Cardinals Burke and Brandmüller have written to their fellow Cardinals warning about the upcoming synod in Amazonia. That's great, now what else will they do?
It's long past time, but with Bergoglio having stacked the College of Cardinals action is now virtually impossible.
Cardinal Burke and other Cardinals who know the facts about the period leading up to the conclave that elected this Peronist thug and the goings on inside, if they have evidence that Bergoglio is an antipope, then these men must say, "excommunication be damned, I must tell the truth." Any excommunication would be rendered moot because Bergoglio would have no power to do it.
Eminences?
What will it be - loyalty to Christ and His Church or loyalty to a man written Canon and a man who is not a Shepherd. but a wolf!
Vatican City, Sep 4, 2019 CNA.- Two cardinals have sent
letters to fellow members of the College of Cardinals, raising concerns about
the working document for an upcoming synod of bishops on the pan-Amazonian
region.
“Some points of the synod’s Instrumentum laboris seem not
only in dissonance with respect to the authentic teaching of the Church, but
even contrary to it,” Cardinal Walter Brandmüller wrote to fellow cardinals in
an Aug. 28 letter obtained by CNA.
“The nebulous formulations of the Instrumentum, as well as
the proposed creation of new ecclesial ministries for women and, especially,
the proposed priestly ordination of the so-called viri probati arouse strong
suspicion that even priestly celibacy will be called into question,” the
cardinal wrote.
Brandmüllersaid that the leaders of the pan-Amazonian synod
have given him concern about its proceedings.
“The sole fact that Cardinal (Claudio) Hummes is the
president of the synod and thus will exercise a grave influence in a negative
sense, suffices to have a well founded and realistic concern, as much as in the
case of bishops (Erwin) Kräutler, (Franz-Josef) Overbeck, etc."
Hummes, a native of Brazil, was prefect of the Congregation
for Clergy from 2006-2010. Bishop Krautel, 80, is the emeritus bishop of the
Brazilian Prelature of Xingu in the Amazon, and has been a long time proponent
of married priests. Bishop Overbeck, 55, is the Bishop of Essen. Overbeck is
known in Germany as an advocate for a re-examination of the Church’s teaching
on ordination and sexual morality.
Brandmüller, 90, was for three decades a professor of Church
history, and was president of the International Commission for Contemporary
Church History from 1998 until 2006. He was made a cardinal in 2010, but, at
age 81, he had passed the age limit for participation in the election of a
pope.
“We must face serious challenges to the integrity of the
Deposit of the Faith, the sacramental and hierarchical structure of the Church
and its Apostolic Tradition. With all this has been created a situation never
before seen in the Church’s history, not even during the Arian crisis of the
fourth and fifth century,”Brandmüller added.
Brandmüller said that all cardinals must consider how they
will react to “any heretical statements or decisions of the synod.”
“I would hope, therefore, that Your Eminence, for your part,
will seize this opportunity to correct, according to the teachings of the
Church, certain positions expressed in the Instrumentum laboris of the
pan-Amazonian synod,” the cardinal concluded.
Also on Aug. 28, Cardinal Raymond Burke wrote to fellow
cardinals, telling them that he “shares completely the deep concerns of
Cardinal Brandmüller on the upcoming Synod on the Amazon, based upon its
Instrumentum laboris.
Noting that the synod’s Instrumentum laboris “is a long
document marked by language which is not clear in its meaning, especially in
what concerns the Depositum fidei,” Burke added that it “contradicts the
constant teaching of the Church on the relationship between the created world
and God, the uncreated Creator, and man, created in the image and likeness of
God to cooperate with him as guardian of the created world.”
Cardinal Burke also claims that the Instrumentum laboris
“characterize the teaching regarding the unicity and universality of the
salvation brought by Christ alive in the Church as relative to a particular
culture and emblematic of what they call 'petrified doctrine' (n. 38).”
In the synod’s working document, Burke added, “the truth
that God has revealed Himself fully and perfectly through the mystery of the
Incarnation of the Redeemer, the Son of God, is obscured, if not denied.”
“Cardinal Brandmüller indicated in his letter the serious
difficulties regarding the ordained ministry and perfect continence of the
clergy. These proposals, as the cardinal indicates, attack the
‘hierarchical-sacramental structure’ and ‘the Apostolic Tradition of the
Church.’”
The “disturbing propositions of the Instrumentum laboris”
Burke said, “portend an apostasy from the Catholic faith.”
The synod is scheduled to take place in Rome, Oct. 6-27.
