, spring up in Europe with so much money, technology and
weapons
(http://bibliotecaneval2.altervista.org/califfato-e-anticristo/;
http://www.ilgiornale.it/news/mondo/petrolio-trovati-i-documenti-che-provano-legami-turchia-isis-1239631.html)?!?
On April 14, 2016, I went to Collevalenza (Italy), Sanctuary of
Merciful Love (Madre Speranza); for the first time ever, all the
exterior doors and gates were locked and closed and there was a
military policeman in front of the sanctuary with a machine gun! Is
this extra security in the USA and in Europe, with a buildup of
troops all over, for the security of the citizens or to prepare for
the New World Order? I said to this young Italian soldier at
Collevalenza that Hitler was easily able to brainwash the youth to do
what Hitler wanted; now the techniques of controlling the world
situation, instigating terrorism, brainwashing the masses and
manipulating the youth and the peoples is even more advanced to
arrive to the New World Order, which
will be far worse than the dictatorship of Hitler at a global level
with all the technology of today to render the enter world one big
prison camp!
Put
into Google: Foreign Troops On Us Soil
And
see what you come up with!?!?!
What is the real cause and motive of the
immigration into Europe and into USA, “of Biblical proportions”?
A
recent document in Italian (August 24, 2015) lists the future
objectives of the Freemasonry in Italy. I am sure these objectives
are very similar for other countries around the world:
“Increase
havoc with revolutions, false flag terrorism and wars (their motto:
Ordo ab Chao!) (a Latin expression meaning Order out of Chaos; a
motto of the Thirty-third Degree Freemason).
Pass
the law “Ius Soli” (easier to obtain Italian citizenship) and
allow immigrants to vote (increase uncontrolled immigration: Kalergi
plan).
Closure
of CIE (Internment Centers for Foreigners) and total opening of the
borders.
End
of the concept of national citizenship and transition to the concept
of apolidism (statelessness, stateless people).”
Why are Obama and “Pope Francis” promoting
“UNCONTROLLED immigration”?
Does Obama really love his neighbor and thus is really concerned for
the well-being of the immigrants. Why has all of a sudden immigration
began on biblical proportions; who or what group has caused this and
is financing the causes of this immigration on biblical proportions
both into the USA and into Europe?!?
Why is there silence, even among politicians,
about the harm that is being done to people due to the chemtrals
that are being sprayed on us from jet planes all over the world? Are
we already totally under the New World Order, but we have not been
told yet?!? Are we so absorbed with the TV, and the Ipod, and the
Ipad, and sex outside of marriage that we no longer care and we no
longer have the moral strength to react? Where
are the real men, inspired by their wives who pray,
ready to sacrifice themselves for their families and for the society
in which their families lives in?
Not only Our Lady of Good Success (Quito, Ecuador,
on January 20, 1610) warned us that the
Sacrament of Matrimony “will be attacked and deeply profaned” in
our century, but also Sister Lucia of
Fatima revealed to Cardinal Caffarra: “Final
Confrontation between the Lord and Satan will be over Family and
Marriage”.
“Fr. Gerald E. Murray was referring to what
Cardinal Caffarra said in an interview
(March 2014); one of the questions in this interview was the
following question:
“The possibility of allowing the divorced and
remarried to receive communion is spoken about. One of Cardinal
Kasper’s suggestions was that they should undergo a period of
penance that would bring them into a full readmission to Communion.
Is this now an inevitable necessity, or is it the accommodation of
Christian teaching to contemporary circumstances?”
Cardinal
Caffarra’s answer:
“Those who make these suggestions have
NOT, at least up until now, answered one simple question:
what happens to the first valid and
consummated marriage? If the Church
admits them to the Eucharist, she must render a judgment on the
legitimacy of the second marriage. It’s logical. But, as I said,
what about the first marriage? The second marriage, if we can call it
that, cannot be a true second marriage because bigamy is against the
teaching of Christ. So the first marriage, is it dissolved? But
all the popes have always taught that the Pope has no authority over
this. The
Pope does not have the power to dissolve a valid and consummated
marriage. The proposed solution seems
to imply that although the first marriage continues, the Church can
somehow legitimate a second relationship. But
in doing this, the proposal demolishes the foundations of the
Church’s teaching on sexuality. At
this point we have to ask: why, then, can we not approve of unmarried
couples living together? Or why not homosexual unions? The
question is simple: what
about the first marriage? No one has yet answered that question.
In 2000, John Paul II speaking to the Roman Rota said: “It is clear
that the Roman Pontiff’s power does not extend to valid and
consummated marriages and this is taught by the Magisterium of the
Church as a doctrine to be definitively held even if it has not been
solemnly declared through a definitive act.” It is a technical
formula, “a doctrine to be
definitively held”, and it means that
on this point there is no further discussion to be had among
theologians nor doubts among the faithful.”
This
is not a new strategy of Satan!
“The sons of GOD saw that the daughters of MEN
were fair; and they took to wife such of them as they chose… When
the sons of God came in to the daughters of men, and they bore
children to them… The Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great
in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart
was only evil continually… So the Lord said, “I will blot out man
whom I have created from the face of the ground… But Noah found
favor in the eyes of the Lord…” (Gen 6:1-8).
IN THE FINAL MESSAGE OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN,
OCTOBER 13, 1973, ON THE ANNIVERSARY OF THE LAST APPARITION AND OF
THE MIRACLE OF FATIMA, AT AKITA, JAPAN, SHE SAID TO SISTER AGNES
SASAGAWA: “As I told you, if men do not
repent and better themselves, the Father will inflict a terrible
punishment on all humanity. It will be a
punishment greater than the DELUGE,
such as one will never have seen before. Fire will fall from the sky
and will wipe out a great part of humanity, the good as well as the
bad, sparing neither priests nor faithful. The survivors will find
themselves so desolate that they will envy the dead. The only arms
that will remain for you will be the Rosary and Sign left by My Son.
Each day recite the prayers of the Rosary. WITH THE ROSARY, PRAY FOR
THE POPE, THE BISHOPS, AND THE PRIESTS. 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 and the demon will press many priests and consecrated
souls to leave the service of the Lord. The demon will be especially
implacable against souls consecrated to God. The thought of the loss
of so many souls is the cause of My sadness. If sins increase in
number and gravity, there will be no longer pardon for them.”
(http://www.miraclerosarymission.org/akita.htm).
“Thus each day the number of my poor children
who allow themselves to be seduced by unbridled egoism, envy and
impurity grows greater and greater. The easiest victims, and those
who are less guilty, are the young people whose unhappy lot it is to
be living at this time when the world has become worse than at the
time of the flood” (August 13, 1982).
“In this world, which has become worse than
at the time of the flood, you are truly running the danger of being
lost, along the wicked roads of sin and infidelity, in this life, and
the threat of perdition for all eternity, in the next”
(October 13, 1982).
“At the time of Noah, immediately before the
flood, those whom the Lord had destined to survive his terrible
chastisement entered into the
Ark. In these your times, I am
inviting al. my beloved children to enter into
the Ark of the New Covenant which I have built in my IMMACULATE HEART
for you, that they may be assisted by me to carry the bloody burden
of the great trial, which precedes the coming of the day of the Lord.
Do not look anywhere else. There is happening today what happened in
the days of the flood, and no one is giving a thought to what is
awaiting them. Everyone is much occupied in thinking only of
themselves, of their own earthly interests, of pleasures and of
satisfying in every sort of way, their own disordinate passions”
(July 30, 1986).
“It is a chastisement much great than that of
the flood. Fire will fall from heaven, and a great part of humanity
will be destroyed” (September 6,
1986).
“I have wanted you here, to tell you that you
must now all enter right away
into the safe refuge of my Immaculate Heart.
Just as Noah, in the name of the Lord, called into the ark those who
were to be saved from the flood, so now must you, my littlest child,
in the name of your heavenly Mother, call into
the REFUGE of my IMMACULATE HEART those
who must be protected, defended and saved from the great trial which
has now come for the Church and for all humanity”
(March 15, 1993).
“During these years, you will see the great
chastisement, with which the justice of God will purify this world,
which has become a thousand times
worse than at the time of the flood
and so very possessed by evil spirits”
(December 8, 1993).
Why are there so many very strange whether
situations all over the world,
especially after the election of “Pope Francis”, that the
scientists are unable to explain (“Signs
Of Change The Past Week Or So April 2013 Part 3 – YouTube”; Signs
Of Change The Past Week Or So May 2013 Part 1 – YouTube”; Signs
Of Change The Past Week Or So June 2013 Part 2 – YouTube”; “Signs
Of Change July 2013 Part 1 – YouTube”; etc.)??? I do not think it
was by chance that a lightning bolt struck the dome of Saint Peter’s
Basilica on the day of the resignation of Pope Benedict!!!
The Catechism of the Catholic Church tells us (CCC
675): “Before Christ's second coming the
Church must pass through a final trial that will shake the faith of
many believers (Cf. Lk 18:8; Mt 24:12).
The persecution that accompanies her pilgrimage on earth (Cf. Lk
21:12; Jn 15:19-20) will unveil the “mystery of iniquity” in the
form of a religious deception offering men an apparent solution to
their problems at the price of apostasy from the truth. The supreme
religious deception is that of the Antichrist, a pseudo-messianism by
which man glorifies himself in place of God and of his Messiah come
in the flesh.” (Cf. 2Thess 2:4-12; 1Thess
5:2-3; 2Jn 7; 1Jn 2:18,22).
Before
the second coming of Jesus Christ “that day will not come, unless
THE REBELLION (APOSTASY) COMES FIRST, and the man of lawlessness is
revealed, the son of perdition, who opposes and exalts himself
against every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes
his seat in the temple of God, proclaiming himself to be God”
(2Thess 2:3-4).
Prayers
and grace are never wasted. If many do not want to persevere in
this “dour combat” (CCC 409), those graces offered to them will
go to others who are willing to persevere and to suffer even more
with Christ crucified in his Body, the Church, in these times. St.
Louis de Montfort in his classic book, “True Devotion to the
Blessed Virgin”, wrote:
“I said that this will happen especially towards
the end of the world, and indeed soon, because Almighty God and his
holy Mother are to raise up great saints
who will surpass in holiness most other saints as much as the cedars
of Lebanon tower above little shrubs”
(No. 47).
The beast “opened
its mouth to utter blasphemies against God, Blaspheming his name and
his dwelling, that is, those who dwell in heaven. Also
it was allowed to make war on the saints and to conquer them…
If any one is to be taken captive, to captivity he goes; if any one
slays with the sword, with the sword must he be slain. Here
is a call for the endurance and faith of the saints”
(Rev 13:6-7,10).
“Then one of the elders addressed me, saying,
"Who are these, clothed in white robes, and whence have they
come?" I said to him, "Sir, you know." And he said to
me, "These are they who have come
out of the great tribulation; they have
washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.”
(Rev 7:13-14; 22:14)!
In the final message of the Blessed Virgin,
October 13, 1973, on the anniversary of the last apparition and of
the miracle of Fatima, at Akita, Japan, she said to Sister Agnes
Sasagawa: “As I told you, if men do
not repent and better themselves, the Father will inflict a terrible
punishment on all humanity. It
will be punishment greater than the deluge,
such as one will never have seen before...”
(http://www.miraclerosarymission.org/akita.htm).
As our beloved Pope John Paul II said many times
to us: “Do not be afraid”!
But we must take refuge in the
Immaculate Heart of Mary, THE NEW ARK OF GOD,
just as Noah took refuge in the Ark in the great deluge!
Just as Christ was crucified and buried 2000 years
ago, so too His Body, the Church, will
be crucified and buried in this period of the “great tribulation”
(Mt 24:21). Only after this, when it seems that the Church is totally
dead and buried, when Satan and his very numerous followers seem to
have total victory, then the “Woman clothed with the sun” (Rev
12:1) will crush the head of the “great red dragon” (Rev 12:3),
the ancient serpent (Gen 3:15), and the
Immaculate Heart of Mary will triumph
(Fatima, 1917) and there will be the Resurrection of Jesus with His
Body, the purified Church!
The last part of the homily of Pope Benedict XVI;
Esplanade of the Shrine of Our Lady of
Fátima; before 500,000 people: 13 May 2010:
“We would be mistaken to think that Fatima’s
prophetic mission is complete. … may the seven years which separate
us from the centenary of the apparitions hasten the fulfilment of the
prophecy of the triumph of the
Immaculate Heart of Mary, to the glory
of the Most Holy Trinity.”
The centenary of the anniversary of the great miracle of the sun,
October 13, 1917 at Fatima, Portugal, will be October 13, 2017!
Let us make a good confession and changer our lives, with much prayer
and sacrifices and good will, while the door of Mercy is still open.
Jesus to Saint Faustina: “BEFORE
I COME AS A JUST JUDGE, I first open
wide the door of My mercy. He who refuses to pass through the door of
My mercy must pass through the door of My justice” (Diary, 1146).
Jesus said to Saint Faustina (of the Divine
Mercy): “YOU WILL PREPARE THE WORLD
FOR MY FINAL COMING” (Diary of Saint
Faustina, 429).
Father
Joseph Dwight
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Appendix:
(In
many cases, I translated only the titles of the articles in Italian
into English)
LA
REPUBBLICA – SPOKESMAN OF THE MESSAGES OF “POPE FRANCIS” TO THE
WORLD
“La
Repubblica” (April 8, 2016)
The
title of this article is:
“Synod,
the decision of Pope Francis: communion possible for the divorced and
remarried”.
Some
quotes from the article:
LA
REPUBBLICA: “Bergoglio invites all to evaluate case by case and
asks for “self-criticism” for the rigidity of the past. He
underlines that it is no longer a mortal sin to live in “irregular”
situations.”
La Repubblica: “Bergoglio invita a valutare caso per caso e chiede
"autocritica" per le rigidità del passato. Sottolinea che
non è più peccato mortale vivere situazioni "irregolari".”
MY COMMENTS: Thus is
Christ a rigorist as “Pope Francis”
wants to accuse all the priests who help to identify and cure the
mortal sickness of the soul called mortal sin according to God???
“Pius XII: those who accuse the Church and her
moral teaching of rigidity, ACCUSE IN
REALITY JESUS CHRIST!”
Radio
Message of His Holiness Pius XII on the Occasion of the “Day of the
Family”, March 23, 1952.
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LA
REPUBBLICA: “The door of admittance to the sacraments for those who
live in “irregular” familiar situations, including the divorced
and remarried, is opened.”
La Repubblica: “La porta d'accesso ai sacramenti per chi vive
situazioni familiari "irregolari", compresi i divorziati
risposati, si è aperta.”
MY COMMENTS: “What therefore God has joined
together, let no man put asunder” (Mt 19:6; Mk 10:9). Even
Jesus’ disciples at the beginning of their walk with Jesus talked
like many leaders of the “dying local churches in Europe” today.
“If such is the case of a man with his wife, it is not expedient to
marry” (Mt 19:10). A true pope would say to Kasper, in whose
country (Germany), where there is very little participation in the
life of the Catholic Church, perhaps in a more polite way (as did
Pope John Paul II: “Familiaris Consortio”; as did Cardinal
Ratzinger: see “Who Decides the Truth”
(http://spir-food.blogspot.it/2014/06/who-decides-truth.html):
“Get behind me, Satan! You are a hindrance to me; for you are not
on the side of God, but of men” (Mt 16:23)!
“La Morente Chiesa Belga E' Stata il Laboratorio Europeo del
Bergoglismo. Allo Stesso Modo di Danneels (Suo Grande Amico)
Bergoglio Sta Portando La Chiesa Intera al Fallimento Come Quella
Belga”
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LA REPUBBLICA: “He underlines citing in his
support Saint Thomas Aquinas, “the more we descend to matters of
detail, the more frequently we encounter defects” (Amoris
Laetitia, no. 304).
La Repubblica: “Sottolinea citando a suo sostegno san Tommaso
d'Aquino, "quanto più si scende nelle cose particolari, tanto
più si trova indeterminazione".” (Amoris
Laetitia, no. 304)
MY COMMENTS: This
phrase of St. Thomas is taken out of context;
in no way was St. Thomas writing this phrase to indicate that we do
not have to go into detail to seek the will of God according to the
very words of Jesus Christ explained by the teachings of His Church!
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LA
REPUBBLICA: “But one is dealing with a conclusion which makes happy
above all those who are pushing for an opening”; that is a change
in the teachings of the Church!
La Repubblica: “Si tratta però di una conclusione che fa felici
soprattutto coloro che spingevano per un'apertura.”
MY COMMENTS: Hurrah for all those who cry out: “At
last we are free from this tyrannical God Who does not exist!
I
remember reading a comment of a homosexual atheist who did not
understand why other homosexuals are concerned what the Catholic
Church teaches. This homosexual atheist is right, if one could care
less what God wants, which this atheist does not even believe exists.
“One is dealing with a conclusion which makes happy above all those
who are pushing for an opening”; if one could care less about God’s
will, why is there such a concern about what the Catholic Church
teaches about God’s will? What is the underlying strategy of “the
father of lies” and what is the principle goal and target in all of
this confusion?!?
The
attendance at Mass in Germany is pathetic!
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LA
REPUBBLICA: “He cites paragraph no. 86 (of the final draft of the
most recent synod), although much contested, in which the judgment is
to referred to the priests in the “internal forum”, that is in
the confessional.”
La Repubblica: “Cita il paragrafo 86 (della relazione finale del
sinodo più recente), pure molto contestato, nel quale si rimanda il
giudizio ai sacerdoti nel "foro interno", cioè nel
confessionale.”
MY COMMENTS: But this
ignores outright the very words of Christ:
“What therefore God has joined together,
let no man put asunder” (Mt 19:6). How can a priest in the
confessional establish if the first marriage was valid or not
according to God, according to the presence or lack of the necessary
requirements of a valid marriage, joined together by God, at the
moment of the first marriage?!?
We are not dealing here with the sincerity or
the repentance of a person, but to live the words of Christ!
A priest or a bishop or a pope cannot “put asunder” “what God
has joined”! It is not a mortal sin to suffer with Christ after
being abandoned or treated very badly by a former spouse. Christ was
abandoned and treated worse than any of us; His
suffering was far greater because He loved far greater and thus the
betrayal of His love was far more painful!!!
The saints who corresponded with the grace of God, and thus became
truly in love with Christ, and not with themselves, discovered:
“SUFFERING IS THE GREATEST TREASURE ON
EARTH” (Diary of St. Faustina,
no. 342).
“Would that mortal men might know how
wonderful is divine grace, how
beautiful , how precious; what riches are hidden therein, what
treasures, what joys, what delights. If
they but knew, surely they would direct their energy with all care
and diligence to procuring sufferings and afflictions for themselves.
Instead of good fortune all men everywhere would seek out troubles,
illness and suffering that they might obtain the inestimable treasure
of grace. This is the final profit to be gained from patient
endurance. No one would complain about the cross or about hardships
coming seemingly by chance upon him, if he realized in what balance
they are weighed before being distributed to men” (St. Rose of
Lima; August 23; Breviary).
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LA REPUBBLICA: “The consequences or effects of a
rule need not necessarily always be the same” (Amoris
Laetitia, no. 300) and “this is also
the case with regard to sacramental discipline”. It is underscored
in fact that “it is no longer possible to say that all those in any
“irregular” situation are living in a state of mortal sin”,
because “the Church possesses a solid body of reflection concerning
mitigating factors and situations.” (Amoris
Laetitia, no. 301). Thus there is no
impediment to the readmission to the sacraments.”
La Repubblica: "Le conseguenze o gli effetti di una norma non
necessariamente devono essere sempre gli stessi" (Amoris
Laetitia, no. 300) e questo "nemmeno per quanto riguarda la
disciplina sacramentale". Si sottolinea addirittura che "non
è più possibile dire che tutti coloro che si trovano in qualche
situazione cosiddetta irregolare vivano in stato di peccato mortale",
perché "la Chiesa possiede una solida riflessione circa i
condizionamenti e le circostanze attenuanti” (Amoris Laetitia,
no. 301). Nessun impedimento, quindi, alla
riammissione ai sacramenti.”
MY COMMENTS: This is
saying that we NO LONGER NEED to consider moral laws of God as
objective laws (subjectivism!), and
there is no need to try to conform our lives according to the laws of
God. The Church has always taught: “Imputability and responsibility
for an action can be diminished or even nullified by ignorance,
inadvertence, duress, fear, habit, inordinate attachments, and other
psychological or social factors” (CCC 1735).
But the Catholic Church has also always taught (of
which “Pope Francis” does NOT
talk about even though there is more confusion and relativism in the
world and Church than ever before!): “CONSCIENCE
MUST BE INFORMED AND MORAL JUDGMENT
ENLIGHTENED. A well-formed conscience is upright and truthful. It
formulates its judgments according to reason, in conformity with the
true good willed by the wisdom of the Creator. The education of
conscience is indispensable for human beings who are subjected to
negative influences and tempted by sin to prefer their own judgment
and to reject authoritative teachings” (CCC 1783).
These phrases from Amoris
Laetitia is making the exeption
the rule. This is taking particular
situations and applying these particular situations to all cases and
all situations. This is very similar to “no fault divorce” which
makes it very easy to leave your spouse for any reason, so that we no
longer have to suffer with Christ in our God-given vocations. This
is again helping us to go down the slippery slope away from Calvary,
with the cross o Christ, and toward the wide and the way: “Enter by
the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the way is easy, that leads
to destruction, and those who enter by it are many. 14 For the gate
is narrow and the way is hard, that leads to life, and those who find
it are few” (Mt 7:13-14)!
THE ABSOLUTE TRUTH DOES EXIST! “Conscience
can remain in ignorance or make erroneous judgments. Such ignorance
and errors are not always free of guilt” (CCC 1801, 1713, 1714).
“No one is deemed to be ignorant of the principles of the moral
law, which are written in the conscience of every man” (CCC 1860).
(“The Hidden Broad Road to Perdition”;
http://spir-food.blogspot.it/2015/05/road-perdition.html).
“Do not be deceived; GOD
IS NOT MOCKED, for whatever a man sows,
that he will also reap. For he who sows to his own flesh will from
the flesh reap corruption; but he who sows to the Spirit will from
the Spirit reap eternal life” (Gal 6:7-8)!
This is the fundamental deception of “the father
of lies” today, that “ignorance is bliss”, and therefore I have
no obligation to “inform my conscience” according to God, who
gave us a Church to guide us for our true good! What would we think
of a nurse who sees two medicines on the table but does not know
which one to give to a particular patient, but says to herself, “I
am a nice person, so I will not try to discover which medicine I
should give to this patient”?!? She
gives the wrong one and the patient dies!
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LA
REPUBBLICA: “Bergoglio underscores in fact that “the way of the
Church is that of not condemning anyone”.”
La Repubblica: “Bergoglio sottolinea infatti che "la strada
della Chiesa è quella di non condannare nessuno".”
MY COMMENTS: But the Church has always taught
this; again “Pope Francis” does not
make the distinction between the subjective and objective.
Just as the gay
activists do not make this distinction
and thus accuse true Christians of hating homosexuals, because true
Christians hate the act of sin, but love the sinner.
"I have never understood the expression
'nonnegotiable values,'” he said in
his latest interview. And in a book, his closest collaborator
explains why Pope Francis is carefully avoiding a head-on collision
with the dominant culture” (ROME, March 10, 2014;
http://chiesa.espresso.repubblica.it/articolo/1350737?eng=y).
A
pope who says he does not understand the constant teaching of the
Catholic Church!?!?!
For
“Pope Francis”, and so many priests and bishops today, there are
no more inherently sinful acts, intrinsic evils, contrary to the
words of Christ explained by the Catholic Church for 2000 years!
This picking away at non-negotiables,
which are intrinsically evil, is the stripping away, piece by piece,
of the flesh of Christ Who is the Truth!
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LA REPUBBLICA: “It is not a full opening to all
couples living together, but the recognition that also in
cohabitation, for example, “respect also can be shown for those
signs of love which in some way reflect God’s own love” (Amoris
Laetitia, no. 294), and that all these
situations “require a constructive response” (Amoris
Laetitia, no. 294) according to the
spirit of the “Church hospital”, dear to the pontiff.”
La Repubblica: “Non è un'apertura piena alle unioni di fatto, ma
il riconoscimento che anche nelle convivenze, ad esempio, "potranno
essere valorizzati quei segni d'amore che riflettono l'amore di Dio"
(Amoris Laetitia, no. 294), e che queste situazioni vanno
"affrontate in maniera costruttiva" (Amoris Laetitia,
no. 294), secondo lo spirito della "Chiesa ospedale" caro
al pontefice.”
MY COMMENTS: As Fr. Larry Richards says often:
“Yes, God meets you where you are, but
God loves you too much to leave you where you are”!
“Pope Francis” continues to call for mercy, but he never finishes
the complete message of Christ for the good of each person: “Go and
sin no more”! The message that the world at large is taking from
the message of “Pope Francis” is that we can now remain in the
“near occasion of sin” which is what we promise not to do in the
“Act of Contrition”! Even the Atheist Communist Marxist Dictator
Raúl Castro said: “If the Pope continues to speak like this,… I
will return to the Catholic Church ...” (“Letter to fellow
Priests”;
http://spir-food.blogspot.it/2014/12/letter-to-fellow-priests.html).
The world, like Raul Castro, interprets
this nice “Church hospital” of taking everyone in, as if there is
no longer any obligation to conform our lives to the Ten
Commandments. In my opinion, this
interpretation throughout the world, promoted by the mass media, is
not by chance but well calculated and orchestrated!!! This means that
there is no longer any need to offer the help to heal the sicknesses
of the soul (eternal), but only of the body (temporal); this is
misguided compassion which does great harm in making people feel all
is OK while ignoring the state of their immortal souls, which is much
more important than their physical bodies!
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LA REPUBBLICA: “It is useless to pretend to
impose rules with the force of authority” (Amoris
Laetitia, no. 35)
La Repubblica: "Non serve pretendere di imporre norme con la
forza dell'autorità" (Amoris Laetitia, no. 35)
MY COMMENTS: It is
useless for God to impose Ten Commandments;
according to this line of reason, God should have offered us the Ten
Suggestions, and should have never given mankind any commandments
with the force of divine authority! After all according to the very
numerous relativists today, each human being, in his subjective
reasoning, is infallible!!! This statement of “Pope Francis” is
really saying that all people with authority, given by God, such as
parents, priests and bishops, are imposing norms when they proclaim
the saving laws of God. It is clear in Sacred Scriptures, explained
by the teachings of the Church, that parents, priests and bishops
must proclaim the saving laws of God, and will be judged accordingly
if they have done this essential work or not. The pastors of souls
must protect the sheep from the very intelligent and sly wolf who
offers beautiful hidden lies and deceptions to destroy the sheep. Are
the Ten Commandments for our good or for our evil? As John Paul II
said: “God always invites, He never demands”. God does not force
anyone to be with the Truth (Who is God) here on earth nor after
death for all eternity. I could imagine
such a statement from the mouth of a spoiled arrogant child, a
product of the schools and mass media today, but from the mouth of a
supposed Vicar of Christ?!?
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LA
REPUBBLICA: “And still more: “We have also proposed a far too
abstract and almost artificial theological ideal of marriage, far
removed from the concrete situations” and this, he writes, “has
not helped to make marriage more desirable and attractive, but quite
the opposite”.”
La Repubblica: “E ancora: "Abbiamo presentato un ideale
teologico del matrimonio troppo astratto, quasi artificiosamente
costruito, lontano dalla situazione concreta" e questo, scrive,
"non ha fatto sì che il matrimonio sia più desiderabile e
attraente ma tutto il contrario".”
MY COMMENTS: Are the
words of Christ “too abstract” or too difficult?
Since the invention of “the pill” and the great rebellion against
the encyclical “Humanae Vitae”, it is true that the concrete
situation has become very difficult. Is
it the disobedience to God’s holy laws or is it God’s laws
explained by the Church that have “not helped to make marriage more
desirable and attractive”? “Woe to
those who call evil good and good evil” (Is 5:20). Is the solution
to lower the bar, to change the Ten Commandments or to cry out to God
in humility and repentance and ask God’s help as all the saints did
in the past? Is the solution to just give up and throw out all true
Christian ideals and God’s laws which today seem impossible, so as
to follow the broad way to hell (Mt 7:13).
“ONE DAY, I SAW TWO ROADS.
One was broad, covered with sand and flowers, full of joy, music and
all sorts of pleasures. People walked along it, dancing and enjoying
themselves. They reached the end without realizing it. And at the end
of the road there was a horrible precipice; that is, the abyss of
hell. The souls fell blindly into it; as they walked, so they fell.
And their number was so great that it was impossible to count them.
And I saw the other road, or rather, a path, for it was narrow and
strewn with thorns and rocks; and the people who walked along it had
tears in their eyes, and all kinds of suffering befell them. Some
fell down upon the rocks, but stood up immediately and went on. At
the end of the road there was a magnificent garden filled with all
sorts of happiness, and all these souls entered there. At the very
first instant they forgot all their sufferings.” (Diary of St.
Faustina, no. 153)
“With men it is impossible, but not with God;
for all things are possible with God” (Mt 19:26; Mk 10:23-27; Lk
18:27).
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LA REPUBBLICA: “Even while reasserting the
concept that led Francesco in a press conference to affirm that we
are not dealing with having children “like rabbits”. Large
families are a joy for the Church, writes the Pope, even thought this
“does not mean to forget a healthy warning of Saint John Paul II”,
according to which “responsible paternity is not an unlimited
procreation or lack of awareness” but rather “the empowerment of
couples to use their inviolable liberty wisely and responsibly,
taking into account social and demographic realities, as well as
their own situation and legitimate desires” (Letter
to the Secretary General of the United Nations Organization on
Population and Development (18 March
1994): Insegnamenti XVII/1
(1994), 750-751).
La Repubblica: “Pur ribadendo il concetto che portò Francesco in
una conferenza stampa ad affermare che non si tratta di fare figli
"come conigli": Anticoncezionali: Le famiglie numerose sono
una gioia per la Chiesa", scrive il Papa, anche se questo "non
implica dimenticare una sana avvertenza di san Giovanni Paolo II",
secondo il quale "la paternità responsabile non è procreazione
illimitata o mancanza di consapevolezza" ma piuttosto "la
possibilità data alle coppie di utilizzare la loro inviolabile
libertà saggiamente e responsabilmente realtà sociali e
demografiche, così come la propria situazione e i legittimi
desideri".
MY COMMENTS: There is no
mention of forming ones conscience
according to the guidance of the Church. Why was there not cited
important parts of the Apostolic Exhortation, Familiaris
Consortio, of Pope John Paul II, or
from the CCC (no. 1783, 1801, 1713, 1714,
1860). Why was this Familiaris Consortio
basically pushed aside at the two synods on the family?
Familiaris
Consortio, 33:
“But it is one and the same Church that is both
Teacher and Mother. And so the Church never ceases to exhort and
encourage all to resolve whatever conjugal difficulties may arise
without ever falsifying or compromising
the truth: she is convinced that there
can be no true contradiction between the divine law on transmitting
life and that on fostering authentic married love. Accordingly, the
concrete pedagogy of the Church must always remain linked with her
doctrine and never be separated from it.
With the same conviction as my predecessor, I therefore repeat: "To
diminish in no way the saving teaching of Christ constitutes an
eminent form of charity for souls." (Pope Paul VI, “Humanae
Vitae”, 29).
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My
transcription of:
WORLD
OVER - 2016-04-14 – POPE FRANCIS’ APOSTOLIC EXHORTATION ON THE
FAMILY WITH RAYMOND ARROYO
FR GERALD MURRAY and ROBERT ROYAL...the Papal
Posse...join us to discuss Pope Francis' recently released Apostolic
Exhortation, AMORIS LAETITIA
(The Joy of Love)
ARROYO
What
is an apostolic exhortation?
ROYAL
(…)
When a pope goes out of his way to express himself and seems to be
contradicting or changing what has been the long standing practice
and doctrine in the Church, the people pay attention.
ARROYO
Is
this a restatement of doctrine; does it seek to change doctrine and
does it do that?
MURRAY
The
ordinary papal magisterium is carried out when the pope teaches
through various ways. And one of which is through Apostolic
Exhortations. So he restates catholic teaching on many different
aspects. The goal is not to change catholic teaching; the papal
magisterium is consistent over history. It’s supposed to bring
forward the same teaching. The question here is has it properly
applied to the pastoral practice of the Church that teaching? And
that’s where I think the problems have arisen here.
ARROYO
Some
gongs were hit here…
ROYAL
We
are in such a brittle, polarized period in the Church, as well as in
the world, that people see things that makes them nervous about
marriage and communion for the divorced and remarried, and they
assume that the entire document is corrupt or unfaithful to the
teaching. There are at least five that I identified, controversial
issues that the pope speaks out very clearly about. He’s not always
clear when he speaks out…
ARROYO
Chapter
8, the difficult part of this document, which has led some to say
this is the age of individual conscience.
ARROYO
(Amoris Laetitia,
no. 3).
“I would make it clear that not all discussions
of doctrinal, moral or pastoral issues need to be settled by
interventions of the Magisterium... 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 enculturated, if it is to
be respected and applied”.
Father
Murray, what do you hear there and what do you think the reception is
there among the German episcopate, for example?
MURRAY
Well
I think that this is a dangerous statement precisely because we
are talking about the universal law of the church regarding the
administration of the sacraments. And to say that enculturation would
mean that in Germany the sacramental discipline would be different
than in the neighboring Poland, or a country in Africa, that’s very
disturbing. The sacraments are not the possession of any culture, so
therefore their regulation is entrusted to the guardians of the
Church, that is the pope, and the bishops. Enculturation is a very
popular theme, because we think that this makes people feel more at
home with their religion. But I say just the opposite. When the
religion is transmitted accurately from the center, then you feel
most at ease.
ROYAL
I
think that there is a true and a false way to enculturate. Obviously
the church in the US needs to speak to Americans as Americans, the
church in France needs to speak French people as French people, and
the church in Africa needs to speak to its people in various ways. We
have this absurd situation, particularly Germany and Poland that
share a common border. And if the Germans were to go ahead in the
direction they have been indicating that they would like to, and the
poles are rock solid orthodox were to remain where the church has
always remained, we have this absurd situation that you can get into
your car and drive from Poland, and in Poland it is a sacrilege to
receive communion, it’s a break with tradition, it’s a slap in
the face of our Lord. You drive across into Germany and suddenly it’s
this new outpouring of mercy and openness to dialogue.
ARROYO
Does
this sort of invite a chaotic response, when you have language that
is as imprecise as some of what is in this exhortation?
MURRAY
There
is a lot of imprecision in the language, speaking as a canon
lawyer and someone who has been studying this topic since I was in
the seminary but in particular in the last year and a half, the
reason why the Catholic Church does not give Holy Communion to people
in invalid second marriages, is because the second marriage involves
acts of adultery. It’s the public nature of the matter. Publically
they swore vows before state officials, and they are living in a
public way (adultery) which is offensive to the teaching or our Lord.
There is no judgment that can be made on the conscience of the person
. But what can be said to the person is that your acts violate the
Lord’s teaching and the Church is not going to contribute to your
further spiritual harm by letting you receive communion or
scandalizing the faithful in thinking that receiving communion when
you are in an invalid second marriage is not a problem. This is very
serious, and this is where I am very very concerned.
ARROYO
(Amoris Laetitia,
no. 298):
“The divorced who have entered a new union, for
example, can find themselves in a variety of situations, which should
not be pigeonholed or fit into overly rigid classifications leaving
no room for a suitable personal and pastoral discernment. One
thing is a second union consolidated over time, with new
children, proven fidelity, generous self giving, Christian
commitment, a consciousness of its irregularity and of the great
difficulty of going back without feeling in conscience that one would
fall into new sins. The Church acknowledges situations “where, for
serious reasons, such as the children’s upbringing, a man and woman
cannot satisfy the obligation to separate”.
What’s
wrong with that?
ROYAL
It’s
a license for everything. This is one of those places where the
Pope is trying to raise our awareness properly that there a lot of
difficult circumstances out there in the world. The question is not
whether can they abandon another spouse and children, the question
is, are they still committing what must be regarded as adulterous
acts in a second marriage. They are not licitly married as we have
always understood it ever since our Lord pronounced the words that
divorcing a woman and causing her to marry another is to commit
adultery. The word adultery does not appear here and it is a word
that our Lord Himself used and that the bishops in the synod sought
to find a way around. They talked about finding language that wasn’t
offensive. So that’s why we see the language about discernment and
accompaniment, and counseling of people. Because there’s a worry
here the Pope has and others have, that it puts people off to use the
words that the Church has always used for these situations.
ARROYO
You
do not see “an occasion of sin”, or “living in sin” anywhere
in the document. The pope is going out of his way to make these
people in irregular situations to feel more regular.
MURRAY
People in a second invalid marriage who find
themselves in this situation. No, they
placed themselves in that situation, and they continue to live in the
situation. Now the church has an
understanding that there are reasons why the couple may not be able
to separate for the good of the children, or to care for a sick
person, a sick partner. But you have to stop the acts of adultery, to
live as brother and sister… Now you can’t say that I cannot stop
committing adultery because I’m going to cause another sin. No. You
stop the adultery and then you do what you can to remedy the other
situation, such as taking care of children from the second union. The
language here kind of deprives people of moral responsibility for
their actions. It more or less says, I’m compelled to do this, I
fell into that, I find myself in this situation. The language of the
Church is you are an acting free agent; you are responsible for your
moral decisions. And decisions which have a public impact are
regulated by canon law precisely because the good of others is at
stake.
ARROYO
(Amoris Laetitia,
no. 308):
“At the same time, from our awareness of the
weight of mitigating circumstances – psychological, historical and
even biological – it follows that “without detracting from the
evangelical ideal, there is a need to accompany with mercy and
patience the eventual stages of personal growth as these
progressively appear”, making room for “the Lord’s mercy, which
spurs us on to do our best”. I understand those who prefer a more
rigorous pastoral care which leaves no room for confusion. But I
sincerely believe that Jesus wants a Church attentive to the goodness
which the Holy Spirit sows in the midst of human weakness…”
Father
Murray, your reaction?
MURRAY
I wish I could sit down with the pope and explain
why I and so many people find that language very problematic. For
me, Christian marriage is not an ideal, it’s a norm, it’s a
reality, it’s a sacrament, it’s a way of life.
In fact marriage is inscribed in humanity from the creation, God made
them male and female. It’s not an ideal we strive for. In the ideal
world I would be a great pianist and I would be a concert pianist.
That’s an ideal; I’m not striving for that ideal. I hope others
do. But to be able to play the piano the best you can, that’s the
normal status for pianists. Marriage is the same thing. Once you get
married, God has made it very possible for human beings to be
faithful and to live that marriage fruitfully. Now to say that
accompaniment means that we want to help people on the path to
virtue, absolutely. I do want to do that. But I do not consider the
teaching of the Church rigid or harsh or in anyway an offense against
the dignity of people who are sinning. For me it’s the liberating
truth. We have to shake consciences up.
I mean in other fields the Pope does it very clearly, when it comes
to immigration or poverty, he’s out there making very strong
statements about moral responsibility of people acting for the
benefit of the downtrodden. For people who are in invalid marriages,
the best thing they can hear from the Lord and from the Church is
stop the sinning, figure out how to live in a way that’s going to
please the Lord and God will reward you for any sacrifices that you
make in that process.
ARROYO
Someone said that the church is attempting to downplay the absolutes,
to offer a welcoming embrace. That’s what this accompaniment is all
about.
ROYAL
Well yes and no. There is a lot of language, a lot
of the recurring terms in this document that are problematic. Because
we talk about absolutes as if they are absolutely impossible, and
they are just ideals. And the problems that we are dealing with just
people in irregular or imperfect or less than ideal circumstances.
This is not the language of the gospel, which talks about adultery,
right and wrong, sin, virtue, and that sort of thing. The passage
that was read before, in addition to what Father said, is that the
thing that worries me is that there is
always an EXCUSE for everything, that
any circumstance that you find yourself in, you can explain why it is
that you are there. And let’s realize this is not just about those
very few hard cases where a woman was abandoned by a husband and she
has no financial means and she remarries, she already has kids. But
yet our Lord’s teaching is His teaching. What worries me even more
is that if we are going to start making explanations and perhaps even
excuses for circumstances, biological, psychological, or historical.
Well you know people in a gay union, which the Holy Father has
roundly rejected, what’s to say we can’t allow them to be
readmitted to communion. There is no limit on the accompaniment that
he’s talking about.
ARROYO
I
received an email of a person in a gay relationship who said that the
pope is condemning us because I donated my life giving matter to a
woman, she was implanted, I have a child that’s really mine. We’re
life giving. When you start to make so many excuses. Does the
exception become a very difficult rule or no rule at all?
MURRAY
This is another area in the document which needs
to be examined because the pope said that it can no longer be
presumed that people who find themselves in irregular situations are
in a state of mortal sin. I would say that’s problematic to say
that. The presumption in the life of the Church is if you have been
evangelized, you’ve heard the gospel and you believe in the gospel,
WHEN YOU CONTRADICT THE GOSPEL, FREELY
AND KNOWINGLY, THAT’S A STATE OF SIN.
The idea that there are large numbers of Catholics who have no idea
that committing adultery is a mortal sin, I think that that’s rare.
You will find Catholics who try and justify all kinds of bad behavior
because they have fallen in the sexual revolution and the idea that
there are no rules and my happiness depends on what I decide to do.
Moral theology is very precise, precisely because the words of the
Lord have a meaning. And when the Lord says that you shouldn’t even
lust for a woman in your heart, you have committed adultery. We have
to say that the Lord was strict when it came when it came to trying
to live virtues and pure lives. We shouldn’t just give excuse
cards, well I know it’s hard for you therefore we are going to
treat you as not guilty of sin, and we’re going to give you a
break. Exceptions apply in all realms of life if we accept that
logic.
ARROYO
There
is a mention of habit as if the persistence in whatever the sin might
be, somehow the longer you do it, the better it becomes. That’s
almost what you can read into it.
MURRAY
That’s
a point in moral theology, when you become habituated in sin, you
loose your sense of the evil of the sin. Then you get into a false
notion that somehow it’s justified or you have an exception. Those
are the cases where you really have to stir up the conscience and say
no, you are in direct contradiction with the words of the Lord and it
has serious consequences including for the salvation for your soul.
Maybe that will stir them up to say, yes, I’m in the excuse making
business, I’m not in the gospel business.
ROYAL
Take another voice over in Rome. Two years ago,
before the 2014 synod, the first of the two synods, Cardinal George
Pell from Australia gave a lecture at the North American College,
which is where our American seminarians are trained as priests, and
he said that if it was up to me, I might
have been a little bit more lenient than our Lord was about divorce
and remarriage. But he says, he wasn’t, and I have to be with Him.
I think that’s the difference. We understand that this holy father
is a very charismatic man; he very much feels what other people need
from him. He talks about if you are just following the rules you are
not obeying the law of love, there is something wrong with that. And
of course there is. The rules are there precisely to serve love. But
there is a way that everybody’s virtues can also be vices, without
going into too much detail about. There is a point at which the holy
father runs the risk of by trying to be so comforting to people that
he actually looses some of the holiness that people are called to.
ARROYO
There
is that point that father Murray said earlier, the notion of
characterizing people who want to cleave to that law and the firm
teaching of the Church as rigorists, but other articulations of
things like immigration or secondary issues, those things, talk about
rigor, there’s real rigor there, there’s no room for even debate
or question on some of these issues! So you see where people can be
confused.
(Amoris Laetitia,
no. 304-305):
“It is reductive simply to consider whether or
not an individual’s actions correspond to a general law or rule,
because that is not enough to discern and ensure full fidelity to God
in the concrete life of a human being… For this reason, a pastor
cannot feel that it is enough simply to apply moral laws to those
living in “irregular” situations, as if they were stones to throw
at people’s lives. This would bespeak the closed heart of one used
to hiding behind the Church’s teachings…”
Is
that what you are doing Fr. Murray. Are you hiding behind the
church’s teaching?
MURRAY
In one sense yes and in another sense no. I hide
behind the teaching of the Lord because I want to be protected from
evil influences of the devil and erroneous teachings. I
want to know what the Church expects of me.
In that sense you can say I find my nest or my home in the teachings
of the church. On the other hand I’m not using the teaching of the
church as an excuse to get back at people who are sinning. I’m
offering them the greatest charity in the world which is the
knowledge of what God wants them to do in life.
I really have to say the holy father’s language is colorful and
very blunt. But I do not know that it is really to the point, because
when the Lord said to the woman caught in adultery, go and sin no
more, was that presumptuous on his part to instruct her what to do?
No, it’s not. He know everything. So we do not know everything. So
yes, we sometimes we have to lead people along in a slow manner, and
try and convince them of the value of the teaching. But in the end,
the people have to adhere to the teaching not because they are
convinced by my explanation, but because they believe that’s what
God taught. It is not reductive to say a man who divorces his wife
and marries another commits adultery. That’s not a reductive
statement. That’s a pure and simple statement of gospel truth,
recorded in the Scriptures, spoken by our Lord. If you do not agree
with that, you are in a problem case. So people who reject that
teaching and live otherwise, need to be shaken up. That’s the way I
look at it.
ARROYO
The
last paragraph that I showed there was a footnote, I refer this to
the smoking footnote, because this seem to run to the heart of the
question of communion for divorced and remarried Catholics.
(Amoris Laetitia,
Footnote, no. 351):
“In certain cases, this can include the help of
the sacraments. Hence, “I want to remind priests that the
confessional must not be a torture chamber, but rather an encounter
with the Lord’s mercy” (Apostolic Exhortation Evangelii
Gaudium). I would also point out that
the Eucharist “is not a prize for the perfect, but a powerful
medicine and nourishment for the weak” (ibid.).”
And
I would point out that those are two quotes from Francis quoting
Francis.
ROYAL
This is very puzzling.
Like that earlier quotation about using doctrines as stones to throw
to people as if you are a Pharisee if you hold to doctrine. It must
correspond in something in the holy father’s experience because he
does this quite often. He’s very angry about rigidity and what he
sees as people being cold hearted toward sinners, and we can
understand that part. This footnote is very odd because this is the
one place where sacraments are mentioned. And it’s only in a
footnote. There’s kind of a hesitation, a kind of a timidity about
presenting this. He doesn’t talk about communion. It may include
sacraments. And then he goes on to what I regard as a very strange
pair of quotations, and that is confession as a torture chamber. I
read that and I said to myself, I wonder
where in the world that’s the case?
And teaching people that the Eucharist is only for the perfect, where
in the world is that the case? If we were talking about mere
politics, these are straw men. And when you set up straw men to knock
down like that it because you don’t really want to have to try to
make an argument that’s very hard.
ARROYO
Fr.
Murray you are a canon lawyer. I’ve been speaking to a number of
bishops. Some of them claim the Kasper faction, who is advancing the
notion that the divorced and remarried Catholics should be entitled
to communion, that they have been routed, and that all that they got
was this clumsy footnote and it doesn’t add up much. Others
canonists and bishops say no no, this is the smoking gun, they got
what they wanted. What is your take on this as a canonist, as a
pastor?
MURRAY
On the mere level of fact Card. Schonborn
in his presentation of the document on Friday the 8th
said that this does include sacraments
for certain people. The fact that it is
in a footnote is strange, in my opinion, but it doesn’t diminish
the fact it does say it. The Church should accompany some people in
an irregular unions with the sacraments; those sacraments include
communion and confession. The two quotes that you quoted Raymond,
they appear in an earlier footnote (323, S. 8), so they are repeated
twice, which I found a little bit strange. But the point being, the
pope would like people to have the opportunity, in particular cases,
after talking to a priest, after reviewing the guidelines of the
local bishop, to be able to receive communion. This is a direct
contradiction of Pope John Paul II in Familiaris Consortio and
subsequent documents; it contradicts the Catechism of the Catholic
Church. It is the Kasper proposal. I’m puzzled by those who say the
Kasper proposal is turned down. That’s certainly not what Card.
Schonborn said in his presentation. This is where the problem is
going to really manifest itself in the days and weeks following the
publication of this document. We have something here which is not in
accord with what the Church has said up till now.
ARROYO
How
does this play out on the local level, I mean you are a pastor, a
couple comes to you, by your reading of this document, does this
entitle them to communion after a conference with you in a confession
without an annulment?
MURRAY
Not in my case because I
do not believe that they should be receiving communion if they
continue to commit ADULTERY. As a
pastor I’ve dealt with many cases that we call brother and sister
relationships, and that’s precisely where a couple in an invalid
second marriage cease to live as husband and wife, live as brother
and sister, raise the kids. That’s fine. Now what we call father
friendly who is willing to sell the store, he’s going to take this
paragraph and say, come on in, whatever you want, we’ve got it
right here. For me this is false mercy. It’s false mercy. It’s
making the reception of communion a badge of honor that you receive
even though you know that what you are doing is not in accord with
the teaching of the Church. I don’t think it’s pastorally
sensitive to tell those people, your goal in life should be to
receive communion while you’re still committing adultery. That’s
a big mistake. Your goal in life should be to stop committing
adultery, get right with the Lord, and then receive communion.
ARROYO
Next
time I’m going to invite father friendly…
MURRAY
There
are many father friendly’s out there…
ARROYO
Robert,
last year you will remember, I boldly and perhaps brazenly predicted
that Pope Francis was going to change the practice, if not the
doctrine of the church, vis a viv, communion for the divorced and
remarried people, and that it would have the effect of changing the
doctrine. Has that happened?
ROYAL
….
If you ask me, there probably are some cases where the people are not
subjectively culpable of the situations that they find themselves in.
But probably that means they can get an annulment, there are some
mitigating circumstances.
ARROYO
But
in the German church this is already going on…
ROYAL
In
my judgment it hasn’t done a lot for people in married situations
or for the church. But that said, it seems to me that there is an
attempt to paper over what really is a change in doctrine. If
receiving communion means that you are in perfect community with our
Lord, in unity with our Lord, and yet you are living a life that
directly contradicts one of the striking statements for the Jews of
His times. He said forget Moses, I’m going to take you back the way
it was intended to be initially. We’re not giving the hall pass any
longer. So for Him to have made a particular point, and it’s in
many points in the New Testament, where this divorced and remarried
question comes up, if He made that point, and we seek to say even
though that’s the case, there are circumstances where we’re going
to claim that that doesn’t really apply. It seems to me that you
are changing the doctrine but denying that your are changing the
doctrine.
ARROYO
Fr.
Murray, your thoughts on this. Has the doctrine been changed by
changing the practice or creating a loop hole in this footnote for
the practice?
MURRAY
No, the doctrine cannot be changed, because the
doctrine is divine positive law. What Jesus said holds.
The Church has not rejected that teaching and can’t. Now the pope
is teaching here in this document that exceptions - there are
circumstances when somebody who is living in an objectively immoral
state of life should be treated as if they were living in an
objectively moral state of life - because subjectively they’re not
guilty. This is very complicated
language. The other problem though of
course is, what does this say to the community of the faithful. What
does it say to the divorced spouse and children who watch their Dad
going up with wife number two up the isle to receive communion? And
what does it say to the young people in the Mass watching this
happen, about the stability of marriage vows. These
were concerns that were raised by John Paul II, by Pope Benedict when
he was Card. Ratzinger as the head of the doctrine of the faith. The
social effects of changing this practice are devastating.
And Bob is right, there has not been a good effect where there has
been this liberalized tendency in Germany. Mass attendance in Germany
is pathetic. And I have to say it’s not because they are rigid. No,
it’s because they are very loose with the Church’s teaching. It
is very very disturbing. You cannot change Church teaching but you
can monkey with practice and cause problems.
ROYAL
These
are hard hard questions. We don’t want to treat the holy father as
if he were a politician. These are not policies.
ARROYO
Some
are going to say that even by questioning this you are attacking and
undermining the popes authority. You would say what?
I would say I never have and never will speak
about the Holy Father the way I would speak about a mere politician
who happens to hold some policy. We are all Catholics; we are all
committed to the faith, the tradition of the Church, and to
ultimately our Lord himself and what He has revealed to us. But this
is one of those cases where I think a great virtue of the holy
father, his spontaneity, his charismatic nature, his feeling for
other people. There’s a whole literature about how a virtue can
turn into a vice. There seems to be a kind of an opening here to
something he would like to be the case, as Cardinal Pell wanted it to
be the case. But it’s simply, if you are a catholic, cannot be. The
accompaniment I believe is fine; although we want to be sensitive
about that. In other documents we’ve talked about, a lot of people
who are divorced and remarried, to be lectors, to be god-parents at
baptism. I don’t see how you can bring on somebody who, in an
adulterous relationship, or an imperfect relationship if you want to
put it that way, as a person who is going to guide a baby, if
necessary, in their moral life and their spiritual life in the
future. So father (Murray) is right, there
are all sorts of, shall we say, indirect messages that gets said.
I have a feeling, we’ve already been seeing this in the media, I
have a feeling that the mere mention, that one little footnote, they
sense that this is what he is trying…, that the ground is shifting,
will already give, send out the message,
because the media is ready to transmit this, that the Catholics are
giving up on all that old stuff, and now you can do what everybody is
already doing.
ARROYO
What
do you expect the reaction to be among canonists, among bishops, and
how do they register, what I’m hearing, the critiques that I’m
hearing, and the concerns to the pope in a way that could reach him
possibly reshape or readjust this document?
MURRAY
This
is the effort that all of us are concerned about, want to see happen,
which is to tell the pope that, flattery would be that we keep our
mouths closed and say nothing. But gospel frankness, you remember
that word he used at the synod, parasia, this gospel frankness. The
Gospel frankness calls upon us to say, Holy Father, either you have
been poorly advised or you have an incomplete conception of this
issue. We know that we can share some information with you, that the
13 or so cardinals who wrote to the pope at the beginning of the last
synod. That’s a perfect kind of example that I think is what’s
going to happen. Also you know, canon 220, all the faithful have the
right to express their opinions about matters of Church life. This is
good that this be debated and brought forward in the press.
Certainly, canon lawyers, theologians, Thomistic scholars. St. Thomas
was used in chapter 8 to justify this new approach. I can’t believe
that a good group of Thomists won’t be having a response to that.
This is delicate. I do not want to criticize the pope. I think the
pope’s a wonderful man. I think he’s a holy man in many ways. I
hope to be a good holy man myself. I do not judge. But I will say
that when you do something in public that contradicts what your
predecessor did, there has to be an accounting for it in the
responsibility in upholding the gospel. I think that many bishops,
cardinals and priests will call for this.
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MY
COMMENTS:
Fr.
Murray said:
“So people who reject that teaching and live
otherwise, need to be shaken up. That’s the way I look at it.”
Mother
Angelica used to say, in particular in this period of the world in
which the great majority of people have slid and have been pushed
into relativism: “If you aren’t a thorn in somebody’s side, you
aren’t doing Christianity right”!
Fr.
Murray said:
“Also you know, canon 220, all the faithful have
the right to express their opinions about matters of church life.”
My
comments:
If “Pope Francis” is the false pope
prophesied by Saint Francis of Assisi,
Blessed Catherine Emmerich, Saint Hildegard (doctor of the Church),
Bruno Cornacchiola and
others regarding the false pope, then it
is useless to express our opinions or dialogue with the “second
beast”, disguised as a lamb, of the Book of Revelations!
You might ask then what can we do? Let us take very seriously the
urgent advise of the Queen of Heaven at Fatima and at many other
places of her Marion apparitions: “Pray much and make many
sacrifices!” Let us all put our lives in order, beginning with a
good sincere confession, according to God’s laws, not according to
man’s laws of relativism. Let us pass much time before our Infinite
Lord in the Most Blessed Sacrament and pray the Holy Rosary
frequently.
We
must maintain humility, without conveniently closing our eyes, which
means that God has chosen Mary, the Mother of God, to crush the head
of the ancient serpent (Gen 3:15) in this climatic period of the
world and of the Church. We must humbly ask for guidance in prayer so
as to do the part that Mary wants each of us to do. In this way we
will collaborate in her plan, not in our plan.
Very Reverend Casey, C.P.M., Superior General of
the Fathers of Mercy, during his “Mission
For Truth” (episode 3: Confidence in God), said: “Want to make
God laugh. Tell him your plans!”
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My
comments:
Fr.
Murray said:
“Mass attendance in Germany is pathetic. And I
have to say it’s not because they are rigid. No, it’s because
they are very loose with the Church’s teaching. It is very very
disturbing. You cannot change church teaching but you can monkey with
practice and cause problems.”
In Familiaris
Consortio, Pope John Paul years ago
(1981) gave us clear and evangelical paragraphs on this theme (no.
84):
“However, the Church reaffirms her PRACTICE,
which is based upon Sacred Scripture, of not admitting to Eucharistic
Communion divorced persons who have remarried. They are unable to be
admitted thereto from the fact that their state and condition of life
objectively contradict that union of love between Christ and the
Church which is signified and effected by the Eucharist. Besides
this, there is another special pastoral reason: if these people were
admitted to the Eucharist, the faithful would be led into error and
confusion regarding the Church's teaching about the indissolubility
of marriage.
Reconciliation
in the sacrament of Penance which would open the way to the
Eucharist, can only be granted to those who, repenting of having
broken the sign of the Covenant and of fidelity to Christ, are
sincerely ready to undertake a way of life that is no longer in
contradiction to the indissolubility of marriage. This means, in
practice, that when, for serious reasons, such as for example the
children's upbringing, a man and a woman cannot satisfy the
obligation to separate, they "take on themselves the duty to
live in complete continence, that is, by abstinence from the acts
proper to married couples”.”
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“It is true that we studied in pastoral theology
the need to apply the “law of graduality”. But what I find is
that the recent popes, in the world today, put
us on our guard not so much about the lack of applying the “LAW OF
GRADUALITY” but rather the danger of the “GRADUALITY OF THE LAW”,
which must be refuted in as much as it reduces the value of the law
to a mere ideal…”
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Fr. Murray commented on, Amoris
Laetitia, no. 308:
“without detracting from the evangelical ideal,
there is a need to accompany with mercy and patience the eventual
stages of personal growth as these progressively appear”
My
comments:
As mentioned in this article above, Satan, with
the help of secular feminism has done all he can to eliminate
good fathers from the families and good pastors from parishes and
dioceses, so as not to provide the
example, for the future generations, of self-sacrifice for the good
of the others, for the good of the families and the society. Thus it
is much more difficult later in life to acquire this habit and to
“take up your cross daily and follow me” (Mt 16:24; Lk 9:23).
Several times in my homilies, in typical parishes
today where people are used to and happy with a Christianity without
the cross, if I preach as some have told
me to preach, that is a Christianity without the cross, will people
then later want to change their direction of sliding down away from
Calvary with Christ and begin “taking
up their cross” in these so-called “eventual stages of personal
growth as these progressively appear”?
The saints of 2000 years have shown us that this is not the way to
interpret or put into practice the words of Christ; it does not work!
Our human nature was created by God, and Jesus offers the best advice
and solution. Is “Pope Francis” saying here, that the solution
for spoiled arrogant children, to continue to slide in the same
direction? Satan also knows very well what is best and what is the
worst for human nature!
“By now today, the society has arrived so low
that a great number of people believe
that the only solution is to offer and welcome more and more
compromises, and to put aside those
things in which we are not all in agreement, such as the Eucharist,
Mary, the documents of the Magisterium of the Church, summarized in
the CCC for adults. Instead of climbing up Mount Tabor, Subiaco,
Laverna in order to establish contact and union with God as did
Moses, Saint Benedict and Saint Francis, one goes down into
compromises of false ecumenism, with false mercy, with misguided
compassion, with false love. In order to be coherent with the
lowering of the bar, we will have to take away the words of the Act
of Contrition: “I promise with the help of Thy grace to sin no more
and to avoid the near occasion of
sin”!?! We will have to change the
words of the Our Father: “MY
will be done”! When two young people marry each other and pronounce
their promises in public, they do not want to hear and it is not
acceptable to say or offer these promises with compromises: “I take
you as my spouse, as long as things work out for me…”.
One does NOT say in the Act of Contrition:
“I will try with the help of Thy grace to sin no more, when it is
possible, and to try to avoid, if it is ok with me, the near
occasions of sin”! This is the Act of Contrition composed by Satan,
his hidden strategy, to slowly lead us not towards total trust in God
but towards his nice easy lies and his empty promises, and in the end
to his dwelling place for all eternity! Certainly it is more
difficult to live the Act of Contrition when the great majority of
Catholics have embrace the Act of
Contrition of Satan, but God gives more
grace in this period more difficult in the history of the world to
those who truly pray with true humility.”
Is not this phrase from the Amoris
Laetitia, no. 308, basically the “ACT
OF CONTRITION OF SATAN”? When Peter,
the first Pope, wanted to put aside the cross and settle with more
reasonable and comfortable compromises, what did Christ say to Peter?
What would Christ say to “Pope
Francis” today? “Get behind me, Satan! You are a hindrance to me;
for you are not on the side of God, but of men”
(Mt 16:23)!
The
spiritual writers and saints tell us that spiritual muscles are
similar to physical muscles. Just as for physical muscles, it
takes time and effort to develop spiritual muscles. To condone bad
habits as a solution to eventually turn around the slide downward and
to begin to build up spiritual muscles, is an appealing lie to the
very numerous Christians who have formed the habit of taking the easy
way all their lives while convincing themselves that they are OK
according to God, a god who is always in agreement with these people,
that is themselves! This is like telling an athlete to not work out
and then he will play better in the big game on Sunday! Certainly
there is a time for rest, but rest so as to continue to go forward
after rest toward the goal, not to condone and approve the habitual
state of vice.
As biologists explain about muscles, exercise
tears down muscles so that the body rebuilds the muscles even
stronger; this is the chemistry and results of exercise. The same in
the spiritual life. Each time we succeed, with much prayer, to say no
to our vices, we become stronger and stronger. This is the opposite
of what is being said in Amoris
Laetitia.
How can “eventual stages of personal growth”
“progressively appear” if not helped to appear by saying and
living what we say in the Act of Contrition: “I promise with the
help of Thy grace to sin no more and to
avoid the near occasion of sin”?!? Self
discipline is not automatic, but requires a personal choice to “take
up our cross daily”, not the encouragement to lay down the cross
and continue to live in the state of sin!?! All the spiritual writers
and saints tell us this, as does our Teacher, Jesus Christ.
“Precisely at a turning point in the
conversion of Saint Augustine
(Confessions, VIII, 12), when he was inspired to open the Bible at
random, he read: “But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no
provision for the flesh, to gratify its desires” (Rom 13:14). How
many fathers of families (priests and bishops) today, formed by the
culture of relativism today instead of by a good Christian father,
and not inspired by a good wife who overcame secular feminism, do not
live this verse of Saint Paul and thus do not help their children to
make the same conversion as did Saint Augustine and all of the
saints? Saint Francis of Assisi called his body “brother ass”,
indicating how he lived Romans 13:14. This widespread lack of good
wholesome fathers is at the root of the
feminized “Church of the Nice” that we have today
as well as the increase of homosexuality and the slide into false
ecumenism which will lead to the One
World Church as a preparation for the advent of the Antichrist.”
Amoris
Laetitia (no. 308) is making “provision for the flesh, to
gratify its desires” as a solution to “personal growth”!?!
There are many people today who will be more than happy to accept
this appealing easy lie!
When
I gave out some copies of the Testimony of Gloria Polo at a few
Sunday Masses at a parish where the pastor asked me to substitute for
him, this pastor later asked me not to offer to the people any more
printed copies of this booklet.
I
wrote in the introduction to my English translation of this
testimony:
“I
think that this testimony is a gift from God precisely for our times
so extraordinary. I believe that this testimony will help many
people of good will, who are not afraid to confront themselves with
the truth, so as to convert themselves to the Truth and begin to live
a new and fulfilling life with Jesus Christ. For us Catholics it
will help us to make a good examination of conscience and then a good
sacramental confession.”
This testimony is a gift from God
which can help people understand the devastation of the beautiful
lies that you can go to heaven without the cross and without changing
your life according to God’s laws. Moreover,
today Satan has convinced a great number of people that hell does not
exist or that there is nothing after
death, and thus we do not have to worry about the consequences of our
actions. “Today, I was led by an Angel to
the chasms of hell… But I noticed one thing: that most of the souls
there are those who disbelieved that there is a hell” (Diary of St.
Faustina, no. 741).
If a person is drowning in water,
do you help him to pull himself out of the water or learn to swim, or
do you dump more water on him? This is
what “Pope Francis” and so many other priests and bishops are
offering to people drowning in their
habits of vice and egoism and “near occasions of sin”!!!
People today need help to get out of their very destructive life
style, and the great majority of the fathers and pastors today
approve and encourage the same life style that has led them to the
very difficult situation in which they find themselves.
Saint
Thomas tells us that for the sin of sex, one must cut it off
immediately; he tells us that in dealing with sexual temptations,
one cannot think or dwell on these temptations to overcome them but
flee from them immediately, different from other temptation. This is
the experience and advice of all the saints, exactly contrary to the
words of “Pope Francis”. One cannot remain in the “occasion of
sin” and believe the beautiful lie that things will get better!
Before God, it does not hold up the excuse that the religious leaders
told us that it is OK to have sex outside of marriage. Both are
culpable, the one who gives scandal and the one who follows the
scandal! (CCC 2284; Mk 9:42-49; Ez 34:3: Office of Readings, Sermon
of St. Augustine on the Shepherds, OT 24, Thursday; Office of
Readings, Saint Ignatius of Antioch, OT 2, Monday).
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THE
LITURGY - HELEN HULL HITCHCOCK
Helen Hull Hitchcock: A Valiant Voice for Faith
and Family
The founder of Women for Faith and Family and the
editor of the Adoremus Bulletin
died Oct. 20 at the age of 75.
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Feminist language was always a particular
concern for Hitchcock. In 1992, she edited a book entitled Politics
of Prayer: Feminist Language and the Worship of God,
published by Ignatius Press and consisting of essays by prominent
scholars, including Jewish scholars, on feminist attempts to alter
language they deemed “sexist” in the liturgy and religious texts.
She explained in 1995 why she was so adamantly opposed to the
feminization of religious language.
“As
Catholics, who have been formed, inspired and sustained by the
sacraments of the Church through participation in the liturgy, the
Church’s central action and principal means of transmission of the
Catholic faith, we are strongly aware of the power of symbol in human
consciousness,” she wrote. “We, therefore, deplore attempts to
distort and transform language and liturgy, both of which make such
potent symbolic impressions on the human mind, to confirm to a
particular contemporary ideological agenda at odds with Catholic
belief and practice”.”
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This week, the EWTN
family pays tribute to Helen Hull Hitchcock, a true daughter of God
and defender of Catholic faith and family. She was a pioneer in the
renewal of the sacred liturgy and reclaiming women’s authentic role
in the Church
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Helen
Hull Hitchcock explains that we must go back to the documents of the
Second Vatican Council and read them correctly. Renewal means
re-establishing the connection with or to learn to cherish something
in a more deep and intense way. The same with active participation,
with the actual words given to us but the authentic documents of the
Council, which means that people should be participating not only
mentally, but spiritually, not necessarily being active in the sense
that many Catholics after the Council decided to do according to
their own interpretation of the Church documents.
Before
the council the ordinary people did not really have much connection
with the sacramental action that was going on. Even years before the
Second Vatican Council, Pius X wanted to re-establish the people’s
engagement and spiritual involvement with the liturgy. He’s the one
who invented the term actual participation. This is what the council
was trying to do after another 60 years, was to bring that into focus
and to have Catholics more engaged in their faith, to love it more
and to want to give it more.
Many
people took those words and made them say what they wanted them to
say, which is part of the problem. A renewal is going back to
understand what the council fathers intended, guided by the spirit,
what is consistent with the Church teaching.
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Father
Gabrielle Amorth explains:
“When one reads the diary of Saint Faustina, one
sees that while she progressed in union with Jesus, she was more
and more conscious of her misery, and
at the same time more trustful in the mercy of God with much
gratitude toward God for this inestimable gift of His mercy! Instead
so often, the more we go forward in an ecclesial movement or in or
priestly ministry, we believe to be less in misery and more worthy to
stand before God and before men…” Saint Faustina, as all of the
saints, trusted and looked more and more toward God and less and less
toward herself for guidance and help.
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FEMINISM – HELEN HULL HITCHCOCK:
A
former Episcopalian who became a Catholic in 1984, Hitchcock jumped
into the fray when the Catholic bishops in the United States were
preparing a pastoral letter on the role of women in the Church and
feminists were coming forward to air shrill critiques of the Church.
Women
for Faith and Family didn’t share the harsh feminist critique of
the Church. Women for Faith and Family drew up an eight-point
“Affirmation for Catholic Women” that stressed fidelity to the
Church and ultimately was signed by Mother Teresa — along with
50,000 other Catholic women.
“Affirmation
for Catholic Women”
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Feminism
and the Language Wars of Religion
by
Fr. John A. Hardon, S.J.
The
Feminist Agenda within the Catholic Church
New
Age Nuns - Increasing Practice of Yoga, Reiki & Shamanism
The
Vatican’s recent assessment of the Leadership Conference of Women
Religious (LCWR), which represents 80% of Catholic religious women in
the United States, found actions that were in non-conformance with
Church teachings. In fact, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the
Faith said LCWR is undermining Roman Catholic teachings on
homosexuality and birth control and promoting "radical feminist
themes incompatible with the Catholic Faith."
Donna Steichen’s reflections on feminism and the Church on the 20th
anniversary of "Ungodly Rage."
Ungodly
Rage: The Hidden Face of Catholic Feminism
Written by a Catholic journalist who has investigated feminism on its
own ground, this remarkable book fully exposes the hidden face of
Catholic feminism for the first time, revealing its theoretical and
psychological roots in loss of faith. A definitive account of a
movement impelled by vengeful rage to revolt against all spiritual
authority.
(Sister)
Donna Quinn's 'ungodly rage'
Nuns
Gone Wild: A Trip Down Memory Lane
Those
of you who wonder why the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith
and the American Bishops initiated a reform of the leadership of the
Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR), should take a little
trip down memory lane.
Vast
sectors of women religious in the USA have for decades been infested
with a radical feminism so poisonous that many of them, especially in
leadership, have even come to defend the killing of babies.
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When I studied theology at the Angelicum at Rome
(1986-1989), I remember one time that one of our professors said in a
general way that the mother of a family (the heart of the family)
offers unconditional love to the children while the father (the head
of the family) offers conditional love to the children; both are
needed and God offers us both. We see how Satan has attacked the
women with pornography, rendering her an object of pleasure, rather
than a daughter of the King of kings. But
Satan has equally attacked the man, especially with secular feminism,
seeking to eliminate the father from the family.
Because it is especially the father who has the grace of his
God-given vocation, if accompanied by much prayer, to be able to
better perceive the hidden and alluring attractions and lies of Satan
put before us in the mass media as if they were the truth. The father
must help discern between true and false love, true and false mercy,
true from misguided compassion, true from false unconditional love,
true from false conditional love and the proper and prudent
combination thereof. This is the winning card that Satan has prepared
by eliminating the father from the family, to confuse this proper
balance.
Instinctly, wives who pray recognize the vocation
of the father of the family and realize that she, the wife, and the
children need the head of the family to protect the family and the
society. Secular feminism has convince
the great majority of women that they do not need men and
they are to be used and manipulated instead of inspiring their
husbands to fulfil their God-given vocation; secular feminists do not
even recognize the vocation of the man and thus do not appreciate
this vocation. The irony, rather the strategy of “the father of
lies”, is that secular feminists end up being used as sex objects
for men. Thus Satan has succeeded in eliminating the masculine voice
which is to protect the family and the society and the Church from
the beautiful lies of the wolf, disguised as a lamb, as the wolf
draws countless souls into his fold with his hidden poison of his
attractive deceptions. Satan has also convinced the youth to not
trust lawful authority so that the youth are led by the prince of the
world, Satan (Jn 12:31; 14:30). Satan
offers half-truths, which end up being false and very destructive.
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Fr.
Larry Richards said on “Living Right” with Dr. Ray (“Women And
The Church”): “You only worry about the roles of women if you
worry about power. If you worry about servant hood then the roles are
all about different ways to serve.”
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A
RESTRUCTURED CHURCH WITH FAR FEWER MEMBERS
In an exclusive interview with Cardinal Joseph
Ratzinger on the World Over Live (EWTN,
2003; “Conversations The World Over -
Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger Pt. 1”;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TO6mzCPWbg),
Raymond Arroyo asked Cardinal Ratzinger what did Pope John Paul II
mean by “a new springtime in the Church”. Cardinal Ratzinger
replied:
“This does not mean that there will be great
masses of conversions; this is not the way of God. Essential things
in history begin always with small but convinced communities. The
Church began with the 12 apostles. And even the churches of Saint
Paul diffused in the Mediterranean with little communities, but these
communities had in themselves the future of the world, because they
had the truth; and the force of true conviction. I think also today
it would be an error to think that now in 10 years in a new
springtime all people will be catholic. This is not our future or our
expectation. But we will have really convinced communities. This
is the springtime, a new life in very convinced persons with the joy
of the faith. But from these small numbers we will have a radiation
of joy, an attraction.”
Jean-Baptiste Chautard in his classic book, “Soul
of the Apostolate”, also explains how
the parishes are renewed by small convinced groups with the truth and
on fire for the Lord.
By
neglecting prayer, there is a great tendency today, pushed by Satan
and the Freemasonry, TO SEEK SOLUTIONS AMONG MEN AND IN THE COMMUNITY
RATHER THAN FROM GOD. Often in the history of the Church, while the
great majority was sliding into mediocrity with compromises
accompanied by blindness, drifting away from God, God gave rise to
saints who detached themselves from the herd of the masses in order
to find union with God. Moses went to Mount Tabor; Saint Anthony
Abate went into the desert; Saint Benedict went to Subiaco; Saint
Francis of Assisi went to Laverna!
Instead today, not doing as did the saints
such as Saint Anthony Abate, Saint Benedict and Saint Francis of
Assisi, one seeks first to go to the
peripheries, without putting first God
in the heart, capable of living the First Commandment: “You shall
worship the Lord you God and Him only shall you serve” (Ex 20:2-5;
Deut 5:6-9; CCC 2084). By now the world is so far from God that many
religious leaders believe that the only way to evangelize is to
compromise the 10 Commandments, to put aside the fullness of the
means of sanctification, the sacraments above all the Eucharist, and
the fullness of the Truth with the guidance of the Magisterium of the
Church (Lumen Gentium 8) in order to evangelize the non Catholics or
re-evangelize the fallen away Catholics. This is exactly what the
three founders of the Neocatecumenal Way wrote to Pope Benedict in
January 2006 (“The Neocatecumenal Mass”;
http://spir-food.blogspot.it/2015/02/the-neocatecumenal-mass.html).
This is false ecumenism, which leads us to the reduction to the
lowest common denominator of all the religions, to forfeit our
spiritual defenses and weapons against the forces of evil. In the
name of (false) love, in the name of (false) mercy, in the name of
(false) ecumenism, the Catholics are lead to be deprived of their
greatest treasures of grace and truth, which are precisely the most
powerful means of salvation for us, for the others and, in effect,
for the whole world! In this way one
goes ever more toward mediocrity
seeking to receive and to please everyone, with compromises after
compromises, to the point of loosing all the true values of Jesus
Christ.
As the Church is being crucified, and seems to be
dying, being attacked on all side by the very numerous cohorts of
Satan, there is A VERY GREAT TEMPTATION
to seek members for the Church while abandoning the uncomfortable
truth, which is Christ crucified, so
that more people will join the crumbling church. How many pastors or
youth ministers offer what the people or youth want, but after having
attracted the people and the youth, do not later lead the people
toward adoration of God in the Eucharist and toward Calvary, to take
up their cross with Christ? It is good to meet the people where they
are, which in general today is usually very far from the real Truth
of God. God meets us where we are but God loves us too much to leave
us where we are! Five years ago when I talked to a new seminarian in
my diocese about the centrality of the cross as a priest, called to
be a victim with Christ, he said to me that if they would have told
him that before, he would not want to be in the seminary even today!
“But the people would not receive him, because his face was set
toward Jerusalem” (Lk 9:53).
"I came to cast fire upon the earth;
and would that it were already kindled! I have a baptism to be
baptized with; and how I am constrained until it is accomplished! Do
you think that I have come to give peace on earth? No, I tell you,
but rather division; for henceforth in
one house there will be five divided, three against two and two
against three; they will be divided, father against son and son
against father, mother against daughter and daughter against her
mother, mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law
against her mother-in-law." (Lk 12:49-53).
Ratzinger's
forgotten prophesy on the future of the Church
“A
week after Benedict XVI's shock announcement, an important statement
he once made comes to light
A
restructured Church with far fewer members that is forced to let go
of many places of worship it worked so hard to build over the
centuries. A minority Catholic Church with little influence over
political decisions, that is socially irrelevant, left humiliated and
forced to “start over.”
But
a Church that will find itself again and be reborn a “simpler and
more spiritual” entity thanks to this “enormous confusion.”
This was the prophesy made 40 years ago on the future of Christianity
by a young Bavarian theologian, Joseph Ratzinger. Digging it out
again today perhaps provides us with another key to understanding
Benedict XVI's decision to resign, because it traces his gesture back
through the course of his interpretation of history…”
More than 15 years ago I welcomed the invitation
of the Servant of God, ARCHBISHOP FULTON SHEEN, for priests and
bishops, to make everyday a holy hour in
church before the infinite God in the tabernacle.
In the past few years I had encouraged other priests in my diocese to
do the same, but they all said: “I do not have time”. I replied
to them that if I did not make a holy hour everyday, I would end up
giving to others a poor priest named Father Joe instead of Jesus
Christ. The very numerous puppets of Satan in the Church push priests
toward activism and away from “the source
and summit of the Christian life”, the Eucharist (Vat.
II: LG 11; CCC 1324). We
forget so easily the words we hear every year at the beginning of
Lent as the priest puts ashes on our heads: “Remember that you are
dust, and to dust you shall return.”
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“These are the times, foretold by me, when
cardinals will be set against cardinals, bishops against bishops and
priests against priests, and the flock of Christ will be torn to
pieces by rapacious wolves, who have found their way in under the
clothing of defenseless and meek lambs. Among them there are even
some who occupy posts of great responsibility, and by means of them,
Satan has succeeded in entering
and in operating at the very summit of the Church.
Bishops and priests of the holy Church of God, how great today is
your responsibility! The Lord is about to demand of you an account of
how you have administered his vineyard. Repent; seek pardon; make
amends; and, above all, be once again faithful to the task which has
been entrusted to you” (September 6,
1986).
“At the present time, the tenebrous forces of
evil are laying snares for her on all sides. The
dark conspiracies woven by Masonry, by means of its many followers
who have insinuated themselves at the summit of the Church,
have succeeded in paralyzing her activity and in extinguishing her
apostolic ardor” (August 15, 1988).
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FR.
LARRY RICHARDS - UNCONDITIONAL LOVE
Fr.
Larry Richards said on “Living Right” (theme: “Unconditional
Love”) with Ewtn (broadcasted: Dec. 29, 2015):
“Don’t judge lest you be judged. People say
God loves me as I am, He loves me unconditionally. This is true as we
see in John 3:16. But God loves us for our good, for our best. If I
love somebody, I will still say no to them. If there is a bridge up
ahead, the Church is the one who holds
out the sign “Bridge out ahead”.
But you’re going to tell me I’m wrong. The problem is this, you
might sit there and say the bridge isn’t out ahead. And I say no
I’ve already been there; the bridge is out ahead. So for me to love
you, I tell you the truth. I do not judge you in the truth. Jesus,
God, the Church, never takes away your free will; you are always 100%
free to make your own decisions. But you’re also 100% free to make
the wrong decisions.
When
you tell them that the Church’s teaching is that this is wrong, so
many people cannot wrap their head around the fact that the Church is
not judging them.
Because some people have judged without loving
people. We can’t speak truth unless it is spoken in love. St. Paul
says: “Speak the TRUTH in love”
(Eph 4:15). So sometimes people do not realize or hear us that we are
talking about love, we love you and that’s why we are telling these
truths. They think that we are just judging them. When it comes down
to being loved by God, Jesus said to the adulterer: “Has no one
condemned you? … Neither do I condemn you” (Jn 8:10-11). This is
where so many people stop today. But it is so important that we
always know the fullness of Scripture. Because after Jesus said
“neither do I condemn you”, He says
“go and sin no more”. Does that mean He judged her?
But it wasn’t His judgment that converted her, it was His love and
acceptance that converted her. Also in John’s Gospel you read: “If
you love me keep my commandments” (Jn 14:15,23). That’s the only
way we can prove that we love God is to obey Him. You see that’s
part of it. When we are only looking at ourselves and we are dealing
with the world, people say, how can I please the world instead of how
can I please God! But the world doesn’t love us as we are; that’s
a lie from the devil that the people in the world will love you as
you are. No, as soon as you do something to make them mad or you do
something that is selfish or whatever, they will turn on you in a
second.
In
a way, everybody judges: the world judges, secularism judges,
humanism judges, you judge, I judge, everybody judges. The question
is: what are you judging, what is your objective moral intent,
reality. For example God says if you do this, it is wrong… It all
goes back to Gen 3:4-5: “You will become like gods, you will know
what’s right and wrong”. That means you get to decide.
For
example I know that the Church teaches that artificial birth control
is wrong. But I don’t think it is. Oh, so I should bow down and
kiss your feet because you are almighty God. You made a rule and you
said I do not think this is wrong. So you took the place of God, and
you said, I am the arbitrator of what is moral. So everybody decides
who is going to be the arbitrators of right and wrong. You see
someone’s got to be. So when we talk about the Church, when we talk
about God, everything that God does, everything, is done out of love,
even judgment is done out of love. Because when God judges us, even
forever, He gives us what we want, and if it is not Him, He will
never force Himself on us. As John Paul II said: “God always
invites, He never demands”. So when it comes to us in relationship,
God invites us to follow Him. Whether something is right or wrong, it
doesn’t matter if you agree with it or not. It’s right whether
you agree, or it’s wrong whether you agree. But He still invites
you to accept that in your own life. Think about it, God loves us so
much that we can go to hell forever because He loves us. He gives us
the choice. But he warns us. The greatest thing about this is that
God does everything in His power as God to save us, when His Son died
on the cross. The only one who messes that up is us.
Love
and judging, they’re not antagonistic, they’re two sides of the
same coin.”
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effect on vocations: collapse everywhere, but especially in south
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particolare in Sudamerica (e specie in argentina). Nota bene: nella
Chiesa c'e' chi ha tante vocazioni, ma ha una spiritualità
cattolica, opposta al bergoglismo e quindi e' emarginato sotto questo
papa.
When
Atanasio found himself alone in "an Arian world." And he
won with the strength of faith and truth
Quando Atanasio si ritrovò solo in «un mondo ariano». E vinse con
la forza della fede e della verità
“Even
if Catholics faithful to tradition are reduced to a handful, they are
the ones who are the true church of Jesus Christ. - St. Athanasius,
doctor of the Church
"Anche se i cattolici fedeli alla tradizione sono ridotti a un
piccolo resto, sono loro la vera Chiesa di Gesù Cristo" S.
Atanasio (dottore e padre della Chiesa)
Official English translation of Bishop Schneider’s
reflection on Amoris Laetitia
Voice of the Family, with the kind permission of
His Excellency Bishop Athanasius Schneider, is delighted to share
with our readers his approved translation of his reflection on Pope
Francis’s Apostolic Exhortation Amoris
Laetitia.
Official English translation of Bishop Schneider’s
reflection on Amoris Laetitia
April
26, 2016
Bishop Schneider decries confusion in Pope
Francis’ exhortation Amoris Laetitia
With Papally-Mandated "Catholic Divorce"
destroying a Sacrament, Schism Looms Large on the Catholic Horizon.
After 2000 years, Divorce is Enforced in the Church -- and a Schism
Looms Larger than Ever. (Antonio Socci; September 12, 2015)
Priest
on papal exhortation: We must hold fast to the Tradition
Cupich:
Pope's document on sex, marriage, family life a 'game changer'
Synod
Fathers: From Hollywood to Gender Ideology to ISIS
Cardinal
Sarah and Archbishop Gomez trace the crisis of the family back to a
loss in the sense of God's Presence and Truth
Cardinal
Sarah urges Synod to reject liberal agenda pushed by organizers in
blistering speech, interview
Cardinal
Sarah’s warning of “demonic” “apocalyptic beasts” of “the
idolatry of Western freedom” verified in Argentina
WORSE
THAN IN THE TIME OF THE ARIAN HERESY (because then Liberius Pope
retracted his steps)
PEGGIO CHE AL TEMPO DELL'ERESIA ARIANA (perché in quel caso papa
Liberio tornò sui suoi passi)
The
Dying Belgian Church Was The Laboratory Of The European Bergoglismo.
In The Same Way Of Danneels (His Great Friend) Bergoglio Is Leading
The Whole Church Into Failure As The Church in Belgium.
La Morente Chiesa Belga E' Stata Il Laboratorio Europeo Del
Bergoglismo. Allo Stesso Modo Di Danneels (Suo Grande Amico)
Bergoglio Sta Portando La Chiesa Intera Al Fallimento Come Quella
Belga.
Cardinal
Kasper and the progressive wing of the Church of Germany have got
what they wanted. On communion for divorced and remarried Francis is
on their side. He had decided long ago and so he did it.
Il cardinale Kasper e l'ala progressista della Chiesa di Germania
hanno ottenuto ciò che volevano. Sulla comunione ai divorziati
risposati Francesco è dalla loro parte. L'aveva deciso da tempo e
così ha fatto
Antonio
Socci
"Newsweek"
recently had a photo of Pope Francis on their front-cover with the
headline: “Is the Pope Catholic?”. Subtitle: “Of course he is.
You just wouldn’t know it from his press clips.”
What
happened to St. Athanasius: a lesson for our times
Ciò che accadde a sant’Atanasio: un insegnamento per i nostri
tempi
Amoris
Laetitia’s approach to same-sex unions already rejected by
synod fathers
April
14, 2016
Belgian
archbishop: ‘Time has come’ for Pope Francis to defend Church’s
Tradition
“The
People, Mystical Category.” The Political Vision of the South
American Pope
An
essay by Professor Zanatta has come out in Argentina and Italy, on
the “populism” of Francis. The thread that ties together his
visit to Lesbos and his affinity for the anti-capitalist and
anti-globalization “popular movements”
by
Sandro Magister
ROME,
April 20, 2016
Kasper: Amoris
Laetitia “Changes Everything”
By
Steve Skojec on April 15, 2016 1P5 Blog
Well,
Cardinal Kasper certainly seems pleased with the exhortation. It’s
almost as though Christmas came early for him:
Poor
Bishops. The inside story of the pope meeting with Morales
Poveri vescovi. I retroscena dell'udienza del papa a Morales
di Sandro Magister; 03 maggio 2016
Socci:
The Apostolic Exhortation is a turning-point in Catholic Doctrine
Mortal sin is replaced with social sin and the
door to Communion for the divorced and remarried is opened: the real
sin is ignoring the poor. By Antonio Socci. April 9, 2016.
The sacraments for the divorced remarried. Now
in broad daylight.
I sacramenti ai divorziati risposati. Adesso alla luce del sole
By Alberto Carrara on 19 aprile 2016
EMERGE IL SOMMERSO
Dunque divorziati e separati che si sono sposati di nuovo possono
essere riammesse ai sacramenti. È una delle novità della “Amoris
laetitia”, l’”esortazione apostolica” che Papa Francesco
ha scritto a conclusione dei due sinodi sulla famiglia. Se ne è
parlato molto, come era logico aspettarsi. E se ne è parlato anche
in commenti a caldo tra amici. Più di un prete ha commentato: “Si
fa già, si faceva già da molto tempo”. Ma, aggiunge un amico che
ha il senso dell’umorismo: “Era artigianato locale”, benigna
concessione di preti larghi di maniche. Adesso si fa alla luce del
sole: il Papa stesso esorta ad andare in quella direzione.
Voice of the Family calls on Pope Francis to
withdraw Amoris Laetitia
ROME, May 9, 2016 (LifeSiteNews) -- Over 100
pro-life and pro-family leaders from all over the world leapt to
their feet in applause at a meeting in Rome on Saturday after hearing
a call for Pope Francis to withdraw his controversial exhortation
Amoris Laetitia.
