On Sunday November 15, 2015, Pope Francis took part in a prayer service at the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Rome. (The text linked above is in Italian. I translated it as well as I’m able. If anyone wishes to improve upon the quotes offered below, please feel free.)
The event included a Q&A session wherein people from the community were given the opportunity to present a question to their esteemed guest. The first was a nine year boy, and his question was rather simple, “What do you like best about being Pope?”
Pope Francis initially responded by voicing his distaste for protocol and “office work.” He went on to say, “I like being a pastor; I like being Pope in the style of the pastor.”
As for what constitutes the work of the pastor, Francis summed it up in one word: “Service.”
OK, so far so good, but then he expounded upon what he likes about being a pastor:
I like it, in the sense that I feel good when I visit the sick, when I talk to people who are a bit desperate, sad.
Did you get that?
Francis likes being pope because it enables him to do good deeds, and doing good deeds, well… that makes him feel pretty darn good!
With this in mind, I have a question of my own:
How does this differ in any way from that which motivates the Lord’s enemies, who also feel all warm and fuzzy inside when they engage in so-called random acts of kindness?
No need to answer. Every person over the age of reason knows the answer; it is no different.
No surprise here. After all, as he plainly admits, Pope Francis is motivated by the same earthbound humanism that inspires the Freemasons; namely, to make this world a better place as such is understood in a strictly temporal sense.
Francis went on to make a little joke with respect to one of his own favored random acts of kindness, saying, “I love going to prison so much, but don’t take me to jail!”
After the laughter subsided, he explained that when he visits the imprisoned, he wonders, “Why them and not me?”
Now that’s a damned good question!
I mean, think about it… Is there even the slightest chance that any one of the people sitting in prison this very day throughout the entire world has done more damage to other human beings than Pope Francis?
In any case, he went on to tell the little boy:
And there [in prison] I feel the salvation of Jesus Christ and the love of Jesus Christ for me; because He saved me. I am no less a sinner than them, but the Lord took me by the hand. This I also feel.
Sounds almost Catholic, I know, but before you give Jorge a gold star, know that he summed up his would-be works of mercy thus: “And when I go to jail, I’m happy.”
Yes, folks, it’s all about him.
In concluding his response, Francis may haven taken a swipe at Benedict the Abdicator:
Being the Pope, being the bishop, is acting as the parish priest, a shepherd. If a Pope is not bishop, if a Pope is not pastor, not a shepherd, he [may be] very intelligent, very important, will have much influence in society, but I think that in his heart he is not happy.
The bottom line: What’s the point of being pope if you’re not happy?
If you think that was pathetic, just wait until you hear what he had to say when Lutheran number two stepped up to the microphone; a woman who introduced herself as the wife of a Roman Catholic.
She told Francis that she and her husband “regret being divided in faith and not being able to participate together in the Lord’s Supper.”
Her question was also very simple: “What can we do to achieve, finally, communion on this point?”
In truth, the woman’s question was infinitely simpler and easier to answer than the one put forth by the nine year old boy.
Why?
The boy’s question was subjective, and there are any number of ways it might be answered. The woman’s question, by contrast, was entirely objective, and there is but one answer.
Even so, Pope Francis struggled mightily with his response.
He did, however, find it appropriate to make another joke, this time in reference to a certain German cardinal sitting in the front row:
When asked about sharing in the Lord’s Supper, it is not easy for me to answer you, especially in front of a theologian like Cardinal Kasper! I’m scared!
How humble can one Bishop of Rome be?!
I’ll tell you how “humble” he cab be: humble enough to admit: “I do not know how to answer … I leave the question to the theologians, to those who understand.”
I have a better idea…
How about leaving it to just about any twelve year old Confirmation candidate who is being formed in the faith by the Society of St. Pius X?
I can pretty much guarantee that any one of these children would be able to give not just an answer, but the solitary correct answer (aka the Catholic answer) right away:
Dear Lady, you must renounce your protestant errors and convert to the one true faith. It is only upon entering into, and persisting in, the Holy Catholic Church that anyone enjoys the unity and authentic communion you are seeking.
Francis, however, does not have sensus Catholicus, and so the answer evaded him.
Watch him wrestle with his response in the video below (from approximately the 21:00 – 31:00 mark). Even to those who do not speak Italian, it is clear that the man is genuinely struggling!
To be clear, it’s not so much the case that he does not know what the Church has to say on this matter; rather, he does not accept what she has to say!
As such, he counseled the poor woman to think of “sharing in the Lord’s Supper,” not in concrete terms, but in terms of accompaniment:
When we share the Lord’s Supper, we remember and imitate, we do the same thing that the Lord Jesus did. And the Lord’s Supper will be, the final banquet in the New Jerusalem, but this will be the last. Instead, the way, I ask myself – and I do not know how to answer, but I make your question my own – I ask: to share the Lord’s Supper, is this the end of a journey, or is it the encouragement to walk together? I leave the question to the theologians, to those who understand…
Don’t be fooled by the false humility. What Francis is essentially saying is this:
I have an answer for you; one not at all like the answer that is found in the Faith that comes to us from the Apostles such as it has been transmitted throughout the centuries. I will leave it to brilliant theologians like Walter Kasper to figure out how to come up with a way to reconcile these two disparate propositions in such a way as to make my response seem Catholic. Until then…
Francis went on to expound upon his response, urging the heretic lady to imagine a make-believe degree of unity that simply does not exist:
It is true that, in a certain sense to share, and it is to say that there are not differences between us, we have the same doctrine. I stress the word, a word difficult to understand, but I ask myself: but do we not have the same baptism? And if we have the same Baptism, we must walk together … We have the same baptism.
No, clearly we do not have the same doctrine, and no, the word “doctrine” is not difficult to understand; it is simply the case that some doctrines are difficult for the heretics to accept, and I dare say that this was evident yesterday in both the Lutheran woman and the Bishop in white.
Francis went on to underscore the ludicrous idea that our doctrines are essentially the same, saying:
When you teach your children about Jesus, why Jesus came, what Jesus did, you [and your husband] both do the same, in Lutheran language and in Catholic language, but it is the same.
As if he hadn’t repudiated the Catholic faith quite enough, Francis then decided to pull the rug out from under Sacramental Confession, saying:
When you feel sinful … you go before the Lord and ask for forgiveness. Your husband does the same and goes to the priest and asks for absolution; remedies to sustain the Baptism.
He just counseled this woman, publicly, to believe that the Sacrament of Confession is the same as going off on one’s own to seek forgiveness “directly from God.” In so doing, he just told Catholics the world over that there’s really no reason to enter the confessional!
Oh, and he also tipped his hand regarding the upcoming post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation.
Look, if it suffices for heretics to seek forgiveness outside of the confessional, what is to prevent a public adulterer or active homosexual from privately uttering words of pseudo-contrition on the way up to the Communion rail every Sunday?
Truly, my friends, after more than two-and-a-half years, we have witnessed precious little evidence that this man, Jorge Mario Bergoglio, actually holds the Catholic faith, objectively speaking. By contrast, we’ve endured an overwhelming amount of evidence to the contrary.
Does anyone among the College of Cardinals have the stones to publicly challenge this man and his material heresy?
Evidently not.
In any case, after briefly mentioning (not by name) his deceased “brother bishop,” Tony Palmer, and his own family conundrum with respect to Holy Communion, Francis, in so many words, gave her (and protestants everywhere) the green light to decide the question of intercommunion for herself.
Misappropriating Sacred Scripture, he quoted St. Paul:
Life is bigger than explanations and interpretations. Always refer to Baptism: “One faith, one baptism, one Lord”, so Paul tells us, and from there you take the consequences.
He’s essentially telling her, Look, you and your husband are already of one faith in the one Lord by virtue of Baptism.
So what exactly did he intend to convey to the questioner?
The bottom line can be but just one of two things; either he means to say that she should not place any importance on the matter of Holy Communion, or he is telling her that both she and her husband are free to communicate in one each others churches.
What he most certainly had no intention of conveying is any suggestion that the Lutheran would do well to renounce her heresies and come to the true faith. Of this, there can be no question.
In other words, Pope Francis had no Catholic answer.
He concluded his response:
To your question, I respond only with a question: how can I act with my husband, so that the Lord’s Supper accompanies me on my way? It’s a problem that everyone must answer … I do not dare ever grant permission to do this [answer this question one way or the other] because it is not my competence. One baptism, one Lord, one faith. Talk to the Lord and go forward. I dare not say more.
If you watch the video and listen to his intonation here, it is evident that Francis does not mean to imply that he dare not reveal his true thoughts. He has revealed them plainly enough.
He is saying that he does not have the authority to tell this woman how to address the problem that she presented to him. Rather, she simply needs to ask the Lord.
And who knows, He may just tell her to join her husband in receiving Communion at Holy Mass?
After all, He is the God of Surprises.
Is THIS Pope Catholic? WHAT?
No, he is not Catholic. He belongs to the church of WHATEVER! He says he is happy when he goes to jail. Sounds like a good idea. We could all use a break from this guy!
Absolutely depraved! Any real Catholic could have answered that silly woman easily. Does Jorge not fear the Lord and how he will answer the Just Judge- the Vicar of Christ could not tell her to get into the Ark of salvation, who will listen to us when we try to teach them. What a wicked shameful reprobate.
I remember when I was a little girl my friends and I would roller-skate down a street on which stood a protestant church (sic) – as young as we little Catholic kids were we actually averted our faces when we whizzed by because we knew there was something evil there….The good Sisters of St. Anne taught us well.
So what does one say about our Pope entering such a place? And praying there? And speaking there? And suggesting that doctrine is hard to understand so we must just go to Jesus? And suggesting there is even a possibility of a protestant sect member receiving The Body and Blood of Jesus Christ? And being careful of not stepping over that line which would enable us to pick up the stones our fingers itch to hurl?
How can we ever do enough reparatory penance for this? Our sins brought this on. Abortion brought this on. Contraception brought this on. Divorce brought this on. Sodomy brought this on.
God help us, have pity on us, end this punishment! Mary help us!
EWTN has a series called, “Saints Alive”. I found it quite extraordinary because some actor would dress up in the saints persona and respond as the saint would according to his/her writings. The actor was lost in the persona of the saint. That is how it should be with the Pope, the “Alter Christus.” The least important element is the personality of the man, but the presence of Christ in Word and Action. That is why he speaks with the “Royal We”. “I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.” (Galatians 2:20) The response given was so convoluted that it made no sense at all…much like some of the synod. We are not looking for Jesus Christ, superstar.
He doesn’t know enough philosophy or theology to do a decent imitation of an authentic Pope. Even impostors have standards. In comparison, Cdl B has none.
Louie writes: “Does anyone among the College of Cardinals have the stones to publicly challenge this man and his material heresy? Evidently not.”
Full disclosure: I cannot recognize Bergoglio’s claim to be Vicar of the Second Person of the Holy Trinity (if indeed he makes that claim), and I believe that I am entitled to do so based on Catholic writing that received the imprimatur prior to Vatican II.
There are, on the other hand, those who appear to believe that a pope cannot simply become a public heretic by his public and official teaching, rather he must be declared to be one by the College of Cardinals. From such people I am curious to know one thing:
How long must one go without any intervention on the part of the College of Cardinals (or whomever else) before one is obliged to accept that a pope is in fact not a heretic – even a material one – because, according to this formula, the College has not even taken a first step towards declaring him to be one?
As you said in your previous post “Tuning in to Francis,” this is not difficult to understand when you view it from the stance of a Freemason. It is all ever so clear.
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https://akacatholic.com/tuning-into-francis/#comments
In his post above, Louie said,
“Point being, my friends, at the end of the day, Francis isn’t very confusing at all; at least not once we accept that his entire pontificate is fueled by nothing more than a misguided desire to make this world a better place – not objectively better, mind you, but rather “better” as he personally (and erroneously) conceives of such things.”
A quick search on freemasonry tells us all we need to know.
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Oh, the clarity the above post has given me! I no longer struggle in attempt to understand.
Our Lady of Good Success, pray for us.
Our Lady of Fatima, pray for us.
Our Lady of Good Success was for OUR TIMES:
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http://www.traditioninaction.org/OLGS/A001olgs%20fat.htm
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http://ourladyofgoodsuccess.com/frames-3-4-2005/aaa.htm
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These books are incredible:
http://www.traditioninaction.org/tiabk016_AdmirLife1.htm
http://www.traditioninaction.org/tiabk018_AdmirLife2.htme
Our Lady of Good Success is a prophesy for our times.
http://www.traditioninaction.org/OLGS/A001olgs%20fat.htm
Council of Trent. Session 22. CANON I.–If any one saith, that in the mass a true and proper sacrifice is not offered to God; or, that to be offered is nothing else but that Christ is given us to eat; let him be anathema.
The continual repetition that the Mass is the Lord’s Supper, the exclusive emphasis on the meal aspect of the mass for the past 50 years, is in order to prepare us for this precise moment. This is why the mass was changed. This is why the readings were changed. This was the entire point of Vatican II.
One of the things that Martin Luther repudiated most strongly was the sacrificial and propitiatory nature of the mass. He said he wanted the mass to be called anything but a sacrifice. In order to reconcile with Protestants, the Sacrifice of the Mass offered for the atonement of sins had to be eradicated and turned entirely into a meal. That is what they did.
But know with certainty that the central act of the Catholic Liturgy was always the unbloody recreation of Calvary, and the offering of the body and blood of Christ for the forgiveness of sins. It is a Sacrifice, not a meal. That is why there was an altar, not a table. That is why there was a priest, not a celebrant or presider. That is what it always was and that is very clear from the words of the Traditional Latin Mass. But the sacrifice had to be done away with to pander to the Protestants. This has been planned for a very long time and you are now seeing their schemes come to fruition.
If he had any honesty, he would acknowledge that he is an opponent of the Catholic Faith, and join some other man-centred, religion without any doctrine or Revelation (except his own private revelation). Or just acknowledge he has created his own Francis-centred religion in place of the Catholic Faith. But there is no honesty to be seen. No openness to the existence of objective truth.
“He is saying that he does not have the authority to tell this woman how to address the problem that she presented to him. ”
Just like his baby murderer bud obama, question is above his pay grade. Or in other words “God Bless Planned Parenthood!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3F7ZkoIeNM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mpm_giEdj0E
Deo gratias! Praise God for Pope Francis for through him “We have also a more sure word of prophecy.” [2 Peter 1:19 KJV]
If those nuns had taught you well, you would certainly have seen the evil in your own church first before casting such a dark view on others.
And I really thought we had already reached the low point.
This is a stab in the back. Is there nothing sacred anymore for this pope? How confession is downplayed by simply asking God directly for forgiveness.
For years I am trying to bring my protestant wife to the Faith and the One Church and just when she is starting to “get it”, that it is necessary for salvation that she does, this pope pops up, “o, well, we have one baptism, one Lord and one faith. Talk to the Lord and go forward, I dare say no more”.
How dare he!! How dare he stab us in the back!
” The Word of God
Condemned to die
Has no word to say.
Silence is speech of innocence.
Guilt with words brims over.
Unbrim my sinful heart,
Jesu,
Of words.”
Mother Mary Francis
I have been letting comments I disagree with go by lately but Bee, your comment needs an answer because you are factually wrong.
Heresy is an OBJECTIVE evil. It is not an opinion than Anglicans and other protestants are heretics. It is a fact that they are in heresy now, and have been in heresy since Henry pulled his country away from Rome. Culpability for the sin of heresy is another matter for another time.
The fact that there are evildoers in the Catholic Church does not mean that the Church herself is evil. There is a vast difference between heresy and sin.
I feel your comment may reflect a feeling of wanting to defend some nice people you may know in protestant sects, but what I was taught is correct: avoid heretics. The wisdom of this can be seen in the bad fruit of Catholics mixing with sects, officially, for the past 60 years.
…I mean to say that there is a vast difference between what we might call ordinary sin, and the sin of heresy – which is always objectively evil.
Great take on this. Yes, now we can welcome damned near anyone to supper.
I was raised a Lutheran but converted from it long ago. What Francis said is outrageous. Even Luther would vomit him out. (Revelations 3:16).
Spoken like what? A Catholic? You are at least true to your kind
That is a pharisee from a gilded cage and not a Catholic
Ms Bee
What should Barbara have seen, at that young age, in her own True Church…probably before V2 (Barb if you werent a youngster on skates before V2 I apologize)?
A true pope can not be put on trial for heresy, this is an impossibility. He has no earthly judges. He either is a pope or he is not a pope. A FALSE and HERETICAL pope can easily be seen as such, as he is nit pope….but putting a true pope on trial cannot happen.
I really don’t know what the fuss is all about. I’m sorry that Bee doesn’t know her Catholic Faith well enough to know that we must HATE heresy. Not just the material heresy we all agree Francis is spouting, but ALL heresy. We must HATE heresy. If one is a heretic, one leaves the Catholic Church, risks hellfire and influences others to go the same route.
Bee, what could be worse than that? I HATE heresy because it causes self-damnation for souls.
You, not knowing the difference between heresy and heretics, had a hissy fit. You think I’m an old meanie because I said something bad about heretics. I did not. I was careful to note that modern heretics can and mostly do have a lesser culpability because they are not directly responsible for their state.
But, mean as it may seem, what I said is Catholic Church teaching. Now, I grant you, Bee, this ugly truth has not been taught perhaps in your lifetime, but it sure has been taught in my lifetime.
What the heck did those priests die for who came to England to say Mass for Catholics? Why did those Catholics also die because they would not become HERETICS? The ‘soft’ heresy we see now is just as bad as the first fresh, bloody heresy of the past.
What the heck are we fighting for if not the One True Faith? If we must only say nice things about heresy doesn’t that mean there is no need for anyone to convert? We might as well all go home right now.
What a poor excuse for a pope, if he was any kind of man at all he would resign as not being up to the task.
Next they’ll be telling us bears don’t crap in the woods.
It’s doubtful he was up the task as Cardinal, bishop, or priest. With so many earlier reasons to resign, why would he resign now?
He is fully up to his task. He is actually doing a very fine job.
The pastor of the Novus Ordo Institution prays with Lutherans in their temples. The Q&A is almost redundant after that fact alone.
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The Church is the Good, She fights for the Good and the faithful must support Her even as it is Her responsibility to support Her faithful. The Novus Ordo with all its tentacles, including the R&R, are not the Church.
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Why is it that most folks cannot see (or maybe can see but refuse to act) that supporting and being supported by the Novus Ordo is a completely other thing? If you believe that you can have a protestant as a pope, if you believe that the the Novus Ordo rites could ever validly replace the Roman Rites, if you believe that the Bride of Christ teaches VII, you are not Catholic. You are a protestant.
Did you ever hear the story about the poisonous fish and Sister Mary of Jesus Crucified?
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When she was a girl she had a dream when she lived with her uncle. She dreamed a merchant came to the house to sell a large fish, but she knew that the fish was poisoned. The next day a man came to the house selling fish, just as in the dream, and her uncle would not be persuaded from buying this fish. Eventually Sister Mary convinced her uncle not to eat it. They cut open the fish and found that it had a consumed a small and very poisonous snake. This story about the fish reminds of VII and the Novus Ordo. On the outside Roncalli calling Vatican II looked like a Council of Holy Mother Church, but in fact it was proceeding of poison, swallowed by the Fathers of the Council who then served up the same poisonous meal to the faithful. And even today, folks from Novus Ordite to the SSPX, will not be persuaded from consuming and sharing the fish with poisonous snake inside. It is only the sedevacantist priest who has cut open the fish, seen the poisonous snake, and rejecting the whole evil, continued on with the Faith.
“Where there is no hatred of heresy, there is no holiness.”
—— Fr. Frederick Faber
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http://www.traditioninaction.org/religious/n092_Heresy.htm
I’m sorry —- I meant to say “prophecy” for our times, not “prophesy.”
Yes. Just think like a freemason.
Good story and analogy.
Yeah. Pretty blatant when you look at it.
The Lay For The Troubled Golfer – Poem by Edgar Albert Guest
His eye was wild and his face was taut with anger and hate and rage,
And the things he muttered were much too strong for the ink of the printed page.
I found him there when the dusk came down, in his golf clothes still was he,
And his clubs were strewn around his feet as he told his grief to me:
‘I’d an easy five for a seventy-nine — in sight of the golden goal —
An easy five and I took an eight — an eight on the eighteenth hole!
‘I’ve dreamed my dreams of the `seventy men,’ and I’ve worked year after year,
I have vowed I would stand with the chosen few ere the end of my golf career; I’ve cherished the thought of a seventy score, and the days have come and gone And I’ve never been close to the golden goal my heart was set upon.
But today I stood on the eighteenth tee and counted that score of mine,
And my pulses raced with the thrill of joy — I’d a five for seventy-nine!
‘I can kick the ball from the eighteenth tee and get this hole in five,
Bit I took the wood and I tried to cross that ditch with a mighty drive —’
Let us end the quotes, it is best for all to imagine his language rich,
But he topped that ball, as we often do, and the pill stopped in the ditch.
His third was short and his fourth was bad and his fifth was off the line,
And he took an eight on the eighteenth hole with a five for a seventy-nine.
I gathered his clubs and I took his arm and alone in the locker room
I left him sitting upon the bench, a picture of grief and gloom;
And the last man came and took his shower and hurried upon his way,
But still he sat with his head bowed down like one with a mind astray,
And he counted his score card o’er and o’er and muttered this doleful whine:
‘I took an eight on the eighteenth hole, with a five for a seventy-nine!’
The Lay For The Troubled Golfer
Edgar Albert Guest
Dear Servant of Our Lady, thanks so much for putting that comment link above of Father Faber – what he says about heresy is wonderful. There IS no salvation outside the Catholic Church and though that message can be seen as harsh, it’s no less the truth for that.
Pope Francis has condemned millions to hell by not telling them the truth. Our Lord Jesus will still send grace, through Our Lady, to all those millions as He wants all to come to His Church – but how many will listen now that Francis has assured them there is no need to come?
We can see how serious, how deadly, was Luther’s rebellion. Popes, bishops, priests, laymen, worked tirelessly for decades to teach the truth. The evil one saw to it that millions would not listen.
Francis has just turned the world upside down, again, by confirming millions in their heresy. How to sugar-coat this? How to tell anyone the house is on fire and they must flee, but in a nice way?
Why do we believe the lies? Why can’t we tell the truth? There is no salvation outside the Catholic Church. Run for your lives – your eternal lives.
Before I’m accused of harshness please know that my entire family no longer practice their Catholic faith…do I love them? Of course. Do I hate their apostasy? YES.
It depends on what ‘task’ we are attributing to Francis. He sees his task as reforming the Catholic Church. He’s certainly up to that, in fact, he’s really, really, really good at it.
He was elected just for that task. He was urged on to be the vanguard of the new Catholic Church. He is going to reform the Catholic Church in such a way that she can never be righted again – that’s the mantra coming out of the liars he hangs with. But we know who will right the barque of Peter, don’t we? It will be Our Saviour Jesus Christ, through Mary.
Barbara,
I certainly do agree with you. However, what I hate the most is heresy within what is perceived to be the Catholic Church. If a Protestant behaves like a Protestant it is because that is what he is. What is disgusting is Catholics behaving like they are protestant because that is what the post-conciliar church taught them to be. The Novus Ordo liturgy could have been orchestrated by Martin Luther himself. That is why Pope “Whatever” sees no difference between Luther’s heresy and his own. They are one in the same. The Good Sisters of Old had the right idea, They were profoundly suspicious of all heresies unlike the Modernist “sisters” who promote, support and teach everything contrary to True Catholic tenets.
Thank you, Barbara, for your staunch defense of The Faith!
Rich, I agree with you. His task is to destroy what is left of the Holy Roman Catholic Church. He is doing a fine job, indeed. However, he will not succeed in the end.
“The Church is the Good, She fights for the Good…” I suggest you read “The Undermining of the Catholic Church” by Mary Ball Martinez in order to understand that government in the Church is not as black and white simplistic as you paint them. Pius XI condemned anti-modernist French journalist Charles Maurras and he utterly betrayed the Christeros movement in Mexico. Pius XII failed to support eastern catholics during WWII as they were being slaughtered and tortured by communists but he bent over backwards to protect jews in Germany and support marxism.
The preeminent good of our time was and still is the collegial consecration of Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Pius XI and XII utterly failed to do this and thus consigned us to our present situation. So here we see that the Church Herself, the Popes in particular, consigned Herself to general apostacy and suffering as well as death and misery for the world. We can see that now, or some can see but they refuse to act properly.
Dear Barbara,
You’re welcome.
Thanks for your hatred of heresy.
Yes, dear Barbara, we are a tiny persecuted remnant. We must offer our sufferings and ask to be given the graces to want to suffer more for love of God, for reparation for the egregious apostasy and evil throughout the Church and world, and for the salvation of souls. God preserve and fortify you and your family.
“Pius XI condemned anti-modernist French journalist Charles Maurras and he utterly betrayed the Christeros movement in Mexico. Pius XII failed to support eastern catholics during WWII as they were being slaughtered and tortured by communists but he bent over backwards to protect jews in Germany and support marxism.”
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Great points. Thank you.
Barbara, thank you for your reply. I do hate heresy, but not the heretic, nor do I believe children should be taught to turn their heads away from a Lutheran church when they roll by on skates, or whatever.
Were your heads spinning away each time you passed a synagogue? A Baptist church? Presbyterian church?
Your nuns should have taught you that your blessed role in life as a Catholic is to be a good example, to teach others, and pray for the people, innocent people inside of those places being taught the protestant heresy, lest you yourself be judged for your lack of charity.
You should see your own sins first, and pray for the sinners who are missing the fullness of our faith.
Such in the case of the “Catholic” Charismatic Movement, where a False Protestant Practice is added to One, TRUE Church, & the Chaos ensued, unto the point of Many of The Faithful, becoming Non Faithful, through the use of NOVELTIES & Eventual Disbelief.
http://youtu.be/kd66KXIbAjc
http://youtu.be/xL2Hyve-kwg
Do Evangelical Lutherans in Italy always dress in suits and dresses as Catholics once did pre-Vii to show respect for our Lord? Reminds me of any SSPX congregation. I knew it wasn’t a Novus Ordo since I didn’t see any sandals, shorts, or speghetti strap blouses with plunging necklines. They only dress up on prom night and New Years Eve party.
Green Scapulars barbara
I’ve hidden medals and green scapulars around peoples houses too! And sprinkled lots of holy water…reminds me I should do our house again.
Off topic —- but one of Louie’s favorites:
Another person speaking about the reign of Chris the King as the answer to the chaos.
http://www.remnantnewspaper.com/web/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=2159:on-the-terrorist-attacks-and-the-kingship-of-christ
Of course, none of this will happen until Russia is consecrated to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, as Our Mother commanded at Fatima in 1917 (or in 1929, depending on how you are counting, for the 100 years, that is).
No loyalty to the TRUTH OF THE GOSPEL. Galatians 1:6-9 says it best. HOW PATHETIC! This is what you get from a neo-modernist.
Interesting, John6. Poor Luther! When we learn about how ill he was psychologically we can feel pity for him – however, he was also proud and imprudent – all exacerbated by his harsh early life etc. Interesting too, to contrast other young men and women who had very difficult early lives, yet became great saints.
Thats good barbara , if we pray the 3 prayers daily for each person where the green scapulars are im sure Our Lady will sort things out
If the Pope likes to be liked then we should find someway to let him know there a lots of Catholics that DON’T LIKE HIM. Maybe he would abdicate or stop acting like a clown.
Your understanding of the reign of Pius’ XI XII is a skewed political and ungracious one. Pius XII’s reign was an extraordinary pontificate during the most horrific years of the twentieth century. If you want to spend your time hating true popes in order to appease your conscience in supporting pretenders to the throne, who’s gonna stop you?
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What you refuse to understand is VII and the Novus Ordo is one thing, and the Bride of Christ as another. Simple. The former represent a blatant and substantial departure from the Catholic Church. The Second Vatican Council as a new revelation goes well beyond ‘accidental’, as does the enforcement of seven novel rites, and a plethora of antichrist disicplines that destroyed seminaries and convents, and Catholic schools. All this is a universal aspect of the Novus Ordo. This means it comes not from the Bride of Christ. You are confusing, once again, personal failings with the magisterium of a Pope and the infallible mandate of the Church.
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PS. Fatima has passed. It is time we simply owned up to what is and what is not Church and stopped torturing the data to make any heresy, novelty, apostasy ‘Catholic’.
Ah. yeah. Poor luther:
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http://www.mostholytrinityseminary.org/Martin%20Luther%20Quotes.pdf
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and all those souls sacrificed to his harsh early life? who can say?