PLEDGE OF FIDELITY
FAITHFUL TO TRUE DOCTRINE, NOT TO ERRING PASTORS
Pledge of fidelity to the authentic teaching of the Church by pro-life and pro-family leaders
SUPPORT THE PLEDGE
The number of innocent children killed by abortion during the last century is greater than that of all the human beings who have died in all the wars in recorded history. The last fifty years have witnessed a continual escalation in attacks on the structure of the family as designed and willed by God, which provides the best environment for human flourishing, and, especially, for the education and formation of children. Divorce, contraception, acceptance of homosexual acts and unions, and the spread of “gender ideology” have all done immeasurable damage to the family, and its most vulnerable members.
Over the last fifty years the pro-life and pro-family movement has grown in both size and scope in order to confront these grave evils, which threaten both the temporal and eternal good of mankind. Our movement comprises men and women of good will from a wide variety of religious backgrounds. We are brought together in our defence of the family, and of the most vulnerable of our brothers and sisters, through obedience to the natural law, which is written on all our hearts (cf. Rm 2:15). However, throughout this last half century the pro-life and pro-family movement has relied in a particular way on the immutable teaching of the Catholic Church, which affirms the moral law with the greatest clarity.
It is therefore with great sorrow that during recent years we have witnessed doctrinal and moral clarity, on issues relating to the protection of human life and the family, increasingly being replaced by ambiguity, and even by doctrines directly contrary to the teaching of Christ and the precepts of the natural law.
A Filial Appeal, delivered to Pope Francis in September 2015, was signed by around 900,000 people from all over the world and a “Declaration of fidelity to the unchangeable teaching of the Church on matrimony” was presented in 2016. On 19 September 2016 four cardinals submitted five dubia to Pope Francis, and to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, asking for the clarification of certain points of doctrine in the post-synodal Apostolic Exhortation Amoris Laetitia. In June 2017, the cardinals made public their request for an audience, which had been presented to the Pope by Cardinal Carlo Caffarra on 25 April 2017, but which, like the dubia, had received no response. On 23 September 2017 a Correctio filialis de haeresibus propagatis was issued by 62 Catholic theologians and academics “on account of the propagation of heresies effected by the apostolic exhortation Amoris Laetitia and by other words, deeds and omissions” of Pope Francis. By 4 November 2017, 250 theologians, priests, professors and scholars of all nationalities had pledged their support to the Correctio. The disorder within the Church is increasing, as witnessed by a letter recently sent to Pope Francis by a prominent theologian, which, the author stated, was prompted by “turmoil within the Church today, a chaos and an uncertainty that I felt Pope Francis had himself caused.” 1
As Catholic pro-life and pro-family leaders, we are obliged to highlight numerous additional statements and actions, which have had a particularly damaging impact on our work for the protection of unborn children and the family in recent years. Representative examples include:
- statements and actions which contradict the Church’s teaching on the intrinsic evil of contraceptive acts;
- statements and actions which contradict the Church’s teaching on the nature of marriage and the intrinsic evil of sexual acts outside the union of marriage;
- the approval of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, which effectively call for member states to achieve universal access to abortion, contraception and sex education by 2030;
- the approach adopted towards sex education, particularly in chapter 7 of Amoris Laetitia and in The Meeting Point programme produced by the Pontifical Council for the Family.
As leaders within the pro-life and pro-family movement or leaders of lay movements concerned with the defence and diffusion of Catholic moral and social teaching, we have witnessed first-hand the harm and confusion caused by such teaching and actions. In order to fulfil our responsibilities to those whom we have pledged to protect, in particular, unborn children and those made especially vulnerable by the breakdown of the family, we must provide clarity on our position on these issues. We must also provide leadership to those within our movement who look to us for guidance and advice.
For this reason, we wish to make clear our unchanging adherence to the fundamental moral positions outlined below:
- there exist certain acts which are intrinsically evil and which it is always forbidden to commit;
- the direct killing of an innocent human being is always gravely immoral; consequently, abortion, euthanasia and assisted suicide are intrinsically evil acts;
- marriage is the exclusive and indissoluble union of one man and one woman; all sexual acts outside of marriage, including in all forms of non-marital union, are intrinsically evil and gravely injurious to individuals and to society;
- adultery is a grave sin, and those who live in adultery cannot be admitted to the sacraments of Penance and Holy Communion, until such time as they repent and amend their lives;
- parents are the primary educators of their children, and the provision of sex education must be undertaken by parents or, in certain circumstances, “in educational centres chosen and controlled by them”;
- the separation of the procreative and unitive ends of the sexual act by contraceptive methods is intrinsically evil and has devastating consequences for the family, for society and for the Church;
- methods of artificial reproduction are gravely immoral as they separate procreation from the sexual act and, in the great majority of cases, lead directly to the destruction of human life in its earliest stages;
- there are only two sexes, male and female, each of which possesses the complementary characteristics and differences that are proper to them;
- homosexual acts are intrinsically evil, and no form of union between persons of the same sex can be approved in any way.
As Catholic pro-life and pro-family leaders we must remain faithful to Our Lord Jesus Christ, Who has entrusted the deposit of faith to his Church. We “are obliged to yield to God the revealer full submission of intellect and will by faith.” We fully assent to all those things “which are contained in the word of God as found in Scripture and Tradition, and which are proposed by the Church as matters to be believed as divinely revealed, whether by her solemn judgment or in her ordinary and universal magisterium.”
We pledge our full obedience to the hierarchy of the Catholic Church in the legitimate exercise of its authority. However, nothing will ever persuade us, or compel us, to abandon or contradict any article of the Catholic faith or any truth definitively established. If there is any conflict between the words and acts of any member of the hierarchy, even the pope, and the doctrine that the Church has always taught, we will remain faithful to the perennial teaching of the Church. If we were to depart from the Catholic faith, we would depart from Jesus Christ, to Whom we wish to be united for all eternity.
We, the undersigned, pledge that we will continue to teach and propagate the above moral principles, and every other authentic teaching of the Catholic Church, and will never, for any reason, depart from them.
12th December 2017
Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe
SIGNATORIES
Bernard Antony
President of Chrétienté-Solidarité (France)
Dame Colleen Bayer, DSG
Founding Director of Family Life International NZ (New Zealand)
Judie Brown
President of American Life League (United States)
Patrick Buckley
Director of European Life Network (Ireland)
Georges Buscemi
President of Campagne Quebec Vie (Canada)
Giorgio Celsi
President of Associazione “Ora et Labora in Difesa della Vita” (Italy)
Dr. Anca-Maria Cernea, MD
Ioan Barbus Foundation (Romania)
Greg Clovis
Director of Family Life International UK (United Kingdom)
Rev. Linus F. Clovis
Spiritual Director of Family Life International St Lucia (St Lucia)
Virginia Coda Nunziante
President of Associazione Famiglia Domani (Italy)
Modesto Fernandez
President of Droit de Naître (France)
Richard P. Fitzgibbons, M.D.
Director of the Institute for Marital Healing (United States)
Mathias von Gersdorff
Director of Aktion Kinder in Gefahr (Germany)
Corrado Gnerre
National Director of Il Cammino dei Tre Sentieri (Italy)
Doug Grane
Chief Executive of Serviam (United States)
Michael Hichborn
President of the Lepanto Institute (United States)
Jason Jones
Founder of I am Whole Life
Founder of Movie to Movement (United States)
John Lacken
Founder of Legio Sanctae Familiae
Secretary of the Lumen Fidei Institute (Ireland)
François Legrier
President of Mouvement Catholique des Familles (France)
Vittorio Lodolo D’Oria
President of Famiglie Numerose Cattoliche (Italy)
Samuele Maniscalco
Director of Generazione Voglio Vivere (Italy)
Christine de Marcellus Vollmer
President of Asociacion Provida de Venezuela (PROVIVE)
President of Alianza Latinoamericana para la Familia (ALAFA)
President of Alive to the World, Education in Integrity (Venezuela)
Roberto de Mattei
President of Fondazione Lepanto (Italy)
Jean-Pierre Maugendre
President of Renaissance Catholique (France)
Thomas McKenna
President of Catholic Action for Faith and Family (United States)
Anthony Murphy
Director of Catholic Voice (Ireland)
Marisa Orecchia
President of Federvita Piemonte (Italy)
Philippe Piloquet
President of SOS Tout-petits (France)
Philippe Schepens M.D.
Secretary-General of the World Federation of Doctors Who Respect Human Life (Belgium)
John Smeaton
Chief Executive of the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (United Kingdom)
Molly Smith
President of Bringing America Back to Life
Executive Director of Cleveland Right to Life (United States)
Guillaume de Thieulloy
Director of Le Salon Beige (France)
Yves Tillard
President of Action Familiale et Scolaire (France)
Dr. Thomas Ward
President of the National Association of Catholic Families (United Kingdom)
John-Henry Westen
Co-Founder and Editor-in-Chief of LifeSiteNews (Canada)
Mercedes Arzú Wilson
Founder and President of Family of the Americas Foundation (Nicaragua)
Diego Zoia
Director of SOS Ragazzi (Italy)
6 comments:
I have signed this pledge in support of Pro-Life leaders as I know their outstanding Christian attempts to put an end to abortion is being demonised by our Apostate leaders, most of whom are sodomites & display a hatred of God. This Apostasy must be brought to an end swiftly & if the correction is not going to be made & the Hierarchy is not going to stand for Christ, there is simply no way they deserve or can legitimately demand our allegiance.
I signed and agree with Ann Milan.
And what about this doctrine and theology?
ECEMBER 14, 2017
No contradiction or correction from Roberto dei Mattei
There is no contradiction or correction from Roberto dei Mattei.I e-mailed him at Correspondenza Romano with this blog post. 1
I have said that Mattei will not support Feeneyite extra ecclesiam nulla salus(EENS).It is confirmed that he will not.
He may say that the Church has rejected Feeneyite EENS and so he must not support it but then the Church has also accepted Vatican Councl II(Cushingite) and he criticizes Vatican Council II.
When he refers to outside the Church there is no salvation he is referring to Cushingite EENS,in which invisible for him baptism of desire(BOD), baptism of blood(BOB) and being saved in invincible ignorance(I.I) are visible exceptions in the present times to traditional EENS.
This is the error of Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre which is not denied by the SSPX.
I informed him that I affirm EENS and Vatican Council II Feeneyite, and he has nothing to say.He does not think that I am in heresy? Am I orthodox for him?
He knows if he affirms Feeneyite Vatican Council II(LG 16-refers to hypothetical cases only) and Feeneyite EENS( BOD, BOB and I.I are not visible and known people) then he would be saying in public that all Jews and Muslims need to enter the Church with no known exceptions in 2017 to avoid Hell.
Vatican Council II would not be a rupture with the past ecclesiology of the Church.
But he supports the FSSP and other priests when they offer the Tridentine Rite Mass with the new ecclesiology based on visible for them BOD, BOB and I.I.For them there are known people saved outside the Church.Since there are known people saved outside the Church, who are practical exceptions to Feeneyite EENS, the old exclusivist ecclesiology of the Church is rejected.
He rejects the ecclesiology of St.Robert Bellarmine who did not state that there were personally known or physically visible cases of the BOD, BOB and I.I.Yet this is the inference of Roberto dei Mattei and he does not deny this.
His interpretation of Vatican Council II and EENS with Cushingite theology results in heresy which he shares with the two popes.
I have been saying this for the last few years and he does not comment on this issue which is uncomfortable for him.
Just as believes that what is known only to God can be known also to man(BOD is visible), Pope Francis,Pope Benedict and Cardinal Muller believe that they can judge Catholics as not being in mortal sin in spite of the objective evidence to the contrary.
Cardinal Kasper has said that the controversy over Amoris Laetitia is over.A few years back he said that if every one can accept the new ecclesiology why cannot they also accept the Eucharist being given to the divorced and remarried.
Roberto dei Mattei could make a difference if announces that there are no physically visible cases of BOD,BOB and I.I in 2017 and he cannot judge and conclude that someone outside the Church, whom he knows, will be saved without Catholic faith and the baptism of water.Neither can he conclude that there can be known people, saved outside the Church and they are in Heaven but visible on earth to be exceptions to Feeneyite EENS.-Lionel Andrades
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DECEMBER 12, 2017
Neither is Roberto dei Mattei nor Maike Hickson willing to affirm the old ecclesiology of the Church with Feeneyite EENS and with such a big doctrinal and theological divide among us they are talking about the pope being in heresy
http://eucharistandmission.blogspot.it/2017/12/neither-is-roberto-dei-mattei-not-maike.html
Traditionalists are not willing to affirm the Catholic Faith. Roberto dei Mattei and the names mentioned above will not affirm Feeneyite extra ecclesiam nulla salus (EENS). Since then the interpretation of Vatican Council II will change it will not be a rupture with Tradition and he will be accused of being Anti. Semitic. He does not want to choose the narrow gate. He,like the other traditionalists, are attached to their life style,interests etc.It is the same with the names above.
After Vatican Council II and even today traditionalists are not willing to say in public that LG 16, UR 3, LG 8 etc were not visible exceptions to Feeneyite EENS and to the old ecclesiology of the Church. So Vatican Council II was not a rupture with Tradition.
They still are not willing to state this even after being informed and there are so many reports on the Internet.
If Mattei and the other traditionalists would announce that invisible for us baptism of desire, baptism of blood and being saved in invincible ignorance are not visible exceptions to Feeneyite EENS and so they affirm Feeneyite EENS that will be the end of the false propaganda on Vatican Council II.
But none of the names mentioned above will affirm Feeneyite EENS instead they will remain politically correct with the Left on this issue and let Catholics in general remain in ignorance.
DECEMBER 15, 2017
The traditionalists in general have made an error.They have made a major error in theology and doctrine.
The traditionalists in general have made an error.They have made a major error in theology and doctrine.
For Roberto dei Mattei for example invisible cases of the baptism of desire(BOD), baptism of blood(BOB) and being saved in invincible ignorance(I.I) are visible exceptions to the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus(EENS).
So he will not affirm Feeneyite EENS.
So Vatican Council II is a rupture with Tradition for him.If he affirmed Feeneyite EENS Vatican Council II would not be a rupture with Tradition.
He would be saying Lumen Gentium 16(LG 16) etc are not physically visible cases.SO they do not contradict the old ecclesiology of the Catholic Church.
Vatican Council II does not contradict Feeneyite EENS.
-Lionel Andrades
DECEMBER 15, 2017
Pledge of Fidelity reject de fide teachings of the Catholic Church and support a new irrational theology
http://eucharistandmission.blogspot.it/2017/12/pledge-of-fidelity-faithful-to-true.html
This pledge should be amended to include the iinstitutionalized and inculterated racism of the RETA policy and purposeful racial genocide, as, e.g. Black Genocide and Brown Genocide in the USA and other racial genocides around the world. RETA - racial eugenic targeted abortion. For example, about 60,000,000 abortions in the USA since 7 men created the "right" to abortion in Roe; of those about half, 30,000,000, were black and brown babies-but their mamas were less than 20% of the entire US population. Serendipitous accident for the democrats, prodeath RINO republicans, Cecile Richards, Planned Parenthood [ironic: God and only God plans each and every parenthood worldwide] and other elitists? No, this is RETA policy in action, actually, in murder and death.
The pledge should also be amended to note the sexist discrimination of killing unborn baby girls BECAUSE THEY ARE GIRLS! 200,000,000 and counting around the world. Imagine how many of these angels would have been the children of prodeath feminists and who would have been there at their death beds to comfort them as they died?
Guy McClung, Texas
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