Forbidden
To Speak About Sin
On
September 14, 2016, at the monthly formation of the clergy of the
diocese of Perugia, my cardinal said:
“I
would like to say something that I forgot to tell you, but I feel it
is important. Because I myself had to reflect a lot on this to
convince myself. When you read it in this way I will have tried to
give you an explanation. It is number 301 of Amoris Laetitia, where
the pope explicitly says: “It can no longer simply be said that all
those in any “irregular” situation are living in a state of
mortal sin and are deprived of sanctifying grace”. And then he
continues: “There can exist factors that limit the possibility of
decision and of responsibility”.
“Look
at this, this is something that should be underlined, because we
often do this…, and we say that they live in conditions of mortal
sin. This, we cannot say according to the Magisterium of the Church.”
“And
the pope motivates this with what, with the Catechism of the Catholic
Church for adults, no. 302, which says: “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).”
“The
pope knows the Catechism of the Catholic Church for adults. I do not
know if we sometimes, when we criticize the documents, know perfectly
the Catechism of the Catholic Church for adults. If they cannot
receive communion, it is because there are irregular, also according
to canon law. And because you cannot construct a sacrament, which is
the sacrament of the Eucharist which unites, on the ashes of another
sacrament. Not because we go along thinking, and the first thing that
we think about, is that they are in the state of mortal sin. This we
do not have the right. Because in the depth of the conscience only
God reads. I say this as teacher, and also as doctor of the faith in
as far as I am a bishop. Because I must correct also certain
positions which sometimes are in some of you. I know that some of you
do not share these things. But if you do not share these things,
before speaking or writing or sending documents around, become
informed with the Catechism of the Catholic Church for adults. Study
in depth Catholic theology. And then open your mouth.”
“Another
aspect of this is from Benedict XVI, in Veritatis Splendor. I believe
that if someone doubts that he is not a good theologian, he is
greatly mistaken. Benedict says, always precise: “Circumstances or
intentions can never transform an act intrinsically evil by virtue of
its object into an act "subjectively" good or defensible as
a choice” (no. 81).”
(The
cardinal is mistaken; Veritatis Splendor is an encyclical by Pope
John Paul II)
“The
Pope says that what is before evil is evil. And things should be
called out by name, from the theological and moral point of view.”
“But
– says Veritatis Splendor – the 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”.
(Again
the cardinal is mistaken, this phrase is from Amoris Latitia, no.
302)
“This
is the doctrine of the Church. Therefore do not say to anyone: “You
are in mortal sin”. You can say, based on what I verified and what
has happened in life, you are in an irregular position in regards to
the Church, let us see.”
“But
the talk though, must always be done starting with the right
premises.”
“Forgive
me but this thing is really what I wanted to say in a clear way. Here
it is. Because there is going around strongly things against the
magisterium of the pope on this. You do not do this. No! This make
me…”
“Now
I do not want to be polemical. I spoke strongly, because sometimes
the truth should be said with force, you see!”
(You
can listen to what the Cardinal said in Italiano at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukU4tEK2p1k&feature=youtu.be)
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My
cardinal said: “I say this as teacher, and also as doctor of
the faith in as far as I am a bishop.” I did not know that all the
bishops are doctors of the Church!?! Is the Church the Author of the
Truth or the handmaid of the Truth?!? When Pope John Paul II spoke to
the bishops in September 1987, he did not say to
the bishops that they must “obey me as Pope”, but “dissent from
the Magisterium” of the Catholic Church!
POPE
JOHN PAUL II (AMONG MANY OTHER
OCCASIONS) SPOKE FIRMLY TO THE US BISHOPS AGAINST THIS "PICK
AND CHOOSE SMORGASBORD TYPE CATHOLICISM"
in LA in his September 1987 visit: "It is sometimes reported
that a large number of Catholics today do not adhere to the teaching
of the Church on a number of questions, notably sexual and conjugal
morality, divorce and remarriage. Some are reported as not accepting
the Church's clear position on abortion. It has also been noted that
there is a tendency on the part of some Catholics to be selective in
their adherence to the Church's moral teachings. It is sometimes
claimed that dissent from the Magisterium is totally compatible with
being a “good Catholic” and poses no obstacle to the reception of
the sacraments. THIS IS A GRAVE ERROR
that challenges the teaching office of the bishops of the United
States and elsewhere. I wish to encourage you in the love of Christ
to address this situation courageously in your pastoral ministry,
relying on the power of God's truth to attract assent and on the
grace of the Holy Spirit which is given both to those who proclaim
the message and to those to whom it is addressed."
(http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/john_paul_ii/speeches/1987/september/documents/hf_jp-ii_spe_19870916_vescovi-stati-uniti_en.html).
It
is interesting that Pope John Paul II did not say to the bishops that
they must obey me as Pope, but “dissent from the Magisterium” of
the Catholic Church! Lumen Gentium 25 teaches clearly that the
documents of an ecumenical council ARE
INFALLIBLE (CCC 891). The Catechism of
the Catholic Church (CCC 888-892) tell us that the doctrines of the
Church are essential to arrive to sanctity. “When the Church
through its supreme Magisterium proposes a doctrine “for belief as
being divinely revealed,” and as the teaching of Christ, the
definitions “must be adhered to with the obedience of faith.”
This infallibility extends as far as the deposit of divine Revelation
itself” (CCC 891). But to the ordinary teaching of the Church “the
faithful are to adhere to it with religious assent” which, though
distinct from the assent of faith, is nonetheless an extension of it”
(CCC 892). Thus the documents in an ecumenical
council express in human language the absolute truths which cannot be
changed, EVEN BY A FUTURE POPE FOR APPARENTLY GOOD MOTIVES TO MAKE
THE NON CATHOLICS FEEL MORE AT EASE or for non practicing Catholics;
this would be false ecumenism, false mercy, false love, which offers
a superficial and easy solution without the cross of Jesus, but
afterwards there is slavery and destruction!
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The
cardinal said: “Because there is going around strongly
things against the MAGISTERIUM OF THE POPE on this”.
This
is why “there is going around strongly things against the
Magisterium of the pope”, because the Magisterium is not of the
Pope but of the Body of Christ, the Church! And the Church is the
handmaid of the Truth, not the Author of the Truth!!!
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It
seems to me that the effect of Amoris Laetitia, no. 301, is not to
help people form their consciences for the true good of souls, but to
confirm “Ignorance is Bliss” as if the Ten Commandments are not
for our true good but for our evil!?! A great number of priests and
bishops today, pushed on by “Pope Francis”, are eager to find
excuses for objective sinful acts, instead of helping people to
realize and believe that God gave us the Ten Commandments for our
true good, and to help them live the saving laws of God with the help
of the sacraments and sincere prayer. Sincere prayer means to live
the Our Father, not just say the words: “THY will be done”.
How many people today, totally immersed in the deadly poison of
relativism that surrounds us today, live the words of the Our Father:
“MY will be done”?!? How many adults never had a true
Christian father who gave the example of self-discipline so as to be
able to sacrifice ones self for his wife, his family and his society
around him. Thus there are a great number of adults who have remained
spoiled arrogant children, and believe this egotistical lifestyle is
normal. It is normal for the world whose prince is Satan (Jn 12:31;
14:30), but this life style does not exist in heaven, but only in
hell. The first goal of secular feminism, the right arm of Satan’s
attack on the family, is to eliminate the father from the family!
Look at how the TV today portrays fathers and men in general!?! Look
at the message given by the TV to women, to not inspire their
husbands but to seduce and ridicule their husbands and men in general
so as to cause the war of the sexes, to destroy the fundamental cell
of society, the family! Where are the true pastors to warn and
protect the sheep from these hidden but very powerful poisons of the
wolf dressed in sheep’s clothing, even as priests and bishops?!?
Where are the true Christian pastors ready to lay down their lives
for his flock instead of encouraging and finding excuses for
lifestyles contrary to the Gospel and the Ten Commandments?!?
Why
did my cardinal not cite other parts of Veritatis Splendor? After
the Vatican Council and the post council was well underway, Pope John
Paul II wrote, contesting “certain currents of modern thought …
The individual conscience is accorded the status of a supreme
tribunal of moral judgment which hands down categorical and
infallible decisions about good and evil. … so much so that some
have come to adopt A RADICALLY
SUBJECTIVISTIC CONCEPTION OF MORAL JUDGMENT”
(Veritatis Splendor, no. 32;
http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/john_paul_ii/encyclicals/documents/hf_jp-ii_enc_06081993_veritatis-splendor_en.html).
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TODAY
THERE ARE MORE PEOPLE THAN EVERY BEFORE IN THE CHURCH WHO PRAY VERY
LITTLE OR PRAY BADLY, that is, they say the Our Father with their
lips, “THY will be done”, but in practice they live, “MY will
be done”. And thus because of this lack of prayer or insincerity,
they do not receive the graces from God to be able to live the
Gospel, the Ten Commandments according to the teachings of the
Church, well summarized in the Catechism of the Catholic Church for
adults. Thus, people slide more and more into compromises with the
faith and with the moral teachings of the Church and slide out of the
state of grace, but want to feel they are going to heaven. Today
there are a great number of priests and bishops, who are surrounded
by people in the Church who have embraced many compromises with the
faith and with the moral teachings of divine revelation without
repenting and going to confession, and without sincerely saying the
words of the Act of Contrition: “I promise with the help of thy
grace to sin no more and to avoid the near occasions of sin”. Thus
a great number of priests and bishops no longer help people to go
back and root out these embraced compromises, which are deadly
poison to the soul, and these clerics end up approving and
justifying, in theological terms out of context of the moral teaching
of the Church, these compromises, so as to not loose parishioners and
to please the people. These priests and bishop, instead of helping
people to live the Gospel explained by the CCC, they find very clever
excuses to remain in silence. For example:
“It
is number 301 of Amoris Laetitia, where the pope explicitly says: “It
can no longer simply be said that all those in any “irregular”
situation are living in a state of mortal sin and are deprived of
sanctifying grace”. And then he continues: “There can exist
factors that limit the possibility of decision and of
responsibility”.”
What
an incredible betrayal of the immortal souls entrusted to priests and
bishops!
BUT
WHAT DID CHRIST DO IN THE SAME SITUATION?
Regarding
divorce:
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! 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
couples in marriage 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!
Regarding
the riches of this earth:
“And
Jesus looked around and said to his disciples, "How hard it will
be for those who trust in riches to enter the kingdom of God!"
And the disciples were amazed at his words. But Jesus said to
them again, "Children, how hard it is for those who trust in
riches to enter the kingdom of God! It is easier for a camel to go
through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom
of God." And they were exceedingly astonished, and said
to him, "Then who can be saved?" Jesus looked at them and
said, "With men it is impossible, but not with God; for all
things are possible with God." (Mk 10:23-27)!
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”.
Regarding
the Eucharist:
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)! The pastors 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
pastors and 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!
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A
week before this monthly formation of the clergy of the diocese of
Perugia the nearby pastor (“The Hidden Broad Road to Perdition”;
http://spir-food.blogspot.it/2015/05/road-perdition.html)
came to visit me. I discovered in the recent years many indications
that this pastor communicates everything that I say to the bishop of
Perugia. Among other things I said to this pastor: “Did God give
us the Ten Commandments for our good or for our evil?” I also
said that if a pastor explains simply and with love the Ten
Commandments to the parishioners and the consequences of not living
them, here on earth and after death, there are more and more
parishioners who do not want to hear these things and some of them
phone the bishop and I said that “the majority of the bishops
today listen to these parishioners but does not talk to the pastor,
and the bishop sends this pastor away from the parish”. I also
said that a woman, Francesca, who loaned me some spiritual books a
year ago, comes often to this little village where I live to visit a
married and divorced man. The pastor immediately defended Francesca
saying that he know her. I added that Francesca also has the keys to
the house of this divorced man.
I
wonder if this pastor is concerned about the eternal salvation of
Francesca?!? Two years ago when told this pastor that in a house
for drug rehabilitation the one in charge began to receive also
prostitutes in this house; before there were only more young men.
This pastor was only worried about human respect if people might
discover this, without any indication whatsoever of concern for the
eternal salvation of the youth in this house. When I went
regularly to this house before, a few young men would make a good
confession; after a few prostitutes came to this house picked up by
the police, no one wanted to go to confession any more, and I stopped
going because I want to collaborate with a house of rehabilitation
not a house of destruction!
If
you want to read about my struggle against the selling of PORNOGRAPHY
and the indifference of the owners of a bar in Italy, and the
indifference of the local pastor, visit:
http://wordbelife.blogspot.it/2013/04/james-59.html
.
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My
cardinal said: “Not because we go along thinking, and the first
thing that we think about, is that they are in the state of mortal
sin. This we do not have the right”. Is my cardinal concerned at
all about the eternal salvation of souls OR ONLY HUMAN RESPECT?
Does he believe that hell exists and has he read the 70 references to
hell in the four Gospels from the mouth of Christ, and has he
studied, as he told us priests to do before opening our mouths, the
many explanations in the CCC about the dangers for souls to end up
separated from God for all eternity?!?
Professor
Ralph Martin, in the Seminary of the
Sacred Heart (Detroit, MI, USA), clarified this very important
teaching of the Second Vatican Council in his book “Will
Many Be Saved?”, with the subtitle
“What Vatican II actually teaches and Its Implications for
the New Evangelization”.
Ralph
Martin explains how people hear that it is possible to be saved
without hearing the Gospel. Then a funny thing happens. They say, I
am glad to hear that, I do not have to worry about people anymore. So
they jump from the possibility to the presumed probability of
almost universal certainty. There is always the example, probably
people like Hitler do not make it, that type of thing. Even the
most famous theologians who write on this subject do this. They
just pay attention to the first few sentences of Lumen Gentium 16
and they jump from possibility to probability, and they completely
ignore the last three sentences. These last three sentences speak
about all those people who theoretically have the possibility of
saying yes to the grace of God without hearing the Gospel but do not.
And very often, the council is telling us, that this responding to
the grace of God does not happen based on what Scripture reveals to
us about the human condition. The verse of the Gospel of Mark, “He
who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who does not
believe will be condemned” (Mk 16:16), is talking about the outcome
of our response to the Lord having consequences! The teaching of the
Council is teaching in harmony with Sacred Scripture and the Church,
and even though it is possible for someone to be saved without
hearing the Gospel, very often that does not happen. We really need
to help people to encounter Jesus Christ, and to discover the
fullness of the means of sanctification and of the truth in the
Catholic Church! Visit: “The Hidden Broad Road to Perdition”
(http://spir-food.blogspot.it/2015/05/road-perdition.html).
My
cardinal, as so many bishops and priests today in the Church, among
other things, does not make distinctions, even though Saint
Thomas Aquinas wrote: Rarely affirm, seldom deny, always distinguish.
My cardinal does not distinguish between the objective and the
subjective. It is clear that only God can judge the subjective
things, the invisible things, such as thought, motives, etc. But we
must judge the objective thins, the visible things.
The
readings for the 23rd Sunday, cycle A, explains this:
"If
your brother sins against you, GO AND TELL HIM HIS FAULT,
between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained your
brother. But if he does not listen, take one or two others along with
you, that every word may be confirmed by the evidence of two or three
witnesses. If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church;
and if he refuses to listen even to the church, let him be to you as
a Gentile and a tax collector. Truly, I say to you, whatever you bind
on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth
shall be loosed in heaven” (Mt 18,15-18)..
"So
you, son of man, I HAVE MADE A WATCHMAN FOR THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL;
whenever you hear a word from my mouth, you shall give them warning
from me. If I say to the wicked, O wicked man, you shall surely die,
and you do not speak to warn the wicked to turn from his way, that
wicked man shall die in his iniquity, but his blood I will require at
your hand. 9 But if you warn the wicked to turn from his way, and he
does not turn from his way; he shall die in his iniquity, but you
will have saved your life” (Ezek 33:7-9)
To
read about many theologians very worried about the effects of Amoris
Laetitia, visit: “Is the Pope Catholic? - The Greatest Schism in
Catholic Church History!”
(http://spir-food.blogspot.it/2016/05/is-pope-catholic.html).
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The
fundamental sin here, which my cardinal and “Pope Francis” never
talk about and encourage in every way possible in a hidden way, is TO
NOT WANT TO KNOW THE WILL OF GOD! “Ignorance
is bliss”! Thus one says with his mouth the Our Father, “THY will
be done”, but in practice, “MY will be done”, because many do
not want to discover the will of God, and even worse and more subtle,
God is always in agreement with me!
In
this way, when one dies, such people who do not want to know or
discover the will of God, throw themselves into the eternal place
where there is not the will of God, where there is not the Truth
who is God. After death there are two place for eternity, where
there is God, and where there is not God, which is called hell; there
is “the father of lies” (jn 8:44). “The chief punishment of
hell is eternal separation from God” (CCC 1035).
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My
cardinal says to the priests of Perugia: “Become informed with the
CCC. Study in depth Catholic theology.” But why does he offer us
only half of the explanation of the CCC, and thus not in context with
the teaching of the Church all together?
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It
seems to me that my cardinal APES the magazine “La Repubblica”. I
wrote in my article, “Is the Pope Catholic? - The Greatest Schism
in Catholic Church History!”
(http://spir-food.blogspot.it/2016/05/is-pope-catholic.html):
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.
“Pope
Benedict explained to us the great IMPORTANCE OF DISTINGUISHING
between the issues that are negotiable and the issues that are not
negotiable” (“Letter to fellow Priests”;
http://spir-food.blogspot.it/2014/12/letter-to-fellow-priests.html).
Non negotiable sins are also called intrinsic evil since they are
wrong in all circumstances
(http://www.stjoseph-marysville.org/faqnonnegotiables.html).
"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).
(“É
Cattolico il Papa? - Il Più Grande Scisma nella Storia della Chiesa
Cattolica!”;
http://cibo-spir.blogspot.it/2016/05/e-cattolico-il-papa.html).
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To
read more about many theologians very worried about the effects of
Amoris Laetitia, visit: “Is the Pope Catholic? - The Greatest
Schism in Catholic Church History!”
(http://spir-food.blogspot.it/2016/05/is-pope-catholic.html).
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I
wrote in my article, “Letter to fellow Priests”
(http://spir-food.blogspot.it/2014/12/letter-to-fellow-priests.html):
But
HOW ARE THESE BEAUTIFUL SLOGANS UNDERSTOOD BY THE PEOPLE by
way of the mass media? (…)
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“WHO AM I TO JUDGE?”
How
is this interpreted by the great majority of people? This short
phrase is very misleading to the public without the proper and needed
explanation given in the same context of the talk or communication!
Do people understand the great need to distinguish? Saint Thomas
exhorts us to always distinguish, so as to not judge the subjective
elements which are visible only to God, but to judge the objective
elements which are visible to us and must be judged by us so as to
determine if the words or behavior of a religious leader, or anyone,
are true according to Divine Revelation, or if there are false and
lead us into error by scandal. Both the ones who give scandal as well
as those who follow scandal are culpable before God! (Sermon of St.
Augustine on the Shepherds; Office of Readings; Week 24, Friday; Ez
34:3; Mk 9:42-49; CCC 2284). Christ clearly taught us to love the
sinner but hate the sin. A great number of people today do not make
this distinction and thus accuse true Christians of hating those with
a homosexual tendency!
Also,
in our secular, egotistical society today, people do not want to hear
or understand the very detrimental consequences of private personal
sins and their effects on others around them and on the whole of
society, except when they are publically identified as hypocrites.
The first priority for many people today is to save face and human
respect. They want only their pleasure today without any
responsibility for tomorrow or for others around them or the society,
and woe to those who tell them otherwise. We hide abortions and the
elderly with euthanasia; we hide the consequences of sin and Christ
crucified for these sins.
HOW MANY CATHOLICS ARE READY TO LOOSE THEIR WORK AND PRESTIGE AND
ENTER INTO POVERTY IN ORDER NOT TO COMMIT A GRAVE MORTAL SIN? I think
very few indeed! The devil moves very gently and imperceptibly so
that we might go toward the infernal precipice full of gaiety,
dancing and all sorts of pleasures (Diary of St. Faustina, no. 153).
Also,
in the atmosphere of relativism, prepared by Satan in the last
decades, today, this phrase, “Who am I to judge”, is
interpreted more than ever as if sin does not exist, or that there is
mercy without any personal obligation, in order to have sincere
repentance, to “promise, with the help of thy grace, to sin no more
and to avoid the near occasion of sin”!
A
half truth, when it is told to leave one to question or negate the
other half, is worse than an outright lie because within it is a
deception in what one is actually saying. Such obscurity is designed
to keep just enough of one’s enemy asleep. The sense in which Jesus
told us not to judge others was in regard to the measure of
culpability for the sin committed. It was never to negate the need
and importance of discerning or judging what sin is or whether
another has committed or is living in sin. The negation of the
certainty of very significant socially damaging (mortal!) sins by
these deliberate half truths when the majority of Catholics have
already negated them, causes great moral and spiritual damage. The
type of judging that Jesus forbids is that which negates love for the
sinner. The kind of judging we must do in discerning what sin is, IS
REQUIRED BY LOVE FOR THE SINNER. When pastors and priests do not
judge sin as sin it is because they do not love the sinner
as they often falsely profess. This lack of true love (lovelessness)
leads to moral chaos which then often leads to an opposite reactive
lovelessness and the self destruction of families and eventually
society.
In
the four Gospels, one finds Jesus, Who is Love incarnate, referring
to hell about 70 times! “Do not judge by appearance, but judge
with right judgment” (Jn 7:24).
What
is the effect when a very high ranking religious leader writes:
“The question for those who do not believe in God lies in their
obedience to their own conscience. There is sin, even for those who
do not have faith, when one goes against the conscience … In other
words, the truth being definitively one with love, requires humility
and openness in order to be sought, received and expressed”? In
this statement there is no explanation of the need to seek the
truth outside of one’s own heads and to form one’s conscience
according to at least the natural law which all men can come to
understand, even those who have never heard about Jesus Christ (CCC
50).
The
same deceptive half truth that leaves one to negate the other half is
the statement that implies that if we take care of our own sin, that
is all that is needed if we are merciful to others. So we need
more SILENCE about the sins in the world and in the Church!?! The
deception of many Church leaders is not only in being quite short on
naming sin, and implying it is whatever we think it is, but that in
implying that if we take care of sin in our own lives everyone else
will do likewise without our “judgmental” intervention! It’s
live and let live with a false message of mercy solving all things.
THIS IS THE NEGATION OF SIN, THE SAME MESSAGE THE SERPENT GAVE TO EVE
IN THE GARDEN.
The
Second Vatican Council expressed this concept in the proper context
so as not to lead astray or deceive the readers (Dignitatis Humanae,
no. 1). How easy it is to fall into the hidden and devastating
dangers of indifferentism and subjectivism. “By
natural reason man can know God with certainty, on the basis of His
works. But there is another order of knowledge, which man cannot
possible arrive at by his own powers: the order of divine
Revelation…” (CCC 50).
Fundamentally,
the strategy to disarm the Church of her most powerful weapons and
defenses against the onslaughts of Satan using false ecumenism, false
love and false mercy, is the same strategy used by the homosexual
activists to destroy the fundamental cell of society, the family.
In the name of “love”, of “compassion”, of “tolerance”,
of “mercy”, of “equal rights”, the puppets of Satan, these
homosexual activists, manipulate, coerce, and impose their agenda on
an unsuspecting public, even though their goal and agenda destroys
not only the family but also the society and destroys themselves in
this fundamental human disorder. Where is the courage of our pastors
who have been given by God the grace of their vocation to warn the
sheep of the very destructive hidden and devious lies of the ravenous
wolves in sheep’s clothing?
The
affirmation that the Church is necessary
for salvation “is not aimed at those
who, through no fault of their own, do not know Christ and his
Church: Those who, through no fault of their own, do not know the
Gospel of Christ or his Church, but who nevertheless seek God with a
sincere heart, and, moved by grace, try in their actions to do his
will as they know it through the dictates of their conscience - those
too may achieve eternal salvation” (CCC 846-847).
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Padre
Pio and all the saints were very preoccupied for the salvation of
souls and the dangers for souls. Now many priests and bishops are
preoccupied to NOT talk about sin since we cannot know if a
person has committed a sin (on the subjectively level)!?! Many
priests and bishops do not make distinctions and thus everything in
the moral realm today has been put into the category of subjective
judgment which only God can judge and thus if you talk about sin you
are immediately accused of judging others!!! Homosexual activists do
not make the distinction between the sinner and the act of sinning,
the act of homosexuality; thus they accuse true Christians of hating
homosexuals. But true Christians, as does Christ, loves the sinner
but hates the sin. Priests and bishops do exactly what the
homosexual activists do because they do not make the proper
distinctions!!!
What
did the saints do???? Padre Pio sent away, without absolution, about
one third of the people who came to him in confession! Today priests
are afraid of trying to help people to identify the poison of sin as
the doctors of souls, as did all the saints. The most important work
of a priest has been greatly discouraged especially in the last three
years. PRIESTS ARE ACCUSED OF NOT LOVING PEOPLE BECAUSE YOU TALK
ABOUT THE GREATEST EVIL FOR A SOUL, SIN! After death our decision
to be with the eternal Truth or to be with “the father of lies”
will be confirmed for all eternity! Is this true love to talk like my
cardinal talks and like “Pope Francis” talks, or is it true love
to talk like Padre Pio and all the saints who were not afraid to help
people identify and overcome the only mortal danger regarding our
destiny for eternity?!?
If
priests and bishops do not live their faith as the saints did or at
least do not do the best of their ability with God’s graces, then
they will go toward one extreme or the other, toward totally lenient
as does a great number of priests and bishops today, or to the other
extreme of judging and condemning others without love. Priests
and bishops who do not live their faith according to God, but in
their own relativism, will judge another priest who explains to the
souls, entrusted to him, the Ten Commandments, and the consequences
of sin here on earth and after death, even if this faithful priest
does this out of true love for the souls entrusted to him, for their
eternal salvation. Because these liberal priests and bishops only
understand the two extremes but not the middle between the two
extremes which is where true virtue. PRIESTS AND BISHOPS TODAY ARE
VERY WORRIED ABOUT OFFENDING SOMEONE BUT VERY LITTLE WORRIED ABOUT
HELPING SOULS IDENTIFY AND OVERCOME THE ONLY THING THAT WILL STOP THE
SOULS FROM ENTERING ETERNAL LIFE, SIN!?! What are the priorities
of such priests and bishops today so very numerous?!? What is more
important, this short life or eternity? Jesus is the Truth (Jn 14:6)
and thus one can apply this verse to the proclamation of the Truth:
“So every one who acknowledges me before men, I also will
acknowledge before my Father who is in heaven; but whoever denies me
before men, I also will deny before my Father who is in heaven” (Mt
10:32-33)!
This
attitude and judgment toward a good priest is augmented by the fact
that a great number of priests and bishops today do not believe hell
exists or that hell is empty, and thus this good priest, who is
helping people to identify their sins and to overcome their sins, is
only causing useless problems of psychological complexes for people
according to the very numerous liberal priests and bishops. After
all, if the devil does not exist, then hell does not exist and thus
sin does not exist, and thus there is no need of a Savior who came to
free us from our “sins”!?! ACCORDING TO THESE PRIESTS AND
BISHOPS, FULL OF HUMAN WISDOM, OUR LADY OF FATIMA WAS AN IDIOT TO
SHOW THREE CHILDREN HELL and the thousands of souls who fall into
hell everyday like sparks into the eternal flames. Pope John Paul II,
according to them, was very imprudent to go to Fatima three times,
and Pope Benedict XVI in 2010! According to these “enlightened”
priests and bishops in their modern church today, Jesus came only to
serve the agenda of the world with such things as liberation theology
or to free the Jews from the Romans 2000 years ago, as Judas Iscariot
hoped Jesus would do after he betrayed Jesus! Liberation theology is
a true betrayal of Jesus Christ and of His Body, the Church!!!
“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. “YOU
HYPOCRITES! You know how to interpret the appearance of earth and
sky; but why do you not know how to interpret the present time?”
(Lk 12:56; Mt 16:3; 24:51)” (“The Hidden Broad Road to
Perdition”;
http://spir-food.blogspot.it/2015/05/road-perdition.html).
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WHEN
PEOPLE DO NOT SEE THE LIVED FAITH IN CHRISTIANS, WHAT HAPPENS?
“Religion
itself, without the experience of wondrous discovery of the Son of
God and communion with him who became our brother, becomes a mere
set of principles which are increasingly difficult to understand, and
rules which are increasingly hard to accept.”
(Blessed
John Paul II, Meeting with Youth of Kazakhstan, September 23,
2001;
https://w2.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/speeches/2001/september/documents/hf_jp-ii_spe_20010923_kazakhstan-astana-youth.html)
“Se
noi ci lasciamo tirare dentro queste discussioni, allora si
identifica la Chiesa con alcuni comandamenti o divieti
e noi facciamo la figura di moralisti con alcune convinzioni un po'
fuori moda, e la vera grandezza della fede non appare minimamente.
Perciò ritengo cosa fondamentale mettere sempre di nuovo in rilievo
la grandezza della nostra fede – un impegno dal quale non dobbiamo
permettere che ci distolgano simili situazioni.”
(Conclusione
dell’Incontro del Santo Padre con i Vescovi della Svizzera;
Discorso di Sua Santità Benedetto XVI;
Giovedì, 9 novembre 2006;
https://w2.vatican.va/content/benedict-xvi/it/speeches/2006/november/documents/hf_ben-xvi_spe_20061109_concl-swiss-bishops.html)
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Certainly,
we must not help people to identify sins and to overcome sins in a
PROUD WAY. We don’t say this in a judging way. Saint Paul tells
us: “Therefore be alert, remembering that for three years I did not
cease night or day to admonish every one WITH TEARS” (Acts
20:31)
In
another place Saint Paul says: “For many, of whom I have often told
you and now tell you even WITH TEARS, live as enemies of the
cross of Christ. Their end is destruction, their god is the belly,
and they glory in their shame, with minds set on earthly things”
(Phil 3:18-19).
This
is the attitude of heart out of which we must speak the truth in love
for the salvation of souls.
This
is how the Catechism of the Catholic Church for adults summarizes
this (no. 1864): “There are no limits to the mercy of God, but
anyone who deliberately refuses to accept his mercy by repenting,
rejects the forgiveness of his sins and the salvation offered by
the Holy Spirit. Such hardness of heart can lead to final
impenitence and ETERNAL LOSS.”
Visit:
“Satan Apes Christ”, which also includes many articles
that I found that you might find interesting, including about the
true purpose of NASA to produce holograms using Chemtrails, the fake
extraterrestrials, the great danger of CERN, the Money Masters of the
world, the continuing destruction of the sacrament of Matrimony and
the family by “Pope Francis”, the “illumination
of the consciences”, and more.
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I
understand more and more why Fr. Gabriele Amorth, and other important
exorcists, said that SATAN’S GREATEST SUCCESS IS THE FACT THAT
HE HAS MANAGED TO CONVINCE PEOPLE THAT HE DOES NOT EXIST
(http://www.speroforum.com/site/article.asp?id=2879;
http://www.vaticans.org/index.php?/archives/61-An-interview-with-the-Vaticans-chief-excorcist,-Father-Gabriele.html).
Thus if the devil does not exist, neither does hell, neither does sin
exist; Christ becomes just a nice social leader for liberation
theology, and those who still believe that the devil and hell exist,
and try to help people to avoid going to hell by helping people
identify their sins and to overcome them with the sacraments and
prayer, are accused of being unloving people from the past. We
are now the modern church!!!
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The
Servant of God, Archbishop Fulton Sheen, told us in 1950:
“[Satan]
will set up a counterchurch which will be the ape of the [Catholic]
Church … It will have all the notes and characteristics of the
Church, but in reverse and EMPTIED OF ITS DIVINE CONTENT.”
“We
are living in the days of the Apocalypse, the last days of our era.
The two great forces – the Mystical Body of Christ and the Mystical
Body of the anti-Christ – are beginning to draw battle lines for
the catastrophic contest.”
“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 the Catholic Church will be one; and the false Prophet will
create the other.”
“THE
FALSE CHURCH WILL BE WORLDLY, ECUMENICAL, AND GLOBAL. It will be
a loose federation of churches and religions, forming some type of
global association.”
“A
world parliament of Churches. It will be emptied of all Divine
content, it will be the mystical body of the anti-christ. The
Mystical Body on earth today will have its Judas Iscariot, and he
will be the false prophet. Satan will recruit him from our Bishops.”
“THE
ANTICHRIST WILL NOT BE SO CALLED; OTHERWISE HE WOULD HAVE NO
FOLLOWERS. He will not wear red tights, nor vomit sulphur, nor carry
a trident nor wave an arrowed tail as Mephistopheles in Faust. This
masquerade has helped the Devil convince men that he does not exist.
When no man recognizes, the more power he exercises. God has defined
Himself as “I am Who am,” and the Devil as “I am who am not.”
“Nowhere
in Sacred Scripture do we find warrant for the popular myth of the
Devil as a buffoon who is dressed like the first “red.” Rather is
he described as an angel fallen from heaven, as “the Prince of this
world,” whose business it is to tell us that there is no other
world. HIS LOGIC IS SIMPLE: if there is no heaven there is no
hell; if there is no hell, then there is no sin; if there is no sin,
then there is no judge, and if there is no judgment then evil is good
and good is evil. But above all these descriptions, OUR LORD TELLS
US THAT HE WILL BE SO MUCH LIKE HIMSELF THAT HE WOULD DECEIVE EVEN
THE ELECT–and certainly no devil ever seen in picture books
could deceive even the elect. How will he come in this new age to win
followers to his religion?”
(**):
Communism and the Conscience of the West, by Archbishop Fulton J.
Sheen, Bobbs-Merril Company, Indianapolis, 1948, pp. 24-25)
It
is very interesting that “Pope Francis” stopped the process of
beatification of Venerable Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen!?!
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I
wrote in my article: “The Hidden Broad Road to Perdition”
(http://spir-food.blogspot.it/2015/05/road-perdition.html):
THE
LAST SEVERAL POPES HAVE SAID THAT THE MOST SERIOUS SIN TODAY IS
THAT THERE IS NO MORE SIN; we have lost the sense of sin. One of
the most fundamental tasks for Jesus was that of Redeemer, to free us
from our sins for those of good will who confess their sins (Mk 2:17;
Lk 5:31-32, etc.). Thus one of the tasks most fundamental for the
priests is to be the doctor of the souls, to help the souls to
identify and to cure the sicknesses of the soul, especially those
most grave which are called “mortal sins”, that is, the sins
which render the soul dead, but the body walks with a dead soul until
death if there is no priest who helps the person to recognize the
gravity of their situation and to make a good confession! If the
priests do not help the people to identify the sickness of the soul,
the people do not have anything to confess, and thus they have no
need of Jesus the Redeemer, who came for sinners, not for the just
who believe to have no sins. In this way the Redemption is nullified
for these people because they do not believe to have need of a
Savior.
The
saints tell us that the gravest sins are those of omission. Even
though the servant, who did not multiply his talent, did not steal or
kill anyone, he was called by Jesus “wicked and slothful servant”
(Mt 25:26), words rarely used by Jesus in the Gospels! MANY
PRIESTS AND BISHOPS TODAY HAVE NOT DONE THEIR PRIMARY JOB, to
indicate, with explanations, and cure the sicknesses of the souls.
Because after many years of this negligence to help souls to identify
their sins according to the CCC and to get out of mortal sin, often
the reaction among many people, who even frequent the parish, is very
negative when finally a new pastor explains the Catholic religion
according to the teachings of the Catholic Church, summarized in the
CCC for adults! If one confronts the life of the people, who even
frequent the parishes, with the CCC, on the objective level (not
subjective which only God can judge), at least the majority are in
mortal sin today; and notwithstanding this, there are very few who go
to confession and there are many who communicate with the infinite
God in the Eucharist!
But
many who still go to confession, do not understand anymore what is a
sin according to the CCC, because very few priests today take the
risk of their primary job to help the souls identify and cure the
mortal sicknesses of the soul, MORTAL
SINS! The secretary of the
Congregation for Clergy, Archbishop Mauro Piacenza, has lamented that
many faithful no longer confess their sins. Archbishop Piacenza told
Vatican Radio (June 5, 2009) the sacrament of penance has been
experiencing a "deep crisis" for decades. Piacenza, an
official for the Vatican office on clergy, says FEWER PEOPLE
DISTINGUISH BETWEEN GOOD AND EVIL, and as a result do not go to
confession. The archbishop said in an interview that if faithful do
not have a sense of sin, they might "CONFUSE" CONFESSION
WITH "THE COUCH OF A PSYCHOLOGIST OR A PSYCHIATRIST"!
(http://www.cathnews.com/article.aspx?aeid=14231).
WHAT
WOULD YOU THINK OF A DOCTOR WHO CARED NOTHING ABOUT DISEASE AND DOES
NOT WANT TO TALK ABOUT DISEASE and sends
patients with a grave disease home telling the patient not to worry
because the doctor was afraid of UPSETTING THE PATIENT. He
would be considered a quake, an incompetent, culpable of gross
professional negligence. He could be sued for malpractice. But if
priests do not speak about the only thing
that can kill the soul, mortal sin, because the people (spiritual
patients) do not want to hear these things, what would you think of
such a priest? If the doctor operates in this way, the person could
easily loose his life; but if the doctor of souls, the priest, does
this, the person could loose his immortal soul which lasts for all
eternity. “For what will it profit a man, if he
gains the whole world and forfeits his life?” (Mt 16:26; Mc
8:36).
The
Catholic Church has always taught: “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). 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).
“NEGLIGENT
RELIGIOUS LEADERS ARE OFTEN AFRAID TO SPEAK freely and say what needs
to be said – for fear of losing favor with people. As Truth himself
says, they are certainly not guarding their flock with the care
expected of a shepherd but are acting like hirelings, because hiding
behind a wall of silence is like taking flight at the approach of the
wolf. These are the people whom the Lord is reproaching through the
prophet, when he says: ‘THEY ARE ALL DUMB DOGS, THEY CANNOT
BARK’ (Is 56:10) … If a religious leader is afraid to say
what is right, what else can his silence mean but that he has taken
flight? Whereas, if he stand firm in defense of his flock, he is
building up a wall for the house of Israel against its enemies. And
so again the sinful people are told: ‘Your prophets have seen false
and foolish visions for you; they have not exposed your iniquity in
order to provoke you to repentance.’ …” (Pope St. Gregory the
Great; Office of Readings; Sunday, Week 27 of OT).
A
great number of pastors today want to close their eyes to the signs
of the times, even to the point on convincing themselves and their
flocks that the devil does not exist
(http://www.speroforum.com/site/article.asp?id=2879;
http://www.vaticans.org/index.php?/archives/61-An-interview-with-the-Vaticans-chief-excorcist,-Father-Gabriele.html),
and to “even promise the happiness of this world” in order to
please the people!
“WHAT
KIND OF MEN ARE THEY who, FEARING TO
HURT THOSE THEY SPEAK TO, not only do
not prepare them for imminent temptations, but even promise the
happiness of this world, which God did not promise to the world
itself?...” (Sermon of St. Augustine on
the Shepherds; Office of Readings; Sunday, Week 24 of OT, Friday).
Read
the Sermon of St. Augustine on the
Shepherds, the second readings from Sunday of 24 OT to Friday of 25
OT.
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This
great lack of warning the souls of the beautiful lies of Satan,
presented as if they were the truth, is a great betrayal on the part
of the pastors! This is why Saint Michael the
Archangel at Garabandal, sent by Our Lady, (Spain, 1965) said: “Many
Cardinal, many Bishops and many Priests are on the road to perdition
and with them they are bringing many souls”!
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If
a priest truly loves the people in his parish, would he not want to
help people to recognize and heal the greatest evil of the soul,
mortal sin? Are priests today concerned about the eternal salvation
of the souls entrusted to them or do they believe that heaven is
automatic and so they can concentrate only on this short life?
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“The
whole of man’s history has been the story of DOUR COMBAT with
the powers of evil” (CCC 409).
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“THE
PRIESTS TODAY WHO PREACH THE WHOLE GOSPEL and all of the teachings of
the Magisterium of the Church are labeled ridged and
old-fashioned, insensitive, lacking in compassion, divisive,
judgmental, MORALISTS. While at the same time the ones who maintain a
culpable silence, the ones who tell their people what they think they
want to hear are seen as understanding, sympathetic, pastorally
sensitive and merciful. “Woe to you, when all
men speak well of you” (Lk 6:26). “How can you believe, who
receive glory from one another and do not seek the glory that comes
from the only God?” (Jn 5:44; Gal 1:10). But this way of doing
things is not true mercy! THIS IS FALSE
LOVE, MISGUIDED
COMPASSION, false mercy, false
ecumenism, that does not lead to heaven for eternity!?!”
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Forgive
me for the length of this article, but the confusion is great among
priests and bishops even though they studied theology and philosophy
in the seminary!
Father
Joseph Dwight
P.s.
There
is less prayer than ever before, more sin than ever before, even
worse, indifference as if sin no longer exists, and so we have given
much greater power to “the father of lies”, Satan (Jn 8:44). In
particular Satan has more power to “disguise himself as an angel
of light” (2Cor 11:14), to offer his very deadly beautiful lies
as if they were the “truth that sets us free” (Jn 8:32)!
Thus
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, but to keep
our eyes open so as not to fall into the beautiful lies of Satan
presented as if they were the Truth!
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