God help us. Canada's Supreme Court approves sex with animals as long as it is not penetration!

I'm sorry friends for the headline.

Yes, that is right.

You stupid Canadians. Your glorious "Charter of Rights and Freedoms" of Pierre Elliot Trudeau is now a raging fascist insanity. 

Are you happy now idiots?

Canada's Supreme Court has just legalised sex with animals as long as it's not "penetration." You know, like Bill Clinton's definition of non sexual relations with that 22 year old intern? 

These same  so-called "Justices," many of them appointed by the neo-conservative, Stephen Harper, have given this to us following on the heels of legalised prostitution and euthanasia. We remain one of the only countries in the world without any law restricting or regulating them murder of babies in the womb.

Canada, be damned!

I hate my country. It is no longer mine. It is not my home, I only rent here. 

Truly, we are doomed.

WARNING: Content of this story may offend some readers. The story deals with bestiality.​

The Supreme Court of Canada has upheld the acquittal of a British Columbia man in a decision that defines the crime of bestiality as penetration involving a person and animal.

The B.C. man was found guilty three years ago of 13 counts arising from years of sexual molestation of his two step-daughters.

The charges included one count of bestiality under the Criminal Code, stemming from sexual activity involving the older girl and the family dog.

The man successfully challenged the bestiality conviction in the B.C. Court of Appeal based on the fact the activity did not involve penetration. (The man cannot be named to protect the identities of the step-daughters.)

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In a 6-1 decision Thursday, the Supreme Court affirmed that ruling, rejecting the notion bestiality is an offence encompassing sexual activity of any kind between a person and an animal.

At issue was whether updates to the Criminal Code in 1955 and 1988 altered the meaning of the crime.

"The term 'bestiality' has a well-established legal meaning and refers to sexual intercourse between a human and an animal. Penetration has always been understood to be an essential element of bestiality," wrote Justice Thomas Cromwell on behalf of the court.

"Parliament may wish to consider whether the present provisions adequately protect children and animals. But it is for Parliament, not the courts, to expand the scope of criminal liability for this ancient offence."

In a dissenting opinion, Justice Rosalie Abella said she had a great deal of difficulty accepting that in modernizing amendments to the Criminal Code, "Parliament forgot to bring the offence out of the Middle Ages."

A good case can be made that by 1988, Parliament intended, or at the very least assumed, that penetration was irrelevant, she wrote.

© The Canadian Press, 2016 

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I know you are but what am I?

Our friends at Rorate Caeli have juxtaposed Saint John Paul II's, Veritatis Splendor with Francis' daily ditty from the Chapel at the St. Martha Motel (apologise to the Saint and my mother, Martha!)

As with the great Denzinger-Bergoglio; the best way to oppose Francis, and get it through to our Catholic brothers and sisters that something is terribly wrong with this Pope and his thinking, is to directly compare what he says with what came before him.

Jorge Bergoglio is a man, he is not a god. Get off of this papolatry treadmill that some are
on. We have every right to oppose him when he says that which contradicts the Magisterium of teaching which came before. In fact, we have a duty to oppose him for our own sake and for the sake of others.

Today, he called clarity on the Law and the choice between good and evil as "heretical." This Pope believes in situational ethics. He has now dared in his arrogance to call those who follow  Our Blessed Lord's statement, "if you love me, keep my commandments," as heretics.

Well, we know what that is, don't we?

From Rorate:

(1) Either John Paul II and all the Popes who came before him are right, by emphasizing the "absoluteness" of the Church's moral law and by classifying as a "very serious error" that the doctrine of the Church is only an "ideal"...

It would be a very serious error to conclude... that the Church's teaching is essentially only an "ideal" which must then be adapted, proportioned, graduated to the so-called concrete possibilities of man, according to a "balancing of the goods in question".

But what are the "concrete possibilities of man"? And of which man are we speaking? Of man dominated by lust or of man redeemed by Christ? This is what is at stake: the reality of Christ's redemption. Christ has redeemed us! This means that he has given us the possibility of realizing the entire truth of our being; he has set our freedom free from the domination of concupiscence. And if redeemed man still sins, this is not due to an imperfection of Christ's redemptive act, but to man's will not to avail himself of the grace which flows from that act....

In this context, appropriate allowance is made both for God's mercy towards the sinner who converts and for the understanding of human weakness. Such understanding never means compromising and falsifying the standard of good and evil in order to adapt it to particular circumstances. It is quite human for the sinner to acknowledge his weakness and to ask mercy for his failings; what is unacceptable is the attitude of one who makes his own weakness the criterion of the truth about the good, so that he can feel self-justified, without even the need to have recourse to God and his mercy. An attitude of this sort corrupts the morality of society as a whole, since it encourages doubt about the objectivity of the moral law in general and a rejection of the absoluteness of moral prohibitions regarding specific human acts, and it ends up by confusing all judgments about values.

John Paul II in Veritatis Splendor of August 6, 1993

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...or (2) Francis is right, by qualifying as "heretical" a rejection of the "Doctrine of the Ideal" as well as any affirmation of the absoluteness of moral prohibitions ('or this or nothing').

“This (is the) healthy realism of the Catholic Church: the Church never teaches us ‘or this or that.’ That is not Catholic. The Church says to us: ‘this and that.’ ‘Strive for perfectionism: reconcile with your brother. Do not insult him. Love him. And if there is a problem, at the very least settle your differences so that war doesn’t break out.’ This (is) the healthy realism of Catholicism. It is not Catholic (to say) ‘or this or nothing:’ This is not Catholic, this is heretical. Jesus always knows how to accompany us, he gives us the ideal, he accompanies us towards the ideal, He frees us from the chains of the laws' rigidity and tells us: ‘But do that up to the point that you are capable.’ And he understands us very well. He is our Lord and this is what he teaches us.”

Francis' Homily at Santa Marta on June 9, 2016

Jean Vanier supports Canada's Euthanasia law - has the temerity to cite Pope Francis to justify it!

BREAKING: 

In a shameful, scandalous, and blatant betrayal of his faith, his country, and his parents, Georges and Pauline Vanier, Jean Vanier, the founder of L'Arche and internationally known Catholic humanitarian has come out in support of euthanasia.

Often exaggeratingly and ridiculously called "a living saint," Vanier was interviewed by the CBC on the matter and confirmed his views in writing to LifeSiteNews.

Jean Vanier is proof that the Catholic Church in Canada is in rapid collapse. The L'Arche Hymn will never be sung by any choir under my direction or myself again. 

Jean, feel free to take the needle but remember what will come a moment later. 

May God's judgement be swift.

https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/jean-vanier-supports-legalizing-assisted-suicide-in-cbc-interview

Jean Vanier's full statement to LifeSiteNews on assisted suicide
English translation
I stand by everything that I have said. The main thing is in any case to support life and to avoid all situations of suicide that originate in a situation of depression and solitude. No Jean, it is to "avoid all situations of suicide" period! 
My sister Therese, who was a palliative care doctor, has always said that 97 percent of people die fully conscious and without suffering. For the remaining 3 percent, they worked at finding a way to administer medication so that all could die without suffering. Nobody needs to suffer unnecessarily. Palliative care is what is needed, as you advocate. Sometimes, those drugs administered to ease pain, may hasten death as a secondary effect.
If the correct sedative or medication has not been found one cannot oblige someone to live through an unrelenting agony. But one cannot advocate that in the absence of that "sedative or medication" one can administer a drug to "kill" the patient. Why are you not abundantly clear on this?
One must not take part of a series of remarks and take them out of context. The most important thing is to accompany people with a competent doctor and above all if possible involved in palliative care. What is the context of your remarks? It seems pretty clear.
Pope Francis continues to tell us that everything cannot be regulated by a law and there are always exceptions. So, you join the Pope in celebrating ambiguity? "Let your yes be yes and your no be no!"

Alice in “Amoris Laetitia” Land

From Sandro Magister:

http://chiesa.espresso.repubblica.it/articolo/1351311?eng=y

The dazzling critique by an Australian scholar on the post-synodal exhortation. “We have lost all foothold, and fallen like Alice into a parallel universe, where nothing is quite what it seems to be”

by Sandro Magister

ROME, June 7, 2016 - Keep an eye on the author of the volume above, the first critical version of a masterpiece by Saint Basil the Great lost in the original Greek but come down to us in an ancient Syrian version attested to in five manuscripts, published two years ago by the historical publisher Brill, active in Holland since the 17th century.

The author is Anna M. Silvas, one of the world’s most renowned scholars of the Fathers of the Church, especially Eastern. She belongs to the Greek Catholic Church of Romania, and lives in Armindale, Australia, in New South Wales.

She teaches at the University of New England and at the Australian Catholic University. Her main fields of study are the Cappadocian Fathers – Basil, Gregory Nazianzen, Gregory of Nyssa –, the development of monasticism, female asceticism in early Christianity and in the Middle Ages.

She also gives courses on marriage, family, and sexuality in the Catholic tradition at the Pontifical John Paul II Institute on Marriage and Family in Melbourne.

The following is her commentary on the post-synodal apostolic exhortation “Amoris Laetitia,” delivered before a packed crowd with bishops and priests and then published on the website of the Parish of Blessed John Henry Newman in Caulfield North, near Melbourne.

The original text of the commentary is supplemented with footnotes and an epilogue with a passage from Saint Basil, omitted here.

But not another word. The commentary by Anna M. Silvas is a must-read. Brilliant, acute, expert, straightforward. A luminous example of that “parresìa” which is the duty of every baptized person.

Read Anna Silvas' speech at this link:

http://chiesa.espresso.repubblica.it/articolo/1351311?eng=y

Let's all go ta Sveden, ya! Boot vy voud ve meet vit Katoliks?

The Catholic of Sweden are on the real "periphery." Persecuted for centuries by the Lutheran heretics, their cathedrals and churches, stolen! 

The Bishop of Rome will visit Lund to praise Luther and Malmo to kiss the feet of migrant Mohammedans and what the heck, he just found time to meet with Catholics and have a little mess, I mean Mass.

I suggest we all get ready for the asteroids.



http://www.mondayvatican.com/vatican/pope-francis-new-peripheries

Pope Francis: New Peripheries?

by ANDREA GAGLIARDUCCI on 6 GIUGNO 2016 · 1 COMMENT · in VATICAN

Pope Francis' decision to extend by an additional day his visit to Sweden in order to celebrate a Mass with the Swedish Catholic community explains a lot about how decision making in the Domus Sanctae Marthae takes place. And it also shows that there are collaborators around Pope Francis able to intercept certain kinds of sensitive issues.

Pope Francis’ trip to Lund (Sweden) on October 31 for a commemoration of the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation was announced some time back. However, it was immediately noticed that he was planning to stay just one day, with no meeting scheduled with the Catholic community. And just as immediately, the Church in Sweden started working behind the scenes to have the Pope meet with Catholics at least for a Mass. The effort was grounded in the fact the Catholics in Sweden are a real existential periphery – to use Pope Francis’ words – placed as they are in the minority by the increasing wave of secularization that is affecting Sweden.

...

In the end, there would have been a severe papal gaffe if he were not to meet the Catholics of Sweden, who for centuries suffered persecution because of the Lutheran Church, and who now see these two freedoms at risk in their society once again.

Once this argument was won, Pope Francis decided to go. Malmoe is not far from Lund, and is home for many migrants and refugees coming from the Middle East. The Pope will go there after the commemoration in Lund, while Catholics would have preferred it if he had met with them and celebrated Mass with them first, before the joint meeting with Lutherans.

Scripture, Saints, Popes, Doctors, Councils and Documents demolish Pope Francis's Amoris Laetitia

Don't take my word for it.

Read it for yourselves.

And weep!

https://en.denzingerbergoglio.com/it-is-necessary-to-have-a-fraternal-and-attentive-welcome-of-the-baptized-who-have-established-a-new-relationship-of-cohabitation-after-the-failure-of-the-marital-sacrament-in-fact-these-persons-are/#Francis

Any priest or bishops promoting or justifying this thing, Amoris Laetitia, is flogging a dead horse.

I ask any of them, or you to leave a comment. Amoris Laetitia and Pope Francis have opened the door for confusion and error - that cannot be denied. What also cannot be denied is that history has already condemned the openings in this exhortation. The evidence is at the link to Denzinger-Bergoglio.

Go along with it at your own risk.

Bishop Kevin Farrell! You say, bloggers are spreading "hate." Well, Your gay-priest-friendly Excellency, what are you spreading?

Before we get to Bishop Farrell's calumny in defense the latest Rosicanism, let us take a little look at a few things, shall we?

Why Would Dallas Bishop Kevin Farrell Appoint Known Members of Homosexual Priest Network, "St. Sebastian's Angel's" as pastors of St. Michael's in McKinney, Texas?

Good question, from the good people who did such enormous work at the now concluded initiative RomanCatholicFaithful, exposing the hidden network of active homosexuals in the priesthood. 

What else?

Well there is this from his own web page:

This is in complete contradiction to the teaching of the Church in regards to the admittance of homosexual men to the Catholic priesthood. It is also a complete and utter exaggeration  and distortion of the words of Pope Francis. 

The facts on admitting men with homosexual tendencies to the priesthood is quite clear:

In the light of such teaching, this Dicastery, in accord with the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, believes it necessary to state clearly that the Church, while profoundly respecting the persons in question[9], cannot admit to the seminary or to holy orders those who practise homosexuality, present deep-seated homosexual tendencies or support the so-called "gay culture"[10].
http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/ccatheduc/documents/rc_con_ccatheduc_doc_20051104_istruzione_en.html

So, bloggers are accused of spreading "hate," the word of choice for the sodomite Marxist cultural brigade.

What is Kevin Farrell spreading?

Bishop Kevin Farrell of the Diocese of Dallas has publicly sinned and should make a public apology. Instead of denouncing homosexuality in the clergy, instead of denouncing the crime of abortion, instead of pointing out the evil of contraception, instead of preaching doctrine and opposing the scourge of heresy that is rampant in the Church - Farrell decides to launch an attack on Catholic bloggers.
http://torontocatholicwitness.blogspot.ca/2016/06/bishop-kevin-farrell-publicly-commits.html

Who judges Francis? History, the Magisterium and The Denzinger-Bergoglio

It was a few  months ago that I discovered The Denzinger Bergoglio and, shortly thereafter, put a link to this most necessary resource on the blog list, to the left below.

It began as work of Spanish priests and today is the one-year anniversary of its English version.  The writers are a network of diocesan priests, by necessity, anonymous; and, they have the support of their bishops.

I urge you to consult and study the work of Denzinger-Bergoglio. It will be a reference point for years to come.

Let's look at just one post.

Many will accuse bloggers of being against Francis or manipulating what he says, as we report and comment on what he says and does. Where is the proof? of our accusations? Who are you to judge the Pope? they will say and write. Well, who does judge Francis? 

Yet, there is a post which is a reference point for all about "Who Judges Francis?"

It is the very Magisterium itself!

https://en.denzingerbergoglio.com/who-judges-francis/

Two thousand years of Holy Scripture, Councils, Saints, Doctors, Synods, Documents...all of it, judges Francis.

Don't blame us.

Blame the Magisterium. 

https://newsitedenz.files.wordpress.com/2016/01/denzinger-bergoglio_english-pdf.zip

Bishop Athanasius Schneider issues public letter on Amoris Laetitia interpretation

Will anyone else join this Bishop and the few others who have had the courage to state the reality that we are faced with as faithful Catholics?

http://remnantnewspaper.com/web/index.php/articles/item/2558-bishop-athanasius-schneider-replies-to-the-remnant-s-open-letter-on-amoris-laetitia

Dear Mr. Christopher A. Ferrara:

On May 9, 2016 you published on “The Remnant” website an open letter to me regarding the question of the Apostolic Exhortation “Amoris laetitia”.

As a bishop, I am grateful and at the same time encouraged to receive from a Catholic layman such a clear and beautiful manifestation of the “sensus fidei” regarding the Divine truth on marriage and the moral law.

I am agreeing with your observations as to those expressions in AL (“Amoris laetitia”), and especially in its VIII’s chapter, which are highly ambiguous and misleading. In using our reason and in respecting the proper sense of the words, one can hardly interpret some expressions in AL according to the holy immutable Tradition of the Church.

In AL, there are of course expressions which are obviously in conformity with the Tradition. But that is not what is at issue here. What is at stake are the natural and logical consequences of the ambiguous expressions of AL. Indeed, they contain a real spiritual danger, which will cause doctrinal confusion, a fast and easy spreading of heterodox doctrines concerning marriage and moral law, and also the adoption and consolidation of the praxis of admitting divorced and remarried to Holy Communion, a praxis which will trivialize and profane, as to say, at one blow three sacraments: the sacrament of Marriage, of Penance, and of the Most Holy Eucharist.

In these our dark times, in which Our Beloved Lord seems to sleep in the boat of His Holy Church, all Catholics, beginning from the bishops up to the simplest faithful, who still take seriously their baptismal vows, should with one voice (“una voce”) make a profession of fidelity, enunciating concretely and clearly all those Catholic truths, which are in some expressions of AL undermined or ambiguously disfigured. It would be a kind of a “Credo” of the people of God. AL is clearly a pastoral document (i.e., by its nature of temporal character) and has no claims to be definitive. We have to avoid to “make infallible” every word and gesture of a current Pope. This is contrary to the teaching of Jesus and of the whole Tradition of the Church. Such a totalitarian understanding and application of Papal infallibility is not Catholic, is ultimately worldly, like in a dictatorship; it is against the spirit of the Gospel and of the Fathers of the Church.

Beside the above mentioned possible common profession of fidelity, there should be made to my opinion, by competent scholars of dogmatic and moral theology also a solid analysis of all ambiguous and objectively erroneous expressions in AL. Such a scientific analysis should be made without anger and partiality (“sine ira et studio”) and out of filial deference to the Vicar of Christ.

I am convinced that in later times the Popes will be grateful that there had been concerning voices of some bishops, theologians and laypeople in times of a great confusion. Let us live for the sake of the truth and of the eternity, “pro veritate et aeternitate”!

+ Athanasius Schneider,        

Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Saint Mary in Astana

Vatican official meets with dissenting and heretical WomynPriestesses a.k.a. Wiccans

The Reverend FatherMother Barbie Bimboglio

Well, well, well. It just keeps getting sicker and more deranged.

Women cannot and will never be ordained to the priesthood. For a Vatican official to agree to meet with any group is a preposterous thing to do and a scandal. To accept a petition on the matter is a disgrace.

Ignore them.

Admonish them.

But never, ever meet with them.

Francis has already affirmed that which was proclaimed by John Paul II. Or, has he? Do these malefactors know something which we don't? Would these Vatican bureaucrats ever have met with such a group under any other Pope?

This is the Church of Pope Francis as the heresiarch Jesuits at America Magazine have told us. This is the corporate makeover and rebranding of the Church of Man as Tom Rosica has been promoting.

It is not the Church of Christ!

It is the "Church of Pope Francis," according to the the Jesuits at America Magazine.

The Church of Dialogue.

A Church of Bimbos and BundlesOfSticks.

From the Tablet

CAMPAIGNERS FOR WOMEN'S ORDINATION HAVE UNPRECEDENTED MEETING WITH VATICAN REPRESENTATIVE01 June 2016 | by Christopher Lamb in RomeThe group has been given official permission to hold a public demonstration in the gardens of Castel Sant’Angelo
Campaigners for women's ordination have unprecedented meeting with Vatican representativeCampaigners calling for women priests are meeting in Rome this week where they have launched a poster campaign drawing attention to their cause and they will participate in their first ever official public demonstration.

Women’s Ordination Worldwide, which this year marks its 20th anniversary, wants to re-open dialogue in the Church in spite of Pope John Paul II’s ruling that the matter of female priests should not be discussed.

Despite the ruling, since 2002, around 150 women have been “ordained” and all of them have been excommunicated as a result.
Yesterday evening two of them had an unprecedented meeting with an official from the Vatican Secretariat of State who agreed to give a petition to the Pope calling for the excommunications to be lifted, and who, according to the women, listened to “our heartfelt plea for women priests in our Church”.
Female ordination is prohibited in the Catholic Church on the grounds that Christ chose only male disciples and only a male priest can act “in persona Christi” (in the person of Christ).

Fr Tony Flannery, the Irish Redemptorist priest who was suspended from public ministry by the Vatican due, in part, to his views in favour of female ordination, said the ‘in persona Christi’ argument was like suggesting the “earth is flat”.
Speaking during a panel discussion at the Casa Internazionale delle donne Fr Flannery stressed that women were able to represent the person of Christ.

Also speaking during the discussion today was Dr Marinella Perroni, a theologian at the Pontifical Athenaeum Regina Apostolorum (an educational institute of the Catholic Church) in Rome, who told the gathering that John Paul II’s edict had led to a “paralysis” and meant some professors had been denounced by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith for raising the topic.

She said that ordaining women could lead to “loss of unity” in the Church, but that it was equally unacceptable to have a “discipleship at two speeds”, where men have ministerial authority and women are not properly recognised.
The conference in Rome suggests a renewed confidence in discussing female ordination. Campaigners have been encouraged by Pope Francis’s recent remarks that he wanted to set up a commission to explore the question of women deacons.

For the first time the group has been given official permission to hold a public demonstration in the gardens of Castel Sant’Angelo on Friday, the day that the Pope celebrates a jubilee mass for priests in St Peter’s Square. Members of the women’s ordination group have also been given tickets to attend the Mass.

The pictures on the posters being put around Rome this week include 70 female ‘priests’ from the United States and Colombia photographed by Italian artist Giulia Bianchi as part of an ongoing project.

The gathering this week was organised by Kate McElwee, who is the first woman’s ordination campaigner to be permanently based in Rome.

Francis’ Trustworthiness (with related thoughts on SSPX) - by John Vennari

Francis’ Trustworthiness in Light

of the Forte Revelation

With related thoughts on the present SSPX drama

by John Vennari

Archbishop Bruno Forte, confidant and collaborator of Pope Francis, revealed in a recent interview a statement from Francis that displays the cagey manner by which he manipulated the Synod toward a pre-determined heterodox outcome.

To quote the May 3 Zonalocale.it Italian news report provided in English by Steve Skojec:“Archbishop Forte has revealed a ‘behind the scenes’ [moment] from the Synod: ‘If we speak explicitly about Communion for the divorced and remarried,’ said Archbishop Forte, reporting a ‘joke’ of Pope Francis, ‘you do not know what a terrible mess we will make. So we won’t speak plainly, [but] do it in a way that the premises are there, then I will draw out the conclusion’.” 1

Let’s take a look at what is here revealed:

1) Francis is determined to open the door for sacrilegious Communion via admission of divorced and remarried to the Blessed Sacrament;

2) He is aware that to speak openly of this aim would make a ‘terrible mess,’ in other words incite a healthy Catholic opposition;

3) He urges his collaborators not to speak plainly of this insidious aim but to lay the groundwork and prepare the structure;

4) “And I will draw out the conclusions,” that opens the door to sacrilegious Communion under the false pretext of tenderness and mercy.

Is anyone else long weary of dishonest tactics enacted by the one man on earth who has the greatest obligation to speak the truth?

The rest, including his observations on the SSPX, can be read at:

http://www.cfnews.org/page88/files/e995e0dde652653406dd0e5a0cd1ba9a-594.html

Muslims, Pagans, Hindus -- all must come to Christ except the Jews - according to Cardinal Koch

Muslims must convert? 

So says Cardinal Koch. Will this get him slapped down by Pope Francis? Will a fatwa now be issued on his neck?

Yet, the Jews are exempt!

That's right, the Church still has a "mission to convert," but not the Jews.  

"For He came unto His own and His own received Him not." St. John the Evangelist

Cardinal Koch doesn't think Jews warrant saving by Our Lord Jesus Christ whom they rejected once already and therefore, don't need Him. Since we know that this is not true, then either we are deluded and have been wrong for 2000 years or Cardinal Koch is a liar and an anti-semite.

As a Catholic who dearly loves his elder brothers and sister in the Faith let me say this; there is no salvation outside of the Church that Yeshua founded upon Cephas. He is the Messiah you have been waiting for. If Cardinal Koch and Pope Francis won't say it, this simple layman will.

You must come to Jesus Christ and be baptised in water and the Spirit in order to be saved and do so within His One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church. Jews, Muslims, Pagans, Atheists, all must come! 

Or you don't.

Your choice.

Thursday, May 26, 2016

Cardinal Koch: We Should Try to Save the Souls of All Men Except the Jews ^Featured

Written by  Chris Jackson | Remnant Columnist

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On May 24, 2016 The Telegraph reported the comments of the Vatican’s head of ecumenical relations, Cardinal Kurt Koch. The Cardinal had just finished a two day closed door discussion with Jewish leaders at the Woolf Institute in Cambridge. The Telegraph began with the following:

Christians still have a “mission to convert” Muslims and members of other religions to Christianity even in the face of persecution in the Middle East, one of Pope Francis’s most senior aides has insisted.

It should be noted that many Neo-Catholic newspapers, blogs, and websites reported the story with only this headline. Straining to find any semblance of orthodoxy coming from today’s Vatican, Neo-Catholic journalists were quick to publicize that Cardinal Koch said we have a mission to convert Muslims. The fact that they feel compelled to report this statement as if it were a new and earthshattering teaching is itself a condemnation of the Neo-Catholic view that nothing has changed in the Church. It’s as if the Neo-Catholics had humbly resigned themselves to believing the Church should no longer convert Muslims and were then surprised and happy to see that we can try to convert them again. This is the sad condition of people whose faith is based on the ever changing statements of Vatican bureaucracies rather than the Catholic religion. Unfortunately for the Neo-Catholics, Cardinal Koch’s statements did not end there:

http://remnantnewspaper.com/web/index.php/fetzen-fliegen/item/2542-cardinal-koch-we-should-try-to-save-the-souls-of-all-men-except-the-jews

Vatican spokesman Tom Rosica lauds Canada's number one heretic and Vatican II peritus, Greg Baum!

"... you have been for me and continue to be a real model of hope".  

http://torontocatholicwitness.blogspot.ca/2013/01/fr-rosica-and-gregory-baum-crisis.html

https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/same-sex-marriage-advocate-gregory-baum-lauded-by-fr.-thomas-rosica

Courtesy of Barona at Toronto Catholic Witness for transcribing these quotes:

"I've certainly admired very much your theology, your writings; but also your love of the Church, your love of Christ, and you help to keep alive - not only the spirit of the Second Vatican Council - but the authentic teaching of the Council".

After a brief discussion of contemporary Catholicism and the rise of a return to orthodoxy, Fr. Rosica commented:

"... many of those who are on the front lines - the crusaders - of the orthodoxy today (I would call it a pseudo-orthodoxy) are among the most unhappy and sad and angry ..."

Developing from the discussion on the point of orthodoxy, Baum said:

"I don't think that we need this enormous unanimity about everything in the Church... I think we are united in the Creed; we're united in the kind of vision that we have of the world, and we work together. But this kind of unanimity - you know - elements, doctrines that are quite removed from the Scriptures - I don't really think this is such a good formula".

As the interview concluded - after having heard Professor Baum speak negatively about unity in the Faith [which is nothing but liberal-protestantism]; after Baum had just stated that the Church teaches doctrines not found in Sacred Scripture [ again, classical protestantism !!], Fr. Rosica addressed Baum thus:

"... you remain a faithful, deeply devoted Catholic; you love Jesus, the Church, the Eucharist".


https://msgrfoy.com/2014/03/23/notes-on-gregory-baum-by-their-fruits-you-shall-know-them-by-monsignor-vincent-foy/

Gregory Baum, convert, Augustinian priest, Vatican II peritus, married, former priest

From Wikipedia:

He was the professor of theology and sociology at University of Saint Michael's College in the University of Toronto and subsequently professor of theological ethics at McGill University's Faculty of Religious Studies. He is currently associated with the Jesuit Centre for Justice and Faith in Montreal.

During the church council Vatican II he was a peritus, or theological advisor, at the Ecumenical Secretariat, the commission responsible for three conciliar documents, On Religious Liberty, On Ecumenism, and On the Church's Relation to Non-Christian Religions.

In particular, he advocated the position, as a response to the Holocaust, of the rabbi and philosopher Emil Fackenheim regarding the cessation of efforts to convert the Jews, famously stating: "After Auschwitz the Christian churches no longer wish to convert the Jews. While they may not be sure of the theological grounds that dispense them from this mission, the churches have become aware that asking the Jews to become Christians is a spiritual way of blotting them out of existence and thus only reinforces the effects of the Holocaust."^[3] He composed the first draft of the conciliar document Nostra aetate, the Declaration on the Relation of the Church with Non-Christian Religions, that was later expanded to address all the world religions. It was promulgated by Pope Paul VI on October 28, 1965.

From 1962 to 2004, he was the editor of The Ecumenist, a review of theology, culture and society, which is now published by Novalis. He was also a member and frequent editor of the international Catholic review Concilium.

In 2012 he signed the Catholic Scholars' Jubilee Declaration on reform of authority in the Catholic Church.^[4]

After retirement, Baum developed an interest in Islam, especially the work of Tariq Ramadan, the European reformer, whom he admired greatly.