Thanks to his very own words and deeds, it has been clear for some time now that Francis, otherwise considered by the morbidly naïve as the “active member” of a newly expanded Petrine ministry, does not truly believe in the divinity of Christ.
For example, on Easter Sunday 2015, he plainly asserted that “Jesus stripped Himself of His divine glory.”
Of course, Our Lord did no such thing; if He had, He’d be rendered, what? A mere man.
Needless to say, a mere man cannot be present Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity under the appearance of bread and wine, which is perhaps why the blasphemous Argentinian heretic cannot manage to bend his knee before the Most Holy Eucharist at Mass, much less conduct himself reverently before the tabernacle.
In any case, Francis provided additional evidence of his lack of faith in the divinity of Christ in one of his recent Santa Marta sermons.
Taking the occasion to once again denigrate “the lawyers, theologians who always go the way of casuistry” (i.e., faithful, well-formed Catholic clergy and laity who believe that the divinely established moral law is more than just theory), he pointed to the example of Christ’s temptations in the desert to claim:
“Jesus was Himself tempted to lose the memory of His own mission, to not give way to prophecy and to prefer security instead of Hope.”
Get that? Jesus was tempted to lose hope – the theological virtue that is received upon one’s configuration to Christ in baptism!
Don’t bother trying to decipher what “lose the memory” means; the point is that Francis sincerely believes that Jesus was tempted in the same way that you and I are tempted.
To be perfectly clear, he even went on to insist that Jesus “knew temptation in Himself.”
FALSE.
The 1917 Catholic Encyclopedia sums up the correct doctrine as follows:
Like Adam, Christ (the second Adam) endured temptation only from without, inasmuch as His human nature was free from all concupiscence, but unlike Adam, He withstood the assaults of the Tempter on all points, thereby affording His mystical members a perfect model of resistance to their spiritual enemy, and a permanent source of victorious help.
As things stand today, with papal identity theft being openly perpetrated (nay, flaunted!) right under our very noses, it would seem that all of this is a relatively small thing, but the truth is it is not.
In spite of the substantial reasons to believe that the resignation of Benedict was utterly illegitimate, and likewise the conclave that followed, the Catholic world at large (with precious few meaningful exceptions) is pleased to mindlessly follow Francis into perdition; as if he were in some way being guided by the grace of Peter’s Office.
As such, it is helpful to stay alert to, and to make others aware of, his various errors; in particular, the Christological heresy discussed herein as Francis’ lack of faith in the divinity of Christ lies at the very heart of his unholy agenda.
“The Council of Trent declared that we must honor Our Lord Jesus Christ publicly so that those who see, and who observe the faith of Catholics in the Most Holy Eucharist, might be attracted as well by this homage rendered to Our Lord Jesus Christ, and that finally they might believe in the Divinity of Our Lord Jesus Christ present in this great Sacrament. And the Council of Trent added, Let those who refuse to admit the Divinity of Our Lord Jesus Christ be struck, struck by a punishment of God—by the blinding of their hearts—if they refuse to honor Our Lord Jesus Christ.”
Archbishop Lefebvre
Is it possible to NOT believe in the Divinity of Christ and still be Catholic???
I’ve read Antonio Socci’s “The Fourth Secret of Fatima” (2009 English Publication, Loreto Publications) a number of times and also Christopher A. Ferrara’s “”The Still Hidden Secret” (2008, Good Counsel Publications).
In Chapter 4 of Socci’s book, he recounts a face to face interview held on July 5, 2006 between a young Fatima journalist/scholar, Solideo Paolini, and then-Monsignor (later Cardinal) Loris Capovilla during which certain tidbits of information relative to a possible attachment to the Third Secret of Fatima were coyly alluded to by Capovilla. I noticed something a bit odd and disconnected about what Capovilla is quoted as saying when, during a moment of expansiveness about there being anything more regarding the Third Secret he said:
“Archbishop Capovilla continued to speak, and he began to criticize ‘the ease with which one can take for possessed persons who could simply have mental illnesses, from which imprudence-which he of Loreto did not exhibit- one could launch immediately into exorcisms when (while not excluding exorcism as an ultimate possibility) that person could simply be suffering from a mental illness. There could instead have been a need for confession, Mass, Communion, and if one wishes, a good prayer such as the Rosary.’ There followed some other anecdotes and evaluations of the Popes.”
I was not there, of course, but I wondered to myself; Where did that bit of extemp come from on Capovilla’s part? ‘Mental illness’? ‘Exorcism’? The context and recounted structure of the conversation did not make it seem Capovilla was speaking of Sister Lucia.
Curiously, the preceding Chapter refers to Malachi Martin’s 1998 remarks on the Art Bell radio show during which Malachi Martin refers to the undisclosed part of the Third Secret of Fatima (which Malachi Martin claims to have seen) thus when a caller offers what a priest relative informed him about the contents of the full Secret revealing there would come a Pope ‘who would be under the control of Satan:
“Yes, it seems that this person (the caller’s priest relative) would have had the means of reading or would have been given the contents of the Secret. It is sufficiently vague to cause hesitation, but it seems to be that.”
Did Capovilla make a slip of the tongue with his talk of exorcism and possession or was he just rambling? I don’t know if Socci or Paolini have made any connection but it would be interesting to hear their take on it.
Peace and Pray the Rosary
Why stop at two heads in imitation of the earthly sisters Martha and Mary? Why not three heads in ridicule of the Holy Trinity? Or worse yet, why not seven heads with ten horns as the beast in the Apocalypse?
No.
Fr. Fuentes’ interview with Sr. Lucia in 1957:
“Sister Lucia also told me: “Father, the devil is in the mood for engaging in a decisive battle against the Blessed Virgin. And the devil knows what it is that offends God the most, and which in a short space of time will gain for him the greatest number of souls. Thus the devil does everything to overcome souls consecrated to God, because in this way the devil will succeed in leaving the souls of the faithful abandoned by their leaders, thereby the more easily will he seize them.”
“That which afflicts the Immaculate Heart of Mary and the Heart of Jesus is the fall of religious and priestly souls. The devil knows that religious and priests who fall away from their beautiful vocation drag numerous souls to hell. The devil wishes to take possession of consecrated souls. He tries to corrupt them in order to lull to sleep the souls of laypeople and thereby lead them to final impenitence…”
Do you think Pope John Paul II was a Catholic after he scammed the world about being Fatima’s Bishop dressed in white? How about after the Assisi false religion summit and desecrations? How about after the World Youth Day love-ins? How about after he sent Poland’s Solidarity Movement $100 million to simulate Our Lady’s promise of Peace?
I have a sneaking suspicion that old Jorge is, in fact, an Arian or Adoptionist of some sort.
Wait and see. In his future “sermons”, he will continue to chip away at traditional Christology. This is just the beginning.
Thank you, Alphonsus Jr., for your no nonsense response. If Bergoglio does not believe in the Divinity of Christ, he is NOT only NOT Catholic, he is, by proper definition, NOT Christian! He is, however, not the CAUSE of this mess, but the PRODUCT of the mess going back more than 50 years. The devils of Vatican II are having their day. But Our Lady will have Her Hour. Her Hour of Triumph is assured. In the meantime, we must stay in the battle. The Modern post-conciliar “church” is NOT Catholic!
Vatican II was just the beginning. The process will continue until they “establish” a one world order false church emptied of dogmas and the true religion.
In the Mystical City of God ,the Venerable Mary of Agreda stated that since Christ could not leave the faithful an example of the virtues of Faith or Hope , as he was God , His Mother contained those Virtues in an eminent degree .There is a concerted effort to strip Christ of His Divinity and present Him as a glorified social worker and reformer ,and eradicate the memory of His Passion.
My understanding was that Jesus could only be tempted externally, such as hearing Satan saying “…lookee here what I can give you! …” but never internally, where He might dwell on the temptation and entertain the possibility of evil, mulling it over in His mind such as we fallen creatures do. To claim Jesus was tempted internally is blasphemy and shows a complete denial of the Divinity of Jesus. He was without sin, full of grace and truth. The same act of denial can be said of those who deny Christ’s miracles, such as the multiplication of the loaves and fishes, reducing it to a mere sharing party, as the occupier of the Chair of Peter has stated.
What a sorry state of affairs; if they only knew how harshly they will be judged for denying Christ, they would be petrified with fear, their legs would buckle and they would fall flat on their faces begging forgiveness. Pride keeps them standing.
Michael F Poulin
I think at heart he is a modernist and probably has less faith than any Arian. Not certain though.
And note how he immediately starts whining about “hypocrites” who “judge others” in his most recent “papal address”. You’re probably right: he’s not an Arian, he believes that he is above Christ.
Can we cut to the chase? Jorge Mario Bergoglio is not the Pope.
Let’s spare ourselves the aggravation.
I heard someone who claims a close relationship with Fr. Kramer said that Fr. Kramer now considers Francis a invalid Pope.
Yes, I believe so. He argues that the formula of resignation used by b16 contains a grammatical error which renders the sentence unintelligible. According to an old, and never abrogated canon law, that makes it invalid. Therefore B16 is still pope.
I don’t know if this is true as I don’t know Latin beyond an ete missae est.
Cardinal Muller:
“A running camera would not have been able to make an audio-visual recording of either the Easter manifestations of Jesus in front of his disciples, nor of the Resurrection event, which, at its core, is the consummation of the personal relation of the Father to the incarnate Son in the Holy Ghost. In contrast to human reason, animals and technical devices are not capable of a transcendental experience and thus also lack the ability to be addressed by the Word of God through perceptible phenomena and signs. Only human reason in its inner unity of categoricality and transcendentality is determinable by the Spirit of God to enable it to perceive in the sensory cognitive image (triggered by the manifestation event) the person-reality of Jesus as the cause of this sensory-mental cognitive image.”
Archbishop Lefebvre:
“After these days during which many of His disciples and apostles abandoned Him – were frightened – behold, suddenly He manifested His Divinity more brightly than lightning. It was with all His splendor that Our Lord came out of the tomb, so much so that the guards were knocked down by the splendor coming out of the tomb – the Body of Our Lord more brilliant than the sun. O, how would we have liked to be present at this event! How we would have liked to be able to follow, with our eyes, what those who were close to Our Lord at that time were able to see!”
Archbishop Lefebvre:
“Now, we see that throughout history it is precisely around the Divinity of Our Lord Jesus Christ and on the subject of the Divinity of Our Lord Jesus Christ on which men were divided. From the beginning of the Christian era, the errors of Anus, of Nestorius, of Eutiches, of Pelagius were all about Our Lord Jesus Christ. Either they present Him as God only, denying His humanity, or they reduce Him to a mere man. They want to divide Our Lord Jesus Christ – and always in order to escape His Law, to disobey Him, to be freed from Our Lord Jesus Christ. Because if we believe that Our Lord Jesus Christ is God, then we must obey His law, the Decalogue, which He gave us, we must keep the Faith and profess the Creed, we must obey the Church that He has instituted and through which He gave us the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass and the Sacraments. We are bound by all this.”
+Lefebvre:
“But where is the world today? If Our Lord was still here, what would He say? Would He no longer say these words: “The world hates Me. And the world shall hate you because you love Me and you believe in Me.” Where is this world? Does it exist no longer? It has never been so much in existence as today! Never did Satan have so much influence in our world as today! And all this influence is contrary to Our Lord Jesus Christ.
Therefore, we must maintain our faith in Our Lord Jesus Christ.
We shall conclude by saying that we must remain faithful. Fidelity must be the mark of the true Catholic. Do they not call us “the faithful”? We are faithful, and being faithful, then we must truly practice the virtue of fidelity. What is fidelity if not to keep our promises, to keep our Faith in what has been taught in the past. Fidelity encompasses the past in itself. There can be no fidelity without something said or agreed upon. One is faithful to his word, and faithful to his Faith.
We want to be faithful to our Faith, to the Faith of all times. No one can change our Faith. We believe that today as well as in the time of Our Lord as well as for the two thousand years in between.
Satan and the world are enraged against Our Lord Jesus Christ, against all those who believe in Our Lord Jesus Christ.”
I revere Lefebvre, and that is why I am sure he never said “The errors of Anus”. On the other hand, that is a good way to describe Bergoglio’s antics! =)
OK–Bergoglio is not Catholic. He may not even be Christian, but he sure is cool and a DopePope to boot!
Look at this article and video and be assured that Our Lord’s Church has been betrayed. Warning: Not to be viewed directly after eating!!
http://www.grindtv.com/surf/cool-pope-becomes-dope-pope-by-receiving-his-first-surfboard/#YVEozqm6wJpP80m8.97
P.S. I can’t wait to see Bergoglio’s prayer intentions for June. Perhaps, he will talk about the virtues of surfboarding!
Fr. Bergoglio and I are the same age. No matter, if I could get close enough to him they would have to take us both to the hospital to get my foot out of his backside. Even then I doubt I could get his attention.
By “proper definition”, it isn’t, never has been and never will be possible to be a Christian if one’s not Catholic. Just another Vatican II lie that most catholics, including most trads, unfortunately have bought into.
Seriously, what difference does it make if Francis or BXVI is Pope? Follow either one and you’re on the road to Hell.
Francis attacked ““the lawyers, theologians who always go the way of casuistry.” Bl. Cardinal Newman somewhere refuted such attacks on casuistry; in particular, if memory serves, the Protestant attacks on St. Alphonsus Liguori’s casuistry. The fact is life can be highly complicated, and only a properly trained, and orthodox, Catholic priest can properly disentangle some moral dilemmas.
Pope Francis:
“She was silent, but in her heart, how many things [she] told the Lord! ‘You, that day, this and the other that we read, you had told me that he would be great, you had told me that you would have given him the throne of David, his forefather, that he would have reigned forever and now I see him there!’ Our Lady was human! And perhaps she even had the desire to say: ‘Lies! I was deceived!’ …”
Archbishop Lefebvre:
“The Virgin Mary imitated her Divine Son and she too tried to model her sentiments on those of her Divine Son. She too was filled with the Holy Ghost. This was so for her whole life but without any doubt, in a very particular way during the Passion.
To Restore the Honor of the Father We must never forget that the first and main goal of these two Hearts inflamed by the Holy Ghost was the love of the Father.
Indeed, love of the Holy Ghost, this “Consuming Fire,” leads to the Father. It is none other than the love of God: “God is Charity.” Therefore, the Holy Ghost can do nothing other than lead us to God, to lead us to the Father. Thus Jesus was suffering first of all in order to restore the honor of God the Father. The Virgin Mary, too, was united with the sufferings of her Divine Son in order to restore the honor of the Father.
The Father receives infinite glory, really infinite, from His Divine Son. And He also receives the greatest created glory from a privileged creature. This creature was the Blessed Virgin Mary, united with her Divine Son. She was the first to be truly redeemed. She was perfectly redeemed, in the sense that she has not even known sin. It was in consideration of the Incarnation of Our Lord that she was Immaculate in her Conception and thus has never known sin.
At the foot of the Cross, she sang the glory of the Father in suffering; in sorrow she sang the glory of God; she wanted to restore the honor and the glory of God upon earth…
….She is truly called the Queen of Martyrs. She too gave herself, all her blood, all her life, all that she had and, in particular, her Divine Son. She gave all to the Good Lord for the redemption of souls. Mother of Mercy, Mater Misericordiae. Such are the origins of the Sorrows of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
Suffering with Peace and Joy Far from us to think that in the Passion there is sadness leading to despair and that this sadness would have put Jesus and Mary’s souls in a certain kind of despair. No, not at all! Since it was precisely charity which was the origin of these sufferings, charity produced in their Hearts peace and joy: Though it might seem unbelievable to unite passion, suffering and mercy with a profound joy, yet the Heart of Our Lord Jesus Christ was filled with joy indeed; and so was the Heart of the Virgin Mary, united with that of Our Lord.
They were filled with the joy of the Most Holy Trinity, the joy given by a great Charity; the peace, which Charity produces in souls, is an ineffable peace. Jesus and Mary were not in a torture like many souls who suffer in their bodies, and who have feelings of deep sorrow and despair. No, Jesus and Mary did not suffer in this way. They suffered, but their Hearts were truly in serenity, in peace, which allowed the Blessed Virgin to remain standing at the foot of the Cross…”
Sermon bishop williamson
https://youtu.be/NRt9wVYGrAQ
My2cents
https://youtu.be/pjVkFIc7j7M
https://www.lifesitenews.com/blogs/pope-francis-award-to-hollywood-anti-marriage-activists-endangers-the-famil
St. Francis of Assisi Prophecy:
“A Man, not Canonically Elected, will be raised to the Pontificate… In those days Jesus Christ will send them not a true Pastor, but a Destroyer.”
Mother earth francis
https://youtu.be/EOnH-NmkMv0
In other words, Muller is a heretic.
Thank you, John 6. I notice Bergoglio did not mention that June is the month of the Sacred Heart (Feastday June 3rd). Do you think he forgot–or perhaps, he has never heard of the Sacred Heart. Or, even worse, he’s aware of Our Lord’s apparition to St. Margaret Mary Alacoque and First Friday Devotions, but just thinks it is hogwash. If Bergoglio is Catholic then so is my neighbor’s cat!! As far as I am concerned, he one big bore. The mere sound of his voice makes my hair stand on end. Wish he would just go away—-far, far away!
http://www.traditioninaction.org/RevolutionPhotos/A663-Circus.htm
Sickening!!!
Dear OldTradCat,
If you WERE to ever get close enough and had to be taken to the hospital, you would be in good company.
Pope St. Pius X said of modernists:
“They want to be treated with oil, soap and caresses. But they should be beaten with fists. In a duel, you don’t count or measure the blows, you strike as you can.”
YES —- Sickening!!!
Whoa! Sickening!
We are on borrowed time.
Our Lady of Fatima, save us.
Our Lady of Good Success, ora pro nobis.
I’m fairly new to following this papal disaster, so I have to ask: is the beach ball REAL in this picture or is this a photo-shopped symbol of how bad the situation has gotten? I read once that Francis put a football on the altar, so it’s impossible to know anymore, since what used to be unthinkable is daily the reality. But what in the world was going on here? And thank you Louie for such a treasure trove of information on your site!
Welcome to the site, orapronobis.
I am sorry to tell you that the beach ball is REAL.
Watch from 36 seconds and weep.
https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=pope+francis+returns+to+rome+after+WYD+2013+romereports.com&view=detail&mid=9611300172525833BF219611300172525833BF21&FORM=VIRE
Oh my. I never watched much Francis footage, and now I see why I didn’t bother. But maybe this can help me convince some friends who still don’t get it. Thanks for the quick reply!
Welcome, orapronobis. Francis willingly provides ammunition every day to convince Catholics he is a fool. I feel very disrespectful saying this about a man who is supposed to be the Vicar of Christ on earth. However, I take comfort in knowing that Our Lord knows that this anger comes for love of Him. On this, I speak for all of us. God bless you in your efforts to convince those you do not get it. What will it finally take–I’m afraid to think about it!
Is there any way we can just ban those two words, “encounter” and “solidarity”? Just the very use of those two words should be considered anathema.
and the word”dialogue”
Yes, of course Cardinal, and how do you explain the two disciples on the Road to Emmaeus, who weren’t even thinking that their strange travelling companion was Jesus? Did they both have the same “personal” event? Did they imagine an imaginary traveller who spoke to both and both listened to Him? Your theorey makes no sense, especially when compared to Scripture. But then, you must be too busy to actually study Scripture.
To deny the reality of the Resurrection is to cease to be Christian.