Witnessing this happening...is truly frightening. I pray for our GOOD Cardinals and Bishops and priests to keep the Faith and fight for the Faith. May our Lord strengthen them and Our Lady protect them.
To be blunt I don’t like anything Pope Francis said in his
final speech of the Synod (more below).
I believe (as Cardinal Burke said) Pope Francis is harming the Catholic
Faith*. Yes, I know Burke was talking about
the Pope not setting the record straight and allowing progressive views to grow
and spread through the media- but isn’t that EXACTLY what Pope Francis has done
all along? [Holy Week washing Muslim women’s feet, ‘who am I to judge’, etc]
Pope Francis IS a progressive Catholic. There can be no question about that after all
his interviews and off the cuff comments.
This Synod was a progressive attempt to change the Church. At first I believe progressives thought they
had it in the bag- hence the “working document” about welcoming gay couples in mortal sin because they have “gifts” to offer the Church. They seemed completely stupefied by the large outcry heard around the world. These people don't know their own Faith or the Saints who kept and taught the faith.
“If
one yields ground on any single point of Catholic doctrine, one will later have
to yield later in another, and again in another, and so on until such
surrenders come to be something normal and acceptable. And when one gets used
to rejecting dogma bit by bit, the final result will be the repudiation of it
altogether.” –St. Vincent of Lerins
If anyone thinks Pope Francis wasn’t completely behind this progressive push, you’re
fooling yourselves. Everything he’s done
since day one has pointed to that “working document” so adored and fawned over by progressives.
What he didn’t expect was the complete spanking he got for
his efforts.
Pope Francis during heated Synod discussion.
Church Militant TV’s Michael Voris says it’s because
faithful Catholics around the world heard Catholic media reporting these events
as they happened and they rightly protested what was going on.
I see it differently.
“The gates of hell will not prevail” against Christ’s Holy
Catholic Church. Sure faithful Catholic media and laity voiced their
unhappiness and anger at what was going on, but it was the Holy Spirit who
stopped Pope Francis and his progressive gang in their tracks.
They [progressives] can waste all their efforts TRYING to
change doctrine, but it won’t happen.
What they WILL do, is lead people to Hell with their heretical beliefs
and THAT is what angers me.
“What
shall a Catholic do if some portion of the Church detaches itself from
communion of the universal Faith? What other choice can he make if some new
contagion attempts to poison, no longer a small part of the Church, but the
whole Church at once, then his great concern will be to attach himself to
antiquity (Tradition) which can no longer be led astray by any lying novelty.” –St.
Vincent of Lerins
I completely trust the Holy Spirit to protect the
Church. Pope Francis cannot destroy Her
or change Her, but Pope Francis [and other progressive clergy] CAN be the Piped
Piper leading ignorant people into heresy and subsequently Hell. That is what faithful devout orthodox
Catholics have to fight against. We have
to help save people from misleading 'off the cuff' comments and bold heresy- even from our own clergy.
“The
Church of the Lord is built upon the rock of the apostles among so many dangers
in the world; it therefore remains unmoved. The Church's foundation is
unshakable and firm against assaults of the raging sea. Waves lash at the
Church but do not shatter it. Although the elements of this world constantly
beat upon the Church with crashing sounds, the Church possesses the safest
harbor of salvation for all in distress.” – St. Ambrose of Milan
Back to Pope Francis’ final speech … guess he didn’t like
the smack down, because he (at least in my opinion) struck back at all the
Catholics who dared oppose the progressive agenda he had so hoped would be
accepted.
- One, a temptation to
hostile inflexibility, that is, wanting to close oneself within the written
word, (the letter) and not allowing oneself to be surprised by God, by the God
of surprises, (the spirit); within the law, within the certitude of what we know
and not of what we still need to learn and to achieve. From the time of Christ,
it is the temptation of the zealous, of the scrupulous, of the solicitous and
of the so-called – today – “traditionalists” and also of the intellectuals.
He just had to slap
traditional Catholics across the face (again) didn’t he?
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The temptation to a destructive tendency to goodness [it. buonismo], that in
the name of a deceptive mercy binds the wounds without first curing them and
treating them; that treats the symptoms and not the causes and the roots. It is
the temptation of the “do-gooders,” of the fearful, and also of the so-called
“progressives and liberals.”
Guess traditionalist are the “fearful”
“do-gooders” ignoring the cause and root of the wounds in the Church. Those “wounds” are of course caused by telling
people what sin is and that it must be confessed before Holy Communion. And the “wounds” of telling homosexuals they
can’t get ‘married’ because it’s a mortal sin.
Pope Francis believes to heal the ‘causes and roots’ of these wounds we
need to shut up about gay ‘marriage’ and abortion etc. His idea of “curing them” is leaving them ignorant and in a state of mortal sin.
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The temptation to transform stones into bread to break the long, heavy, and
painful fast (cf. Lk 4:1-4); and also to transform the bread into a stone and
cast it against the sinners, the weak, and the sick (cf Jn 8:7), that is, to
transform it into unbearable burdens (Lk 11:46)
What Pope Francis calls “unbearable
burdens” is what the rest of us call “picking up our crosses and following
Christ”. Christ didn’t promise anyone
life would be easy- Mary, sinless Mother of God suffered pain in this life
(Luke 2:34-35) why shouldn’t the rest of us?
No one is casting stones at sinners, but we are telling them to REPENT
and sin no more because that is what Jesus taught us to do. That is the key: repenting. If the Church doesn’t tell people what sin
is, how can sinner’s repent? The Church
is COMMANDED by Jesus to teach the FULL Truth to all people so that they might
be saved (Matthew 28:19-20). That is the mission of the Church. That is how wounds are healed.
- The temptation to
come down off the Cross, to please the people, and not stay there, in order to
fulfil the will of the Father; to bow down to a worldly spirit instead of
purifying it and bending it to the Spirit of God.
He must have choked on that
one. Continually we see Pope Francis and progressive Catholic clergy attempting to 'bow down to worldly spirit" by watering down the Faith and telling Catholics to shut up about abortion and gay marriage. Rather worry about the worst crisis in the world- youth unemployment and lonely elderly people. Ahuh. Last I checked those weren't mortal sins that send a person to Hell. But what progressive is worried about the souls of people? None. They are worried about being welcoming, not offending and finding the "gifts" in homosexual relationships!
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The temptation to neglect the “depositum fidei” [the deposit of faith], not
thinking of themselves as guardians but as owners or masters [of it]; or, on
the other hand, the temptation to neglect reality, making use of meticulous
language and a language of smoothing to say so many things and to say nothing!
They call them “byzantinisms,” I think, these things…"
If ANYONE is tempting to “neglect
the depositum fidei [deposit of faith]" its progressive clergy. They don’t want to be guardians of the faith,
they want to change the faith- just like Martin Luther before them.
And another slap to devout
orthodox Catholics with “…on the other hand, the temptation to neglect reality,
making use of meticulous language and a language of smoothing to say so many
things and to say nothing!” Clearly,
traditional Catholics to Pope Francis’ mind are “neglecting reality” because we
don’t believe the MORTAL SIN of homosexual relationships are a “gift” to the
Church.
“It is an error to believe that Christ did not teach a determined body of doctrine applicable to all times and to all men, but rather that He inaugurated a religious movement adapted, or to be adapted, to different times and different places.”–Pope St. Pius X
This Synod has only reaffirmed my already none to favorable
views of our current Pope. I don’t trust
Pope Francis and I don’t like him. I wanted/want
to trust him, like him and love him like I did Pope Benedict before him, but
the honest truth is I don’t- and I probably never will. I’ve accepted that. I also accept Pope Francis 100% as our
current pope. God (for His own reasons) has allowed Pope
Francis to be pope, I accept it. Let’s remember,
God also allowed such popes as Alexander VI to hold the papal office for a time. Just because you’re pope doesn’t mean you’re
a good one or that the faithful will love you.
“Given the breakdown in family life, the wholesale attack on innocent and defenseless human lives, and the violation of the integrity of the union of marriage in our society, the call to the martyrdom of witness is ever more urgent.” –Cardinal Raymond Burke
Many Catholics are rightly pointing their fingers at
progressive Bishops/Cardinals who pushed their liberal agenda’s at the
Synod. Like Cardinal Kasper, who is
about as Catholic as my dead dog. I don’t
like Kasper, not because he’s liberal, but because he’s a heretic. He wishes (and is attempting) to change the
Church. Kasper is a closet protestant-
he doesn’t love the Church as She is, he wants to change her to be more
Protestant. Then he will love Her. Along the way, his heretical beliefs are
destroying the weak faith held by many Catholics. Catholics who
don’t properly know their faith. He is
putting his heretical ideas into the heads of Catholics who sadly, will follow
him and his theology away from the Church.
Kasper is today’s Martin Luther. Only instead of opposing the pope, he's working with him to push a progressive agenda that is in direct opposition to Church teaching.
Not a single word
of public correction has been given to Kasper for all the misleading and
heretical views Kasper has PUBLICLY made before, during or after the Synod. Instead we get the above.
That’s wrong.
"Not to oppose error is to approve it; and not to defend truth is
to suppress it; and indeed to neglect to confound evil men, when we can do it,
is no less a sin than to encourage them." -Pope St. Felix III
"If the faith is in imminent
peril, prelates ought to be accused by their subjects, even in public."
-St. Thomas Aquinas
"According to their knowledge,
competence and prestige which they possess, [the Christian faithful] have the
right and even at the times the duty to manifest to the sacred pastors their
opinion on matters which pertain to the good of the Church and to make their
opinion known to the rest of the Christian faithful"- Canon Law 212 Section 3
In Christ,
Julie @ Connecticut Catholic Corner
*Yes [to answer the emails on this], I know Church Militant TV took down the video about Cardinal Burke’s comment that “Pope Francis is harming the Church”. Why was the video
taken down? I have no idea. Perhaps
Burke requested it? Perhaps Voris saw
the video as harming the faithful in some way?
Or perhaps it was simply to controversial, I honestly don’t know and don’t
really care. I saw the video and I agree
with Cardinal Burke- though I go much further in my belief that Pope Francis
has been damaging the Church since his first Holy Week- that is my opinion and
it hasn’t changed.
Cardinal Kasper appears to speak out of both sides of his mouth.
On the one hand he admits that there can be
only ONE true marriage among a living married couple- if they should divorce
and ‘re-marry’ the second so-called ‘marriage’ is not a true marriage -its ADULTERY. That is Church teaching, always has been,
always will be.
"Because they are human and prone to sin, husbands and wives continually must follow a path of conversion, renewal and maturation, asking forgiveness and renewing their commitment to one another, Cardinal Kasper said. But the church also must be realistic and acknowledge "the complex and thorny problem" posed by Catholics whose marriages have failed, but who find support, family stability and happiness in a new relationship, he continued.
"One cannot propose a solution different from or contrary to the words of Jesus," the cardinal said. "The indissolubility of a sacramental marriage and the impossibility of a new marriage while the other partner is still alive is part of the binding tradition of the faith of the church and cannot be abandoned or dissolved by appealing to a superficial understanding of mercy at a discount price."At the same time, "there is no human situation absolutely without hope or solution," he said Catholics profess their belief in the forgiveness of sins in the Creed, he explained. "That means that for one who converts, forgiveness is possible. If that's true for a murderer, it is also true for an adulterer."
Kasper is confused about a murderer -vs- an on going adulterous false marriage…he seems to think that the murderer is forgiven if they continue murdering.This is NOT repenting.Repenting isn’t just say “Oh sorry about that!” and then moving on still committing the same sin.Repenting is truly being sorry and STOPPING the sin- at the very least TRYING to stop the sin. Does Kasper think a serial killer is forgiven and allowed Holy Communion because he confessed one killing but continues to kill others-thus continuing the sin?
How can a person who remarries STOP continuing in the sin of adultery unless they STOP having sex with their spouse?If they stop having sex and live chaste lives this isn’t an issue. If they are "married in name only" there is no adultery. But we all know that is NOT the case. These "remarried" couples are having sex and they want the Church to not just "tolerate" it, but accept it and tell them they are not sinning because it's "love" (just like the gay "marriage" issue).
Adultery is a MORTAL sin, a person committing MORTAL SIN cannot have Holy Communion. There is of course forgiveness if a person TRULY is sorry and truly REPENTS. That's the wonderful gift of our Sacrament of Reconciliation.
#1446 Christ
instituted the sacrament of Penance for all sinful members of his Church: above
all for those who, since Baptism, have fallen into grave sin, and have thus lost
their baptismal grace and wounded ecclesial communion. It is to them that the
sacrament of Penance offers a new possibility to convert and to recover the
grace of justification. The Fathers of the Church present this sacrament as "the
second plank [of salvation] after the shipwreck which is the loss of
grace."47
#1450 "Penance requires . . . the sinner to endure all
things willingly, be contrite of heart, confess with the lips, and practice
complete humility and fruitful satisfaction."49
So we first hear Kasper reaffirm that a second "marriage" is not a valid marriage, then we hear him say these adulterers should be forgiven while they continue to commit MORTAL SIN (so no repenting needed) and then we get this...
And out of the other side of his mouth, Cardinal Kasper wants some wiggle room to play around
with…he thinks there are special cases which the Church should/could ‘allow’
but not ‘accept’.
The Catholic Church needs to find a way to help divorced and remarried Catholics who long to participate fully in the life of the church, Cardinal Kasper told the cardinals. While insisting -- for the good of individuals and of the church -- on the need to affirm Jesus' teaching that sacramental marriage is indissoluble, he allowed for the possibility that in very specific cases the church could tolerate, though not accept, a second union.
So who are these special cases? Oh you mean like the rich? Perhaps the name Kennedy and the like? Here in the United States we've seen this sort of divorce and "remarriage" for the privileged (and seen it reversed a decade later after YEARS of protest to the Vatican demanding that the Church uphold it's own doctrines).
The issue is remarriage and sex within that marriage when the FIRST
marriage is still valid. It’s adultery
any way you slice it.
1455 The confession (or disclosure) of sins, even from a simply human point of view, frees us and facilitates our reconciliation with others. Through such anadmission man looks squarely at the sins he is guilty of, takes responsibility for them, and thereby opens himself again to God and to the communion of the Church in order to make a new future possible.
1456 Confession to a priest is an essential part of the sacrament of Penance: "All mortal sins of which penitents after a diligent self-examination are conscious must be recounted by them in confession, even if they are most secret and have been committed against the last two precepts of the Decalogue; for these sins sometimes wound the soul more grievously and are more dangerous than those which are committed openly."54When Christ's faithful strive to confess all the sins that they can remember, they undoubtedly place all of them before the divine mercy for pardon. But those who fail to do so and knowingly withhold some, place nothing before the divine goodness for remission through the mediation of the priest, "for if the sick person is too ashamed to show his wound to the doctor, the medicine cannot heal what it does not know."55
UPDATE: Please go read: http://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2014/03/exclusive-for-il-foglio-kaspers.html
