On September 19, the SSPX published an article by Fr. Jean-Michel Gleize on comments made by Jorge Bergoglio (stage name, Francis) during an interfaith meeting with young people in Singapore. At issue, specifically, is his contention that “all religions are a path to arrive at God”
In this case, the title tells us a great deal about the tenor of the SSPX article: The Neo-Pastoral of Francis.
By way of comparison, the akaCatholic article on the same topic was titled: Bergoglio’s latest heresy unspinnable.
One man’s heresy is a lesser man’s neo-pastoral, I suppose.
Seriously, what on earth (or in the Bloody Hell) happened to the SSPX?
Despite certain shortcomings, this once stalwart defender of tradition has morphed into an effeminate handmaid for the man they call “Holy Father,” no longer willing to speak the truth plainly, even in response to the most egregious Bergoglian attacks against Our Lord Jesus Christ.
I was present at Holy Mass in October of 2013, roughly seven months into Bergoglio’s reign, when then SSPX Superior General, Bishop Bernard Fellay, boldly indicted the new conciliar church CEO, saying: “What we have before us is a genuine modernist!”
Since then, some noteworthy things have transpired.
Most important of all is the fact that Bergoglio has repeatedly denied Christ over the past eleven years, heaping heresy upon blasphemy, revealing himself as less the stealthy modernist than the openly declared enemy of the one true Faith.
Secondly, at some point when no one was looking, the SSPX evidently underwent the spiritual equivalent of gender reassignment, its former testicular fortitude duly stripped away along with every last trace of masculine militancy.
The poster boy for the newly neutered version of the SSPX is Fr. Jean-Michel Gleize, a professor of apologetics, ecclesiology, and dogma at the Seminary of Saint Pius X in Écône, who – as readers may recall – authored a six-part treatment of Amoris Laetitia in 2017, the entire purpose of which was to absolve Bergoglio of heresy.
In his most recent article, Fr. Gleize dances around the obvious like Kamala Harris when confronted with the reality of the U.S. border crisis.
Right out of the gate, Fr. Gleize offers his readers (hopefully very few) a mistranslation of Bergoglio’s well-publicized words. He writes:
Encouraging these young people to “dialogue,” the Holy Father clearly told them that all religions lead to God. “All religions are paths to God. I will use an analogy, they are like different languages that express the divine. But God is for everyone, and therefore, we are all God’s children.”
He then states: “The comparison is interesting.”
The comparison would be far more interesting if that’s what Bergoglio actually said. As reported in this space, an accurate translation of the Italian original reads:
All religions are a path to arrive at God. They are, of a comparison, like different languages, different idioms, to arrive there.
Francis said nothing about all religions being languages that express the divine. Rather, he very plainly said that false religions like Sikhism, Islam, Hinduism, just as Christianity, are paths to arrive at God.
Immediately after these heretical words were spoken by Bergoglio, the matter of false English translations was widely discussed and clarified. Ultimately, editors of the Vatican website were forced, in a sense, to correct their own faulty translation. Even this, however, was an embellished.
Are we really to believe that, a full week later, Fr. Gleize and his SSPX editors remained confused as to what was actually said? The very idea is absurd, leaving one with no other reasonable choice but to conclude that the deception is deliberate.
From there, rather than addressing the affront to Our Lord directly, Fr. Gleize posed no less than a dozen rhetorical questions that make it difficult, at times, for the poor reader to determine exactly what he’s condemning and what he’s defending.
Among the few direct assertions to be found in the article, Fr. Gleize offers:
It seems difficult to see paths that lead to God in so many different religions, since these fundamental truths are denied as much by the religion of contemporary Judaism as by that of Islam, and more generally by “non-Christian” religions.
I’ll see your seems difficult, Father, and raise you a nearly impossible:
It is nearly impossible to believe that a reasonably well-formed Catholic man, much less a priest, could be so weak as to speak in such a noncommittal way about such a clear cut matter. The average PTA mom has more spine than you’re putting on display in this pathetic article.
Lest anyone wish to imagine that Fr. Gleize is so erudite that one struggles to fully grasp the nuances and subtleties with which he deftly defends the faith, in the end, he makes no bones about where he actually stands on the matter:
In asserting that “All religions are paths to God,” Pope Francis does not say that they lead to Him “equally” or with the same value.
So there you have it. Once again, just as it was in the aftermath of Amoris Laetitia, the SSPX has appointed its professor, Fr. Gleize, to play the part of Bergoglio’s defense attorney. His entire one-thousand-word article is nothing more than a loquacious, and utterly unconvincing, not guilty plea on Jorge’s behalf.
NB: Those paying close attention will have noticed that the above plea, just like the opening paragraph, is an exercise in deception.
In asserting that “All religions are paths to God”…
That’s close, but not quite correct. Bergoglio actually said, … per arrivare a Dio, in English, “to arrive at God.” That, to be clear, is the “value” of all religions according to Jorge.
By way of analogy, we might think of Hinduism as a rowboat, Islam as a train, while Christianity is an airplane, etc. All of them, however, are destined to arrive in Paradise. At least that’s how Bergoglio sees it.
My final thought is that the entire Bergoglian Occupation has been a gift, at least insofar as it has served to separate the shepherds from the hirelings, the resolute from the spineless, the stallions from the geldings…
