Category: Errors and Truth

Pope Benedict Vs. Francis Part 3

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The English Denzinger site (which was run by (20) priests, and which (strangely??) has not been active for a few years, was invaluable and priceless in terms of comparing everything Francis claimed to what authentic Church Teaching says.

The following is an example of one article I had saved. It is very long, so I will post just a few bits every day. The following continues from yesterday’s post.

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Benedict XVI…

…judges Francis’ idea that Jesus is only mercy

  • Justice and charity coincide in God

Justice and mercy, justice and charity on which the Church’s charity is hinged, are two different realities only for the human person. For we distinguish carefully between a just act and an act of love. For us ‘just’ means ‘what is due to the other’, while ‘merciful’ is what is given out of kindness. One seems to exclude the other. Yet for God it is not like this: justice and charity coincide in him; there is no just action that is not also an act of mercy and pardon, and at the same time, there is no merciful action that is not perfectly just. How far God’s logic is from our own! And how different is his way of acting from ours! (Benedict XVI. Address in the Rebibbia district prison, Rome, December 18, 2011)

  • The parable of the rich man and poor Lazarus shows how earthly wickedness is overturned by divine justice

Today, Luke’s Gospel presents to us the parable of the rich man and poor Lazarus (Lk 16: 19-31). […] The story shows how earthly wickedness is overturned by divine justice: after his death, Lazarus was received ‘in the bosom of Abraham’, that is, into eternal bliss; whereas the rich man ended up ‘in Hades, in torment’. This is a new and definitive state of affairs against which no appeal can be made, which is why one must mend one’s ways during one’s life; to do so after serves no purpose. (Benedict XVI. Angelus, September 30, 2007)

  • God is the one who proclaims justice forcefully

Dear brothers and sisters, human justice and divine justice differ greatly. People are unable of course to apply divine justice. However they must at least look at it, seeking to understand the profound spirit that motivates it so that it may also illumine human justice and thereby prevent the inmate from becoming an outcast, which unfortunately happens all too often. […] God is the one who proclaims justice forcefully but at the same time heals wounds with the balm of mercy. The parable in Matthew’s Gospel of the laborers, called to work by day in the vineyard (Mt 20:1-16), enables us to understand the difference between human and divine justice because it makes the delicate relationship between justice and mercy explicit. The parable describes a farmer who hired laborers to work in his vineyard. But he did so at different times of day so that some of them worked all day and others only for an hour. When the time came to pay their wages the owner of the vineyard elicited amazement and started a discussion among the laborers. The matter concerned the generosity — considered unfair by those present — of the vineyard owner who decided to give the same remuneration to the workers hired in the morning as to those hired in the afternoon. In the human perspective this decision was an authentic form of unfairness, from God’s viewpoint an act of kindness, because divine justice gives to each what he is due and includes in addition mercy and forgiveness. (Benedict XVI. Address in the Rebibbia district prison, Rome, December 18, 2011)

  • Injustice: its origin lies in the human heart in a mysterious cooperation with evil

The Evangelist Mark reports the following words of Jesus, which are inserted within the debate at that time regarding what is pure and impure: ‘There is nothing outside a man which by going into him can defile him; but the things which come out of a man are what defile him … What comes out of a man is what defiles a man. For from within, out of the heart of man, come evil thoughts (Mk 7:14-15, 20-21). Beyond the immediate question concerning food, we can detect in the reaction of the Pharisees a permanent temptation within man: to situate the origin of evil in an exterior cause. Many modern ideologies deep down have this presupposition: since injustice comes ‘from outside,’ in order for justice to reign, it is sufficient to remove the exterior causes that prevent it being achieved. This way of thinking – Jesus warns – is ingenuous and shortsighted. Injustice, the fruit of evil, does not have exclusively external roots; its origin lies in the human heart, where the seeds are found of a mysterious cooperation with evil. (Benedict XVI. Message for Lent 2010, October 30, 2009)

  • Justice signifies full acceptance of the will of the God, and equity in relation to one’s neighbor

At the heart of the wisdom of Israel, we find a profound link between faith in God who ‘lifts the needy from the ash heap’ (Ps 113:7) and justice towards one’s neighbor. The Hebrew word itself that indicates the virtue of justice, sedaqah, expresses this well. Sedaqah, in fact, signifies on the one hand full acceptance of the will of the God of Israel; on the other hand, equity in relation to one’s neighbour (cf. Ex 20:12-17). (Benedict XVI. Message for Lent 2010, October 30, 2009)

…judges Francis’ idea on the poor being the heart of the Gospel

  • Christ lives in the Sacred Scriptures

The Church knows well that Christ lives in the Sacred Scriptures. For this very reason – as the Constitution stresses – she has always venerated the divine Scriptures in the same way as she venerates the Body of the Lord (cf. Dei Verbum, no. 21). (Benedict XVI. Address for the 40th anniversary of the Dogmatic Constitution on Divine revelation Dei Verbum, September 16, 2005)

  • God’s love for man is the heart of the Gospel

The Letter to the Hebrews has set us before Christ, the eternal High Priest, exalted to the Father’s glory after offering himself as the one perfect sacrifice of the New Covenant in which the work of Redemption was accomplished. St Augustine fixed his gaze on this mystery and in it he found the Truth he was so ardently seeking. Jesus Christ, the Incarnate Word, the Sacrificed and Risen Lamb, is the Face of God-Love for every human being on his journey along the paths of time towards eternity. The Apostle John writes in a passage that can be considered parallel to the one just proclaimed in the Letter to the Hebrews: ‘In this is love, not that we loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the expiation for our sins’ (I Jn 4: 10). Here is the heart of the Gospel, the central nucleus of Christianity. (Benedict XVI. Homily during the pastoral visit to Vigevano and Pavia, Italy, April 22, 2007)

  • The Gospel transmits a universal message: ‘Make disciples of all nations’

The Church, in other words, must constantly rededicate herself to her mission. The three Synoptic Gospels highlight various aspects of the missionary task. The mission is built first of all upon personal experience: ‘You are witnesses’ (Lk 24:48); it finds expression in relationships: ‘Make disciples of all nations’ (Mt 28:19); and it spreads a universal message: ‘Preach the Gospel to the whole creation’ (Mk 16:15). Through the demands and constraints of the world, however, this witness is constantly obscured, the relationships are alienated and the message is relativized. (Benedict XVI. Address to the Catholics engaged in the life of the Church and society, September 25, 2011)

 

Pope Benedict Vs. Francis Part 2

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The English Denzinger site (which was run by (20) priests, and which (strangely??) has not been active for a few years, was invaluable and priceless in terms of comparing everything Francis claimed to what authentic Church Teaching says.

The following is an example of one article I had saved. It is very long, so I will post just a few bits every day. The following continues from yesterday’s post.

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Benedict XVI…

…judges Francis’ idea on proclaiming the Gospel only with gentleness

  • It is our mission to proclaim the whole of God’s will, in its totality and ultimate simplicity – even when inconvenient

This is important; the Apostle did not preach an ‘à la carte’ Christianity to suit his own inclinations, he did not preach a Gospel to suit his own favourite theological ideas; he did not shrink from the commitment to proclaiming the whole of God’s will, even an inconvenient will and even topics of which he was personally not so enamoured. It is our mission to proclaim the whole of God’s will, in its totality and ultimate simplicity. But it is important that we teach and preach, as St Paul says here, and really propose the will of God in its entirety. (Benedict XVI. Lectio Divina given at the meeting with the parish priests of the Rome diocese, March 10, 2011)

  • Christian admonishment is always moved by love and mercy

I am thinking of all those Christians who, out of human regard or purely personal convenience, adapt to the prevailing mentality, rather than warning their brothers and sisters against ways of thinking and acting that are contrary to the truth and that do not follow the path of goodness. Christian admonishment, for its part, is never motivated by a spirit of accusation or recrimination. It is always moved by love and mercy, and springs from genuine concern for the good of the other. (Benedict XVI. Message for lent, 2012, no. 1, November 3, 2011)

…judges Francis’ idea on proclaiming the Gospel

  • The hermeneutic of discontinuity: a split between the pre-conciliar and the post-conciliar Church. This is to fundamentally misunderstand what a Council is

What has been the result of the Council? Was it well received? What, in the acceptance of the Council, was good and what was inadequate or mistaken? What still remains to be done? […] The question arises: Why has the implementation of the Council, in large parts of the Church, thus far been so difficult? Well, it all depends on the correct interpretation of the Council or – as we would say today – on its proper hermeneutics, the correct key to its interpretation and application. The problems in its implementation arose from the fact that two contrary hermeneutics came face to face and quarreled with each other. One caused confusion, the other, silently but more and more visibly, bore and is bearing fruit. On the one hand, there is an interpretation that I would call ‘a hermeneutic of discontinuity and rupture’; it has frequently availed itself of the sympathies of the mass media, and also one trend of modern theology. On the other, there is the ‘hermeneutic of reform’, of renewal in the continuity of the one subject-Church which the Lord has given to us. She is a subject which increases in time and develops, yet always remaining the same, the one subject of the journeying People of God. The hermeneutic of discontinuity risks ending in a split between the pre-conciliar Church and the post-conciliar Church. […] The nature of a Council as such is therefore basically misunderstood. In this way, it is considered as a sort of constituent that eliminates an old constitution and creates a new one. (Benedict XVI. Address to the Roman Curia, December 22, 2005)

  • We must see the Council in this perspective of continuity

This point is also important with regard to the Council. We need not, as I said to the Roman Curia before Christmas, live the hermeneutic of discontinuity, but rather the hermeneutic of renewal, which is the spirituality of continuity, of going ahead in continuity. […] We must accept newness but also love continuity, and we must see the Council in this perspective of continuity. (Benedict XVI. Address to the members of the Roman clergy, March 2, 2006)

  • The Church, both before and after the Council, was and is the same Church

The Church, both before and after the Council, was and is the same Church, one, holy, catholic and apostolic, journeying on through time; she continues ‘her pilgrimage amid the persecutions of the world and the consolations of God’, proclaiming the death of the Lord until he comes (cf. Lumen Gentium, no. 8). (Benedict XVI. Address to the Roman Curia, December 22, 2005)

  • Proclaim the Gospel without fear or reticence, never yielding to the conditioning of the world

The truth about Gospel love concerns every person and the whole person, and involves the Pastor in proclaiming it without fear or reticence, and never yielding to the conditioning of the world in season and out of season (cf. 2Tim 4:2). Dear Brothers in the Episcopate, in a time such as our own, marked by the growing phenomenon of globalization, it is ever more necessary to make the truth about Christ and his Gospel of salvation reach everyone. (Benedict XVI. Address to the members of the 11th Ordinary Council of the General Secretariat of the Synod of Bishops, June 1, 2006)

  • The Church of love is also the Church of truth and fidelity to the Gospel

The Church of love is also the Church of truth, understood primarily as fidelity to the Gospel entrusted by the Lord Jesus to his followers. It was being made children of the same Father by the Spirit of truth that gave rise to Christian brotherhood: ‘For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God’ (Rom 8:14). However, if the family of God’s children is to live in unity and peace, it needs someone to keep it in the truth and guide it with wise and authoritative discernment: this is what the ministry of the Apostles is required to do. (Benedict XVI. General audience, April 5, 2006)

…judges Francis’ idea on new forms of poverty

  • …but there are those who have totally destroyed their desire for truth

There can be people who have totally destroyed their desire for truth and readiness to love, people for whom everything has become a lie, people who have lived for hatred and have suppressed all love within themselves. This is a terrifying thought, but alarming profiles of this type can be seen in certain figures of our own history. In such people all would be beyond remedy and the destruction of good would be irrevocable: this is what we mean by the word Hell. (Benedict XVI. Encyclical Spe salvi, no. 45, November 30, 2007)

  • It is not enough to care for the body, we must adorn the soul with the divine gifts acquired through Baptism

Through treatment, which includes medical, psychological and educational assistance, and through much prayer, manual work and discipline, many people – especially young people –have already succeeded in freeing themselves from alcohol and drug dependency, thereby recovering meaning in their lives. I wish to express my appreciation for this work, which has the charism of Saint Francis and the spirituality of the Focolare Movement as its spiritual foundation. Reintegration in society undoubtedly demonstrates the effectiveness of your initiative. Yet it is the conversions, the rediscovery of God and active participation in the life of the Church which attract even greater attention and which confirm the importance of your work. It is not enough to care for the body, we must adorn the soul with the most precious divine gifts acquired through Baptism. Let us thank God for all those who have set out along the path of renewed hope, with the help of the Sacrament of Reconciliation and the celebration of the Eucharist. (Benedict XVI. Address to the Community of Fazenda da Esperança, no. 4, May 25, 2007)

  • The Church’s charitable activity is not just another form of social assistance

For this reason, it is very important that the Church’s charitable activity maintains all of its splendour and does not become just another form of social assistance. (Benedict XVI. Encyclical Deus caritas est, no. 31, December 25, 2005)

…judges Francis’ idea on the ‘Bread of Life’

  • In the Eucharist Jesus offers his own body and pours out his own blood

In the Eucharist Jesus does not give us a ‘thing,’ but himself; he offers his own body and pours out his own blood. He thus gives us the totality of his life and reveals the ultimate origin of this love. He is the eternal Son, given to us by the Father. In the Gospel we hear how Jesus, after feeding the crowds by multiplying the loaves and fishes, says to those who had followed him to the synagogue of Capernaum: ‘My Father gives you the true bread from heaven; for the bread of God is he who comes down from heaven, and gives life to the world’ (Jn 6:32-33), and even identifies himself, his own flesh and blood, with that bread: ‘I am the living bread which came down from heaven; if anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever; and the bread which I shall give for the life of the world is my flesh’ (Jn 6:51). Jesus thus shows that he is the bread of life which the eternal Father gives to mankind. (Benedict XVI. Apostolic exhortation Sacramentum caritatis, no. 7, February 22, 2007)

  • By receiving the body and blood of Jesus Christ we become sharers in the divine life in a more conscious way

The Lord Jesus, who became for us the food of truth and love, speaks of the gift of his life and assures us that ‘if any one eats of this bread, he will live for ever’ (Jn 6:51). This ‘eternal life’ begins in us even now, thanks to the transformation effected in us by the gift of the Eucharist: ‘He who eats me will live because of me’ (Jn 6:57). These words of Jesus make us realize how the mystery ‘believed’ and ‘celebrated’ contains an innate power making it the principle of new life within us and the form of our Christian existence. By receiving the body and blood of Jesus Christ we become sharers in the divine life in an ever more adult and conscious way. Here too, we can apply Saint Augustine’s words, in his Confessions, about the eternal Logos as the food of our souls. Stressing the mysterious nature of this food, Augustine imagines the Lord saying to him: ‘I am the food of grown men; grow, and you shall feed upon me; nor shall you change me, like the food of your flesh, into yourself, but you shall be changed into me’ (VII, 10, 16: PL 32, 742). It is not the eucharistic food that is changed into us, but rather we who are mysteriously transformed by it. Christ nourishes us by uniting us to himself; ‘he draws us into himself’. (Benedict XVI, Homily at Marienfeld Esplanade, 21 August 2005 (Benedict XVI. Apostolic exhortation Sacramentum caritatis, no. 70, February 22, 2007)

  • With the multiplication of the loaves, Jesus announces the Eucharistic Bread

Afterwards, the people, seeing this miracle [the multiplication of the loaves], that seemed to be the much-awaited renewal of a new ‘manna’, of the gift of bread from heaven, wanted to make him king. But Jesus does not accept and withdraws into the hills by himself to pray. The following day, on the other side of the lake in the Synagogue of Capernaum, Jesus explained the miracle – not in the sense of a kingship over Israel with a worldly power in the way the crowds hoped, but in the sense of the gift of self: ‘The bread which I shall give for the life of the world is my flesh’ (Jn 6: 51). Jesus announces the Cross and with the Cross the true multiplication of the loaves, the Eucharistic bread – his absolutely new way of kingship, a way completely contrary to the expectations of the people. (Benedict XVI. General audience, May 24, 2006)

  • The Eucharist is nourishment for the soul

Let us give thanks to God for the gift of bread; for the Eucharist, nourishment of the soul, as well as for our daily bread, nourishment for the body. May God bless the harvest of this year and all of those working for it. (Benedict XVI. General audience, greeting to the Polish pilgrims, August 19, 2009)

 

Pope Benedict Vs. Francis – Part 1

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The English Denzinger-Bergoglio site (which was run by priests, and which (strangely??) has not been active for a few years, was invaluable and priceless in terms of comparing everything Francis claimed to what authentic Church Teaching says.

We have a few good bishops and just a few priests who publicly publish corrections of what Francis says and does, but they are not enough.

The following is an example of one article I had saved. It is very long, so I will post just a few bits every day. There are 17 parts in all. I will try to post one each day. They are an invaluable resource to have on hand for arguments against Francis’ problematic teachings and sayings.

(The text that is in bold  is in the original article. I have added colour to the headings only)

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Benedict XVI…

…judges Francis’ idea on Ecumenical dialogue 

  • Today, having a clear faith based on the Creed of the Church is often labelled as fundamentalism

How many winds of doctrine have we known in recent decades, how many ideological currents, how many ways of thinking. The small boat of the thought of many Christians has often been tossed about by these waves – flung from one extreme to another: from Marxism to liberalism, even to libertinism; from collectivism to radical individualism; from atheism to a vague religious mysticism; from agnosticism to syncretism and so forth. Every day new sects spring up, and what St Paul says about human deception and the trickery that strives to entice people into error (cf. Eph 4: 14) comes true. Today, having a clear faith based on the Creed of the Church is often labeled as fundamentalism. Whereas relativism, that is, letting oneself be ‘tossed here and there, carried about by every wind of doctrine’, seems the only attitude that can cope with modern times. We are building a dictatorship of relativism that does not recognize anything as definitive and whose ultimate goal consists solely of one’s own ego and desires. (Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger. Homily for the Pro eligendo Pontifice, April 18, 2005)

  • The first service that Christians can render to humanity: the proclamation and witness to the Gospel

Actually, the proclamation of and witness to the Gospel are the first service that Christians can render to every person and to the entire human race, called as they are to communicate to all God’s love, which was fully manifested in Jesus Christ, the one Redeemer of the world. (Benedict XVI. Address to the participants of the International Conference on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the Conciliar decree Ad gentes, March 11, 2006)

…judges Francis’ idea on God judging us by loving us

  • Conversion without repentance is a false interpretation of grace

Next let us reflect further on this verse: Christ, the Savior, gave to Israel repentance and forgiveness of sins (v. 31) in the Greek text the term is metanoia he gave repentance and pardon for sins. This to me is a very important observation: repentance is a grace. There is an exegetical trend that states that in Galilee Jesus would have proclaimed a grace without conditions, absolutely unconditional, therefore also without penitence, grace as such, without human preconditions. But this is a false interpretation of grace. Repentance is grace; it is a grace that we recognize our sin; it is a grace that we realize the need for renewal, for change, for the transformation of our being. Repentance, the capacity to be penitent, is a gift of grace. And I must say that we Christians, even in recent times, have often avoided the word penitence it seemed to us too difficult. (Benedict XVI. Homily for the Eucharistic Concelebration with the members of the Pontifical Biblical Commission, April 15, 2010)

  • God is justice and creates justice

The image of the Last Judgement is not primarily an image of terror, but an image of hope; for us it may even be the decisive image of hope. Is it not also a frightening image? I would say: it is an image that evokes responsibility, an image, therefore, of that fear of which Saint Hilary spoke when he said that all our fear has its place in love. God is justice and creates justice. This is our consolation and our hope. And in his justice there is also grace. This we know by turning our gaze to the crucified and risen Christ. Both these things–justice and grace–must be seen in their correct inner relationship. Grace does not cancel out justice. It does not make wrong into right. It is not a sponge which wipes everything away, so that whatever someone has done on earth ends up being of equal value. (Benedict XVI. Encyclical Spe salvi, no. 44, November 30, 2007)

…judges Francis’ idea on Jesus asking forgiveness from his parents

  • Jesus’ answer shows that he had done nothing unusual or disobedient in staying at the Temple

In the episode of the 12-year-old Jesus, the first words of Jesus are also recorded: ‘How is it that you sought me? Did you not know that I must be in my Father’s house?’ (Lk 2:49). After three days spent looking for him his parents found him in the temple, sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions (Lk 2:46). His answer to the question of why he had done this to his father and mother was that he had only done what the Son should do, that is, to be with his Father. Thus he showed who is the true Father, what is the true home, and that he had done nothing unusual or disobedient. He had stayed where the Son ought to be, that is, with the Father, and he stressed who his Father was. (Benedict XVI. General audience, December 28, 2011)

…judges Francis’ idea on Grace

  • In Saint Paul the power of God’s grace served as an inner ‘lever’ with which God could propel him onwards

Paul experienced in an extraordinary way the power of God’s grace […] All of his preaching and even more his entire missionary existence was sustained by an inner urge that can be traced back to the fundamental experience of ‘grace’. ‘By the grace of God I am what I am’, he writes to the Corinthians, ‘…I worked harder than any of them [the Apostles], though it was not I, but the grace of God which is with me’ (1Cor 15:10). It is a question of an awareness that surfaces in all his writings and that served as an inner ‘lever’ with which God could propel him onwards, toward ever further boundaries, not only geographical but also spiritual. (Benedict XVI. Homily on Ash Wednesday, February 25, 2009)

…judges Francis’ idea on Faith

  • Faith demands to be passed on: it was not given to us merely for ourselves

Faith demands to be passed on: it was not given to us merely for ourselves, for the personal salvation of our own souls, but for others, for this world and for our time. (Benedict XVI. Homily for the Episcopal ordination of five new Bishops, September 12, 2009)

  • We do not ‘have’ faith in the sense that it must not be invented by us

‘How do we acquire a living faith, a truly Catholic faith, a faith that is practical, lively and effective?’ Faith, ultimately, is a gift. Consequently, the first condition is to let ourselves be given something, not to be self-sufficient or do everything by ourselves – because we cannot -, but to open ourselves in the awareness that the Lord truly gives. It seems to me that this gesture of openness is also the first gesture of prayer: being open to the Lord’s presence and to his gift. This is also the first step in receiving something that we do not have, that we cannot have with the intention of acquiring it all on our own. We must make this gesture of openness, of prayer – give me faith, Lord! – with our whole being. We must enter into this willingness to accept the gift and let ourselves, our thoughts, our affections and our will, be completely immersed in this gift. Here, I think it is very important to stress one essential point: no one believes purely on his own. . The Creed is always a shared act, it means letting ourselves be incorporated into a communion of progress, life, words and thought. We do not ‘have’ faith, in the sense that it is primarily God who gives it to us. Nor do we ‘have’ it either, in the sense that it must not be invented by us. We must let ourselves fall, so to speak, into the communion of faith, of the Church. Believing is in itself a Catholic act. It is participation in this great certainty, which is present in the Church as a living subject. (Benedict XVI. Meeting with the members of the Roman clergy, March 2. 2006)

  • We believe together with the Church

The other thing concerns the fact that we ourselves cannot invent faith, composing it with ‘sustainable’ pieces, but we believe together with the Church. (Benedict XVI. Address to the Bishops of Switzerland, November 7, 2006)

  • Faith is a gift, not a product of our thought or reflection

Faith is not a product of our thought or our reflection; it is something new that we cannot invent but only receive as a gift, as a new thing produced by God. (Benedict XVI. General audience, December 10, 2008)

…judges Francis’ idea on Catholic Faith and Lutheran belief

  • The Eucharist is found at the root of the Church as a mystery of communion

This is why Christian antiquity used the same words, Corpus Christi, to designate Christ’s body born of the Virgin Mary, his eucharistic body and his ecclesial body. This clear datum of the tradition helps us to appreciate the inseparability of Christ and the Church. The Lord Jesus, by offering himself in sacrifice for us, in his gift effectively pointed to the mystery of the Church. It is significant that the Second Eucharistic Prayer, invoking the Paraclete, formulates its prayer for the unity of the Church as follows: ‘may all of us who share in the body and blood of Christ be brought together in unity by the Holy Spirit.’ These words help us to see clearly how the res of the sacrament of the Eucharist is the unity of the faithful within ecclesial communion. The Eucharist is thus found at the root of the Church as a mystery of communion. (Benedict XVI. Apostolic exhortation Sacramentum Caritatis, no. 15, February 22, 2007)

  • Faith is a gift – it is God who gives us faith; it is not invented by us

‘How do we acquire a living faith, a truly Catholic faith, a faith that is practical, lively and effective?’ Faith, ultimately, is a gift. […] We do not ‘have’ faith, in the sense that it is primarily God who gives it to us. Nor do we ‘have’ it either, in the sense that it must not be invented by us. (Benedict XVI. Meeting with the members of the Roman Clergy, March 2, 2006)

 

See Part 2 from Denzinger tomorrow

 

Pope Benedict still acts like the true Pope

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  • Benedict XVI Keeps Imparting “Apostolic Blessing”

 

Former Benedict XVI wrote his September 20 letter to Cardinal Sarah “with my Apostolic Blessing” (Original: imparto la benedizione apostolica”)

The “Apostolic Benediction” is only given by the Pope.

Already in 2018, Benedict used the same term in German (“mit meinem apostolischen Segen”) concluding a letter to Cardinal Brandmüller.

Back then, it was claimed that Benedict used the term somewhat loosely although, reportedly, his mind is still sharp.

https://gloria.tv/post/SiJKpCN2faXg3K2eoW6ZnytBL

Also read: https://www.dailypioneer.com/2020/trending-news/pope-benedict-xvi-breaks-silence-to-reaffirm-priest-celibacy.html

 Read about other events that show Pope Benedict  is the true pope:

 

(See link above)

  • Benedict XVI In New Book: “Celibacy Is Indispensable

https://gloria.tv/post/sx72hmcuMgq417prf1Ds9ARVG

 And articles at other sites

  • Pope Benedict reacts to criticisms of his letter on the sex abuse crisis

In August 2019, “Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI responds to Birgit Aschmann, a history professor who criticized his April 2019 letter on the sex abuse crisis.” Read his reactions and criticisms at :

https://www.lifesitenews.com/blogs/pope-benedict-reacts-to-criticisms-of-his-letter-on-the-sex-abuse-crisis-points-out-that-critics-omit-god

 

  • Pope Emeritus Benedict breaks silence: speaks of ‘deep crisis’ facing Church post-Vatican II

Read the words of a true pope who refutes the “evolution of dogma” the new attitude to salvation which can lead souls to hell, the importance of Baptism, and much more at:

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/pope-emeritus-benedict-says-church-is-now-facing-a-two-sided-deep-crisis

 

  • Oriented Liturgy: Benedict XVI Stands Behind Cardinal Sarah — And Pope Francis Sinks Into Silence

From: http://eponymousflower.blogspot.com.au/2016/11/oriented-liturgy-benedict-xvi-stands.html

 

  • The English Denziger site (which was run by priests, and which (strangely??) has not been active for a few years. See tomorrow’s post for this article.

The False Prophet and his treatment of Our Lady.

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This man (the FP) has a history of blasphemies and mockery against the Mother of God. Examples are:

  • To celebrate the Feast of the immaculate Conception on Dec 8th 2015, a pagan light show was displayed on the Vatican
  • Our Lady was deceived. DECEMBER 20, 2013 – VATICAN RADIO)  
  • In Nov. 2017 Mary at the foot of the Cross was replaced by Luther on a postage stamp.  
  • Pagan blood runs in Mary’s and Jesus’ veins
  • Dec 2017 – Evil Vatican Nativity scene
  • Jesus had to ask forgiveness of his Mother
  • Co-redemptrix is “foolishness”
  • Our Lady is Mestiza
  • 2019 Xmas concert at Vatican
  • A new ‘egalitarian’ Mariology

As with all that true Catholics hold dear, Our Lady is also a target of this “uncanonically elected” pope. Heresy, blasphemy and mockery spew from his mouth. There is no love for the True Faith. His record in terms of Our Lady, has been a bit slower, but be prepared – I am sure that the avalanche is still to come.

  • Our Lady was deceived

Pope Francis said about Our Lady:  “‘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!‘ (Vatican Radio. 20th Dec.2013)

 

  • Pagan Light show on Feast of Immaculate Conception

On December 8, 2015, the Feast Day of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary, there was a light show displayed on the façade of the Vatican buildings. The display showed pictures of pagan gods and goddesses, as well as elephants and tigers. This was to showcase his new encyclical at the time – “Laudato Si”. Not many questioned the pagan elements shown. This “encyclical” was all about the environment, but there was hardly any mention of God in it. There were strange things uttered by the FP such as “sins against creation”. We now know that this was the forerunner of the recent Amazonian synod, where the Pachamama idol was venerated and promoted by the FP. Some even suggested that these idols represented the Virgin Mary. So this light show was supposed to honour Our Lady on this special feastday? Instead, it desecrated the sacred walls and space of the Vatican itself.

This event is described by The Wild Voice: “…the dark eclipsing of the Immaculate Conception was unveiled through a direful succession of images projected unto a now-dark Saint Peter’s Basilica and depicting a wide variety of animals, insects, and pagan tribes. This most dreadful light show, which was sponsored by none other than the tentacular financial creature known by many as the World Bank, reverses the order of things established by God: it is no longer the Catholic Church that is to cast God’s Light upon a dark world, but it is the false light of the world that is being cast upon an obscured Temple.

Filled with occult symbolism and accompanied by the dreadful sounds of this earth’s beasts, the show unfolded in such unexpected frightful fashion, it seemed to cast an infernal spell upon the confused faces of those spectators who, trapped by the giant pincers of columns framing St. Peter’s Square, started to resemble some lost lambs destined to be slaughtered.
In this light show of most abyssal darkness, the title “FIAT LUX” is not meant to be interpreted as the widely known phrase “Let There Be Light” found in the Book of Genesis, but rather as the masonic expression indicating the false light.  Indeed, the word lux as it is misunderstood in freemasonry, refers to Freemasonry itself as the light which takes the initiated out of the darkness of ignorance.  Since Freemasonry is the religion of Lucifer, those who follow the path of the 33 degrees come to the erroneous idea of becoming the “morning stars”, the light bearers, the Lucifers, in this realm. Through knowledge imparted according to a hierarchy which comes not from God, they are told that Lucifer is the true God all must serve.  …

“…FIAT LUX is the light of the morning star Venus attributed to Lucifer over the Catholic Morning Light whom is Our Blessed Mother, Mary Most Holy. This is the motive behind the choice of releasing such demonic event on December 8, the very day in which we celebrate the Immaculate Conception. It is not mere coincidence that the same event took place at night so that the artificial light produced by men could cast into darkness the statues of Jesus Christ and of His Twelve Apostles while projecting the images of mortal men, of reptiles and of other earthly beasts…”

  • Mary replaced by Luther on postage stamp

In Nov. 2017, the Vatican issued a postage stamp in honour of Luther. The stamp shows Luther and his co-conspirator at the foot of the Cross – replacing Our Lady and St John. We know that the evil one, twists and turns everything that is Holy upside down and back to front. St Pio said of Luther: “Martin Luther is in Hell and Christians who follow him will meet the same end.” He also said:
“Those who do not submit themselves to the pope and the teachings of the Catholic Church are also going to Hell” The FP/PF has praised and lifted to great heights one of the greatest enemies of the Church and its teachings.

 

  • Genealogy of Jesus: pagan blood

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017 – Pope Francis, in commenting on the Gospel, said: ‘In the Gospel, we have heard the genealogy of Jesus, which is not a “simple list of names”, but rather a “living history”, the history of the people that God journeyed with; by making himself one of us, God wanted to announce that the history of the just and of sinners runs through his blood, ... The mention of women –… allows us a particular rapprochement: it is they, in the genealogy, who tell us that pagan blood runs through the veins of Jesus, and who recall the stories of scorn and subjugation.‘ – VATICAN RADIO

 

  • Jesus in the temple needed to beg forgiveness

27 Dec. 2015, the FP commented on a Gospel Reading about the fInding of the child Jesus in the temple:  

“...At the end of that pilgrimage, Jesus returned to Nazareth and was obedient to his parents (cf. Lk 2:51). This image also contains a beautiful teaching about our families. A pilgrimage does not end when we arrive at our destination, but when we return home and resume our everyday lives, putting into practice the spiritual fruits of our experience. We know what Jesus did on that occasion. Instead of returning home with his family, he stayed in Jerusalem, in the Temple, causing great distress to Mary and Joseph who were unable to find him. For this little “escapade”, Jesus probably had to beg forgiveness of his parents. The Gospel doesn’t say this, but I believe that we can presume it. Mary’s question, moreover, contains a certain reproach, revealing the concern and anguish which she and Joseph felt. Returning home, Jesus surely remained close to them, as a sign of his complete affection and obedience. Moments like these become part of the pilgrimage of each family; the Lord transforms the moments into opportunities to grow, to ask for and to receive forgiveness, to show love and obedience. (From HOMILY OF HIS HOLINESS POPE FRANCIS, Vatican Basilica
Sunday, 27 December 2015 Feast of the Holy Family of Jesus, Mary and Joseph) See: http://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/homilies/2015/documents/papa-francesco_20151227_omelia-santa-famiglia.html

 

  • Evil Nativity Scene – Dec. 2017

https://remnantdisciplesjtm.com/2017/12/17/the-nativity-scene-of-the-anti-church/

The Great Nativity Scene Deception

Above, you see the official Nativity Scene erected outside the Vatican.

You might think that it is all about the Corporal works of Mercy. Corporal Works of Mercy are very Christian- they are all about doing good to our neighbour, being merciful, being humble, giving of ourselves…. Wouldn’t Jesus be proud of us?

But when you look at the scene, there is a mess of figures and buildings – all of which distract from what the scene is meant to be. There are “close to 20 life-size images, making it very difficult to find Jesus, Mary and Joseph”.

The next thing I noticed is that all the figures are ugly or angry. Mary is displayed in a not too lady-like manner. Close-ups make her look like a transvestite.

There are figures of a person being visited in prison, burying the dead, clothing the naked. The latter depicts a man who is naked. This is what attracts your attention! It is designed to take the focus away from Jesus, Mary and Joseph. They are completely crowded out.

On the left of the picture is a wall with a picture of Mary on it. The wall is cracked, and the crack goes right through Mary’s image.

It seems to be trying to remove Christ from Christmas – to remove Christ from our consciousness completely. It is a great betrayal  by the man who sits in the chair of Peter, to further remove any thought of Christ. He is paving the way to remove Christ completely – paving the way for the new One World Religion.

Notice, for your discernment:

1) the destroyed copula, with the real cupola of St Peter’s in the background, represents the destruction of the Catholic Church,

combined with

2) the Star of Bethlehem which looks more like a falling nuclear missile/meteorite

So the distorted copola/star combination of this “nativity scene” is a message about the upcoming one world religion.”

The whole scene is a gross insult, mockery and even blasphemy of Mary and our great Saviour’s birth.

See: https://remnantdisciplesjtm.com/2017/12/17/the-nativity-scene-of-the-anti-church/

           

  • Mary is mestizo

On Dec 23, 2019 Antonio Socci’s article entitled “A Christmas Marked by Desecration, with Bergoglio as Chief Desecrator” named some horrible desecrations, some of which involved our blessed Mother, and others about Jesus – posters, mo9vies, etc. I will not detail them here, because they are too horrible, and you have probably heard of them (It can be found here: https://onepeterfive.com/christmas-bergoglio-desecration/ )

On the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe on Thursday 12th 2019,  in his homily, the FP/PF said that Our Lady wanted to be seen as a “mestiza”, “not only with Juan Diego. She became a mestizo to show that she is everyone’s mother.” Mary speaks to us just as she spoke with Juan Diego, tenderly, maternally. The Pope concluded his homily noting that Mary appears as a person of mixed race in order to communicate that her Son too is a “mestizo”: that is, He is God, and He is man. (https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2019-12/pope-guadalupe-mass.html )

De Mattei tells us:

 “Whether Pope Francis is aware of it or not, the origin of  this “mestizo” vision  regarding the Mystery of the Incarnation is in the heresy of Eutyches (378-454,  Archimandrite, of a monastery in Constantinople,); according to Eutyches,  after the hypostatic union, the humanity and Divinity of Christ, was fused to form a tertium quid, a hybrid coalescence that would actually be neither God nor man. ‘Eutycheanism’ is a rough form of Monophysitism because it admits in the Son of God Incarnate, one single nature, resulting from this confused union of divinity with humanity.

De Mattei concludes his article with

 “ Pope Francis’ theology is “mestizo” because he mixes truth and errors, forming a muddled amalgamation in which nothing is clear, determined and distinct. Everything escapes definition and contradiction seems to be the soul of the thought and language. Francis, along with Our Lady, would like to make the Church mestizo so that it steps out of itself to mix with the world, immerging itself in the world and being absorbed by it.

But the Church is Holy and Immaculate, as Mary is Holy and Immaculate, Mother and model of the Mystical Body.

Our Lady is not mestizo, in the sense Francis gives to Her, as nothing, hybrid, obscure or confused exists in Her. Mary is not mestizo as She is light with no shadow, beauty with no imperfections, truth uncorrupted, forever whole and without stain.          

Let us ask help from the Most Blessed Virgin Mary to ensure that our faith is not mestizo, but that it remain always pure and uncontaminated, resplendent before God and men, as the Word Incarnate was resplendent on Christmas night when He manifested  Himself to the world.”

Read his complete article here:  https://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2019/12/de-mattei-mestizo-theology-of-pope.html

 

  • Mary as Co-Redemptrix is “foolishness”

Abp. Carlo Vigano Champions Virgin Mary After Pope Francis Smear .

 “Speaking of Mary Most Holy, Pope Francis criticized the titles that the Magisterium of the Church and the devotion of the faithful have lovingly bestowed on the Mother of God, saying they do not reflect the essence of Our Lady’s role, which he minimized to “mother” and “disciple.” In short, “Mary woman, Mary mother, with no other essential title.”   

Abp. Carlo Vigano blasted Pope Francis after the pontiff scorned the concept of Mary as co-redemptrix as “foolishness.”  He said “On the liturgical memorial of the Virgin of Guadalupe,” Francis “gave vent once again to his evident Marian intolerance,” 

To attack Mary is to pounce against Christ Himself.

Those who profane Mary “show that they are on the side of the Enemy,” he warned. “To attack Mary is to pounce against Christ Himself; attacking the Mother is rising up against the Son and rebelling against the very mystery of the Holy Trinity.” 

“The tactic of affirming what one wants to destroy, using vague and imprecise terms, promoting error without ever clearly formulating it, is also typically modernist,” Viganò said, pointing to Pope Francis’ frequent ambiguity.

“The result of this abuse is now before our eyes,” he reflected. “A Catholic Church that is no longer Catholic; a container emptied of its authentic content … .” 

Peering beyond the crisis, Viganò continued: “The triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary — Co-redemptrix and Mediatrix of all graces” will come through the prayers and penances of those “little” and “fragile” faithful Catholics consecrated to her. 

The consecrated will serve as Mary’s heel, he said, and “together with her,” they “will crush the head of the infernal monster.”

Read the whole article and his condemnation of this papacy at: 

https://www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/abp-vigano-champions-virgin-mary

To read what the church truly teaches about this title see:

https://www.tfp.org/having-worshipped-pachamama-pope-francis-now-disparages-marys-co-redeeming-role/?utm_source=ActiveCampaign&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Pope+Francis+criticized+traditional+devotion+to+Mary&utm_campaign=TFP191227m+-+Pope+Francis+criticized+traditional+devotion+to+Mary

 

  • Christmas Concert (2019) at the Vatican

On Dec. 27th 2019, ChurchMilitant.com described a concert sponsored by the Holy See’s Congregation for Catholic Education. In it the “Mother Earth goddess, worshipped by the indigenous people of the Amazon, was invoked by a Latin American woman before an audience of 5,000, while two million watched on television in Italy and around the world on Christmas Eve and the afternoon of Christmas day.

The Mother Earth goddess, worshipped by the indigenous people of the Amazon, was invoked by a Latin American woman before an audience of 5,000, while two million watched on television in Italy and around the world on Christmas Eve and the afternoon of Christmas day.

At the live Dec. 14 charity performance titled “Let’s network for the Amazon,” an indigenous woman dressed in native garb asked the audience to cross their arms over their chest and to feel a strong vibration, explaining that this is “your heart” but also “the heart of Mother Earth.”   …

Cardinals and bishops seated in the front row, followed by the entire audience, responded enthusiastically by crossing their arms and listening reverently to the spiel on Pachamama.  

“On the other side, where there is silence, is the Spirit,” the indigenous woman explained. “The Spirit who allows you to feel the message of the Mother.” She continued:

For us indigenous peoples, Mother Earth, the Hicha Gueia, is everything. It is the Mother who gives us food, sacred water, medicinal plants; and what we offer to the earth is to pay homage to her, the placenta and the first hair we cut. For us, Mother Earth is fundamental, our connection with her is constant, how the pulse feels, how the heart feels….”

So here we have paganism being promoted by the Vatican, with clerics joining in – it was meant to be a “Christmas” concert – but once again, Our Lady and her Son were mocked and the historical event of Our Saviour’s birth deliberately ignored and replaced with evil (for paganism is evil).

 

  • A new egalitarian Mariology

The TFP, in an article states that

 “Pope Francis has once again confused, scandalized and disoriented the flock he is called to teach, guide and sanctify.

This time he has done it with the shocking statement—contrary to the Gospels, the Tradition of the Church and the common feeling of the faithful—that Mary Most Holy was a common, “normal girl” just like any young woman of today.” He says the Blessed Virgin Mary was “a normal girl, a girl of today …. normal, normally educated, open to marrying, to having a family. …. Then, after conceiving Jesus, [she was] still a normal woman. …. Nothing was exceptional in her life, [she was] a normal mother…”

The key to understanding this minimization of the Mother of God and ours is found in Liberation Theology’s Marxist-inspired egalitarianism.  The article explains what Francis meant by the “sin of the elite” and how this pertains to our Blessed Mother

The article explains in detail what this all means in terms of our Blessed Mother. 

For Pope Francis, nothing special happened in the life of the Blessed Mother: “Then, after conceiving Jesus, [she was] still a normal woman. …. Nothing was exceptional in her life.”

Nothing exceptional! Really? For Mary Most Holy to continue life as the Most Beloved Daughter of God the Father, Most Admirable Mother of God the Son, and Most Faithful Spouse of God the Holy Ghost—the titles Saint Louis de Montfort lists in True Devotion to Mary—is not something exceptional? Is being part of the Holy Family with her Divine Son and Saint Joseph, following Jesus’s preaching and interceding with Him to obtain the miracle at the wedding at Cana, to participate in His Passion and Death at the feet of the Cross as our co-redemptrix, to be the Immaculate Conception, the Mediatrix of All Graces, our Advocate, Mother of the Church, and Queen of Angels and Saints, is there nothing exceptional in all this? All of it is just being a “normal woman”?

Read all the details at: https://www.tfp.org/pope-franciss-sin-of-the-elite-and-new-egalitarian-mariology/

What Abp. Vigano thinks of the FP’s antics:

“On the occasion of the Feast of the Virgin of Guadalupe, Pope Bergoglio (sic) once again gave vent to his evident impatience with Mary, which evokes the impatience of the Serpent in the story of the Fall(!),in that Proto-Gospel that prophesies the radical enmity established by God between the Woman and the Serpent, and the declared hostility of the latter who, until the consummation of the world, will try to undermine the heel of the Woman and to triumph over her and her posterity. What the pontiff said is a manifest aggression toward the sublime prerogatives and attributes that make the Immaculate Ever-Virgin Mother of God the feminine complement to the mystery of the incarnate Word, intimately associated with Him in the Economy of Redemption.”

Viganò continued: “With a couple of jokes, he [Pope Francis] struck at the heart of the Marian dogmas, and of the Christological dogmas connected to it.”

And he added: “The Marian dogmas are the seal affixed to the Catholic truths of our faith, defined in the Councils of Nicaea, Ephesus and Chalcedon; they are the unbreakable bulwark against the Christological heresies and against the furious unleashing of the Gates of Hell. Those who ‘hybridize’ and profane them [that is, these Marian dogmas] show that they are on the side of the Enemy. Attacking Mary is attacking Christ himself. Attacking the Mother is rising up against the Son and rebelling against the very mystery of the Holy Trinity. The Immaculate Theotokos, ‘terrible as hosts and unfolded banners’ — acies ordinata (‘terrible as an army drawn up in battle array,’ Song of Songs 6:9) — will give battle to save the Church and will destroy the army of the Enemy who, released from the chains that held him, has declared war on her, and with his defeat, all the demonic pachamamas will return definitively to hell.”

Read it all here:  https://insidethevatican.com/news/newsflash/letter-65-2019-vigano-on-francis-and-mary/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIoLaf7NXf5gIVgZWPCh1fiA3vEAAYASAAEgLwsfD_BwE

All this makes true Catholics very sad. It is almost too painful to bear.

Would you be surprised to hear that this is only the beginning? That the Hail Mary prayer will no longer be heard in Churches? References to her will be frowned upon? That Our Lady will be forgotten about and despised? Well it seems that the False prophet (pope) already despises her as is evident by the some of the claims listed above; and how he manages to do something awful on her feastdays, how he calls people who pray the rosary Rosary counters”. He is already displacing our dearest Mother with “Mother Earth/Pachamama”. He installed these pagan idols in a church dedicated to Our Lady and daily prayers were being offered to them (before they were taken and thrown into the River Tiber). Marian places and shrines are already disapproved of – e.g. Garabandal, Medjugorje, Fatima is ignored by most bishops and priests.

Message from the Book of Truth, dated 12 February 2014 @ 10:45pm

Mother of Salvation: Soon, the “Hail Mary” prayer will not be heard inside or outside of my Son’s Church

“My child, just as my Son’s Image, His Word and His Promise to come again will be ignored and then eradicated, so also will every reference to me, your beloved Mother be. 

Soon, the “Hail Mary” prayer will not be heard inside or outside of my Son’s Church. Much disapproval will be shown to those who visit my holy Shrines and Marian groups will be criticised for many reasons, all without cause. Any admission regarding the authenticity of apparitions involving me, the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of God, will not be heard. All references to me will soon be frowned upon by a newly revamped shell of my Son’s Church on Earth. Devotions to me will be stopped in many churches, under the newly appointed regime to be introduced in the future. I will be forgotten about and then despised, by those who will claim to represent a new modern, all-inclusive church, which will bear little resemblance to the Church created upon the Rock, by my Son’s beloved apostle Peter. 

When you see all devotions to me, the Holy Mother of God, dealt with in this way please be aware that these new rules will be at the behest of the evil one. The evil one despises me, just as much as he is frightened by me. He knows that devotion to me, by souls, keeps his evil ways at bay and that the recital of my Most Holy Rosary scourges him and renders him powerless. Those days ahead will have to be faced by those who love me and there will come a time when the Church’s association with my Shrines will be cut off. When that happens, you will know that this will be to separate God’s children from my influence, which in those times will be necessary, if I am to help you draw towards my Son.

My role is to prepare you for the Great Day of my Son’s Second Coming. I intend to continue to call out to my children, until that Day arrives. I only desire to bring souls before my Son, so that He can give them Eternal Salvation. It is all about the salvation of souls, but every effort will be made by the evil one to prevent this from happening.

Your beloved Mother

Mother of Salvation”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Scandalizing the Faithful: Truth or Fiction? A Crusader’s Perspective

AM+DG

Of course we all know how Bergoglio works by now, but we can’t always convince others who still question who is the villain – Scalfari or Bergoglio? The following arguments (from TM) may be useful to reflect upon, in the case of: 

“Did he deny the divinity of Christ?”

Tony writes…

“So many commentators who, after a ponderously long number of years have finally woken up to the heretical antics of JM Bergoglio, still seem to remain uncertain as to whether he ‘really said’ what his favourite journalist quoted him as saying regarding Christ’s not being Divine whilst He was on earth. 

Michael Voris, in a youtube chat with Dr Taylor Marshall said that the most disturbing news to emerge during the Amazon Synod was of Eugenio Scalfari referring to Bergoglio as having said that:

“Anyone who has had the good fortune to meet with him and speak with him in utmost confidence – as I have done several times – knows that Pope Francis conceives of Christ as Jesus of Nazareth: a man, not an incarnate god. Once incarnate, Jesus ceases to be a god and becomes a man, until his death on the cross.”

Did he say it???? Did he not say it???? Did he say it???? Did he not say it????

So many commentators have been asking these questions after the latest clanger.

They obviously still have not gotten their heads around this and are still giving Bergoglio the benefit of the doubt- AMAZING!!!

This latest one really, really needs to be fully addressed and dealt with. It is urgent that it is addressed. Catholics are being hereticised by this & losing their Catholic beliefs.

It is a scandal that a man who sits on the Chair of Peter denies Christ’s Divinity- to the world! Image result for put it under a microscope

Let’s get our teeth into this and put it under the microscope.

Why did Bergoglio not come out and immediately deny that he had conveyed this to Scalfari???

Answer:  Because he had planned with Scalfari for him to report this to the world……and during this outrageous and idol- worshipping Pan-Amazonian Synod……. the timing of the release precisely planned.

They are very good mates…. remember.…….The supposed Pope & the famous atheist.

With all the babble that comes from the mouth & pen of Bergoglio about everything under the sun….. except spiritual matters like ‘to pray for the salvation of souls’….. why does he not deny what Scalfari reported about his saying that Jesus was not Divine whilst on earth?

Bergoglio came out immediately and forcefully after the Pachamamas were thrown into the Tiber to state “As a bishop of the diocese, I ask forgiveness from the persons who were offended by this,” he said.

He has not apologized to the Catholics & Christians of the world for the fact that these pagan icons were on Vatican soil in the first place, much less bowed down to and worshipped there. No, no, no!!

Nor has he apologized for the ‘misunderstanding’ involved in Scalfari’s report re: Jesus not being Divine whilst on earth.  No, no, no!!

I repeat…..why did he not come out immediately and forcefully to refute what Scalfari had reported him saying about Jesus’ Divinity??????????

If you (the reader of this email) had a big public role…… Pope, President or Prime Minister….. and you periodically sat down with a now world famous journalist to convey your thoughts to the world…..and this journalist time & time again misquoted what you had said on very serious matters that affected the whole planet and the salvation of souls….would you keep going back to that journo to have him misquote what you said? Speaking for myself…NO WAY, JOSE!!!!!!!

So why does he keep going back to Scalfari??

ANSWER: Because he wants Scalfari to spew out his heresies…but done in a way that he can’t be nailed for it.…done in such a way that absurdly incredulous commentators keep saying to themselves ….did he say this…did he not say this…..did he say this ….did he not say this…..ad infinitum!!!

Bergoglio has these naïve & gullible commentators all sewn up. He would be laughing at their incredulity. And so would the atheist, Scalfari!!!

This is a pre-planned method of Bergoglio delivering appalling heresies to the world…and not just to the people of Italy….. as one reporter from 1Peter5 attempted to ingenuously rationalize.

When Bergoglio speaks, every word goes out to the world and he knows it… no matter what the primary outlet… Italian or Swahili!!!

So here we have Bergoglio going back to the one who reported him as saying ‘no-one goes to Hell, but if not deserving of Heaven will be annihilated’ … to report him saying that ‘Jesus was not Divine whilst on Earth’.

It would take only a few words for Bergoglio to deny this. He says so many,  many things….so why can’t he issue a denial? If he did not make this assertion, it is imperative that he makes a public denial that he said this, and does it immediately.

This is a scandal that could take millions away from a belief in Christ’s Divinity.

If it is true Bergoglio said this…. it is a heresy of the HIGHEST order.
The Catholics of the world should be screaming out for him to personally deny that he made this statement…
But we know that he will not do that.
And we know that, in time, he will be back for another interview with Scalfari. After a number of interviews with his favourite interviewer…. we know how it all works now.

I am now saying emphatically that I BELIEVE that:

BERGOLIO HAS SAID JESUS WAS NOT DIVINE WHEN HE WALKED THE EARTH….and I cannot be blamed for believing he said that!!!

Bergoglio is the one to be blamed for ‘my believing’ he said that!!!

He said that!!! If he did make the assertion that Jesus was not Divine whilst on earth, it is not possible that Bergoglio is the Pope!!! 

And because of all the other heresies he has announced to the world from the Chair of Peter, it is not possible that he is the Pope!!!

 Of course many of you are aware….. there are other reasons too; relating to the process of the St Gallen Mafia Club planning and manufacturing his election ……for believing that he is not the Pope.

My purpose in writing this is one reason only….the defense of the true and immutable teachings of our beloved Catholic Church, our only hope of salvation. And, if in the process of doing that, I put a spotlight on the nefarious agenda of the man supposedly on the Chair of Peter….so be it!!!

God help us ….please help us!

God bless,

Tony.

Modernist bishops and strange innovations.

 

AM+DG

In these last few weeks,  Archbishop Mark Coleridge has made a few more statements to add to the history which shows his aversion to Catholic Doctrine. It is fast becoming quite a long list.

He was responsible for announcing this council after the synod of 2015. See our article 31 Dec. 2016 at:  https://remnantdisciplesjtm.com/2016/12/31/archbishop-mark-coleridge-showing-his-true-colours/  

An open letter was written in reply to this announcement which described the Council as ” …open and defiant schism, heresy and destruction of the Church…”.

This letter refers to all manner of heretical, blasphemous and evil ideas, including:
• Female ordination
• An end to priestly celibacy
• Communion for all
• Abortion
• Contraception
• Divorce
• Euthanasia
• Homosexuality

  • No seminaries

Headline: The Catholic church rethinks seminary training after its child abuse scandal

“Much has changed in our seminaries but one has to wonder whether seminaries are the place or way to train men for the priesthood now,” the Brisbane Archbishop told the Catholic online publication Crux Now in August last year.’                                        and

“But he has previously stated he is open to a priest “apprenticeship model” whereby men could receive broader training at universities and parishes while still being appropriately “formed” spiritually, intellectually and pastorally.”  (Archbishop Coleridge)

https://www.theage.com.au/national/the-catholic-church-rethinks-seminary-training-after-its-child-abuse-scandal-20190924-p52uhv.html

  • His most recent bombshell was that he wants to bless same-sex marriages

Headline: “Brisbane Archdiocese Promotes Blessings for Gay Couples” 

“A “rite of blessing” for same-sex couples and for the divorced and remarried was proposed at the conclusion of Brisbane Assembly 2019. “ (https://www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/australian-diocese-promotes-blessings-for-gay-couples)

  • A friend emailed me some more news today. It refers to the fact that months ago, it had been brought up that, because of the climate in the Amazon, some other substance (namely – ‘yukka’) could be used instead of wheat for Holy Communion. This, of course would be in contradiction to Church Law. Jesus used wheat. This, of course, was in the Archbishop’s diocese.

“With all the talk of the Yucca bread in the months preceding the Pan Amazon Synod farce, one of my friends from Brisbane (Australia) has sent me a photograph ..(see below).. of some Altar Bread that a friend of hers saw in the Sacristy of a Parish in the Brisbane Archdiocese. The lady who took the photograph was told by the sacristan of the parish, that these hosts will be used in the ‘near future’ in that parish.  (Does he mean after this Amazon Synod?)

I thought….. when my friend was describing this bread…. as we spoke on the phone…. that it would probably be like some hosts that I had seen before …with flecks of brown particles…. as in wholemeal bread.

But when I later saw the photographs that were sent to me by my friend, I immediately thought ‘NO, NO, NO….I HAVE NOT SEEN THAT BEFORE’.

How do the leaders in our Church expect us to trust & follow them when they do appalling things like this?

Is this the beginning of the New False Mass…..the Abomination of Desolation?

God help us…..please help us!!!

PS 1. I cannot verify that this is Yucca bread, but I can tell you it is yucky bread ….that they should not be using.

The traditional & pristinely white host is reflective of the Perfection, Purity, Power & Divinity of the One that this bread becomes at the point of Consecration in the Mass. And when we are looking at Jesus in times of Adoration we immediately sense that we are looking at God. These brown hosts look dirty and are not worthy of the One the bread becomes and I think are potentially even blasphemously disrespectful.

Also, the question must be asked…..even if this bread is not made of the Yucca root powder, but is made of wheat flour …..if it has impurities in it, which are not of the wheat flour…..is the Consecration valid?????

The use of brown or wholemeal type bread seems to indicate that the clerics using it think of the consecrated host as being more Bread, than being the Body, Blood Soul & Divinity of Our Lord Jesus Christ. In these times where such a high percentage of lay Catholics & clergy think of the Eucharist more of being symbolic of Jesus’ Presence than actually being His Presence, we must question everything we sense to be out of order in regard to It.

I have personally met a number of priests who believe it is symbolic not Real…..and I first met some of them over 37 years ago!!!

PS 2  If you enlarge the picture of the bottle that contains the hosts, you will see that they were manufactured in the EU.

God bless,

Tony M     “ (10/10/2019)

The Archbishop previously:

    • Headline: “Conclusions from the Synod on the Family: Brisbane’s Archbishop Coleridge”       (Sunday, October 25, 2015 )

Excerpts:

“Archbishop Coleridge .. at the synod spoke about divorced and remarried couples and same-sex couples, saying: “I personally think it’s just not in touch with reality to say there is no good in those relationships.”

“Archbishop Coleridge has even been described in LGBTQ media as a bishop who gets it.”

.’... And as I listened to Pope Francis speak, I thought, “this is the voice of Peter”.”

“It’s either light or darkness, good versus evil, all or nothing, and I just don’t think that’s the way human life works”

    • During the Synod on the Family in 2015 Coleridge argued against using the terms “intrinsically disordered” or “evil” to describe homosexual acts
    • The Archbishop’s advent letter ( 2016)

…The challenge now is not to abandon the faith in favour of the facts, but to create a new engagement of the faith with the culture of which we’re part – as the logic of the Incarnation demands….” 

and also:

https://remnantdisciplesjtm.com/2016/08/21/the-bishop-of-brisbane-joins-the-throng/

and also the article in LifeSite News:

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/catholic-archdiocese-allows-sacrilegious-sexually-charged-fashion-show-in-a

The Amazon Synod is not yet over. There will be many more bishops speaking of, and implementing ideas which are not of Christ’s Church.

We must continue to be alert and aware!  – as Abp. Fulton Sheen said (see pic. above) – the laity must remind the priests and bishops of their duties as shepherds.

Maria Divine Mercy and The Book of Truth: A theologian speaks

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As an eminent theologian, with his expertise in Marian prophecies, and as an author of many books, one of which has an imprimatur, Dr. Kelly Bowring compares these messages to other major prophetic events such as Fatima, Medjugorje, Garabandal, Akita, etc. 

The video answers major questions and concerns:

        1. Who is Maria Divine Mercy?
        2. Is Maria Divine Mercy (MDM) a fraud or not?
        3. What does the Book of Truth contain and where does it come from?
        4. How does it compare to other messages?
        5. Are her messages authentic?
        6. Which prophecies have occurred?
        7. What does it say about the Church and Francis?
        8.  Where do we stand and what do we need to do next?

This will be vitally helpful for current believers in the messages proclaimed through The Book of Truth and for those discerning the truth.What is also essential is committing to prayer and a proper process of discernment. See more about that at the link below:

https://remnantdisciplesjtm.com/2015/11/19/discerning-true-vs-false-prophets-so-you-think-you-know/

You will need 1 hour and 26 mins to view this, but it is worth every minute.

This video is essential viewing.

 

Some highlights of the video are listed below:

7.10 min: What sort of person is MDM?

9.30 mins: The Archbishop  of Dublin’s negative opinion/statement: How does it conform to Church requirements? What his statement does allow.

11.40mins: Cardinal Ratzinger’s comment (as Prefect of the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith) in 1998 regarding another visionary.

16 mins: The assessment of MDM’s messages

19 mins: the 7 last messengers

29.58 mins: Who is Maria Divine Mercy?

31 mins: Foretold in Book of Daniel

35 mins: The messages that have come true

48 mins: A warning for priests-  new Mass and oath of allegiance for priests and other warnings

53 mins: The Remnant Army

1 hr. 9mins: the role of Crusade Prayer Groups and the weapons.

1 hr. 15 mins: Story/analogy of 5 farmers.

Please also be sure to read the full description under the Youtube video by Dr. Kelly Bowring.

For more information on the Book of Truth: https://remnantdisciplesjtm.com/what-is-the-book-of-truth-all-you-need-to-know/

Be assured that our prayer group is praying for you! And so are thousands of others who join in unison- all over the world.

In Jesus, through Mary!

(Jesus to Mankind Crusade Prayer group  dedicated to”St. Benedict”)

See more of Dr Kelly Bowring at Two Hearts Press: https://twoheartspress.com/

 

 

Profaning the Temple of God!

Idols In and Around the Temple. What does it signify?

Attributed to LifeSite News:
https://www.lifesitenews.com/episodes/an-outrage-either-way-pagan-idol-worship-in-the-vatican-or-a-nude-statue-of-our-lady?

There are several reasons why these statues are blasphemous and not representational of the Blessed Virgin Mary and Saint Elizabeth.

Firstly they are not representational of their respective states of chastity. In what situation would anyone ever represent a virgin as pregnant and nude? In our culture we have created many ways to symbolise Mary’s virginity while simultaneously showing her motherhood.

She is always humbly and modestly clothed, she often has a halo over/around her head or a crown of Glory and/or is engaged in prayer, openly reflecting God’s glory. She is not introspective (looking to self) but rather reflects always on God.

St. Elizabeth would likewise be modestly dressed to represent her Chastity and holiness but also her advanced age. There is no difference in age noted between the two figurines on the mandala. Except if you consider the taller figure as older. However, this would be anatomically incorrect in that Saint Elizabeth was approximately six months pregnant at the time of visitation and Mary was only a few days pregnant – the gestational stages do not add up when you look at the figurines/statues. Cultural expressions aside, there could have been particular specific symbols to convey the essential nature- of Mary in particular- but these things are lacking and the opposite is conveyed- denigrating and blaspheming the Holy Mother of God.

Compare this to the image of Our Lady of Guadalupe.

But there’s more- and this shows the real purpose. If these are statues of the Blessed Virgin Mary and Saint Elizabeth, then why is there also, on the same circle or Mandala, a statue of a naked man lying down with an erect p***s?! Can you explain why you would you put that in the same “story”- when you were talking about The Blessed Virgin Mary and Saint Elizabeth, supposedly ‘justly’ representing Mary’s virginity -and chastity in Saint Elizabeth’s case- and their holiness? No, it does not add up. Not unless you were choosing to represent something entirely different in reality and presenting a very false, deceitful, unbelievable excuse as to what these things represented, to the rest of the world. No, these were not what they said they were- and you would have to be very gullible and somewhat ignorant, with no Catholic sensibility and very little sensitivity, to accept- even from a distance- that these idols could be representing saints!!

There are, of course, at least two alternative narratives.

The first identifies them specifically as pagan goddesses and gods/idols and all three or four statues (there may be 2 male statues) are part of a pagan fertility ritual. You can read about that here:

https://catholicismpure.wordpress.com/2019/10/08/francis-make-a-mess-amazon-synod/

The second narrative is more about why -and what the intended meaning is for the Masons. Because Freemasons use symbols to represent and announce things to the world- to their own kind- and do so through ceremonies and rituals.
This ritual was important.

So was the Tucum ring FP accepted, representing his secret commitment to the worst form of Liberation Theology. 

(You can read more about that here: https://panamazonsynodwatch.info/feature/will-the-upcoming-synod-be-amazonian-or-masonic/)

This ritual ceremony signified the imminent spiritual birth (or reign)

of the Anti-Christ.

Just as Saint John the Baptist preceded and announced The Christ – preparing the way for Him – the false prophet prepares the way for the Anti-Christ. In this sense then, the 2 statues are mimicking Mary and Elizabeth who were to give birth to Christ and his forerunner- John the Baptist. This is so very Masonic. The 2 smaller male statues therefore, represent the False Prophet and the Antichrist – both in their spiritual infancy.

Whereas Christ is born of a Virgin, the reverse is true of the AC. He is born of a Hebrew prostitute (a false nun), fathered by an evil Bishop- in league with Satan. There seems no other explanation of what these statues were announcing. And judging by that, if that’s what the Masons were announcing, then we can expect the AC to begin his public ministry in a little less than 9 months time.

Open Abomination in the Temple of God

To further offend God and profane His temple, the abominable idol then was brought in to God’s Church (St. Peter’s no less) and FP has welcomed them as the official symbols of the Amazonian Synod… Apt symbols for an evil synod indeed!

Deacon Nick Donnelly says it all  on Twitter:

Already within days, we have had the breaking of the First Commandment -on sacred ground, the denial of the Divinity of Christ by the FP (Francis) and then the announcement of the plans to build a new headquarter for Chrislam!

Things are moving fast now!

Because the FP really wants to sell PANTHEISM- as well as all paths lead to God. This is required for the New One World Religion which is to come. But first he must destroy the Catholic Church (in all her teachings) so that the daily sacrifice (The Eucharist) can be replaced by the Abomination of Desolation. He denies Christ as ‘The’ Messiah to make way for the ‘new messiah’ who will be the AC.

We must keep our eyes open and question everything

because nothing is as it seems!!

Prophecies from the Book of Truth

“My enemies will blind My people to the Truth and soon Christians will become like pagans. I will be thrown out into the gutter like a pauper and the doors of My Church will be slammed in My Face. And when I knock at the door it will be bolted from the inside by those who claim to come from Me.” ((18 Nov.2014)

“The day you pay homage to false gods under My Roof will be the day I will storm My Temple and destroy all within it.  How lukewarm is the faith of some of My servants who strive to impress the populace and seek adulation.  How little respect is shown to Me in My Own House, when everything that I gave you is tossed aside with indifference until, eventually, nothing of Me will remain within My Church.” (15 Nov.2014)

Pagan Ritual Symbols: Vatican Gardens: Clarifying the Elements

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Most of you will have read about the atrocious ritual on 4th October.

It was billed as a Consecration of the Amazon Synod to St Francis of Assisi. See our posts at:

https://remnantdisciplesjtm.com/2019/10/09/feast-day-of-st-francis/  and also:

https://remnantdisciplesjtm.com/2019/10/10/first-he-offends-god-the-father-by-worshipping-idols-before-him-and-now-he-denies-the-divinity-of-his-son/

There has been heaps of info about these events. But today I thought I would just make a list of all the pagan gestures and symbols that were used. This will lead up to another significant part that has not yet been explained very much. It will make lots of sense to a few – especially Crusaders and those who have read the Book of Truth.

Feathers

Shaman

Invoking Mother Earth at the beginning.

Shaking Rattle –  spirits speaking

Woman shaman with hands held up – invoking spirits

Pagan idols presented to FP which he blessed

PF with his eyes closed-seemingly meditating on the event

PF accepts black ring from shaman lady – “tucum ring”

Sign of the Cross – mixing Holy and Catholic with paganism –letting devil in

The Vatican press release actually names the pagan goddess ‘Pachamama’ and describes it as a ceremony to dedicate the Amazon Synod to St Francis. If this is so, as a pagan ceremony, we can expect only evil from this synod.

Shaman lady puts necklace around the pope which he kept on throughout

The “circle” (mandala) –  with idols in middle – common to pagan ceremonies including Hinduism, etc

People in a circle around the mandala bowing in adoration of the idols. As one commentator said – these people do not even kneel for Communion, yet they prostrate themselves before 2 pagan goddesses.

A Franciscan friar is part of the group around the mandala,  joining in.

Pope and bishops are seated and watching (joining in??)

It takes place in the Vatican Garden, which is Sacred Space – I imagine that as part of the Vatican, it is  Consecrated ground.

The ceremony presents a danger to souls from the devils that are invoked.

Just to attend, let alone joining in the ritual is a Mortal sin – against the First Commandment.

The pagan idols are carried into a Church.

 

 

 

 

 

The CCC states:

The Catechism confirms, saying: “Before Christ’s second coming the Church must pass through a final trial that will shake the faith of many believers… in the form of a religious deception which will be one of apostasy.  (CCC 675)

Prophecies from Book of Truth re Paganism:

        • “…Paganism brings a terrible disquiet and, in lands where the heathen cry out to the false gods, they incur the Wrath of My Father. Many such souls do not understand what they are doing, but recognise them by the ways in which they will adorn their bodies, as they consider themselves sacred vessels in the eyes of the false idols they claim to worship. Love, humility or personal sacrifice for the good of others, will be lacking, for they only worship the senses. They do not understand that their souls are a Gift from God and so they give them away in the pursuit of perfection, which can never be theirs.

During The Warning, I will awaken within these souls the Truth as to Who they belong to. Pray that they will accept My Hand of Mercy. Woe to those Christians who have deserted Me in favour of new age paganism. They are the ones who do not want My Mercy and would prefer to dabble in nonsense, because it feeds their egos when they believe that they have the power to control matters of spirituality. While they seek personal perfection in this way, they cut themselves completely from God. By doing so, they open the door to the evil one, who will seduce and hypnotise them through the appeal of superstitious promises, which lead to their souls becoming barren where the Love of God cannot thrive. …”

See full message at: https://missionofsalvation.com/message-0922/

        • “Pagans, who shun the Truth, will enter My House where they will be welcomed with open arms.  You will be told that you must show love for all God’s children, to keep silent those who might oppose them.  Very few people will defend Me, Jesus Christ, and those who will dare to object to these blasphemous ceremonies, which will be held on the same altars used to house My Most Holy Eucharist, will be silenced.” (15 November 2014 @ 10:22 am)

See full message at:  https://missionofsalvation.com/message-1265/

        • “You must never insult Me by showing allegiance to false gods placed before Me.The day you pay homage to false gods under My Roof will be the day I will storm My Temple and destroy all within it.  How lukewarm is the faith of some of My servants who strive to impress the populace and seek adulation.  How little respect is shown to Me in My Own House, when everything that I gave you is tossed aside with indifference until, eventually, nothing of Me will remain within My Church.You, My beloved followers and sacred servants who remain true to the Word will have a heavy burden. You will have to suffer the pain and indignity when you will witness the sacrileges, the heresies and practices of the occult…” (15 November 2014 @ 10:22 am)

See full message at:https://missionofsalvation.com/message-1265/

 

This is not just a pagan ceremony- although that in itself is diabolical.

There is also some very ominous symbolism. See our next post.

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Note: Pachamama (according to Wikipedia): Pachamama is a goddess revered by the indigenous people of the Andes. She is also known as the earth/time mother. In Inca mythology, Pachamama is a fertility goddess who presides over planting and harvesting, embodies the mountains, and causes earthquakes. She is also an ever-present and independent deity who has her own self-sufficient and creative power to sustain life on this earth…. Priests sacrifice llamas, cuy (guinea pigs), and elaborate, miniature, burned garments to her.… a local name for Mother Nature. …Pachamama is the mother of Inti the sun god and Mama Killa the moon goddess. Pachamama is said to also be the wife of Inti, her son.  Mother Earth – another name for Pachamama

Tucum ring” : a liberation theology symbol.
The tucum ring’s “identifying” function for the public, but above all in the eyes of others committed to Liberation Theology, was stressed by the late Italian Combonian missionary Father João Pedro Baresi, to the magazine Brasil de Fato:
“- What does the tucum ring in your hand mean? – It is the option for the poor. … It is the fidelity to this option. And why do I carry with me? To make it public that I am this. The tucum ring is solidarity with the poor. … When I see this ring on someone, I know he has an equal vision, an equal commitment.”<https://panamazonsynodwatch.info/feature/will-the-upcoming-synod-be-amazonian-or-masonic/#_ftn1>