On June 30, Church Militant posted a video entitled, What Needs to Change with the Catholic Church? – the title alone foreshadowing its doctrinal sloppiness.
In the video, Michael Voris conducts an interview with four men:
– Mr. James Grein, the longtime Theodore McCarrick abuse victim who recently revealed that he had also been abused by Fr. Joseph Bernadin.
– Fr. Paul Kalchik, whom Cardinal Cupich stripped of his pastorship, ordered to undergo a psychiatric evaluation, and threatened with having his faculties removed; all for the high crime of burning a rainbow banner emblazoned with a cross. He has since been in hiding.
– Mr. Stephen Brady, President of The Roman Catholic Faithful – a group dedicated to exposing the clerical network of sexual immorality in the U.S.
– Fr. Paul Sullins, a sociologist of the Ruth Institute who recently published a study documenting the link between the abuse crisis and homosexuality.
Without endorsing every position these men may hold, at the very least one must admire their willingness to invite the slings and arrows that await those who publicly address the homo-clerical crisis and those who labor to cover it up.
Now, back to that title: “What Needs to Change with the Catholic Church?”
The correct answer should be obvious: NOTHING. Absolutely nothing needs to change with the Catholic Church!
As will always be the case, and even more apparently so in times of crisis, her enemies simply need to convert, repent, and embrace the life-giving truths that Our Lord has entrusted to His Church. In other words, non-believers – in the present case, those posing as men of faith – need to become and remain actual members of the Mystical Body of Christ as defined and understood according to Catholic tradition.
As the title to the video suggests, however, Michael Voris & Co., like so many others, are either unwilling or unable to distinguish between – not even by the slightest nuance – that which is truly of the Catholic Church, and that which is the activity of her enemies; men who clearly dwell outside of her confines.
The reason for their reticence in this matter is known with certainty by God alone.
That said, it certainly seems as if some “conservative” and “traditional” Catholic media types are determined to avoid such distinctions, as a deliberate act of the will, because they know that doing so might negatively impact “audience size” (a metric closely followed by one chest-pounding blowhard in particular).
Truth be known; they have a point. It is a fact that simply encouraging Catholics to ask difficult questions (e.g., Are Francis and his minions actually Catholic?) and to seek answers by the light of authentic tradition, invites a genuine risk that the entire enterprise will be viewed by many as too radical to merit any support. Believe me, I know.
In any case, in the first several minutes of the CMTV video, Michael Voris speaks about the “institution of the Church… within the institution” and how “part of the institution has been weaponized for evil, for evil ends.” He even goes so far as to say that homosexuality is “the sacred cow of the hierarchy.”
He’s talking about the hierarchy of the Holy Roman Catholic Church! Clearly, such men are not Catholic, and to the extent that they are hierarchs, the institution they serve certainly isn’t the Church.
Good intentions aside, what Michael Voris is saying, perhaps thoughtlessly, is that the “institution” that is the one true Church of Christ is attacking itself. In other words, he speaks as if the Mystical Body of Christ is the agent of its own passion. This notion is not only demonstrably false; it is patently illogical.
Pope Pius XII taught (as did St. Augustine) that the Catholic Church is as “another Christ” (see Mystici Corporis). Clearly, Our Lord did not scourge Himself, crown Himself with thorns, or nail Himself to the Cross. Nor can it be said that His Passion was carried out at the hands of His disciples, but rather by those who rejected Him.
In the same way, it cannot be said that the “institution of the Church” or some portion thereof is the very weapon “for evil” that is attacking the Holy Roman Catholic Church.
Indeed, the Catholic Church is under attack, but it is so at the hands of those who are not her members; most notably men who form the hierarchy of a different and separate institution; one with its own magisterial texts (Vatican II, Amoris Laetitia) its own saints (Paul VI, John Paul II), and even its own liturgical rites (the dreadful Novus Ordo Missae).
Unless and until one is willing to acknowledge this reality, their view of the present crisis will forever remain clouded and the “solutions” they envision will amount to little more than mere folly, which is exactly what the Evil One desires and has been very successful in accomplishing.
In his First Epistle to Timothy (cf Chapters 2-3), St. Paul warned us about precisely the sort of thing that is taking place today. He begins by describing the necessary virtues of those men who would be bishops. From there, he immediately declares, directly citing the power of the Holy Spirit no less:
Now the Spirit manifestly saith, that in the last times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to spirits of error, and doctrines of devils, speaking lies in hypocrisy, and having their conscience seared… (1 Tim 4:1-2)
Bear well in mind that St. Paul is discussing bishops. He tells us that some will depart from the faith; i.e., they will not truly belong to the Mystical Body of Christ, in spite of any outward appearances.
In his Second Epistle to Timothy, St. Paul elaborates on the last times and the deceptive nature of these apostate bishops:
Know also this, that, in the last days, shall come dangerous times. Men shall be lovers of themselves, covetous, haughty, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, wicked. Without affection, without peace, slanderers, incontinent, unmerciful, without kindness. Traitors, stubborn, puffed up, and lovers of pleasures more than of God: Having an appearance indeed of godliness, but denying the power thereof. Now these avoid. (2 Tim 3:1-5)
Though it appears that he is speaking of “men” in a general sense (and he is to an extent); in context, it is clear that St. Paul is speaking of those men who have the office of teaching – namely, bishops. They will have but an appearance of godliness (some translations say an appearance of religion). They are, however, imposters who must be avoided; that is to say, they are anathema.
This, my friends, is a perfect description of the men that occupy “the hierarchy,” the “sacred cow” of which, according to Michael Voris, is “homosexuality.”
I took the time to watch the entire video. I cannot in good faith encourage you to do the same as there is little edification in store for those who do. There are, however, a couple of clips that I would like to highlight inasmuch as they demonstrate the darkness that envelopes the minds of those who fail to make the aforementioned distinctions.
At roughly the twenty-four-minute mark, Fr. Sullins states:
…look at the Pennsylvania grand jury and all of the media reports on that, and yet that’s extremely unfair in many ways to the bishops that it reported on if you read the whole report. It’s a malicious bias – anti-Catholic, anti-bishop bias – in that whole document, and the reason I’m saying this is that … whenever the nation of Israel left God or rebelled against God, ultimately God’s solution to that was to turn them over to their enemies for purification. So I have great hope that God in turning us over to our enemies, turning the bishops over to their enemies is going to have a good effect.
Fr. Sullins tiptoes right up to the very edge of a stark reality; we are being subjected to the evil dictates of men properly known as enemies of the New Israel. And yet, he either cannot see, or will not acknowledge, the plain fact that among the Church’s primary enemies today are not simply Attorneys General and members of the secular media; rather, they are unbelieving men posing as members of the Body of Christ – “bishops” even – men who have but the appearance of godliness. In truth, they have left God! They have departed His Holy Catholic Church!
This includes the perpetrators of homo-clerical abuse indeed, but even more broadly it includes men like Jorge Bergoglio and every single solitary layman, priest and bishop that supports his clearly diabolical (that is, conciliar) cause.
One might be moved to ask: Can a person at one and the same time be an enemy of the Holy Catholic Church and yet a member of Christ’s Mystical Body?
If Pope Pius XII is to be believed, the answer is no – not inasmuch as we are discussing things made manifest; i.e., concerning those whose opposition to the true Faith is not merely occult (that is, secret or hidden).
The Holy Father writes:
Actually only those are to be included as members of the Church who have been baptized and profess the true faith… The cooperation of all its members must also be externally manifest through their profession of the same faith and their sharing the same sacred rites, through participation in the same Sacrifice, and the practical observance of the same laws. (cf Mystici Corporis) [Emphasis added]
In this, the word “same” refers to that which is truly Catholic; the same Faith and same Divine Laws that have been handed down throughout the centuries.
Now, if anyone truly wishes to defend the claim that men like McCarrick, Wuerl, Cupich, Bergoglio, et. al. “externally manifest and profess the same Catholic faith, and observe the same Divine Laws,” they are welcome to go right ahead and die on that hill if they wish. As for me, no thank you.
Lastly, Fr. Kalchik – may God relieve his obvious suffering, and I mean this sincerely as to watch him speak is truly painful – at the roughly three-minute mark, states:
After the French Revolution the hierarchy of the Church – pope, bishops – have had nothing to check their power and or to balance them, and so again, what we see playing out is a function of that absence of a check mechanism. Because in years past, you know, if a particular bishop within a particular country was out of line, the king would intervene and he would be deposed. Right now, you have a system that has no checks and balances in it.
Fr. Kalchik’s understanding of papal power is clearly off the mark, and to the extent that he shares Michael Voris’ view that “the institution of the Church” is perpetrating evil against itself, this is not surprising.
In truth, the fact that there is no earthly authority in place to “check the power” of the pope isn’t a problem to be solved; it is the way Our Lord constituted His Church. It is the pope – not any other earthly authority – that deposes bishops:
It is the pope whom Christ “enriches above all others with the supernatural gifts of knowledge, understanding and wisdom, so that he may loyally preserve the treasury of faith, defend it vigorously, and explain it and confirm it with reverence and devotion.” (cf Mystici Corporis 50)
If the above is unfamiliar to you, read it again. This being so, if ever a man claims to be “pope,” and yet he obviously needs to have his power checked because he is launching an all-out, multi-faceted, doctrinal, moral and pastoral attack on the Church and her faithful – one that is highly coordinated with numerous avowed enemies of Christ (LGBT activists, one-world government secularists, population control advocates, etc.), wouldn’t that be a pretty clear sign that his claim is utterly bogus?
In conclusion, it bears repeating the answer to the question posed in Michael Voris’ video:
Absolutely nothing needs to change with the Catholic Church; her enemies, many of whom shamelessly parade around in clerical costumes, simply need to repent, convert, and embrace her life-giving truths.
From above by Louis: “. . . what Michael Voris is saying, perhaps thoughtlessly, is that the “institution” that is the one true Church of Christ is attacking itself. In other words, he speaks as if the Mystical Body of Christ is the agent of its own passion. This notion is not only demonstrably false; it is patently illogical.”
Louis, you have hit the nail on the head. In fact, you lend support, for which I am most grateful, what I sent to various traditionalists earlier this year, but which landed on deaf ears. Apparently the truly providential prophecy by Cardinal Cerejeira has come true! He told the participants at the opening of a tour of the Pilgrim Virgin Statue of Our Lady of Fatima across Italy in 1959: “It is an apocalyptic hour for the world. These are frightening winds from hell which are blowing, AND THE ELECT THEMSELVES ARE ALLOWING THEMSELVES TO BE CARRIED AWAY.”
It is my belief that the words of Our Lord and Our Lady pertaining to an urgent and public warning about the Church is more worthy of belief than any sensible situation, event, “prudence” or judgments of the natural order. This can be understood by the fact that the Consecration of Russia not having been done as yet–a so called prudential decision by Pope John XXIII and his successors–has led to the crisis we have today.
FACT #1
Our Lady at Akita told Sr. Agnes: “The work of the devil will infiltrate even into the Church in such a way that one will see cardinals opposing cardinals and bishops against other bishops. The priests who venerate me will be scorned and opposed by their confreres. . . churches and altars sacked; the Church will be full of those who accept compromises and the demons will press many priests and consecrated souls to leave the service of the Lord.” (This is an approved apparition by Bishop Ito of the Diocese of Niigata wherein Akita is situated, but due to a diplomatic decision Cardinal Ratzinger did not officially approve it as head of the CDF, although he privately approved it and urged its promotion worldwide.)
FACT #2
Words of Sr. Lucia to Bishop Caffarra when, having been asked by Pope John Paul II to set up the Pontifical Institute for Studies on Marriage and the Family (“The Institute’s establishment was to be announced at the Holy Father’s Wednesday audience on May 13, 1981. Because of the attempted assassination, the Institute’s Apostolic Constitution, Magnum Matrimonii Sacramentum, was instead given on October 7, 1982, the Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary”–From the Institute’s Web Page): “The final battle between Satan and Christ will be over marriage and the family.” (Although stated by Sr. Lucia these do not come from Sr. Lucia herself, but from Our Lady or Our Lord, because Sr. Lucia never makes a categorical statement concerning a prophecy on her own. If she draws a conclusion from our Lady’s words or speculates on something said by Our Lady, she always qualifies it by indicating it is her own thought. Personally I believe that this a discrete warning that actually comes from the unrevealed part of the 3rd Secret).
FACT #3
Of course there is the statement by Pope Paul VI about the Smoke of Satan having entered the Vatican “through some crevice” and also Father Amorth, while the chief exorcise of Rome, was shouting from the housetops that Satan was in the Vatican, that there are Bishops, Monsignors and Priests who do not believe in God. (I have the documentation for this).
FACT #4
Francis is systematically destroying the Catholic Church, the Mystical Body of Christ, He betrayed the True Church in China turning it over to the Communists, about whom Our Lady warned at Fatima, and this alone ought to be enough to recognize the involvement of the demonic in the Church. He resurrects, protects, covers for, promotes and employs those whose lifestyle is nothing but demonic,
but also promotes other practices absolutely contrary to and destructive of Marriage and Family as well as contrary to the Law of God. And NO FAITHFUL CATHOLIC questions his attack on Marriage and the Family!!! Is it not precisely this attitude and program of Francis that causes the division between Cardinals and Bishops?
It is my opinion that it is tantamount to heresy to say that God would allow someone under the control of Satan to have Official Power to destroy Christ’s Church. Would any Superior General of the SSPX or Fr. Gruner when still living, even though they are not the Church, allow someone under the control of Satan to take over those apostolates? So why would Our Lord allow such a situation—even
IF the Church is Infallible and Indefectible? Sr. Lucia told Cardinal Caffarra that the Final Battle between God and Satan would be over Marriage and the Family. If we are talking about a battle between good and evil–a battle between God and Satan no less–how can anyone believe that evil, i.e., one under the control of Satan, could have official control of the Church? IT WOULD BE THE CATHOLIC CHURCH BATTLING THE CATHOLIC CHURCH, A TRULY INSANE AND IF IT COULD BE TRUE!!!
Now, God in His Providence uses secondary causes to accomplish his Plans. And because Pope John XXIII and Successors refused to make the Consecration of Russia, which Consecration would have eliminated Satan’s plan to take over the Church, God used Plan B. That Plan was to have Benedict maintain the Papacy so that Satan, through Francis and his legitimate successors, could not destroy, in
an official way, the Catholic Church. Beside that, Benedict was being forced to do what he know was wrong and prevented from doing what he know ought to be done through the use of the Media which was under demonic control; thus he only placed himself in a position, in an official way, that was analogous to a Pope in captivity (Pope Pius VII), a Pope in hiding (Pope Caius) or a Pope in exile (Pope
Gregory the Great). In my book, Benedict has saved the True Church of Christ! He had to forego the great personal good of Martyrdom, in order to salvage the much greater Common Good of the One, Holy Catholic, and Apostolic Church founded by Christ. Nevertheless, he will still be martyred, as the Pope in the Vision of the Third Secret. But he is hated today, and those who cheered him on have turned their backs on him. They do not understand what he really did, nor vision of Jacinta where she saw:
“[T]he holy Father in very a big house, kneeling by a table, with his head buried in his hands, and he was weeping. Outside the house there were many people. Some of them were throwing stones, others were cursing him and using bad language. Poor Holy Father, we must pray very much for him” (Third Memoir of St. Lucia).
“It is the pope whom Christ “enriches above all others with the supernatural gifts of knowledge, understanding and wisdom, so that he may loyally preserve the treasury of faith, defend it vigorously, and explain it and confirm it with reverence and devotion.” (cf Mystici Corporis 50)”
And who, with no gun pointed at their head, can say Jorge fills those shoes?
I personally feel like puking with just the thought of having to attribute those words to any VII anti-pope due to the threat of a guillotine. They can have my head!
The pride of Satan is always the cause for the mask to slip a bit too much.
We may not have all the answers but we have enough for now.
Peace and God bless.
Bravo Louie!
Could it be that Steve Skojec is the “chest-pounding blowhard” obsessed with marketing metrics?
It is hard to understand the massive blindness current today regarding what is going in Holy Mother Church, unless one understands the nature of demonic blindness. Nevertheless, the faithful certainly ought to accept what St. Paul teaches in 2 Thess. 2 10-12: “And in all seduction of iniquity to them that perish; because they receive not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. Therefore God shall send them the operation of error, to believe lying: That all may be judged who have not believed the truth, but have consented to iniquity.”
Comparatives are becoming useless. Louie, you are consistently topping yourself so it is like trying to decide which act by Cal Ripken the night he literally tore up the record books at Camden Yard was “the greatest.”
I just sent this link to a friend who has been truly grieved over episcopal malpractice for the past 30+ years. I noted that your shrewd analysis says more in a few minutes than I have told him and shown him in print in the last three decades. You should be out next Attorney General based on your crime-busting investigative skills.
What needs to change with the True Catholic Church? Nothing. What needs to change with the V2 church? Everything.
The Devil: Father of Lies & Murder https://youtu.be/hHqjK70S69c
Fr. Rodriguez: The Enemy Is Within https://youtu.be/lhDq-NItw7o
Hate Heresy, Love Truth https://youtu.be/8vUJG9IgmCo
Fascinating as usual, Fr. Belland. I’m particularly grateful that you mentioned China. This hideous betrayal alone should cause Bergoglio and his henchmen to forever be branded with the stamp of infamy.
Devastating, Louie.
frdbelland: “In my book, Benedict has saved the True Church of Christ!”
I cannot believe a priest could believe this.
Ratzinger/Benedict is a thoroughly evil enemy of Christ and His Church. If not for him, there may not have been Francis.
He was a true believer in the horrific heresy of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, and admitted that this heretic had much influence upon Vatican II, so vastly diabolical that it is has helped destroy millions of souls, thanks to Ratzinger/Benedict XVI.
Just one quote to reveal how influential the heretic, Chardin was upon Vatican II:
In Ratzinger’s most comprehensive work on theology, Principles of Catholic Theology, he offers the following assessment of Teilhard de Chardin’s influence upon Vatican Council II: “The impetus given by Teilhard de Chardin exerted a wide influence. With daring vision it incorporated the historical movement of Christianity into the great cosmic process of evolution from Alpha to Omega: since the noogenesis, since the formation of consciousness in the event by which man became man, this process of evolution has continued to unfold as the building of the noosphere above the biosphere.” (p.334).
Please see these links for documentation on the apostate, Ratzinger/Benedict XVI:
http://rosarytotheinterior.com
/thethirdsorrowfulmysterythecrowningwiththorns/
http://waragainstbeing.com/ (This is an entire website documenting the apostate, Ratzinger/Benedict’s true beliefs.)
ALL of the VII “popes” were enemies of Christ, certainly by their actions.
You’re wasting your time Katherine. The Resignationists are blind tot he truth about Ratzinger.
This is the one FACT that remains:
“The 100 year countdown
On August 19, 1931, Our Blessed Lord appeared to Sr. Lucia at her convent in Rianjo, Spain to express His displeasure over the fact that Russia had not yet been consecrated to the Immaculate Heart of His mother as requested:
“Make it known to My ministers that, given they follow the example of the King of France in delaying the execution My command, they will follow him also into misfortune.”
https://akacatholic.com/fatima-russia-the-100-year-countdown/
Louie: Who are HIS “ministers”? Was it the possibly poisoned Pius XII?
Is the “misfortune” the eternal recompense in store for post V2 pseudo-saint popes?
Good article, you have to be praying more than 5 decades of the Rosary daily to write with such clarity? Also, the magisterium of past popes checks the orthodoxy of current popes. Pope Pius XII gave the faithful the right to believe (an act of faith) that God created the earth and man through the process of evolution, without science proving it as a fact, but only claiming it as a theory. His predecessors allowed science to prove it as a fact, while demanding the faithful believe not in the theory, but in the literal meaning of Genesis, until the facts emerge. Pope Pius XII was no enemy of the Church, and this does not contradict your conclusion.
If a future pope can throw the body of a past pope in the Rhine River. Where can a future pope throw the body of a more perverse claimant? Based on the past, future popes have the authority to engage in the power and authority checking business of past popes!
Dear Katherine, where does he say he agrees with it? Or do you consider it wrong for someone to present what another person is doing?
Anyone who thinks that the enemy of the Church can be fought against when he is hiding behind the “smoke of Satan,” he/she is crazy. No on in battle goes blindly against an enemy when he doesn’t know where he is–that’s crazy! But what Benedict did by “stepping down.” so to speak is first of all maintained the Petrine Office, which I have proved elsewhere, and secondly allowed the filth to come out into the open and do their own thing! They’re building their New Age church using much of the existing material belongings of the Church, but because Benedict still holds the Petrine Office, the perverts are NO touching the true Church. I consider that a VERY BRILLIANT MOVE!!!
It remains for faithful Catholics to wipe the “smoke of Satan” from their eyes: their hatred, their foul mouths, their ignorance, and
Dear Katherine, where does he say he agrees with it? Or do you consider it wrong for someone to present what another person is doing?
Anyone who thinks that the enemy of the Church can be fought against when he is hiding behind the “smoke of Satan,” he/she is crazy. No on in battle goes blindly against an enemy when he doesn’t know where he is–that’s crazy! But what Benedict did by “stepping down.” so to speak is first of all maintained the Petrine Office, which I have proved elsewhere, and secondly allowed the filth to come out into the open and do their own thing! They’re building their New Age church using much of the existing material belongings of the Church, but because Benedict still holds the Petrine Office, the perverts are NO touching the true Church. I consider that a VERY BRILLIANT MOVE!!!
It remains for faithful Catholics to wipe the “smoke of Satan” from their eyes: their hatred, their foul mouths, their ignorance precisely about the Papacy, AND RECOGNIZE THE THE REALITY! Benedict, as a secondary cause used by Christ preserved the Indefectibility of HIS Church. God bless.
The incompleteness of the above “reply” was the work of someone who is in control of my computer, someone I can’t get rid of. Fr. Belland
Katherine, don”t forget “subsist in.” Ratzinger took the perfectly clear Catholic dogma that the Roman Catholic Church IS the Church founded by Christ and muddled it all up to legitimize the heretical practice of false ecumenism. Ratzinger did nothing to save the Catholic Church. Everything he did was to save his conservative interpretation of the Vatican II false church. Ratzinger also signed off of JP II’s heretical Code of Canon Law of 1983 by allowing non Catholics to receive communion.
Maybe it was the spirit of vatican 2 that hijacked your account.
Ratzinger is a …. rat.
I don’t know much about international law, however, is it possible that Joseph Ratzinger aka B16 has willingly made himself a prisoner in the Vatican in order to evade prosecution for the global clerical abuse of children when he was prefect for the CDF and as Pope. He knew about it for many years and decided to look away rather than protect the children. Maybe someone out there can contribute to this thought.
Fr: You stated: “It is my opinion that it is tantamount to heresy to say that God would allow someone under the control of Satan to have Official Power to destroy Christ’s Church.”
But in your response to me regarding Benedict XVI, you stated: “But what Benedict did by “stepping down.” so to speak is first of all maintained the Petrine Office, which I have proved elsewhere, and secondly allowed the filth to come out into the open and do their own thing! They’re building their New Age church using much of the existing material belongings of the Church, but because Benedict still holds the Petrine Office, the perverts are NOT touching the true Church. I consider that a VERY BRILLIANT MOVE!!! destroy Christ’s Church. ”
This is a contradiction. This is your theory: A proven enemy of Christ, which makes him under the control of Satan, i.e., Benedict XVI, can actually have “Official Power” to destroy Christ’s Church. But he was given this power by Christ in order to “save the Church” from His other enemies. This is so illogical it boggles the mind. An enemy of Christ, a servant of Satan cannot be the leader of the Catholic Church!
Here is another link that has extensive proof that Ratzinger/Benedict is a servant of Satan:
https://novusordowatch.org/benedict-xvi/
You can theorize until the end of time about what has happened but the fact remains that Benedict XVI IS AN ENEMY OF CHRIST, plain and simple.
The true Catholic Church does not need to be “saved”. It is a divine institution and therefore, Christ protects it forever.
And “the smoke of Satan” has always entered the Church through all of the heresies introduced by those within but the TRUE Church has always, and will always, put out his smoke because he can never set on fire the institution of Christ, in which the gates of Hell will never prevail.
Archbishop Lefebvre:
“Are we not in those times of which Our Lord said: “A day shall come when men will say to you, ‘Christ is here, Christ is there, Christ is in the country, Christ is in the mountains.’ ? “Do not go,” Our Lord said, “Do not go.” Are we not in these latter times when the devil employs every means to disperse us, to tear us apart, to divide us, so as to reduce the flock to nothing?
In these critical moments, we must remain with that which is surest. We must avoid doubtful things.
We must make our stand on things that are certain, absolutely certain, without a thousandth per cent of doubt: our Creed, the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, the Sacraments, devotion to the Most Blessed Virgin. We cannot go wrong there. If we are firmly attached to these things we can work out our salvation. Our Lord willed these things for our salvation. So let us adhere to these things with all our heart.
Let us adore Our Lord Jesus Christ in the Holy Eucharist. Let us have respect for Our Lord, our God, Our Savior, our Creator: for Him Who is everything for us. How should we dare to present ourselves standing before Him Who will be our Judge at the end of time? Let us kneel before Our Lord with profound devotion. Let us receive Him in our hearts as the greatest treasure that we can have here below. Let us thank God for coming into our poor bodies, into our poor souls, sinners that we are. May God deign to reside in us for some time in His Body and in His Blood – this is the most beautiful, the grandest thing that God could do. And along with this respect for Our Lord Jesus Christ, let us love Him with our whole heart. Let us serve Him. Let us consider Him truly as our Shepherd.”
@my2cents – Decided to look away?
“Since 2001, Cardinal Ratzinger and later as Pope Benedict installed effective procedural reforms on clerical sexual abuse… data presented by the Vatican to the UN Human Rights Commission in January 2014 showed that Benedict XVI “had defrocked or suspended more than 800 priests for past sexual abuse between 2009 and 2012,” including the notorious Fr. Maciel Degollado, founder of the Legionaries of Christ. Crucially, it was Ratzinger who moved the competence for sex abuse cases from the Congregation for Bishops to Doctrine of the Faith, with powers to suspend and punish offenders… His reforms specifically included bishops who had refused to act against priest-abusers. A senior member of the Vatican’s diplomatic corps, Archbishop Miguel Maury Buendia, confirmed this, saying, “This Pope has removed two or three bishops per month throughout the world… There have been two or three instances in which they said no, and so the Pope simply removed them.””
https://remnantnewspaper.com/web/index.php/articles/item/3684-special-report-pope-francis-accused-of-inaction-in-notorious-sex-abuse-cases
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“Pope Benedict XVI defrocked nearly 400 priests in just two years, for molesting children, according to a document obtained by the Associated Press… An AP review of the reference books shows a remarkable evolution in the Holy See’s in-house procedures to discipline pedophiles since 2001, when the Vatican ordered bishops to send cases of all credibly accused priests to Rome for review… Then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger took action after determining that bishops around the world weren’t following church law to put accused clerics on trial in church tribunals.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/17/pope-benedict-defrocked-400-priests-child-abuse
Dear Katherine, I apologize for not explicating my comment on Benedict, but in saying: “. . . what Benedict did by ‘stepping down.’ so to speak is first of all maintained the Petrine Office”, I mean that he resigned from the “exercise of the Powers of Governing, Teaching and of Orders, as far as the public administration of the Papacy goes. However, he maintained a certain “private” administration of the Power of Orders. And since the “exercise” of an office is NOT the Office itself, he actually maintained the Office.
Now please be careful about what you accuse someone of. My reasoning is NOT wrong because I don’t believe Benedict is an enemy of Christ, but rather a Vicar of Christ. On the other hand you “put words into my mouth” and then you say that I’m being contradictory. You are the one who is contradictory.
Besides, when Benedict does what he can against overwhelming demonic odds, like freeing up the Old Mass, defrocking, I believe, 800 priests–more than all J XXIII, P VI and JP II together. lifting the excommunication against the SSPX Bishops; returned “pro multis to the Consecration of the wine; and yes, Cardinal Ratzinger even declared that subsistit must be interpreted as “IS,” in one of the documents he authored; and that only the Catholic Church, and to a certain extent the Orthodox Churches (which do have the Priesthood), can be called Churches, but never the breakaway denominations; when Benedict does these things is he not building up the Church; or are you going to say that he is tearing the Church down by such moves? I would like an honest reply from you.
Katherine, you must also understand that the demonic influences within the Vatican were preventing him from doing more. Most people really don’t have a clue about the powerful influence of Satan exerts today in the secular words as well as in the Church, directly through the use the powers he possesses and indirectly through the use of human instruments who are boned to him.
In all Charity, I think you had better obtain a much better grasp of the operations of the demonic before you go around condemning someone who exposed the filth, who kept the Petrine Office out of the hands of a vicar of Satan, and was building up the Church to the extent he could. Just remember the words of Sacred Scripture: AS YOU JUDGE [in ignorance, with malice and without authority] SO WILL YOU BE JUDGED: Mt. 7: 1 – 5: “JUDGE not, that you may not be judged, For with what judgment you judge, you shall be judged: and with what measure you mete, it shall be measured to you again. Any why seest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye; and seest not the beam that is in thy own eye? Or how sayest thou to thy brother: Let me cast the mote out of thy eye; and behold a beam is in thy own eye? Thou HYPOCRITE, cast out first the beam in thy own eye, and then shalt thou see to cast out the mote out of thy brother’s eye.” God bless. Father Belland
P.S. In your next response please don’t put words into my mouth, for doing so is nothing less than a lie.
That’s what “BXVI” was supposed to do—punish perverts. So what? He’s a modernist and is an enemy of the Catholic Church. I do not believe he was/is a valid pope. He’s VERY much a part of the problem. He will answer to God for what he has done in this short life on earth that man has.
“That’s what “BXVI” was supposed to do—punish perverts. So what?”
my2cents made a false statement, and he/she has been proven wrong. And now you, instead of accepting the truth of the matter, without even batting an eye that such a false claim was made in the first place (this was an act of calumny), you’re saying IT DOESN’T MATTER. That Benedict isn’t owed any such defense, because YOUR OWN PERSONAL JUDGMENT of him trumps what is objectively true. Would it be acceptable to LIE about you then, mothermostUNforgiving?
Dear frdbellan, my source for my comment is “The Case of the Pope” by Geoffrey Robinson, an Australian lawyer. I recommend this book to all who visit this website. Everything is documented re the culpability of Benedict 16. Your comment and Charmaine’s prove the demonic perversion existing in the church. As Vicar of Christ, Benedict should have fought to the end since he was doing so much good, according to your comment. God help us.
“…YOUR OWN PERSONAL JUDGMENT of him trumps what is objectively true.”
Precisely what is my “OWN PERSONAL JUDMENT of him”?
BTW, you wrongly accuse me of being “…Unforgiving.” I forgive those who have wronged me just as I ask God to forgive ME for the wrongs I have committed against others. I don’t relish the thought that the VII “popes” may fall into hell for the horrible things they have done to Holy Mother Church.
Frdbelland: ” My reasoning is NOT wrong because I don’t believe Benedict is an enemy of Christ, but rather a Vicar of Christ. On the other hand you “put words into my mouth” and then you say that I’m being contradictory. You are the one who is contradictory. ”
It is obvious that we disagree that Benedict was a true pope. I believe we all have a duty and responsibility to God to know the true Catholic faith’s teachings in order to be able to “judge” whether or not someone is teaching error. Christ warned us to beware of false prophets-
Matt: 7: 15-20: Beware of false prophets, who come to you in the clothing of sheep, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves.
16 By their fruits you shall know them. Do men gather grapes off thorns, or figs off thistles?
17 Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit, and the bad tree bringeth forth bad fruit.
18 A good tree cannot yield bad fruit, neither can a bad tree yield good fruit.
19 *Every tree that yieldeth not forth good fruit, shall be cut down, and shall be cast into the fire.
20 Wherefore by their fruits you shall know them.
I do not, cannot, believe that Benedict was a true pope; not through his words or acts.
Katherine, as I said earlier, Ratzinger’s goal as
“Pope,” was to preserve the neo conservative interpretation of Vatican II against the more progressive elements in the conciliar false church. He was and is a modernist and therefore a heretic and therefore never Pope of the Catholic Church. To argue otherwise is implicitly to argue that a heretic can be Pope. An absurd oxymoronic opinion. There is no getting around Vatican II and the Novus Ordo. They are poison and destroy everything associated with them. This frbelland is associated with some sort of organization that is recognized by the heretics in Rome or an organization that would like to be recognized by the heretics in Rome. Either way, his mind is clouded and he is a victim of the operation of error he quoted earlier.
I thought this comparison of the definition of “church” from the Council of Trent with the second Vatican Council worth a read. This is from a website called “Catholic Culture” I believe.
” Since the Council of Trent, the Catholic Church has been defined as a union of human beings who are united by the profession of the same Christian faith, and by participation of and in the same sacraments under the direction of their lawful pastors, especially of the one representative of Christ on earth, the Bishop of Rome. Each element in this definition is meant to exclude all others from actual and vital membership in the Catholic Church, namely apostates and heretics who do not profess the same Christian faith, non-Christians who do not receive the same sacraments, and schismatics who are not submissive to the Church’s lawful pastors under the Bishop of Rome.
At the Second Vatican Council this concept of the Church was recognized as the objective reality that identifies the fullness of the Roman Catholic Church. But it was qualified subjectively so as to somehow include all who are baptized and profess their faith in Jesus Christ. They are the People of God, whom he has chosen to be his own and on whom he bestows the special graces of his providence. (Etym. Greek kkyriakon, church; from kyriakos, belonging to the Lord.)”
@my2cents – A quick search on your “lawyer source” and he appears to have real issues with the Church’s teachings on sodomy (he calls it “hate-preach” to speak against it), abortion, contraception, IVF, masturbation, divorce etc. But you seem to trust that someone like him would be completely objective with his reporting when it came to Ratzinger/Benedict; who was hardly under constant attack precisely for upholding these crucial teachings. And receiving positive reviews for that book from notoriously anti-Catholic papers, doesn’t exactly lend credence that a particular agenda wasn’t fulfilled by him writing such an “incriminating”, but no doubt, thoroughly unbiased (*cough cough*) book. That you would recommend this “source” for readers of this blog, says a lot about your honesty; or lack of, in this case.
“At the Second Vatican Council this concept of the Church was recognized as the objective reality that identifies the fullness of the Roman Catholic Church. But it was qualified subjectively so as to somehow include all who are baptized and profess their faith in Jesus Christ.”
So the concept of the Church was qualified to include those whom the Council of Trent condemned as not being included in the concept of the Church—ergo, VII contradicted previous dogmatic Church teaching, rendering VII ipso facto heretical.
Charmaine, according to your comment, B16 defrocked or suspended 800 priests. Doesn’t that give you an idea of how bad this situation is and doesn’t it disgust you? The author’s personal opinions about anything do not interest me. The FACT is the Catholic Church has put Canon Law above criminal law and has protected and trafficked priests who are admitted abusers without regard for the victims. As prefect of the CDF and Pope, B16 was a part and parcel to this behavior. As a city-state, the Vatican has abused its immunity to protect the guilty and forget the victim. Find me a source that says otherwise.
Charmaine, you do realize that the source of your data is …. “the Vatican”? Tell us how that source is any more credible.
2VT, its like those who claim NO sacraments are all valid because the NO hierarchy says they are valid.
Tom: “Maybe it was the spirit of vatican 2 that hijacked your account.” If I understand you correctly you are saying that my post was sabotaged by “the spirit of vatican 2,” and I assure you vatican 2 is to be blamed, and if so you are saying that vatican 2, along with its spirit (since vatican 2 is the cause of the spirit) is trying to destroy the TRUTH of what Fr. Belland says. You’re spot on! Thanks for the compliment. On the other hand the rejection of the known truth is also a sin against the Holy Ghost, cf. St. Thomas!
@my2cents – (There isn’t a reply to click on underneath your last comment to me, so I am posting it here.)
I agree with you about the tragedy of the criminality of sex abusing clergy not receiving proper justice due to the Holy See’s access to sovereign immunity (I don’t know the historical details of how this was initially established); but let’s get back to your original comment that I addressed where you stated Ratzinger/Benedict “decided to look away rather than protect the children”. That you can see that the procedures he put him place did indeed lead to the defrocking of so many priests and even bishops, perhaps it would be best to move away from this seemingly perverse need to use Ratzinger/Benedict as some personal scapegoat, especially knowing just how entrenched this homo-mafia’s presence really is. Certainly those “wolves” Benedict spoke of and asked that we pray he not flee from them, would be exactly this diabolical network he was referring to. I recommend reading Antonio Socci’s book, “The Secret of Benedict XVI: Why He Is Still Pope”, to understand the forces at work; especially since Obama arrived on the scene and the universal ascendancy of the Global Left, of which Bergoglio is most certainly aligned with. The Catholic Monitor blogger has been reviewing Socci’s book a little at a time.
Here is one short blog entry from June 22: Socci: Did Obama’s Homo-Colonialism bring about the Overthrow of Benedict XVI & the Italian Government?
http://catholicmonitor.blogspot.com/2019/06/socci-did-obamas-homo-colonialism-led.html
“That you can see that the procedures he put him place did indeed lead to the defrocking of so many priests and even bishops.” — In many cases where he saw these procedures were not being implemented (not a surprise), he then took charge and personally removed them himself.
*in place
Ratzinger was quite instrumental in crafting the insidious double-speak documents of VII. He is guilty of participating in laying the snare that caught the Faithful unaware in the aftermath of that council. It’s the truth. And you’re defending him? Each of us will answer to God regarding our faithfulness to the truth, Charmaine. B16 is the cuddly little pope of the “conservatives.” He, in their view, was trying to do right but was out-gunned by the pedophile mafia. It’s mendacious and it sickens me. Ratzinger has yet to ask forgiveness for what HE is responsible for in all of this mess. I hope he does ask for forgiveness—for his sake.
Like all things VII, it can mean any number of things to any number of people. In this case I meant it the manner in which you took it as a compliment. Yes, rejecting the known truth is a sin against God.
Yes he was a peritus at the Robber Council.