I add my name.
We the undersigned Catholic clergy and lay scholars protest
against and condemn the sacrilegious and superstitious acts committed by Pope
Francis, the Successor of Peter, in connection with the recent Amazon Synod
held in Rome.
These sacrilegious acts are the following:
On October 4, Pope Francis attended an act of idolatrous
worship of the pagan goddess Pachamama.
He allowed this worship to take place in the Vatican
Gardens, thus desecrating the vicinity of the graves of the martyrs and of the
church of the Apostle Peter.
He participated in this act of idolatrous worship by
blessing a wooden image of Pachamama.
On October 7, the idol of Pachamama was placed in front of
the main altar at St. Peter’s and then carried in procession to the Synod Hall.
Pope Francis said prayers in a ceremony involving this image and then joined in
this procession.
When wooden images of this pagan deity were removed from the
church of Santa Maria in Traspontina, where they had been sacrilegiously
placed, and thrown into the Tiber by Catholics outraged by this profanation of
the church, Pope Francis, on October 25, apologized for their removal and
another wooden image of Pachamama was returned to the church. Thus, a new profanation was initiated.
On October 27, in the closing Mass for the synod, he
accepted a bowl used in the idolatrous worship of Pachamama and placed it on
the altar.
Pope Francis himself confirmed that these wooden images were
pagan idols. In his apology for the removal of these idols from a Catholic
church, he specifically called them Pachamama,
a name for a false goddess of mother earth according to pagan religious
belief in South America.
Different features of these proceedings have been condemned
as idolatrous or sacrilegious by Cardinal Walter Brandmüller, Cardinal Gerhard
Müller, Cardinal Jorge Urosa Savino, Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, Bishop
Athanasius Schneider, Bishop José Luis Azcona Hermoso, Bishop Rudolf
Voderholzer, and Bishop Marian Eleganti.
Lastly, Card. Raymond Burke has given the same assessment of this cult
in an interview.
This participation in idolatry was anticipated by the
statement entitled “Document on Human Fraternity”, signed by Pope Francis and
Ahmad Al-Tayyeb, the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar Mosque, on February 4, 2019. This statement asserted that:
“The pluralism and the diversity of religions, colour, sex,
race and language are willed by God in His wisdom, through which He created
human beings. This divine wisdom is the source from which the right to freedom
of belief and the freedom to be different derives.”
Pope Francis’s involvement in idolatrous ceremonies is an
indication that he meant this statement in a heterodox sense, which allows
pagan worship of idols to be considered a good positively willed by God.
Moreover, despite privately advising Bishop Athanasius
Schneider that “You [the Bishop] can say that the phrase in question on the
diversity of religions means the permissive will of God…” , Francis has never
corrected the Abu Dhabi statement accordingly. In his subsequent audience address of April 3,
2019 Francis, answering the question “Why does God permit that there are so
many religions?”, referred in passing to the “permissive will of God” as
explained by Scholastic theology, but gave the concept a positive meaning,
declaring that “God wanted to permit this” because while “there are so many
religions” they “always look to heaven, they look to God (emphasis
added).” There is not the slightest
suggestion that God permits the existence of false religions in the same way He
permits the existence of evil generally.
Rather, the clear implication is that God permits the existence of “so
many religions” because they are good in that they “always look to heaven, they
look to God.”
Worse, Pope Francis has since confirmed the uncorrected Abu
Dhabi statement by establishing an “interfaith committee”, which later received the official name of
“Higher Committee,” located in the
United Arab Emirates, to promote the “goals” of the document; and promoting a
directive issued by the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue
addressed to the heads of all the Roman Catholic institutes of higher studies,
and indirectly to Catholic university professors, asking that they give the
“widest possible dissemination to the document", including its uncorrected
assertion that God wills the “diversity of religions” just as He wills the
diversity of color, sex, race and language.
The rendering of worship to anyone or anything other than
the one true God, the Blessed Trinity, is a violation of the First Commandment.
Absolutely all participation in any form of the veneration of idols is
condemned by this Commandment and is an objectively grave sin, independently of
the subjective culpability, that only God can judge.
St. Paul taught the early Church that the sacrifice offered
to pagan idols was not offered to God but rather to the demons when he said in
his First Letter to the Corinthians:
“What then? Do I say, that what is offered in sacrifice to
idols, is any thing? Or, that the idol is any thing? But the things which the
heathens sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons, and not to God. And I would not
that you should be made partakers with demons. You cannot drink the chalice of
the Lord, and the chalice of demons: you cannot be partakers of the table of
the Lord, and of the table of demons.”
(1 Cor. 10:19-21)
By these actions Pope Francis has incurred the reproach
uttered by the Second Council of Nicaea:
“Many pastors have destroyed my vine, they have defiled my
portion. For they followed unholy men and trusting to their own frenzies they
calumniated the holy Church, which Christ our God has espoused to himself, and
they failed to distinguish the holy from the profane, asserting that the icons
of our Lord and of his saints were no different from the wooden images of
satanic idols.”
With immense sorrow and deep love for the Chair of Peter, we
beg Almighty God to spare the guilty members of His Church on earth the
punishment that they deserve for these terrible sins.
We respectfully ask Pope Francis to repent publicly and
unambiguously of these objectively grave sins and of all the public offences
that he has committed against God and the true religion, and to make reparation
for these offences.
We respectfully ask all the bishops of the Catholic Church
to offer fraternal correction to Pope Francis for these scandals, and to warn
their flocks that according to the divinely revealed teaching of the Catholic
faith, they will risk eternal damnation if they follow his example of offending
against the First Commandment.
November 9th, 2019
In Festo dedicationis Basilicae Lateranensis
“Terribilis est locus iste: hic domus Dei est et porta cæli;
et vocabitur aula Dei”
Protest against Pope Francis's sacrilegious acts
Dr Gerard J.M. van den Aardweg, The Netherlands
Dr Robert Adams, medical physician in Emergency & Family
Medicine
Donna F. Bethell, J.D.
Tom Bethell, senior editor of The American Spectator and
book author
Dr Biagio Buonomo, PhD in Ancient Christianity History and
former culture columnist (1990-2013) for L'Osservatore Romano
François Billot de Lochner, President of Liberté politique,
France
Rev. Deacon Andrew Carter B.Sc. (Hons.) ARCS DipPFS Leader,
Marriage & Family Life Commission, Diocese of Portsmouth, England
Mr. Robert Cassidy, STL
Dr Michael Cawley, PhD, Psychologist, Former University
Instructor, Pennsylvania, USA
Dr Erick Chastain, PhD, Postdoctoral Research Associate,
Department of Psychiatry, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Fr Linus F Clovis
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Dr Colin H. Jory, MA, PhD, Historian, Canberra, Australia
Rev Edward B. Connolly, Pastor Emeritus, St. Joseph Parish
St. Vincent de Paul Parish, Girardville PA
Prof. Roberto de Mattei, Former Professor of the History of
Christianity, European University of Rome, former Vice President of the
National Research Council (CNR)
José Florencio Domínguez, philologist and translator
Deacon Nick Donnelly, MA Catholic Pastoral & Educational
Studies (Spiritual Formation), England
Fr Thomas Edward Dorn, pastor of Holy Redeemer Parish in New
Bremen OH in the Archdiocese of Cincinnati
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Dr Michael B. Ewbank, PhD in Philosophy, Loras College,
retired, USA
Fr Jerome Fasano, Pastor, St John the Baptist Church, Front
Royal, Virginia, USA
Dr James Fennessy, MA, MSW, JD, LCSW, Matawan, New Jersey,
USA
Christopher A. Ferrara, J.D., Founding President of the
American Catholic Lawyers’ Association
Fr Jay Finelli, Tiverton, RI, USA
Prof. Michele Gaslini, Professor of Public Law, University
of Udine, Italy
Dr Linda M. Goulash, M.D.
Dr Maria Guarini STB, Pontificia Università Seraphicum,
Rome; editor of the website Chiesa e postconcilio
Fr Brian W. Harrison, OS, STD, associate professor of
theology of the Pontifical Catholic University of Puerto Rico (retired),
Scholar-in-Residence, Oblates of Wisdom Study Center, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
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and of Strategic-Cultural Studies
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Prof., Dr.rer.pol., Dr.rer.nat. Rudolf Hilfer, Professor of
Theoretical Physics at Universität Stuttgart
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House, Oxford
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romana 2001-19, Former Judicial Vicar,
Archdiocese of Ferrara, Judge, Archdiocese of Ferrara
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Catholic Systematic Theology, Institute of Catholic Theology, Technical
University Dresden, Germany
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Family, canonical hermit in the Diocese of Fall River, Massachusetts
Dr Carlo Manetti, jurist and lecturer, Italy
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Front Royal, Virginia, USA
Antonio Marcantonio, MA
Michael J. Matt, Editor, The Remnant, USA
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catholique, France
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theology, Pontifical Lateran University
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Oklahoma
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Scotland
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of ‘s-Hertogenbosch and member of the cathedral chapter
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David Moss, President, Association of Hebrew Catholics, St.
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University of Perugia, Italy
Fr Dean P. Perri, Diocese of Providence, Our Lady of Loreto
Church
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Dr Robert Phillips, Professor (emeritus) Philosophy: Oxford
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Prof. Claudio Pierantoni, Professor of Medieval Philosophy,
University of Chile; former Professor of Church History and Patrology at the
Pontifical Catholic University of Chile
Prof. Enrico Maria Radaelli, Professor of Aesthetic
Philosophy and Director of the Department of
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Association (ISCA), Rome, Italy
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Switzerland
Prof. John Rist, Professor emeritus of Classics and
Philosophy, University of Toronto
Dr Ivan M. Rodriguez, PhD
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Catholic Priest, Caracas, Venezuela.
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IL.) and St. Isaac Jogues (Georgetown, IL.)
Fr John Saward, Priest of the Archdiocese of Birmingham,
England
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Bierbronnen, Germany
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