Addressing the opening of the Italian Bishops’ Conference General Assembly on 22 May, Francis implored the gathering:
“The first of these gifts [of the Holy Spirit] is already in the convenire in unum (coming together in unity), willing to share time, listening, creativity and consolation. I hope these days will be crossed by open, humble and frank confrontation. Do not fear the moments of opposition: entrust yourselves to the Spirit, who opens to diversity and reconciles what is different in fraternal charity.”
As His Humbleness spoke, nearly a month had already passed since he had received a letter written on behalf of the four Dubia Brothers formally requesting an audience in order to, and I quote:
- Request for clarification of the five points indicated by the dubia; reasons for this request.
- Situation of confusion and disorientation, especially among pastors of souls, in primis parish priests.
In spite of his appeals for honest and frank confrontation and openness toward opposition, the aforementioned request for an audience had been met with nothing but silence from Francis.
The author of said letter, Cardinal Carlo Caffara, the retired Archbishop of Bologna, was present in the assembly that day, and there can be no doubt that he, more than anyone else, marveled at the magnitude of hypocrisy on display at that moment.
It is also quite likely that Cardinal Caffara understood very well that certain portions of Francis’ address were aimed directly at himself and the three other troublemakers-in-red who had joined him in co-authoring the Dubia.
For instance, His Hypocriticalness declared:
“The Synodal breath and step reveal what we are and the dynamism of communion that animates our decisions. Only in this horizon can we truly renew our pastoral program and adapt it to the mission of the Church in today’s world; only thus can we address the complexity of this time, thankful for the course accomplished and determined to continue it with parrhesia.”
Get it?
For those with ears to hear, Francis is essentially saying:
Amoris Laetitia is a fruit of the “Synodal” process, which itself is a manifestation of the gifts of the Holy Spirit!
This is what animated the decision to effectively abrogate mortal sin (AL 301), to declare the Divine Law too lofty for some to keep (AL 301), and to accuse God of asking us to persist in adultery (AL 303); thus addressing “the complexity of this time.”
Therefore, let us be “thankful for the course accomplished and determined to continue it with parrhesia.”
Parrhesia – open and candid speech.
In other words, Amoris Laetitia is a done deal. The only dialogue worthy of having concerns how to implement its “pastoral program.” As such, do not expect an audience ordered toward derailing the effort; it’s too late for that now.
From there, Francis continued his address to the bishops (and one wonders if perhaps he even made eye contact with Cardinal Caffara) as he said:
“In reality, this path is marked also by closures and resistances: our infidelities are a heavy mortgage put on the credibility of the testimony of the depositum fidei, a much worse threat than that which comes from the world with its persecutions.
NB: In this, Francis is suggesting that Amoris Laetitia – the origins of which can be traced back through the Synods directly to the Holy Ghost – belongs to the deposit of faith!
As such, men like the Dubia Brothers and those who support them, he insists, are guilty of nothing less than infidelity, and this for merely asking five simple yes/no questions that an adolescent should be able to answer!
Following are just a few of the remaining comments offered by Francis that are clearly intended as a response to both the Dubia and the request for an audience submitted by its authors:
– “If we keep our trust in God’s surprising initiative, the strength of patience and the fidelity of Confessors: we do not have to fear the second death.” [Note: This seems to refer to those “Confessors” who now – surprise! – have the authority to declare persons inculpable for the mortal sins they are determined to continue.]
– “Let us learn to give up useless ambitions and our obsession in order to live constantly under the gaze of the Lord…” [A reference to both the “God of Surprises” and those ambitious Dubia cardinals.]
– “We are exposed to the temptation to reduce Christianity to a series of principles deprived of concreteness…” [“Concrete,” as in immutable doctrinal truths.]
– “Let us open the heart to the knocking of the eternal Pilgrim: let us have Him enter, let us dine with Him.” [The “Pilgrim” Christ who is evolving right along with us!]
At this, it should be eminently clear that Francis has answered every doubt, every question, and every request that has come his way relative to the blasphemies and heresies put forth in Amoris Laetitia.
The only step that remains is for God to raise up men among the cardinals with the mustard seed’s worth of Catholic faith to declare what has taken place:
Jorge Bergoglio has revealed himself to be a pertinacious heretic; thus no member of the Church, much less her head.
Could it be that the letter of Cardinal Caffara was made public, not in a last ditch effort to pressure Francis into responding as some have alleged, but to set the stage for making the case that he already has?
Let us hope and pray and offer sacrifices that grace will abound among all concerned; that this scourge upon the Church may soon be mitigated according to God’s holy will.
The time has come at last for the four Cardinals & their hidden, silent supporters to activate the formal correction, call for an imperfect council & show PF & cronies the door. It’s an obligation they are called upon to carry out as PF has now fully exposed himself to be the Vicar of Satan. The retired contemplative half of this dual papacy should be brought out of hiding & given the opportunity to address the faithful.
Evil Bergoglio the Heretic!He won’t speak to the Cardinals but he speaks to every evil abortion lover and population controller,and other unsavoury characters who i wouldn’t allow in my house.In fact i wouldn’t allow Bergoglio in my house.The point is are the Dubia Cardinals going to go the whole hog and face him down with a formal correction?
Dearest Louie,
The sorrowful reality is that Burke and Company, as the “Dubia Brothers”, are nothing more nor less than, a part of the so called “conciliar church”. As any Catholic who holds some semblance of a reflection of the sensus fidelium in his heart knows, the conciliar church is not only, “not Catholic”, but it simply cannot be “Catholic”, within the context of the properly understood ontological reality of what it is to be, “Catholic”. This means of course that it cannot hold the Catholic Religion and as it does not hold it, in no sense can it teach the True Religion. What this means as an ipso-facto recognition of reality, is that Burke and Co. are either simply deceived or they are deceivers, and as such, they are creating a distraction and diversion away from the reality that Jorge Mario Bergoglio is an emissary of Lucifer, and therefore he yet remains, as a distinct possibility, the “False Prophet” or his herald. Jorge Mario Bergoglio, as “Francis” , can only remain as being inimical to the Holy Roman Papacy, as this speaks as res ipsa loquitur, as he continues to teach material/objective heresy from his faux magisterium of the conciliar church.
Within that understanding is found the wellspring of the unutterably stunning reality that, all but all, of those who consider themselves to be immanently Catholic, within the traditional understanding of what it is to be “Catholic”, are indeed in defacto reality embracing Modernism quo Modernism, when they actually and literally profess correctly that the so called “conciliar church” is not itself Catholic, while at once they profess that the man who calls himself “Pope”, as Jorge Mario Bergoglio, is actually and literally the “Holy Roman Pontiff” of the Catholic Church, while again professing in the same breath, that the conciliar church cannot be Catholic. You see Louie, this ideological paradigm just described, can only find its wellspring within the actual praxis of the syncretic construction of the perversion of reality, which is the Modernist deception. Almighty God alone is the Author of true reality as Reality, as Truth Himself.
Jorge Mario Bergoglio, aka:Francis, is an heretic, as this remains objectively understood in accordance with the “Catholic Encyclopedia” teaching on heresy. Further, he is “pertinacious” in his embrace of heresy, which is an understanding of, as you demonstrate Louie, that which can only remain as res ipsa loquitur, for those with eyes that see and ears that hear. In effect, for those that hear the voice of the Good Shepherd, as His Vicar in this world, by virtue of intuition, know when a voice which claims to be His, simply cannot be, and is thus the voice of a wolf in sheep’s clothing. It follows logically, as can only be rightly reasoned conclusively, that he cannot be the Holy Roman Pontiff of the Holy Catholic Church. To claim that he is the Holy Roman Pontiff, creates an internal contradiction, which can only be, this internal contradiction, antithetical to Catholic teaching. This antithesis, can only then exist as a metaphysical absurdity, when one understands that to be an heretic, material/objective or pertinacious/formal without prejudice, places into literal opposition the One, True Faith, which can only be witnessed to, by complete, full, and utter submission into all of Her teachings. This opposition to Faith, whether material/objective or pertinacious/formal, invokes as latae sententiae, the metaphysical “act” of placing oneself outside of Holy Mother Church, as anyone who opposes the Faith whether materially or formally, cannot at the same time be in unity with the Faith, as to suggest otherwise, places a literal affront to the law of non-contradiction. Therefore, as the Catholic Encyclopedia again teaches without prejudice, all heretics are in schism, while all schismatics are not, by their very foundation in schism, necessarily heretics. This schismatic reality of the heretic, again without prejudice, is apart from the sin of the “pertinacious heretic”. To be in schism is always evil (the privation of the due good) but to be in schism is not always sinful, as this remains in the internal forum as known to Almighty God alone.
What the intellectively blinded while baptized Catholic, even as he claims to adhere to Tradition actually does, is to approach this reality from the perspective of church and not from the perspective of pope. In other words, instead of assessing whether the man who calls himself “Pope” actually can be Pope, from an authentically Catholic and Thomistic understanding, this blinded Catholic rightly assesses the so called “conciliar church” as being something other than authentically Catholic, while at once he claims incorrectly and in full accordance with the Modernistic, syncretic construction of pseudo-reality, that although this creature beast, religion of man, conciliar church thing is not Catholic, the man who claims to be this beast’s chief shepherd, somehow is authentically Catholic. This is and can only be properly understand as, a metaphysical absurdity, which in reality cannot have being, therefore it does not exist. Finally and in other words, you cannot have a church which is not Catholic have as its leader, the Vicar of Christ in the Chair of Saint Peter, as the Holy Roman Pontiff. What we indeed have in our very midst, in the person of Jorge Mario Bergoglio as Francis, is a titular head of the church of the Antichrist, which has parlayed its masquerade as the Catholic Church, One, Holy, and Apostolic, controlling its very temporal edifice, for the past 59 years, since 1958. I pray this helps. In caritas.
In caritas, very good. A lot to digest, but nevertheless not impossible. So we believe in the Apostles Creed, they believe in “their own creed”. Two different Churches, one Holy Apostolic – the true Church; their other is desolation, abominable desolation standing in the Holy place – Rome. A counterfeit attempt to scatter the flock, with ecumenism and modernism world wide. As an analogy to kill a fire, is to blow hard on it from top down [ as opposed to fanning the flames by blowing at the base]
Our Lady of Fatima ora pro nobis.
Bergoglio is a heretic. It’s a “done deal”. Let us move on by being as aka Catholic as we possibly can be during this crisis. God is with us.
It’s astounding to perceive Francis “actually has the Holy Spirit” as if all his announcements are guided by the Third Person of the Blessed Trinity. As if the Holy Spirt could contemplate our transgressing of any of the Commandments. That alone is proof of Francis unworthyness to hold the Petrine position. Surely the cheak of Old Nick manifest.
He has a spirit alright – the UN-holy spirit. I am absolutely repulsed deep down in my being whenever I see him referred to as “Holy Father”. In fact I feel it’s blasphemous. People are simply ignorant as to the true nature and role of the Papacy, as I once was.
Thank you, In Caritas,. What you wrote made a lot of sense to me and as always it exercises my thinking skills.
The dubia was a farce to begin with. Nothing more than a distraction. Wake up, Burke et al are modernist. They are part of the controlled opposition. They serve their purpose to their masters just like politics with so called liberals and conservatives. This manufactured split along party lines is meant to divide the average joe into camps where we battle each each other while the elites pull all the strings. Francis and Burke and Ratzinger all play their part. Even the SSPX appears to be falling into line. This is what the Great Apostasy looks like. Get used to it and stop calling apostates Catholic.
Tom A, great points, one and all. I wonder just exactly HOW Cardinal Burke, et.al., intend to “square the circle” of remaining within the conciliar understanding of the Catholic Church as opposed to the true two millennia understanding of the Catholic Church taught by Jesus, the Apostles, Sacred Scripture, Sacred Tradition, and the Magisterium. The only question which remains is whether or not Benedict is still pope, and if prior popes actually held the Petrine Office.
Can anyone make heads or tails out of this?
http://www.remnantnewspaper.com/web/index.php/articles/item/3251-towards-a-doctrinal-agreement
Tom A:
So let’s see, the SSPX is “falling in line” because, while acknowledging Amoris Laetitia to be heretical, they refuse to interpret it as being irrefutable evidence of Formal Heresy on the part of Pope Francis? Or is it because the media reports are that Fellay is considering some of the options that are being offered to him to gain Rome’s approval as being in so-called “full communion” with the Church?
Your criticism of Cardinal Burke and the rest of the Modernists is well taken, but there’s little factual basis for the assault on the SSPX. They are the only priestly organization that fully embraces the true teachings of the Catholic Church. The Modernists would give their eye tooth to have traditional Catholics turn their back on them.
Irish, I only say “appears to fall in line” because the more they cozy up to modernist Rome, the more I fear they too will be corrupted. Rome wants only for the SSPX to offer a pinch of incense. Once offered they are compromised forever.
Not really. It’s a bit 50/50 expressed on Fellay. Trying to flush him out as it were. If he signs anything less than the complete repudiation of V2 errors, it will be disasteroues. Signing a partial return will be as much as admitting the Lutherans. Thats on track in Rome as it falls over.
I think Pope Francis has answered the dubia cardinals many times, with interest! The man cannot get through a week without uttering a heresy. Francis is a classic false prophet, tickling the ears of the sheep, whispering sweet nothings into their furry little ears; comforting them in adultery, homosexuality, while reassuring the worried errant that God is nothing but mercy, mercy – while rebuking as pharisees those who preach the need to walk with God in holiness, and turn from sins like adultery, that lead to certain judgment!
And what an incredible wolf pack of evil minions Francis keeps for advisers. Its like something out of a horror flick – or a prescient Christian movie about the Great Apostasy! Take the incredible apostates like Cardinal Walter Kasper, Cardinal Reinhard Marx, and that incredible, openly gay pervert of an Archbishop, Vincenzo Paglia of mural fame; whom Francis had the temerity to appoint as head of the Pontifical Academy for Life. Unbelievable! Since people are known by the company they keep, I would venture that Francis has long since revealed himself, with all his rotten fruit and demon inspired advisers.
According to Paul, the church leadership is supposed to, “Drive out the wicked person from among you.” (1 Corinthians 5:13). It’s the cardinals solemn duty to God to protect the church from these “sheepy smelling” wolves. If we are supposed to not associate with a brother who is sexually immoral (1 Corinthians 5:11), how much more should we not associate ourselves with a leader who teaches over a billion souls that they can receive Jesus Christ himself in the sacraments while living in open adultery or fornication? if we’re to shun a brother who does not live in harmony with tradition, how should we act towards a leader who violates and overturns tradition itself? (2 Thessalonians 3:6).
Yet, the dubia cardinals are moving in this crises like a glacier. They’ve wasted seven months before they wrote that mewing little kitten letter, and two more months have passed before it was published. Wow! When Peter fell into hypocrisy, Paul was quick to correct him, and publicly at that (Galatians 2:14). The dubia cardinals speak of acting respectfully, and with utmost submission and reverence for the “holy father”; but how differently they act from Paul, who also respected, loved and revered Peter; but nevertheless acted quickly, decisively and publicly when Peter fell into error. Francis knows what the dubia cardinals want, they’ve explained in endless interviews; Francis is ignoring them because he is set on introducing and replacing sound teaching and church tradition with his heresies, why can’t these cardinals see that?
The cardinals need to act for Francis sake too. Charitably speaking, Francis is at best a badly erring brother whose soul is in great danger; they owe Pope Francis the same true love that any brother deserves – a formal correction to restore him to grace! They need to shun further delay and timidity and act with dispatch, because the spiritual well being of over a billion Catholics are at stake; and the noxious effects of AL are quickly spreading and becoming entrenched as grave apostasy.
Good Sunday evening, toiyabefinn,
What you say would apply if the reality was that Burke and Company were, from their essence, any different than Bergoglio, Ratzinger, Wojtyla, the one who lasted 33 days, Montini, or Roncali. The “essence” is in respect to “the council”, which crafted the language and became the wellspring for a religion, which although calls itself Catholic and controls the edifice of the formerly Catholic Church, in truth cannot be, as there is only ONE— Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church, whose language has been from its essence consistent, as Truth can only be, for the 2,000 years preceding “the council”. The praxis of the Catholic Religion, again in Truth cannot change, and for anyone to claim that the praxis of the life lived in the Church has not changed since the diabolically contrived VCII, is for that same “anyone” to be living in a world apart from reality and this speaks as res ipsa loquitur. It would seem to be most likely that the sacraments of that “conciliar church” are just as invalid as their papacy, which only remains consistent with the reality of a false church posing as the One, True, Church. There cannot be two manifestations of the “same Rite”, as is claimed about the novus ordo missae and the Gregorian Rite of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. Saint Pope Pius X made this existentially clear in Quo Primum. Either “Quo Primum” is a lie or “Missale Romanum” is a lie, in that very same sense, as both cannot be “Apostolic Constitutions”, while living in utter contradiction, one with the other. Only those with the faith of a child will enter the Kingdom of Heaven, as our Blessed Dominus Deus Sabbaoth and Savior, Jesus the Christ commanded. One God, One Church, One Faith, One Religion, One Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, all attributes of One God in union, therefore consistent. I pray this helps. In caritas.
Correction: Where I wrote “Saint Pope Pius X”, in respect to “Quo Primum”, I meant to write, Saint Pope Pius V. Also, implied but not stated, is the reality that of course the True Church of Jesus the Christ continues to live in our midst, as commanded by Him until the end of time. There is no dogma which exists that proclaims the Papacy will exist until the end of time, at least visibly. The words of Saint Paul in his Second Epistle to the Thessalonians, chapter 2, make that patently and pristinely clear in our time, as the Holy Writ was written in time, for all time. Amen. In caritas.